Ex-RFK Jr adviser requests records on Wiles’s health policy influence

Calley Means, a former top adviser to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., requested records on former White House chief of staff Susie Wiles’s health policy influence be preserved following allegations he made that she led the Trump administration to consistently bow to corporate interests on health policy.

“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 Strategy, and other relevant parties immediately preserve all potentially relevant records and communications,” he wrote on social media Sunday.

Means began his lengthy list asking for Wiles’s communications regarding the sugar industry’s impact on federal nutrition as well as her discussions with GOP pollster Tony Fabrizio, food industry representatives and White House officials about “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) initiatives, school nutrition standards and the proposed federal definition of ultra-processed foods.

He also listed drafts, internal correspondence, meeting notes and communications involving health officials, such as Kennedy, Walker Barrett and Heidi Overton.

The former health adviser concluded his list by requesting records from Continental Strategy — the lobbying firm Wiles’s daughter works for — be preserved.

Means, a Kennedy ally who helped build the MAHA movement, resigned from the administration two weeks ago after clashing with the White House and becoming frustrated over the lack of progress on key MAHA priorities.

He made headlines recently for accusing Wiles of ensuring special interests were making donations to the administration and the GOP to have a monetary advantage in the midterm elections.

Means claimed in an interview with podcaster Joe Rogan that Wiles once told him directly, “I need the money from the sugar people to win the midterms.”

During her tenure as a lobbyist before joining the Trump administration, Means says Wiles took money from the highest-paying clients, including from the pharmaceutical and pesticide industries, as well as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

In another interview with CBS News on Sunday, Means said he believed staffers around President Trump were giving him “severe poor advice” and treating the president “like a baby.”