The Trump administration has hired a 23-year-old college senior as a top official in the White House’s personnel office,according toPolitico.
George Washington University student James Bacon will be director of operations in the Presidential Personnel Office, working under John McEntee, the office’s director (and PresidentDonald Trump‘s former body man),Politicoreports.
Bacon worked briefly in the Department of Transportation after another stint as a White House liaison with Department of Housing and Urban Development, where he was an assistant to Housing Secretary Ben Carson.
He will now be one of McEntee’s “right-hand men,” according toPolitico, which notes that Bacon also worked on Trump’s 2016 campaign and carried some responsibilities on the Trump transition team after the election.
The White House did not respond to PEOPLE’s questions about Bacon and declined to comment on thePoliticoreport.
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He publicly slammed federal prosecutors’ sentencing recommendation of his friendRoger Stone, which led to four attorneys stepping down from the case as the Justice Department reversed itself and reduced its requested sentence.
Earlier this week, Trumpcalled onsome liberal Supreme Court Justices to “recuse” themselves from “Trump-related” cases.
Axiosreportedthat, last week, McEntee held a meeting calling on White House liaisons to identify those in their departments whom they believe are “anti-Trump” and aren’t devoted to the president or his government.
“After three years of allowing others to control who would be around him and have power, he’s trying to take back some of the power and have a say in the staffing in the White House and administration,” a person close to the White House toldPolitico. “A lot of the people in there weren’t actual allies of Trump, and didn’t actually support his agenda but had significant roles in his administration.”
source: people.com
