Trump's 24-Year-Old Top Drug Policy Appointee Discharged From Law Firm: "Just Didn't Show"

Taylor Weyeneth with Donald Trump

Donald Trump only hires "the best people." Remember that from the 2016 campaign?

In addition to having the highest percentage of White House staff departures in a president's first year, there's this from 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.

“We were very disappointed in what happened,” O’Dwyer said. He said that he hired Weyeneth in part because both men were involved in the same fraternity, and that the firm invested time training him for what was expected to be a longer relationship. Instead, he said, Weyeneth “just didn’t show.”

In a résumé initially submitted to the government, Weyeneth said he worked at the firm until April 2016. When an FBI official called as part of a background check in January 2017, the firm said Weyeneth had left eight months earlier than the résumé indicated, O’Dwyer said.

Trump recently told lawmakers and the press that "We're going to have a tremendous team of experts" to address the opioid epidemic.