President Donald Trump’s pick to be the top prosecutor in his home district previously “flunked” out of the very office he now leads, a new report reveals.

Jason Reding Quiñones left the Southern District of Florida in 2024 after years of “poor performance evaluations,” sources tell The Washington Post.

Trump, 79, nominated Reding Quiñones, 43, to not only return to his former office, which is prosecuting top MAGA foes like Obama-era officials James R. Clapper Jr. and John Brennan, but to lead it. The district’s jurisdiction includes Mar-a-Lago.

It is unlikely those in the Miami-based office foresaw Reding Quiñones’ ascension when he was hired as an entry-level prosecutor in 2018, during the first Trump administration.

A graduate of nearby Florida International University’s law school

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