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SOMEONE SAID IRAN WAR DRIVEN BY LOOMER, TOM COTTON AND MIRIAM ADELSON?!

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6 25 SHE WANTS TO BE ENFORCER BUT NOT OF IDEOLOGIAL PURITY BUT PURE LOYALTY

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MAGA media figures demanded and even teased immigration action against Rep. Ilhan Omar — and then DHS raided her home

Written by Reed McMaster & Ben Van Bloem

Published 10/14/26 11:03 AM EDT

Updated 10/14/26

Right-wing media figures have long spread conspiracy theories against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). During the second Trump administration, this has manifested in calls to deport Omar, an American citizen, citing as supposed evidence the conspiracy theories that have spread for years. In September, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told MAGA podcaster Benny Johnson that Omar was under investigation, months after Vice President JD Vance told Johnson a similar story. When Mullin made his comments, right-wing media erupted in objection, demanding action instead of investigations.

Roughly a month later, DHS raided the congresswoman’s home. Right-wing media figures celebrated the raid, with podcast host Katie Miller reportedly even posting “promises made, promises kept” — the exact line Fox host Tomi Lahren had used to concerning Mullin’s remarks earlier to demand federal government action against Omar — while Johnson took credit: “This will be our crowning achievement for life.”

Right-wing media figures have cryptically referred to “something happening” to Omar for months

After the DHS raid on Omar’s home, right-wing media celebrated and Benny Johnson took credit

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Laura Loomer: “Some people call it racism. I call it pattern recognition.”

08/26/26

Laura Loomer: “You're going to be at war with Muslims in America within the next five years”

08/26/26

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Benny Johnson: “Islam is here to kill us and convert us”

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Trump ally Laura Loomer calls for using “military force” to round up Muslims

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Right-wing media's crusade against diverse judges: racist attacks, calls for banning, and even calls for deportation

Right-wing media have accused naturalized judges of having “obvious loyalties outside of this country,” Muslim judges of having “terrorist buddies,” and Black judges of being “dumb” “DEI judges”

Written by Torri Lonergan

Published 07/29/26

Right-wing media figures have spent years lobbing racist insults at judges who are naturalized U.S. citizens or people of color — mocking their names, questioning their loyalties, and falsely identifying American-born judges as immigrants. Some have gone so far as to demand that immigrants and Muslim Americans be barred from serving as judges, while others have pushed for naturalized and even some American-born judges to be stripped of their citizenship and deported.

Right-wing media’s yearslong campaign has now gained support from some congressional Republicans, who recently introduced both a bill and a constitutional amendment that would require all American judges “to be natural-born citizens.”

Republican elected officials are supporting efforts to prohibit naturalized US citizens from serving as judges

In May, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) introduced a constitutional amendment that would require “members of Congress, federal judges and Senate-confirmed officers to be natural-born citizens of the United States.” In a July 4 Newsweek op-ed attacking D.C. District Court Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago, Mace fearmongered about “foreign-born officials holding power in this government who have proven time and again their loyalty is not to America.” Mace asked, “How did we get here? To a place where foreign-born officials get to decide the laws Americans live under?” [U.S. House of Representatives, office of Rep. Nancy Mace, 5/20/26; Newsweek, 7/4/26]

In February, Rep. Pete Stauber (R-MN) introduced a bill that would “require all American judges to be natural-born citizens.” He argued that the legislation would safeguard the United States “against potential foreign influence in judicial decisions.” [U.S. House of Representatives, office of Rep. Pete Stauber, 2/20/26]

In April, Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) called to “put more teeth in the denaturalization process” and said he would “absolutely” support banning immigrants from serving as judges or members of Congress. Appearing on The Benny Show, he said, “I don’t think our Founding Fathers ever intended for individuals from hostile nations serving and leading the nation.” [YouTube, The Benny Show, 4/13/26]

Criticizing a ruling by Sooknanan in June, Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) posted, “If judges can stop Presidents, they should not also be citizens of foreign nations.” [Democracy Docket, 6/23/26]

Right-wing media figures have called to bar naturalized citizens and Muslims from serving as judges, and even pushed to deport judges who are immigrants or American-born people of color

MAGA podcaster Laura Loomer called for President Donald Trump to sign an executive order “banning judges who were not born in this country,” saying, “If you want to be a judge in this country, you should come from the blood and soil of this country.” She asked, “Isn't it crazy too how we have so many foreign judges?” and insisted, “It's an abomination. I just think it's a total disgrace on our country.” [Rumble, Loomer Unleashed, 5/27/25]

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From the May 27, 2025, edition of Loomer Unleashed, streamed on Rumble

Loomer also insisted that “Muslims need to be prohibited from holding positions of power” and demanded that an American-born Muslim judge be deported. Referring to D.C. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui — who was born in the United States — Loomer said, “We don't need to be having debates about whether this judge is right or whether he's wrong. He's a Muslim. He shouldn't be a judge in America. He's from Pakistan.” She added, “Denaturalize him, denaturalize his family members, and send him back to the sharia shithole.” [Media Matters, 5/8/26]

Right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson said the Founding Fathers should have specified that “you have to be a native-born American in order to hold a judgeship or be in Congress or serve in a federal capacity.” He said “it would’ve been smart” to apply to the judiciary the same “rules that were put upon our president, meaning you had to be born rightwise in the United States of America to rule over us as Americans.” Johnson added, “Nine out of the 13 colonies said you must be a Bible-believing, Christ-professing Christian to serve in any office anywhere, including, of course, being a judge.” [YouTube, The Benny Show, 6/23/26, 6/23/26]

On The Benny Show, Article III Project founder Mike Davis said of New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan: “I want to throw his Third World, Marxist trash ass in prison and then revoke his citizenship and send him back” to Colombia. Laura Loomer also called on Trump to “strip Juan Merchan of his citizenship and deport him back to the Third World hellhole he came from.” Merchan has lived in the United States since he was 6 years old. [YouTube, The Benny Show, 1/10/25; Rumble, Loomer Unleashed, 6/4/24; CNN, 4/15/24]

The Millstone Report host Paul Harrell insisted that “foreign-born” judges “need to recuse themselves” from cases related to immigration and the U.S. military “at the bare minimum, if not step down altogether.” [Rumble, The Millstone Report with Paul Harrell, 3/26/25]

Right-wing media figures have long hurled racist insults at judges they think are immigrants, Muslim, or people of color

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

Fox host Tomi Lahren said Jackson “may be the worst DEI hire of all time.” [Fox News, Jesse Watters Primetime, 7/8/25]

Daily Wire host Matt Walsh claimed that Jackson is the “perfect illustration of the Black woman privilege,” because “Black women who can barely read or speak — like Ketanji Brown Jackson — are elevated to the most prestigious positions solely because they are Black women.” He argued, “There's really no group in the country more privileged now than Black women” and insisted, “Ketanji Brown Jackson is not qualified to be, like, a high school principal, let alone a Supreme Court justice.” [The Daily Wire, The Matt Walsh Show, 1/14/26]

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From the January 14, 2026, edition of The Daily Wire's The Matt Walsh Show

Benny Johnson accused Jackson of “getting totally nominated because of your skin color” and “proving again and again that you're too dumb to be on the Supreme Court, that you're too dumb to probably navigate the subway, to parallel park, to get Uber Eats.” He also claimed Jackson's “not a real Supreme Court justice — I don’t believe that she is actually lawfully on the Supreme Court.” [YouTube, The Benny Show, 4/2/26]

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From the April 2, 2026, edition of The Benny Show, uploaded to YouTube

Johnson later claimed Jackson “has most likely a functionally retarded, like, 70 IQ,” calling her “the single dumbest person to ever hold any office anywhere at any time.” [YouTube, The Benny Show, 5/28/26]

US District Judge Amir Ali

On War Room, Mike Davis claimed that “Judge Ali apparently wants the president to fund Ali’s Hamas buddies, his terrorist buddies, so they can kill Americans.” [Real America’s Voice, War Room, 3/19/25]

On Infowars, attorney Andrew Branca described Ali as “culturally Egyptian” and insisted that “he's barely an American citizen — he’s certainly not culturally an American citizen,” saying, “There's a difference between a cultural American citizen and a technical, naturalized American citizen who's still culturally a member of his own, you know, foreign nationality.” Branca complained, “He wasn’t born in America. He was born in Canada. He was born in Canada to Egyptian migrant parents.” [Infowars, War Room, 12/16/25]

US District Judge Tanya Chutkan

Laura Loomer complained that Chutkan “is an immigrant. She's an immigrant! Here we have an immigrant imposing a gag order. She's not even from this country!” She continued, “This is how backward things are in our country. You have immigrants who are now imposing gag orders on presidents of the United States of America, OK? She is the poster child for why we need an immigration moratorium.” [Rumble, Loomer Unleashed, 10/26/23]

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From the October 26, 2023, edition of Loomer Unleashed, streamed on Rumble

US District Judge Melissa DuBose

Fox host Laura Ingraham described DuBose as “a classic far-left pick who satisfied the racial bean counters.” Ingraham called DuBose an “unmitigated disaster” and dismissed her qualifications as “total hogwash.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 5/1/26]

Conservative radio host Howie Carr repeatedly described DuBose as “a lesbian, Black judge,” saying, “She’s one of the last judges that Biden slithered in. He wanted to get one more Black lesbian in.” He reiterated, “She’s a lesbian. She’s Black. She’s written about her Marxist phase — sounds like the Marxist phase never ended.” He added, “She made it on a 51-48 vote. Fifty-one — all these terrible, atrocious DEI judges and U.S. attorneys under Biden, they were all approved narrowly like that.” [Rumble, The Howie Carr Show, 5/1/26]

US District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong

Criticizing Frimpong — who was born in Los Angeles — Matt Walsh claimed, “Watching all this domestic terrorism, judges with foreign names are of course taking the side of the terrorists.” [The Daily Wire, The Matt Walsh Show, 7/15/25; CA.gov, 11/17/25]

Former Infowars host David Knight mocked Frimpong’s name, saying, “Oh, yes, a good classic American name. Just the type of person who I would want sitting as a judge. I'm sure they can be trusted.” [Rumble, The David Knight Show, 7/15/25]

US District Judge Myong J. Joun

Laura Loomer mocked Joun’s name, saying, “Can't have a normal name, right? Got to be a foreigner.” Loomer said the judge’s name “sounds like some kind of an electrical technical glitch” or “maybe like a noise my dog would make if she was super hyperactive.” She complained, “Where do they come up with these names? I'm sure Media Matters is going to clip this and say that I'm being racist toward Asians. Whatever. I don't care.” [Rumble, Loomer Unleashed, 5/27/25]

US District Judge Mustafa Kasubhai

While criticizing Kasubhai’s ruling on gender-affirming care for minors, X22 Report host David Marc Fishman noted the judge’s Muslim background and claimed that “very strict Muslim countries” are “very much in line with the trans groups,” saying, “The trans groups go after children to have sex, and when you look at a lot of the Muslim nations, they allow sex with children.” Fishman read a Libs of TikTok post complaining that “Biden-appointed Muslim Judge Mustafa D. Kasubhai struck down HHS Secretary RFK Jr.'s directive to stop taxpayer-funded sex change surgeries for kids.” [YouTube, X22 Report, 4/22/26; Media Matters, 6/25/24]

US District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan

Speaking to The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro, Newsmax host Rob Schmitt accused Sooknanan of having “obvious loyalties outside of this country.” He complained that judges like Sooknanan “see this as just a wealthy land that should be pillaged by the rest of the world. That's how they feel about the United States, because I don't think they have America's best interests at heart.” [Newsmax, Rob Schmitt Tonight, 9/3/25]

War Room host Harrison Smith said Sooknanan “shouldn't even be in this country.” Smith complained that “we have foreign judges named Sparkle deciding that the law is whatever she feels like it should be, not what is actually the law,” arguing, “That’s obviously a major problem we have in our country.” He added, “These are people that do not love America. They don't even like America. They constantly organize against America. They do not renounce their old countries. They do not drop their loyalty to their former countries. So why do we take them in? Why are we obligated to give them any benefit of the doubt? Because the likes of Ben Shapiro don't give a damn about the browning of our country.” [Infowars, War Room, 6/24/26]

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From the June 24, 2026, edition of Infowars' War Room

The Charlie Kirk Show co-host Andrew Kolvet complained that Sooknanan is a “foreigner” from “Trinidad, a country known to be the most wonderful representative of democracy in the world.” [Rumble, The Charlie Kirk Show, 6/23/26]

US District Judge Indira Talwani

Rob Schmitt said Talwani “is the daughter of two immigrants, which is a very American story, but in this case it’s very obvious this judge’s loyalties do not lie here.” He complained that one-third of district court judges in Washington, D.C., “were born outside of this country” and claimed, “They all have the same politics — disciples of the left-wing crusade to open up the United States for global looting.” [Newsmax, Rob Schmitt Tonight, 4/15/25]

Referring to Talwani, former Infowars host Owen Shroyer asked, “You think she was born here?” then told his viewers, “Place your bets now where she was born.” After looking it up, Shroyer read that Talwani was born in New Jersey but specified: “Well, her parents are from Punjab, India.” [WIN Network, Owen Report, 10/31/25]

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Haaris Syed

Newsmax host Carl Higbie reacted to Syed’s appointment by saying, “Islam — I’m always warning people that it could take a hold, especially in our legal system.” He continued, “We have seen some stuff from guys like this. What happens when you start seeing, I don’t know, a sharia-style viewpoint incorporate itself into U.S. law that is not in favor of our Constitution?” Former Assistant Attorney General Theo Wold agreed with Higbie and claimed that in Great Britain, “One of the reasons why the rape gangs were able to do what they did and proliferate like that [is] because a lot of Islamic judges control the local family courts in that country.” [Newsmax, Carl Higbie Frontline, 7/6/26]

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Laura Loomer on American-born DC Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui: “Denaturalize him, denaturalize his family members, and send him back to the sharia shithole”

05/08/26 1:02 PM EDT

Right-wing media figures are calling to strip away citizenship from large swaths of Americans, including Muslims and some elected officials

05/05/26 2:56 PM EDT

Fox anchor asks if magistrate judge in the White House correspondents dinner shooting is “becoming an assassin apologist”

05/05/26 1:32 PM EDT

Right-wing influencers pushed the Trump admin to ignore judges. New reporting shows that's what's happening — especially in immigration cases.

02/18/26 9:23 AM EST

Benny Johnson: “You shouldn't be allowed to, like, go be a judge here if you were born in another country ... There's a good argument to be made that you shouldn't be allowed to serve in Congress.”

10/09/25

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Prominent Trump ally 'starting to realize' MAGA is 'ignorant'

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Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) recently found himself under fire by President Donald Trump’s supporters for posting a physically affectionate photograph on X. They demanded to know the identity of the woman in the picture… but were not prepared for the answer.

“For Republicans, the real soccer scandal of the weekend had nothing to do with Trump at all,” wrote The Bulwark’s Will Sommer on Tuesday. Sommer referred to Trump because the president controversially contacted the head of FIFA to reverse a ban on one of America’s star soccer players as they prepared to face Belgium, a game they ultimately lost.

“They were fuming about Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) wearing a Mexico jersey to watch the England-Mexico game with Mexico fans at a Tucson watch party,” Sommer added.

In addition to complaining that Kelly sided with Mexico over England in the World Cup, pro-Trump influencer Laura Loomer tried to sic the MAGA movement against Kelly by asking why he had his arm affectionately draped around a slender blonde woman.

“A US Senator who represents a BORDER STATE wearing Mexico’s jersey is bad enough, but I thought he was ‘super loyal’ to his medically brain dead wife who was shot in the head?” Loomer wrote on X, referring to how Kelly’s wife — the former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) — nearly died in a 2011 assassination attempt.

Loomer’s post, which has been viewed 1.8 million times as of this writing, was quickly rebutted by Giffords herself.

“Well, she looks pretty great to me @captmarkkelly 😘” Giffords posted, confirming that she is the woman in the picture.

Kelly has found himself in the Trump movement’s crosshairs before. When he joined a number of other Democratic lawmakers in urging members of the military to not follow illegal or unconstitutional orders, Trump accused Kelly of “sedition” that is “punishable by death.” Similarly, while delivering a special address to Congress in February, the president engaged in a stare down with the senator after demanding lawmakers stand up to express their support for his immigration agenda… and Kelly remained seated.

Speaking to NOTUS in June, Kelly said that Trump’s ire does not phase him personally.

“I don’t get angry about it; I don’t lose any sleep,” Kelly told NOTUS. “They’re going to do s—— like this. They’re flailing. They know the law’s on my side, and they want to shut people up. This is a corrupt administration, and it’s clear to everybody."

He added, “If they’re going to go after the rights of 2 million retired service members, it might as well be me.”

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The names Pulte, Loomer, and Roger Stone are deeply intertwined in a bitter and complex political rivalry within the MAGA inner circle. The dynamic between the three figures involves high-level administration maneuvering and very public feuding. [1, 2, 3]

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The tragedy of Laura Loomer | The Spectator

I first met Laura Loomer in the New York office of Project Veritas. She was blonde then, feisty, smart and ambitious. She was also fearless. Because of her outspoken views regarding the dangers of radical Islam – views that I largely share – her career as an investigative journalist and advocate was severely hampered. She became possibly the most censored woman on the planet; forbidden from placing her warnings about Sharia law and radical Islam on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. Even Uber banned her.

In 2020, Loomer decided to make a valiant race for Congress against Democrat incumbent Lois Frankel in an overwhelmingly blue Florida district, which happened to include Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s club and winter residence. She campaigned hard, but the presidential endorsement that she richly deserved never came.....

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LAURA LOOMER CALLS FOR THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO INVESTIGATE TUCKER CARLSON AND CANDACE OWENS

06/15/26

https://www.mediamatters.org/laura-loomer/laura-loomer-calls-trump-administration-investigate-tucker-carlson-and-candace-owens)

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  1. ### Laura Loomer on American-born DC Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui: “Denaturalize him, denaturalize his family members, and send him back to the sharia shithole”

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Kyle Mantyla

Kyla Guilfoil @ NBC: Federal judge dismisses Laura Loomer's defamation suit against Bill Maher

The judge said the comedian was clearly making a joke when he suggested on his talk show that the far-right activist had a sexual relationship with President Donald Trump.

Phil Williams @ Hates Comes To Main Street: Lots of People Are Lying About the SPLC Indictment: Here's the Evidence

It's almost as if the people most excited by the indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center have not read the indictment--or they really don't care.

Adam Kinzinger: ICE’s Terror Campaign Now Takes Place Out of View

New DHS Head Markwayne Mullin tries to keep ICE out of the headlines, but the deportations continue.

Alex Nguyen @ Mother Jones: Meet Paolo Zampolli, the Man at the Center of Trump’s Biggest Scandals

From the World Cup to Jeffrey Epstein and ICE deportations, the man who says he introduced Donald and Melania stays busy.

The Throckmorton Initiative: Did the Founders Quote the Bible More Than Any Other Source?

Tim Barton misleads people about the Donald Lutz study.

Charlie Nash @ Mediaite: ‘Not a Moral Man’: Megyn Kelly Calls Out Trump ‘Demons,’ Including Being ‘Thin-Skinned’ and ‘Not the Greatest Husband’

Former Trump ally Megyn Kelly criticized President Donald Trump for being neither “a moral man” nor “the greatest husband in the world” during a discussion about the president’s “demons” on Wednesday.

Daniel Han and Mia McCarthy @ Politico: New Jersey’s most vulnerable GOP incumbent is MIA

Rep. Tom Kean Jr.'s team said the absence is due to unspecified health issues.

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Laura Loomer calls Secretary Kennedy and his staff "liberals and Democrats" who "refuse to fire all the holdovers" at HHS | Media Matters for America

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... Ticktin isn’t the only person trying to encourage Trump to seize control of the elections. Micheal Flynn, the former lieutenant general and first-term Trump national security adviser, has promoted the idea, as has the right-wing activist and author Jerome Corsi. Flynn convened a meeting in Washington last month billed as “a critical roundtable to address election integrity.” }:}:

According to ProPublica, the event attracted current administration officials Kurt Olsen, a White House lawyer who is reinvestigating the 2020 election, and Heather Honey, who is in charge of election integrity at the Department of Homeland Security, as well as conservative activists including Cleta Mitchell, who has pushed false claims about noncitizen voting and now runs the Election Integrity Network.}:

:{:{Senator Mark Warner is trying to sound the alarm, even as potential election mischief is being overshadowed by life-and-death events like the war on Iran. “This is of critical importance,” the Virginia Democrat tells me. “One thing we should have learned about Trump is he doesn’t hide his intentions, including the notion to call for federal elections.”}:

Warner is particularly concerned that Trump officials could create a pretext for Trump to take over the voting. “Tulsi Gabbard is a disaster, and she’s chasing debunked theories about the 2020 election,” Warner says, referring to the director of national intelligence’s recent presence at the raid of an election office in Fulton County, Georgia. “She could be the perpetrator of this—putting out a raw piece of intelligence that purports to show foreign interference,” as an excuse for Trump’s intervention.}:

A Gabbard spokeswoman, Olivia Coleman, said she “would especially encourage you to focus on the very real vulnerabilities uncovered in the electronic voting machines.” Coleman also pointed me to a February letter from Gabbard to Warner and others in Congress saying the director’s office “will not irresponsibly share incomplete intelligence assessments concerning foreign or other malign interference in US elections.”

Warner, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, is hardly reassured. He is assembling a “prebunking” team of former intelligence officials who could knock down attempts at disinformation. “I have a sense of urgency on this,” Warner says. “When we’re talking about Laura Loomer being able to call the shots on who does and doesn’t get jobs in the administration, and bragging about her ability to fire a four-star general, we’ve passed into the realm of the absurd.”

Loomer has gone from incendiary far-right provocateur to informal Trump adviser and loyalty enforcer, digging through the backgrounds of political officials in search of insufficient fealty to the MAGA cause and using social media to scorch her targets. Last year Loomer’s accusations appeared to trigger the dismissal of General Timothy Haugh, the head of the National Security Agency....

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Fox Business guests ridicule the network’s fantasy of 4-5% economic growth this year: “Dream on”

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March 24, 2026, edition of Loomer Unleashed streamed on Rumble

LAURA LOOMER (HOST): I'm not trying to mock anything about Charlie Kirk, I mean he's dead. But, the reality is, it's like everybody has a Charlie Kirk story — everybody. 'Oh well, Charlie told me this, and Charlie told me he believed in the JQ and you just have to trust me. Charlie was actually a Catholic. Charlie actually didn't really like his wife. Charlie was getting a divorce. Charlie slept in a different room. Charlie this, Charlie this, Charlie that.' Like everybody wants to say, like, what Charlie believed and what he thought, and what he — they thought he believed so that they could fit their own twisted narrative. And a lot of these people were platformed by TPUSA. We just have to say it. A lot of these crazy people who are now a problem were platformed by TPUSA; Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens. I mean, shit, Candace Owens was practically born out of TPUSA. Right? Gave her a job. Now she's trying to destroy him and his wife because Charlie Kirk wouldn't date her.

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03/17/2026

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Kyle Mantyla

Mr. Kent is the highest-ranking Trump administration official to quit in opposition to the conflict. He is also known for his support of conspiracy theories.

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“Whether I free it, take it—I can do anything I want with it,” the president said.

Christian nationalist revival leader and Trump loyalist Sean Feucht announced he is partnering with the federal government on a worship tour that will coincide with the nation’s 250th anniversary. The “Roots of Revival” tour will include 20 stops from March to September in locations ranging from Sante Fe, N.M., and Washington, D.C., to Gettysburg, Penn., to Nashville, Tenn.

The University of Florida’s chapter accused the Florida Federation of College Republicans of lying “to silence christian conservative groups on campus.”

Obsessed with Israel, the anti-antisemitism industry is failing to confront the threat of right-wing nationalism — and, in some cases, making it worse.

FAR-RIGHT ACTIVIST AND DONALD TRUMP ADVISER Laura Loomer has hit the global stage. Over the weekend, she traveled to New Delhi with her new fiancé to relay a message from Trump to India’s 1.43 billion people. “I love India! Please let them know I love India,” Loomer said on stage at the India Today Conclave, reading a message she said the president had given to her. Unfortunately, many of those in attendance did not seem to reciprocate the sentiment—at least not toward Loomer. That’s because they have access to the internet, and could easily look up the speaker’s many attacks on their country and its people, like the time she said Kamala Harris would make the White House smell like curry.

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Many prominent U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) alumni — including former federal prosecutors and MS NOW legal analysts Joyce White Vance and Barbara McQuade — are scathing critics of President Donald Trump and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi's criminal justice policies. Trump and Bondi, they argue, are using DOJ as a tool of retribution against political foes and doing things they never would have considered when they were federal prosecutors.

But at the same time, Trump isn't shy about issuing presidential pardons for his allies. On his first night back in the White House, Trump pardoned hundreds of rioters who violently attacked the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021.

In an article published on March 6, New York Times reporter Kenneth P. Vogel emphasizes that Trump's use of presidential pardons isn't merely a matter of policy — it is an "industry."

According to Vogel, a "lucrative pardon industry" has "emerged around Mr. Trump."

"It is based in part on the proposition that paying the right person to deliver a message tailored to Mr. Trump's politics or grievances is more important than demonstrating remorse or a low likelihood of recidivism," Vogel explains. "A growing number of practitioners promise access in this murky enterprise, but some also may exaggerate their effectiveness to elicit payments from clients desperate to avoid incarceration. Pardon seekers routinely offer to pay as much as $1 million or more, often with bonus payments triggered by a successful outcome, according to lobbying filings and people familiar with the fees."

Vogel continues, "This transactional approach to clemency has been welcomed by white-collar offenders like those serving time at the Otisville camp, a minimum-security facility about 75 miles northwest of Manhattan. Many of its inmates cheered Mr. Trump's election, seeing him as a kindred spirit who shares their grievances about the unfairness of financial crime prosecutions like the one that led to his own conviction, according to four people familiar with conversations at Otisville."

One of Trump's pardons was Joseph Schwartz, who was convicted of federal tax crimes related to nursing homes he owned and sentenced to three years but served only three months.

"Mr. Schwartz had not been shy about sharing the strategy behind his clemency campaign with other inmates," Vogel reports. "So they knew he had paid multiple people to try to get the job done, according to two people familiar with conversations at Otisville. Nearly a million dollars went to right-wing operatives who claimed to have worked with Laura Loomer, a social media provocateur who has the ear of Mr. Trump, to advocate for Mr. Schwartz's release…. The perception that freedom is for sale to affluent offenders like Mr. Schwartz outrages some of his victims, including former employees of his nursing homes who were deprived of health insurance or left scrounging for supplies to care for residents."

One of those ex-employees, Theresa Dante, told the Times, "This man hurt a lot of people. If it's OK for Mr. Schwartz to do this to everybody, then in the future is this going be OK?"

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President Donald Trump’s administration is allowing prediction markets to gamble on war, prompting one conservative critic to describe the practice as “satanic.”

“Like dogfighting, gambling on war is the sort of hobby that is best described in simple, direct moral terms,” Joe Perticone of The Bulwark wrote on Thursday. “(‘Satanic’ was the one that came to my mind.) But I wanted to pose the question about regulating or banning this industry to some of the lawmakers who are familiar with prediction markets.”

After Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour recently argued Americans should be able to “financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference of opinion,” Perticone interviewed members of Congress about regulating or even banning the practice of gambling on war.

“Polymarket. Kalshi. I love ’em!” Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) told Perticone “before I could finish my question.” The journalist added that when he asked Tuberville if “it’s good for society to be gambling on events tied to war and military engagements,” the senator changed his tune.

“Oh, well, I didn’t know they were doing that,” Tuberville told Perticone. “Well, if it’s legal, I guess you can do it. I wouldn’t do it. But everybody’s got their own opinion on that.”

By contrast Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) accused the Trump White House of using their insider information to profit on the prediction markets about the Iran war.

“To me, it’s pretty clear there were people inside the White House who were making bets on Friday that war would start on Saturday,” Murphy told Perticone. “That particular bet—that war will occur within twenty-four hours—was not a normal bet that was being made on Polymarket. It was made on one day, Friday, by an unusually high number of people.”

Murphy added, “Unquestionably, that is people at the White House or friends of the White House. So the Iran war is a disaster on its merits, but it is facilitating a new kind of corruption in the White House in which people are making money through Polymarket and Kalshi on war.” For this reason, the senator is drafting a ban on prediction markets gambling on government activity with “some exceptions for bond markets and financial markets.” At the same time, “Murphy pointed out that regulating and restricting the prediction markets will probably be an uphill battle, given how lucrative they seem to have been for administration insiders.”

“Obviously given that it looks like Trump’s crowd is making money on these prediction markets, Republicans are gonna react as if it’s an attack on them,” Murphy told Perticone. “It’s not. This would be really awful even under a Democratic president.”

Similar to Murphy, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) told Perticone “the concept is predatory at its very core.”

“I think it’s very unhealthy, and I worry that these markets are not only speculative, but that there are insiders who may be manipulating them or manipulating the outcomes,” Warren told Perticone. “If this were an SEC-regulated market, there would be an automatic investigation into every one of those bets [on U.S. foreign policy]. But when the market is unregulated, insiders have free rein to manipulate it however they want.”

Earlier this week, the ongoing schism between Trump supporters over the war in Iran continued in earnest, with Trump supporter and influencer Laura Loomer sparring on X with former congresswoman and Trump critic, Marjorie Taylor Greene.

"This b—— is celebrating the death of American military members and thanking their families for their blood sacrifice,” Greene wrote of Loomer on Sunday. “But this is who Trump takes late night calls from and laps up her praise and worship. … And now Americans are once again coming home in flag draped coffins from another stupid pointless foreign war for foreign regime change on behalf of Israel.”

In response Loomer asked, "How much money are you making off of Muslims?"

Indeed, people in the Trump administration often seem not to be on the same page about whether the Iran action even constitutes a war. Appearing on CNN Monday with host Kasie Hunt, Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Ok.) — who later that week was tapped as Trump’s new Homeland Security Secretary — insisted that Trump’s actions in Iran were not a war and had to be publicly corrected.

“This isn't a war, we haven't declared war. Everybody wants to say,” Mullin told Hunt. The CNN host then showed a clip of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth saying earlier that day that “we set the terms of this war from start to finish. We didn't start this war. But under President Trump, we are finishing it.”

Mullin responded by saying, “What he declared on us was war — meaning the Ayatollah declared war on us. We are not at war with the Iranian people. The Ayatollah declared war on us, we've already taken him out, and now we're eliminating the threat."

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President Donald Trump is struggling to contain a civil war within his MAGA movement over the role of far right commentator Tucker Carlson — particularly when it comes to the issue of US support for Israel.

“Ultimately, Carlson’s perseverance in Trump’s orbit is a remarkable testament to his staying power,” wrote Will Sommer of the conservative publication The Bulwark. “Lesser media luminaries would have been pushed to the outskirts of punditry. The question now is how long the alliance between the administration and Carlson can hold.”

With Carlson and other alt-right leaders like commentator Nick Fuentes clashing with pro-Israel Trump supporters like influencer Laura Loomer and The Daily Wire head Ben Shapiro, The Bulwark observed that the MAGA coalition is straining because of its internal tensions.

“With the United States possibly on the verge of war with Iran, Israel’s greatest enemy, you’d think Carlson—a staunch critic of American support for Israel—would be on the outs with the administration,” Sommer wrote. “Instead, on Monday, he was reportedly back in the White House, a month after he visited to have lunch with Trump and attended a meeting with oil company CEOs.”

Carlson has a long history of parting ways with Trump on important issues. In December, Carlson told CNN anchor Anderson Cooper that Trump is wrong to ignore the ongoing issues in the American economy.

“The one thing that doesn't lie is the economy,” Carlson said. “I mean, it's one of these things that Trump just can't lie his way out of or talk his way out of. And that is extremely problematic because when people go to the polls for the midterm elections, which are going to be here before we know it, they're going to be voting on how they feel on that particular day. And the economy is an incredibly emotional feeling.”

Speaking with this author for Salon as far back as 2019, Carlson criticized Trump’s handling of the economy.

“I don’t think the obvious lesson of the 2016 election was you hire Steve Mnuchin as Treasury Secretary, you know,” Carlson said. “I can’t just put it into one sentence. As I sort of read through the exit polling in November of 2016, my first thought wasn’t, ‘You know, they really should hire some more Goldman Sachs people to oversee our economy.’ That didn’t flow naturally from the trends I was watching.”

Loomer, a right-wing activist and passionate Trump supporter, recently attacked Carlson’s influence within Trump’s orbit.

“I’m sick of Tucker attacking Trump and then running to the White House to pretend he hasn’t been bashing Trump for years!” Loomer declared on Monday. “I’m so f------ over it!”

She added, “He called the President yesterday and begged him to be put on his schedule.He was manic on the phone, I’m told, completely belligerent begging to come to the White House today.” Loomer went on to call him “Tucker Qatarlson” and a “neo Nazi Islamic agent.”

Also on Monday, Loomer urged on social media for Trump to “condemn” Carlson.

