Top Trump State Department Appointee Shilled for America’s Enemies, Called NATO ‘Greater Threat’ Than Chinese Communist Party

Darren Beattie will serve as the Trump administration’s acting Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy at the State Department despite his long history of shilling for America’s enemies.

Beattie, who worked as a speechwriter in the White House during Donald Trump’s first term in office, was fired in 2018 for attending and delivering a speech as the H.L. Mencken Conference, an event with a heavy white nationalist presence.

In his new capacity, Beattie will be tasked with leading “Department efforts to expand and strengthen the relationships between the people of the United States and citizens of other countries.”

“The bureaus and offices reporting to the Under Secretary advance national interests by seeking to engage, inform, and understand the perspectives of foreign audiences,” according to the State Department website.

Beattie has already demonstrated a working knowledge of — as well as profound sympathy for — the perspectives of the Chinese and Russian governments.

In a number of tweets fired off over the last few years, Beattie has parroted Chinese propaganda and talking points about both Taiwan and the genocide it is prosecuting against its Uyghur population.

“The Chinese aren’t genocidal,” insisted Beattie in 2021. “They just object to uyghur supremacy and uyghurness. If uyghurs simply reject uyghur supremacy, they’ll have no problem functioning in Chinese society.”

“Any Uighur who objects to what the CCP is doing should be shamed as a Uighur Supremacist,” he added in another tweet.

Last fall, he expressed a similar sentiment, submitting that “America treats rural whites far worse than China treats Uighurs.”

“Republican politicians are far more comfortable expressing support for the latter, however,” he complained.

In other instances, Beattie has suggested that the United States should consent to handing Taiwan over to the CCP.

“Taiwan will inevitably belong to China, it’s only a matter of time. It’s not worth expending any capital to prevent,” wrote Beattie last May. “A visionary statesman will recognize this and make a deal- in exchange for acknowledgment of this basic reality, get some serious concessions on Africa and Antartica [sic].”

Beattie has also argued that “NATO is a greater threat to American liberty than the Chinese Communist Party. Sounds crazy I know, but I’d be willing to debate anyone serious on this topic publicly.”

His sympathies also extend to Vladimir Putin and his cronies in Moscow.

In 2021, Beattie proclaimed that “a big part of American ruling class’ [sic] hatred of Russia is that Russia is a major power that rejects the woke ideology at the core of American regime,” before adding, for good measure, “Now that Xi’s China is rejecting America’s woke poison in key respects, interesting to see how this plays into cold war 2.0.”

And on the eve of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Beattie made a faulty prognostication.

“Prediction: There will not be a major war, and conflict will not in any significant sense extend beyond the contested regions in question,” he wrote. ” Us/Ukraine clearly agitating, and there are real interests in those regions, but whatever happens will be limited. Talk about kiev nonsense.”

“When I say there are real interests in those regions I mean for Russia, not for USA,” he clarified.

Around the same time, he asserted that the “U.S. gov’t has been supporting Ukrainian ne0-Nazi groups in its obsessive proxy war against Russia.

Beattie’s views stand in stark contrast with those of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who introduced the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act in the Senate and has been an outspoken critic of the governments in Moscow and Beijing.