(1) A Spotlight On Evan McMullin. 
(2) His full name is David Evan McMullin. He was born on April 2, 1976.
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(6) His father, David McMullin, graduated from Brigham Young University, then moved to Seattle for a job.
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(7) After this, he worked at Boeing Computer Services from May 1997 to January 1980.
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(8) He then worked at Puget Sound Energy as a Senior Application Analyst.
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(9) His mother, Lanie J. McMullin, sold bulk goods out of their garage.
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(10) She now oversees economic development efforts for Everett, Washington.
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(19) When he was in the third grade, his mother took him to Washington, DC to visit the monuments and the museums, an event he remembers today.
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(20) In the sixth grade, he became the President of his class, with his Presidential slogan: "Man with a Plan".
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(21) One of his friends at Lake View Elementary was Curt Leonard.
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(24) Barron and McMullin created the Yort Report for Auburn High School after the school refused to allow them to attend a political rally.
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(25) While in Junior High, McMullin watched the film "Three Days of the Condor" with his father, which made him interested in the Central Intelligence Agency.
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(26) After high school, McMullin managed to get in contact with the Central Intelligence Agency by calling 411, reaching out to the recruitment centre.
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(28) Two weeks later, McMullin reached out again, this time gaining direct contact information from somebody there and remaining in touch with them for years. He never learnt the name of this person though.
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(29) McMullin's friends were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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(30) He attended grunge rock shows, including watching Nirvana live.
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(32) After this, he became a Mormon missionary in Brazil before he attended college.
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(34) When he returned, his parents had been through a break-up but were back together. They did not have any funds to pay for McMullin to go to college.
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(35) As such, McMullin worked as a deckhand on a fishing boat in Alaska to make some money.
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(37) In 1997, McMullin became an undergraduate at Brigham Young University in Utah.
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(38) He studied at that specific university because he had become aware that the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation hired people directly from there.
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(40) He was ultimately recruited into the Central Intelligence Agency as a student trainee.
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(41) He did an analytical job focused on Iraq, which linked to his Middle Eastern studies.
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(42) He would split his time between the two - studying at Brigham Young University one minute, and training in Langley, VA the next.
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(43) His training was identical to Vladimir Putin's training in the KGB.
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(44) He then spent one year in Israel and Jordan learning Arabic.
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(45) He spent time working for the United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees in Amman, Jordan.
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(47) He earned a bachelor's degree in international law and diplomacy.
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(48) During his time at the Central Intelligence Agency, he went by his first name, David, instead of Evan.
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(50) September 11, 2001 happened while he was at the Central Intelligence Agency.
(51) He was at the headquarters at Langley studying in a Microsoft Excel class.
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(52) The event, however, would spur his career further into counterterrorism.
(53) Between 2001 and July 11, 2004, McMullin received a certificate from the Director of Central Intelligence, George Tenet.
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(54) From 2003 onwards, McMullin became a part of the National Clandestine Service in the Central Intelligence Agency.
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(55) The National Clandestine Service focused on human intelligence (HUMINT) and covert operations in foreign countries, and is also known as the Directorate of Operations.
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(57) He worked to covert al-Qaeda operatives to work for them.
(58) He spent time searching for high-value al-Qaeda leaders, including Osama bin Laden.
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(59) Between 2003 to 2005, while overseas, McMullin worked under Kevin Hulbert, a senior Central Intelligence Agency official, when they were stationed in South Asia.
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(60) At some point between September 24, 2004 and May 5, 2006, McMullin received a certificate from the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Porter Goss, which was witnessed by Jose Rodriguez.
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(62) This was because he was undercover while the United States military was battling the Sunni insurgency.
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(63) He also collected intelligence on the former al-Qaeda soldiers in Iraq - soldiers that would eventually become the Islamic State.
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(64) He built up networks and connections with various terrorist organisations and foreign governments to convert them in order to gather this intelligence.
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(65) He also worked with Navy SEALs, Delta Force, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to disrupt plans.
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(66) He was exposed to firefights and conflicts as part of the job. He never confirmed if he ever killed someone.
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(67) Throughout his career, he travelled across the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia.
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(68) More specifically, some of the countries he went to were Syria, Jordan and Iraq undercover.
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(69) He never visited a Central Intelligence Agency black site and never met a detainee, although he was aware of the program.
