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January 22: Trump Drug Official Taylor Weyeneth Is Just 24 Years Old & His Resume Is ... Interesting
Staffing issues have plagued the Trump administration for an entire year, and in addition to more than 250 federal jobs remaining unfilled at the end of 2017, some of the appointees that actually were hired have raised eyebrows, too. Take President Trump's 24-year-old drug policy appointee, Taylor Weyeneth, for instance: he's a former staffer for Trump's campaign who apparently possesses even less experience than he advertised on his resume.
https://www.bustle.com/p/trump-drug-official-taylor-weyeneth-is-just-24-years-old-his-resume-is-interesting-7978495
January 22: Trump's 24-year-old drug appointee has inaccuracies in his resume
Taylor Weyeneth, who Trump appointed to the White House drug policy office had a resume filled with misinformation
He claimed that he had worked as a legal assistant at the law firm O’Dwyer & Bernstien until April 2016, even though he had been discharged in August 2015 for repeatedly failing to show up for work.
Weyeneth, who currently serves as deputy chief of staff at the White House drug policy office, also had to repeatedly revise how his resume represented his work as a volunteer at a monastery in Queens. He initially claimed he had volunteered there for 275 hours, then 150 hours and finally omitted all references to that monastery. He also claimed that he had served for three years as vice president of the Kappa Sigma fraternity, even though a fraternity spokesman said he had only been in that position for a year and a half.
Weyeneth has yet to revise his resume to reflect that he has not yet completed his master’s degree coursework at Fordham University. The resumes all claim that he has his master's degree from there.
The Trump White House has repeatedly struggled with a series of appointments that have seemed to go to absurdly underqualified or downright unqualified candidates. The most conspicuous example of this has been in the realm of judicial appointments, with nominees like Matthew Petersen, Jeff Mateer and Brett Talley, according to The New York Times
https://www.salon.com/2018/01/22/trumps-24-year-old-drug-appointee-has-inaccuracies-in-his-resume/
January 24: Trump’s 24-year-old drug policy appointee to step down by month’s end
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/trumps-24-year-old-drug-policy-appointee-to-step-down-by-months-end/2018/01/24/77ce5656-0159-11e8-8acf-ad2991367d9d_story.html?utm_term=.35a221b31474
January 25: A 24-year-old Trump appointee who held a top drug policy job despite having no relevant experience quit after an investigation into his credentials
In its investigation, The Post found that Weyeneth misrepresented his work at a law firm, where a supervising attorney said he "just didn't show," indicated that he had a Master's degree from Fordham University, even though administrators say he did not complete his coursework there, and misrepresented his time serving as the president of his fraternity.
The Post also found that Weyeneth's stepfather pleaded guilty to a felony conspiracy charge last year after his company, Nature's Chemistry, was found to have secretly processed illegal steroids. Weyeneth indicated on his resume that he was the "Director of Production" at the company for several years during high school and college, but his mother told The Post he was unaware of the conspiracy.
Weyeneth has no experience with drug policy, government service, or law, unlike his predecessors in previous administrations, which is striking given that his office is tasked with crafting the Trump administration's policies regarding illicit drugs and leading its response to the opioid epidemic, which President Trump declared a national public health emergency. More than 42,000 people died in 2016 from opioid-related overdoses.
https://www.businessinsider.com/taylor-weyeneth-office-of-national-drug-control-policy-lied-on-resume-2018-1
March 8: A 24-year-old with minimal professional experience keeps getting jobs in Trump’s administration
No work history? No policy expertise? No problem.
https://thinkprogress.org/trumps-24-year-old-drug-expert-75cc15eda01c/
March 9: Skaneateles grad lands new job in Trump administration after resigning drug post
Because of unfilled vacancies and resignations, he temporarily filled a senior-level job as deputy chief of staff, a post that pays between $81,548 and $106,012 per year.
Weyeneth told syracuse.com in January that he was unfairly criticized for filling a job that was always meant to be temporary.
https://www.syracuse.com/politics/index.ssf/2018/03/skaneateles_grad_lands_new_job_in_trump_administration_after_resigning_drug_post.html
March 30:
In January Weyeneth was let go, according to The Washington Post, but there were still questions about how someone as unqualified and demonstrably dishonest as him was able to get hired in the first place. Was it a fluke occasion in which someone dropped the ball?
A piece of that puzzle may have fallen into place on Friday, when The Washington Post reported that the Presidential Personnel Office — which is responsible for finding and vetting thousands of political appointees — is understaffed and run by young people who treat the office like their own personal frat house.
Of course, the worst appointment of all may be a candidate with no governmental experience whatsoever, a long history of alleged sexual misconduct, a business track record that has led to thousands of lawsuits, more racist and sexist comments than are easy to record and a resume that had as its most recent highlights a stint as a reality TV star.
Good thing that person doesn't have too much power, right?
https://www.salon.com/2018/03/30/the-white-house-personnel-office-is-basically-a-frat-house/
June 15: Promoted six times and then fired: Inside a 24-year-old political appointee’s wild ride in Trump’s Washington
He was one of the fastest-rising political appointees of the Trump administration, an unpaid campaign intern with no professional experience who soared into a top job with a six-figure salary at the White House’s drug policy office. But on Jan. 14, in the hours after a front-page Washington Post story cast doubt on his résumé and qualifications, 24-year-old Taylor Weyeneth was feeling vulnerable.
“Can I ask you what the plan is for me now,” Weyeneth texted the White House official who had promoted him.
“You’re fine. No action required,” Sean Doocey, then the deputy director of the Office of Presidential Personnel, wrote back. “It is garbage journalism by a garbage newspaper.”
Two months later, Weyeneth was gone — demoted, told not to speak publicly and finally fired as the political fallout spread.
Weyeneth recently agreed to a request from The Post to talk about his experiences in the administration and the unusual circumstances that enabled him to climb through the ranks and into the White House. He provided emails, texts and other documents to back up his account.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/promoted-six-times-and-then-fired-the-inside-story-of-a-political-appointees-wild-ride-in-trumps-washington/2018/06/15/ebf6290a-5eab-11e8-8c93-8cf33c21da8d_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.a61333321684
June 15: Taylor Weyeneth has a new job and he's still making national headlines, three months after the Skaneateles native was fired from President Donald Trump's administration.
Weyeneth, 24, told syracuse.com Friday that he has started a consulting firm in Washington, and his first client is Miss USA 2006, Tara Conner, who almost lost her crown over substance abuse problems.
Conner, who credits Trump for helping her become sober, is now a recovery advocate who travels across the nation to share her story. Weyeneth said he serves as a strategic adviser for Conner.
https://www.syracuse.com/politics/index.ssf/2018/06/from_skaneateles_to_white_house_to_miss_usa_24-year-old_lands_new_job.html
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