Susie Willies is the Chief of Staff of the President.

She controls his agenda. She sometimes takes decisions on his behalf.

She is one of the very few people that Donald Trump actually trusts.

In 2010, she helped healthcare businessman Rick Scott become Governor of Florida.

She went to create a corporate lobbying firm named Ballard Partners. She recruited Pam Bondi as a lobbyist for Ballard Partners.

In 2018, she helped Ron De Santis become Governor Governor of Florida.

In 2024, Susie Willies was the top campaign manager of Donald Trump.

  • reddig33@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “She controls his agenda.”

    Define agenda. Are we talking meetings calendar? Because people like Putin and Peter Thiel influence what Trump actually says and does.

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      Besides what the other commenter replied, with Trump there’s a special value in controlling his agenda because often the last person he talks to will have the most sway. There have been stories about his appointees taking advantage of a rival appointee being away or in a meeting, and getting Trump to issue an order or even just tweet a position on something so it’s harder to walk back when someone else gets his ear.

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      Controlling the meeting calendar for the president is more than just the clerical work of a personal assistant. The president works and makes decisions by meeting with people. She decides who gets access to him today. She deflects people she doesn’t think are worth his time. Over the long run she can have extraordinary influence over him and what choices he has in front of him to make. She can effectively block people she doesn’t want to have any access. Thats a lot of power for someone most people don’t know by name.

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      White house chief of staff have incredible power. Sometimes they are referred to as the co-president even.

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    Am I the only one that thinks 90% of the people in the clowns orbit should be put in homes for the elderly and insane?

    We’ve got bro getting ready to fingerpaint with pudding and queen karen-de-ville realizing the voices are in the room with her.

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      Part of the reason we have a fascist infestation right now is you people’s only response to the threat of our democracy collapsing is to fucking make harry potter memes

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        We’re having nationwide protests today called Rage Against the Regime, if that helps any. Some tiny amount anyways. They’re not talked about like the No Kings protests were tho. I’m assuming we’ll start protests every weekend at some point

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        Humor is how people cope with the bullshit happening all around us. If anything, humor is what keeps people going. No part of that joke minimizes the threat to democracy in my mind. Quite the contrary, it makes the threat manageable without succumbing to misery and giving up. We can do two things at once.

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        Downvoted by dipshit lemmoids but holy shit it is truly the only reference they make. Read literally any other book you fucking losers

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          “Lemmoids”, shit dude, is there even any place you feel at home at this point?

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            There is no public forum not infested with the alt-right, so no, there is no digital home for sane people on the internet anymore

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          I’ve read plenty of books, and I’m not really a huge Potter fan but it happens that my kids were re watching the old movies.

          Still, Umbridge stands in my mind as one a great example of somebody who assists evil by hamstringing good and chipping away at hope, all while stating “this is for your own good” mentality.

          It’s one of the few TV characters that actually made me angry because she’s so believable

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    First woman to hold the position of white house chief of staff. Well done ladies. Way to hit the ground running.

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    Friendly reminder the guy who organised lenins calendar was bloody stalin. That’s a level of discretionary control over a highly powerful individual that could basically let you choose the next president.