While Trump consistently bashes California, his new national security advisor is very much a product of the state.
The night of the 2016 presidential election, Robert C. O’Brien, a fixture of Republican presidential campaigns for more than a dozen years, was in London, glued to television screens with American visitors and Brits alike.
Born in Los Angeles, O’Brien attended high school in Santa Rosa and then UCLA. Shortly after completing law school at UC Berkeley and passing the California bar, O’Brien joined the Army Reserve Judge Advocate General Corps and launched his civilian law career, he said in a 2015 interview, one of a series he gave to this reporter between then and 2017.
He has long backed the mainstream Republicans that Trump disdains. After advising now-Sen. Mitt Romney , a fellow Mormon, in his failed 2008 and 2012 presidential runs, O’Brien worked for Walker, one of the first candidates to drop out in 2016, and then Cruz, ultimately Trump’s runner-up for the Republican nomination.
O’Brien sees himself as a Reagan Republican, and he supported Trump’s campaign promises to “rebuild the military.” Still, when Trump emerged as the likely Republican nominee, O’Brien“Unfortunately, he has been short on specifics and has criticized key weapons systems,” he said at the time. O’Brien also expressed support for Trump’s pledges to end the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement, calling it “the worst deal that’s ever been negotiated,” much as Trump did before he pulled out last year.
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