"Everybody needs to be pressuring the White House to issue a statement condemning Tucker Carlson this week," Loomer said. "His efforts to derail the GOP and his nonstop sabotage of President Trump must end."

Another pro-Trump and pro-Israel commentator, Dave Rubin, claimed that Carlson’s presence in the White House shows Trump sees “that Tucker is obviously trying to destroy MAGA and it appears he’s finally had enough . . .”

In a November article published by the Washington Post, journalist/author Jamie Kirchick unpacked Carlson's friendly relationship with Fuentes, noting that it could create an awkward predicament for Trump’s logical successor for president in 2028, Vice President JD Vance.

"Ironically, the politician Carlson is harming most with his antics is the person he wants to succeed Trump: Vice President JD Vance," Kirchick wrote. "Carlson, who praised Vance in his discussion with Fuentes as one of the very few people on the right who shares his foreign policy views, reportedly played a decisive role in convincing Trump to name Vance as his running mate. Vance, who has since employed Carlson's son as his deputy press secretary, invited Carlson to the White House when he guest-hosted the 'Charlie Kirk Show' following the assassination of its eponymous host. Having benefited from Carlson's scorched-earth campaign against 'the neoconservatives,' Vance now appears stuck with Carlson's antisemitic, conspiratorial, anti-American baggage whether he likes it or not."

Kirchick concluded, "Thus far, Vance has done nothing to distance himself from this kind of politics. When Politico exposed racist and antisemitic text messages sent by members of Young Republican clubs last month, the vice president forgivingly characterized the appalling behavior of these 20- and 30-somethings as ‘what kids do.’”

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In a large ad for the Sunday edition of the New York Times, Walmart heiress Christy Walton urged Americans to "mobilize" and take part in large protests on Saturday, June 14 — the day President Donald Trump is holding a military parade in Washington, DC.

Walton attacked the parade as wildly inappropriate, arguing that Trump is not a "king," but an elected official.

The ad read, "The honor, dignity, and integrity of our country are not for sale."

READ MORE:'Unacceptable and egregious': Veterans blast Trump for goading troops to boo his opponents

Far-right MAGA Republicans are furious over the ad, and some are calling for a boycott of Walmart.

In a June 9 post on X, formerly Twitter, Newsmax's David J. Harris Jr. wrote, "INSANE: Newspaper ad Paid for by Christy Walton. Walmart heiress."

Conspiracy theorist Kari Lake, who lost gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races in Arizona, tweeted, "Do you shop at Walmart?"

Walmart spokesman Joe Pennington, however, told Forbes that Walton is only speaking for herself — not for Walmart. According to Pennington, "The advertisement from Christy Walton (is) in no way connected to or endorsed by Walmart."

READ MORE:Navy veteran warns Americans that we're getting to the dangerous point of no return

Calls for a MAGA boycott of Walmart are drawing a lot of responses on X.

Trump ally and self-described "proud Islamophobe" Laura Loomer tweeted, "I am glad Walmart took this opportunity to distance themselves from Christy Walton’s anti-Trump multi-city ad and to condemn political violence."

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Laura Loomer advises JD Vance to distance himself from Tucker Carlson

Loomer: Vance “definitely has a Tucker Carlson problem” and has to understand “that a large portion of the MAGA base doesn't like Tucker Carlson”

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From the January 14, 2026, edition of Loomer Unleashed streamed on Rumble

LAURA LOOMER (HOST): Our country is suffering because, unfortunately, our vice president is friends with Tucker Carlson, and Tucker Carlson has unfettered access to the White House. Right? That's crazy. I mean, it's crazy how you can be a simp for Islam and a simp for Islamic terrorism and then just be friends with the vice president and get to crash the oil executive meeting because the vice president invites you to lunch. Right? That's what's unfortunate.

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LOOMER: I like JD Vance. I respect JD Vance. I get along with JD Vance, but enough is enough, okay? You know, as somebody who wants to be president of the United States, I would hope, and I would actually expect JD Vance to have the moral clarity to tell Tucker Carlson that he's not allowed to come back to the White House, right? This is the type of moral clarity we expect to see from people who want to be president of the United States, and that's not an attack on JD Vance. But eventually, he has to decide what he cares about more: his friendship with an unhinged, lunatic mouthpiece for Qatar or being president of the United States. Because we all know he wants to run for president in 2028. And that's great, that's fine, right? Go ahead, run for president.

But I need to know, and I think a lot of people want to know if Tucker Carlson's going to be some kind of advisor to him, why he keeps on having Tucker Carlson come to the White House for these lunch dates, whatever they are. I don't know. Blaming it on Donald Trump, saying that it's Donald Trump meeting with Tucker Carlson. It's not. It's the vice president. I got the White House to confirm that to me as well. So, definitely has a Tucker Carlson problem. And look, he can run for president. That's fine. You know, we have primaries in this country. It's great. We're gonna have a primary, JD Vance is gonna run for president. Okay, great. But, you know, you want to run for president, you have to also understand that a large portion of the MAGA base doesn't like Tucker Carlson. And we don't wanna see Tucker Carlson on the campaign trail. We definitely don't wanna see Tucker Qatarlson in the White House.

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The National Security Agency (NSA) has ended "months of ongoing leadership vacuums" with the appointment of a new deputy director after Laura Loomer, a far-right activist seen by many as a "Trump whisperer," managed to get a previous nominee thrown out.

Government Executive reported that Tom Kosiba, who has prior experience with both the NSA and the FBI, had been named deputy director at the NSA, filling the agency's second-highest-ranked leadership position. As the outlet noted, he "will likely have to contend with declining morale inside the spy agency, as well as significant workforce cuts that were influenced by Trump 2.0 efforts to reduce government bloat and spending waste."

Kosiba's appointment also comes after significant interference in filling the position from Loomer. Joe Francescon, who was on the National Security Council during Donald Trump’s first term as president, was previously set to be nominated to the position, but Loomer voiced opposition to his appointment due to past donations to a Democratic candidate who was involved in one of Trump's impeachment trials. She also alleged that Francescon's wife had ties to China.

"FEC records reveal that Francescon donated to an anti-Trump Democrat Congressman named [Jason Crow of Wisconsin]," Loomer posted to X in August. "During his first term in Congress, Crow was an impeachment manager for President Donald Trump's first impeachment trial. Concerning."

Loomer has been widely noted for her close access to the president and influence over his decision-making, especially as it concerns appointments. Following her criticisms of National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and his deputies, he was gone from the office. Government Executive also previously reported that she was believed to have been involved in the firing of former NSA and Cyber Command leader Gen. Timothy Haugh, taking a meeting with Trump at the White House shortly before he was fired. An anonymous source told the outlet that the timing "couldn’t be coincidental."

Sources inside the Trump administration have expressed frustration over her continued influence over Trump, with some alleging that she has become motivated by outside interests as opposed to MAGA loyalty.

"She used to pretty much just amplify the MAGA line, but now it’s pretty clear that she has her own agenda," one source told the Free Press.

“There is widespread understanding here that she’s not guided entirely by loyalties to the president, but external business interests," another source added.

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The Trump administration provoked horror this week with the suggestion that the United States could be turned into a paradise if over a quarter of the people in the country were deported.

On Wednesday, the official social media account for the Department of Homeland Security posted a piece of artwork depicting a pink late-1960s Cadillac Eldorado parked on a bright, idyllic beach. Over the clear blue sky are the words “America after 100 million deportations.The post was captioned by the agency: “The peace of a nation no longer besieged by the third world.”

Social media users later discovered that DHS had, ironically, stolen the image from the Japanese pop artist Hiroshi Nagai without giving credit.

It is hardly the first time the administration has used edgy and inflammatory social media posts to promote its agenda. But DHS has come under particular scrutiny for its style of communication, which often evokes white nationalist rhetoric and symbolism.

Posts by the agency have cheered “remigration,” a term that far-right parties in Europe have often used to describe the forced repatriation of nonwhite populations, including citizens. Other posts have referred to President Donald Trump’s “mass deportation” campaign as part of an effort to defend American “heritage” and “culture.”

The agency frequently evokes images of the American frontier and references “Manifest Destiny,” at times explicitly posting artwork glorifying the forced displacement of Native American populations.

An image by the agency, featuring a chiseled Uncle Sam calling on Americans to “REPORT ALL FOREIGN INVADERS,” was even directly sourced from an overt neo-Nazi account.

The agency has only continued to double down in the face of criticism this week. On Friday, it posted that “2026 will be the year of American Supremacy” over an image of then-Gen. George Washington crossing the Delaware River, which was emblazoned with the words “Return this Land,” a possible reference to a recently-founded “whites-only” town in rural Arkansas known as “Return to the Land.”

But Wednesday’s post calling for “100 million deportations” specifically was perhaps the most direct nod yet to those who believe the United States must be reconstituted as a white nation. As social media users were quick to point out, only about 47 million people living in America are foreign-born, according to the US Census Bureau.

Even if the administration kicked out every single immigrant—including legal residents and naturalized citizens—meeting such a goal would mean deporting 53 million people who were born in the US and are legally entitled to citizenship under the 14th Amendment.

If the use of the phrase “third world” did not make it obvious enough, the specific number—100 million—seems to betray the racial motivation behind the message.

Citing 2020 census data on the Wikipedia page for “Demographics of the United States,” one social media user pointed out that approximately 100 million people in the US identified as nonwhite.

The DHS post drew comparisons to one made earlier this year by the close Trump ally and unofficial White House operative Laura Loomer, who suggested that thanks to “Alligator Alcatraz,” the massive internment camp in Florida for those arrested by immigration agents, “the alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals,” which referenced the total number of Hispanic people in the United States.

While it’s almost certainly not possible for the administration to conduct a deportation campaign of such a staggering scale within Trump’s term of office, the administration’s latest post was frightening to many observers, even as they acknowledged that it was a “troll post” meant to rile people up.

It is still reflective of the Trump administration’s ideology with respect to immigration. Leaders of Trump’s deportation effort have acknowledged that they target people based on their appearance, and many nonwhite US citizens have been caught in the dragnet. Meanwhile, its refugee policy has welcomed only white South Africans, as Trump has enacted what he says is a “permanent pause on migration from all Third World Countries.”

During 2026, the administration has said it plans to target hundreds of US citizens each month for “denaturalization,” and Trump has called for it to be used against his most prominent critics, including the Somali-American Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and New York’s first Muslim mayor, Zohran Mamdani.

“This is absolutely insane Nazi propaganda, posted by the US government,” said Ben Norton, editor of the Geopolitical Economy Report in response to DHS’s call for“100 million deportations.”

“It makes it clear that the Trump administration’s mass deportation drive is not actually about ‘illegal immigration.’ There are estimated to be 14 million undocumented immigrants in the US. But the fascist DHS wants to deport 100 million people,” Norton continued. “This is a call by the US regime for ethnic cleansing of racial minorities, to create a white-supremacist regime without anyone with ‘third world’ heritage.”

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New York Times writer Alan Feuer says pro-Trump influencers have “always had a lot to say about the Jeffrey Epstein files.”

Several called for the files release before President Donald Trump was re-elected, certain they would “expose a cabal of Democrats who had palled around” with Epstein after he’d been exposed as a convicted sex offender, said Feuer. Several more criticized Trump this year as he sought to block the files’ release, calling them a “Democratic hoax.”

“But many of them were conspicuously quiet on Tuesday, when the Justice Department released a batch of materials that contained hundreds of mentions of Mr. Trump," Feuer said. “Their silence contrasted with the uproar made over the weekend when the department’s first release focused on former President Bill Clinton, including an image, stripped of context, showing him reclining in a hot tub. MAGA influencer Laura Loomer – also known as Trump's unofficial "loyalty enforcer" — mocked Clinton on social media after the photos emerged.

“On Tuesday, however, Ms. Loomer said nothing about the newly released materials, which showed, among other things, that federal prosecutors had determined that Mr. Trump had flown on Mr. Epstein’s private plane more times than they originally knew,” Feuer noted. “Instead, Ms. Loomer seemed to post about everything except the Epstein files: immigrant work visas; ‘anti-white racism’; next year’s midterm elections; and Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York.”

Feuer identified similar silence with conservative influencer Rogan O’Handley, who posts on X under the handle DC Draino. On Friday, O’Handley was also berating Clinton, writing how the Epstein files had depicted him “shirtless in a hot tub with a female that is not his wife.”

“But on Tuesday, Mr. O’Handley had nothing at all to say about the files,” said Feuer.

The same went for pro-Trump podcaster and “The Benny Show,” host Benny Johnson, who Feuer said much preferred posting about fired transgender instructors rather than Epstein.

“One Trump-friendly account did, however, post about the newly released files: the one run by the Justice Department,” said Feuer, adding that the department quickly jumped to defend the president as if they were his personal troupe of lawyers.

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The online MAGA-verse were at each other’s throats more than usual this weekend, as right-wing commentators Benny Johnson, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Tucker Carlson were all points of controversy.

The first tiff started on Saturday, when Yiannopoulos—who has made a name for himself as an openly gay far-right bigot—accused multiple conservative influencers like Johnson and Charlie Kirk of being closeted gay men on Tim Pool’s podcast with swindler and former MAGA Representative George Santos, who is also gay.

“One of the most distinctive things about the right-wing in this country is its homosexual overtones. Benny Johnson posts pictures of his children every two days—it’s weird. And everybody knows what went on with Benny Johnson in those lobbies and those hotel rooms at SAS. Everybody knows,” said Yiannopoulos.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Santos replied.

“Men, younger men. Not underage, at least I don’t know that. His wife was crying drunk in the lobby three SAS’s in a row about how her husband was upstairs with boys,” Yiannopoulos claimed. “Go ask her.”

“Come on, Milo, aren’t you ever scared of getting sued?” Santos asked.

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Yiannopoulos insisted he was telling the truth, and that he’d never been sued.

On Sunday, Johnson threatened to sue him.

“I am duty bound to take action to protect my family against those who maliciously defame and attack us. More to come on that soon,” he wrote. “Pray for healing for some really sick and delusional people. Jesus is about redemption. The legal system is about justice. Happy Sunday.”

Yiannopoulos responded in a message addressed to Johnson and his wife, Kate:

“I know more about defamation than any lawyer you will hire. Benny is a public figure. Malice is a nonstarter. I have receipts, and the truth is a total defense against any claim of defamation or libel. Do you want to lose a defamation case to MILO YIANNOPOULOS OF ALL PEOPLE about whether or not you are gay? Do you want to even fight one? The people who have poured money into making you a big deal are about to lose their entire investment,” he ranted.

“I know more about your marriage than you think I do,” he continued, “and I have evidence, and I have witnesses. I know who to subpoena. I know what questions to ask. About nocturnal liaisons dangereuses with chaps in assless chaps and about being caught in flagrante delicto at conferences attended by students, some of whom may have been under 18 (I guess we’ll find out!).”

Yiannopoulos also claimed that Turning Point USA may have faked Charlie Kirk’s death.

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Meanwhile, other far-righters—mostly Islamophobes and Zionists—were at pundit Tucker Carlson’s throat for his purchase of a property in Qatar.

“Speaking on stage at the Doha Forum in Qatar, Tucker Carlson told Qatar’s Prime Minister Al Thani that he is buying a place in Qatar this week because he’s an ‘American”; and he will live and go wherever he wants,” MAGA crank Laura Loomer posted on Sunday. “Qatar is the financier of the Muslim Brotherhood and they continue to allow HAMAS officials to live in Doha, where Tucker now wants to buy a place to live.”

“Let me explain the joke: Qatar is a bloodthirsty, terror-supporting slave state, and Tucker Carlson is rubbing it in your face that he’s an unregistered foreign agent for them,” another account wrote.

It’s clear that Trump’s base is fraying at the seams. From those questioning the validity of Trump’s “America First” and our fealty to Israel, like Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Nick Fuentes, and Tucker Carlson, to those like Yiannopoulos spreading conspiracy theories only Candace Owens would touch, it’s clear that whatever base of hatred Trump still has is fractured.

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How would you react if you heard that a journalist visiting another country was arrested just hours after criticizing that country’s leader and foreign policy? Perhaps you would think that the journalist was visiting some authoritarian or tyrannical country, right?

Well, that was not the case last month, when British Muslim journalist Sami Hamdi was arrested by ICE agents at the San Francisco International Airport, after far-right influencers Laura Loomer and Amy Mekelburg went on an Islamophobic social media campaign against Hamdi. He was in the US on a visa and had come to speak at scheduled events but detained without much explanation and held for two weeks.

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President Donald Trump’s pick to be the US deputy representative to the United Nations, former Fox News contributor Tammy Bruce, for years promoted inflammatory, anti-Muslim and conspiratorial claims, including suggesting that former President Barack Obama was a secret Muslim bent on harming America.

The white nationalist streamer is building an organization to pressure Republicans by developing ‘elite human capital’ and ‘mapping out’ his pro-Israel foes.

As someone who has been studying the use of ‘Judeo-Christian’ in American public discourse for over 40 years, I can say with confidence its usage has come full circle.

On Thursday (Nov. 13), the Michigan House of Representatives passed a resolution to officially declare Nov. 23 as “Christ the King Sunday” in the Mitten State. The resolution, which passed without debate on a voice vote that did not seem to draw any opposition, declares that the lawmakers “honor and acknowledge Christ’s Kingship within every aspect of life.”

The far-right activist called on the GOP to address its “Nazi problem.”

Jon Minadeo courts kids in video chat apps, berating children of color, encouraging white kids to arm themselves for 'race war.'

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Laura Loomer’s Endless Payback

The President’s self-appointed loyalty enforcer inspires fear and vexation across Washington. What’s behind her vetting crusades?

By Antonia Hitchens

November 10, 2025

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“Laura isn’t just this wild attack dog,” a strategist with ties to the Administration says. “Those who know how to spot it can see where she’s being influenced.”Photographs by Philip Montgomery for The New Yorker

Laura Loomer has long believed that she is some sort of modern-day oracle. For years, she would scream in public places, trying to get people to listen to what she knew. Usually they would send in security to remove her. One afternoon in 2018, she was crying in a bathroom at the U.S. Capitol after being hustled out of a hearing room, where she had interrupted a meeting of the House Energy and Commerce Committee to warn its members about a conspiracy to steal the 2020 election from Donald Trump. Her dress had ripped in the scuffle, and her underwear was showing. “Like Cassandra, the Trojan priestess of Apollo in Greek mythology who was cursed to utter true prophecies, I have been given the gift of prophecy,” she later wrote. “But I am a prophet of doom whose warnings of disaster are condemned and ignored.”

:{:{As Loomer saw it, civil disobedience was the only tool she had left to save Western civilization from the menaces of immigration, Antifa, feminism, liberalism, Islamic terrorism, the Chinese, wokeness. She had already been kicked off most mainstream social-media platforms for things like “hateful conduct” and being a “dangerous individual.” She took to carrying a bullhorn around and contemplated driving her car off a cliff. In 2020, she ran for Congress, in the Florida district that included Mar-a-Lago, but she couldn’t make a candidate Facebook account or use PayPal to raise money.}:

Her Democratic opponent refused to say her name, instead referring to her as a woman with the darkest heart she had ever known. Loomer lost the election by twenty points. She descended even further into what she called her “oubliette.” Increasingly, she had the sense that she was taking part in an ongoing conversation with Trump, almost like a shared inner monologue. “I don’t want to say, ‘Oh, President Trump is me,’ or, ‘I see myself in Trump.’ But I do. I mean, I do,” she told me recently. “Every time I listen to him speak, I feel like I’m listening to myself speak to myself. Does that make sense?”}:

We were at the memorial service for Charlie Kirk, the right-wing activist, at a football stadium in Glendale, Arizona. (Kirk, who founded the youth organization Turning Point USA, had just been assassinated while speaking at a campus event in Utah.) The service, which was attended by nearly a hundred thousand mourners, began with three hours of live Christian rock. A man dragged a large wooden cross around the arena; babies wore noise-cancelling headphones while their parents swayed to the music. Loomer, who is thirty-two, casts herself as the President’s chief loyalty enforcer. She lives her life largely online—her Twitter account was reinstated in 2022, after Elon Musk purchased the company—where she posts long threads questioning the credentials and allegiances of Trump Administration officials, among other suspects. It’s always a bit disorienting to see her in person. She is slight and fairly sedate. At the memorial service, she wore a blue blouse, black slacks, and white loafers. “Since they tried killing Trump, I try not to go to events,” she said. “I’ve just been hiding in my hotel room.”

:{:{For twenty hours a day, from about 5 a.m. to 1 a.m., Loomer releases torrents of accusations and invective, an infinite scroll of alleged misdeeds and nefarious connections. She writes with the urgency of an Amber Alert, or of an incensed traveller tweeting at United Airlines in the middle of a flight delay. (“NEW: Anti-Trump, Islamist, Pakistani Immigrant State Department Employee Who Attacked Trump’s Islamic Travel Ban And Advocated For Islamic Foot Washing Stations At @StateDept Still Employed At US State Department Under Trump’s Administration. SHE JUST DELETED HER LINKEDIN!”) Though many of Loomer’s posts read like empty threats being pushed out into the void, they often reach more than a million people.}:

She has credited herself with purging dozens of people from both the Administration and high-ranking roles in the private sector. Her motives apparently range from a desire to save the country to unabashed, petty vindictiveness; the two often overlap. She has a receptive ear in the White House. Despite never working for Trump in an official capacity—a job offer was rescinded after staffers opposed bringing her on—he has, since retaking the Presidency, allowed her to “come and visit occasionally,” Loomer told me. Trump, she insisted, is the only “other person on this planet who I think can actually empathize with me and who I can actually empathize with. I really do believe that.” He recently told her, “You’re great, and you’re difficult.”}:

On the floor of the stadium, the music was so loud that it was almost impossible to hear anything. I stood behind a woman who was swirling her white dress around before falling to her knees to pray. Above, I could see Trump in his glass-encased skybox. Two planes full of Administration officials, practically the entire Cabinet, had come from Washington for the funeral, as had a cross-section of the wider MAGA universe—from Tucker Carlson to the guy who shows up at rallies dressed as the border wall. Near the stage, where V.I.P. guests were filtering through the crowd to take their seats in a roped-off section, a woman on a motorized scooter backed up to hug Loomer and congratulate her on her work. Two teen-agers in Trump hats asked her for selfies. “I love when you drop the teasers and it’s, like, ‘I’m going to kill you later!’ ” one said. (Loomer will often post a red siren emoji with a directive to keep watching her account for a bombshell reveal.) Jacob Wells, a founder of GiveSendGo, an online fund-raising platform that Loomer has used to solicit donations for her “lawfare fund,” came up to shake her hand.

Sean Curran, the director of the Secret Service, approached the V.I.P. area, flanked by a coterie of other agents. Loomer recognized him immediately; Curran had jumped on Trump during the attempted assassination in Butler, Pennsylvania.

“Oh, my God, that’s the hero that saved President Trump!” Loomer said.

She went up to say hello. They, too, hugged and took a photo together.

“I’d love to talk to you sometime,” Curran said. “I’ll give you my contact.” He pressed a Secret Service commemorative coin into her palm.

Loomer has described her work by quoting Plato: “No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.” At the memorial, at least in some corners, she was being received with reverence. “People who are entrusted with the life of the President value the work that I’m doing,” she told me. She radiated a sense of weariness that this grand task, of being Trump’s protector and soothsayer, fell to her. “Why is it that I’m the one that has to identify people who are actively working against him?”

One afternoon in September, Mark Warner, the Democratic senator from Virginia, was scheduled to visit the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency for a classified oversight briefing and a meeting with Vice Admiral Frank Whitworth, the agency’s head. “Why are the Pentagon and IC”—intelligence community—“allowing for the Director of an Intel agency to host a rabid ANTI-TRUMP DEMOCRAT SENATOR,” Loomer posted in advance of the visit. “Clearly, a lot of Deep State actors are being given a pass in the Intel community to continue their efforts to sabotage Trump.” Warner’s meeting was abruptly cancelled. “I was in disbelief,” Warner, who is the ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told me. “You’ve got an individual that the Trump Administration was reluctant to hire because she was so far out, yet seems to have unbelievable access to call the shots and then brag about it on her social-media feed.” (Loomer told Warner to “cry more, bitch!”)

Loomer had started to attack Warner the previous week, after he visited an ICE detention center. (Members of Congress are allowed to conduct such visits for oversight purposes, but many have been turned away or arrested.) “I don’t follow Ms. Loomer’s tweeting,” Warner told me. “But I was told that she’d gone on a screech for some time, calling me out.” He wasn’t sure whether to categorize her as a “trolling blogger” or a shadow member of the Administration. “When Laura Loomer tweets, Trump’s Cabinet jumps,” he said. Some of Warner’s Republican friends on the Hill had been attacked by her, too. Warner went on, “She’s an equal-opportunity offender.”

By then, Loomer’s interference in government matters had become a regular occurrence. In early April, Mike Waltz, then the national-security adviser, walked into the Oval Office to find Loomer sitting across from the President, in the midst of a presentation that questioned the allegiances of a number of members of his National Security Council. After the meeting, Trump hugged Loomer, then promptly fired six members of the N.S.C. He also fired General Timothy Haugh, the head of the National Security Agency and of U.S. Cyber Command. According to Loomer, Haugh, a thirty-three-year veteran of the Air Force, was close with General Mark Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, whom Trump had appointed and then clashed with during his first term. Wendy Noble, Haugh’s deputy, was also fired; she was apparently connected to another Trump critic, James Clapper, Barack Obama’s director of National Intelligence.

Loomer wanted Waltz gone, too—he had been tagged as a neocon who, in her estimation, was contravening Trump’s desires. She was also concerned about his judgment: his deputy, Alex Wong, was married to a career prosecutor who had worked at the Department of Justice during the Biden Administration. A few weeks later, they both departed. Loomer posted, “SCALP.”

:{:{According to three people with direct knowledge of Waltz’s ouster, Loomer had nothing to do with it. “It wasn’t working out with him,” someone with close ties to the White House told me. “She ends up getting the credit for it because she’s the one out there talking.” (Weeks before, Waltz had inadvertently added Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of The Atlantic, to a Signal chat in which members of the Administration were discussing plans to bomb Yemen.) Still, White House officials—and operatives across Washington—have no choice but to deal with her.}:

“I was on an hour-long Zoom call, which probably cost, when you think of how much everyone was getting paid, at least fifty thousand dollars, to talk about what to do about Loomer,” a consultant who works with the Administration told me. Her screeds are routinely cited in major newspapers and footnoted in lawsuits; her targets range from low-level government employees to the Pope. Recently, Loomer posted that an official at Customs and Border Protection was “Anti-Trump, pro-Open Borders, and Pro-DEI.” Three days later: “Now he’s FIRED.” She described Lisa Monaco, Microsoft’s new head of global affairs—and Joe Biden’s Deputy Attorney General—as a “rabid Trump hater,” and demanded that the company’s government contracts, which total billions of dollars, be revoked. “Wait till President Trump sees this,” she wrote. Not long afterward, Trump called for Monaco to be fired. Loomer picked up the baton, tagging Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s C.E.O. “Are you going to comply? Or continue to be two-faced?” she wrote. “How dare you.”}:

A baseball cap on a bookshelf

There’s a term to describe the now startlingly porous barrier between the internet and the government: “posters in control.”

Framed photographs on a mantel

Loomer got her start making sting videos that involved the “ritual public humiliation” of politicians and celebrities. The Clintons were a favored target.

:{:{Loomer’s influence extends beyond the realm of personnel. In August, a group of Palestinian children who had been severely injured in the war in Gaza arrived in San Francisco after the State Department issued around two hundred temporary visas for medical treatment. Loomer posted a video of the children being received with flowers at the airport. “Why are any Islamic invaders coming into the US under the Trump admin?” she wrote. “Who signed off on these visas? They should be fired.” She tagged Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, who was with Trump on Air Force One, having just met with Vladimir Putin in Alaska to try to broker an end to the war in Ukraine.}:

“Look, President Trump has said he wants to crack down on Islamic terror, that he wants to crack down on Hamas,” Loomer told me. “I’ll tag whoever’s in charge of the agency, the offending agency, and I’ll say, ‘Are you going to be prepared to tell President Trump how this is in compliance with his agenda?’ ” She and Rubio spoke that evening. “He took a hands-on approach,” Loomer told me. The next day, the Administration suspended all visitor visas for anyone from Gaza. Republican lawmakers celebrated online. “I’m not saying Rubio is trying to run a fast one on Trump, but obviously there’s a lot of people at the State Department who shouldn’t be working there,” she said. “Bad actors.”}:

During Trump’s first term, his agenda was frequently stymied by what maga acolytes consider disloyal political appointees and deep-state bureaucrats. “Trump One was a disappointment in a lot of ways,” a strategist with close ties to the Administration told me. “People got let in that were not aligned. Everybody is super psycho afraid of being screwed over again.” This time, rooting out perceived internal enemies has become an obsession. Cabinet secretaries have required staff members to take random polygraph tests. A high-level Administration official told me that, during one of the interviews for her position, her interlocutor opened his mouth to reveal that he had a maga tattoo on the underside of his lower lip. “It’s over the top, but it’s the currency of the realm,” the high-level official said. As the strategist put it, “We’ve fought too hard to get here—that’s just the feeling that permeates everything.” At dinner one night, a lawyer with ties to the Administration told me, “We took power, but we’re in a cold war, and we may not win.”

Loomer thrives in this paranoid ambience. “I am screenshotting everyone’s posts and I’m going to deliver them in a package to President Trump so he sees who is truly with him and who isn’t,” she wrote recently. (Like Trump, she prints everything out.) Her vetting crusades have brought about a new Washington colloquialism. “Bro, I got Loomered,” a current Administration official said over drinks. David Sacks, Trump’s A.I. czar, mentioned on a podcast that A.I. critics ought to be “Loomered.” Trump himself has said, “If you’re Loomered, you’re in deep trouble. That’s the end of your career, in a sense.” Loomer describes her project as a constant purge. “Every day, I find a new one,” she told me. “It’s never going to end.”

Loomer was born in 1993 in Tucson, Arizona. Her father worked as a rheumatologist; her mother was a nurse. In her memoir, “Loomered: How I Became the Most Banned Woman in the World,” she says that she has worried about threats to the country since 9/11, when she was eight years old. In the aftermath of the attacks, she tried to see “the equal value in every person, regardless of skin color or faith,” but found that the inclusive premises she was taught in school rang false. (Muslims: “They don’t make it easy!” she wrote.)

:{:{Growing up, her household was generally conservative. Loomer has two brothers, one of whom suffers from schizophrenia, and when she was twelve her father enrolled her and the other brother in a private boarding school to keep them away from what could be a violent home environment. The school, on a ranch in the Arizona desert, was selective and remote. (Ronald Reagan and James Stewart sent their children there.) It had an internet curfew and almost no cell service. “Fear of being cut off from the world has stayed with me my whole life,” Loomer wrote. She moved across the country to attend Mount Holyoke College, a women’s liberal-arts school in Massachusetts.}:

It was not a good fit. “Militant Marxist lesbians who, as soon as they got wind of my politics, wanted my head on a pike,” she wrote. She transferred to Barry University, a Catholic college in Miami. It wasn’t much better: “An impossible nightmare of woke from which I barely escaped without having my life ruined and almost going to jail.” In her senior year, she vehemently protested an interfaith 9/11 memorial service that included Muslim prayers, which she found deeply offensive. “The administration feared that I was either mentally ill or that I was in need of an urgent spiritual intervention,” she wrote.}:

Loomer’s outburst garnered enough attention that, in 2014, she was invited to a yearly retreat hosted by the late conservative writer David Horowitz, whose organization centers on opposing “efforts of the radical left and its Islamist allies to destroy American values and disarm this country.” Candace Owens was among the other aspirational activists who got their start there. Horowitz also mentored Stephen Miller, now a deputy chief of staff in the White House, whom he met when Miller was a teen-ager in Santa Monica. (Later, under Horowitz’s supervision, Miller set up an “Islamo-fascism awareness week” at Duke.)

At the conference, which was held at the Breakers hotel, in Palm Beach, Loomer saw a presentation by James O’Keefe, the founder of the undercover-sting outfit Project Veritas. “I loved his videos, especially the video where he dressed up like Osama bin Laden and crossed America’s southern border with Mexico to emphasize our lack of border security,” Loomer wrote. After the talk, she approached O’Keefe and told him that she would do anything to work at Project Veritas. She was so persistent that he was initially a little disturbed, thinking she was a mole who’d infiltrated the conference. “She appears to be functionally immune to fear, to shame, and to embarrassment,” O’Keefe later wrote.

A month later, he summoned her to New York for a trial run. It was winter, and Loomer had bronchitis and no warm clothes. O’Keefe’s team gave her a script and a long-sleeved shirt fitted with a hidden camera. The target was Black Lives Matter activists—that summer, a Black man named Eric Garner had died after being put in a chokehold by an N.Y.P.D. officer, leading to protests around the city. Loomer managed to share a cab with Erica Garner, one of Eric’s daughters, and secretly recorded her talking about Al Sharpton, who was organizing demonstrations on behalf of the family.

