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Behind the Aegis

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Mon Jan 17, 2022, 02:34 PM Jan 2022

(Jewish Group) Biden yanks Trump appointee who spoke to white supremacists...

Biden yanks Trump appointee who spoke to white supremacists from commission that monitors Holocaust sites

President Joe Biden removed from a commission that monitors Holocaust sites a Trump appointee with ties to white supremacists.

In a letter obtained by a reporter for Politico, the White House asked Darren Beattie on Jan. 14 to resign from the Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad by the end of the day or be removed.

The commission identifies and works to secure the preservation of historical sites in Europe, such as cemeteries, monuments and Holocaust killing sites, that are associated with the heritage of U.S. citizens.

Former President Donald Trump’s appointment of Beattie to the commission in 2020 stirred controversy among Jewish groups and led to demands for his removal. It was one of several appointments of young loyalists to prestigious commissions that Trump made after he lost the election.

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(Jewish Group) Biden yanks Trump appointee who spoke to white supremacists... (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Jan 2022 OP
Only Trump would reward his Nazi with a position preserving Holocaust sites. Budi Jan 2022 #1
Former Trump aide canned by Biden administration after pushing Jan. 6 'false flag' theory LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2022 #2

LetMyPeopleVote

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2. Former Trump aide canned by Biden administration after pushing Jan. 6 'false flag' theory
Mon Jan 17, 2022, 03:57 PM
Jan 2022

This asshole needed to fired




"Darren Beattie was named by former president Donald Trump to the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad in November 2020. In a letter Friday, Gautam Raghavan, deputy director of the White House office of presidential personnel, told Beattie that he must turn in his resignation by the end of business Friday and if he did not, his position would be terminated," reported Mariana Alfaro. "Beattie confirmed the White House’s letter in a Friday afternoon tweet, saying the request for his resignation was 'better than a Pulitzer [Prize].'"

"On Sunday, the former president issued a statement praising Beattie for pushing his baseless claims about Jan. 6, when the pro-Trump mob invaded the Capitol to stop the affirmation of Joe Biden’s electoral college win, an attack that left five dead and 140 members of law enforcement injured," said the report. "'Because of Darren’s work, and others, Americans aren’t buying into the Unselect Committee’s attempts to smear 75 million (plus!) Americans,' Trump said, in an apparent reference to his 2020 voters. He received about 74 million votes; Biden got about 81 million."

The main purpose of the Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad is to memorialize victims of the Holocaust.
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