Calley Means, a former senior adviser to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., claimed Monday that Susie Wiles could “inflict physical harm” on him after he accused the former White House chief of staff of undermining President Trump’s Make America Healthy Again agenda.
Means resigned from his post last month and has since alleged that Wiles and lobbying firm Ballard Partners helped block several MAHA priorities. Among his claims, he said they supported an executive order designating glyphosate-based herbicides—substances Means believes may cause cancer—as essential to national security.
“People who know Susie well have warned me that she has the capacity to inflict physical harm,” Means wrote on X.
In another post, Means called Wiles “ruthless.”
“Anyone who went around her, she sought to destroy,” he alleged.
Wiles, who was replaced by Trump adviser Stephen Miller as White House chief of staff last week, was diagnosed with breast cancer earlier this year.
Means did not explain what kind of “physical harm” he believed the 69-year-old grandmother might inflict.
During an interview with podcaster Joe Rogan, Means also accused Wiles of fostering what he described as a “demonic” culture within the White House. He alleged that she blocked an investigation into sugar consumption among children because she needed “money from the sugar people to win the midterms.”
“Calley Means’ accusations are outrageous, defamatory, and provably false,” a spokesperson for Wiles told Axios. “Susie has dedicated her career to fighting for President Trump and the American people, and will not allow these lies to go unanswered.”
Means further alleged that he had received “unhinged threats” from former White House official James Blair. He has accused Blair of opposing MAHA efforts to prohibit fruit-flavored vapes, allegedly arguing that pro-vaping policies represented “a core midterm issue” for Republicans.
“[Y]ou can’t find a single candidate I have ever told to talk about vape policy, because the idea I argued for it as a core midterm issue is a complete and total lie,” Blair responded on X.
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Brian Ballard, founder of Ballard Partners, also rejected Means’ claims that the firm lobbied the White House over fruit-flavored vapes or glyphosate.
“I do not ordinarily respond to commentary about our firm. I am making an exception today because Calley Means has made specific claims about Ballard Partners that are false, and the record should be corrected,” Ballard said in a statement.
“On flavored vapes: No one at Ballard Partners advocated to Susie Wiles or anyone on the White House staff for the authorization of fruit-flavored vapes,” he said. “Our work with White House staff on this issue has been against illegal, unregulated vapes from China, some of which have been found laced with fentanyl, that are reaching American communities and American children.”
“On glyphosate: No one at Ballard Partners lobbied or communicated with Susie Wiles or anyone in the West Wing, including her Deputy Chiefs of Staff, regarding the Administration’s executive order on glyphosate,” Ballard added.
Ballard said the firm’s “interactions with Susie Wiles as Chief of Staff have been limited and have been the exception, not the rule.”
Wiles previously worked for Ballard Partners.
The lobbying firm also shared an interview Means gave to a Ballard Partners podcast in May, several months after Trump signed the glyphosate executive order.
Robert Malone, a former member of Kennedy’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccine advisory panel, pointed to what he called a “rather significant omission” in Means’ broadside: Kennedy’s daughter-in-law, Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, works as a lobbyist at Ballard Partners.
“Yes, the SAME Ballard Partners that Means criticizes for its political influence,” Malone wrote on X. “The same firm where Susie Wiles previously worked.”
“Means wants Americans to scrutinize the family connections of powerful government officials. Fair enough,” Malone continued. “But why does that scrutiny apparently stop at Kennedy’s own family?”
