Trump Backs Vapes After Susie Wiles' Tobacco Pals Visit White House
Trump Backs Vapes After Susie Wiles’ Tobacco Pals Visit White House
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The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that Trump scolded Food and Drug Administration commissioner Marty Makary for not moving fast enough to approve flavored vapes.
The Daily Beast can now reveal that Trump’s change of heart on the issue came after the tobacco firm Swisher International lobbied the Executive Office of the President in each of the last four quarters, either directly or through a firm where Chief of Staff Susie Wiles’ daughter works. Lobbying reports have to be filed quarterly.
Wiles was previously registered as a lobbyist for Ballard Partners, which lobbied the government on behalf of SI Group Client Services, an associated branch of Swisher.
Wiles represented the tobacco firm in 2019, 2021, and 2022 and is name-checked in filings at least once in each of those years. She later lobbied Congress with Mercury Public Affairs, which also acted on behalf of SI Group in 2023 and 2024, Public Citizen previously reported.
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