<ul class="summary-list"><li>Right-wing activist <keyword id="12923095" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="darren-beattie" source="Orion">Darren Beattie</keyword> was told to resign from a US commission. </li><li>Insider had found he was continuing to serve on the panel, while pushing Jan. 6 conspiracy theories. </li></ul>The Biden administration has forced the resignation of right-wing activist and conspiracy theorist Darren Beattie from the commission that oversees US Holocaust memorials abroad. Gautam Raghavan, deputy director of the White House Office of presidential personnel, had told Beattie in a letter that he must resign from his role on the US Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad by the end of business Friday or be fired, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/14/biden-white-house-forces-resignation-former-trump-aide-who-promoted-baseless-jan-6-theories/">The Washington Post reported. </a>"Better than a Pulitzer," wrote Beattie in a tweet, with a picture of the letter requesting his resignation. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Darren J. Beattie (@DarrenJBeattie) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1482073065743863809">January 14, 2022</a></blockquote>Insider has contacted the White House for comment. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/conspiracist-trump-ally-beattie-keeps-federal-job-year-2022-1?r=US&amp;IR=T">The move comes after Insider</a> had found earlier in the week that Beattie was continuing to serve on the panel, more than a year after his appointment by then-president <keyword id="11914386" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="donald-trump" source="Orion">Donald Trump</keyword> generated controversy. In a statement to Insider, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) had said on Tuesday that Beattie should have "no place on a commission that plays a special role preserving Jewish heritage sites from before the Holocaust." The ADL highlighted his promotion of "deeply harmful" falsehoods about the Jan 6 riot and attendance of a conference alongside white nationalists. Beattie's attendance at the 2016 HL Mencken Club conference alongside white nationalist Peter Brimelow had prompted his firing as a speechwriter by the Trump administration in 2018 before Trump had appointed him to the commission.More recently, Beattie has played an increasingly prominent role in pushing the baseless conspiracy theory that the Jan 6 riot was instigated by FBI agents and frequently discussed the claim on Fox News host Tucker Carlson's show. Trump praised him for promoting <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-praises-revoler-news-pushed-false-fbi-capitol-riot-theory-2022-1?r=US&amp;IR=T">the claim in a recent statement, writing, "Congratulations to Darren Beattie and Revolver News, who have exposed so much of the Fake News' false narrative about January 6th."</a>The conspiracy theory is gaining currency among allies of Trump, and the House committee investigating the Jan 6 riot released a statement this week <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/jan-6-committee-dismisses-ray-epps-conspiracy-theory-issues-new-n1287335">rejecting it and refuting the claim that protester Ray Epps was working with the FBI. </a>Beattie's term on the commission had been set to end in February, but members can continue to serve beyond their term if they wish. The Post reported that six other members of the panel appointed by Trump were also asked to resign Friday.

Trump ally Darren Beattie forced out of federal post by White House after Insider report

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="12923095" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="darren-beattie" source="Orion">Darren Beattie</keyword> sparked outrage by joining <keyword id="12938655" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="the-commission-for-the-preservation-of-americas-heritage-abroad" source="Orion">the Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad</keyword>.</li><li>He was chosen for the role in 2020 by Trump, despite having been fired from his administration.</li></ul>Right-wing conspiracy theorist Darren Beattie continues to occupy a position in the federal government given to him by <keyword id="11914386" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="donald-trump" source="Orion">Donald Trump</keyword>, almost a year since Joe Biden took office and gained the ability to fire him.Beattie was appointed by then-President Donald Trump in November 2020 to serve on the Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad.Its main responsibilities are seeking to preserve monuments in eastern and central Europe, many of which memorialize Holocaust victims. He gained new prominence in recent weeks promoting conspiracy theories about the Capitol riot, earning public praise from Trump.Both Beattie and a spokesperson the commission confirmed that he continues to serve on the body. His term is due to end on February 27, beyond which he can continue to serve if he chooses.Despite being part of the commission, Beattie was this week <a href="https://www.heritageabroad.gov/members">not listed on its website as a member</a>. It instead lists former US Rep. Marjorie Margolies, an Obama appointee whose term was up in January 2020 and is no longer part of the commission.Beattie's appointment in 2020 caused outrage, and campaign groups continue to call for his removal. In a statement to Insider, the Anti-Defamation league, which monitors anti-Semitism, said that Beattie should not be continuing to serve on the body."Since Beattie's appointment to the Commission in November 2020, he has continued to spread outrageous and deeply harmful falsehoods and misinformation, including about the January 6 insurrection, that are at odds with serving in such positions of official responsibility," said spokesman Jake Hyman. "We retain our view that Beattie, who once attended an event with white supremacists and participated in a panel discussion with white nationalist Peter Brimelow, should have no place on a commission that plays a special role preserving Jewish heritage sites from before the Holocaust."The spokesman was referring to <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45249154">Beattie's being fired as a speechwriter by the Trump adminstration in 2018 over his attendance of the HL Mencken Club. </a>Beattie, who describes himself as a "proud Jew" on his Twitter profile, confirmed to Insider that he continued to serve on the commission. "I'm proud to serve president Biden to honor the memory of the Holocaust," said Beattie, and criticized ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt as a "Democrat apparatchik" who has "destroyed the reputation of the ADL during his tenure."Professor David Eric Lewis, an expert in the executive branch at Vanderbilt University, told Insider that Biden has the power to fire Beattie, since there are no explicit protections against it in law."Many, including the last two presidents, interpret this to mean that presidents can fire them for whatever reason," he said in an email. His assessment was shared by Professor Anne O'Connell, an expert in the laws covering federal bureaucracy at Stanford Law School, who noted that Biden <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/02/biden-fired-roger-severino-trump-holdovers-acus.html">fired a Trump appointee serving in a similar role. </a>The Biden administration has warned Trump appointees in other federal offices that they should resign or expect to be fired. However, in many cases the administration has taken little action against them.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/federal-appointees-supported-trumps-election-lies-2021-8">In August 2021, Insider's Justin Rood catalogued more than 40 such figures</a> serving well into Biden's term despite championing efforts to undermine the 2020 election results.The White House did not reply to Insider's requests for comment on the case.Since Trump left office, Beattie has gained prominence as an advocate of the conspiracy theory that FBI agents instigated the Capitol riot, and is frequently invited onto Fox News host Tucker Carlson's show to discuss the claims. Trump <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-praises-revoler-news-pushed-false-fbi-capitol-riot-theory-2022-1">in a statement Sunday praised Beattie</a>, and his fringe website Revolver News, for their efforts."Congratulations to Darren Beattie and Revolver News who have exposed so much of the Fake News' false narrative about January 6th," he said.

