Former HHS Adviser Calley Means Accuses Susie Wiles of Putting Corporate Donors Ahead of Trump’s MAHA Agenda — Claims White House Insiders SABOTAGED Health Reforms Behind President’s Back (VIDEO)
November 9, 2026
Former senior Trump administration health adviser Calley Means has unleashed explosive allegations against former White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and other top political operatives, accusing them of prioritizing powerful corporate donors over President Donald Trump’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda.
Means, a close ally of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., claims that influential White House insiders undermined efforts to reform America’s food system, rein in corporate influence, and address chronic health problems, all while telling reformers that political fundraising had to come first.
The accusations come just days after Republicans suffered devastating losses in the November 3 midterm elections, triggering a fierce internal battle over who is responsible for the party’s collapse.
In a bombshell interview with Joe Rogan released Friday, Means alleged that senior White House officials repeatedly sided with the sugar, tobacco, pharmaceutical, and processed-food industries while blocking policies championed by Kennedy and the MAHA movement.
He alleged she repeatedly blocked initiatives on children’s diets, ultra-processed foods, and related reforms by citing the need for industry money.
According to Means, Wiles told him multiple times, “We need money for the midterms, Calley. We need money for the midterms,” and specifically, “I need the money from the sugar people to win the midterms.”
Means told Rogan he resigned because a “concentrated group of people” in the administration was “antagonistic to what people voted for” and appeared to be acting “particularly in many cases to enrich their families.”
He named Wiles, her circle (including figures such as Richard Walters, Walker Barrett, James Blair, and pollster Tony Fabrizio), and pointed to preferential access for companies that hired Wiles’ daughter, Katie Wiles, as a lobbyist at Continental Strategy. He described the culture as one in which special interests understood the playbook: pay the right firms and gain priority.
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On CBS’s Face the Nation two days later, Means doubled down. He said he believed Trump had been “subverted by people that are beholden to special interests,” that he intended for his public statements to help remove Wiles, and that the elevation of Miller represented a return toward “campaign promises, America First principles.”
He alleged that issues pushed hard from Wiles’ orbit included pathways for fruit-flavored vapes and more lenient treatment of kratom (“gas station heroin”), while core MAHA priorities on food, pesticides, and ultra-processed foods faced resistance, often framed around midterm fundraising needs.
Former FDA Commissioner Marty Makary later offered partial corroboration on tobacco-industry pressure regarding flavored vapes.
Attorney General Todd Blanche dismissed the allegations as coming from a “disgruntled former administration official,” and the White House has pointed to MAHA progress on dietary guidelines, artificial ingredients, and other items. Means maintains the key decisions occurred without Trump’s full knowledge and that the president was, in some cases, treated “like a baby.”
Ballard Partners has issued a statement firmly denying the allegations.
Means has since publicly demanded that Wiles, Ballard Partners, Continental Strategy, and related parties preserve records, citing possible legal threats over his comments.
Means wrote on X:
“This is a formal request for Susie Wiles and James Blair to stop harassing me with texts and calls.
If there is a factual inaccuracy in what I said, send it to me in writing and I will vigorously correct and apologize for any misstatements. I will note that everything I said is substantiated by other senior officials.
If you want to file a lawsuit and get into discovery of whether it’s provably true that Ballard and Continental had an undue influence on the White House policy process, do it.
I believe we are in an existential moment for the country, and Americans were owed an honest accounting of the past two years so we identify the problems we need to move on from.”
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“In light of suggestions that Susie Wiles and James Blair may pursue legal action over my Joe Rogan interview, I am publicly requesting that she, Ballard Partners, Continental Straregy, and other relevant parties immediately preserve all potentially relevant records and communications, including:
All communications between Susie Wiles, Ballard Partners, and their representatives concerning lobbying access, meetings, policy decisions, and corporate clients.
All communications involving Bayer, Monsanto, Ballard Partners, and White House officials concerning glyphosate, the national security executive order, and the administration’s position in Supreme Court litigation involving Bayer.
All communications concerning sugar-industry political contributions, fundraising commitments, and discussions about how those interests related to federal nutrition policy.
All communications involving Tony Fabrizio, food-industry representatives, and White House officials concerning MAHA initiatives, school nutrition standards, and the proposed federal definition of ultra-processed foods.
All drafts, internal correspondence, meeting notes, and communications involving Walker Barrett, Heidi Overton, and other relevant officials concerning the glyphosate executive order and Bayer litigation, including discussions about Secretary Kennedy’s involvement.
All relevant lobbying agreements, invoices, payment records, meeting calendars, visitor logs, and communications concerning corporate efforts to influence the policy decisions discussed in my interview – including from Continental Strategy.
All nonprivileged communications concerning my allegations, their factual accuracy, and any contemplated legal action arising from my interview.
This preservation request includes emails, text messages, Signal, WhatsApp, encrypted or disappearing messages, attachments, drafts, and relevant electronically stored records.
I welcome a full and transparent examination of the facts.”
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All communications between Susie Wiles, Ballard Partners, and their representatives concerning lobbying access, meetings, policy decisions, and corporate clients.
