Secretary of State Marco Rubio will appoint hardline MAGA personality Darren Beattie to a top role at the State Department,Semafor reported on Sunday.
Beattie is an anti-establishment media figure who has led the right wing news aggregator Revolver News for the last few years. In the past, Beattie has criticized American foreign policy, including funding for Ukraine amid the Russian invasion.
During Trump’s first-term, Beattie worked as a speech writer but was fired in 2018 after attending a conference with White nationalists. Two year later, Trump appointed to him to the Commission for the Preservation of American Heritage Abroad.
In a move that has already been praised by hardline pro-Trump figures, Rubio has appointed acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy.
“Darren personifies the America First Right — smart, tough, relentless — with a ‘take no prisoners’ attitude. He made Revolver a major player in the frontal attack on the Deep State,” Steve Bannon said in a text message to Semafor. “As important as his agency will be in the building at ‘Foggy Bottom’ , the symbolism of his hire by POTUS screams: ‘We Don’t Give 2 F****x’ for convention.’”
Meanwhile, former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson reacted to the news by calling Beattie “decent and genuinely smart” in text message to Semafor.