A conspiracy theorist who Trump put on a US body overseeing Holocaust monuments is still there more than a year after calls for Biden to fire him

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Trump heaped praise on Revolver News, which has pushed pro-Trump conspiracy theories.</li><li>Revolver, run by former aide <keyword id="12923095" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="darren-beattie" source="Orion">Darren Beattie</keyword>, suggested the FBI is to blame for the Capitol riot.</li></ul>Former President <keyword id="11914386" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="donald-trump" source="Orion">Donald Trump</keyword> praised a right-wing website that helped promote the baseless conspiracy theory that the FBI instigated the violence in the Capitol riot.In a statement Sunday, Trump praised Revolver News, which has for months been pushing the conspiracy theory. It is <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/darren-beattie-trump-speechwriter-white-nationalist-ties-rehired-holocaust-memorials-2020-11?r=US&amp;IR=T">run by Darren Beattie, who worked as a speechwriter in his administration</a>."Congratulations to Darren Beattie and Revolver News who have exposed so much of the Fake News' false narrative about January 6th. Because of Darren's work, and others, Americans aren't buying into the Unselect Committee's attempts to smear 75 million (plus!) Americans. The newly minted term 'Fedsurrection,' was even trending!" wrote Trump. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1480223554868154373">January 9, 2022</a></blockquote>Revolver News, a fringe aggregation website with some right-wing commentary, has been cited frequently by top-rated Fox News host <keyword id="12002687" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="tucker-carlson" source="Orion">Tucker Carlson</keyword> in his promotion of the FBI-plot conspiracy theory, which holds that federal agents sparked the attack on the Capitol to discredit Trump supporters.Beattie is a frequent guest on Carlson's show.<a href="https://wtop.com/news/2022/01/ap-fact-check-trump-sticks-to-election-falsehoods-on-jan-6/"></a><a href="https://wtop.com/news/2022/01/ap-fact-check-trump-sticks-to-election-falsehoods-on-jan-6/">In a fact check of his theory, the Associated Press noted</a> that it rests on the claim that many of those who took part in the violence at the Capitol have not been indicted.This, Beattie groundlessly claims, shows that they are probably FBI agents.Carlson propelled the claims to a wide audience in a recent three-part documentary which attempts to whitewash the role of Trump supporters in the violence. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-employees-resigned-tucker-carlson-jan-6-documentary-2021-11?r=US&amp;IR=T">It prompted the resignations of two staffers at Fox.</a>According to a report in Axios, Trump was planning to further trumpet the FBI theory in a speech on the anniversary of the riot, which he instead canceled.Beattie worked as a speechwriter for the Trump administration, before being fired in 2018 over attending a conference at a group, the Mencken Club, that was also attended by a white supremacist.In the closing days of the Trump administration, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/18/us/politics/darren-beattie-holocaust.html">Beattie was appointed to the Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad</a>, which oversees sites including Holocaust memorials.The appointment was widely criticized. Insider has contacted the board to confirm whether Beattie is still serving.