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(73) In 2009, McMullin studied at Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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(74) In May 2009, he received a certificate for ten years service at the Central Intelligence Agency.
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(75) He ultimately resigned from the Central Intelligence Agency.
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(79) More specifically, he was part of a team of MBA graduates working on mergers and acquisitions, helping companies raise their capital.
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(80) A former colleague at Wharton Business School, Jared Teo, was also a co-worker in his team at Goldman Sachs.
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(81) At some point, McMullin's mother married a woman, Michelle Sosin.
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(82) In 2011, McMullin presented a reform proposal on congressional gerrymandering to Americans Elect.
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(86) While working at Goldman Sachs, McMullin volunteered to work on the Mitt Romney / Paul Ryan Presidential campaign in 2012.
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(88) The same year, he joined the House Foreign Affairs Committee as a senior advisor to Representative Ed Royce.
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(89) This was because he was headhunted by a former Central Intelligence Agency officer who contacted him when the House Foreign Relations Committee needed somebody with counterterrorism experience.
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(90) It was here that McMullin began raising awareness for the Syrian conflict, pushing Congress to action.
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(91) At some point during this time, he joined the Council On Foreign Relations.
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(92) His work on Syria led to the defection of a Syrian military photographer named Caesar, who fled Syria in 2013 with over 55,000 photographs of mass torture and murder of 11,000 civilians in President Bashar al-Assad's prisons.
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(93) These documents were passed to the United States Department of State and to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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(94) McMullin helped brief lawmakers before a vote to authorise President Barack Obama's program to train and equip select Syrian rebel groups.
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(95) In September 2014, McMullin may have attended a meeting with Syrian rebels. If it is him, then he is visible at 00:52 in the video.
(96) This is a screenshot from the video.
(97) There is an associated photograph as well.
(98) On December 30, 2014, McMullin was leaving his position in the House Foreign Affairs Committee to become the House Republican Conference's new Chief Policy Director.
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(99) In January 2015, McMullin started his new position - a position he was promoted into as a direct response to his efforts in bringing the Syrian conflict to Congress's knowledge.
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(100) This was chaired by Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers in Washington, DC.
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(101) He managed a staff to craft positions across a broad spectrum of topics.
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(102) He spent time drafting a Syria sanctions bill to target President Assad.
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(103) It was named H.R. 5732 - Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2016.
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(104) On June 16, 2015, Donald Trump announced his intention to run for President of the United States.
(105) McMullin watched the announcement and was unhappy with Trump's attitude.
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(106) Because of this, McMullin began posting on Facebook about his hatred for Trump. He even created anti-Trump memes, paying for them to be sponsored.
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(107) In April 2016, McMullin hosted a TED Talk at the London Business School.
(108) In May 2016, he spoke at the University of Pennsylvania about his career and the Republican Party.
(109) On July 7, 2016, McMullin was present when Trump met with House Republicans to unite with him.
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(110) Also in July 2016, his Syria sanctions bill was approved by the Foreign Affairs Committee.
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(112) There are two versions to this short story now.
(113) In the first version, McMullin attempted to convince Representative Adam Kinzinger to run for President of the United States, but ultimately failed.
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(114) Kinzinger instead pointed McMullin to Better For America, where he met with Joel Searby, the founder.
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(115) The second version is that Bill Kristol wanted Rep. Kinzinger to run for President of the United States, but Kinzinger passed and redirected Kristol to McMullin.
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(116) As a result, Kristol introduced McMullin to John Kingston, Searby and Rick Wilson, and the organisation Better For America.
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(117) In either case, McMullin spent ten days thinking about the decision to run, and his friends and family were supportive but concerned.
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(118) In August 2016, he resigned from the House Republican Conference.
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(119) He did this by making two phone calls, one of which went to Rep. Rodgers, which went through to voice mail. Neither person called him back.
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(113) He then travelled to Salt Lake City, where, on August 10, 2016, McMullin announced his intention to run fro President of the United States.
(114) However, his intention to run was already first announced by MSNBC's Joe Scarborough via Twitter.
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(115) Joe Scarborough himself has been the subject of a previous spotlight. However, as it was my first spotlight, it is also somewhat biased, but the background and information is still available to read.
(118) Although, initially, he listed Nathan Johnson, a friend, as his running mate as a placeholder. This name was stuck on voting ballots in eight states.
