Robert A. Destro is an American attorney, academic, and government official who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor from September 2019 to January 2021.

[2][3] He previously served on the United States Commission on Civil Rights from 1983 to 1989 and as a professor of law at The Catholic University of America.

[4] His legal work includes collaboration with the Peace Research Institute Oslo in a fifteen-year dialogue among Muslim, Christian, and Jewish legal, business, and religious leaders in the United States and the Middle East and efforts promoting the release of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in the Middle East.

[5][4] In 2011, Destro sent a report about the disappearance of Robert Levinson to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and he also alerted the FBI about the involvement of the Fellowship Foundation.

While Destro declined to disclose the substance of the meeting, Oltmann posted on social media that he had met with "the right people" in the State Department and that "they said, 'If this [the false claims of irregularities in the 2020 US Presidential election ] is true, this is a coup.