Trump praises right-wing site that helped to seed the conspiracy theory that the FBI is to blame for the Capitol riot

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="11937547" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="fox-news" source="Orion">Fox News</keyword> did not broadcast the prime-time January 6 committee hearings. </li><li>Instead it ran <keyword id="12002687" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="tucker-carlson" source="Orion">Tucker Carlson</keyword>'s show as normal, with the unusual step of removing all ads.</li></ul>Fox News did not broadcast the January 6 committee hearings Thursday, where the panel <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biggest-takeaways-from-1st-january-6-committee-hearing-2022-6">laid out evidence of a plot by Donald Trump and his allies</a> to overturn the 2020 election, culminating in the insurrection at the US Capitol.Instead, the network broadcast an hour-long, edition of Tucker Carlson's show, unusually with no ad breaks.In the broadcast, the host sought to undermine the hearings using conspiracy theories and disinformation, notably repeating the bogus claim that the riot was instigated by FBI agents.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1535050395533312004">June 10, 2022</a></blockquote>Carlson opened his show by proudly declaring he would not be showing the hearings, and seeking to minimise the riot. He called the events "an outbreak of mob violence, a forgettably minor outbreak by recent standards, that took place more than a year and a half ago."Among the guests he featured was Darren Beattie, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-conspiracy-theorist-forced-to-resign-from-holocaust-panel-2022-1?r=US&amp;IR=T">who was fired from the Trump administration</a> for ties with white nationalists.On the show Beattie pushed baseless claims that the riot was instigated by the FBI as part of a "false flag" plot to entrap Trump supporters. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1535065833311191040">June 10, 2022</a></blockquote>Fox News attracted <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-primetime-hosts-coverage-january-6-riot-hearings-2022-6?r=US&amp;IR=T">criticism this week when it announced it would not</a> be broadcasting the hearings on the unprecedented attack on the seat of US democracy. The network instead relegated coverage to the Fox Business channel, which has a fraction of the audience Fox News attracts. The account of the riot pushed by Carlson and his guests was in stark contrast to the evidence laid out by the panel, which showed new footage of the violence inflicted by Trump supporters on police as they battled their way into the Capitol.The panel argued that the attack was the result of an campaign orchestrated by Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election. It <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-hang-vp-pence-deserves-it-house-january-6-hearing-2022-6?r=US&amp;IR=T">showed evidence that Trump had supported chants by rioters</a> calling for his vice president, Mike Pence, to be hanged for not helping overturn the election. Carlson has been among the most influential promoters of disinformation about the riot, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/carlson-slams-graham-report-told-cops-shoot-capitol-rioters-2021-11?r=US&amp;IR=T">seeking to whitewash the attack and portraying subsequent investigations by</a> Congress and law enforcement as part of a plot to discredit ordinary conservatives. Several Fox News <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/28/chris-wallace-tucker-carlson-shames-fox-news/">employees, including host Chris Wallace,</a> quit their jobs in protest at the network's promotion of Carlson's disinformation about the riot, including a special Fox Nation documentary to which Beattie was a prominent contributor.

As the Jan 6. hearing aired, Fox News ran an ad-free Tucker Carlson show pushing the debunked claim the riot was an FBI plot

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="12054994" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="steve-bannon" source="Orion">Steve Bannon</keyword> was convicted of two counts of contempt of Congress on Friday.</li><li>He accused the Jan. 6 committee of broadcasting lies and said Republicans needed their own committee.</li></ul>Steve Bannon lashed out at the House <keyword id="11931775" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="january-6-committee" source="Orion">January 6 committee</keyword> hours after being <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-bannon-guilty-contempt-congress-jury-trial-house-january-trump-2022-7?r=US&amp;IR=T">found guilty of contempt of Congress </a>on Friday.Speaking to Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Bannon warned committee staffers that Republicans would have their own committee if they returned to power."We have to have a real <keyword id="11897870" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="january-6" source="Orion">January 6</keyword> committee, including to get to the staffers now and see about the lies and misrepresentations they put on the national television to defame people," Bannon said."I would tell the Jan. 6 staff right now: preserve your documents because there's going to be a real committee, and this is going to be backed by Republican grassroots voters to say we want to get to the bottom of this for the good of the nation."The Trump ally said that Republicans need to take offensive action if they take back the House in the midterm elections."We have to really govern, and I mean govern on offense. Every committee in the House needs to be an oversight committee. We have to go after the Biden administration, which is illegitimate," Bannon said.<div type="image" title="January 6 committee hearing" height="1666" width="2222" msid="93075634" hostid="261" sizebytes="363964"></div>He also praised right-wing activist <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/conspiracist-trump-ally-beattie-keeps-federal-job-year-2022-1?r=US&amp;IR=T">Darren Beattie</a>, who has promoted the <a href="https://www.thebulwark.com/even-as-his-big-conspiracy-theory-crumbles-darren-beatties-star-continues-to-rise-in-trump-world/">baseless conspiracy theory</a> that the FBI was involved in the attack on the Capitol.Bannon said a Republican January 6 committee would look at "intelligence failures, FBI involvement, DHS involvement, the intelligence services, what happened to the Pentagon and the National Guard."Trump allies have baselessly claimed that the former president's requests for National Guard troops ahead of the Capitol attack were rejected by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, which has been widely <a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jun/13/sean-hannity/no-evidence-pelosi-rejected-trumps-authorization-2/">debunked</a>.Bannon, Trump's former chief White House strategist, was found guilty of two counts of contempt of Congress on Friday for defying a subpoena from the House January 6 committee and failing to provide requested documents.During his trial, he declined to testify in his own defense or call any witnesses to the stand. He, at one point, accused the House committee members of lacking the "guts" to testify against him.Each count of contempt of Congress carries a minimum of 30 days and a maximum of one year in jail.Speaking on Fox News, Bannon said that he had a "long appeals process ahead of him" but said he was not worried if he had to go to jail.On Friday, January 6 committee members hailed the ruling as a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/leaders-of-january-6-committee-hail-steve-bannon-contempt-conviction-2022-7?r=US&amp;IR=T">"victory for the rule of law."</a>

