The posts pointed to an investigation (archived) published by U.K. news outlet The Telegraph on June 3, claiming that Beattie — whom the investigation asserted shut down the U.S. government's Russian ...

Rumors that Darren Beattie — a senior official in the U.S. State Department — had personal ties to Russia spread in June 2025. Posts across multiple platforms (archived, archived, archived, archived) ...

About 19 hours after the fact, Trump shared his official reaction.

Republicans have added Medicaid work requirements to the budget bill, purportedly to boot non-disabled, jobless Americans off the program. In reality, work requirements could end health coverage for ...

At least four people from Donald Trump’s first term who were deemed too extreme or politically toxic to win Senate confirmation – or even keep their jobs – are now back in the fold and in ...

Ousted from the White House speechwriter’s office in late summer 2018 during Donald Trump’s first stint in power, the original scandal that did Beattie in now seems downright passé—like ...

Darren Beattie, a top acting State Department official, circulated false rumors in now-deleted tweets about Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s sexuality and intelligence. Beattie stated in a post ...

In response to the posts, Beattie told CNN: ‘Secretary Rubio is 100 percent America First and it’s a tremendous honor to work for him in advancing President Trump’s world historical agenda ...

(CNN) – A top acting State Department official deleted at least half a dozen posts on X that criticized his now boss, Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The deleted tweets from Darren Beattie, the ...