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(121) The campaign headquarters was set up in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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(127) He wanted to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with tax credits.
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(130) He wanted to set up safe zones in the north and south of Syria and negotiate President Assad's removal.
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(133) He also owned two condos in Washington, DC, and had $100,000.00 in a retirement account.
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(134) While he does not like flag burning as a practice, he respects the right to protest via the method.
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(136) He was against the nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court of the United States.
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(137) He called Hillary Clinton corrupt, specifically citing her mishandling of classified information, which put his friends at risk.
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(140) He believes in traditional marriage, but also that the United States Government should have no control over it.
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(141) Because of his late entry into the race, McMullin had missed the deadline to appear on the ballots in 26 states, making it impossible for him to become the President of the United States by electoral college victory.
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(143) Regardless, a new super PAC - Stand Up America - was created by Kahlil Byrd and Chris Ashby to help him become the President of the United States.
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(147) Mohammed Jazil resigned from Better For America to join his campaign.
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(148) On August 8, 2016, McMullin incorporated an election committee and opened a bank account for it.
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(149) This is an article about Evan McMullin and his run to become the President of the United States in The Huffington Post...
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(150) ... which then became a long list of events from Hillary Clinton's life, not talking about McMullin at all.
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(151) McMullin managed to gain an equal footing in initial polling in Utah, matching with both Trump and Hillary.
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(152) His goal was to prevent both Trump and Hillary from gaining the electoral college majority so that the House of Representatives would choose him as President of the United States.
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(153) He viewed his own candidacy as not being the ideal way of how the Republic should work.
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(155) This was because, throughout his career, he had never heard of McMullin, despite his apparent stellar record.
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(156) General Michael Hayden, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from May 30, 2006 to February 12, 2009, said McMullin's background is accurate.
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(157) Sean Hannity called McMullin a Republican Party plant, hired by either Jeb Bush or Mitt Romney.
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(158) During his campaign, a man named William Johnson recorded a robocall to Utah voters to accuse McMullin of being a closet homosexual.
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(161) He had an interview with Bloomberg Politics.
(163) On September 20, 2016, McMullin gave a speech about foreign policy in Washington, DC, focused on global threats to the United States.
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(164) On October 29, 2016, Trump called McMullin the puppet of Bill Kristol.
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(166) During NBC's Meet the Press, McMullin wondered about Trump's tax returns.
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(167) Ultimately, he raised $1,634,822..00 and spent $1,632,885.00 on his Presidential campaign.
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(168) McMullin ended up with 21% of the Utah vote, while Trump walked away with 45%.
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(169) On November 8, 2016, Donald J. Trump was elected the President of the United States.
(170) McMullin gained more than 700,000 votes, but ultimately less than Gary Johnson and Jill Stein.
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(174) On December 5, 2016, McMullin wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times, declaring that President-elect Trump was a threat to the Constitution.
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(175) On December 10, 2016, he declared that Trump was not a loyal American.
(176) He opposed the nomination of Rex Tillerson to United States Department of State.
(177) After this, President-elect Trump called him 'McMuffin'.
(178) He had fun with it and probably enjoyed it.
(179) On January 20, 2017, Donald J. Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States.
(180) He did a speech at the Central Intelligence Agency.
(181) McMullin found President Trump's speech at the Central Intelligence Agency to be insulting and disrespectful to the men and women who sacrificed their lives for the United States of America.
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(184) He praised Sally Yates' defiance towards President Trump over an immigration order.
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(185) In February 2017, McMullin and Finn created Stand Up Republic, a non-profit organisation.
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(187) McMullin called Vice President Mike Pence an enabler of President Trump.
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(189) On February 28, 2017, McMullin wrote an opinion piece on CNN's website.
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(190) In April 2017, McMullin described his work ethic as, essentially, a consummate professional.
(191) In May 2017, audio was leaked of Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy saying in a 2016 closed-door leadership meeting that Russia was paying off Trump. The leak led to an investigation.
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(192) Speaker of the House Paul Ryan was stunned that somebody not only made the recording, but held onto it for a year.
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(194) On July 28, 2017, McMullin wrote an opinion piece in the Boston Globe about the dangers of foreign collusion, putting it into the context of Trump-Russia.
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(195) He is still a Never Trumper to this day.
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