“So, what, you think Al Sharpton is kind of, like, a crook, in a sense?” Loomer asks.

“He’s about this,” Erica replies, rubbing her fingers together.

“He’s about his money with you?”

“Yeah.”

:{:{The cover of the New York Post read “ALL ABOUT THE MONEY.” Loomer was hired. Soon she was baiting her own university by trying to start an “ISIS club”—Sympathetic Students in Support of the Islamic State—and recording her interactions with school administrators using her hidden camera. (The school was open to the idea, but tried to steer her away from putting Isis in the name.) After her “exposé” was published, she was expelled and banned from campus. But Project Veritas implemented versions of her “ISIS club” script at colleges around the country. Trump, who was a few months away from announcing his run for President, heard about the videos on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show and faxed a message to O’Keefe, asking him to come to Trump Tower.}:

Loomer was in Florida dealing with her expulsion and had to miss the meeting. “I certainly couldn’t have predicted how intertwined Donald J. Trump would later become in my life,” she wrote. Her father, meanwhile, was crestfallen that there would be no college graduation for him to attend. (He could not be reached for comment.) “This won’t matter,” she told him. “You’ll see. By the time I am twenty-eight, I will be in the Oval Office some way or another. I’m doing things my way.”}:

After college, Loomer moved to New York to keep working with Project Veritas, and began to carry out political stunts full time. She defined her remit as “the legalized, livestreamed torture and ritual public humiliation of hypocritical elitist politicians and celebrities.”

In the run-up to the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton became a favored target. Loomer started sneaking into her fund-raisers. “People think political royalty like the Clintons and the Trumps are untouchable and impossible to reach,” she wrote. “That’s where most people are wrong.” Her advice: act confident, use hair dye and glasses if you need to disguise your appearance, and go for the “ninja aesthetic.” Don’t worry about the Secret Service. At one event, Loomer, with her hidden camera, filmed Huma Abedin, a longtime Clinton aide, talking about Clinton’s commitment to admitting refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war. Two weeks before the election, Trump tweeted, “Wow, just came out on secret tape that Crooked Hillary wants to take in as many Syrians as possible. We cannot let this happen.” (Loomer has maintained that it was her video that “undeniably shaped the outcome of the Presidential election.”)

In 2017, Loomer confronted Clinton at a launch event for her book “What Happened,” Clinton’s election postmortem. Loomer was recovering from a nose job and was still meant to be wearing a cast on her face; she asked her plastic surgeon to take it off early, covered her bruises in layers of concealer, and headed to the Barnes & Noble in Union Square. At the book-signing table, she grilled Clinton on Benghazi, the “missing e-mails,” and a former staff member whose death has been the subject of various conspiracy theories. “You know what, I’m so sorry you believe things that are untrue,” Clinton responded, before Loomer was removed by security.

A woman applying makeup on the set of a livestream

Her show streams twice weekly, but she is online for something like twenty hours a day, posting torrents of accusations and invective.

The next year, during the midterms, Loomer, who identifies as a “proud Islamophobe,” travelled the country “investigating jihadi candidates.” After the election, she was banned from Twitter for posting that Ilhan Omar, the Democratic congresswoman from Minnesota, was “anti Jewish” and “pro Sharia,” which the site labelled as hate speech. Loomer was twenty-five. “I will never truly recover,” she wrote. Her life’s work had been “incinerated by gleeful vandals.” She went to dinner in Fort Lauderdale with Trump’s longtime adviser Roger Stone, who had become one of her mentors. He told her that she had to carry on. A few days after the dinner, while live-streaming, she handcuffed herself to the front door of Twitter’s New York headquarters, wearing a Star of David to convey, as she put it, “the fact that Jack Dorsey and Big Tech were behaving like Nazis with the same type of censorship tactics Hitler and the Gestapo utilized in 1930s Germany.” She threw the key to the handcuffs down a storm drain and yelled into a megaphone. (After several hours, police used a bolt cutter to free her.)

Other bans followed: Facebook, Instagram, PayPal, Venmo, GoFundMe. (She’d already been kicked off Lyft, Uber, and Uber Eats.) Loomer entered what she described as a “deep dark pit of depression and anxiety.” She asked a prominent maga lawyer to help her sue various tech platforms. “This was right after a woman had gone to YouTube and shot it up,” the lawyer told me. “Laura was, like, ‘I’m going to be like that woman!’ She was threatening to murder everyone, and then commit suicide. She was insane.” (Loomer told me that she would never “incite violence” and that she brought up the YouTube shooting to illustrate how deplatforming could cause someone to “snap.”) She felt like she was enduring a form of drug withdrawal. “Sometimes I worry that I will be alone forever as a result of being digitally erased in a world where all aspects of life seem to take place online,” she wrote.

Loomer soon figured out a way to get herself back into the conversation. One night in 2019, furious that she couldn’t post about “selfish open-borders Democrats,” she decided to pull another stunt. The next morning, she drove from Tucson to Napa Valley, hired several day laborers, and instructed them to set up a tent in the front yard of Nancy Pelosi’s vacation home. She used zip ties to hang up pictures of Americans who had allegedly been murdered by immigrants. (The presentation looked quite a lot like the mug shots of “illegals” that Trump subsequently displayed at his rallies, and then, earlier this year, on the White House lawn.) Infowars broadcast her stunt, which went viral. “There is no feeling more exhilarating than seeing your name trend as the number one topic in the world on a site you’re banned from,” Loomer wrote. “It makes you feel supernatural, like you’re coming back from the dead.” She claims that Trump saw and “loved” the video, and that he was inspired to replicate it on a larger scale by having ice deposit immigrant detainees in sanctuary cities. (This plan never came to fruition, though Republican governors later picked it up during the Biden Administration.) “That’s when I realized, Donald J. Trump wasn’t just my president, he was also a fan!” Loomer wrote.

Stone had identified Loomer as a “young person who would say and do these wild things,” a Trump official told me. “When Trump needed to build kind of an untraditional cadre outside of the establishment Party, we leaned on people like her.” In 2020, Karen Giorno, a former Trump adviser who ran his Florida operation through the 2016 primary, was tapped to put together a congressional campaign for Loomer. Giorno imposed some conditions: don’t lie about other candidates, and prioritize your mental health. (Loomer had been in therapy for what she described as “PTSD I have developed as a result of being silenced.”) Giorno bought her an English bulldog, which Loomer named Loomer.

Doug Dechert, a conservative writer and consultant, met Loomer at a restaurant in Palm Beach at the start of her campaign. “We agreed intensely on the issue of the Muslim invasion,” he told me. “I opened my Rolodex to her.” Loomer courted wealthy patrons, including Julie Fancelli, the heir to the Publix grocery-store fortune, who was a main financial backer of the Stop the Steal rally that preceded the January 6th Capitol riot. Caroline Wren, Trump’s former campaign-finance director, said, of Loomer, “The MAGA donors love her.”

Loomer lost the election. Two years later, she ran again. Trump declined to endorse her; he told Giorno that she was too controversial. Loomer picked fights with Trump-backed candidates in Florida and alienated several political operatives, some of whom went on to work in the White House. “Her ability to shoot at her own team gets tiresome,” the Trump official told me. She started to say that she planned to lead a hostile takeover of the G.O.P. When she lost the second race, she declared victory anyway, claiming voter fraud and election interference. (“YOU DO NOT CONCEDE WHEN THERE IS THEFT INVOLVED!”)

This was one of several issues on which she aligned with Trump. Loomer had felt a kinship with him since high school, when she watched him on Fox News. Back then, she relished that “he was one of the first people that had the courage to speak the truth about Barack Hussein Obama being a Muslim with a fake birth certificate.” Now she was convinced that their desires and struggles—the stolen elections, the deplatforming—were intertwined. “I see my fight as his fight,” she told me. “They did to Trump what they did to me. And they did it to me first.” In March, 2023, Trump invited Loomer to Mar-a-Lago. (She had just Loomered a book event for Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor who was emerging as a challenger to Trump in the upcoming Republican Presidential primary.) Trump had occasionally reposted her content on Truth Social, and she had screamed at him from rope lines to get his attention, but this was the first time that they met formally. “He’s my favorite person in the world,” Loomer told me.

I first encountered Loomer in real life in Iowa, in the snowy week leading up to the 2024 Presidential caucuses. I was at the restaurant in the Hotel Fort Des Moines when she stormed in to film DeSantis’s campaign spokeswoman, Christina Pushaw—“Are you excited to lose?”—who was eating dinner. People glanced over but mostly carried on with their meals. When DeSantis still looked like a viable alternative to Trump, Loomer was at work on projects such as accusing his wife of “exaggerating” her breast-cancer diagnosis to generate sympathy for his candidacy. “Even people who supported Trump were not being vindictive to DeSantis supporters, but she was, and that got her extra points with Trump,” the consultant who works with the Administration told me. “She was fanatically loyal.” She flew on Trump Force One from Florida to Iowa, and then followed the campaign to New Hampshire. After DeSantis dropped out, Trump called Loomer to thank her.

That fall, she accompanied Trump to Philadelphia for his debate with Kamala Harris, in which he claimed that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating their neighbors’ cats and dogs. In the previous weeks, Loomer had already been, as she put it to me, “holding people accountable” for the alleged pet-eating on her show, “Loomer Unleashed!,” which streams twice weekly on Rumble. When I talked to her after the debate, she was cagey about confirming whether she and Trump had spoken about the matter. “Whether or not we did, didn’t it work?” she asked. The Trump official told me, “There were moments where you could see ‘Laura could help with this.’ ”

Still, in the final months of Trump’s campaign, seemingly everyone in maga world, even those on the furthest fringes, acknowledged that Loomer felt like a liability. Reporters started to ask Trump whether he was going to distance himself from her. That autumn, when I saw him at a campaign event on one of his golf courses, outside Los Angeles, he said, “Laura has to say what she wants. She’s a free spirit.”

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Loomer keeps a panic button in her studio.

:{:{This June, I ran into her in Washington, D.C., at the Waldorf Astoria, the former Trump Hotel. Though she comes to D.C. on occasion, she mostly stays home, in Pensacola, Florida, with her live-in boyfriend and her four dogs. (Loomer, the gift from Giorno, is now six years old. When we spoke on the phone, I often heard Loomer saying “Loomer, stop that” or “Loomer, come here.”) As we said hello to each other on the hotel’s stairs, Jacob Helberg, an Under-Secretary of State, walked by. “Your stuff has been great,” he said. Since Trump took office, her “scalps” had been steadily accumulating. “I think that President Trump knows who’s been for him and who has been against him,” she told me. “I mean, I would hope, right? I think there’s some cases where maybe he isn’t as aware as one would think.”}:

Loomer is deeply aware. On the phone with me one afternoon, she offhandedly listed a number of people she was keeping on her radar. An Arizona politician whom Trump “half endorsed” had at one point donated to Chris Christie. Dusty Johnson, a Republican congressman from South Dakota, was only proposing legislation about the U.S. taking control of the Panama Canal, she said, because he wanted to paper over the fact that “he’s a strong ally of Liz Cheney.” They were all compromised, guilty by association. “Kevin McCarthy’s son worked with a venture capitalist who was holding fund-raisers for Ron DeSantis,” she went on. “From what I’ve seen, there really isn’t much vetting going on.”}:

Loomer sometimes casts her self-created role of “accountability enforcer” as no different from an investigative reporter informing the public. “I get demonized for it, which is kind of crazy,” she told me. “They don’t say Maggie Haberman is a national-security threat.” Recently, the editor of a conservative magazine asked me, “What is Laura Loomer?” He knew who she was. “But is she a journalist? A company? A grifter? Can you be all?”

Around D.C., analogies abound—she was everything from Trump’s Rasputin to the “MAGA Grand Inquisitor.” A prominent D.C. lobbyist called her a “one-person Washington Times”; no, said a nominee for a senior Administration post, she was a “one-person wrecking crew.” The nominee went on, “She’s part loyal bagman, part Roy Cohn figure,” referring to Trump’s ruthless New York lawyer. (“I’m just a professional woman who supports President Trump,” she told me. “And he’s a very hospitable person.”) Tucker Carlson told me that Loomer was “so poisonous, I don’t like to speak her name.” A former N.S.C. official compared her to Jiang Qing, a wife of Mao Zedong and his partner in enforcing the Cultural Revolution. “This histrionic, conspiratorial, and aggressive woman was the keeper of a list of those to be purged,” he said. “She used her power to rain hell on her enemies, while also carrying out her fair share of personal vendettas.” He went on, “She described herself as Mao’s dog—absolute subservient loyalty, and of course she bit when he wanted her to.”

Loomer thinks the most apt comparison is to Joseph McCarthy, a parallel she finds flattering. “I think people now realize he wasn’t as crazy as they thought he was,” she told me. “He’s one of the most underrated and underappreciated political figures in history. He was trying to warn us about the rot and the infestation in our government and within our educational institutions. People acted like he was un-American for simply trying to protect America. Everything he said turned out to be true.”

In September, at the Kirk memorial, Erika Kirk, Charlie’s widow, said that she had forgiven the man who killed her husband. The crowd stood to applaud her, many in tears. “I could never feel that,” Loomer told me. Kirk’s assassin, she added, “deserves a bullet to the head.” She preferred Trump’s line: “I hate my opponent.” Loomer told me that she had already been saying those words to herself before Trump took the stage. “I don’t believe in kumbaya,” she said. After Kirk was killed, Trump spoke with more frequency about “the enemy from within”; Loomer appreciated the renewed focus. “I have to say, I do want President Trump to be the ‘dictator’ the Left thinks he is, and I want the right to be as devoted to locking up and silencing our violent political enemies as they pretend we are,” she wrote. She was offering cash donations to anyone who gave her the names of pro-Palestine protesters, and began encouraging her followers to start Loomering people who’d made disparaging comments about Kirk, with the aim of getting them fired.

Whenever I pressed Loomer on how exactly she conducts her work, and what she can take credit for, the conversation veered into the woo-woo zone. “I’m manifesting my role,” she told me. “You have to manifest what you want. My hope is to continue using my large platform to develop policy, but I don’t want to say I’m actually developing policy.” It was late at night, and we were walking around outside the Turning Point headquarters after the memorial. Loomer kept looking back to make sure nobody was following us. Flowers and crosses had been laid on the ground in the parking lot. “I’m not saying that I’m an adviser, but I can manifest it,” she said. “Do you understand what I’m saying? I’m manifesting it.” I was reminded of an early conversation I had with the strategist who is close to the Trump Administration. “Influence is perceived power,” he told me. “That’s what it is with Laura. If people think you have power, then you do.”

Though Loomer’s stated mission is loyalty enforcement, many in D.C. chalk up instances of Loomering to other motives. She has long operated a tip line so that supporters can alert her to matters of interest; these days, she’s often provided with the information she uses by parties inside or close to the Administration who are advancing their own agendas. “I guess you could say that my tip line has come to serve as a form of therapy for Trump Administration officials who want to expose their colleagues who should not be in the positions that they’re in,” she told Politico.

The strategist close to the Administration described Loomer as a “tool of people who have factional intentions.” At the State Department, for example, there is a “very zealous maga crowd who don’t like Rubio’s people. So they use Laura Loomer to say, ‘Those guys aren’t maga, these guys aren’t America First. They’re coming from Swampland.’ ” The consultant who works with the Administration told me that, whenever Loomer launches a new campaign against someone, there’s an “immediate witch hunt” at the White House “to see who told her to post.” Loomer told me that her targets sometimes call her to defend themselves, or go to Trump to ask if he can get her to stop. She is largely despised by people who work in the West Wing, aside from the President. “She has this itchy trigger finger,” the strategist said. “Sometimes she pulls the trigger and you’re, like, Oh, look, So-and-So is dead now. Isn’t that nice?” He went on, “But sometimes it’s, like, That is friendly fire, Laura, that is friendly fire. What are you doing?”

Loyalty enforcement can also provide cover to obscure something else. One afternoon in March, Loomer posted about Adam Schleifer, an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles. “Fire him,” she wrote. “He supported the impeachment of President Trump and said he wanted to repeal Trump’s tax plan. We need to purge the US Attorney’s office of all leftist Trump haters.” About an hour after Loomer’s post, the Presidential Personnel Office e-mailed Schleifer to say that he had been terminated. It’s very unusual for the White House to directly fire a career prosecutor. Schleifer happened to be at work on a case against a Trump donor, Andrew Wiederhorn, a food-industry executive who was indicted for fraud last spring. (Wiederhorn pleaded not guilty.) Wiederhorn’s lawyers had been urging the Justice Department to remove Schleifer from the case; a new attorney handpicked by Trump soon dropped it entirely.

David Feith, one of the N.S.C. officials Loomer was credited with removing, was on her target list because his father, Douglas Feith, had served in the George W. Bush Administration. Feith’s removal, however, appeared to be about more than familial association. The N.S.C. had been split over whether to end a Biden-era restriction on the sale of A.I. chips to the United Arab Emirates. Feith wanted to keep export controls in place, on national-security grounds. A faction within the Administration wanted to remove them, as did the U.A.E. and Nvidia. “Loomer did hit jobs on people who were inconvenient to very powerful interests, inside and outside the Administration,” the former N.S.C. official told me. The strategist said, “Laura isn’t just this wild attack dog. Those who know how to spot it can see where she’s being influenced.”

Loomer has told me that she would never “make the sacrifices” she’s made for Trump for someone else. Yet many people in Washington who are familiar with her work have started to wonder whether she is being compensated for what she portrays as a selfless mission. Earlier this fall, at a cocktail party convened around the National Conservatism Conference, I joined a group debating that question in a hotel basement. The pace of Loomer’s posts had been consistent, but some of her attacks were becoming impenetrable. When did the original Loomer transform into the Loomer who cared so much about, say, Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s acquisition of Juniper Networks? Someone pointed out that this wasn’t front-page news, or even news you’d follow at all if you weren’t a shareholder. Loomer’s Rumble show has included branded partnerships—she has, for example, posted ads to promote investing in gold, and has eaten dog food live on camera to plug a particularly high-end pet product. But the diatribes have generally been assumed to be her own, not sponsored content.

The consultant who works with the Administration, however, told me that some of his clients have hired Loomer to post. He took out his phone to show me a screenshot of a message exchange on Signal. “We’re already ginning up a Loomer tweet,” read one. (He covered the contact’s name with his hand.) “I honestly tell my clients not to,” the consultant said, of partnering with Loomer. “It works, like, one in a hundred times.” Still, he added, they see her “get a couple people fired, so they’re, like, If someone is doing something in the Administration that’s harmful to my interests, this will do it.” At minimum, he went on, “you scare them into changing their policies. They don’t want to be on the wrong side of Loomer.”

This summer, Vinay Prasad, a top scientist at the Food and Drug Administration, was working to place a regulatory hold on a muscular-dystrophy drug, owing to safety concerns. Soon after the hold went into effect, Loomer started criticizing him in a series of posts, writing that he had “infiltrated” the Administration as a “Marxist Trojan Horse.” Prasad resigned, under pressure, the following week. Sarepta Therapeutics, the drug’s manufacturer, stood to lose millions of dollars; to Loomer’s critics, the timing and intensity of her campaign against Prasad seemed like a form of lobbying. Ned Ryun, a conservative activist, summed up the sentiment on X: “The fact of the matter is you got funded by Sarepta Therapeutics to take Vinay out; probably thru a middle man for deniability but still pharma money funding it all.” (Loomer maintains that the timing of her tirade was a coincidence.) The current Administration official told me that “the consensus among political leadership was that this was a directed assault by corporate forces.” Prasad was reinstated less than two weeks later.

One night at Ned’s Club, a members-only lounge with views of the White House, Nigel Farage, the British politician who heads the populist Reform Party, was hosting a bash for the right-wing television channel GB News, which was opening a bureau in D.C. Several members of Trump’s Cabinet were there; Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, gave a toast. Loomer was at home in Florida, but longtime lobbyists and consultants were discussing her activities on two separate floors of the club. “It’s like this pay-to-play Tasmanian devil,” one veteran political operative told me. “You just feed her any sort of D.E.I. comment that some executive made over the last twelve years—then you just expect total anarchy and a wide blast zone.” On a lower floor, a prominent lobbyist said, “She doesn’t want to be seen as a hired gun because that would undermine her credibility with her base. She’s saying, ‘I just believe in the President and maga!’ But in certain instances, when she starts opining about public-policy issues, it raises questions.” He drew a comparison to his own work on the Hill: “I would call the Wall Street Journal editorial board, and then Larry Kudlow, who had a CNBC show, and tell them a few things to say. Laura’s doing her own version of Larry.”

The next morning, I met a popular Trump-connected lobbyist at his office downtown. He put chewing tobacco in his mouth, and some of it scattered down the front of his shirt as he described the stance on Venezuela he was pushing—that the U.S. should buy Venezuelan oil, which was currently sanctioned, because otherwise China would. Loomer had been posting about Venezuela, advocating for lifting sanctions on its oil sector and allowing American companies to operate there. “Hell, yeah, she’s getting paid!” the lobbyist said. “It’s just not a thing someone’s really passionate about—oil licenses in Venezuela. That’s not anyone’s natural position. It’s my position, and it’s the right position, but not because I just woke up one morning and was, like, ‘I’m going to get really involved in Venezuela.’ No, it was, like, ‘I have clients.’ ” Loomer sometimes corresponds with Harry Sargeant, a Florida oil magnate and a Trump ally who had several licenses to operate in Venezuela. When I asked her about the origins of a long and very technically detailed post she wrote just after the Administration revoked Sargeant’s licenses, among others, she told me, “I am actually very qualified, and I’m highly accomplished. These people constantly disparage me like I’m some kind of no-name floozy.”

The person with close ties to the White House said, “Do you really think Laura Loomer has an organic interest in the intricacies of Venezuelan oil leases? Give me a fucking break. Someone’s paying her to put out those tweets. Ditto with her interest in the Puerto Rican issue.” This summer, Loomer started weighing in on Puerto Rico’s bankruptcy crisis, calling on Trump to fire the island’s financial-oversight management board, which, among other things, oversees public-utility contracts. Trump dismissed the majority of the board members. Various companies and financial institutions promoted new ones who were friendlier to their interests. “She tweets about the most obscure things that only a lobbyist would care about,” the person with close ties to the White House said. “She’s a P.R. firm that the press likes to write about as if she’s the maga vanguard, like she’s there to police the movement. It’s horseshit.” The Trump-connected lobbyist told me, “Her whole shtick is purity, and so she believes getting paid is a dirty word—that it takes away her purity.”

I’d heard from several people that various middlemen were used to set up payments to Loomer, in some cases using a maneuver called the “Loomer two-step.” I called a D.C. operative to ask him about it. “What is that, a dance move?” he said, before speaking energetically about the practice for fifteen minutes. “I mean, I would assume, like, whatever major investment firm isn’t going to pay DC Draino directly,” he said, referencing a popular MAGA social-media account. “In the past, you would do a Fox banner, but now it’s moved toward this ecosystem of paying people who tweet about Trump all the time.”

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Loomer is convinced that her desires and struggles are intertwined with Trump’s. “I see my fight as his fight,” she says.

Of course, plenty of people are compensated for posts in Washington’s influence ecosystem. One afternoon not long ago, I met up with a source who had just taken out cash to pay a right-wing outlet to write an article. “DC Draino and Libs of TikTok take thousands of bucks per post for this stuff,” the strategist who works with the Administration told me. (Neither account responded to a request for comment.) The Trump-connected lobbyist said, “I literally just ran two campaigns with MAGA influencers—by paying them to tweet.”

It is an ascendant model. Although lobbyists are required to register with the government and disclose their funding, influencers operate in a gray zone. “If Laura is taking meetings on the Hill with members of Congress and asking them to change a policy position, that’s lobbying,” another Trump-connected lobbyist said. “But if Laura is posting something on her Twitter to her almost two million followers—just because the U.S. government sees it and then decides to change their position, it doesn’t mean that’s lobbying.”

This gray zone extends beyond Loomer, and beyond domestic politics. In September, as Israel’s increasingly unpopular war in Gaza ground on, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with a cohort of influencers on a visit to New York; his government has reportedly started paying accounts in the U.S. to post pro-Israel content. (A spokesperson for the Israeli government said no payments were made.) Last year, a federal indictment alleged that Russia funnelled almost ten million dollars to a number of pro-Trump influencers, including Benny Johnson and Tim Pool, to push Kremlin-backed messages. (The influencers claimed they hadn’t known the funders were linked to Russia.) Popular online activists can be useful tools. As the high-level Administration official told me, “People start out as zealots—then they realize everything is for sale, even zealotry.”

In this new paradigm, there’s a term to describe the startlingly porous barrier between the internet and the government: “posters in control.” “Really a huge amount of policy is being driven from my group chats,” the nominee for a senior Administration post told me. “If we have something that’s popular in right-wing Twitter, the White House is acting on it ninety-plus per cent of the time. I mean, it’s really kind of amazing. Say someone is writing a speech, and he’s this totally online guy who puts what he sees into the mouth of a senior official. All of a sudden that’s policy, and that’s the message that people are talking about.”

Loomer still presents her social-media posts as a public service supported by a ragtag group of fans and concerned citizens who send her small donations via the grassroots platform Buy Me a Coffee. In addition to the income from her Rumble show, which she says earns her around a hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year, she now takes on paid business at Loomered Strategies, where she does opposition research. (Tagline: “Information is a weapon. Time to get armed.”) She told me that the services she provides range from background checks to “matrimonial due diligence” to determining whether “a judge is corrupt.”

Her activism has never been completely independent. Early in her career, she sold her sting videos to Infowars and to the Gateway Pundit. She has been funded by Robert Shillman, the billionaire founder of Cognex Corporation, an industrial-automation company. (Shillman declined to comment for this article.) A former board member of the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, Shillman supports a variety of Zionist causes. “With this pen and my checkbook, I provide ammunition,” he has said.

Shillman paid for Loomer to attend Horowitz’s conference, and also underwrote the work she produced at Project Veritas. “They were ahead of the times,” Raheem Kassam, who runs the National Pulse (“Where ‘MAGA’ Goes To Know”) and also received funding for “anti-jihad” work from Shillman, told me. “It was proto-influencer culture.” Shillman has also reportedly financed the British anti-Islam influencer Tommy Robinson and the far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders. (Shillman was a major donor to Turning Point USA, though he recently withdrew funding when its conferences hosted guests, such as Tucker Carlson, who weren’t seen as reliably pro-Israel.) According to reporting in the Wall Street Journal, Yaacov Apelbaum, an Israeli American cyberintelligence analyst, has provided Loomer with some of the research behind her recent attacks. “I just say what I say,” she told me when I asked about these connections. “I’m not a puppet.”

In 2018, Shillman contemplated cutting Loomer off because she didn’t seem “trainable” enough. It’s true that her willingness to go scorched earth is unique, even among maga influencers. “I want to be friends with the people I influence and not have people hate me,” the consultant who works with the Administration said. “Using Loomer is vindictive—it’s seen as ‘I’m going to sic this psychotic, dishonest woman on you.’ It’s not honorable.” As the nominee for a senior Administration post put it, “She has power to the extent that she’s willing to transgress any normal boundary of human behavior.”

Still, the power she has is precarious. “She has no underlying coalition there to back her up if the President were to shift in his view of her value,” the former N.S.C. official said. “She’s one of those courtiers who are essentially useful megaphones, useful foils, and useful agents, but disposable.” It’s not clear what her future with Trump would be if the appearance of pure loyalty were stripped away. Trump doesn’t like when people seem to be making money off him. “If he hears, you know, she just put down a hundred eighty thousand dollars for a new Land Rover, that would make him bananas,” the veteran political operative said. “It’d be the kiss of death for her.”

Recently, I went to see Loomer in Florida. As I drove toward her house, stray dogs roamed in overgrown grass near a gas station that advertised “LOWEST CIGARETTE CARTON PRICES.” Her boyfriend met me at the door, collecting a few Amazon packages as he led me inside. The dogs barked from the kitchen. Loomer called out that she was almost ready. On my way over, I’d wondered for a moment if everything I had heard in Washington about her web of influence was somehow distorted. “The beauty of today’s world—you don’t need to be in the White House,” she said, emerging from the bedroom in TV makeup and a blazer. “I can break my stories from here with four dogs licking my face. I can call the President from here.”

She led me to a converted bedroom where she films her show. Studio lights illuminated her version of a contemporary podcasting backdrop: potted plants, signed MAGA hats arranged on a shelf, an alligator skull. On the wall hung framed photos of Loomer with Roger Stone, Alex Jones, Trump—and the Clintons, from times when she Loomered them. I joined her as she listened to a roundup of the day’s TV news clips about her, which her producer compiles each night. “Laura Loomer, the conspiracy theorist . . .” She petted Mecca, one of her dogs, whom she says she rescued from a meat market in China. Mecca was seated atop a desk, paws on a yellow pad. “Laura Loomer takes responsibility for the deportation . . .” Loomer keeps a panic button, which automatically dials 911, in the studio, and in every other room in the house. The police recently arrested a man who had threatened her online, accusing her, in part, of secretly working on behalf of Israel. “I’m not a foreign agent,” she repeatedly told me, unbidden, throughout the evening. “I don’t even think these other people believe what they post about—they just do it because they get paid. They’re all Larping, like, ‘We’re Hitler Youth now that it’s cool. Oh, we’re Nazis now.’ It’s just this performative circle of content and rage bait. I have actually had strong views for years.”

:{:{At sunset, Loomer drove us to a seafood restaurant for dinner. As we waited for a table, she started fighting with a State Department spokesman on X. It is difficult to hold her attention. Over oysters, when my questions were met with silence as she typed on her phone, her boyfriend said, “She can’t hear you—she’s locked in.” (He and Loomer met on a plane to Belize. “I liked the abrasiveness,” he told me. Loomer occasionally shows him drafts of her posts. “She’s about to eviscerate someone, and I’m, like, Maybe leave a body part for their family?” He paused. “She doesn’t listen.”) Loomer read us a draft of a tweet thread about Elaine Chao, Mitch McConnell’s wife, attending a party at the Qatari Embassy. “This one’s ready to go,” she told me. She texted Andy Ogles, a maga congressman from Tennessee, to see if he could come on her show the next day. He called her. “You can talk about why you want to denaturalize Mamdani,” she told him, referring to the next mayor of New York City, who was born in Uganda.}:

“Are you free?” She disappeared into her phone again, until a video by Benny Johnson popped up on her feed. The right-wing media sphere is often a sensitive subject. She talked without interruption for the rest of the meal. “I hate conservative commentary,” she said. Her peers were too performative, too pliable. She went on, “They don’t want me on the plane with Trump. The President has to be diplomatic and whatnot, but I’m exposing how our country is playing footsie with the most brutal Islamic regimes. Everything I do is in support of helping his Administration, even the things that might hurt to hear. My life is like an episode of ‘Survivor.’ I’ve been crawling through the mud by myself for years, eating berries.” (Last week, Loomer, who has been repeatedly denied access to the White House press room, got credentialled to cover the Pentagon—as did Kassam and Pool—after dozens of mainstream outlets refused to sign on to farcically strict reporting restrictions imposed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.)}:

Loomer suggested that we head back to her house to “start breaking stories.” She said that she could lend me comfortable pants and a sweater—“Twitter clothes.” In the car on the way home, as her boyfriend tried to tell me what he liked about her documentary on the “great replacement” theory, she scrolled through loud videos on her phone, then took a call from a Politico reporter. (“That guy always wants to call me,” she said. He asked her who her “next target” was. “Sean Duffy,” she told him, the Secretary of Transportation.) Back inside, her boyfriend let the dogs out of their crates and brought tea and Diet Cokes for us. We set up with her phone, laptop, and iPad on a couch in the den, surrounded by dog fencing. The Real Disaster Channel was playing in the background, on mute, showing videos of plane crashes, until the TV eventually kicked into a screen saver of a fish tank. Loomer had entered a seemingly meditative state, tapping away frantically. “I’m pushing out this thing about Mitch McConnell’s wife,” she said a few minutes later, as if responding to a question.

Eventually, I moved to an office chair at her desk—her real one, not the one in the studio—where her boyfriend had set down my cup of tea. I glanced absentmindedly at some stacks of paperwork she had left out, pausing on a contract with a consulting firm whose name I recognized. “What are you looking at?” Loomer asked, suddenly focussed. She bustled over to clear the area, sweeping things into a drawer, handing files to her boyfriend, until only an asthma device with a mask attachment remained. “See, this is what my life is,” she said, gesturing at the couch, which was covered in a blanket for the dogs. “This is all it is. I’m going to do this until four in the morning.” She picked up the asthma mask. “Do you ever notice I’m out of breath on my show?” she asked. She put the mask over her face, paused, stared straight ahead, and inhaled the vapor. ♦

Published in the print edition of the November 17, 2025, issue, with the headline “Under the Influence.”