Steve Bannon warns Jan. 6 committee staffers 'there's going to be a real committee,' hours after contempt conviction

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A White House speechwriter who was fired in 2018 for meeting with white nationalists has been rehired to join an agency that oversees US <keyword id="6504422" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="holocaust">Holocaust</keyword> memorials abroad.</li><li>President <keyword id="6354484" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Donald-Trump">Donald Trump</keyword> appointed Darren Beattie to join the board of the Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/president-donald-j-trump-announces-intent-nominate-appoint-following-individuals-key-administration-posts-111720/">on Wednesday</a>.</li><li>The White House had fired Beattie after <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/19/politics/darren-beattie-mencken-club/index.html">CNN reported</a> that he had appeared on a panel with white nationalist Peter Brimelow in 2016.</li><li>Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, <a href="https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/adl-calls-on-white-house-to-rescind-appointment-of-darren-beattie-to-us">said in a statement</a>: "It is absolutely outrageous that someone who has consorted with racists would even be considered."</li><li>Beattie <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/18/us/politics/darren-beattie-holocaust.html">told The New York Times</a>: "I consider it an honor to be attacked by the far-left ADL and its disgraced leader."</li></ul>A former speechwriter for President Donald Trump, who was previously fired for attending a meeting of white nationalists, has been given a new role to help oversee memorials commemorating the Holocaust genocide.Trump nominated Darren Beattie to become a board member of the Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad, the White House <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/president-donald-j-trump-announces-intent-nominate-appoint-following-individuals-key-administration-posts-111720/">said in a Wednesday statement</a>.The body was founded in 1985 and is tasked with seeking out, and overseeing, the preservation of overseas sites related to the Holocaust.Beattie was fired from his speechwriting role at the White House in 2018 <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/19/politics/darren-beattie-mencken-club/index.html">after a CNN investigation</a> found that he had attended a meeting with white nationalists in 2016.<div type="image" title="Darren Beattie" height="717" width="1435" msid="79303004" hostid="261"></div>CNN found that 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.The Southern Poverty Law Center <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/peter-brimelow">said</a> Brimelow "regularly publishes works by white supremacists, anti-Semites, and others on the radical right."After CNN's report was published, the White House asked Beattie to step down in August 2018, but he refused, and was subsequently fired, <a href="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?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.6bf87a63e3f1e3f1">according to The Washington Post</a>.Jonathan A. Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League said in a <a href="https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/adl-calls-on-white-house-to-rescind-appointment-of-darren-beattie-to-us">statement</a>: "It is absolutely outrageous that someone who has consorted with racists would even be considered for a position on a commission devoted to preserving Holocaust memorials in Europe."Business Insider has contacted the White House for comment.<div type="image" title="Donald Trump Jr Ivanka" height="923" width="1847" msid="79303005" hostid="261"></div>After <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/18/us/politics/darren-beattie-holocaust.html">The New York Times</a> reported on the backlash to the appointment on Wednesday, Beattie attacked the story's author, Maggie Haberman, <a href="https://twitter.com/DarrenJBeattie/status/1329247437098192898">tweeting</a> that she was a "foot washer for Hillary Clinton."Beattie also told The Times in a statment: "The ADL pretends to be an organization that protects Jews, but it really exists to protect Democrats. As a Jewish Trump supporter, I consider it an honor to be attacked by the far-left ADL and its disgraced leader, Jonathan Greenblatt."<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1119249696231440384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 19, 2019</a></blockquote>Nearly a year after his firing from the White House, Beattie was hired as an advisory speechwriter for Republican Party congressman Matt Gaetz.The White House hired Beattie to be a speechwriter after he wrote a series of pro-Trump while studying for a doctorate political theory at Duke University, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/matt-gaetz-hires-dr-darren-beattie-speechwriter-fired-from-white-house-over-white-nationalist-conference">according to The Daily Beast.</a>

A Trump speechwriter who was sacked in 2018 for meeting white nationalists has been rehired to oversee US Holocaust memorials

