Trump speechwriter fired amid scrutiny of appearance with white nationalists

[Roland99]

Source: Washington Post

A White House speechwriter for President Trump was terminated last week after revelations that he had spoken at a conference attended by well-known white nationalists, according to three people familiar with the decision who were not authorized to speak publicly.

Darren Beattie, who was a visiting instructor at Duke University before he joined the White House speechwriting team, was fired Friday after a media inquiry about his appearance at the 2016 H.L. Mencken Club conference, where Beattie spoke on a panel alongside Peter Brimelow.

Brimelow, founder of the anti-immigrant website Vdare.com, is a “white nationalist” and “regularly publishes works by white supremacists, anti-Semites, and others on the radical right,” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, an advocacy group that tracks extremists.

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CNN’s “K-File,” an investigative unit, published a report on Sunday on Beattie and his appearance at the Mencken event, which has been attended in the past by white nationalist Richard Spencer. Spencer is a prominent figure in the “alt-right,” a movement whose adherents are known for espousing racist, sexist and anti-Semitic points of view.


Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-speechwriter-fired-amid-scrutiny-of-appearance-with-white-nationalists/2018/08/19/f5051b52-a3eb-11e8-a656-943eefab5daf_story.html?utm_term=.b81afa33046f&tid=sm_fb

[Mrs. Overall]

1. Stephen Miller got fired?

(sarcasm)

[Roland99]

2. That was my first thought too! lol

[LonePirate]

3. How strange! Usually that sort of action is a requirement for getting a job in this administration.

[djacq]

4. Revelation!?

Oh... You mean that the Orange Clown knew all along that Beattie hangs with white nationalists until he got busted.

[Roland99]

5. Beattie's statement (grab the vomit bag)

“In 2016 I attended the Mencken conference in question and delivered a stand-alone, academic talk titled ‘The Intelligentsia and the Right.’ I said nothing objectionable and stand by my remarks completely,” Beattie said in the statement. “It was the honor of my life to serve in the Trump Administration. I love President Trump, who is a fearless American hero, and continue to support him one hundred percent. I have no further comment.”

[Izzy Blue]

17. He'll just move on

To the 2020 presidential campaign joining the other low-lives who were fired/resigned from the WH.

Poor Duke, both Stephen Miller and Darren Beattie went there.
Beattie even wrote a piece slamming Duke when they joined other universities in condemning Trump's travel ban.

[IronLionZion]

6. Great, now fire Stephen Miller

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Womp, womp.

[C Moon]

8. Shocking! I'm mortified!

But only the ones that get caught. There are tons more working in his shadow.
That's how these racist filth live their lives. Look how the KKK wears hoods to hide their identity.
Look how small their protests have gotten since they began getting their photos posted all over the internet.
Slime of the universe!

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Gotta be theater

Firing for public consumption, empowerment for the now unrestricted resource

[Older Than I Look]

10. The WH was OK with him speaking to white nationalists.

They fired him because we found out about him speaking to white nationalists.

[Roland99]

12. Bingo!

[riversedge]

19. Yes, he was loyal to Trump and got the job...........NO vetting or WH did not care until now!

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/19/politics/darren-beattie-mencken-club/index.html


.............The White House, which asked CNN to hold off on the story for several days last week declined to say when Beattie left the White House. Beattie's email address at the White House, which worked until late Friday evening, was no longer active by Saturday.
"Mr. Beattie no longer works at the White House," White House spokesman Hogan Gidley told CNN on Friday night. "We don't comment on personnel matters."


Beattie confirmed to CNN he spoke to the 2016 conference, saying his speech was not objectionable.


"In 2016 I attended the Mencken conference in question and delivered a stand-alone, academic talk titled 'The Intelligentsia and the Right.' I said nothing objectionable and stand by my remarks completely," he told CNN's KFile in an email on Saturday. "It was the honor of my life to serve in the Trump Administration. I love President Trump, who is a fearless American hero, and continue to support him one hundred percent. I have no further comment."

Beattie gained prominence in 2016 when as a visiting instructor in Duke University's political science department he signed on to a letter of academic scholars supporting Trump. He correctly predicted Trump would win the 2016 presidential election.
As a professor, Beattie wrote an editorial for Duke's student newspaper in support of the travel ban and has said he supported Trump's candidacy from the beginning, citing his position on immigration.

[rockfordfile]

11. I wonder about more from his past.

[Marcuse]

13. Another day, a little less foliage on the fig leaf.

[truthisfreedom]

14. He'll continue under contract.

[Major Nikon]

15. Trump only hires the best Nazis

[TomCADem]

16. You Have To Wonder With Kobach, Miller and Bannon...

...does Trump just flip a coin when he decides to to fire someone for being outed as a racist or a domestic abuser? You have to wonder whether it is a job requirement or a defect in this white house.

[riversedge]

18. Beattie was a Trump loyalist-No vetting by WH, as speech was in 2016 and only fired after Breaking

news hit on this story.


https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/white-house-speechwriter-darren-beattie-fired_us_5b7a3db8e4b0a5b1febc9837

huff post had embedded link to............

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/19/politics/darren-beattie-mencken-club/index.html


.............The White House, which asked CNN to hold off on the story for several days last week declined to say when Beattie left the White House. Beattie's email address at the White House, which worked until late Friday evening, was no longer active by Saturday.
"Mr. Beattie no longer works at the White House," White House spokesman Hogan Gidley told CNN on Friday night. "We don't comment on personnel matters."


Beattie confirmed to CNN he spoke to the 2016 conference, saying his speech was not objectionable.


"In 2016 I attended the Mencken conference in question and delivered a stand-alone, academic talk titled 'The Intelligentsia and the Right.' I said nothing objectionable and stand by my remarks completely," he told CNN's KFile in an email on Saturday. "It was the honor of my life to serve in the Trump Administration. I love President Trump, who is a fearless American hero, and continue to support him one hundred percent. I have no further comment."
Beattie gained prominence in 2016 when as a visiting instructor in Duke University's political science department he signed on to a letter of academic scholars supporting Trump. He correctly predicted Trump would win the 2016 presidential election.
As a professor, Beattie wrote an editorial for Duke's student newspaper in support of the travel ban and has said he supported Trump's candidacy from the beginning, citing his position on immigration.