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Laura Loomer pitches banning Muslims from running for office to members of Congress

Loomer also pressed representatives on her show about stripping Muslims of religious protections

Written by Reed McMaster

Published 11/07/25

Far-right influencer Laura Loomer has had an unusual amount of power over staffing and foreign policy decisions in the current Trump administration. Now, she is promoting anti-Muslim bills and pressuring congresspeople to strip Muslim people of their civil rights including the ability to hold office and religious protections.

Loomer has directly influenced the Trump administration's staffing and foreign policy decisions — now, she’s trying to do the same with Congress

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  1. ### As the NYC mayoral election approaches, right-wing media back GOP push to denaturalize and deport Zohran Mamdani

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  1. ### Laura Loomer: It was a “very grave mistake” when President Bush said “Islam is a religion of peace. We are not at war with Islam.”

10/24/25 1:56 PM EDT

  1. ### Right-wing media ramp up anti-Muslim attacks on Zohran Mamdani in the final days of the NYC mayoral election

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11/04/2025

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Kyle Mantyla

Plenty of conservatives, especially Jewish ones, abhor Fuentes’s growing clout. But by cheering on Donald Trump as he promoted conspiracy theories and systematically destroyed bulwarks against nativism and bigotry in the Republican Party, they helped make Fuentes’s rise possible.

BEN SHAPIRO DID SOMETHING UNIQUE on Monday. Not only did he open his show with a fiery intervention in the right’s roiling feud over white nationalist Nick Fuentes—he devoted his entire show to the topic.

White nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes went on a hateful and unhinged rant against Fox host Mark Levin this week, openly calling for his deportation for comments he made in support of Israel.

The far-right activist and former congressional candidate has repeatedly criticized defense officials on her website and social media accounts while boasting of her close ties to President Donald Trump.

Mike Johnson has a reflex. When asked about a major breaking news event that is dominating headlines and conversations around Capitol Hill’s proverbial water coolers — usually the president’s latest authoritarian endeavor or national humiliation — Johnson defaults to pretending he has no access to the internet, newspapers, or staff who are quite literally paid to keep him informed.

Back in the early 2000s, when we were outraged by the excesses of authoritarian dilettantes George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, a friend suggested I start a blog. I had been a lawyer, but was eager to change careers. Having studied the rise of the Christian right as a college student in the 1980s, I was now watching their aspirations unfold in real time. I wanted to investigate, expose, weigh in on all the things other people were missing. I was accustomed to writing fast. I was built to blog.

American public education, though historically rooted in Christian ideals, has long navigated tensions among denominational differences and, in modern times, secularism. The growing influence of Christian nationalism—a movement blending Protestant religious identity with political ideology—threatens this balance.

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Right-wing media ramp up anti-Muslim attacks on Zohran Mamdani in the final days of the NYC mayoral election

Conservative media have claimed Mamdani “doesn’t give a shit that we were attacked by Muslim terrorists on 9/11,” and would be “cheering” on the attacks if they happened while he was mayor

Written by Gideon Taaffe & Reed McMaster

Published 10/23/25 mma

With less than two weeks until the New York City mayoral election, right-wing media have been lobbing anti-Muslim attacks at New York State Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani, baselessly saying his ideology is not socialism but “radical jihadist sharia supremacism,” accusing him of not giving a “shit that we were attacked by Muslim terrorists on 9/11,” and saying he would be “cheering” on the attacks if they happened while he was mayor.

If elected, Mamdani would be the first Muslim mayor of New York City. He won the Democratic primary with an agenda promising a rent freeze, free buses, universal childcare, and other progressive policies. However, some in right-wing media have continued to focus on Mamdani’s religion and ethnicity as main lines of attack.

For months, right-wing media have lobbed anti-Muslim attacks against Mamdani, who could become New York City’s first Muslim mayor

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Laura Loomer: It was a “very grave mistake” when President Bush said “Islam is a religion of peace. We are not at war with Islam.”

10/24/25

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10/06/2025

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Kyle Mantyla

Last month, the White House issued two executive orders that direct federal law enforcement to start cracking down on the political opposition. One of the two memos prompted some confusion and mockery for its attempt to designate “antifa” a terrorist organization. But the second has gone largely unnoticed in the mainstream press.

Back in 2000, a Michigan entrepreneur named Ron DeHaas co-founded Covenant Eyes, an anti-porn internet accountability software program that has since grown to more than 2 million users. The idea, he said at the time, was to protect his teenage stepsons from sexual temptation online. Its effectiveness has been lauded by many, including Speaker of the House Rep. Mike Johnson. But this past Aug. 13, one of those stepsons was arrested at a meeting spot in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he thought he would find a 14-year-old girl interested in having sex with him.

After Charlie Kirk’s murder, Trump expanded his war on free speech, the left, and ordinary Americans. It’s going to get worse.

The White House aide equates opposition to Trump’s agenda with terrorism—and pushes for the use of state power to suppress it.

Douglas Wilson’s rising influence shows how the past is at the center of today’s culture wars.

The Supreme Court refused to hear the far-right commentator’s censorship case.

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  1. ### Dinesh D'Souza tells Laura Loomer that Candace Owens makes “wild allegations” through her “bogus investigations”

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...Laura Loomer: “I really do believe with all of my heart that majority of the left is like this, I do. I believe that the Democrat party is the party of murder.”She continued, “I really, truly believe that we have crossed that point where one side of the aisle has human decency and the other side of the aisle is completely far gone.” Rumble, *Loomer Unleashed*, [9/11/25]

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Far-right MAGA conspiracy theorist and self-described "proud Islamophobe" Laura Loomer was critical of Charlie Kirk near the end of his life. As Loomer saw it, the Turning Point USA founder wasn't pro-Donald Trump enough — even though Kirk was, in fact, an ardent Trump supporter.

In a July 13, 2025 post on X, formerly Twitter, Loomer wrote, "I don't ever want to hear @charliekirk11 claim he is pro-Trump ever again. After this weekend, I'd say he has revealed himself as political opportunist and I have had a front row seat to witness the mental gymnastics these last 10 years. Lately, Charlie has decided to behave like a charlatan, claiming to be pro-Trump one day while he stabs Trump in the back the next."

But after his fatal shooting, Loomer called for the imprisonment of anyone who criticizes Kirk — a proposal that former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan is calling out as "fascism."

READ MORE:'Didn't work for you': CNN analyst confronts Trump's favorite pundit on political violence

In a September 13 post on X, Loomer wrote, "I have to say, I do want President Trump to be the 'dictator' the Left thinks he is, and I want the right to be as devoted to locking up and silencing our violent political enemies as they say we are. I've had enough of the Left only thinking we will defund them, prosecute them, lock them up and dismantle their power for generations to come. It just needs to happen."

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Hasan gave a forceful response to that post on September 17, tweeting, "If this isn't a call for open, violent, unadulterated fascism and authoritarianism, from a top adviser to the president, then what is it? Seriously, what the hell is it?"

Hasan isn't the only one on X who is sounding the alarm about Loomer calling for Trump to act like a "dictator."

Journalist Bastian Brauns posted, "It's already well past 10 after 12. 'I do want President Trump to be the 'dictator' the Left thinks he is.' This is written by Laura Loomer, the woman who is allowed to personally whisper to Trump which 'traitors' he should fire from the government next."

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Iowa-based writer Raymond Baker tweeted, "You know @LauraLoomer has never studied history nor does she understand what drives men like Stalin, Putin, Kim Jong II, Pol Pot, or Donald Trump. Authoritarian dictators are cruel and once they assume power, they no longer want or need supporters like Loomer."

Activist William Richards wrote, "Laura Loomer wants Trump to be a dictator? She wants to lock up the Left because she believes they are all violent. Mirror politics & projection is what Laura is up to! It's easily demonstrated that the Right are the purveyors of violence in our Country, not the Left.

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On the killing of Charlie Kirk, political violence, and the right’s response

Written by Matt Gertz

Published 09/12/25

Charlie Kirk, a powerful right-wing activist, popular podcaster, and close friend and ally to President Donald Trump, was shot and killed while speaking at a college in Utah on Wednesday. Politicians of both parties and commentators across the spectrum, including myself, have responded with condemnations of the act as both the tragic murder of a young husband and father and an act of political violence that must be anathema if we hope to preserve our country as a liberal democracy.

Rational people on all sides of the political spectrum abhor political violence and want to ratchet down the temperature, but this requires an honest assessment of what is happening: There have been far too many cases of political violence in recent years, and the targets are not limited by party, ideology, or creed.

Yet within the right-wing media bubble, long before there was even a suspect in custody, commentators cited Kirk’s killing as proof the left is at war with them. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) on Thursday called out right-wing pundits who took Kirk’s death “as an opportunity to say we're at war so that they could get some of our conservative followers lathered up over this.” He added: “It seems like a cheap, disgusting, awful way to pretend like you're a leader of a conservative movement.”

Tillis cited two commentators in particular, but such rhetoric has been a staple throughout the right-wing media ecosystem since news broke that Kirk had been shot. It is what right-wing audiences are hearing right now — and what they have been hearing, to one extent or another, for quite some time.

“They are at war with us!” Fox News star Jesse Watters said on The Five, his network’s most-watched show, shortly after Kirk’s passing was announced.

“Whether we want to accept it or not, they are at war with us,” he continued. “And what are we gonna do about it? How much political violence are we going to tolerate? And that’s the question we’re just gonna have to ask ourselves.”

“THIS IS WAR,” posted Libs of TikTok. “Civil war,” was Andrew Tate’s take. “This is war,” commented Ian Miles Cheong. “This is a war, this is a war, this is a war,” Alex Jones said on his livestream. According to Steve Bannon, “We are at war in this country.” “We’re not supposed to say this,” posted Shaun Maguire. “But the truth is we’re at War.”

Many on the right were Kirk’s friends and are mourning his death. Some of them may fear for their own safety. But the narrative they have constructed relies on ignoring the recent spate of attacks targeting Democrats, the gruesome contemporaneous response to those attacks from some of the most influential voices on the right, and the chorus of Democratic officials who have condemned Kirk’s assassination.

There is no war, no righteous, violent struggle between a “left” and a “right.” A man was killed. His killer deserves to be brought to justice. Turning that into a “war” can only make the situation worse.

Terrorists have targeted political leaders of both parties

It is not true, as Eric Trump andDonald Trump Jr. both claimed in right-wing media interviews since Kirk’s slaying, that violence is “only going one way,” or, as right-wing radio host Dana Loesch put it on Watters’ prime-time show, that “it's not the right killing the left, it's the left killing the right.”

It seems both pointless and morally inappropriate to try to weigh attacks against one another to determine who has it “worse,” but it’s impossible to have a conversation if we can’t agree that political violence goes both ways.

The ideology of people who attack political figures doesn’t always map neatly onto a political party, in no small part because the assailant typically suffers from some form of mental illness. But Democrats have certainly been the targets of political violence in recent memory: In October 2022, a man broke into the home of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seeking to kidnap her, and brutally assaulted her husband, Paul. In June, an assassin allegedly murdered a Democratic state legislator and her husband and wounded a second and his wife in Minnesota. Last month’s lethal attackon the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by someone who authorities say “wanted to send a message against COVID-19 vaccines” should also be placed in this category.

It’s worth revisiting how right-wing media covered those domestic terror attacks, as it speaks to how its audience likely interprets them in an increasingly fragmented media landscape in which people can pick and choose news sources that confirm their biases.

After a man broke into the Pelosi residence and attacked Paul Pelosi with a hammer, MAGA influencers claimed based on effectively no evidence that the attacker, who turned out to be a deranged individual steeped in right-wing fever swamp conspiracy theories, had actually been let into the speaker’s house by her husband for the purposes of sex and subsequently attacked him as part of a lovers’ quarrel.

Donald Trump Jr. posted a photo of a pair of briefs and a hammer on a bed with the caption: “Got my Paul Pelosi Halloween costume ready.”

For months afterwards, Fox hosts including Watters alluded to such wild claims on their nationally broadcast programs, undeterred by body camera footage from the scene of the attack or basic human dignity.

Prominent MAGA social media influencers likewise responded to the Minnesota shootings by spinning up a false profile of the killer — in reality a Trump supporter who railed against abortion and the LGBTQ community — as a far-left supporter of Gov. Tim Walz. Laura Loomer and Mike Cernovich even suggested Walz might have orchestrated the attacks as political hits.

Fox’s right-wing propagandists, meanwhile, all but buried that story. There were no soul-searching reflections about political violence targeting the left on the programs of Watters, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, or Greg Gutfeld — instead, discussion on those shows the week after the attacks was limited to correspondent reports and headline reads. The week after the CDC shooting, those programs didn’t cover it at all.

Looking further back, the leading lights of the right-wing media aggressively sought to minimize and sanitize the Trump mob’s assault on the U.S. Capitol in 2021, and they alternatively blamed “incivility” from the left for a Trumpist sending mail bombs to a host of left-wing and Democratic targets and suggested those attacks were a “false flag.” And that’s to say nothing of other attacks apparently fueled by right-wing extremism that targeted Jewish, Latino, and Black Americans in Charleston, South Carolina; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Buffalo, New York; and El Paso, Texas.

If you downplay right-wing violence against left-wing targets, it’s much easier to convince your viewers that the violence is all going in the other direction.

While the repeated declarations that they are at “war” with a murderous left are obviously corrosive, there have not been widespread direct calls for retaliatory violence from prominent right-wing media figures. But many are urging President Donald Trump, his administration, and congressional Republicans to respond with widespread political repression of the left and the Democratic Party.

“We can honor him [Kirk] and honor his memory and make it a living thing that we use this to take down the apparatus that's well-funded that is at the core of this anti-Americanism,” Steve Bannon said on his streaming show Friday. “It has to be a all-of-government approach. ... Let's go kick down some doors and perp walk some folks today.”

Laura Loomer, a conspiracy theorist and streamer who has Trump’s ear and regularly gets federal officials fired for insufficient demonstrated fealty to the president, declared Wednesday, “It’s time for the Trump administration to shut down, defund, & prosecute every single Leftist organization.” She later added: “All of the Leftist groups that pay for these radical protests need to be prosecuted. … More people will be murdered if the Left isn’t crushed with the power of the state.”

MAGA influencer Mike Cernovich demanded “congressional hearings now” on Wednesday, which he said should include “every billionaire funding far left wing extremism,” naming George Soros, Bill Gates, and Reid Hoffman. He also called for “massive RICO investigations now” to scrutinize “every dollar” and tagged Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel.

Former GOP Senate candidate Blake Masters echoed Cernovich, adding, “Either we destroy the NGO/donor patronage network that enables and foments” violence, “or it will destroy us.”

Sean Davis, co-founder of The Federalist, posted Wednesday that “the Democrat party is a domestic terrorist organization” and “terrorist Democrats will not stop. … And until they are stopped—until every single nutjob inciting this madness and cheering it on is held accountable and removed from civil society—it will not stop.” His outlet published a piece which declared that Democrats “need to be treated like the domestic terrorists they are.”

“The last time the radical Left orchestrated a wave of violence and terror, J. Edgar Hoover shut it all down within a few years,” Manhattan Institute senior fellow Christopher Rufo said. “It is time, within the confines of the law, to infiltrate, disrupt, arrest, and incarcerate all of those who are responsible for this chaos.”

YouTuber Benny Johnson claimed that “the modern Democrat party is a terrorist organization” and that the left-wing movement must be “ripped root and stem from our American republic and thrown into the fire where it belongs.”

Some are even suggesting that because the threat to the right is so clear, if Republican leaders don’t respond with such steps, the result will be some on the right taking matters into their own hands.

Davis posted on Thursday that if congressional Republicans don’t take “proper action” to protect “a population being hunted for sport,” then the result would be “improper reaction,” which he described as “a response that cannot be contained once it is out.”

Likewise, Cernovich wrote: “I’m choosing my words mindfully, don’t twist them. This is a prediction, not a preference. If Congressional GOP and Trump don’t act swiftly and ferociously, there will be retaliatory actions due to lawful means not being used. This is always what happens. RICO these fucks now!”

Trump appears to be responding to these demands for political retribution.

It is impossible to have a rational conversation about topics like lowering the political temperature and pushing back against the spread of political violence when the president of the United States is interested in those issues only as a cudgel against his political opponents.

On Wednesday evening, the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal urged Trump, himself the victim of two assassination attempts, to take advantage of “an opportunity for leadership” by seeking to lower the tenor of political rhetoric.

Any other president would not need to hear such advice — but Trump’s previous responses to attacks on Democratic targets demonstrate his lack of interest in bringing the country together. He mocked the brutal assault against Pelosi, said following the Minnesota shooting that it would be a “waste of time” to call Gov. Tim Walz because he is “so whacked out,” and completely ignored the CDC attack.

In an Oval Office address a few hours after Kirk was killed, Trump characteristically ignored the Journal’s counsel. He offered a testament to Kirk’s life and promised that the shooter, who at that point had not been publicly identified or taken into custody, would be brought to justice.

But he also attributed blame far beyond the person who took Kirk’s life, saying that the “rhetoric” of “the radical left” was “directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country today.” He went on to promise that his administration would go after the individuals and organizations he said “contributed to this atrocity and to other political violence,” adding that “radical-left political violence has hurt too many innocent people and taken too many lives.”

Trump did not name the targets of the action he promised to carry out. But a “straightforward reading of his rhetoric,” as The Atlantic’s Jonathan Chait noted, is that “the president of the United States is treating the political opposition as accessories to murder and threatening to use the full power of the government to attack it.”

On Friday, Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt pointed to “radicals” on both the right and left and asked the president, “How do we fix this country? How do we come back together?”

Trump’s response made clear that he is uninterested in doing so. He excused “radicals on the right” as people who “don’t want to see crime,” saying, “They don't want these people coming in, we don't want you burning our shopping centers, we don’t want you shooting our people in the middle of the street.”

“The radicals on the left are the problem, and they are vicious and they are horrible and they are politically savvy,” he added, before running through a litany of grievances with his critics.

That message is echoing across MAGA media, a powerful information apparatus with a rare and unmediated grasp on its audience. It will fuel more vitriol, making it harder, not easier, to have honest conversations and reduce the threat of political violence in this country.

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Trump ally Laura Loomer on Palestinian children seeking medical care in US: “You think these kids are so innocent?”

09/03/25

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  1. Laura Loomer wants ICE to livestream arrests for entertainment: “Make it exciting and show ICE agents tackling Juan and Jesus”

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August 21, 2025, edition of Loomer Unleashed streamed on Rumble

LAURA LOOMER (HOST): We need to promote nationalism in our country and restore love for country. And what better way to do that than to have some kind of programming, right? You could make it a product of Voice of America if they haven't already shut down Voice of America. I mean, if you're going to have taxpayer funded propaganda, you might as well do it right. If we're going to have something like a Voice for America department or paid for programming where you have to see Kristi Noem's face on television every, you know, five seconds when you're at the airport, why don't they actually make it exciting and show ICE agents tackling Juan and Jesus?

I mean, just the other day, they said an illegal alien ran into traffic. I don't know about you, but I want to watch that on video. I want to have a livestream of that. I don't want to just read about it in the news. Illegal alien darts into traffic and gets hit by a car running away from ICE officers. Like, wouldn't it be a lot more exciting if we could actually livestream this content? Not to sound gruesome or anything, but I think that more Americans would understand the threat of illegal immigration if we were to start livestreaming this stuff.

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//Far-right author Ann Coulter drew plenty of criticism when she vigorously defended Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisconsin) in her 2003 book "Treason: Liberal Treachery From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism." McCarthy, Coulter argued, wasn't a charlatan or an extremist, but rather, a deeply concerned American who realized how great a threat communism posed during the 1950s.

Coulter's critics wondered if she was praising McCarthy as a way of trolling liberals and progressives. Now, 22 years later, McCarthy has another defender who is even to the right of Coulter and is also known for trolling her political opponents: conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer.

In an interview with The Atlantic's Michael Scherer published on August 21, Loomer declared, "Joseph McCarthy was right. We need to make McCarthy great again."

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Scherer warns that Loomer is acting in a McCarthy-like fashion during Donald Trump's second presidency.

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"Quite often, Trump doesn't just listen to Loomer — he does what she wants," Scherer warns. "In just the first seven months of Trump's second presidency, she successfully lobbied Trump to end Secret Service protection for Joe Biden's children. She has pushed the president to fire six members of his National Security Council, remove three leaders at the National Security Agency, end an academic appointment at West Point, fire the director of the National Vetting Center at the Department of Homeland Security, dispatch an assistant U.S. attorney in California, and remove a federal prosecutor in Manhattan."

Scherer continues, "After Trump's intel chief stripped 37 current and former national-security officials of their security clearance Wednesday, she claimed credit for first labeling 29 of them as threats to Trump."

According to Scherer, "top Trump advisers" are "unable to cast her away" and "regularly work with" Loomer "behind the scenes." And Loomer, Scherer notes, often attacks fellow Republicans she considers insufficiently MAGA — even far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia).

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Loomer told Scherer, "I would rather be feared than loved,” Loomer added. “I don’t need to be loved by people who work in Washington, D.C."

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*Michael Scherer's full article on Laura Loomer for The Atlantic is available at this link.

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the first thing Laura Loomer wanted to know when I called her earlier this month was whether this was going to be a “hit piece.” The self-described investigative journalist and unofficial adviser to President Donald Trump is familiar with the genre. She had just attacked the United States Army for praising a recipient of the Medal of Honor. She would soon claim without evidence that Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene—another person comfortable trafficking in unsubstantiated allegations—“gave blow jobs in the back rooms of CrossFit gyms.” Soon after that, she said that Palestinian children receiving medical care in the United States posed a “dangerous” threat to American national security.

You never know just how far she will go, but that’s the game she plays. I suggested at one point that her effort to get federal employees fired for supposed disloyalty to Trump recalled the Red Scare of the early 1950s, when Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin exploited the private musings and personal associations of alleged communist sympathizers to end their careers. She loved that.

“Joseph McCarthy was right,” Loomer responded without missing a beat. “We need to make McCarthy great again.”

She had toiled for a decade on the dark edges of relevance, pulling public pranks and getting chased off financial and social-media platforms for hate-speech violations. She was arrested after storming the stage at New York City’s Shakespeare in the Park to protest a Trump-inspired Julius Caesar and kicked off Uber and Lyft for saying that she did not want Muslim drivers. She also lost two bids for GOP congressional nominations in Florida, symbolically refusing to concede the second because of the “voter fraud” she says was caused by her inability to communicate on social media. She found out at the end of last year that she would not get the White House job she thought she was promised, and lost her ability to make money on X after violating the platform’s doxxing policies.

Yet, here we are. Loomer, the proud, defiant, extremist troll, is one of the most influential public figures in what is still the most important country on the planet—“back from the dead and rose from the ashes,” she told me. How did this come to pass? “I am a genuine person, and I speak my mind. I am not fake,” she offered. “It’s a story of persistence. As I like to say, persistence will beat the resistance.”

Another explanation has to do with her champion and enabler, the most powerful person in the country, who has stuck with her despite the warnings, sneers, and eye rolls of his own senior advisers. “I know she’s known as a radical right, but I think Laura Loomer is a very nice person,” Trump told reporters this month. His early mentor Roy Cohn had previously been an unapologetic adviser to McCarthy during his red-baiting Congressional hearings. Trump’s subsequent political adviser, Roger Stone, a friend and admirer of Cohn, has been a mentor to Loomer.

Whatever the reason, her private research and public X posts have destroyed careers, shaped news cycles, and moved financial markets. Quite often, Trump doesn’t just listen to Loomer—he does what she wants.

In just the first seven months of Trump’s second presidency, she successfully lobbied Trump to end Secret Service protection for Joe Biden’s children. She has pushed the president to fire six members of his National Security Council, remove three leaders at the National Security Agency, end an academic appointment at West Point, fire the director of the National Vetting Center at the Department of Homeland Security, dispatch an assistant U.S. attorney in California, and remove a federal prosecutor in Manhattan. After Trump’s intel chief stripped 37 current and former national-security officials of their security clearance Wednesday, she claimed credit for first labeling 29 of them as threats to Trump.

Every day was another opportunity to grab headlines, to protect the president, to expose another potential saboteur. This phone call, included.

“Why do we want to have a woman who is pregnant, who is going to have to take maternity leave as soon as she is confirmed?” Loomer asked me. “You should make a decision: Do you want to have a career, or do you want a family?”

She was referring to Casey Means, a Stanford-trained doctor turned wellness influencer Trump nominated to be surgeon general. Loomer believes that Means is part of an extortionist, Marxist vanguard—led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—that will ultimately sabotage the Trump administration and the Republican Party. In her rapid-fire staccato—always urgent, indignant, agrieved—Loomer rattled off facts that she had uncovered about Means’s metabolic-health company and her husband’s past sympathies for Black Lives Matter. (Means did not respond to a request for comment.)

I stopped Loomer and asked her to go back: Did she really believe that pregnant women should not have careers? “You can have a family, and you can have a career,” Loomer responded, beginning what sounded like a pivot toward acknowledging that Congress outlawed employment discrimination based on motherhood back in 1978.

But that was not her point. “If you are going to be working in the federal government, don’t you think it is a little abusive if you have a job where you can’t bring your baby every day?” she asked me. “Are my tax dollars supposed to go to her because she doesn’t use a condom? Is there not a man who is qualified?”

Read: Casey Means and the MAHA takeover

Not so long ago, people who spoke like Loomer were ostracized from political parties and mainstream conversations, cast as the fringe. Provocateurs once needed to find publishers to produce their pamphlets. Activists begged access from White House staff to get on the president’s schedule. Opposition researchers depended on journalists to launder their work. And those who called themselves journalists operated by codes: no undisclosed financial arrangements with political actors, no explicit political advocacy, and extensive editing and legal vetting to assure accuracy. The system minimized a certain type of toxicity, while giving those who already had power—the owners of media outlets, the leaders of government and industry—a gatekeeping role.

The 32-year-old Loomer belongs to a new era, when any thought can be instantly published everywhere and the president is easy to reach on his cellphone. Despite the loss of her accounts on Facebook and Instagram, she has a growing audience of 1.7 million followers on her fully reinstated X account (up by about 30 percent since last year), a sponsored podcast on Rumble, and—she claims—an expanding roster of private clients, including major political donors, whose names she declines to disclose.

Top Trump advisers, unable to cast her away, regularly work with her behind the scenes. In addition to having calls and meetings with the president, Loomer speaks regularly with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Director of the White House Office of Presidential Personnel Sergio Gor, according to people familiar with the relationships. Loomer praises Wiles for being open to her work and has called Gor a friend. But she speaks of the White House overall as a self-dealing den of duplicity, where staff regularly conspire against the president she adores.

“Everyone is positioning themselves for a post-Trump GOP,” she told me, adding that Trump is often surprised by what she tells him about his own administration. “Every time I have these briefings, he looks at his staff and says, ‘How come you didn’t tell me this?’”

It is a high-stakes game that threatens to broaden distrust within Trump’s senior ranks. If isolated, once-anodyne facts from the past can sink careers; nearly anyone is suddenly vulnerable to exposure, setting Loomer up as a tip line for administration officials to inform on their office rivals, while potentially providing other powerful interests a lever to disappear their adversaries. “There are people who message me all the time,” Loomer boasted to me. “In every agency, I have sources.”

Read: “I run the country and the world.”

Last week, she got ahold of a video showing happy Palestinian refugees arriving in the San Francisco airport, owing to efforts by Heal Palestine, a group that provides treatment in the United States to children wounded in Gaza. The group says that the children and their families arrived on temporary visas and will return to the Middle East after treatment. She called the spectacle an “Islamic invasion” and asked the Trump administration to shut it down. A day later, the State Department announced a stop to “all visitor visas for individuals from Gaza” to review the situation. “It’s amazing how fast we can get results from the Trump administration,” Loomer posted on X.

Not all of her efforts succeed. I asked her about her unsuccessful attempt to stop Trump’s appointment of Colonel Earl G. Matthews as general counsel of the Department of Defense, making him one of the highest-ranking African Americans in the building. She had attacked Matthews for his past praise of former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, a Biden appointee, and his work with former Trump advisers turned foes such as former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley and National Security Adviser John Bolton. But she did not bring up those points with me. “He sounds like he is speaking Ebonics anytime he speaks,” she said. “I don’t take anything he says seriously.” (Matthews, in fact,soundslike a [vid] U.S. Army colonel when he speaks. He did not respond to a request for comment.)

“I would rather be feared than loved,” Loomer added. “I don’t need to be loved by people who work in Washington, D.C.”

Earlier this summer, Loomer told The New York Times that she had five paying clients for her research-consulting firm, an unusual side business for someone who describes themselves as a journalist. Now she says she has more, but she will not give a number. “It is not policy matters,” she told me, adding that some are corporate clients who want her to do “executive-level vetting.” “There are several billionaires I work with, and they have retained me to do their political vetting.”

The foggy boundaries between her activism, so-called journalism, and client work have created widespread concern that she is surreptitiously passing on information to promote the agendas of powerful interests.

After she began posting about the Puerto Rican bankruptcy authority, Trump fired its whole board, immediately improving the stock value of a major natural-gas company that was seeking a contract with the island. After she began attacking Republicans who wanted a clean break between Chevron and the Venezuelan government, Trump’s team granted the company new sanctions carve-outs. After she resurfaced old political comments by Vinay Prasad, a top official at the Food and Drug Administration, he resigned his post, saying through a spokesperson that he “did not want to be a distraction to the great work of the FDA.”

Like many of Loomer’s crusades, her attacks on Prasad focused on facts that would not have been disqualifying in the previous age when technocrats were hired for their abilities, not their ideological purity. She called Prasad, a hematologist-oncologist at the University of San Francisco, who had long been a critic of the FDA, a “trojan horse” and “saboteur” because he called himself a “Bernie Sanders liberal” in 2022 and wrote on Twitter in 2020 that he wanted Joe Biden to win—facts that did not trouble Kennedy, who was himself a Democrat until 2023. (Loomer accused Kennedy last week of preparing for a 2028 presidential bid, prompting him to announce that he was not running.)

Loomer’s crusade against Prasad came soon after he decided to limit access to a Sarepta Therapeutics drug, following evidence that it causes severe liver damage; this led MAGA influencers to allege that Loomer was secretly working for the pharmaceutical company. Sarepta, through a spokesperson, said that it has not “engaged with nor associated with Laura Loomer.” She told me the same, even offering “to sign an affidavit” saying so. But the wholly unsubstantiated claims still played a role in undermining Loomer’s case against Prasad; two senior Trump advisers told me that, although they had seen no proof of a connection, they believed the rumors. After he resigned, the White House invited Prasad to rejoin the administration, which he did about two weeks after leaving.

Loomer also denies taking money from Chevron or those with interests before the bankruptcy board of Puerto Rico. Although the obscurity of her targets raises suspicions, she said she has always taken on niche issues. She told me that she has been discussing legal action with her attorney against her public critics who accuse her of engaging in pay-to-play, a path that some of her critics have welcomed because of the prospect of uncovering her financial arrangements during discovery.

Those who have known her for years speak of her zeal and commitment as the purest form of MAGA. “It may shock a lot of folks in politics, but some of us are actually involved for reasons other than power, money, and fame,” Ted Goodman, a MAGA-aligned political operative who works for former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, told me. “She can’t be bought and isn’t swayed by monetary gain.”

Brian Ballard, one of the most influential Trump-aligned lobbyists in Washington, told me that he has not worked with Loomer, but he had nothing but praise. “I think she is incredibly effective, and I understand why people would want to hire her,” he said.

Trump and Loomer agree that a failure to sift through appointees’ pasts in the first term undermined the president’s ambitions. “If there would have actually been proper vetting systems set up in the first Trump administration, the Russian-collusion hoax never would have happened, the first impeachment never would have happened, the second impeachment never would have happened,” she explained on a recent episode of her podcast. Trump seems to have taken this advice to heart. In his second go-round as president, his administration has taken several steps that appear designed to eliminate dissent or checks on his power.

The problem is that no one is clear on what constitutes a fireable offense. Trump’s top advisers, including Wiles, have been working intentionally, with Trump’s support, to expand the tent of Republican politics by embracing leaders such as Kennedy, a scion of the most famous Democratic family, and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, a former congresswoman who previously ran as a Democrat. Past liberal leanings, in this effort, are a benefit, not a liability. Trump has stocked his inner circle with people such as Vice President J. D. Vance, who once compared Trump to Adolf Hitler, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who once speculated mockingly about the size of Trump’s manhood.

Like Trump, Loomer says that Vance and Rubio earned forgiveness because they have made amends. But at other times, Loomer has found herself on the wrong side of Trump. Loomer defended Trump’s initial pick to lead NASA, Jared Isaacman, a friend of Elon Musk, even though Isaacman has given money to Democrats in the past. Others in the White House, including Gor, supported removing Isaacman amid Trump’s high-profile fallout with Musk, leading Trump to withdraw Isaacman’s name.

