Ex-Trump admin official Calley Means wildly suggests Susie Wiles — a 69-year-old cancer survivor — ‘has the capacity to inflict physical harm’

Calley Means, a former adviser to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., alleged that former White House chief of staff Susie Wiles could “inflict physical harm” and accused her of obstructing parts of the Make America Healthy Again agenda. His claims have drawn firm denials from Wiles’s spokesperson and lobbying firm Ballard Partners, making the dispute a public clash over influence on health policy.

Means, who resigned last month, has alleged that Wiles and Ballard Partners opposed efforts on glyphosate and fruit-flavoured vapes, and told podcaster Joe Rogan that Wiles blocked scrutiny of sugar in children’s diets. Wiles’s spokesperson called the accusations false and defamatory; Ballard Partners said it did not lobby the White House on either glyphosate or fruit-flavoured vapes. Former White House official James Blair also denied Means’s claim that he supported vaping as a key midterm issue.