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Surprising source for White House leaks named by Trump biographer: ‘A signal moment’

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President Donald Trump's own chief of staff is steering White House leaks that break sharply with the president, author Michael Wolff alleged. During a Saturday episode of "Inside Trump's Head," Michael Wolff pointed to two same-day stories, one in the New York Times and one in The Washington Post, that both built on unnamed advisers contradicting Trump. The first had aides pushing back on Trump's dismissal of AI fears as a "hoax." The second had them warning he should be far more worried about the midterms. Trump "usually reacts very badly to leaks, but the nature of this leak, and the nature of the way it's expressed, both of them, the AI story, and the midterm story, is 'advisers,' not 'a adviser,'" Wolff said. "So they're speaking to, in both instances, more than one person, and where there's more than one person... that means it's likely to come from the top." Wolff concluded that he saw the hand of chief of staff Susie Wiles behind it because of how it was coordinated. He suggest