Read: The decline and fall of Elon Musk

Trump has ignored other Loomer recommendations, such as her demand to fire Attorney General Pam Bondi over her handling of Justice Department records on the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. (Loomer says Trump is not implicated in any of Epstein’s crimes, and she encouraged him to sue The Wall Street Journal after it wrote about a bawdy letter reportedly from Trump that was found among Epstein’s possessions.) The president remains a strong supporter of Kennedy, who endorsed Trump last year after the president agreed to adopt much of his health agenda. }:}:

(Their agreement was the result of “extortion” on the part of Kennedy, Loomer argues.) The White House leadership is counting on the Make America Healthy Again coalition to help Republicans in the midterm elections. Trump also called Loomer and dressed her down after she criticized his decision to allow the Air Force to accept a commercial plane from the Qatari government. “I want to apologize to President Trump more than anyone because I am a loyal person,” she later posted.}:

The most jarring Loomer crusades challenge the central assumptions of the national project. On August 8, the U.S. Army retold the heroic story of Captain Florent Groberg, a Medal of Honor winner who had tackled a suicide bomber 12 years earlier in Afghanistan, saving the lives of other Americans while sustaining serious injuries to his brain, leg, and, ear. Loomer pounced, denouncing the Army secretary for praising someone like Groberg, who was born in France and had given aspeech supporting the presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at the 2016 Democratic National Convention.

“Are we supposed to believe the Army couldn’t find a Republican and US born soldier?” she wrote on X. “They had to find an immigrant who voted for Hillary Clinton and spoke at the DNC as Obama’s guest?” The claim that foreign-born patriots are less worthy of praise than those who are native-born won Loomer articles in The Washington Post, the Daily Mail, and other publications, but no comment from the White House.

Among those who objected was Greene, the Trump-aligned representative from Georgia who has tangled with Loomer—and has directed her own opposition research. “Many people need to wake up about her reporting. Researching facts and then spinning them into lies to serve her agenda doesn’t make her good or trustworthy. It makes her a liar and it makes her dangerous,” Greene concluded in her own social-media post.

This, for Loomer, was an opportunity. She has no problem going after Republican targets. She has publicly accused Senator Lindsey Graham of being gay, which he denies, and called the podcaster Tucker Carlson a “fraud” and a “terrible person.” Loomer let loose on Greene, claiming without evidence that she committed obscene acts in CrossFit gyms. (She did link to a Daily Mail article that had suggested, based on anonymous sources, that the congresswoman had extramarital affairs with people she knew through her gym.)

“Can you call yourself a Christian when your mouth is full of other men’s cock?” read one Loomer zinger, a modern version of the archetypical prompt “When did you stop beating your wife?”

All of it generated headlines, attention, and reposts of her social-media accounts. In a world without gatekeepers, where the most powerful man in the country rewards such behavior, Loomer sees little downside. Out-of-bounds provocation drives attention. Attention increases influence. And the person who matters the most is almost certainly entertained.

“At the end of the day, it is called the Trump administration,” she told me on our phone call. “So the way I look at it, I play for an audience of one.”

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Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, said on Monday night that President Donald Trump is just getting warmed up when using federal agents and troops in Washington, D.C.

The far-right influencer, who has the ear of President Trump, called the Georgia lawmaker a “lying fake Christian whore.”

Being an antifeminist, it turns out, is no shield against abusive male power.

Donald Trump has faced an onslaught of criticism from opponents and Maga diehards alike, on issues such as Jeffrey Epstein, the war with Iran, and his steadfast alliance with Israel in the face of genocide. But among the ever dangerous far right, which has generally applauded Trump’s efforts to deport thousands of people a day, his actions of late have stirred rage among a group experts say has benefited greatly from his administration’s law-enforcement pivots.

Memes shared by the White House, DHS, and ICE have used catchy TikTok tunes to normalize mass deportation and Christian nationalist narratives. Experts say that’s the point.

What happens in politics is downstream of what happens in the church.

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08/11/2025

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Kyle Mantyla

Ten years after the Supreme Court extended marriage rights to same-sex couples nationwide, the justices this fall will consider for the first time whether to take up a case that explicitly asks them to overturn that decision.

Republicans raged against the conspiracy theorist after she targeted a former U.S. Army captain.

In June, Rep. Eric Burlison, a Missouri Republican serving on the House Oversight Committee, appeared on BlazeTV’s Prime Time with Alex Stein, where he discussed his belief that giants once existed. Burlison told Stein he was scheduled to be at “NephCon 2025,” a conference focused on fringe topics including the biblical Nephilim —figures in Genesis that some interpret as the giant offspring of angels and human women.

Daniel Boone, burial plots and no birthright citizen: Welcome to the MAGA world of “Heritage America.”

If crime rates in the nation’s capital are already at their lowest levels in decades, why is the White House launching yet another power grab?

MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk encouraged President Donald Trump to deploy tanks and Marines onto the streets of Washington, D.C.

Donald Trump has seized control of the Washington Metropolitan Police Department.

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07/31/2025

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Kyle Mantyla

The DOJ says there is nothing to its decision to drop a case against a Trump campaign contributor, but has it earned the benefit of the doubt?

The bizarre, powerful conspiracy theory has been declared ​m​oribund many times over. But rather than ​disappear, it ​went mainstream.

Growing anti-trans sentiment is leading to these more overt displays of transphobia.

Alexis Wilkins, the 26-year-old girlfriend of 45-year-old FBI director Kash Patel, was asked by Megyn Kelly on Wednesday about conspiracy theories that have accused her of being an “Israeli spy” and “honeypot.”

Texas Republicans just unveiled a shocking plan to give their party five new House seats.

Laura Loomer’s loyalty tests have coincided with at least 15 ousters so far.

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07/30/2025

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Bove has been accused of engaging in deception in order to carry out Trump’s agenda.

White supremacists are (once again) attempting to build a whites-only community, this time in Arkansas. Known as Return to the Land, this private membership association advertises itself as a community for “traditional views and European ancestry.” On Monday, Christian nationalists Joel Webbon and Wesley Todd interviewed the group’s co-founder, Eric Orwoll, and defended their plan.

Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters had an interesting response to being investigated for accidentally playing porn at work.

Far-right activist Laura Loomer keeps exercising enormous influence over Team Trump, successfully lobbying for firings across multiple agencies.

The administration still has FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino’s extreme social-media posting habit to rely on as a way to get the faithful back in line.

On this week’s “More To The Story,” religious scholar and TikTok star Dan McClellan examines how some Christian nationalists use—and often abuse—the Bible to gain political power.

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On July 28, a shooter opened fire in a Manhattan office building that houses the NFL headquarters, killing four individuals including New York Police Department officer and Muslim immigrant Didarul Islam. Laura Loomer, an extremist with close ties to the Trump administration, immediately began pushing anti-Muslim lies about the suspected shooter, later identified as a former high school football player from Las Vegas who reportedly had a note mentioning the NFL and claiming he had a degenerative brain disease linked to concussions.

Loomer initially claimed the shooter was “described by witnesses as a Middle Eastern man with an AR-15 rifle.” She also claimed the shooter supported the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, and the “Free Palestine movement.”

After the identity of the suspected shooter was released, Loomer doubled down on claims that he was a “Free Palestine” activist, writing, “So let me get this straight. A Free Palestine low IQ black jihadi killed a Muslim police officer in his rampage on a building in NYC with a Jewish CEO while he was screaming Free Palestine?”

Loomer then lashed out against the media for not pushing baseless claims about the shooter’s motives: “Now the media is running to cover up another act of Islamic terrorism by the FREE PALESTINE crowd.”

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There appears to be no evidence that the shooter is connected to protests about Palestinians, but the New York Post did report that a protester outside the building yelled, “Free Palestine, I’m not the shooter,” and was arrested. Witness testimony Loomer cited included a witness saying police arrested the man saying “free Palestine.” The suspected shooter reportedly took his life in the building.

Loomer used her claims to push an Islamophobic agenda, repeatedly calling for Mamdani, who has been visiting Uganda, to be refused reentry to the country. She framed Mamdani as an “Islamic immigrant invader” and attacked Muslim politicians broadly, writing, “We need to have a serious conversation about banning Islamic immigrants from running for office in America.” Loomer also repeated her Islamophobic attacks while attempting to tie them to the shooter, writing: “I don’t feel safe with Muslims holding office in America. Mamdani inspires cop killers and Islamic terrorists to wage war on the streets of America while screaming ‘Free Palestine,’” and “This is why I will never care about Gaza.”

This is not Loomer’s first time pushing baseless claims in the aftermath of a shooting. Following the shooting of two Democratic Minnesota lawmakers, Loomer claimed the shooter was an “ally” of Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz and suggested Walz may have known about the shooting ahead of time.

Loomer is a self-described “proud Islamophobe” with a long history of making bigoted remarks about Muslims. Infamously in 2017, rideshare apps Uber and Lyft banned Loomer after she made multiple bigoted complaints that they hire Muslim drivers. During the 2024 election, Loomer argued that a Kamala Harris win would create an “Islamic caliphate in this country.” She also said China detains Uyghurs, a mostly Muslim group, because the country recognizes “the threat of Islam.”

Loomer is an influential figure in the MAGA world. She has repeatedly boasted that she has influence over the administration and often claims Trump “hired” her four times but his staff “did not listen to him.” She regularly brings up her communications with Trump, even noting that she spoke with the president shortly after he signed the “Big Beautiful Bill” into law. In April, Trump fired six national security officials after a meeting with Loomer. She also took credit for the firing of Mike Waltz from the National Security Council in early May and boasted that Trump “took my advice” on Panama Canal policies during the 2024 election.

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One prominent far-right social media personality sometimes seen in President Donald Trump's orbit has carved out a niche for herself as the president's "loyalty enforcer," according to the New York Times. But one attorney representing administration officials who have been fired is publicly condemning her influence.

The Times reported Wednesday on the growing power MAGA activist Laura Loomer has over personnel decisions in the executive branch. Loomer has already gotten Trump to fire several officials who were deemed insufficiently loyal over past social media posts criticizing the president and his base. However, Kevin Carroll — a former CIA official and lawyer who has been retained as counsel by some of those former employees — said that Loomer's attempts to ferret out anyone who has ever spoken negatively about the president could have significant blowback.

"You have a person, from outside of the government of no national security experience and with extreme views, having de facto hire and fire authority over some of the most senior and important positions in the United States government," Carroll told the Times.

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"Eventually, when all of the qualified people are driven out and only the people acceptable to Laura Loomer remain, there could be an extremely bad result for the United States in some international crisis," he continued.

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Loomer has already claimed responsibility for driving out the top two officials at the National Security Agency (NSA) — former director Timothy Haugh (a four-star general), deputy director Wendy Noble and chief counsel April Falcon Doss — along with several others. This week, Dr. Vinay Prasad, who was the top vaccine official at the Food & Drug Administration, also resigned after Loomer discovered that he joked about using Trump as a voodoo doll in a 2020 podcast.

The Times reported that despite her devotion to Trump, Loomer wasn't given a job either in Trump's 2024 campaign or in the White House. But the social media personality indicated that she aimed to continue screening administration officials to ensure they were staunch Trump loyalists.

"I was raised to dress for the job you want, and even if you don’t have the job, pretend that you do,” Loomer said. “I want to do vetting, so I’m going to do the job I want.”

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Anyone wanting to understand the brouhaha over Pam Bondi’s refusal to turnover (or even acknowledge) the Epstein files need look no further than what the Supreme Court just did.

In McMahon v. New York the Supremes gave Trump a simple way to revoke federal spending authorized by Congress: just fire everyone responsible for implementing that spending.

The high court is allowing Trump and Education Secretary Linda McMahon to fire over half the people who work for the Department of Education until there’s a full hearing on the constitutionality of their action. But by then it will be too late to save much of the department.

Note that the Supreme Court made this astounding decision on its so-called “shadow docket” where it doesn’t even have to explain itself (the only record we have is Justice Sotomayor’s dissent).

No matter that Congress created the Department of Education; apparently, Trump can effectively end it. No matter that Congress in the 1974 Impoundment Control Act prohibits a president from unilaterally refusing to spend money that has been authorized by Congress; apparently, Trump can disregard the Act.

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Trump now has unbridled power to repeal federal laws by the simple expedient of firing federal employees who implement them.

Why? How? On what basis? Who’s behind this? We don’t know. We may never know.

Which gets us to the brouhaha over Jeffrey Epstein.

For years, Trump has talked darkly of a “deep state” — a secret cabal intent on destroying America by harming the nation’s children.

Such as, perhaps, six justices who let him shut down the Education Department without even setting out their reasons?

Recall “Pizzagate,” the QAnon conspiracy theory that in 2016 allegedly linked Democrats to a ring of child sex-traffickers. It’s still around but has morphed into a less partisan conspiracy theory involving an alleged worldwide elite of child sex-traffickers.

Jeffrey Epstein and his death fit perfectly. Many right-wing media personalities have posited that the billionaire convict was murdered in prison as part of a cover-up of a sprawling sex-trafficking conspiracy.

Senior Trump administration officials built up great fanfare around the release of the supposed Epstein “client list.”

Even JD Vance accused the government of hiding the list. “If you’re a journalist and you’re not asking questions about this case,” Vance said, “you should be ashamed of yourself.”

But that was back in 2021, before Vance became part of the, um, conspiracy.

In February of this year, Attorney General Pam Bondi acknowledged the existence of Epstein’s client list. She said the client list is “sitting on my desk right now.”

Now the Trump-Vance administration says Epstein’s client list doesn’t exist.

The Epstein case illustrates Trump’s “deep state” no less than does an unsigned “shadow docket” Supreme Court decision allowing Trump to wipe out the Department of Education.

The phrase “Epstein didn’t kill himself” — a rebuttal to the official explanation of Epstein’s death — has taken on a cultural meaning way beyond the facts of the case. It means an unaccountable elite doing evil things in secret.

Trump built his political base on that premise. Once in office, he said time and again, he would expose that unaccountable, secret, evil elite.

No wonder 70 percent of voters believe “law enforcement is withholding information about powerful people connected to Epstein,” including 61 percent of Trump voters. And 58 percent of voters said Trump “maybe was or definitely was” involved in a cover-up.

Conspiracy theories thrive when elites act in secret. I have no idea whether Epstein killed himself or was murdered. But Wired Magazine’s metadata — showing that the FBI’s “raw” surveillance video from the night Epstein killed himself is seemingly missing 2 minutes and 53 seconds — got my attention.

As did the Supreme’s bonkers secret decision in McMahon.

And I’m no conspiracy theorist.

After hyping the promised release, a joint FBI and Department of Justice report last week said they had found no evidence of a list — or that Epstein, who died by suicide in his prison cell in 2019, had been murdered — prompting outcry from within MAGA circles.

As Bondi faces heightened scrutiny for her repeated attempts to dodge questions about the Epstein files, Loomer also teased that “there are people in the White House who agree with me that Pam [Bondi] spent too much time on Fox News and her statements were inconsistent and undermined what messaging is today about the Epstein files.”

Other prominent MAGA-aligned supporters of the president have also warned that Trump could see significant damage to his standing among his base if he does not change course.

Sixty-three percent of voters in a Quinnipiac University national poll released Wednesday said that they disapproved of Trump’s handling of the files. Republicans were also nearly split. Just 40 percent said they support how he’s handled the files, with 36 percent disapproving and another 20 percent not offering an opinion.

Mike Flynn — who briefly served as Trump’s national security adviser in his first term — wrote in a lengthy X post on Wednesday that Trump needed to “gather your team and figure out a way to move past this.”

“The roll out of this was terrible, no way around that,” Flynn wrote. “Americans want America to be successful, therefore, WE NEED YOU TO BE SUCCESSFUL.”

Elon Musk — with whom Trump had a blowup fight last month in which Musk accused Trump of being named in the Epstein files — criticized his former boss for trying to paint the whole situation as a hoax.

“He should just release the files and point out which part is the hoax,” Musk wrote on X Wednesday.

The MAGA meltdown over Epstein “could be his Afghanistan going into the fall,” Mark Mitchell, head of polling and operations at Rasmussen Reports, told Steve Bannon Tuesday on his “War Room” podcast.

“People are trying to say this isn’t a big deal,” Mitchell said. “People are trying to say nobody wants this Epstein information out. It’s an absolute misdirection. This is horrifying. And if it isn’t corrected, it threatens derailing Trump’s agenda, getting rid of his political capital.”

“This is not about a guy who died in 2019, this is about a representation of two-tier justice and about unaccountable government,” Mitchell told Bannon.

On Wednesday, conservative political commentator John Solomon told Bannon that he had interviewed the president, and that Trump supported the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate elements of the Epstein case as part of a broader look into a supposed deep state conspiracy to punish the Republican Party.

“I think he’s frustrated by all the social media chatter by people who don’t really know what’s in the Epstein files,” Solomon said. “He was very pointed about that, let’s stay focused on the things that matter to the American people. ‘I want the answers to Epstein like everyone’, he said, so let the prosecutor do that.”

The Epstein fiasco also prompted Speaker Mike Johnson to split with Trump on Tuesday, calling for the Department of Justice to release all the information it has on the sex offender in the name of “transparency.”

“It’s a very delicate subject, but you should put everything out there, let the people decide it,” Johnson told conservative commentator Benny Johnson, adding that Bondi should explain her previous claims of having the elusive Epstein “client list.”

Just a day prior, the Louisiana Republican had defended Bondi, choosing to defer to the Trump administration instead of criticizing the attorney general.

But Trump appears to remain unmoved despite growing rebellion within his MAGA cohort.

In the Oval Office on Wednesday, Trump repeated his claims that the whole ordeal was a “hoax” peddled by Democrats and once again defended Bondi’s handling of the case.

“She’s done very good. She says ‘I gave you all the credible information,’ and if she finds any more credible information, she’ll give that too. What more can she do than that?” Trump said, adding that he had “lost a lot of faith in certain people” over their outcry on the administration’s approach to the issue.

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The 32-year-old was instrumental in high-profile national security firings, and has cheerled the attacks on Iran.

“Everybody knows that the president is fond of me, likes me. I often, you know, meet with the president, speak with the president. Just spoke with him the other day, following the signing of the Big Beautiful Bill.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi sought to quickly shut down questioning on Jeffrey Epstein in a tense moment during Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting.

The online right wants the attorney general fired after being told that the disgraced sex trafficker did not, in fact, have a client list.

A new report follows the money as it moves from reactionary advocacy groups and think tanks to groups waging war on women’s equality and related causes.

Key GOP leaders keep making comments suggesting they’ve forgotten that the Jan. 6 attack happened.

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President Donald Trump appointed conspiracy-obsessed MAGA media favorites to the highest levels of federal law enforcement, and now those figures are coming under fire from the right-wing fever swamp for failing to confirm their bullshit.

Axios reported on Sunday night that the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation had concluded that there was no evidence convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein “blackmailed powerful figures, kept a ‘client list’ or was murdered.” Those findings repudiated claims that had for years permeated the MAGA influencer ecosystem and been promoted by the stars of Fox News and the broader right-wing media.

The Trump-appointed leaders of both the FBI and DOJ had previously stoked the same conspiracy theories their agencies rejected. “As social media influencers and activists, Kash Patel (now the FBI's director) and Dan Bongino (now deputy director) were among those in MAGA world who questioned the official version of how Epstein died,” Axios noted. Moreover, Attorney General Pam Bondi had claimed in a February interview on Fox News that the purported “client list” was “sitting on my desk right now to review.”

While the Epstein saga is a bit of a sideshow in the grand scheme of things, what it highlights about the underlying dynamics of the MAGA movement is deeply unsettling. It demonstrates that the Trump administration is in hock to some of the most deranged conspiracy theorists imaginable, treating them as among its closest allies and devoting substantial resources to their care and feeding.

The White House brought 15 MAGA influencers in to meet with Bondi in February, sending them home with glossy binders labeled “The Epstein Files: Phase 1.” When those binders did not satisfy the MAGA faithful, the attorney general reportedly tasked “hundreds of FBI employees” with reviewing Epstein investigation documents for release. In May, Patel and Bongino were sent to Fox to make the case, with the fervor of the converted, that Epstein had actually killed himself. And now the FBI and DOJ have produced a memo detailing their findings and released footage taken from outside Epstein’s cell in the hours surrounding his suicide.

The final result left Trump’s most zealous online allies with two options: They could finally acknowledge that they had been peddling nonsense for years — or they could insinuate that the Trump administration itself is part of the cover-up.

MAGA’s Epstein conspiracy theorists lash out at Bondi — and even Trump

In the hours after Axios’ story broke, several prominent MAGA influencers took the latter path, hammering the administration for failing to confirm their Epstein hypotheses.

“This new DOJ memo admits there are countless victims of Epstein on video but no client list or evidence of other rapists they can charge. Oh it claims Epstein wasn’t using videos as blackmail,” Robby Starbuck sneered on X. “NO ONE believes this for very good reason.”

Starbuck put the blame squarely on the attorney general.

“Bondi just made it all worse with this memo,” he wrote. “What a terrible, terrible idea it was to write this memo. It’s also incredibly insulting to our intelligence.”

Noting her prior claim on Fox that she was in possession of Epstein’s “client list,” he commented, “Was she lying then or is she lying now?”

Laura Loomer also blamed Bondi.

“Blondi lied,” she posted on X, using the nickname she typically utilizes for the attorney general. “She was always lying.”

Others were less specific about who was responsible for the cover-up.

“We were all told more was coming,” Jack Posobiec lamented. “That answers were out there and would be provided. Incredible how utterly mismanaged this Epstein mess has been. And it didn’t have to be.”

Tim Pool suggested that the administration was protecting “the adult child rapists who were blackmailed” and floated the possibility that they were protecting “shareholder value” from “the economic fallout if say, hypothetically, Bill Gates was revealed to have been flying around with Epstein and then we got videos of him abusing underage girls.”

And Mike Cernovich suggested that the buck stopped with the president.

“No one is believing the Epstein coverup, @realDonaldTrump,” he wrote. “This will be part of your legacy. There’s still time to change it!”

The right-wing media ecosystem is built to manufacture and distribute conspiracy theories to an audience trained to believe them. Under the incentive structure this ecosystem creates, it makes sense that the Trump campaign relied on conspiracy theorists to bolster its position, that Patel and Bongino boosted their standing within that ecosystem by echoing such claims, and that Bondi kept claiming an Epstein reckoning was imminent.

But eventually, the Trump administration trapped itself. Bondi, Patel, and Bongino were unable to produce the information that the MAGA faithful demanded, and they seem unable to convince them the information does not exist. It is the nature of conspiracy theorists to insist that anything which appears to rebut their claims actually confirms it. And now they’re turning on their erstwhile allies.

The truth about Epstein and Trump

One ironic aspect of the Epstein saga is that while MAGA influencers were apparently certain that the Trump administration was going to implicate a wave of prominent individuals in Epstein’s sex crimes and, perhaps, his death, there are few figures as prominent with ties as close to Epstein as Trump himself.

Consider:

Trump was quoted in a 2002 profile describing Epstein as a longtime friend and “terrific guy” about whom “it is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”

Trump was among the politicians and celebrities who hitched rides on Epstein’s private plane in the 1990s.

In 2019, shortly before Epstein’s arrest on sex charges, longtime Trump adviser Steve Bannon prepped Epstein for a potential interview.

Trump chose for labor secretary in his first term Alex Acosta, who as a U.S. attorney oversaw a sweetheart plea deal for Epstein that a judge later ruled illegal.

Alan Dershowitz, the Trump supporter who served on the president’s second Senate impeachment trial team, was one of the defense lawyers who helped Epstein secure that plea deal.

Epstein’s 2019 suicide occurred while he was in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, an agency overseen at the time by the Trump-appointed attorney general, William Barr.

After longtime Epstein associate Ghislane Maxwell was arrested on sex trafficking charges in 2020, Trump told reporters: “I’ve met her numerous times over the years, especially since I lived in Palm Beach, and I guess they lived in Palm Beach. But I wish her well, whatever it is.”

Trump waffled about whether he would “declassify the Epstein files” during a Fox interview — but the network edited out that portion of his answer.

Trump appointed as attorney general Bondi, who was “Florida's attorney general 2011-2109 -- a period of time when Jeffrey Epstein's plane records became public, victims' lawsuits were filed and a lot of new evidence against Epstein surfaced –” but she did not take action.

None of this is actually proof that Epstein was killed to cover up the fact that he had possessed evidence that he had sex-trafficked underage girls for Trump. He killed himself, and the idea of a “client list” was, as the reporter who exposed Epstein put it, “a figment of the internet's imagination -- and a means to just slander people.”

But if, say, a similar set of facts linked former President Joe Biden and his associates to Epstein, you can bet that MAGA’s conspiracy corps would treat them as clear evidence. And so it will be interesting to see, as they scrounge for an explanation for the Bondi/Patel/Bongino about-face, if any of them eventually land there.

Why the right’s conspiracy theory engine matters

The Epstein saga is ultimately a minor drama. It is embarrassing for the right that so many of its leading lights pushed the conspiracy theories for so long, and it’s unnerving that some of those conspiracy theorists now occupy the highest levels of government, but on its own terms, the stakes for the public are relatively low.

But this treatment of the Epstein saga is not an anomaly — the right responds in this same fashion to every news event. Its ecosystem is constantly pumping out new conspiracy theories intended to prove the perfidity of the left, its audience is trapped in a bubble in which it is constantly bombarded by such claims, and the consequences can be real and dire.

Following MAGA media’s fervid promotion in September 2024 of the racist, baseless lie that Haitians were stealing and eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, local institutions received bomb threats and residents kept their children home from school out of fear for their safety.

Officials at all levels of government seeking to respond to a devastating hurricane in North Carolina the next month were forced to spend precious time debunking that ecosystem’s deranged lies because those were the sources some victims counted on for their information.

When the Epstein conspiracy theories are firmly in the rearview, everyone involved in propagating them will retain their influence over a Trump administration that is more concerned with placating them than in acting in the public interest. And that is truly dangerous.

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The Republican justices just nuked much of federal Medicaid law, in order to spite Planned Parenthood.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth attempted to bully journalists for covering the leaked Iran strikes report.

Perhaps the most dire prediction right-wingers made in the first 15 years of this century was that legalizing marriage between two people of the same sex would end civilization. No less than the pope warned that humankind was in peril because of countries legalizing marriage.

Kenneth Chesebro, an attorney who plotted to use fake electors to overturn the 2020 presidential election on behalf of President Donald Trump, was disbarred in the state of New York this week.

Once it became apparent that New York state Rep. Zohran Mamdani was the presumptive winner of New York City’s mayoral primary, right-wing figures went into full-blown hysterics. But few could top the meltdown from self-proclaimed “proud Islamophobe” Laura Loomer, who claimed that Mamdani will support firebombing synagogues and murdering the rich — including President Trump.

The U.S. appeals court nominee claimed it is “political” to say Biden got the majority of votes and Electoral College votes to become president.

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Three years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, allowing states to ban abortion, the justices have decided to let states ban another politically controversial form of health care—this time, gender-affirming medical treatments for minors.

As coverage of the horrific shootings in Minnesota has unfolded, the focus has turned to the alleged murderer’s time at a little-known Bible school in Dallas called Christ for the Nations Institute (CFNI). Most simply refer to it as a “Christian school,” a “religious college,” or a “theology school”—all of which are, strictly speaking, correct—while others, like Mother Jones’s Kiera Butler, more accurately describe it as “a Bible college popular among Christian nationalists.” Yet even that doesn’t fully describe the school’s ties to recent episodes of political violence. Because despite CFNI’s insistence that “this is not who we are,” we should not be surprised that a violent murderer came out of this school. While it was once considered a fringe establishment, CFNI is far more mainstream now than at any point in its history.

About halfway through the Young Women’s Leadership Summit in Grapevine, Texas, I got a talking to from Turning Point USA comms.

Andrew Kolvet, the organization’s chief spokesman, peeled me away from the line of young women I was speaking to warn me that he had gotten complaints about me, though he couldn’t name what they were beyond “weird questions”, and if I kept interviewing attendees under 18, I’d be removed from the conference. “I’m very familiar with your work,” Kolvet said. He reminded me these girls are “innocent,” and to lay off.

Tucker Carlson brawled with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and humiliated the senator for old time’s sake in a wild exchange during an interview set to be released on Wednesday.

Far-right activist Laura Loomer has slammed “fake” MAGA supporters in a series of posts on X claiming her conservative critics are using an antisemitic slur against her.

The “Appeal to Heaven” flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.

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MAGA influencer Laura Loomer is promoting herself as President Donald Trump’s hatchet man.

Loomer claims she has been compiling a list of MAGA faithful who have been critical of Trump’s budget bill or his sudden un-MAGA interest in inserting the U.S. military into international politics, Daily Beast reports. Now she’s threatening to deliver that list to the White House.

Earlier, Loomer called on her followers to “Take screenshots of every single right winger who is s--- talking Trump.”

READ MORE: Trump is following in the footsteps of the worst traitor in US history

“I am screenshotting everyone’s posts and I’m going to deliver them in a package to President Trump so he sees who is truly with him and who isn’t,” sheposted on X. “I think by now everyone knows I mean it when I say I’m going to deliver something to Trump. ... I am the loyalty enforcer.”

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Critics say Loomer, who is not a federal employees and has not been appointed to any division in Trump’s administration, already holds too much sway. Trump already fired Air Force U.S. Cyber Command head Gen. Timothy Haugh after Loomer accused him of not being loyal to the president and encouraged Trump to fire him in a private meeting. Five key National Security Council aides were also fired as part of the purge.

Daily Beast reports members of Trump’s inner circle have branded Loomer too extreme even by MAGA standards after she called 9/11 an “inside job” and posted racist attacks against former vice president Kamala Harris.

The White House, meanwhile, has been campaigning to extinguish the civil war inflaming MAGA isolationists and dedicated Trumpists over the president’s military support for Israel’s strikes on Iran. The Daily Best reports officials have been reaching out to rebellious right-wing influencers like Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, and Candace Owens who have slammed the president for allying with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the attacks.

READ MORE: CEO of sole American smartphone manufacturer has bad news for Trump's new phone company

Loomer attacked Owens for claiming to support Trump.

“I don’t recall her participating in any campaign events for Trump in 2024. So, what does she mean when she says ‘hold Trump accountable for the promises he made to us?'” Loomer posted.

Read the full Daily Beast report here.

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38 minutes ago — Elon Musk, Charlie Kirk, Mike Cernovich, they've all lied about Boelter. ... D'Souza tweet with the picture of the “No Kings” fliers ...

Well, folks, they caught the motherfucker. We don’t know exactly what took so long to find the Christian nationalist anti-abortion activist Trump supporter who impersonated a cop and assassinated Democrats in Minneapolis on Friday night, with plans to target many more, but they caught him. Maybe they were just looking the wrong places? We would have checked Republican politicians’ houses first, but that’s just us.

Anyway, they found him in a field.

Again, who this guy Vance Boelter is, it’s not shrouded in mystery, and it’s been out in the open from the beginning. He’s one of them. He’s just a typical Republican voter who decided to assassinate some Democrats. You’d think MAGA would be proud of what it’s wrought. And some of them are, to be sure.

But then there are piece of dogshit Republican senators like Mike Lee who have been lying since the beginning.

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Why so ashamed, bud?

You’d think considering Mike Lee’s extremist record,he might already be lobbying Donald Trump for any extra pardons he’s got lying around for Boelter.

Vance Boelter is a registered Republican.He’s an anti-gay, anti-abortion pig. He’s a conservative Christian preacher. Basically all the red flag characteristics that say “Here’s a guy you shouldn’t leave your kids alone with,” but that MAGA Americans find godly and manly. Again, why is Mike Lee so ashamed? He has a lot in common with this guy! Surprised they aren’t taking up a collection for this guy’s legal defense in Mike Lee’s church. He just reminds us so much of Mike Lee (or any other white Republican loser, they really do all look alike).

As Tim Miller from The Bulwark notes,a bunch of Republicans and MAGA conservatives have taken this tack, instead of embracing this guy who is just like them in so many important ways. Elon Musk, Charlie Kirk, Mike Cernovich, they’ve all lied about Boelter. Previously (?) Kremlin-funded weirdo Benny Johnson claimed Boelter was a “left-wing Tim Walz appointee.” Today Benny is rambling about how the murders are a “leftist false flag.” Also something about “I’m sorry, but these are the same agencies that brought you the Whitmer Fednapping, that brought you January 6, that brought you the Epstein cases, that brought you Ghislaine Maxwell. These are the same people. These are the same people.”

Uhhhh okeydoke. We guess Kash Patel and Pam Bondi are now card-carrying members of the Deep State voices in Benny Johnson’s head community.

Musk tweeted that “the far left is murderously violent.” Laura Loomer said that “Walz’s goons are now assassinating lawmakers who support legislation Walz opposes.” (There’s a whole conspiracy theory they made up surrounding this that involves healthcare legislation in Minnesota, it’s too stupid to type, but you can read it if you want.)

:{How Did Evil Russians Manage To Fool Dave Rubin, Tim Pool, AND Benny Johnson? Wow!

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Mike Lee also had another tweet about it that said “Nightmare on Walz Street.” Ohio Republican Senator Bernie Moreno — another Republican dude with a lot in common with Vance Boelter — tweeted this, a retweet of another right-wing liar connecting “No Kings” fliers found in Boelter’s car with Randi Weingarten and teachers unions somehow.

