Rogan O'Handley

Rogan Michael John O'Handley, known professionally as DC Draino, is an American right-wing political commentator and former entertainment lawyer. He has amassed a following of over 5 million followers on Facebook, Instagram, and X combined as of March 2024.

Early life and education

Rogan O'Handley was born in San Francisco in 1985. He graduated from Franklin High School in 2003.
O'Handley attended Northeastern University, serving as student body president as a senior before graduating in 2007 magna cum laude as a double major in political science and criminal justice. He then completed his J.D. degree at the University of [Chicago Law School] in 2011.

Career

After being admitted to the California State Bar in 2011, O'Handley began his career as an associate at the Los Angeles office of McDermott Will & Emery, specializing in corporate finance. Then in 2014, O'Handley became an associate attorney with Loeb & Loeb, specializing in entertainment law.
After the 2016 [United States presidential election], he started an Instagram account under the pseudonym "DC Draino" as a reference to Trump's phrase "drain the swamp". After the account started to gain traction, he quit his job as an attorney to make social media content full-time. He eventually moved to Tampa, where he founded a digital media company. He has since made appearances on Tucker Carlson Tonight and spoke at the Gays for Trump 2020 event hosted by the Log Cabin Republicans, despite his content being labeled by some as anti-LGBT.