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TODAY'S NUGGETS
🚬 Big Tobacco’s woman on the inside. Former clients of the president’s new chief of staff Susie Wiles are now lobbying President Donald Trump for more favorable treatment, according to a damning new report by Public Citizen. Disclosures reveal that just since January, at least six of Wiles’ former corporate clients have lobbied the White House on policy — that includes tobacco firm Swisher International, which Wiles represented as recently as March 2024. Swisher has fought Food and Drug Administration rules meant to protect children from smoking the company’s flavored Swisher Sweets cigars and cigarillos.