He hasn’t removed it. None of the posts and tweets we’re referencing in this post have been removed.

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Sherrod Brown's Gross Republican Opponent Pretty Sure Women Over 50 Too Old To Vote On Abortion

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A mouthy extremist Republican state senator in Tennessee named Brent Taylor, who represents a tiny slice of Memphis, a city that otherwise cannot stand him, posted a Dinesh D’Souza tweet with the picture of the “No Kings” fliers, because that’s how debased and pathetic he is. He then proceeded to babble like a dementia patient for 9,000 paragraphs about leftist violence:

The Left's violence masquerading as free speech is a stain on our republic, and it’s escalating at a terrifying pace. From assassination attempts on President Trump—twice in two months—to torching cars at Tesla dealerships during Tesla Takedowns. Members of “Progressive” groups like this have now turned to a call to arms.

Los Angeles burns under their orchestrated chaos, with anti-ICE riots seeing Molotov cocktails, looted businesses, and attacks on federal agents, all while Governor Newsom and Mayor Bass fumble, blaming others for their failures. […]

This is the Left’s legacy: burning cities, targeting conservatives, and excusing violence as “resistance.” Their hypocrisy is glaring—silent on their own extremists while attempting to demonize the Right. It’s time to call this what it is: a dangerous, unhinged movement that threatens our way of life.

Ahem OK sure, pal. Below that are comments from Memphis voters telling him to go drink piss in hell, which is something Memphis voters say to Brent Taylor a lot. (He’s a big buddy of Todd Starnes, which should tell longtime Wonkette readers what kind of guy we’re making fun of here.)

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Again, there was never any mystery who this murderous piece of shit is. The story, from the beginning, was Typical, Unremarkable Trump Voter Assassinates Democrats. He’s an anti-abortion Christian extremist, which is no surprise, because that’s a really common thing to find in a terrorist profile. There were anti-abortion extremists all over the place among the domestic extremists who attacked the Capitol on January 6. Far-right extremists are the greatest domestic terrorist threat to the United States, and have been for a long time, no matter how much the Trump Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security try to cover that up so they can blood libel people who aren’t white.

This is their dude, y’all.

Why they lyin’?

It couldn’t be shame causing them to do this, because white conservative Christian men and the people who serve them don’t have the capacity for that.

We guess they just find it extremely politically inconvenient right now, since everybody hates Trump and his agenda and his incompetent Cabinet, and Trump’s North Korean birthday parade was more poorly attended than a common wiener dog race at the county fair.

Not a great time to remind America just how much they hateall religious conservative Republican extremists, we reckon!

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Also Republican politicians are simply bad people who are going to hell when they die, and that’s why they’re doing this.

We probably needn’t try to psychoanalyze it any further.

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Right-wing media call for “overwhelming force” and arrests in LA protests

Written by Chloe Simon & Reed McMaster

Published 06/12/25

Protests in Los Angeles have been ongoing as Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids continue to target migrant communities. In response, right-wing media have urged the Trump administration and law enforcement to crack down harder on protesters, called for Democratic officials to be arrested, and suggested the protesters were funded by outside groups.

Fox News host Laura Ingraham and others encouraged President Donald Trump to employ the Insurrection Act against protesters while Daily Wire host Matt Walsh said Trump should use “overwhelming force.” Fox host Sean Hannity and War Room host Steve Bannon have called for arrests of Democratic officials, and The Daily Caller blamed a “Pro-Chinese Communist Millionaire” for funding the protests.

Protests erupted after the Trump administration conducted ICE raids in LA and sent in troops

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Five former leaders of groups associated with Sean Feucht have issued a formal statement bringing to light what they call “longstanding and serious moral, ethical, financial, organizational and governance failures” by Feucht and calling for an independent investigation into possible fraud and embezzlement.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell said "Satan" was behind allegedly rigged voting machines ahead of his defamation trial.

He is taking self-enrichment to a scale never seen before in America.

Trump advisers tell WIRED that their mutually beneficial arrangements with the notorious right wing influencer may be coming to an end.

Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought had said he wants government employees “to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains.”

Wilson's expanding infrastructure puts him at the center of a larger debate about the role of faith in public life reaching from small-town Idaho to the highest levels of government.

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Twin celebrations of U.S. President Donald Trump's birthday and the Army's 250th anniversary will include as many as 25 tanks rolling through Washington in a celebration that will cost $25 million to $45 million, U.S. officials told Reuters on Wednesday.

As an academic who has devoted considerable time to studying Christian nationalism and WallBuilders, I feel compelled to warn Hoosiers that you should be alarmed that WallBuilders’ selective reading of American history might be accorded any legitimacy.

The hyper-partisan “Stop the Steal” activist is confronting a disciplinary investigation that could threaten his law license.

“Disgraceful,” “skeezy,” and “problematic”: Some on the right aren’t sold on Trump’s new jet.

[Laura] Loomer exemplifies the danger — to Trump’s own fortunes as well as the country’s — of how he often sizes up potential allies. He looks not at the quality of their ideas but at the audacity of their provocations, not at how nicely they play with others but at how reliably they rile their followers. That’s a fine approach if you’re just owning the libs and staging a carnival. But if you mean to govern? The freak show gets in the way.

With Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill” of tax and Medicaid cuts up for consideration, abortion might be the last thing on anyone’s mind. But a provision buried in the bill is Republicans’ latest attempt to stop losing on reproductive rights.

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Trump is urging the small Republican majorities in Congress to pass a "big, beautiful bill" that will combine his legislative priorities — and he is hoping they will do it sooner rather than later. But GOP lawmakers are fighting over the specifics, including possible Medicaid cuts.

A group of House Republicans in swing districts are declaring that they won't vote for any Medicaid cuts, which some budget hawks in the House Freedom Caucus are pushing for. Now, far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer is weighing in on the Medicaid debate, and The Bulwark's Jonathan Cohn believes she may have an impact on this "fight for MAGA's soul."

In a Monday, May 5 post on X, formerly Twitter, Loomer wrote, "President Trump has repeatedly vowed to safeguard Medicaid, a promise that resonates with millions of hardworking Americans. Yet, so-called Republicans cozying up to this anti-Trump operative Brian Blase are risking it all…. Blasé's insidious push to eliminate provider taxes would gut Medicaid funding, hitting Americans the hardest in rural red states like Texas, Florida, and Louisiana."

READ MORE: 'Throws a wrench': Trump’s 'big, beautiful bill' meets 'big potholes' as intraparty fighting takes hold

Cohn, in an article published by the conservative Bulwark on May 6, notes that "the internal Republican fight over potential Medicaid cuts has gotten so intense that even Laura Loomer is getting involved."

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Loomer is a very controversial figure in U.S. politics. Her attacks on then-Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 presidential race, critics say, were so racist that even far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) was offended.

But Trump likes Loomer — which, Cohn notes in his article, means a lot in the MAGA movement.

"On Monday night," Cohn explains, "the MAGA influencer known for white nationalist rhetoric and conspiracy theories posted more than 400 words on X defending Medicaid, the government insurance program that pays medical bills for more than 70 million mostly low-income Americans. Medicaid's future has been a topic of debate for months, with Republican leaders in Congress proposing reductions to the program to offset the cost of tax cuts Trump wants to pass in his 'big, beautiful bill'…. In prior times, Loomer’s opinions would not carry much weight with congressional Republicans, especially on social welfare programs. But she's proven influential over the past few months, including when she evidently persuaded Trump to fire a half dozen National Security Council staffers last month."

READ MORE:'Muted for being a jerk': This Trump official seems obsessed with fighting online critics

Cohn continues, "And her decision to warn lawmakers against Medicaid cuts wasn't just an attempt to distill and explain Trumpism's appeal to voters. It was also a direct attack on a particular strand of conservative intellectualism — and a particular conservative intellectual named Brian Blase, who, as president of the right-wing Paragon Health Institute, has been making the case for big Medicaid cuts for years. In the tweet, Loomer called Blase a 'RINO Saboteur' and 'covert Never-Trumper masquerading as a MAGA loyalist.'"

READ MORE:Why a far-right activist even condemned by Marjorie Taylor Greene has influence with Trump

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April 29, 2025, edition of Loomer Unleashed streamed on Rumble

LAURA LOOMER (HOST): I'm not saying all Indians are scammers. Obviously, there's great Indians out there, but that stereotype out there, right? They say stereotypes exist for a reason. A lot of Indians are very pissed off with Rep. Shri Thanedar, right, because he's enabling stereotypes to, to percolate online. And a lot of Indians have messaged me, Indian friends of mine, great Trump supporters, patriots in this country, telling me that they are embarrassed by Shri Thanedar. So maybe he'll get a primary.

I don't know. I mean, if it's such a heavy immigrant community, it'd be nice to have an American there, like a real blood and soil American. But if we can't get a real true blood soil American to represent that district and it has to be an immigrant, there's gotta be at least a patriotic pro-MAGA, pro-Trump patriot immigrant who lives in that country. Although, you know, I will say I prefer to not have immigrants in Congress. I think that there should be a rule created that says that only U.S. born individuals can run for office or hold office in our country just like the rule applies to the president of the United States. I don't know really why that hasn't been enacted yet, personally. I mean, the biggest troublemakers in Congress happen to be immigrants. Look at Ilhan Omar, OK? I think she's the poster child for, why we need an immigration moratorium. But Rep. Thanedar is another example of how hostile a lot of these immigrants can be when they come to our country and we allow them to hold office. They should not be tolerated in my opinion.

Loomer's use of “blood and soil” is notable because the phrase is identified as a “Nazi rallying cry.” According to CNN, “The phrase dates to the earliest days of Nazi propaganda.” The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum notes that “blood and soil” was an “early Nazi slogan used in Germany to evoke the idea of a pure 'Aryan' race and the territory it wanted to conquer.”

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The president complained that due process rights are interfering with his mass deportations.

President Donald Trump attempted to take credit for parts of the economy which he considers “good,” while blaming former President Joe Biden for other parts he considers “bad.”

President Donald Trump offered a message of support to the Jan. 6 insurrectionists when he met with a former Proud Boys militant in Mar-a-Lago over the weekend.

State Superintendent Ryan Walters bypassed oversight to push Christian Nationalism and right-wing conspiracies into public classrooms.

In this segment, I examine the notion that there was something exceptionally Christian about America's founding era. Last week, I fact-checked Charlie Kirk's viral video defense of the belief that America was founded as a Christian nation in the legal sense. Most of what Kirk had to say was irrelevant or incorrect.

The 9/11 truther denounced Trump’s nominee for U.S. surgeon general and claimed the COVID-19 vaccine is “killing millions of people.”

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Three months into Donald Trump's second presidency, his supporters in MAGA media are praising his "record of accomplishment" while pushing a "promises made, promises kept" message. But outside the MAGA bubble, many outlets are reporting on chaos within his administration — from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon to National Security Adviser Mike Waltz at the National Security Council (NSC).

The Atlantic's Issac Stanley-Becker discussed that chaos during a late Monday morning, April 28 appearance on CNN.

When host Wolf Blitzer noted the "chaos unfolding" at the NSC and asked Stanley-Becker how Waltz lost control over "his own National Security Council so quickly," the reporter responded, "Well, on both policy and personnel, he has really lost key authority. On policy, we've seen that be swept out from under him by the White House vetting operation, which is dismissing people for infractions related to loyalty and other causes. And then, an extraordinary Oval Office meeting with the far-right activist Laura Loomer — after which, a number of officials were dismissed. So we're seeing these decisions being made by people other than the person in charge of this staff."

READ MORE: These 'performative' GOP 'temper tantrums' are 'embarrassing' — but not to the 'MAGA base'

Stanley-Becker continued, "And then, importantly, on policy, according to people I spoke with, he has much less juice on fundamental geopolitical issues than the president's friend and special envoy, Steve Witkoff, who has been tasked with key hotspots Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Gaza. And then, on other important priorities, much less control and much less authority than Stephen Miller, the homeland security advisor and deputy White House chief of staff for policy, who is effectively using the NSC, according to my sources, as a kind of platform to implement his hardline immigration agenda."

Stanley-Becker noted the firings at the NSC that occurred after Loomer met with Trump in the White House Oval Office, saying that Waltz's authority is being usurped.

"What I would say is that the NSC does what it does for a reason," Stanley-Becker told Blitzer. "There's a process that involves senior advisers and Cabinet officials convening, considering options, coordinating across the interagency lawyers who vet significant foreign policy decisions. And what I found in my reporting is that that is not happening in many instances…. So, we're seeing a level of chaos that is really extraordinary."

When Blitzer asked Stanley-Becker where things "stand" with Waltz's relationship with Trump, the reporter responded, "I think he's on thin ice. And what the president ultimately decides to do remains in question."

READ MORE:'Was it?' Republican CNN analyst rendered speechless when challenged on Trump spending

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April 23, 2025, edition of Loomer Unleashed on Rumble

LAURA LOOMER (HOST): And we're also going to address the recent allegations coming out of the Department of Defense that there is a soft coup taking place against Pete Hegseth, our defense secretary. And this is something that I've been reporting on. As we know, there were a lot of GOP senators who didn't want to necessarily confirm Pete Hegseth for his position of defense secretary.

I've always been an adamant supporter of Pete. He's somebody that I've known for a long time. He's a personal friend of mine, and I think he's going to do a great job as defense secretary. But it's not a surprise to anybody, or it shouldn't be a surprise at least that the deep state and all of these RINO obstructionist senators want to have control over the military industrial complex.

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President Trump’s nominee for D.C. U.S. Attorney Ed Martin, and Donald Trump’s Department of Justice more broadly, are taking cues from right-wing influencers — allowing some of the loudest media figures on the right to influence significant decisions, including who gets fired from the DOJ and who and what gets investigated.

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Trump’s nominee for D.C. U.S. Attorney Ed Martin, and Donald Trump’s Department of Justice more broadly, are taking cues from right-wing influencers — allowing some of the loudest media figures on the right to influence significant decisions, including who gets fired from the DOJ and who and what gets investigated.

It’s the latest way in which Trump’s DOJ has shirked its duty to uphold even the appearance of independence from the White House, and from Trump’s allies and friends in the right-wing social media sphere who have their own political agendas.

“It’s unprecedented for government officials to take direction or suggestions from highly polarized people and act on it within our government, especially when we’re talking about the DOJ,” Wendy Via, president and co-founder of The Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, said in an interview with TPM. “It eradicates all the DOJ is supposed to be — independent, for justice.”

Most recently, Martin — who has been serving in the role to which he was nominated in an acting capacity since January — targeted a former DOJ prosecutor who was a part of Special Counsel Robert Muller’s team, Aaron Zelinsky, with a letter alleging Zelinsky had somehow intentionally “sent an innocent man to jail.” The most striking part of the letter, though, was that a section of it was pulled directly, without attribution, from an old article on a website run by investigative journalist-turned-MAGA-aligned conspiracy theorist John Solomon.

As Mother Jones points out in a recent report on the letter of inquiry to Zelinsky, Martin’s letter includes a portion that appears to be fully lifted from a 2020 article from “Just the News,” a right-wing outlet started by Solomon.

Solomon started Just the News in 2020 after publishing a series of articles for The Hill highlighting claims by Trump allies who, at the time, were attempting to conjure up allegations of a corruption scheme involving Joe Biden and Ukraine — an effort that eventually led to Trump’s first impeachment in the House during his previous administration.

The April 14 letter accuses Zelinksky of making “false statements” that aided in sending “an innocent man to jail in an attempt to advance the false narrative that the campaign of a serving President had colluded with Russia to win the presidency,” according to Mother Jones‘ reporting. This is a reference to right-wing conspiracy theories that emerged around Trump ally George Papadopoulos’s prosecution.

Just The News did not respond to TPM’s request for comment.

Then in March, the White House appears to have taken a cue from right-wing political activist and conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, firing a career federal prosecutor in Los Angeles without reason.

The prosecutor, Adam Schleifer, had been working on a case against the founder of Fatburger, Andrew Wiederhorn, who, according to the New York Times, was a donor to political action committees that have supported Trump.

Right before Schleifer’s dismissal, though, Loomer posted on X, sharing screenshots of old posts where Schleifer had been critical of Trump. “Why is Biden holdover @AdamSchleiferNY Adam Schleifer still working for the US Attorney’s office under the new Trump administration? He is a Trump hater who has been working at the US Attorney’s office since 2021,” she wrote. “Fire him. He supported the impeachment of President Trump and said he wanted to repeal Trump’s tax plan.”

And in February of this year, Denise Cheung, who was in charge of the criminal division of the Washington, D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office, resigned from her post after refusing to comply with an order from Martin to open a grand jury investigation into Biden-era Environmental Protection Agency grants. The only known evidence that Martin had to support this order for both an investigation and a potential asset freeze was a 5-minute video clip from a right-wing conspiracy theory website, Project Veritas.

The Project Veritas video clip purported to show a former Biden-era EPA employee talking about distributing climate specific funding to non-profit organizations ahead of the start of the Trump administration.

“When I explained that the quantum of evidence did not support that action, you stated that you believed that there was sufficient evidence,” wrote Cheung in her resignation letter to Martin. “As I shared with you, at this juncture, based upon the evidence I have reviewed, I still do not believe that there is sufficient evidence to issue the letter you described, including sufficient evidence to tell the bank that there is probable cause to seize the particular accounts identified.”

Via, from the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, called the DOJ’s reliance on right-wing influencers and conspiracy theorists “incredibly bizarre.”

“Of all of our agencies, the DOJ, and then of course under that the FBI, are supposed to be the most independent, the least affected by politics,” she added. “When I say it’s unprecedented, I don’t even know what other words to use, because it is so antithetical to who America is.”

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Laura Loomer calls CEO John Hope Bryant “uppity” and a “DEI hire”

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Conservative political writer Myra Adams spotlighted the Trump administration's top women officials in an article published in The Hill Friday, referring to them as "mean MAGA girls" for mirroring what she called former President Donald Trump's "bullying leadership style."

The list included Attorney General Pam Bondi, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and rightwing influencer Laura Loomer.

"After nearly 100 days, Trump’s loyal Mean Girls are just warming up their 'don’t mess with us,' in-your-face bravado, so effective and pleasing to their man," Adams, who served on the creative team of two Republican presidential campaigns in 2004 and 2008, wrote in her article.

ALSO READ:**'I will not be bullied': Whistleblower accuses DOJ of sending 'armed deputies' to her home**

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She said that these officials are "bullying into submission two of the three co-equal branches of government, resulting in the most powerful executive branch since President Franklin D. Roosevelt."

The author saidBondi turned the Department of Justice into Trump's "weapon of mass retribution."

"Bondi is rebranding DOJ as the president’s law firm, fighting for his all-encompassing MAGA agenda. Even Trump’s former private criminal defense attorneys are Bondi’s top deputies!," she added.

Adams said Bondi "mirrors Trump’s 'fight fight fight' persona, denigrating judges and persecuting the president’s 'enemies.'

ALSO READ:**'What is she taking about?' Ex-RNC chair rips press sec’s defense of Trump’s**

"That long-growing list includes former officials, the media, and institutions, organizations and businesses that don’t toe the line," Adams noted.

RegardingLeavitt, who is the youngest White House press secretary at 27, Adams said she displays a "prideful Mean Girl confidence well beyond her years."

"Leavitt disseminates whatever the White House 'Department of Propaganda' has prepared, likely from the all-powerful Stephen Miller," she added.

Adams noted that Leavitt heavily favors Trump-friendly new media.

ALSO READ:**'Neofascist revolutionary project': How MAGA is ramping up its propaganda 'machine**

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Trump's decision to upend his national security team at the behest of conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer is a five-alarm fire

A Trumpist fanatic attains real power

Written by Matt Gertz

Published 04/04/25 mma

President Donald Trump’s abrupt apparent removal of the general who oversaw U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency at the reported behest of the MAGA influencer Laura Loomer, a notorious bigot and conspiracy theorist, is a five-alarm fire for national security and good governance. The move demonstrates that the only qualification for service in the administration is personal loyalty to the president as determined by his most zealous sycophants.

Top Democrats on the House and Senate intelligence committees said on Thursday night that Gen. Timothy D. Haugh had been removed from his positions as director of the NSA and head of the military’s Cyber Command. According to The New York Times, “a U.S. official briefed on the matter said Laura Loomer, a far-right activist and outside adviser to President Trump, called for General Haugh’s removal during her Oval Office meeting on Thursday. Mr. Trump ordered Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to fire General Haugh, the official said.”

Loomer subsequently appeared to take credit, writing on X that Haugh and his deputy had been “fired” because they were “disloyal to President Trump” and thanking the president “for being receptive to the vetting materials provided to you.” She gave no evidence of Haugh’s purported disloyalty in her post — nor any critique of his service in his positions — instead criticizing him as “a Biden appointee” who “had no place serving in the Trump admin given the fact that he was HAND PICKED by” former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley.

Haugh is not the only apparent casualty of Loomer’s efforts. His seeming removal comes amid a firestorm caused by the revelation that Hegseth had provided precise details about an imminent U.S. military strike in Yemen in a Signal messaging group of top Trump officials assembled by national security adviser Mike Waltz, a move experts said endangered the lives of U.S. service members.

Waltz and Hegseth still remain in their posts — but as that story continued to metastasize, Loomer met with Trump in the Oval Office and provided him “with opposition research on [National Security Council] staffers whom she views as neoconservatives or not sufficiently loyal to the president.” The White House purged at least six NSC staffers following that meeting.

Trump surrounds himself with and takes counsel from a litany of right-wing media figures because he appreciates their fervent public support, particularly though not exclusively on Fox News. Those individuals wield immense power over every aspect of governance despite their total lack of relevant qualifications or temperament.

Even among the MAGA movement’s constellation of grifters, con artists, bigots, and loons, Loomer shines brightly. Here’s what I wrote about her in September as her presence accompanying Trump on the campaign trail triggered concern even from some of his other close allies:

Loomer is a self-described “proud Islamophobe” who is “pro-white nationalism.” She has claimed there is a “genocide” of “native white populations,” which she says are “being replaced in this country by third-world invaders,” and accused “so many rich Jews” of having “a fixation on trying to destroy America.” She has accused the Biden administration of seeking to assassinate Trump; called for the execution of unnamed “Democrats who are guilty of treason”; said that “all of these communist secretaries of state who try to rig our elections” against Trump “belong in jail for election interference”; and shared a video which claimed “9/11 was an Inside Job!”

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Loomer has in recent weeks described [then-Vice President Kamala] Harris, whose parents immigrated from India and Jamaica, as “a brain-dead bimbo who sucked so much c**k in order to get to the political position that she's in today,” said she “is NOT black and never has been,” said her election would ensure that “Ebonics will replace English as the language of our land,” and said that if she’s elected “the White House will smell like curry & White House speeches will be facilitated via a call center and the American people will only be able to convey their feedback through a customer satisfaction survey at the end of the call that nobody will understand.”

Loomer is nonetheless unusually influential because Trump apparently appreciates her personal, fanatical loyalty. “I don’t really have much of a life, you know?” Loomer told The Washington Post last year. “So I’m happy to dedicate all my time to helping Trump, because if Trump doesn’t get back in, I don’t have anything.”

She apparently has something now — enough influence to impose her own loyalty tests on high-ranking government officials and see them cashiered by the president (and, she claims, to help shape his foreign policy). And so the country turns on the whims of someone once described by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), herself no stranger to bigoted and unhinged conspiracy theories, as “mentally unstable and a documented liar” who “can not be trusted” and is “toxic and poisonous.”

If you had said in October that if Trump were elected he would end up firing the NSA director and purging the NSC on the advice of someone like Loomer, you’d have been accused of having a terminal case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. And yet here we are, careening up to worst-case scenarios before the president’s 100-day mark.

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Trump, met with far-right activist Laura Loomer in the Oval Office last week. Loomer is a figure so extreme that she is shunned by many, even in Trump’s “make America great again” (Maga) movement.

Hours after their meeting, Trump fired a string of national security officials, including General Timothy D. Haugh, the head of the National Security Agency and US Cyber Command, apparently at Loomer’s request. Trump has said Loomer was not involved in the firings, but also praised her judgment.

Even for a president who has always listened to – and, indeed, echoed – fringe voices, the incident stood out. It served as a reminder that Trump is less constrained than ever before, and that his White House is responsive to his personal whims rather than any deliberative policy-making process.

Gone are the days of Trump’s first administration, when aides would at least try to block the most extreme conspiracy theorists from having access to the president. Now, apparently, even a four-star general (the highest officer rank) like Haugh serves only at the pleasure of figures such as Loomer.

So, who exactly is Loomer? She is, first and foremost, a media influencer – someone who made her name in far-right circles by spreading hate and conspiracy theories.

She calls herself a “proud Islamophobe” and “pro-white nationalism”. She has endorsed claims that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were an “inside job”, alleged that the “deep state” manipulates the weather to influence elections, and spread conspiracy theories implying that the FBI let school shootings happen in election years to help the Democrats push gun control.

Loomer’s claims, and her open racism, have sometimes proven too much even for other prominent Maga figures, who prefer to be slightly more subtle in their messaging.

When Loomer said in 2024 that if Kamala Harris won the election, the White House “will smell like curry” and speeches will be “facilitated via a call centre,” she drew push-back from the now vice-president, J.D. Vance, and far-right congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.

But Trump seems to have appreciated Loomer’s commentary all the same. The president has repeatedly praised her in public and backed her unsuccessful run as a Republican candidate for a US House of Representatives seat in Florida in 2020.

Like many other Maga media figures, Loomer has realised that her antics give her direct exposure to a television-obsessed president, and that this exposure can be transformed into access and, ultimately, political power.

Loomer, who is only 31, is entirely a product of the Trump era. As an adult, practically the only conservatism she has known is the conservatism of Maga – openly prejudiced, vindictive, and more a stew of grievance and hatred than a coherent political platform.

Insofar as Loomer advocates for particular policies, they are a crude channeling of these impulses. She has campaigned for a ten-year immigration moratorium and has called for the death penalty for Democrats who oppose Trump.

On a podcast in June 2024 about whether Democrats should be prosecuted and jailed if Trump wins the election over alleged “unscrupulous behaviour,” Loomer said: “Not just jailed, they should get the death penalty. You know, we actually used to have the punishment for treason in this country.”

But the chief way in which Loomer personifies modern American conservatism is her single-minded loyalty to the president. Loyalty to Trump, and fury at the disloyalty of others, is the central component of her identity.

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This loyalty seems to be both a deeply felt emotion and also a shrewd way of recommending herself to the president. And, more than anything else, it was what landed her in the Oval Office last week.

Loomer’s apparent recommendation that Trump fire a slew of national security officials had its roots in this obsession with loyalty. Many people serving in national security positions in the Trump administration are not card-carrying members of the Maga movement.

This reflects the fact that such positions require deep expertise developed over long apolitical careers in the civil service or military. As the product of a movement that disdains expertise and rationality, few Maga die-hards have the requisite knowledge to do these jobs.

For Loomer, such figures pose a threat. It ought to be emphasised that this is not because people like General Haugh have ever shown open disloyalty to Trump. It is merely that they are not, like Loomer, his fanatical adherents. In her worldview, anything less is unacceptable.

Trump seems to agree, which opens the way to more firings in the future. Sensing her opening, Loomer has declared that she will establish an organisation dedicated to investigating executive branch officials for suspected disloyalty to the president.

Government officials will have to live in fear of being targeted, creating a chilling atmosphere in which pushing back against Trump’s whims becomes impossible.

Loomer’s growing influence also suggests that the Trump White House is becoming more chaotic and unpredictable.

The president’s aides have long claimed that the White House would be run in a controlled fashion this time around, with clear chains of command and questionable outsiders kept away. Loomer’s presence in the Oval Office – at Trump’s personal request – blows that story away.

For her part, Loomer seems to have what she has always wanted: the president’s attention. Where might she direct it next?

Andrew Gawthorpe, Lecturer in History and International Studies, *Leiden University

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

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Kyle Mantyla

US Attorney Ed Martin compared January 6 rioters to Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II.

After setting much of the global economy — and retirement accounts — on fire, taking a golf trip isn’t a great look for Trump.

President Donald Trump has reached the “peak of not giving a fuck,” one White House official told The Washington Post for a lengthy report on what went on behind the scenes leading up to the president’s massive tariff announcement this week.

Harmeet Dhillon, an election denier and legal adviser to Trump, will now lead the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice.

I ended up spending six hours walking a total of 19 miles through the six office buildings at the Capitol. I walked by every single elected official’s office to document exactly which of them fly these flags.

President Donald Trump’s abrupt apparent removal of the general who oversaw U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency at the reported behest of the MAGA influencer Laura Loomer, a notorious bigot and conspiracy theorist, is a five-alarm fire for national security and good governance.

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Amy Coney Barrett, the conservative Supreme Court justice appointed by Donald Trump, has sparked controversy among right-wing figures after voting to reject Trump's attempt to freeze nearly $2 billion in foreign aid. Barrett, along with Chief Justice John Roberts, sided with a US district judge's ruling that ordered the Trump administration to release the congressionally approved funds for foreign aid work already performed.

The decision prompted swift backlash from pro-Trump commentators and activists.

As the Guardian notes, Mike Cernovich, a right-wing influencer, labeled Barrett a "DEI hire," referencing diversity, equity, and inclusion policies. Fox News host Mark Levin claimed Barrett had "deceived people into thinking she was a reliable constitutionalist." Laura Loomer, a right-wing activist, went as far as posting a picture of Barrett's family, which includes two adopted Black children, and called her a "DEI appointee."

Mike Davis, who was involved in confirming Trump's previous Supreme Court nominees, criticized Barrett on Steve Bannon's podcast, calling her a "rattled law professor" and suggesting that future Supreme Court picks should be "more bold, more fearless, less DEI, and more of a sure bet."

However, Justice Barrett has established a conservative legal legacy since her appointment to the Supreme Court in 2020. As a staunch originalist, she has issued rulings that align with the Republican party's agenda on several high-profile issues.

In the area of abortion, Barrett has been instrumental in the Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, effectively eliminating the federal constitutional right to abortion. She has also voted to uphold restrictions on access to abortion services, aligning with the Republican party's goal of limiting reproductive rights.

On gun rights, Barrett has consistently ruled in favor of expanded Second Amendment protections. In the landmark case New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, she joined the majority in striking down a New York law that required individuals to demonstrate a specific need to carry a concealed firearm in public.

Barrett's conservative views have also been evident in her rulings on immigration-related issues. She has supported the Trump administration's efforts to limit asylum seekers and has ruled in favor of the government's authority to detain undocumented immigrants without bond hearings.

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Laura Loomer takes credit for Trump’s Panama policy

Loomer: Trump “called me” about Panama and he “took my advice, and now you see President Trump calling for the United States to take back the canal” and an “audit of all NGOs”

Written by Alex Kaplan

Published 02/11/25

Far-right activist Laura Loomer, a self-proclaimed “proud Islamaphobe” who has said she is “pro-white nationalism,” stated on her Rumble show that during the 2024 election, she consulted with President Donald Trump on the Panama Canal, migration in Panama’s Darién Gap, and non-governmental organizations. Loomer claimed that Trump then “took [her] advice” on those subjects.

Loomer has a history of promoting virulent xenophobia and anti-Black bigotry, conspiracy theories about mass shootings, and white nationalism. Despite this history, Trump has associated with Loomer, attempting to hire her for his 2024 presidential campaign and traveling with her to both his debate against then-Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and to a September 11 memorial ceremony. Trump has also repeatedly promoted Loomer’s content online, and Loomer has even claimed that Trump told her, “You’re so smart. ... I read your website every day.” (Trump’s campaign later tried to distance itself from Loomer, though Trump refused to denounce her, calling her a “free spirit” and a “supporter.”)

On her show, Loomer has repeatedly pushed claims that Panama, along with the Darién Gap, is a pipeline for an “invasion” of migrants to America that could lead to terrorism. According to The New York Times, Loomer also traveled to Panama — as did some other right-wing media entities — and she posted reportedly deceptively edited content from her travels, falsely suggesting that “Democrats are encouraging” migration “to create new, illegal voters” and casting international aid organizations as “profiteers making money off human misery.” Trump reportedly reposted one of her videos from the trip on Truth Social.

On February 7, Loomer claimed that Trump “actually called me one day, during the last election season, and was asking me about the Darién Gap, and he was asking me about my videos and my trip to Panama,” and she noted that she urged him to “make it a policy position to take back the Panama Canal” because “the CCP has an enormous presence in the Canal Zone and how they are facilitating illegal immigration, and that’s why we have such an influx of Chinese invaders coming into our country.”

She further elaborated that Trump told her that “he was going to be looking into it” and specifically wanted her “input on the issue of the Panama Canal” and “on the issue of the illegal alien invasion taking place in the Darién Gap and Panama.” She additionally claimed that she “had several conversations with President Trump and also Marco Rubio and other officials in the Trump administration about these NGOs and about the activities in Panama.”

