Promoted 6 times & then fired: Inside a 24-year-old political appointee's wild ride in Trump's D.C.

[DonViejo]

Promoted six times and then fired: Inside a 24-year-old political appointee’s wild ride in Trump’s Washington

By Robert O'Harrow Jr.
June 15 at 9:49 AM

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 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.

This is the inside account of a political appointee’s time in Trump’s Washington. It’s the story of a young operative whose central qualification was loyalty and whose responsibilities included furnishing the White House with intelligence about career employees at a time when the administration distrusts the standing bureaucracy to an unusual degree.

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[Me.]

1. Related To Steve Doocy?

[Thomas Hurt]

2. job was to be a totalitarian political officer, apparatchik, snitch, rat, informer....

you know like that mythical spy Trump runs his fat yap about.

conservative projection in spades.

If they are bitchin about it, they are already doing it themselves.

[gratuitous]

3. I read a history of Beria, the head of Stalin's secret police

As the Soviet Union entered the 1950s, Stalin was getting more and more paranoid, sicker and sicker. Beria was working feverishly to root out any disloyal apparatchiks, or anyone even vaguely suspicious. The author had a brief story about some young wunderkind in the Soviet system, who sounds a lot like young Taylor Weyeneth. The young Soviet kept advancing as the higher ups got cashiered one by one. He had achieved a rather high ranking by simple attrition, and that's when Stalin noticed this fresh young face that had appeared out of nowhere. He was soon gone. The image I had was of someone who ventured too close to a malfunctioning machine that's gyrating out of control, and the person is cut down by a metal arm that suddenly breaks loose.

Sixty years later, we're seeing the madness of Stalin play out in our own country.

[yonder]

4. +1.