Robert O'Brien is an unlikely pick for Trump's national security adviser
by Molly O'Toole, Los Angeles Times
Sep 18, 2019
3 minutes
WASHINGTON - 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.
"I'm not sure anybody out there predicted a Trump win," he said several days later. "I certainly didn't."
O'Brien, who served as a foreign policy adviser for the failed presidential campaign of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, then for that of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, never endorsed Donald Trump in 2016. But on Wednesday, the
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