A former speechwriter for President Donald Trump who was fired after attending a white nationalist meeting has been rehired to manage the United States’ memorials to commemorate the Holocaust genocide.
Although Trump is now in the lame duck period of his presidency, the White House released a statement on Wednesday, confirming several key positions the president is now filling. The statement confirmed Trump nominated Darren Beattie to become a Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad. The board, which was founded in 1985, has the responsibility of “seeking out, and overseeing, the preservation of overseas sites related to the Holocaust,” according to Business Insider.
In 2018, Beatie was hired by the White House as a speech writer. However, his time at the White House was short-lived due to CNN’s investigative findings that determined he was a keynote speaker at a white nationalist conference in 2016. According to the publication, CNN determined “Beattie spoke on a panel alongside Peter Brimelow, the founder of anti-immigration website Vdare, at a conferences hosted by the right-wing society the H.L. Mencken Club.” Continue reading.