A conservative author who has disseminated conspiracy theories about the January 6 attack against the Capitol and written on social networks that “competent white men must be in charge” has been appointed in a higher position in the State Department.
The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, took advantage of Darren Beattie to be undersecretary of state for public diplomacy. The position, in a permanent capacity, requires the confirmation of the Senate.
Beattie confirmed his appointment, first informed by Semafor, on a letter on his website, Revolver News.
“They have given me the great honor to serve once again in the Trump administration, this time in the State Department,” Beattie wrote, adding that he was stopping his participation on his website at the moment.
“Help the Rubio Secretary and my dear colleagues in the State Department to fulfill President Trump’s agenda will require each ounce of my approach and energy, and consequently, at the moment I will suspend my direct editorial participation in the news of revolver,” he said .
The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
Revolol News celebrated his appointment in a publication that shared his announcement and called it “a real blow for the same presumed hacks who love to slap the label of ‘conspiracy theoretical’ in anyone who challenges his narrative.”
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Beattie has a history of making inflammatory comments, including an X publication in October that says: “Competent white men should be in charge if you want things to work. Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is based on encoding women’s feelings and the minorities and demoralizers of competent white men. “
The Beattie site promoted an unfounded theory that the Capitol attack was the work of the FBI, or said, a “federal federation.” Trump took advantage and promoted Beattie’s articles, including publication on social networks in 2022 that Beattie and Revolver had “exposed much of the false narrative of the false news about January 6”.
Beattie promoted that work in its publication for readers.
“We are, of course, better known to directly challenge the official narrative of January 6, and we are especially proud that President Trump, who recently and heroically forgave the political prisoners of January 6, has cited our reports on this issue Often and favorably, “he wrote.
A former professor at Duke University, Beattie was fired from Trump’s White House in 2018 after he had appeared at a conference with white nationalists in 2016. He told the Washington Post that he had not “said anything objectable” and that he and that he was objectable “and that he and that he was objectable” and that he and that he was objectable “and that he and that he was objectable” and that he and that he and that he was objectable “and that he and that he and that he was objectable “and that he and that he and that he was objectable” and that he and that he and that he was not standing for his comments “completely.”
In 2019, the now representative of Formator Matt Gaetz hired Beattie as the main advisor. A year later, in the last months of the Trump administration, the White House appointed a period of three years with the Commission for the preservation of the United States Heritage abroad. Its mission includes helping to preserve holocaust sites. The Anti-Defamation League criticized the appointment at that time as “scandalous.”
The Biden administration requested its resignation of the unpaid position in 2022.
Abigail Williams contributed.
