Trump's Flood-the-Zone News Cycle Let Fired Aide Sneak Back In [View all]
It’s hard to drink from a firehose. Every news cycle brings fresh horrors on how our democracy is being ravaged by people whose main qualifications are their dedication to Donald Trump. As the White House bombards the country with wave after wave of fresh decrees, important and disturbing factors go unnoticed.
Media attention has been focused on the Big Three nominees—RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel—while others, who many have never heard of, are being installed to shape the government in Trump’s twisted image of white grievance. Darren Beattie is one of many whose known views and recent history make him a terrible choice for the job he now holds as acting under secretary for public diplomacy at the State Department.
He was fired from the first Trump White House, where he was a speechwriter, after attending and speaking at a white supremacist conference. That was back when the Trumpers were still worried about optics. His consolation prize, awarded by Trump in 2020, was a seat on the Commission to Preserve America’s Cultural Heritage Abroad, which mainly oversees Holocaust sites. Jewish groups weren’t happy about that, and in 2022, President Biden had Beattie removed from the Commission.
Now Beattie is awaiting Senate confirmation to lead a $2.5 billion, 5,000-person global enterprise—or at least that’s what the Bureau of Public Diplomacy was under his predecessor. Seems unlikely that he will be a proponent of the public advocacy of cultural and educational programs around the world that the State Department funds.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-trump-flood-zone-news-172634674.html
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