Darren Beattie, who has called for the U.S. government to promote sterilizations of “feral” and “low-IQ” Americans by offering free Air Jordans and said in 2024 that “competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work,” is rising through the ranks of the Trump administration.
Beattie has been working as a senior State Department official — despite being fired from his speechwriting job during the first Trump administration for appearing at a conference attended by known white nationalists — and this week was appointed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to lead the U.S. Institute of Peace.
NOTUS asked 85 Republican lawmakers who sit on the foreign policy and spending committees in each chamber of Congress — who oversee and determine funding for the State Department — about Beattie’s role in the agency and his recent appointment. Just one office responded with a statement.