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    Trump makes history by hiring Wiles. What are haters saying now?

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    Donald Trump won the presidency in part because of the support of strong, intelligent women. He just hired one of them as White House chief of staff.

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    Before the election, billionaire businessman Mark Cuban claimed on “The View” that former President Donald Trump avoided strong women and found them “intimidating.” “Donald Trump, you never see him around strong, intelligent women,” Cuban said. . “It’s just that simple.”

    Now that Trump has won the presidency again (partly thanks to strong women who supported him – more on that soon), he is proving how wrong that accusation was.

    Trump promotes the first woman to become White House chief of staff

    One of Trump’s first acts as newly elected president was to appoint his co-campaign manager Susie Wiles as chief of staff on Thursday.

    Wiles will be the first woman in that crucial and powerful role.

    “Susie is tough, smart, innovative and universally admired and respected,” Trump said in a statement. “Susie will continue to work tirelessly to Make America Great Again.”

    Apparently Trump is not afraid of those characteristics after all.

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    Trump chooses people who are best for the job, not because of their gender

    During his campaign, Trump promised not to appoint anyone to his administration because of his or her gender. That makes this appointment all the more meaningful.

    Trump chose Wiles because he thought she would be the best to get the job done. Period.

    Wiles, a longtime political operative, played an integral role in his previous presidential campaigns, and he has great confidence in her talents.

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    As Trump said when announcing her new role, “she just helped me win one of the greatest political victories in American history.”

    President Joe Biden, on the other hand, chose women because he promised to.

    During his 2020 campaign, Biden vowed to choose a woman as vice president. And when it came time to appoint a Supreme Court justice, he said it would be a “black woman.”

    I found that strategy demeaning, and it denigrated the women who ultimately got those jobs.

    How about just choosing the best candidate for the role – and if that person happens to be a woman, then great.

    That’s Trump’s approach.

    Plenty of smart, strong women support Trump

    Going back to Cuban’s insults about how no strong woman can handle Trump, here’s additional evidence that he’s wrong.

    Let’s start with Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina and ambassador to the United Nations under Trump. Cuban’s comments on “The View” addressed how he believed Trump was afraid to use Haley during his campaign.

    Yet Haley, who was Trump’s fiercest opponent in the Republican primaries, has said several times on her own that she would support Trump over first Biden — and then Vice President Kamala Harris.

    Trump invited Haley to speak at the Republican National Convention in July, and she graciously accepted, even though the two had certainly exchanged views during the primaries.

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    Just days before the election, Haley wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal making her case for Trump.

    “I don’t agree with Mr. Trump 100% of the time,” she wrote. “But I usually agree with him, and I almost always disagree with Ms. Harris. That makes this an easy call. These are the facts that are most relevant to me.”

    Haley was able to put aside emotions and personal comments to make the decision she believed was best for the country.

    Seems like a strong woman to me.

    And then there’s Megyn Kelly, one of the best (and most successful) independent media voices out there.

    She and Trump have had very public disagreements in the past, but Kelly came out to support Trump at one of his last rallies — and he invited her on stage.

    Kelly made it clear why she supported him in an intelligent and clear manner.

    And she started with this: “I really enjoy the feeling of proving Mark Cuban wrong and so I am here at a Trump rally – a strong, intelligent woman – to prove Mark Cuban wrong.”

    It wasn’t just famous women who supported Trump. Despite the much-discussed gender gap, 46% of female voters supported the Republican candidate – which translates to tens of millions of women across the country. Even Cubans might find at least some of them strong and intelligent.

    Liberal women are melting down on social media about what a Trump presidency means for their lives. If he were as anti-woman as they think, then there’s no way women I respect, like Haley and Kelly, would show their support.

    Trump’s choice of Wiles as his closest advisor also speaks volumes.

    Ingrid Jacques is a columnist at USA TODAY. Contact her at [email protected] or at X, formerly Twitter: @Ingrid_Jacques.

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