Trump’s 24-year-old drug policy appointee was let go at law firm after he ‘just didn’t show’

The following article by Robert O’Harrow Jr. was posted on the Washington Post website January 20, 2018:

Recent college grad and campaign volunteer Taylor Weyeneth is now an administrative leader in Trump’s drug policy office. (Dalton Bennett/The Washington Post)

A former Trump campaign worker appointed at age 23 to a top position in the White House’s drug policy office had been let go from a job at a law firm because he repeatedly missed work, a partner at the firm said.

While in college, late in 2014 or early in 2015, Taylor Weyeneth began working as a legal assistant at the New York firm O’Dwyer & Bernstien. He was “discharged” in August 2015, partner Brian O’Dwyer said in an interview. Continue reading “Trump’s 24-year-old drug policy appointee was let go at law firm after he ‘just didn’t show’”