On Friday, The Washington Post reported that the Biden administration has forced the resignation of a Trump administration appointee after he used his blog to promote the right-wing conspiracy theories that the FBI helped to instigate the January 6th attack on the Capitol.
Gautam Raghavan, deputy director of the White House Office of Presidential Personnel, issued the letter to Darren Beattie, who was appointed to the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad in November 2020, was told in a letter Friday that he must turn in his resignation by the end of the business day, and if he did not, his position would be terminated,” the Post article says.
On Sunday, Trump sent out the statement on the left praising right wing conspiracist, Darren Beattie of Revolver News, for his attempt to rewrite the history of J6 with lies.
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) January 14, 2022
On the right is a letter from the WH today firing him from his Trump-appointed position. pic.twitter.com/jZBKJSKtqv
Before Trump appointed him to the commission, Beattie worked as a presidential speechwriter but was removed from that role after it emerged that he appeared at a conference with Peter Brimelow, the infamous founder of the white supremacist website VDare.com.