Can Susie Wiles be to Donald Trump what her father, Pat Summerall, was to John Madden? “Madden made for an expansive, excessive, endlessly voluble analyst, and Summerall provided his perfect play-by-play foil,” Times reporter Scott Collins wrote in an appreciation after Summerall’s death in 2013. Summerall indulged his partner’s many appetites and asides, even when that meant being elbowed aside …
What do you think Susie does that Trump’s previous chiefs of staff haven’t? The fact that last night after the announcement I saw some chatter on Twitter suggesting plenty of people who apparently follow politics didn’t know much about her or had never even heard of her — well, it’s one heck of a testament to this key piece of …
