From 2009-2017, Rhodes served as a Deputy National Security Advisor to President Obama. In that capacity, he participated in nearly all of President Obama’s key decisions, and oversaw the President’s national security communications, speechwriting, public diplomacy, and global engagement programming.
During the Trump administration, Rhodes served as Co-chair of National Security Action. From 2009-2017, Rhodes served as a Deputy National Security Advisor to President Obama.
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In the summer of 1997, Rhodes volunteered with the Rudy Giuliani mayoral campaign. In the summer of 2001, he worked on the New York City Council campaign of Diana Reyna.
Earlier this week, news broke that the FBI has dismissed an agent, Peter Strzok, for sending anti-Trump text messages to a co-worker he was allegedly having an affair with. Strzok was one of the two FBI agents who interviewed Trump’s former national security advisor Michael Flynn.
Rhee has also donated more than $16,000 to Democrats since 2008. Rhee also served as the personal attorney for Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser for President Barack Obama who infamously bragged about lying to reporters to dupe lawmakers and the public into supporting the Iran Deal.
Mueller Investigator Personally Represented Ben Rhodes, Clinton Foundation . An investigator involved in special counsel Robert Mueller’s team investigating President Trump served as a personal attorney for Obama administration officials, represented the Clinton Foundation , and even donated thousands of dollars to Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
It was later asserted that she was fearful of Rhoades after enduring two weeks in his truck. Rhoades had converted the sleeper cab of his truck into his own personal torture chamber where he kept women, sometimes for weeks, torturing and raping them.
Eventually, he became a long haul trucker. During the 1980s, Rhoades developed interests and hobbies, amongst which included involving himself in the BDSM scene.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s Rhoades married three times, having a son with his first wife. Subsequently, he found work in stores, supermarkets, warehouses and restaurants.
A few years later, in 1967 or 1968, Rhoades was dishonorably discharged from the military for his involvement in a robbery. After his dishonorable discharge from the Marines sometime in the late 1960s, he attended college but dropped out.
After his father was discharged from the military, he found work as a firefighter. By all reliable accounts, Rhoades's early life was relatively normal, aside from unspecified social problems in his formative years.
In 1994, Rhoades was convicted of the first degree murder of Regina Kay Walters and sentenced to life without parole at Menard Correctional Center in Chester, Illinois. He was extradited to Utah in 2005 to be tried for the deaths of Candace Walsh and Douglas Zyskowski; however, in accordance with the victims' families' requests, the charges were dropped in 2006 and he was returned to prison. Rhoades later was extradited to Texas for the murder of Walters and Jones where Rhoades, in exchange for dropping the death penalty, pleaded guilty to their deaths and received a second life sentence.
Menard Correctional Center. Robert Benjamin Rhoades (born November 22, 1945), also known as The Truck Stop Killer, is an American serial killer and rapist. He was convicted for three murders, and was slated to be tried for two more before charges were dropped due to the wishes of victims' families. Rhoades is additionally suspected ...