Loomer then claimed that Trump “took my advice,” and boasted, “I’ve been told directly by people who work for President Trump that my videos have played a massive role in opening President Trump’s eyes to NGO corruption and the chaos that is happening down in the Panama Canal Zone.” Last year, Loomer claimed on her show that undocumented immigrants in Panama were being “supported” by NGOs and urged Trump to seize the Panama Canal as a supposed solution.

Ahead of Trump’s second inauguration, he threatened to take back the canal, and Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan said that the administration would “shut down” the Darién Gap. In early February, Trump also ordered an audit of federal funding to NGOs.

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From the February 7, 2025, edition of Loomer Unleashed, streamed on Rumble

LAURA LOOMER (HOST): Somebody said the Darién Gap story was only Laura. So on top of all the news with USAID tonight, I was mentioning in my monologue how the NGOs are directly tied to USAID because they’re getting their funding through USAID. Well, as many of you know, I’m close with President Trump. I do not work for President Trump. But when I traveled to the Darién Gap last year, and, of course, we crowdfunded all the expenses for that trip here on Loomer Unleashed, I went to the Darién Gap migrant camps, and I uncovered a lot of fraud and a lot of illegal activity by NGOs, including groups like HIAS, that were giving maps to illegal alien invaders who were coming into our country. And these videos ended up going viral.

And believe it or not, President Trump actually called me one day, during the last election season, and was asking me about the Darién Gap, and he was asking me about my videos and my trip to Panama. And I told the president, I said, “I really think that, in your second administration, you should make it a policy position to take back the Panama Canal.” And he was like, “Oh, well, you know, what makes you say that?” And I explained to him the CCP interference and how the CCP has an enormous presence in the Canal Zone and how they are facilitating illegal immigration, and that’s why we have such an influx of Chinese invaders coming into our country. You see they’re coming in through the Mexican border, but they’re getting to the Mexican border through the Darién Gap, and then they’re making their way up through Costa Rica through these buses.

And long story short, President Trump took my advice, and now you see President Trump calling for the United States to take back the canal. Senator Marco Rubio, who is now the secretary of state, has traveled to Panama and the Darién — and the Panama to have discussions about taking back the Panama Canal. And now President Trump yesterday signed an executive memo calling for an audit of all NGOs. And so it’s really amazing because you’re going to see groups like HIAS now get audited.

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And I received a phone call from President Trump who said that he was going to be looking into it and wanted my input on this. He wanted my input on the issue of the Panama Canal, and he wanted my input on the issue of the illegal alien invasion taking place in the Darién Gap and Panama. And so I’m proud that I have had several conversations with President Trump and also Marco Rubio and other officials in the Trump administration about these NGOs and about the activities in Panama. And so I was very excited yesterday to see President Trump sign this executive memo, calling for all of the NGOs to be audited. So this is really incredible and it’s exciting.

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And I’ve been told directly by people who work for President Trump that my videos have played a massive role in opening President Trump’s eyes to NGO corruption and the chaos that is happening down in the Panama Canal Zone.

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During Donald Trump's 2024 campaign, billionaire Tesla/SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and far-right MAGA conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer were among his aggressive, outspoken supporters. Musk was a major donor, and Loomer traveled with Trump's campaign.

Trump has proposed a new advisory committee that would be called the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and he has chosen Musk and MAGA businessman Vivek Ramaswamy to lead it. But Loomer has been expressing her disdain for Musk and loudly questioning his MAGA credentials.

In a Christmas 2024 post on the Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter, Loomer wrote, "Is DOGE real? Or is it a vanity project? Can we have this conversation without people crying?"

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The following day, Loomer tweeted, "Is DOGE a way to 'cut spending' or REDIRECT the spending toward the pet projects of tech bro billionaires? It's looking like the latter TBH. 'Hey let's convince the peasants that we are saving them money as we enrich ourselves! Then when they find out and speak out, we will have the Indian Mods Ban them!'"

Loomer, in a separate December 26 tweet, predicted that Trump and Musk will have a falling out.

The Florida-based conspiracy theorist posted, "Don't worry guys. The divorce is coming soon."

Musk was dismissive of Loomer's posts, tweeting, "Loomer is trolling for attention. Ignore."

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But Loomer has continued her attacks on Musk.

Loomer also tweeted, "The elephant in the room is that @elonmusk, who is not MAGA and never has been, is a total fucking drag on the Trump transition. @realDonaldTrump He's a stage 5 clinger who over stayed his welcome at Mar a Lago in an effort to become Trump's side piece and be the point man for all of his accomplices in big Tech to slither in to Mar a Lago."

The New Republic's Hafiz Rashid noted the "racism" that has been evident in Loomer's tweets.

Rashid, in an article published on December 26, wrote, "Loomer, renowned for her Islamophobia, racism, and conspiracy theories, appears to be opposing Musk for those very reasons, as her virulent racism drives her anti-immigration views. Her attacks on Musk are flavored with that racism, from her invoking of China to repeated attacks on people from India."

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Donald Trump sparked outrage among his critics with the appointment of Kash Patel as the head of the FBI, and now some are warning Patel to protect himself.

Patel has been seen as a controversial pick, including because of his reportedly unwavering loyalty to the former and incoming president, and because of his purported ties to QAnon.

Morgan Ortagus, a Trump-endorsed candidate for Congress in Tennessee's fifth congressional election who effectively lost the race in 2022 after being removed from the ballot, posted a photo with Patel Saturday.

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"A beautiful Sunday lunch with 45/47 and the next ⁦[FBI] Director my friend [Patel]," Ortagus wrote on her social media.

Far-right activist Laura Loomer, who recently spoke out against a dinner guest Trump had, replied to Ortagus.

"I bet it was beautiful… Remember when you went on MSDNC and said 'you didn’t know' if you could ever support Donald Trump as the GOP nominee for President while you were a campaign surrogate for [Jeb Bush]?" Loomer asked. "Remember when you called Trump 'disgusting.'"

Loomer also felt the need to warn Patel about Ortagus.

"I love Kash Patel. He has always been a big supporter of the J6 patriots and even raised money for them," she wrote. "Morgan Ortagus is a snake who is disliked by all of her colleagues at the State Department and she is a traitor to Trump."

Loomer continued:

"Let’s go down memory lane. Morgan was never with Trump. Her twin sister married a Muslim man, which prompted Morgan to attack Donald Trump over his travel ban from Islamic countries, she divorced her first husband and married a rich, politically connected Jew in DC and had her wedding officiated by the ultra-liberal SCOTUS justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg."

Another X user named Teri McCoy, a self-identified "Trump supporter," also flagged a "Snake Alert on Ortagus!!"

An account on X purportedly about the so-called Trump Derangement Syndrome wrote, "Weren’t you for Jeb Bush in 2016 and Nikki Haley in 2024? What a grifter!"

Another popular MAGA X account, Tammie McDonald, said, "Get out of here" with a snake emoji.

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Right-wing media figures are spreading salacious and unsupported accusations against Tim Walz from an account known for creating viral hoaxes

Some conservative media personalities aren’t convinced, urging others to avoid the viral posts given the originator’s track record

Written by Jack Winstanley

Research contributions from Alex Kaplan

:{Published 10/17/24 mma

Right-wing and far-right media personalities have amplified an unfounded claim against Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz based on a series of posts on social media from “Black Insurrectionist,” an account that has previously pushed a conspiracy theory about the September 10 presidential debate. Some conservative media figures have warned others to “stay away” from the accusations based on the account’s track record of pushing baseless claims.

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...# ight-Wingers Heartbroken by Picture of Little Girl Who Doesn’t Exist

An AI-generated image has been used to attack the Biden-Harris administration over its response to Hurricane Helene

By Miles Klee

A *real* Florida family walking through floodwaters as they return home after Hurricane Helene. AP

There has been no shortage of gut-wrenching photographs from communities in the southeast devastated by Hurricane Helene, which caused extreme flooding and killed at least 215 people — pictures of houses destroyed, families trapped on rooftops, wreckage from mudslides and roads washed out by torrential rains. But rather than focus on the actual victims or damage, many right-wing influencers and politicians have extended their sympathies to a nonexistent girl and her puppy (who is also not real).

The AI-generated image they’re sharing depicts a crying girl in a boat, seemingly alone except for the little dog she’s clutching. She wears a lifejacket and appears to be adrift on floodwaters caused by a major storm. Sen. Mike Lee of Utah posted the picture on X on Thursday, writing “Caption this photo,” apparently inviting his followers to vent their outrage at the Biden-Harris administration for allowing American children to suffer such misery on their watch. After users pointed out that he’d fallen for AI slop, he deleted the picture. (The image originated on the Trump web forum Patriots.win, where several users immediately recognized it as the product of an AI model.)

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Others, however, have left the misleading picture up on their social media accounts — and some are defending it as an accurate representation of Helene’s effects even though it’s fake. Far-right conspiracy theorist and Donald Trump associate Laura Loomer called the image “sad,” quote-tweeting a post from Buzz Patterson, columnist for the conservative blog RedState, who wrote of the picture: “Our government has failed us again.” Neither have taken their posts down as of press time. Amy Kremer, RNC National Committeewoman for the Georgia GOP and co-founder of Women for Trump, tweeted on Thursday that the image had been “seared into my mind.”

Informed that she was not looking at an authentic photo, Kremer doubled down. “Y’all, I don’t know where this photo came from and honestly, it doesn’t matter,” she replied. “There are people going through much worse than what is shown in this pic. So I’m leaving it because it is emblematic of the trauma and pain people are living through right now.” A large anonymous blue-check account on X that routinely attacks Democrats did remove the picture but similarly argued: “Even though that image was AI, it spoke a truth about the disregard Harris and Biden have for ordinary Americans, as evidenced by their criminal non-response to Helene.” Another X user posted a since-deleted screenshot of a more succinct response from an apparent family member advised that the image was bogus. “Who cares,” they answered.

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The little girl and her puppy — there are AI-generated variants of the more viral image floating around as well — have been widely presented by MAGA world as evidence of a failed disaster response in the aftermath of Helene. Similar fake images depict girls or women clutching Bibles as floods rage around them. Trump himself is pushing lies about the U.S. government not being able to fund relief efforts, adding an overtone of racism with the groundless claim that the White House “stole” money from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and “spent it all on illegal migrants.” (The irony being that in 2019, the Trump administration itself redirected millions in disaster funds, during hurricane season, to pay for detention centers at the border.)

FEMA has said in a statement that it does have enough money for “immediate response and recovery needs.” Yet the supposed scandal has Republicans outraged at the idea that Americans impacted by the hurricane are being denied help because Democrats funneled resources to immigrants. “So Kamala doesn’t have enough money for this child?” fumed a MAGA-affiliated X user who shared the AI-generated girl. “For Americans that lost everything they have? I can’t hate this administration enough.”

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The barrage of AI junk from Trump supporters follows a similar trend last month, when the former president, his running mate Sen. J.D. Vance, and their various allies were smearing the Haitian immigrant community of Springfield, Ohio, by falsely accusing them of stealing and eating local house pets. During that news cycle, many used AI to generate cartoonish images of cats and dogs wearing MAGA hats, and Trump himself holding or protecting animals. Before that, Trump shared AI imagery that made it appear as if he had the backing of Taylor Swift and her fan army. (Swift endorsed Vice President Harris immediately after Harris’ September debate with Trump.) Along with the phony “victim” images to come out of the Helene disaster, there were also AI pictures of Trump braving floodwaters to assist residents and rescue babies.

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What other uncanny-valley creations will online Trump boosters bring to the fore of the American imagination in the closing weeks of this chaotic campaign? Hard to say, but one thing is certain: the AI assault remains a core piece of their strategy.

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September 19, 2024, edition of Loomer Unleashed streamed on Rumble

LAURA LOOMER (HOST): Go online and type in Haitian cannibals; you'll see for yourself. A cannibal gang and its barbecue leader pushed Haiti into chaos. So, no, Jimmy Kimmel is lying. He's attacking me as a racist saying that I'm beyond the pale and that I'm a racist and that I'm a terrible person, but they do. The Haitians are eating people. They're cannibals. Not all of them, but a lot of them are. They're eating people, and they're eating people's pets, and they're eating the cats, and they're eating the dogs. So how is this racist?

We don't do that here in America. We don't eat people. We don't practice cannibalism. It's disgusting. It's third-world. It's beyond third-world. I mean, it's like, it's like for, it's like for people and I don't know, living in the jungle, you know, it's like, I don't even know if people like living in the jungle do this. Right? It's animalistic behavior. It's like Stone Age behavior. Exactly. There's people that live in the most depraved third-world conditions, and they're still not eating people. It is so third-world.

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September 17, 2024, edition of Loomer Unleashed streamed on Rumble

LAURA LOOMER (HOST): Someone said, “Why is MTG so in your face?" Because, she's a jealous woman, and she's working against Donald Trump, and I exposed her. And she, I mean look, we have the documentation of this, she used her campaign funds to set Trump up. You can go look this up yourself. And she's the one who helped orchestrate the dinner between Kanye West and Nick Fuentes and Donald Trump, and her campaign funds were used to pay for the domain for Kanye West's campaign the same day, the same exact day as the dinner. She supported Kevin McCarthy. She's a liar. She's a fraud. I mean, what do people need to know about it? She's a jealous woman. She's crazy.

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While some Republicans have tried to distance their party from Laura Loomer, her show’s guest list indicates how closely linked the GOP is to the far-right extremist.

More than a dozen GOP nominees, elected officials, and Trump advisers have appeared on Loomer’s show, including Trump running mate JD Vance, senior Trump campaign officials Corey Lewandowski and Jason Miller, and members of Congress.

As Media Matters has documented, Loomer has a long history of making horrific remarks. That includes offering a toast to “2,000 more” dead migrants; admitting that she’s “not going to care” when there’s anti-immigrant violence; spewing racist insults following the death of “ghetto b----” Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX); and claiming the White House “will smell like curry & White House speeches will be facilitated via a call center” if Vice President Kamala Harris wins.

Loomer has also described herself as “pro-white nationalism” and a “proud Islamophobe.” Last year she posted a video claiming that “9/11 was an inside job.” Loomer has also promoted the viral racist lie that Haitian immigrants in Ohio are eating pets.

Trump and his campaign are heavily connectedto Loomer, who flew on the former president’s plane to Pennsylvania and New York last week. Loomer has also donated thousands of dollars to Trump-affiliated campaign organizations, according to a search of Federal Election Commission records.

Republicans have routinely supported Loomer by sponsoring her newsletter and appearing on her streaming show since it launched last year. Here is a list of those appearances:

In some of these interviews, Loomer has helped her Republican interviewees raise money or offered them financial support. When the far-right conspiracy theorist spoke with Moreno and Vance, for instance, Loomer helped them raise campaign funds. And when she spoke with Mace, Loomer announced that she would donate to her campaign.

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Loomer invokes Hannibal Lecter as Trump triples down on lies about immigrants eating pets

David Badash

For almost a year Donald Trump inexplicably has been injecting the fictional character Hannibal Lecter into his re-election rallies. Now, far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, who has promoted white nationalism and appears to be influencing the ex-president, has introduced the serial killing cannibal into the latest, dangerous Trump controversy.

“In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs,” Trump falsely claimed during Tuesday’s debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, referring to Haitian immigrants. “The people that came in. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating — they’re eating the pets of the people that live there. And this is what’s happening in our country. And it’s a shame.”

Despite multiple fact checks proving Trump (and his running mate, U.S. Senator JD Vance, who has also promoted those pet-eating lies) wrong, the Republican presidential nominee doubled down – even after the debate moderator, ABC News’ David Muir, live on-air debunked his claims.

The City of Springfield, Ohio was forced to evacuate its city hall and an elementary schoolThursday morning after a multiple-location bomb threat was received, but that did not stop Trump from promoting his false claims on his Truth Social social media platform hours later.

READ MORE: Trump Faces Increasing Calls to Participate in Second Debate

“Bernie Moreno has a very good chance of winning Ohio against a Radical Left Democrat, Sherrod Brown, with what is happening in Springfield, and other parts of the State,” Trump declared Thursday afternoon, referring to the far-right extremist Republican running to unseat Democratic U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, who is leading in the polls by low single digits.

Trump then invoked his racist Haitian immigrant rhetoric.

“Ohio is being inundated with Illegal Migrants, mostly from Haiti, who are taking over Towns and Villages at a level and rate never seen before.”

That too is false.

Legal immigrants from Haiti have come to Springfield, and have been a boon to the city’s businesses. Some city officials have complained that the number of immigrants ramped up too quickly, as the local government struggles to provide services due to the increase in population.

On Truth Social, Trump is also posting memes of cats, including one with them holding a sign that says, “Don’t let them eat us, vote for Trump.”

While Laura Loomer denies she is advising Trump, and she has been traveling with him this week, including to the presidential debate on Tuesday and to 9/11 ceremonies on Wednesday despite being a 9/11 truther. Some suggest she appears to have replaced U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) as a Trump favorite. Loomer, according to NPR, has described herself as a “proud Islamophobe” and “pro-white nationalism.”

READ MORE: JD Vance Dismisses Taylor Swift’s Harris Endorsement: Voters Won’t Be Influenced by ‘Disconnected Billionaire’

Semafor reports, “After a debate in which Trump shouted about false viral rumors of pet-eating Haitians in an Ohio town, her potential influence is drawing more scrutiny from both parties.”

Now she too is going all-in on the racist and false pet-eating Haitian claims.

“Haitian immigrants aren’t just eating cats and dogs. They eat HUMANS,” Loomer baselessly claimed Thursday. “Remember their leader? Known as ‘Barbeque’? Only Hannibal Lecter himself would want to bring more of them to the United States!”

“Don’t let the media say that concerns about illegal immigration are ‘conspiracy theories’. These aren’t rumors. It’s a FACT. When you import the third world, you become the third world, and we won’t allow it here in America. Donald Trump will stop our country from further becoming a third world nation. The media is obsessing over the Haitian migrants because even the most liberal voters are horrified over the animal abuse committed by so many of Kamala’s invaders.”}:

Just days earlier, Trump claimed in a rally that “Dr. Hannibal Lecter” is “a representative of the people who are coming into our country.”

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Former President Donald Trump is now attempting to distance himself from far-right activist and conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, after attending a 9/11 event with her earlier this week — and after receiving backlash even from his most loyal allies.

“Laura Loomer doesn’t work for the Campaign. She’s a private citizen and longtime supporter,” Trump wrote in a Friday social media post. "I disagree with the statements she made but, like the many millions of people who support me, she is tired of watching the Radical Left Marxists and Fascists violently attack and smear me, even to the point of doing anything to stop their Political Opponent, ME"

Even far-right US Rep. Marjorie Greene Taylor (GA) slammed Loomer for an overtly racist social media post this week, and the Georgia lawmaker, and US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) — both staunch MAGA allies — have both encouraged Trump "to distance himself from her — fearing that Loomer's extremism could harm Trump's presidential campaign."

READ MORE:**Laura Loomer’s 'appalling' extremism is exposing 'internal tensions' in Trump World**

Another Republican lawmaker, Rep. Thom Tillis (NC), blasted Loomer as a "crazy conspiracy theorist who regularly utters disgusting garbage intended to divide Republicans." He added, "A [Democratic National Committee] plant couldn't do a better job than she is doing to hurt President Trump's chances of winning re-election. Enough."

Ex-RNC Chair Michael Steele took a dig at the North Carolina congressman, saying, “Where was Tillis when Trump told the Proud Boys to stand back and stand by? Where was he when Donald Trump said there are fine people on both sides — and yes he did say it. And where were any of these folks as this cavalcade of crazy moved closer and closer around Trump?"

In a Saturday, September 14 report, MSNBC's Clariss-Jan Lim noted that Trump's "affinity for Loomer is not new. He endorsed her in 2020during the first of two failed runs for Congress. He has called her a 'terrific' personand talked glowingly of her support for him. And The New York Times reported last year that Trump wanted to hire Loomer for a role in his campaign."

Lim also noted that Loomer has called herself a 'proud Islamophobe,' cheered thedeath of thousands of migrants, said 9/11 was an 'inside job,' spread conspiracy theories about mass shootings and, more recently, posted aracist attackagainst Vice President Kamala Harris."

READ MORE:**Ex-RNC head rages against MAGA Republicans for suddenly changing tune over Trump’s friend Loomer**

*Lim's full report is available here.

  1. ### Donald Trump refuses to denounce Laura Loomer's extremism, calling her a “free spirit” and a “supporter”

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  1. ### Fox News is completely ignoring Trump's relationship with conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer

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florida-based MAGA activist Laura Loomer has the distinction of being one of the few people who even Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) has accused of being too far to the right.

Greene herself is a far-right MAGA conspiracy theorist who once claimed that "Jewish space lasers" were causing wildfires in California. But a September 8 tweet from Loomer was so overtly racist that even Greene was offended. And Greene, along with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), is urging former President Donald Trump to distance himself from her — fearing that Loomer's extremism could harm Trump's presidential campaign.

Loomer ridiculed Vice President Kamala Harris' Indian heritage, tweeting, "If @KamalaHarris wins, the White House will smell like curry & White House speeches will be facilitated via a call center and the American people will only be able to convey their feedback through a customer satisfaction survey at the end of the call that nobody will understand."

READ MORE:The MAGA plot to steal 2024 election is on a 'different level than 2020': experts

Greene, in response, attacked the post as "appalling and extremely racist," claiming that it "does not represent President Trump" and the MAGA movement.

"This type of behavior should not be tolerated ever," Greene tweeted. "@LauraLoomer should take this down."

Tweeting an article by journalists Joe Perticone and Marc A. Caputo for the conservative website The Bulwark, their colleague Sam Stein summarized the Loomer-related infighting among Republicans.

Stein tweeted, "A Loomer saga story brimming with news * MTG called Trump about it * The NRSC has posted EIGHT Loomer videos itself * (Sen JD) Vance, whose wife is of Indian-American descent, is not commenting on Loomer's racist anti-Indian tweet."

READ MORE:'Nothing is off the table': Trump plans for 'bureaucratic bullying' of enemies if he wins

In The Bulwark, Perticone and Caputo report, "Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) fired off criticisms of Loomer after she was spotted twice with Trump in as many days, warning that her presence could trip up the ex-president's election chances. Greene said she went so far as to bring up the matter with Trump on a phone call….. In response, Loomer went nuclear, accusing both Greene and Graham of being insufficiently MAGA, questioning the senator's sexuality, criticizing the congresswoman for having affairs that led to her divorce, and comparing her to a 'hooker.'"

The Bulwark journalists add, "The quarreling, visceral even by Trump World standards, was viewed with intense schadenfreude in Democratic circles. It brought to the surface some of the internal tensions that Trump's team had successfully buried for much of the election season."

Loomer has become such a sensitive subject in Trump World that a campaign adviser, interviewed on condition of anonymity, told The Bulwark, "We're staying out of this."

READ MORE:'Nothing is off the table': Trump plans for 'bureaucratic bullying' of enemies if he wins

*Joe Perticone and Marc A. Caputo's full article for The Bulwark is available at this link.

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In June, Loomer said Democrats like Biden “are guilty of treason” and noted, “If you are found guilty of treason, the punishment is death.”Loomer explained, “I know that you're gonna clip what I said tonight, and you're gonna say, ‘See, look. Laura Loomer did say she wants to execute Democrats.’ No. I said that we need to follow the Constitution, and the Constitution outlines that if you are found guilty of treason, the punishment is death. And there's a lot of people, a lot of your friends, Joe Biden, a lot of your associates who would qualify for the death penalty.” Rumble, *Loomer Unleashed*, [6/4/24]}:

* Trump seemingly echoed Loomer’s baseless accusations, originally posted to Twitter/X, that the Harris campaign used AI to “manipulate her campaign photos and videos.” According to Forbes, “Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed a crowd that gathered to see Vice President Kamala Harris arrive at a Michigan airport for a campaign rally was ‘fake,’ insisting her campaign used artificial intelligence to mask the fact that ‘there was nobody there’—a claim refuted by images, videos and accounts of the event.” Twitter/X, [8/9/24, 8/10/24; Forbes, 8/11/24]

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Numerous conservative politicians and organizations have been “sponsors” of notorious bigot Laura Loomer’s newsletter, according to a Media Matters review. Those conservatives include The Heritage Foundation, Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Jim Jordan (R-OH), and a committee composed of Trump’s 2020 campaign and the Republican National Committee.

Loomer has had a long history of bigoted and horrific remarks. In 2017, she described herself as “pro-white nationalism” and a “proud islamophobe.” That year she also celebrated the death of over 2,000 migrants. Last year, she shared a video claiming that “9/11 was an inside job.” (This morning, Loomer was leaning further into 9/11 conspiracy theories, writing: “Whatever you do…. Do NOT google Building 7.”) And she recently claimed that “the White House will smell like curry & White House speeches will be facilitated via a call center” if Harris wins the presidency. (For more of Loomer’s history, go here.)

Trump is a big fan and promoter of Loomer, who recently traveled with the former president to Pennsylvania and New York.

In recent days, some Republicans have sought to distance their party from Loomer and call for the former president to cut ties to the far-right extremist.

But Loomer’s relationship with Republicans extends to the financial realm through sponsorships. A Media Matters-linked account subscribes to Loomer’s newsletter and has received numerous sponsored messages from prominent Republicans and Republican-aligned groups since 2020. Those messages asked Loomer’s readers for support through donations.

Here is a list of notable sponsors along with their mailings. The messages are sent from Loomer’s website and contain the text, “Please read the message below from our sponsor.”

(In some cases, organizations sent multiple sponsored emails; in those cases only the most recent is listed.)

Three of those organizations — Conservative Partnership Institute, American Commitment, and The Heritage Foundation — are now partof Project 2025.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) appeared as a sponsor of Loomer’s newsletters. Greene was also the author of a 2021 fundraising email for the House Freedom Fund, the campaign arm of the House Freedom Caucus (Greene was kicked out of the caucus last year). The Republican member of Congress, who also has a history of bigoted and conspiratorial rhetoric, has been heavily criticizing Loomer over her recent remarks about Harris. Loomer has responded, in part, by attacking Greene by referencing a story first surfaced by Media Matters.

Why the MAGA movement can’t cut loose toxic liabilities like Tucker Carlson and Laura Loomer

What it takes to get kicked out of the MAGA movement

Written by Matt Gertz

Published 09/12/24 MMA

MAGA stalwarts Tucker Carlson, Laura Loomer, and Benny Johnson spent the last week demonstrating that as long as you pledge fealty to Donald Trump, there’s virtually nothing you can do that will get you kicked out of his movement.

The trio of pro-Trump personalities drew significant shows of support from the top echelons of the GOP after dabbling in Holocaust denial and Nazi apologia (Carlson); describing Vice President Kamala Harris as “a brain-dead bimbo who sucked so much c**k in order to get to the political position that she's in today” and saying her “White House will smell like curry” (Loomer); and unwittingly receiving vast sums of laundered money that originated with the Kremlin (Johnson).

Right-wing media figures with bizarre fixations and extreme views became an increasingly potent power center within the Republican Party in recent years. The rising influence of these conspiracy-minded propagandists led GOP politicians to seek their favor by mimicking their affects and obsessions, which are toxic to normal people, thus weakening the GOP’s electoral prospects.

Trump’s Tuesday debate performance encapsulated this trend, as he ranted about Haitian immigrants stealing and eating pets and spread other lies familiar only to those steeped in the deep lore of Fox News prime-time hosts and right-wing online subcultures.

But Trump shows no signs of breaking out of that right-wing bubble. And his willingness to embrace anyone willing to give him their loyalty — no matter how extreme their views — has helped make it impossible for the GOP to separate itself from even the most depraved and corrupt MAGA figures.

By way of contrast, there is one thing that will get you purged from the modern right: forcefully arguing that Trump’s 2020 election subversion effort renders him unfit for the presidency.

Carlson may be the single right-wing media figure with the most influence within the GOP. He spoke at the Republican National Convention, has Trump’s ear, and helped secure Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s position as Trump’s running mate. Carlson is currently touring the country for events featuring numerous Republican power players, including Vance.

So when Carlson touted Daryl Cooper as “the most important historian in the United States” at the top of their two-hour interview published September 2, he was effectively giving the podcaster the imprimatur of the GOP.

He then proceeded to nod along as Cooper complained that purportedly legitimate German grievances are treated too unsympathetically by historians, argued British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was “the chief villain” of World War II, and blamed negligence for how “millions of people ended up dead” in Nazi concentration camps. In a follow-up thread on X, Cooper suggested Churchill should have taken Adolf Hitler up on an offer to “work with the other powers to reach an acceptable solution to the Jewish problem.”

Carlson has a long history of promoting white supremacist talking points — I noted a prominent neo-Nazi describing the then-Fox as “our greatest ally” more than seven years ago. But his eager platforming of Holocaust denial and Nazi apologia last week drew condemnations from some elected Republicans and numerous right-wing figures, with some suggesting that Vance and Trump should cut ties with him and that the right as a whole should cast him out.

“It is now incumbent on all decent people, and especially those on the right, to demand that Carlson no longer be treated as a mainstream figure,” wrote Jonathan S. Tobin, the editor-in-chief of Jewish News Syndicate and former executive editor at the conservative magazine Commentary. “Call it cancel culture, if you like, but the notion that someone who thinks it is acceptable or legitimate to question the truth about the Holocaust ought not to have access to a potential president, as Carlson appears to have with Trump, is entirely reasonable.”

But the revolt dissipated without forcing a break between Carlson and the upper echelon of the GOP. Carlson “laughed off the backlash,” while Vance “pointedly refused to join in the outrage over Carlson’s chat with Cooper” and even sat for an interview with the host. Kevin Roberts, the president of the powerful Heritage Foundation think tank which oversees Project 2025, kept his September 6 date on Carlson’s tour. Vance’s appearance is still on Carlson’s schedule for later this month.

By Tuesday, Carlson’s Republican critics were reduced to anonymously and impotently telling reporters that if Vance and Trump stick with the host, it might alienate “swing voters in the suburbs.”

The GOP’s situation grew more toxic that evening when an unexpected person disembarked from Trump’s plane when it arrived in Philadelphia for the night’s presidential debate: the pro-Trump influencer Laura Looomer, a notorious bigot and conspiracy theorist.

Loomer is a self-described “proud Islamophobe” who is “pro-white nationalism.” She has claimed there is a “genocide” of “native white populations,” which she says are “being replaced in this country by third-world invaders,” and accused “so many rich Jews” of having “a fixation on trying to destroy America.” She has accused the Biden administration of seeking to assassinate Trump; called for the execution of unnamed “Democrats who are guilty of treason”; said that “all of these communist secretaries of state who try to rig our elections” against Trump “belong in jail for election interference”; and shared a video which claimed “9/11 was an Inside Job!”

Loomer is “mentally unstable and a documented liar” who “can not be trusted” and is “toxic and poisonous,” according to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) (herself no stranger to bigoted and unhinged conspiracy theories).

But Loomer’s ardent support for Trump has made her a favorite of the former president, who has repeatedly praised her on the campaign trail, repeated her baseless smears on Truth Social, and reportedly attempted to hire her in the spring of 2023 before being dissuaded by “a firestorm” among some of his “most vocal conservative supporters.”

Loomer has in recent weeks described Harris, whose parents immigrated from India and Jamaica, as “a brain-dead bimbo who sucked so much c**k in order to get to the political position that she's in today,” said she “is NOT black and never has been,” said her election would ensure that “Ebonics will replace English as the language of our land,” and said that if she’s elected “the White House will smell like curry & White House speeches will be facilitated via a call center and the American people will only be able to convey their feedback through a customer satisfaction survey at the end of the call that nobody will understand.”

That last remark — which Loomer posted to X on Sunday, days before going on the campaign trail with Trump — led Greene to respond, “This is appalling and extremely racist. It does not represent who we are as Republicans or MAGA. This does not represent President Trump.”

Loomer’s direct contact clearly has some Republicans unnerved. Some are suggesting to reporters that her presence on Trump’s plane led to his unhinged debate rant about migrants eating pets. But she remained on the campaign trail with the former president on Wednesday — including at ceremonies marking the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks — and the X account of the National Republican Senate Committee promoted one of her videos that same day.

One might have expected Trumpist influencer Benny Johnson to have had difficulty finding guests for his streaming coverage of Tuesday’s presidential debate.

He was one of several right-wing YouTubers revealed to have unwittingly received significant sums that originated with the Russian government after the Justice Department indicted two Russia propagandists last week for allegedly directing the scheme.

Johnson described himself and the other influencers as the “victims” of the effort. Its existence, however, suggests that Kremlin operatives believed paying Johnson and his colleagues would result in the kind of divisive and extreme content that redounds to Russia’s benefit.

But top Republicans aren’t treating Johnson as radioactive following that revelation.

His “STACKED” guest list on Tuesday featured Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump, the former president’s election-denying daughter in law; Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), who in his role as House Judiciary chair often pretends to be very concerned about the prospect of foreign money finding its way to Democrats; as well as Greene and Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL).

Lara Trumpconcluded her friendly interview by suggesting that Johnson had been the victim of a government conspiracy, saying, “You know we’re in election season, Benny, whenever they’re bringing Russia back up and trying to make some sort of a connection between Republicans and Russia.”

