National File founder and publisher Noel Fritsch is warning that veteran GOP operative Susie Wiles has become, in his words, “arguably the most destructive force inside the Trump administration,” acting as a gatekeeper who keeps MAGA from ever fully becoming America First.
In a comprehensive interview with Clayton Morris, host of Redacted, Fritsch paints a picture of Susie Wiles as a key player in a Bush-era corporate lobbying network that has stealthily integrated itself into Donald Trump’s circle, describing her influence as akin to a “Trojan horse.” He characterizes Wiles’s influence within the White House as a “reign of terror.”
Lobbyist roots and corporate cash
Fritsch outlines Wiles’s journey from the Bush administration and the Department of Labor to prominent K Street lobbying firms such as Ballard Partners and Mercury Public Affairs. He highlights her association with Pfizer’s top federal lobbyist, noting they appeared together in a press release.
He contends that during Trump’s tenure, Ballard Partners profited significantly from major tech firms, oil companies, foreign governments, and other corporate clients. Fritsch suggests that Wiles’s closeness to Trump brings up significant conflict-of-interest concerns. “Access is a matter of pay to play,” Fritsch asserts, accusing figures like Wiles and Chris LaCivita of facilitating the sale of American interests to corporate entities.
Fritsch claims these lobbying connections extend to Chinese interests, alleging that Ballard and Mercury managed accounts for companies like Hikvision and Alibaba. He insists that any business dealings in China effectively mean operating as a state entity there.
He criticizes this as part of a wider “McKinsey model,” where U.S. corporations pursue the Chinese market, becoming entangled with entities linked to Beijing, even while Trump campaigned on a platform of taking a tougher stance on China.
Gatekeeping MAGA for the intel state
Within Trump’s circle, Fritsch depicts Wiles as a steadfast operative of the traditional Bush-Cheney establishment and the intelligence community, rather than a supporter of the populist wave that propelled Trump to the presidency. He describes her as having “an army of gatekeepers” in agencies like the HHS and FDA, whose role is to place “oligarch-funded, oligarch-supported functionaries and technocrats” into influential positions.
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He links Wiles’s media‑world lineage through her father, longtime CBS sportscaster Pat Summerall, to the history of Operation Mockingbird and what he calls a “public‑private partnership between our intelligence community and television” designed to “weaponize information against the populace” and blunt populism.
That gatekeeping, Fritsch argues, also explains why independent, America First media outlets are frozen out while Fox News and other corporate platforms are favored. He says Fox’s role is “basically to represent to the base that Trump is doing MAGA stuff” and to “prevent the internal house cleaning that needs to happen on the Republican side.”
According to Fritsch, the same forces sidelining independent media are using Wiles and LaCivita to wage “war with the America First movement,” backing entrenched establishment incumbents like Sen. Lindsey Graham while undercutting original MAGA candidates who challenged the GOP old guard.
‘Reign of terror’ and wheels coming off
Fritsch says insiders know the situation is deteriorating. “I happen to know for a fact that the people at the White House are aware that the wheels are falling off,” he tells Morris, adding that staff have been “calling in people” more aligned with grassroots America First positions to help on messaging.
He doubts, however, whether those voices can break through “that Bush machine inside there,” with Wiles still controlling access and donor relationships.
He describes today’s GOP‑and‑consultant complex as a “shakedown” driven by stateless billionaire oligarchs, the military‑industrial complex, and Big Pharma, pointing to the COVID‑era Pfizer lobbying nexus as a prime example.
In his telling, ordinary Americans staring at “an eight‑buck gallon of milk” are feeling the squeeze of an international “racketeering operation” run through Washington and New York, while operatives like Wiles keep corporate interests “with extreme proximity to the Oval Office.”
Fixing the House and Senate to rein in intel power
National File publisher Noel Fritsch told @ClaytonMorris that true reform in America requires restoring congressional oversight over powerful entities.
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Despite his bleak diagnosis, Fritsch puts heavy emphasis on a legislative path forward. “The number one way that we are going to fix this country is by fixing the House and fixing the Senate so that they can actually hold the intel community to account,” he says.
He argues that today’s intelligence apparatus effectively “runs” both chambers through the Senate and House intelligence committees, using secrecy and classification to keep elected members in the dark while blocking real oversight on scandals ranging from overseas color revolutions to the Epstein files.
Fritsch insists that true reform requires removing intel‑aligned figures like Lindsey Graham from key roles and replacing them with representatives “most directly answerable to the people.” “You can’t have people like Lindsey Graham engaging in the oversight role of the intel community when he is literally a member of the intel community,” he says, warning that without a serious course correction, technocratic elites will continue to strip Americans of “their birthright of being American citizens.”
Fritsch closes by urging viewers to understand the full ecosystem of corporate lobbyists, media cut‑outs and intelligence operatives surrounding the White House — and to support independent outlets willing to name names. Readers are encouraged to watch the full interview to see his argument in context and hear the complete exchange with Clayton Morris.
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