Tag: Taylor Weyeneth

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’”

Meet the 24-year-old Trump campaign worker appointed to help lead the government’s drug policy office

The following article by Robert O’Harrow Jr. was posted on the Washington Post website January 14, 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)

In May 2016, Taylor Weyeneth was an undergraduate at St. John’s University in New York, a legal studies student and fraternity member who organized a golf tournament and other events to raise money for veterans and their families.

Less than a year later, at 23, Weyeneth, was a political appointee and rising star at the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the White House office responsible for coordinating the federal government’s multibillion dollar anti-drug initiatives and supporting President Trump’s efforts to curb the opioid epidemic. Weyeneth would soon become deputy chief of staff.

His brief biography offers few clues that he would so quickly assume a leading role in the drug policy office, a job recently occupied by a lawyer and a veteran government official. Weyeneth’s only professional experience after college and before becoming an appointee was working on Trump’s presidential campaign. Continue reading “Meet the 24-year-old Trump campaign worker appointed to help lead the government’s drug policy office”