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Deleted tweets show top State Department official spread false rumor about Rubio’s sexuality, called him ‘low IQ’ | CNN Politics

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Darren Beattie , the acting under secretary of state for public diplomacy, deleted at least half a dozen tweets that ridiculed his now boss Marco Rubio .

The tweets were uncovered as part of a CNN review of his social media posts.

Beatties was fired from his role as a speechwriter during the first Trump administration after CNN ’s KFile revealed he attended a conference featuring White nationalists.

In a deleted March 7, 2022 , tweet, Beattie cast doubt that then- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons during the country’s civil war in a tweet attacking Rubio ’s warning that any chemical, biological or nuclear attacks in Ukraine would be attributable to Russia . “I bet Rubio still thinks Assad gassed his own people,” Beattie wrote, responding to Rubio ..

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