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04/02/2018
A lot of people are going to try to convince you over the next few days that Robert Mueller is a bad man trying to destroy America. Here is who Robert Mueller really is….
• Born August 7th, 1944 in Manhattan
• Grew up outside of Philly
• Graduated High School in 1962
• Won award as school’s top athlete
• Went to Princeton
• Graduated with a degree in Politics in 1966
• Went to New York University
• Graduated with Masters in International Relations in 1967
• Partially in response to a friend getting killed in Vietnam he enlisted in the Marines in 1968
• Attended officer training at Parris Island
• Also attended Army Ranger and Army Jump School
• Was sent to South Vietnam where he served as a rifle platoon Commander
• In April of 1969 he was shot in the thigh, recovered and returned to active duty
• He earned the following medals while serving in Vietnam
o Bronze Star with Combat V; Purple Heart; Navy and Marine Corp Commendation Medals; Combat Action Ribbon; National Defense Medal, Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross…and several others
• He returned to America and earned his law degree in 1973 from Virginia Law School
• Worked for 3 years as a litigator in San Francisco
• Worked 12 years in the US Attorney Office
o Rose to chief of Criminal Division
• Moved to Boston to work as Assistant US Attorney
• Prosecuted financial fraud; terrorism; public corruption; narcotics conspiracies and money laundering
• Worked in Boston at a private firm until 1989
• Joined the US Department of Justice working on national security
• Worked on the following cases…Manuel Noriega; Pan Am Flight 103 and the Gambino Crime Family
• Moved between private and public service until 1998 when he was named the US Attorney for Northern California
• Bush (W) nominated him for FBI Director in 2001 and he was confirmed 98-0
• One week after taking the office came the 9/11 attacks
• He remained in office for 12 years…the second longest term in FBI history
• This long term required Senate Approval
• He was replaced at the FBI in 2013 by James Comey
• He had been teaching, speaking and consulting since 2013 when he was asked to run this investigation into Russian collusion
As a comparison…trump’s resume looks like this during those same years
• Sent to military school because of poor behavior
• Faked bone spurs and dodged draft
• Denied African-Americans housing for his daddy’s real estate business
• Lied
• Cheated
• Grifted
• Learned to Tweet
• Lied
• Cheated
• Grifted
Your choice really, whom to believe.
