President Donald J. Trump has always assured us he would only hire "the best people" to help run the government. President Very Stable Genius hired an EPA administrator who built his career attacking the EPA, and an Education Secretary who holds tenuous value for the concept of public education. His federal judge nominees have included a guy who invoked Nazi Germany while describing the supposed mistreatment of Christians in America, and a blogger who had never tried a court case, but who was married to the White House counsel's chief of staff, something he did not disclose on his paperwork. Later, it emerged he had defended the early Ku Klux Klan. Another nominee who also had never tried a case withered under a Senate Republican's basic questioning about court procedure and the law. He was ultimately forced to drop out.

This week, we find the tale of Robert Weaver, whom the president has nominated to lead the Indian Health Service, a $6 billion program that oversees care to 2 million Native Americans across 26 hospitals. According to The Wall Street Journal, there may be some inconsistencies on Mr. Weaver's resumé.

The nominee, Robert Weaver, 39 years old, has “nearly two decades of experience in hospital, mental health administration,” the Trump administration said in announcing his candidacy. Evidence of that experience cited on his publicly available resume and a formal document provided to U.S. senators includes his time at St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Mo., from 1997 to 2006...

...However, former St. John’s managers in some of the areas where he said he worked don’t remember him: “I don’t recall that name whatsoever,” said Augusto Noronha, who was chief financial officer of the hospital from 1999 until 2005. “I’ve never heard that name before,” said Wayne Noethe, a former controller at the hospital.

Another executive recalled a "Rob Weaver" who filled a role that other former St. John's officials described as an "entry level" job. A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees IHS, furiously defended Weaver's nomination and offered statements from tribal leaders supporting his qualifications. None of this is verifiable using the health system records for the hospital, and the reason why might just blow you away.

A spokeswoman for St. Louis-based Mercy health system, which acquired St. John’s Regional Medical Center in 2009, said the company couldn’t verify Mr. Weaver’s positions because some of its records were destroyed in a 2011 tornado that leveled parts of Joplin and badly damaged the hospital. The HHS spokeswoman said Mr. Weaver’s own copies of employment records were also destroyed in the tornado.

Not to worry. Like Trump's other nominees, some of whom have a habit of misrepresenting things while under oath in front of a Senate committee, we ought to just take his word for it.

We might also take the word of Stephen Miller, the last of the high-profile True Believers in the White House. With Steve Bannon gone and now at war with President Like, Really Smart, it's up to Miller to fly the flag of genuine ethno-nationalism under the guise of "America First" and the fight against "globalism." Miller joined CNN's Jake Tapper for an interview on Sunday, but rather than Draining the Swamp, Miller seemed more concerned with juicing the Enormously Consensual President's ego.

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Miller, whose eyes have nearly the depth and humanity of Bill Cutting's, has clearly learned the essential lesson about working for Donald Trump: your job is to make him feel like a Big, Adult President Man. All else is secondary. As Tapper put it:

I get it. There’s one viewer that you care about right now, and you’re being obsequious. You’re being a factotum in order to please him. And I think I’ve wasted enough of my viewers’ time.

Miller has shined in national television interviews previously as a vacant-eyed authoritarian lieutenant who declared the president's national security actions "will not be questioned" while defending Trump's Definitely Not a Muslim Ban. He also once told a childhood friend that they could not be pals anymore for a number of reasons, one of which was his Latino heritage.

After the cameras stopped rolling, Miller reportedly had to be escorted off the set by security.

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Here’s a transcript of at least part of the not-seen-on-TV conversation between Stephen Miller and @jaketapper during the commercial break that followed the @CNNSotu interview... pic.twitter.com/NhBFrEeesA — Arden Farhi (@ArdenFarhi) January 8, 2018

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Jack Holmes Politics Editor Jack Holmes is the Politics Editor at Esquire, where he writes daily and edits the Politics Blog with Charles P Pierce.

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