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="85287" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Fox-News">Fox News</keyword>' most watched host now refers to the January 6 insurrection with air quotes.</li><li>In his latest segment whitewashing the riot, Carlson said the <keyword id="6355946" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="fbi">FBI</keyword> was behind it.</li><li>Carlson's entire baseless claim hinged on assuming the unindicted co-conspirators are feds.</li></ul>In his most severe rewriting of history on the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol, Fox News opinion host <keyword id="1100092" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Tucker-Carlson">Tucker Carlson</keyword> baselessly claimed the riot was organized by the FBI."They were almost certainly working for the FBI, so FBI operatives were organizing the attack at the Capitol on January 6, according to government documents," Carlson said without showing said documents.Carlson, the most watched host on Fox News, was referring to the <a href="https://www.insider.com/all-the-us-capitol-pro-trump-riot-arrests-charges-names-2021-1">latest indictments</a> handed out in the FBI's investigation of the siege.His claim relies solely on assuming that anyone listed anonymously as an "unindicted co-conspirator" must have been an FBI agent. Carlson went even further to claim the agents plotted the attack, implying it may not have happened without them.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">-The Columbia Bugle (@ColumbiaBugle) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1404984630160203781?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 16, 2021</a></blockquote>Carlson also referred to a <a href="https://www.revolver.news/2021/06/federal-foreknowledge-jan-6-unindicted-co-conspirators-raise-disturbing-questions/">fringe conservative media post from Revolver News</a> that contains a list of questions for FBI Director Christopher Wray, purportedly deducing a conclusion on an FBI setup when there is no evidence to support one."It turns out that this 'white supremacist insurrection' was - again, by the government's own admission in these documents - organized by government agents," Carlson said, raising the tone of his voice to convey that he was not serious in describing January 6 as a white supremacist insurrection.He played a clip from Wray's testimony on Capitol Hill where he said the FBI is focused on getting "better sources, better information, better analysis" from white supremacist groups to prevent another insurrection from happening.Although Carlson kept referring to "government documents," he did not show any on screen. Fox News did not respond to Insider's request for comment on whether any of the network's journalists have been able to verify Carlson's claim.Rather than showing the indictments or background information on undercover sourcing in federal investigations, Carlson relied on the Revolver post and citing his usual "they," a cabal of government and media elites looking to deceive his viewers."That's a line, and the FBI has crossed it," Carlson said before accusing Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of playing a "victim" because <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/washington-post-3-men-charged-whitmer-kidnap-plot-protested-lockdown-2020-11">the plot to kidnap her</a> was "a farce" and "insulting" because it involved FBI informants and under cover agents."So if you're wondering why they are always comparing January 6th to 9/11, there's your answer," Carlson said. "They're using the same tactics."Carlson then called for the officer who shot unarmed rioter <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ashli-babbitt-profile-capitol-riot-qanon-death-2021-3">Ashli Babbitt</a> to be arrested.His guest was Darren Beattie, the author of the Revolver News post who described it as "the most important and the darkest investigative piece they've seen in years," based on what people have told him, and that the late Babbitt deserves answers.Beattie did not present any evidence to support his claims on air."After seeing all of this, you have to ask yourself, does the national security apparatus do anything but conspire against the American people?" Beattie said. "I'm led to conclude that we cannot have a democracy - everything in our <keyword id="6358883" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="politics">politics</keyword> will be fake and performative until we bring the national security sate, including the FBI, to heel."In court, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-karen-mcdougal-case-tucker-carlson-2020-9">Fox's lawyers have argued that no "reasonable viewer" would ever take what Carlson says seriously</a>.

Tucker Carlson baselessly claims 'FBI operatives were organizing the attack on the Capitol,' his latest whitewashing of Jan. 6

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="6357385" type="LOCATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="florida">Florida</keyword> Rep. <keyword id="4142242" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="matt-gaetz">Matt Gaetz</keyword> sent nearly $30,000 in taxpayer funds to a limited liability company, and may have violated House rules by doing so, Politico reported.</li><li>Gaetz disclosed that he made 14 separate payments of $2,000 each to the company, which is linked to a former White House aide who was fired in 2018 and later hired by Gaetz's office as a speechwriting adviser.</li><li>According to Politico, the aide is not listed on Gaetz's congressional payroll and was instead paid through the LLC.</li><li>House rules say that lawmakers are prohibited from spending taxpayer dollars on political consultants, speechwriters, and communications advisers, except in special circumstances and with prior approval from congressional officials.</li><li>Gaetz's office acknowledged to Politico that he sent taxpayer money to Presidential Communications and Strategies for Beattie's services but said that it was a clerical error.</li></ul>Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida spent nearly $30,000 in taxpayer funds to a limited liability company and may have violated House rules by doing so, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/22/gaetz-florida-house-ethics-rules-377098" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Politico reported on Wednesday</a>.The Republican congressman disclosed that he made 14 separate payments of $2,000 each to the company, Presidential Communications and Strategies, according to a House of Representatives disbursement report reviewed by Politico.Presidential Communications and Strategies is linked to Darren Beattie, a former adviser to President Donald Trump who was <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/19/politics/darren-beattie-mencken-club/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fired</a> in 2018 after attending a conference two years earlier that was frequented by white supremacists.Gaetz <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/19/politics/darren-beattie-matt-gaetz/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> last year that he had hired Beattie as a special adviser for speechwriting, but according to Politico, Beattie was never listed on Gaetz's congressional staff payroll. Instead, the report said, Gaetz compensated Beattie through the LLC.House rules say that lawmakers are prohibited from spending taxpayer dollars on political consultants, speechwriters, and communications advisers, except in special circumstances and with prior approval from congressional officials.Gaetz's office acknowledged to Politico that he sent taxpayer dollars to Presidential Communications and Strategies for Beattie's services but said that it was a clerical error that they will fix.In a separate instance that may have broken House rules, the outlet found that Gaetz used taxpayer dollars to pay a private company to install a television studio at his father's home. The company reportedly charges a fee every time Gaetz uses the studio, and he also pays to rent a television camera. Taxpayers foot the bill for those costs as well.Wednesday's report comes after it surfaced in April that Gaetz <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/matt-gaetz-paid-taxpayer-funds-to-friend-donor-politico-2020-4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shelled out $184,000 in taxpayer funds</a> to rent office space from a longtime friend and donor.

Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz may have broken House rules by sending nearly $30,000 in taxpayer funds to an LLC linked to a former Trump aide

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="12002687" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="tucker-carlson" source="Orion">Tucker Carlson</keyword>'s documentary on the Jan. 6 insurrection is riddled with errors and fallacies.</li><li>A pair of longtime <keyword id="11937547" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="fox-news" source="Orion">Fox News</keyword> contributors recently resigned over the three-part streaming series.</li></ul>In the telling of Tucker Carlson's gloomy documentary, the Jan. 6 <keyword id="10554785" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="capitol-siege" source="Orion">Capitol siege</keyword> was inspired by Capitol Police and FBI informants, and now the US government is using it as a pretext for "hunting" all conservatives — false assertions that omit inconvenient but established facts like the violence committed by rioters and some of their affiliations with hate groups.This erroneous and misleading alternate history has succeeded in stirring more concerns about the increasingly radioactive Fox opinion host, with two longtime network contributors <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-employees-resigned-tucker-carlson-jan-6-documentary-2021-11">recently resigning</a> over it.Carlson's <a href="https://nation.foxnews.com/watch/fa21ce9525f7823112552c16a69720e0/">three-part "Patriot Purge" documentary</a> — which debuted earlier this month on the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-cancel-culture-tucker-carlson-gutfeld-new-show-2021-4">FOX Nation streaming app</a> — careens between the dreary backdrop of the US military response to Sept. 11, 2001, and the ongoing prosecutions against Americans accused of crimes involving the storming of the Capitol.Also known as comparing apples to oranges, the <a href="https://effectiviology.com/false-equivalence/#:~:text=Unreasonable%20Comparisons%20%E2%80%93%20Effectiviology-,False%20Equivalence%3A%20The%20Problem%20with%20Unreasonable%20Comparisons,also%20notable%20differences%20between%20them.">false equivalence fallacy</a> that plays out during the documentary proposes that if the US government did something to detainees during the War on Terror, then that is what they are either doing now or plan to do following the insurrection.Rather than using evidence to spell out how the two are the same, Carlson just cuts to random examples from the Bush and Obama administrations' use of controversial interrogation and intelligence techniques used against the likes of Al Qaeda and ISIS suspects without proving that the government is acting extrajudicially against its own citizens.Over and over again, Carlson and his guests repeat that "50%" or "half the country" are being treated the same as Islamic terrorists from groups such as Al Qaeda or ISIS, at once attempting to absolve the insurrectionists and identify his audience with them."January 6th is being used as a pretext to strip millions of Americans — disfavored Americans — of their core constitutional rights, and to defame them as domestic terrorists," Carlson says at the outset of the documentary.The tone, tenor, and content of the documentary diverge significantly from how Fox News has covered the insurrection, which they most often refer to as the "Capitol riot." Save for <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/capitol-siege-antifa-false-theory-republicans-fox-news-2021-1">a few segments in its immediate aftermath</a>, nobody else at Fox News has attempted to portray the attack on the US Capitol as a false flag operation or inside job in the way Carlson does in the documentary.Carlson co-wrote the series with Scooter Downey, a <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlsons-deranged-jan-6-movie-writer-scooter-downey-also-made-film-for-pizzagater-mike-cernovich">promoter of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory and comic book artist whose hero's outfit in "Rebel's Run" closely resembles the Confederate flag</a>.We watched all three parts of the project, which clocks in at a little more than 90 minutes. These are the most forceful claims in it, many of which are either demonstrably false or impossible to disprove as pure speculation.Fox News did not provide a statement in response to Insider's request for comment on Carlson's documentary and his guests.<h2>'Part 1' sets the scene for the insurrection supposedly being an inside job</h2><div type="image" title="capitol riot siege" height="1499" width="3000" msid="87858101" hostid="261"></div>One line from a guest in the documentary practically sums up its entire narrative structure."Interesting parallel, but it gets even better," one of Carlson's most relied upon interlocutors, Darren Beattie of the right-wing site Revolver.News, says toward the end of part one.Beattie, a <a href="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?noredirect=on">former Trump speechwriter who was fired from the White House amid media inquiries about his ties to white nationalists</a>, has appeared on Carlson's cable show several times before. He, along with several other right-wing media personalities, carry most of the explanatory load in the documentary.Unlike in his reporting for Revolver, Beattie uses less couched language while speaking in the documentary. When casting doubt on one of the deceased Capitol Police officers, Beattie drops the "<a href="https://www.revolver.news/2021/03/new-york-times-sicknick-video-creates-big-problems-for-capitol-riot-prosecutors/">appears to</a>" from his description of bear spray being doused on the late officer Brian Sicknick and implies the rioters didn't attack him at all, omitting the fact that the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/27/politics/sicknick-capitol-bear-spray-pepper/index.html">officer was attacked with pepper spray instead</a> (which he acknowledged in <a href="https://www.revolver.news/2021/04/cnn-sicknick-bear-spray-fake-news-julian-khater-george-tanios/">another story for Revolver</a>).Instead of offering that context and explaining how the evidence gathered from the day of the siege was added to over time, Carlson keeps flipping back and forth between B-roll footage from the War on Terror and sympathetic interviews with those involved in planning the "Stop the Steal" march on Jan. 6.Portraying "Stop the Steal" planner Ali Alexander as an innocent bystander who has remained above legal scrutiny, Carlson <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-jan-6-committee/2021/10/07/131829f0-2796-11ec-8d53-67cfb452aa60_story.html">omits that Alexander was subpoenaed by the House Jan. 6 committee</a> in early October.The documentary also features a claim by Blaze TV's Elijah Schaffer