[5][6] In 2016, Beattie was a part of a group of academics who signed a petition in support of Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

[13] Beattie founded Revolver News, which raised funds in part by selling pro-Trump apparel and merchandise.

[1] Beattie once wrote there that Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents were behind the January 6 United States Capitol attack.

[15] Beattie initially praised the January 6 United States Capitol attack on Twitter, but he later deleted the tweets.

[16] As early as October 2021, he promoted the conspiracy theory that Ray Epps was a federal agent provocateur,[17] which he still endorsed as of August 2024.

Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities, and demoralizing competent white men.

In a widely circulated 2020 essay on Revolver News, he compared U.S. involvement in post-Soviet Color revolutions to "the coordinated efforts of government bureaucrats, NGOs, and the media to oust President Trump".

"[22] In 2021, he wrote that "a big part of American ruling class' [sic] hatred of Russia is that Russia is a major power that rejects the woke ideology at the core of American regime" and "Now that Xi's China is rejecting America's woke poison in key respects, interesting to see how this plays into cold war 2.0.

It's not worth expending any capital to prevent", adding that a "visionary statesman will recognize this and make a deal- in exchange for acknowledgment of this basic reality, get some serious concessions on Africa and Antartica [sic]".