Susie Wiles says she, Trump 'ticked' that Ghislaine Maxwell was moved to Texas prison, Bondi 'whiffed' Epstein case

White House chief-of-staff Susie Wiles spoke to Vanity Fair in a wide-ranging interview and revealed that Attorney General Pam Bondi "completely whiffed" on the Epstein case, including the distribution of the Epstein binders earlier in 2025. She also said that the transfer of Epstein gal pal Ghislaine Maxwell from a prison in Florida to one in Texas made the Trump "mighty unhappy."

"The president was ticked," Wiles said of the Maxwell move that happened shortly after attorney Todd Blanche interviewed her on Epstein and his alleged files. "The president was mighty unhappy. I don't know why they moved her. Neither does the president."

Wiles said that neither she nor Trump were consulted on the move and that it was Blanche's idea. Blanche is the deputy attorney general under Bondi. He met with Maxwell as tensions were rising over the Epstein files to interview her about Epstein's activities and who may have been involved. It is reported that Maxwell then sought leniency in her sentence.

As for Bondi, Epstein and the binders, Wiles said, "I think she completely whiffed on appreciating that that was the very targeted group that cared about this. First she gave them binders full of nothingness. And then she said that the witness list, or the client list, was on her desk. There is no client list, and it sure as hell wasn’t on her desk."

Those who received the binders were roasted on social media, though they had been at the White House for reasons not involving Epstein at all, but because of their position in new media. Bondi had also said that an Epstein client list was "sitting on her desk" awaiting her "review."

Wiles said this wasn't entirely true, either. She said that those who really knew what was up with Epstein were FBI Director and Deputy Director Kash Patel and Dan Bongino and that they were the ones who "really appreciated what a big deal" the Epstein information was.

"They lived in that world," she told Vanity Fair, "and the vice president [JD Vance], who’s been a conspiracy theorist for a decade … For years, Kash has been saying, ‘Got to release the files, got to release the files.’ And he’s been saying that with a view of what he thought was in these files that turns out not to be right."

Patel and Bongino said earlier this year that Epstein did in fact kill himself in prison and that the information that was believed to exist on Epstein's nefarious activities, namely who was involved in them and who benefited, was nonexistent.