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steve2470

(37,457 posts)
Sun Jan 14, 2018, 12:53 PM Jan 2018

Meet the 24 y/o Trump campaign worker appointed to help lead the governments drug policy office

(yes that is the official title)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/meet-the-24-year-old-trump-campaign-worker-appointed-to-help-lead-the-governments-drug-policy-office/2018/01/13/abdada34-f64e-11e7-91af-31ac729add94_story.html?undefined=&utm_term=.18394b6673ba&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

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.

Weyeneth’s ascent from a low-level post to deputy chief of staff is the result, in large part, of staff turnover and vacancies. The story of his appointment and remarkable rise provides insight into the Trump administration’s political appointments and the troubled state of the drug policy office.

video at link

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Meet the 24 y/o Trump campaign worker appointed to help lead the governments drug policy office (Original Post) steve2470 Jan 2018 OP
One-term gov Pat McCrory did this in NC... SMC22307 Jan 2018 #1

SMC22307

(8,090 posts)
1. One-term gov Pat McCrory did this in NC...
Sun Jan 14, 2018, 01:02 PM
Jan 2018

gave shiny 20-somethings with little to no experience highly paid senior positions.

One-term Donald, we're coming for you, too...

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