Reports have emerged revealing that Susie Wiles’s son-in-law, Bret Worley, has scrubbed his LinkedIn profile of posts that bragged about securing a highly lucrative carve-out that helped preserve and protect the hemp industry. Worley, who serves as the CEO of hemp manufacturer MC Nutraceuticals and is also the son-in-law of President Donald Trump’s former White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, stood to benefit immensely from the administration’s push to delay an impending federal ban on THC products made from hemp.
The report that first revealed this information was published in August by the New York Times. Shortly following Wiles’ exit from her position on November 5, Worley decided to take down his LinkedIn account, along with a series of posts that bragged about his influence on the pro-hemp provision in a recent spending bill signed into law by the president in September 2026.
In 2025, Congress passed a piece of legislation that sought to close the “hemp loophole” by putting a strict limit of 0.4 milligrams of THC per container on finished hemp products. The ban was supposed to go into effect November 12. But then, in August and September, the Trump administration successfully pushed for a provision to be included as a stopgap government funding bill.
According to a report from The Daily Caller, that bill, the Continuing Appropriations Act, carved out a delay on the federal hemp ban, temporarily saving the multi-billion-dollar industry. Since Wiles left her position following the blue tsunami that swept the country during the midterm elections, Wiles has been the subject of accusations that she catered to various special interest groups and corporate influences.
A former top advisor for Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Calley Means, alleges that Wiles, along with several other White House officials, systematically blocked or watered down health-focused initiatives in order to provide protection for corporate donors and political fundraising. Means also said that Wiles’ team caved in to pressure applied by the sugar, pharmaceutical, pesticide, and tobacco and vaping industries.
She also insisted that Wiles stood opposed to restrictions on fruit-flavored vapes, which have been described by many to be “gas station heroin,” and ultra-processed food. Means also suggested that Wiles placed her “finger on the scale” concerning federal hemp policies and the delay on the ban. “It is known by everyone and widely discussed among senior administration staff that Susie put her finger on the hemp policy scale because of her family,” Means said in an interview.
“It is an insult to our intelligence and reflection of Susie’s view of voters that she previously said she doesn’t speak to her family about their business,” Means continued. Worley and his companies had a lawsuit filed against them in July 2025 that alleged Worley touted “his business and political connections” and “that he could, indirectly through his personal relationship with Caroline Wiles, secure political appointments and other favors.”
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The suit was filed by North Carolina hemp producer Asterra, who also suggested that Worley exaggerated his relationship with the Wiles family in order to draw in investors and establish clout in the industry. In a statement released on November 10, 2026, White House Spokesperson Allison Schuster stated that “the Trump Administration has never allowed and will never allow outside groups to influence policy decisions.”