Speechwriter fired over white nationalist ties appointed to high-level State Department role
Trump administration draws fire for naming Darren Beattie, a former White House staffer dismissed over white nationalist ties, to senior State Department role shaping public diplomacy.
Darren Beattie, a former White House speechwriter who attended a conference with white supremacists, speaks at a "Symposium at the Wall," a 2019 gathering on border security, immigration asylum and other issues in Sunland Park, New Mexico.(photo credit: SCREENSHOT/JTA)ByPHILISSA CRAMER/JTA
