Susie Wills "Pay-For-Play" Scandal Goes Nuclear With New Pfizer Agreements; White House Responds - ZH pollster Mark Mitchell, adviser to Vice President JD Vance, says Susie Wills, Trump's former chief of staff, warned him against criticizing Pfizer, which he called its old lobbying firm "one client." Before she ran Donald Trump's 2024 campaign, and then his White House, Bill Wills spent nearly a decade as managing partner at Belard Partners, the Florida-based lobbying firm that became Washington's top grocer under Trump. Since she left (or was replaced) as CoS shortly after the midterms, some in the Trump administration track have accused her of using the job to protect the industries that pay her old company at the expense of the president's health care agenda. By loudest they mean Calley, a former top official for Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr., who, as we reported, told Joe Rogan that Wills said "I need the sugar industry's money." On Sunday, the agency took the case to CBS's "Face the Nation," telling Margaret Brennan that Ballard was complicit in "controlling" White House policy and that the company's rise to the top of the lobby rankings "didn't happen by accident." Mitchell, another Trump ally, says Wells warned him last year after he criticized Pfizer on X, offering his own explanation for why: "You know, Ballard Partners' number one customer." Mitchell, who Vice President Jed Vance brought to the White House to single out Trump for his slippery support, the Washington Post reported, said on his podcast, Honest Paul, that he was asked to stop tweeting and stop "these people are angry." In a post he published, dated November 10, 2025, he noted that Pfizer has made $74 billion in profits since the joint vaccine was released. Journalist Paul Thacker posted the video on Tuesday.