that the scene outside the Capitol had been "de-escalated" before the breach despite the fact that the first set of barricades had already been taken by force, with "Stop the Steal" only having a permit to protest within a specific lot behind the building. On the scene that day, Schaffer argues that the Capitol Police were the ones who incited the riot by deploying tear gas on those who had already unlawfully breached the perimeter.By setting aside these contextual facts and relying on Michael Waller — a security analyst who claims he "worked for years as a professional agitator" and was able to immediately identify "trained" false flag actors at the march preceding the storming of the Capitol — Carlson segues into 'Part 2.'The segment largely glosses over more reports and videos on how the rioters attacked police, including with <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/capitol-riot-dc-police-officer-michael-fanone-assaulted-bodycam-video-2021-5">stun-guns</a> and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/photo-capitol-riot-house-hearing-police-officer-tears-2021-7">a flag pole</a>, and hurled <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/capitol-police-officer-harry-dunn-called-n-word-jan-6-2021-7">racial slurs</a> at a Black officer. <h2>'Part 2' keeps repeating the Al Qaeda comparisons to 'Orwellian methods' used in the War on Terror</h2><div type="image" title="george w bush mission accomplished iraq" height="1200" width="2400" msid="87858102" hostid="261"></div>This is where Carlson fleshes out how any regular conservative can become persecuted by the federal government for having opinions on social media that the Biden administration "disagrees with." Maintaining the same gloomy soundtrack, darkened color palette and continuity editing that gives the impression of double vision, Carlson juxtaposes dramatic reenactments of FBI raids with sympathetic interviews of people ensnared in the federal investigation with warrants, including an Alaska couple who were mistakenly identified as breaking into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office.Notably, the bulk of Carlson's argument that FBI agents incited the riot omits the names of white nationalist groups that informants infiltrated. The logo of the Three Percenters is shown briefly in part one, but mentions of that group or others such as the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers remain scant.Carlson also compares the federal government's response to the insurrection to how the US military toppled Saddam Hussein's dictatorship in Iraq."In Iraq, during the first War on Terror, the US government tore down all vestiges of the previous regime, and then reordered the society from the top to the bottom," Carlson says in part two. "First, our authorities targeted the people who had guns: law enforcement and the military."And then they turned their attention to the minds of the entire population," he continues. "At the time, they called these 'weapons of mass persuasion.' Psychological warfare. It looks familiar now."Featuring a DEA agent who says he was working as an informant outside the Capitol on Jan. 6 and a former military officer who <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/emily-rainey-fort-bragg-captain-resigngs-washington-rally-army-investigating/">resigned from her post as the Army investigated her for leading a group of people from North Carolina to the "Stop the Steal" rally</a>, Carlson uses the guests to do lots of telling but very little showing about how military psychological operations are the same thing that the FBI was deploying via its informants.Most of the "false flag" theory is told through that officer, Emily Rainey, who attempts to apply her military experience to domestic law enforcement.Conflating support for the GOP or former President Donald Trump with the federal government's definition of extremism, a heavy soundtrack and recreated footage of soldiers taking bumper stickers off their cars ends up being the extent of evidence shown to make the "false flag" argument."The helicopters have left Afghanistan, and now they've landed here at home," Carlson says at the close of part two. "They've begun to fight a new enemy in a new War on Terror ... hunting down American citizens, purging them from society, throwing some of them into solitary confinement."<h2>'Part 3' warns of gulags and the left 'hunting' the right</h2><div type="image" title="oath keepers jessica watkins january 6 capitol riot siege insurrection" height="1500" width="3000" msid="87858103" hostid="261"></div>The final third of the documentary turns up the temperature even more, lionizing <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/capitol-police-officer-who-shot-ashli-babbitt-exonerated-nbc-news-2021-8">the late Ashli Babbitt</a> and doing the same rhetorical slight of hand with the Patriot Act as parts one and two did with the War on Terror.Richard Barnett, the <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/27/capitol-rioter-pelosi-released-richard-barnett-484814">Capitol rioter who posed with his feet up on Pelosi's desk</a>, is presented by Carlson as a well meaning patriot in interviews with him and his attorney. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pelosi-staff-barricaded-themselves-in-room-as-rioters-looted-office-2021-1">Pelosi's staff barricaded themselves into hiding</a> and said they <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Pro-Trump-rioters-sought-to-kill-Nancy-Pelosi-15941045.php">feared for their lives</a> as the office was ransacked.Barnett's claims of torture inside a DC jail in the documentary are not corroborated beyond quotes from his lawyer and dramatic reenactments with actors. Instead of backing up these assertions, Carlson cuts back to CGI drone footage. In reality, about 40 defendants facing serious charges from the riot, such as assaulting a police officer, are being held in the Central Detention Facility in Washington, DC.The rest of part three focuses on the Capitol Police shooting of Babbitt, featuring graphic footage of her death described as "the first confirmed kill" of Carlson's "Second War on Terror" with only a brief acknowledgement that the <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/capitol-police-officer-who-shot-ashli-babbitt-exonerated-internal-probe-n1277336?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma">officer who pulled the trigger was exonerated</a> in an internal probe and is not facing any charges.Still leaning on the same back and forth cuts to footage and anecdotes from the War on Terror, Carlson's guests warn of "gulags" and Guantanamo Bay-style detention awaiting not just those involved in the insurrection, but any conservative who speaks their mind."They're pushing you toward violence, and they're doing it on purpose," Carlson says. "But don't fall for it."

