 graduated from ohio state then yale law school before finding his way to dc he was a principal at peter thiel's venture capital firm and therefore has ties to wealthy donors he used to be a critic of trump writing in a private facebook message that went public in 2016 that trump could be quote america's hitler i said some bad things about donald trump 10 years ago but i think it's actually important to be able again to admit that you're wrong and you can make a good case to the