Trump official who shut down counter-Russia agency has links to Kremlin

[highplainsdem]

Source: Telegraph via Yahoo

A senior official who dismantled the US government’s Russian disinformation unit is married to a Russian woman with links to the Kremlin, The Telegraph can reveal.

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He has been noted for his focus on destroying the agency tasked with tackling Kremlin propaganda.

Mr Beattie, the acting under-secretary for public diplomacy and public affairs, is married to a woman whose uncle has taken several roles in Russian politics and once received a personal “thank you” message from Vladimir Putin.

In the years before joining the government, Mr Beattie wrote social media posts suggesting Western institutions should be “infiltrated” by Putin, while he also attacked what he described as the “globalist American empire”.

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Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-official-shut-down-russia-095504636.html

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He said that having non-woke China and anti-woke Russia competing with America is "not a bad thing."

He also posted on social media that the US shouldn't support Taiwan, according to the article.

I did some googling and quickly found this.

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2025/02/05/2003831373

Beattie was terminated as a speech writer for Trump after the Washington Post in 2018 reported that he had spoken at a conference attended by well-known white nationalists.

Posts by Beattie on X have advocated for white men being in charge and questioned US policy toward Taiwan.

In a post in October last year, Beattie wrote that the US' national ideology is based on "coddling the feelings of women and minorities, and demoralizing competent white men," and that "competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work."

He questioned US policy toward Taiwan, saying that the nation was "inevitably" going to belong to China, and that it was "not worth expending any capital to prevent."

Oh, and this bigot has also called for sterilization of what he calls "low-IQ trash":
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/darren-beattie-trump-state-department-b2696297.html

[Bayard]

1. No vetting.

Should never have been hired.

[SheltieLover]

4. Likely hired because of ruskie allegiance

[Harker]

17. That sort of vetting.

[SheltieLover]

18. Yup

[brakester]

20. This racist bum

sounds like a real winner/whiner and just what the orange a$$ ordered!

[SheltieLover]

21. Yup!

[marble falls]

5. Should have never have been hired, but he was certainly vetted. They were counting on not drawing any attention ...

... we'd need a thick program to be able to pick up on all the players. TACO is trying to lower standards enough we can't begin to pick up on every loser he hires.

[70sEraVet]

13. I'm sure he was highly recommended.

Recommended by the puppet-master himself.

[Ocelot II]

2. What a surprise.

[SheltieLover]

3. Shocking

[The Roux Comes First]

6. Even If He Didn't Instinctively Gravitate Towards the Bottom of the Barrel Labelled "Scum"

In selecting his operational folks, it seems highly unlikely he would be able to attract many of actual skill and talent (never mind principles and reliability).

It has taken herculean (for him) efforts to bribe and leverage greedy, unprincipled CEOs and law firms to genuflect, for example.

[chowder66]

7. Real competent white men aren't afraid of women and minorities and aren't demoralized because of them.

[Iamscrewed]

8. Every 80-100 years

The human race never learns.

[Martin68]

9. MAGA traitors!

[republianmushroom]

10. But he doesn't have the to connection to Russia

that the convicted felon does. Just more republican corruption.

[sakabatou]

11. Who could've guessed?

[Initech]

12. 2016 GOP: Don't you fucking dare question our ties to Russia!

2025 GOP: It was Russia the whole time, embrace the hammer and sickle!

[flashman13]

14. Clearly a Man among MAGAts.

[mdbl]

15. Sucks to have a govt run by a bunch of treasonous assholes

[Hekate]

16. No words

[Warpy]

19. Yeah, that one was so obvious I knew they'd eventually figure it out

That shithead is in custody, I hope.

[SunSeeker]

22. K & R for exposure.

[turbinetree]

23. Did he or has he been brought in to answer some questions in the Intelligence committees so he can

plead the fifth...........and then he gives some flippant answer about Taiwan............

[Baitball Blogger]

24. No surprise.

[calimary]

25. Darren Beattie

Just wanted that posted here so everybody can know his full name, even if they don’t read the article.

Darren Beattie.

[twodogsbarking]

26. All roads lead to the Kremlin. Some have been bombed out though.

[Torchlight]

27. Entire GOP may as well raise the Russian flag above the white House.

Moscow's arm is so far up this administration's ass, I'm surprised we don't see Putin's hand waving at us when trump opens his mouth to speak.

It's going to take 30 years or more to remove the Russian moles trump's allowing into the government.

[SpankMe]

28. Oh, for fuck's sake! n/t