We watched Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 documentary so you don't have to. Here's why its whitewash of the Capitol insurrection makes no sense.

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/54636a9869beddbf2aa12576-1015-761/gary-cohn-lloyd-blankfein-1.png" border="0" alt="Gary Cohn, Lloyd Blankfein">Reuters/ Natalie Behring </img></div></div></div>It's partner day at Goldman Sachs!
The list of the 78 new partners is out. 
Being named a partner at Goldman is a huge deal. It's one of the most highly-coveted titles on Wall Street. 
Partners are picked every two-years during an extremely intense and secretive selection process.
In 2012, the bank tapped only 70 partners compared to 110 in the previous cycle. The size of the partner class isn't pre-dictated, though. However, it usually tends to be between 1.5 and 1.9% of the full-time employee population at the firm.
This morning, CEO Lloyd Blankfein and president/COO Gary Cohn personally called folks at their desks to let them know they've been made a partner.
The calls usually begin around 5 a.m. EST with the Asia offices and continue until around 9 a.m. EST. 
Here's the list: 
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<td>Fadi Abuali</td>
<td>Jan Fritze</td>
<td>Etsuko Kobayashi</td>
<td>Kunal Shah (London)</td>
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<td>Aaron Arth</td>
<td>Dino Fusco</td>
<td>Nyron Latif</td>
<td>Richard L. "Jake" Siewert</td>
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<td>Jennifer Barbetta</td>
<td>Huntley Garriott</td>
<td>Greg Lee</td>
<td>Jason Silvers</td>
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<td>Thomas Barrett</td>
<td>Jeff Gido</td>
<td>Dirk Lievens</td>
<td>Kevin Sterling</td>
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<td>Gerard Beatty</td>
<td>Littleton Glover</td>
<td>Kyri Loupis</td>
<td>Umesh Subramanian</td>
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<td>Shane Bolton</td>
<td>Cyril Goddeeris</td>
<td>John Madsen</td>
<td>Dan Swift</td>
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<td>Will Bousquette</td>
<td>Alexander Golten</td>
<td>Richard Manley</td>
<td>Ben Thorpe</td>
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<td>Kane Brenan</td>
<td>Jason Gottlieb</td>
<td>Michael Marsh</td>
<td>Oliver Thym</td>
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<td>Tavis Cannell</td>
<td>Joanne Hannaford</td>
<td>Ali Meli</td>
<td>Joe Todd</td>
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<td>T.J. Carella</td>
<td>Julie Harris</td>
<td>David Miller</td>
<td>Hiroyuki Tomokiyo</td>
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<td>Gary Chropuvka</td>
<td>Edouard Hervey</td>
<td>Joseph Montesano</td>
<td>Thomas Tormey</td>
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<td>Darren Cohen</td>
<td>Matthias Hieber</td>
<td>Eric Muller</td>
<td>Mark Van Wyk</td>
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<td>Stephanie Cohen</td>
<td>Charles Himmelberg</td>
<td>Manikandan Natarajan</td>
<td>Rajesh Venkataramani</td>
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<td>Kathleen Connolly</td>
<td>Sean Hoover</td>
<td>Fergal O'Driscoll</td>
<td>Matthew Verrochi</td>
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<td>Sara Devereux</td>
<td>Pierre Hudry</td>
<td>Kristin Olson</td>
<td>Owen West</td>
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<td>Iain Drayton</td>
<td>Irfan Hussain</td>
<td>Jernej Omahen</td>
<td>Ronnie Wexler</td>
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<td>Carlos Fernandez-Aller</td>
<td>Kevin Kelly</td>
<td>Nicholas Phillips</td>
<td>Xiaoyin Zhang</td>
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<td>Jonathan Fine</td>
<td>Tammy Kiely</td>
<td>Rob Pulford</td>
<td>Adam Zotkow</td>
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<td>Meena Lakdawala Flynn</td>
<td>Maxim Klimov</td>
<td>Colin Ryan</td>
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<td>David Friedland</td>
<td>Edward Knight</td>
<td>Carsten Schwarting</td>
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