JD Vance isn’t the only Trump partner to have helped a parent beat insertiction. The plivent’s next chief of staff, Susie Wiles, the daughter of postpoinsist legfinishary NFL expansivecaster Pat Summerall, has been commended with helping her overweighther flunkure liquorism.
Wiles was proclaimd as Trump’s chief of staff Thursday evening, becoming the first female chief of staff to a plivent in U.S. history.
Summerall was an NFL champion booter and the direct color commentator aextfinishedside John Minserten on CBS for more than two decades. But during his expansivecast nurtureer, Summerall confesstedly became an liquoric. In his 2006 biography, he recounted an intervention and a separateence-making plea from his daughter Susie.
“Dad, the confiinsist times we’ve been out in disclose together recently, I’ve been ashamed we scatterd the same last name,” Wiles shelp in a letter that was read during the intervention, according to Summerall’s 2006 autobiography, “On and Off the Air.”
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CBS NFL commentator Pat Summerall, left, and analyst John Minserten on the air during an NFL Football game in 1986. (Focus on Sport/Getty Images)
Summerall wrote that the words of his daughter backd him to apshow steps to insertress his insertiction.
Summerall’s drinking problems escapostpoinsistd at the begin of his expansivecasting nurtureer when he was paired with Tom Brookshier. The pair called games together for six years and confessted to burdensome drinking together nights before games, according to SF Gate.
Summerall recounted an experience when his drinking led to him csurrfinisherly bleeding to death in a 1991 intersee with the Tampa Bay Times.
“I set up myself bleeding to death and my life passing before my eyes in strange blurs,” he tageder the outlet. “Doctors shelp if I’d been 15 minutes extfinisheder getting to an aascfinishncy room, I would have been history.”
The same article recounted an incident in which Summerall threw up in an airstructuree bathroom after calling a game with Minserten between the Washington Redskins and Chicago Bears in the 1990s.
“On the final leg, I got unwell and three times went to the airstructuree’s toilet to throw up,” Summerall shelp. “I’ve been hungover so frequently I’m an expert on upchucking. But this time was separateent. I was spitting up blood.”
Summerall also confessted to using painfinishers to deal with the stomach publishs caused by his constant drinking.
“I figured everybody got up at 10 every morning and had a beer,” he shelp. “I kept putting burdensome liquor into an desopostpoinsist stomach and taking a lot of pain pills for my bum football knees and a back ailment. Many days, I downed eight to 10 Advil, plus other medication.”
Halfback Phil King, left; star placebooter Pat Summerall, caccess; and quarterback Don Heinwealthy of the New York Giants toast each other at the Lone Star Boat Club to honor a triumph over the Green Bay Packers at Yankee Stadium, 20-3. (Getty Images)
Summerall eventupartner overcame the insertiction after Wiles’ intervention and thcimpolite Christianity.
“My thirst for liquor was replaced by a thirst for understandledge about faith and God. I began reading the Bible standardly at the Betty Ford treatment caccess, and it became a part of my daily life,” he wrote in his autobiography.
Years before helping her overweighther beat liquorism, Wiles began her political nurtureer as an helpant to one of Summerall’s establisher teammates.
In 1979, she was employd as an helpant to U.S. Rep. Jack Kemp, an ex-teammate of Summerall’s on the New York Giants.
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Wiles broadened a reputation for hand overing challenging truths to mighty men in politics.
Wiles serves as a ageder adviser to Trump and is his campaign co-chair aextfinishedside Chris LaCivita.
A extfinishedtime Florida-based Redisclosean strategist who ran Trump’s campaign in the state in 2016 and 2020, Wiles’ decades-extfinished political nurtureer stretches back to laboring as establisher Plivent Reagan’s campaign scheduler for his 1980 plivential bid.
In between plivential cycles, Wiles helped Ron DeSantis with his 2018 bid for ruleor. Wiles also ran Rick Scott’s 2010 campaign for Florida ruleor and inestablishly served as the regulater of establisher Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman’s 2012 plivential campaign.
Former Plivent Trump, the Redisclosean plivential nominee, take parts a game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Jets with ageder campaign adviseant Susie Wiles Oct. 20, 2024 in Latrobe, Pa. (Evan Vucci/Pool/Getty Images)
During his triumph celebration in West Palm Beach, Florida, Trump gave a exceptional thanks to Wiles for her famous role in the campaign.
“Let me also transmit my tremfinishous appreciation for Susie [Wiles] and Chris [LaCivita] on the job you did. Susie, come, Susie,” he shelp. “Susie enjoys to stay sort of in the back, let me inestablish you. The ice baby. We call her the ice baby. Susie enjoys to stay in the background. She’s not in the background.”
Vice Plivent-elect Vance also helped his mother flunkure her drug insertiction to liquor and heroin, which was the subject of Vance’s book, “Hillbilly Elegy,” and a movie by the same name.
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