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) and Florida-based GOP activist Laura Loomer, both far-right MAGA conspiracy theorists and avid Donald Trump supporters, were once allies. But Greene and Loomer had a major falling out when they disagreed over, among other things, Greene's alliance with former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California).

Now, another source of tension between them is a racist Loomer tweet attacking Vice President Kamala Harris' Indian heritage. The Democratic presidential nominee's mother was from India, while her father was from Jamaica.

In a September 8 post on X, formerly Twitter, Loomer wrote, "If @KamalaHarris wins, the White House will smell like curry & White House speeches will be facilitated via a call center and the American people will only be able to convey their feedback through a customer satisfaction survey at the end of the call that nobody will understand."

READ MORE: Trump allies blame Laura Loomer for erratic debate performance: 'This is what he gets'

Loomer's tweet was so racist that even Greene, herself a scathing critic of Harris and President Joe Biden, is calling her out.

The MAGA congresswoman tweeted, "This is appalling and extremely racist. It does not represent who we are as Republicans or MAGA. This does not represent President Trump. This type of behavior should not be tolerated ever. @LauraLoomer should take this down."

In a separate tweet, posted on September 11, Greene described the tensions between her and Loomer — posting, "Little bit of a history lesson for a few of you. Laura and I used to be friends going back to 2018. I used to defend her and support her….. I endorsed her first run for congress, donated to her, and fundraised for her and then she lost. Then when she ran again against Daniel Webster, I told her to run in another district, so she could win, but she refused."

Loomer, in response to Greene's attacks, noted her antisemitic "Jewish space lasers" conspiracy theory.

READ MORE:Over 300K people clicked on Taylor Swift's voter registration link in less than 12 hours

Loomer tweeted, "It's really funny how @mtgreenee (a raging anti semite who said Jews use space lasers to control the world) wants to pretend like I'm a 'racist' because I made a funny joke about Kamala Harris making cooking videos and buying curry spice at an anti Trump spice shop and I mocked how she uses her Indian mom as a way to dodge questions. I won't be apologizing for having a sense of humor. I also believe in free speech, @mtgreenee which you clearly don't support. I get it. You’re jealous of me because despite your planted hit pieces about me in the @nytimes, I won. Get over it."

READ MORE: 'Why push something that's not true?' CNN host confronts JD Vance for spreading 'false information'

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After Trump's flailing performance, some MAGA figures falsely claim Harris was wearing an earpiece at the debate

The perennial claim goes back nearly two decades, as right-wing media figures have routinely claimed that candidates were wearing secret earpieces during debates

Written by Jack Winstanley & Kayla Gogarty

Research contributions from Payton Armstrong, Olivia Little & Noah Dowe

Published 09/11/24 mma

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Right-wing and far-right media figures are circulating the false claim that Vice President Kamala Harris was wearing a secret earpiece during the debate, implying that she was being fed responses.

The claim — which right-wing figures have lobbed at presidential candidates for decades — gained traction across social media, including on X (formerly Twitter) and TikTok, where videos asserting that Harris was wearing a secret device earned at least 1.5 million views.

Trump ally Laura Loomer, who has previously used a slur and racist, sexist language to deride Harris, claimed in a post on X that Harris made an “interesting choice of earrings” for the debate and showed an image of a person wearing a Nova H1 audio earring device.

According to Icebach Sound Solutions, the manufacturer of the Nova H1, it is “wireless earphones embedded in a pair of pearl earrings.” However, Newsweek reported that the Nova H1 does not appear to be available for commercial sale and that backers of the Nova H1’s Kickstarter campaign have been asking for updates on their unreceived earrings for over a year. Newsweek also noted that social media users said Harris’ earrings looked like a pair from Tiffany & Co.

Nevertheless, other right-wing media figures and conspiracy theorists jumped on the claim that Harris was supposedly wearing the wireless earphones.

Naomi Wolf, who has repeatedly pushed COVID-19 conspiracy theories, suggested in a social media post that Nova be required to release sales records.

Infowars host Alex Jones suggested that Harris was wearing Nova earrings in a social media post before claiming that “this is dead on the same earring” and “Kamala clearly was wearing this system.”

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CitationFrom the September 10, 2024, edition of Infowars' The Alex Jones Show

Several other far-right figures pushed the claim on social media, with some alleging that Harris was “using assistance” during the debate. At least one post had a “community note” attached to it, stating that Harris was wearing earrings produced by Tiffany & Co., not the Nova H1’s.

Other right-wing media figures claimed that Harris was given the questions ahead of time in their flailing attempts to explain how she outperformed Trump on the debate stage.

Media Matters has also identified numerous TikTok videos — with over 1.5 million combined views — that question whether Harris had an “ear piece in” and share images of the Nova earrings.

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One video, which has over 917,000 views, shows an image of Harris’ ear next to an image of what it implies are the Nova H1 earrings, plays audio of former President Barack Obama discussing the importance of the presidency, and overlays text asking, “Kamala wearing Nova H1 earring headphones?”

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CitationFrom a September 11, 2024, video uploaded to TikTok

Another video, which has over 525,000 views, shows Harris at the debate wearing earrings, plays audio saying “welcome to the shit show,” and overlays text that says, “Everyone go look up Nova H1 audio earring on Google before they delete the site!!!!”

Right-wing media figures have claimed for over two decades that presidential candidates have worn secret earpieces during debates. While Harris is the most recent target of such claims, similar accusations were leveled at Al Gore in 2000, George W. Bush in 2004, Hillary Clinton in 2016, and Joe Biden after a 2020 debate.

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Trump attends 9/11 anniversary with Laura Loomer, who shared video claiming “9/11 was an Inside Job!”

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Before ABC News hosted the first — and possibly only — 2024 presidential debate between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris, GOP strategists were hoping that Trump would stick to issues and policy and avoid making personal attacks against the vice president or promoting conspiracy theories.

But Harris forcefully baited Trump at Philadelphia's National Constitution Center on Tuesday night, September 10, and Trump pushed a range of conspiracy theories — from saying that migrants were eating people's cats and dogs to falsely claiming that Harris' running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, favors aborting babies "after birth."

The next morning on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson commented that Harris "knew what buttons to push," gave Trump a verbal "beatdown" and really got under his skin in Philly.

READ MORE:Conservative slams right-wing media for amplifying 'stupid' pet lies as 'Trump picks it up' at debate

In their analysis of the debate, NOTUS reporters Alex Roarty, Ben T.N. Mause, Reese Gorman and Jasmine Wright point out that Harris "appeared to visibly anger Trump."

A GOP source described by the journalists as someone "close to Trump" acknowledged that the debate didn't go well for the former president.

"This is what he gets for taking counsel from Laura Loomer," the source told NOTUS.

The Florida-based Loomer is a far-right MAGA activist known for pushing debunked conspiracy theories. And the NOTUS reporters note that Loomer "traveled to Philadelphia with Trump on his plane."

READ MORE:Liz Cheney predicts many Republicans will secretly vote for Kamala Harris

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Oklahoma) claimed that debate moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis were unfair to Trump and that he had to "debate three people."

But former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie made no effort to defend Trump, telling ABC News, "Whoever did debate prep for Donald Trump should be fired. He was not good tonight at all."

READ MORE:Debate could make Trump’s 'double-digit' deficit with women even worse — here’s why

*Read NOTUS' full report at this link.

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Conservative talk show host Erick Erickson slammed right-wing news media after Donald Trump "amplified false rumors that Haitian immigrants in Ohio were abducting and eating pets" during Tuesday night's debate against Kamala Harris, according to the Associated Press.

"YOU STUPID MF’ers JUST GOT TRUMP TO REPEAT YOUR LIE ABOUT THE PETS. CONGRATS ON SETTING THE NEWS STORIES TOMORROW BY LYING SO TRUMP PICKS IT UP AND SAYS STUPID S—T," Erickson wrote via X.

Conservative lawyer George Conway replied: "Actually, I don’t think you’re being fair, Erick. I’m going to defend these stupid motherf—kers. Because it’s not their fault that the stupidest motherf—ker of all is @realDonaldTrump."

READ MORE:'Bunch of lies, grievances and name-calling': Harris hits Trump out of gate at debate

Meghan McCain, also a conservative former talk show host, also commented on Trump's remarks, writing: "This pet eating thing is a gross internet hoax - come on with this."

The NAACP commented: "No animals were harmed in the making of this campaign lie."

NBC News Capitol Hill correspondent Garrett Haake added: "I’m pretty sure Trump arguing with the moderators over people eating pets in Ohio wasn’t part of the campaign’s game plan."

READ MORE:JD Vance slammed for spreading false rumors of pet-eating Haitian immigrants

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prior to Tuesday night's debate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) spread an unfounded rumor that Haitian immigrants were kidnapping and eating pets in Springfield, Ohio. And former President Donald Trump repeated that lie to millions of viewers, which was fact-checked in real time by ABC's moderators.

CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins asked the Ohio Republican about that exchange in a post-debate interview. She pointed out that despite there being no evidence to substantiate Vance's claim, he encouraged his supporters to spread it anyway, and then asked him, "why push something that's not true?"

"Well, first of all, city officials have not said it's not true, they've said they don't have all the evidence—"

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"—They've said they have no evidence," Collins interjected.

Vance insisted he heard "from a number of constituents on the ground" who gave "both firsthand and secondhand reports saying this stuff is happening." He then insinuated that journalists were being lazy by refusing to "get on the ground and cover this stuff for themselves," and that the media was failing to do its job "until we turned it into a meme about cats."

Collins then reminded Vance that anyone could make a claim about anything, and that it was his job to discern truth from fiction before accusing a large group of people of doing something that's not actually happening.

"Senator, you talked about your office has gotten a lot of reports. If someone calls your office and says they saw Bigfoot, that doesn’t mean they saw Bigfoot," she said. "You have a sense of responsibility as a running mate, and [Trump] certainly does as the candidate, to not promote false information, right?"

READ MORE:AP article debunking JD Vance couch story didn't go through 'proper editing process': report

"I have a responsibility as a United States senator, I think the media has a responsibility as an institution that cares about truth, to actually take people seriously when they say their lives have been ruined by this migrant crisis," Vance countered.

As ABC moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis said during the debate, city managers in Springfield, Ohio have repeatedly said there is no evidence backing up Trump and Vance's claim. Vance even said earlier on Tuesday that it was possible "all of these rumors will turn out to be false."

Vance's promoting of a baseless rumor is particularly noteworthy in that the Ohio senator was himself the subject of an internet hoax. Shortly after Trump selected him as his running mate, a Twitter account claimed without evidence that one passage of Vance's memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, described him committing a sex act with a couch. The rumor went viral on social media, prompting the Associated Press to publish a fact check entitled, "No, JD Vance didn't have sex with a couch." the outlet later said the fact-check didn't go through its "proper editing process" before being published.

Watch the exchange between Collins and Vance below, or byclicking this link.

READ MORE:JD Vance called Native Americans the 'enemy' and Indigenous Peoples Day a 'fake holiday'

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Right-wing media are gleefully promoting a false, racist rumor that Haitian migrants are eating pets

Right-wing figures have called Haitian people “locusts,” zombies,” and “weird Third World aliens”

Written by Chloe Simon & Reed McMaster

Research contributions from Gideon Taaffe

Published 09/10/24 mma

On September 9, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance claimed that Haitian migrants had “abducted and eaten” pets in Springfield, Ohio, seemingly referencing debunked social media rumors.

Though local officials explained that there was no truth to the claim, right-wing media immediately jumped on the bandwagon, amplifying Vance’s allegations and pushing racist narratives about Haitian immigrants.

Some right-wing figures accused Haitian migrants of consuming “cats and ducks” and comparing them to “zombies” and “locusts.”

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Guest of Trump ally Laura Loomer: “Cancer is just an imbalance. Your body is out of balance. Something happened and the tumor is actually a blessing.”

Written by Media Matters Staff

Published 09/06/24 12:51 PM EDT

The Associated Press reported on Charlene and Ty Bollinger in 2021:

The Bollingers are part of an ecosystem of for-profit companies, nonprofit groups, YouTube channels and other social media accounts that stoke fear and distrust of COVID-19 vaccines, resorting to what medical experts say is often misleading and false information.

An investigation by The Associated Press has found that the couple work closely with others prominent in the anti-vaccine movement — including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his Children’s Health Defense — to drive sales through affiliate marketing relationships.

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Ty Bollinger began their business several years ago with books and DVDs such as “Cancer: Step Outside the Box” and “The Truth About Cancer,” which medical experts say included unproven information about alternatives to chemotherapy and cancer prevention. The company even sells a series that purports to show “the truth” about pet cancer.

Ty Bollinger describes himself as a “medical researcher” on bios posted on his website and in at least one book. He holds degrees in accounting and taxation from Baylor, but the AP could find no indication that he has any scientific or medical training, and he declined to answer questions about his credentials.

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CitationFrom the September 5, 2024, edition of Loomer Unleashedstreamed on Rumble

LAURA LOOMER (HOST): It's just incredible to see how these natural oils and these natural remedies in our own environment, nature, can help heal you regardless of whether you have money for treatment or whether you're homeless. And so, I started looking into how I could purchase some of these remedies because I can imagine that a lot of this can also be preventative as well. What can you speak to, the information in these nine episodes regarding the natural remedies and the essential oils and the juicing and the eating? And I'm just reading off the screen here, the detoxing and the light therapy and the sound therapy. Do you recommend these things for people as a preventative for cancer as well or just people who are currently dealing with cancer?

CHARLENE BOLLINGER (GUEST): Yeah. Well, you know, the — we all need to actively be working at preventing cancer because if we don't, we're gonna get cancer. That's the bottom line here. We're gonna get some type of degenerative disease if we're not detoxifying our bodies. So the — it goes through every goes through everything that you need to know on why your doctor doesn't know these things.

Why does the doctor not understand that chemotherapy is actually killing people? Radiation is actually killing people. It's causing more aggressive cancers. These shots, right now, we've got aggressive turbo cancers. So the film will go through the history behind the medical cartel that's in place, and then we're gonna get into the different types of cancer. Episode 2, we get into breast cancer. You're talking about breast cancer. We're talking about the hormones and also skin cancer and the essential oils that you can use to treat yourself. Fasting, juice fasting, all of these things can reboot your body. And when you stop taking in the toxins, Laura, you stop feeding cancer.

You stop causing and feeding cancer. Cancer is just an imbalance. Your body is out of balance. Something happened and the tumor is actually a blessing. What the tumor does is it keeps the cancer stem cells, which if they spread everywhere aggressively, could kill you fast. But the tumor keeps them inside. So when a surgeon comes in and cuts the tumor, they're seeding the cancer. So they cut the tumor, the stem cells come out, and now you're in trouble because the cancer is all over your body. So, every surgery that is performed, they're, they're seeding cancer. They go in there, they cut it out, but there's always stem cells that are seeding into the body. It's not the tumor that the problem is, it's what caused that tumor.

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guide to Laura Loomer, Trump ally and “pro-white nationalism” bigot

Loomer, a self-proclaimed “proud Islamophobe,” has called to execute “Democrats who are guilty of treason” while maintaining a close connection to the former president and his allies

Written by Noah Dowe & Gideon Taaffe

Research contributions from Reed McMaster & Casey Wexler

Published 08/14/24 mma

Laura Loomer has made a career in MAGA politics through attention-grabbing political stunts and extreme bigotry, blending her professed support for white nationalism and Islamophobia with obsessive defenses of former President Donald Trump.

She has been at the forefront of the MAGA movement’s focus on undermining the 2020 election, advocating for extreme immigration policies, pushing Islamophobic rhetoric, spreading far-right conspiracy theories, and – more recently – attacking Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, with sexist and racist remarks, falsely claiming she “is NOT black and never has been.”

Loomer’s endless pro-Trump stunts propelled her into the eyes of Trump’s inner circle, with the former president’s son even claiming he would “love to see” her as Trump’s press secretary. After Loomer’s failed runs for Congress in 2020 and 2022, Trump himself flirted with giving her a role in his 2024 campaign and has repeatedly praised Loomer and highlighted her attacks on his opponents, including Harris. Loomer’s rise through the ranks of right-wing media has been littered with caustic bigotry and extremist ideology.

* ## Loomer rose to prominence by collaborating with a variety of right-wing networks, often through attention-grabbing political stunts

*Loomer then worked for Project Veritas during the 2016 presidential campaign. According to The New Yorker, during her time with the organization, Loomer “performed various stunts—for example, on Election Day, she appeared at a polling station wearing a burqa and asked for a ballot under the name Huma Abedin.” The New Yorker, [6/20/17].|}:

*Loomer called to imprison “all of these communist secretaries of state who try to rig our elections” against Trump, saying “they belong in jail for election interference.”Loomer added: “They attended these Soros Zoom calls together, Shenna Bellows and Jena Griswold.” Rumble, *Loomer Unleashed*, [3/5/24]

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September 4, 2024, edition of Loomer Unleashed streamed on Rumble

LAURA LOOMER (HOST): So, it's just further evidence that the FBI withholds information about shooters, and they let them get away with their shootings because they truly wanna help the Democrats push gun control in election years.

Don't you think it's weird how every single time there's an election in this country we always see a school shooting? I mean, why is that? Don't you think it's weird? I think it's really weird. I really do. I don't think it's a coincidence. I think it's really bizarre how every single time there's a major election there's always a school shooting, and then the Democrats like clockwork are talking about taking away our guns. I don't know.

They're gonna say that I'm a, you know, a school shooting denier. No. I'm not denying that the school shooting was real. I'm saying it's real, but at the same time I'm pointing out the fact that there's a bit of pattern recognition going on here, and the fact is that, well, why is it that the FBI knows about school shooters? They knew about the Parkland shooter. They seem to know about a lot of shooters before these shootings take place, and they choose to not do anything.

Why do these shootings always take place in states where they're about to have important elections or primaries? We saw this happen during the Iowa Caucus earlier this year where there was a shooting the week of the Iowa Caucus. It's a little strange. It's a little strange.

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Biden suspended his campaign and right-wing media responded with conspiracy theories

Conservatives demanded proof the president was still alive, claimed Biden was a “hostage” in a “soft coup,” and even suggested his decision was part of an “inside job” to assassinate Trump

WRITTEN BY JACK WINSTANLEY

PUBLISHED 07/26/24

Following President Joe Biden’s announcement that he was suspending his 2024 reelection campaign, right-wing media figures pushed wild conspiracy theories alleging that the president did not make the decision himself or that it was a backup plan to defeat Donald Trump after the failed assassination attempt against the former president. Conservative media figures repeatedly asked for “proof of life,” claimed Biden was being held “hostage,” and even suggested that Biden's withdrawal letter was forged.

* Sean Davis, CEO and co-founder of conservative outlet The Federalist, commented that Biden has “made no public appearance” since he dropped out of the race, adding, “Also: do we have any evidence Biden is even alive right now?” His post then claimed, “This is banana republic insanity.” Twitter/X, [7/21/24]

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How Trump's infatuation with a racist conspiracy theorist is impacting the campaign

Judd Legum and Noel Sims

Aug 14

Laura Loomer is a far-right internet personality and former Republican congressional candidate. She has said the United States should be a "white Judeo-Christian ethnostate," called for the creation of a ride-sharing app like Uber that bans "Islamic immigrant driver[s]," collaborated with Alex Jones to suggest mass shootings were staged by the government, celebrated the deaths of 2,000 refugees in the Mediterranean, and claimed January 6 should be a national holiday to "celebrate the bravery of American patriots who protested a stolen election."

Loomer also has a very prominent admirer: former President Donald Trump.

Trump palled around with Loomer at his New Jersey golf course last year. In a video Loomer posted on X, Trump lavished Loomer with praise. "It's great to have you, and you've been really very special," Trump said. "You work hard, and you are a very opinionated lady. I have to tell you that, and in my opinion, I like that. And I appreciate all of your support, and everybody appreciates your support."

The admiration is mutual. Loomer shared a video on Truth Social describing how she broke up with a man after he told her she was too focused on Trump. She told him that Trump was more important to her. “I have to say that was the end of that relationship," Loomer said. "President Trump’s my number-one priority right now." Trump promoted the video, commenting, "Thank you, Laura!"

This year, Loomer rode on Trump's plane to the Iowa Republican caucus. At a pre-caucus event, Trump gave Loomer an extended shoutout:

Also, a woman who's really talented, and she's been amazing. She just loves the campaign and loves the country… She's a very important person, politically, but she's actually free press in the true sense. She's free press. And she's really become a friend of a lot of great patriots in this country, Laura Loomer. Stand up, please, Laura. Great job. You do great job. You want to try and have her on your side, right? Much better. No. She's fantastic. Thank you, Laura.

In March 2024, Loomer visited with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort. According to reports, Trump wrapped his arm around her waist and said that Loomer is "softer than she looks." Loomer told the Washington Post that she doesn't "really have much of a life" and if Trump doesn't win another term in the White House, "I don’t have anything."

In April 2023, the New York Times, citing four sources, reported that Trump told aides to hire Loomer for a role on his campaign. The report sparked a backlash among other Trump supporters who view Loomer as a liability and she was not ultimately hired.

While some Trump advisers objected to Loomer working on the campaign, others close to him have embraced her. In 2024, at least ten people in Trump’s orbit — including former administration members, current advisers, congressional loyalists, and JD Vance — have appeared on Loomer’s podcast. Often, they sign off from the show with words of praise for Loomer. Lynne Patton, a senior advisor in the Department of Housing and Urban Development during Trump’s presidency and a current senior campaign advisor, told Loomer, “You’re the best, Laura. Keep fighting the good fight and keep Loomering everybody.” Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s first campaign manager in 2016 who was is currently a consultant for RNC, told Loomer that the information she publishes is "unassailable" and has "never been called into question."

Even outside the formal campaign apparatus, Loomer has played a key role in the 2024 election. Loomer frequently promotes bigoted and outrageous conspiracy theories. Often, these spurious claims are quickly adopted by Trump.

Trump adopts Loomer's racist attack on Harris

A self-proclaimed “investigative journalist,” Loomer issues frequent “reports” in support of Trump. One of Loomer’s recent “investigations” was a racist attack on Kamala Harris, reminiscent of Trump's attacks on Barack Obama.

Since at least December 2022, Loomer has repeatedly claimed that Harris is not Black. Harris is multiracial, born to a Black father from Jamaica and an Indian mother.

Loomer repeated the claim again on her podcast in March 2024 during an interview with Peter Brimelow, an anti-immigrant white supremacist with ties to close Trump associates and Rupert Murdoch. She said, “Well there’s a commonality between Letitia James, Kamala Harris, and Fani Willis. They’re all ghetto black women, I guess with the exception of Harris who is more Indian than Black.”

Loomer’s baseless claims about Harris intensified when Harris became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

On July 21, the same day Joe Biden announced his withdrawal from the presidential race, Loomer posted a “reminder” that Harris only "pretends to be black."

Three days later, Trump posted Loomer’s graphic to his Truth Social account. (Loomer told the Washington Post that a friend made the graphic for her). Then on July 31, Trump reiterated the false claims about Harris’s race during an interview at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) conference:

She was always of Indian heritage and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she turned Black, and now she wants to be known as Black. So I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?

The same day, at a rally in Pennsylvania, Trump displayed a similar headline to the one in Loomer’s graphic, describing Harris as the first Indian-American senator (which is accurate, but does not mean she is not also Black).

When Trump’s comments about Harris’s race on July 31 came under fire, Loomer quickly became his most vocal defender.

Shortly after the NABJ interview, Loomer tweeted that she had a copy of Harris’s birth certificate, alleging that the document proved that Harris is not Black because the race of her father was listed as “Jamaican” and not “Black” or “African.”

Despite their inaccuracy, Loomer’s claims were seen by millions of people across different social media platforms. One of her posts featuring Harris’s birth certificate was reposted on Truth Social by Donald Trump.

In addition to reposting Loomer’s claims, Trump also made his own posts claiming that Harris was a "stone cold phony" because she was lying about her "racial identity."

Trump repeats Loomer's false claim that Harris used AI to inflate crowd size

After a Harris rally in Detroit on August 7, talk began to circulate in right-wing media circles that photos of the crowd had been enhanced using AI to make an actually empty rally look fuller. This is false, as several videos and live newscasts show a large crowd.

Loomer was not the only one promoting false claims about the Harris campaign using AI to make its crowds seem larger. But she was one of the earliest and most strident, making her first post on X about the Detroit rally on August 9.

Over the next day, Loomer posted about the rally four more times on X. Her posts spread widely and were viewed over 6 million views. On August 11, after Loomer's posts went viral, Trump repeated her false claims on Truth Social.

Trump posts fake images, originally circulated by Loomer, attacking family members of judges presiding over his trials

In April 2024, the existing gag order placed on Trump during his trial over hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels was broadened after Trump began a social media attack on Judge Juan Merchan’s daughter, Loren.

Loomer began promoting a rumor that Loren Merchan had used an image of Trump behind bars as her X avatar. Merchan's daughter was the president of Authentic Campaigns, a firm that works with Democratic candidates. But the account that used the image cited by Loomer did not actually belong to Loren Merchan. Nevertheless, Trump seized on Loomer’s false claim as part of an extended attack on Merchan and his daughter.

A similar incident played out in another trial. During his 2023 fraud trial in New York, Trump posted images to Truth Social showing social media posts allegedly made by the wife of the judge overseeing the case that were disparaging to Trump and featured AI-generated images of him in prison. These images, which were not authentic, were originally circulated by Loomer.

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Democracy Dies in Darkness

How Trump’s allies amplify his Truth Social messages to the wider world

By Sarah Ellison and

Clara Ence Morse

May 8, 2024

On the second day of his civil fraud trial in New York last fall, Donald Trump posted a photo of a young woman, Allison Greenfield, standing next to Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.). Trump claimed falsely that she was “Schumer’s girlfriend” and was “running this case against me.”

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Schumer’s girlfriend, Alison R. Greenfield, is running this case against me. How disgraceful! This case should be dismissed immediately!! https://www.instagram.com/greenfield4civilcourt/A photo of Allison Greenfield standing next to New York senator Charles E. Schumer displayed as a silhouette.The Washington Post is not displaying this image.

October 3, 2023 at 6:56 p.m.

Trump’s post about Greenfield, the principal law clerk for New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron, received only around 1,400 shares, modest activity for a former president whose Twitter account once had nearly 90 million followers.

Engoron, who oversaw the trial, ordered Trump to take down the post, which he did the same day. But the message was already out. The next day, insults directed at Greenfield flooded right-wing podcasts and social media.

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President Trump posted this on Truth Social. Judge Arthur Engoron’s Principal Law Clerk Allison Greenfield appears to be a Democrat political operative who is collaborating with @SenSchumer who has openly proclaimed his desire to “get Trump” and see him jailed. WITCH HUNT

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“These people have an agenda. They have had a bias, obvious bias against Donald Trump from day one.”

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The Michael Knowles Show podcast

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“Trump took a swipe at one of the judge's staff members and pointed out that she's a huge lib, Alison Greenfield. She's a big lib. She's a big Democrat.”

— Michael Knowles

Over the next two months, dozens of articles focused on Greenfield’s role. Conservative media personalities such as Laura Loomer and the cable TV news channel Newsmax kept the spotlight on the clerk by frequently repeating Trump’s complaints.

Breitbart

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November 3, 2023

A Breitbart headline reading: Conniption in Court: Gasps as Breitbart Exposé on Trump New York Judge’s Clerk Takes Center Stage

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November 3, 2023

A NewsMax headline reading: Judge Blasts Trump Lawyers for Attacking Staff

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A New York Post headline reading: Trump seeks mistrial in 'tainted' $250M civil fraud case — citing judge's 'overwhelming' bias

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A The Epoch Times headline reading: NY Judge Argues Against Trump Suit, Says Relationships Between Judge and Staff 'Sacrosanct'

With the attention from Trump’s backers came threats and abuse — a torrent that compelled Greenfield to tighten security at home and avoid public transportation.

When transcribed, the harassing voice-mail messages left for Greenfield covered more than 275 single-spaced pages.

Those concerned about the impact of Trump’s incendiary and often inaccurate messages have long sought ways to limit his reach. Cable news networks stopped airing his speeches live. Social media companies adopted new rules to slow the spread of false information. The targets of his bogus election conspiracy theories sued him and his proxies.

Perhaps the most significant move to limit Trump’s audience came after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol: bans on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, blocking him from some of the most influential social media platforms of the era.

And yet, three years later, a Washington Post analysis shows how those efforts have failed.

Now the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Trump is as potent a political force as ever, with an army of amplifiers ensuring that his messages — true or untrue — reach a broad swath of the American public. He is set to face President Biden in November, with Trump running roughly even in national polls.

When Trump was initially suspended from the major social media platforms, he issued a statement: “We will not be SILENCED!”

He then created his own social media platform, Truth Social, where he would never be banned and which would allow him to profit financially from his own messages.

Former president Donald Trump is reflected in a mirror as he speaks to supporters in Laconia, N.H., on the day before the New Hampshire Republican primary. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

Truth Social was estimated to have 5.4 million website visits in the United States in March, with another 800,000 on its app. By comparison, X, which was formerly known as Twitter, claimed more than 200 times that, with over 1 billion visits. Facebook is estimated to have had 3 billion visits in the same period, according to audience tracking firm Similarweb. Even though Trump has now been reinstated on the larger platforms, he has stuck with Truth Social, a platform that gives him greater freedom but a far more limited reach.

Yet despite its relatively small user base, Truth Social is influential because it sustains the networks of MAGA influencers, culture warriors and election deniers who power the right-wing media and guide the rhetoric and policies of many Republican elected officials. It directly connects Trump to influencers with enormous networks and audiences outside the platform, The Post’s analysis found.

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The Post analyzed 14,101 of Trump’s posts from the day he announced his presidential campaign on Nov. 15, 2022, through March 15, 2024, including 7,716 original text posts as well as reposts and image-only posts. He posted to Truth Social, where he now has 6.96 million followers, an average of 29 times a day over that period.

Those messages were in turn shared by followers with wildly popular Twitter accounts, Facebook pages, podcasts and cable news shows, some of which reach tens of millions of people. The Post’s analysis focused on nearly 200 right-wing political influencers who have active accounts on Truth Social and other social media sites.

“The people around Trump know better than anybody how to spread a message,” Stephen K. Bannon, a former Trump senior adviser and influential podcaster, said in an interview. They also benefit personally from their role.

Supporters of former president Donald Trump try to get his photo as he walks out to announce his bid for president at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., on Nov. 15, 2022. (Thomas Simonetti for The Washington Post)

By “recirculating golden nuggets from Trump, influencers provide the bonding of this media ecosystem,” said Yochai Benkler, a Harvard Law School professor who has long studied propaganda. “The more outrageous and trolling of the libs it is,” added Benkler, “the more attractive it is for those who want to make money and get credibility inside the political community for being a true believer.”

Trump recently praised Truth Social for its effectiveness. “When I put out a statement or message, it is SPREAD all over the place, fast and furious. EVERYBODY SEEMS TO GET WHATEVER I HAVE TO SAY, AND QUICKLY,” he wrote on the platform in early April.

Shannon Devine, spokesperson for Truth Social, said in a statement that “since users can express themselves on Truth Social without censorship and without their message being filtered through biased media outlets, it’s unsurprising that Donald Trump would use the platform or that people would spread his statements elsewhere.” The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

Trump’s biggest amplifiers include well-known political figures and media organizations, as well as those who have built their brands almost entirely based on their habitual echo of the former president’s words, The Post’s analysis found.

Influencers such as conservative radio and TV host Mark Levin, former Trump adviser and media commentator Sebastian Gorka, former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, and online personalities such as Philip Buchanan, who posts using the handle Catturd, regularly share Trump’s Truth Social posts within the platform and amplify his messages to their massive followings off it. Levin, Gorka, Flynn and Catturd each boast over a million followers on X, and Levin and Gorka host popular podcasts. Levin, Flynn and Buchanan did not respond to requests for comment. Gorka responded by saying, “You are scum and a hack. Go to Hell.”

Sebastian Gorka greets supporters on the first day of CPAC on March 2, 2023, in Fort Washington, Md. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

Former Trump national security adviser and retired three-star Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn greets visitors during the ReAwaken America Tour on Oct. 21, 2022, in Manheim, Pa. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

Trump uses Truth Social to promote his campaign and personal brand, attack political rivals and solicit donations. He also makes false claims of election fraud, spreads far-right conspiracy theories and hurls vitriol at the judges, witnesses and prosecutors involved in his court cases. Posts that make claims of election interference, discuss his court cases or include aggressively insulting language, tend to get the most attention. Five of Trump’s 10 most reposted messages involve election denial.

Early in his campaign, almost all of Trump’s election-denial posts focused on the 2020 presidential race. But after his first indictment in April 2023, Trump began alleging that prosecutors, by charging him, were interfering in the 2024 election. Around the time of his June indictment for mishandling classified documents, his posts on alleged 2024 election interference began to outnumber claims of 2020 election fraud, a trend that continued throughout the year, the Post analysis found.

On Aug. 14, when Trump was indicted in Georgia, he posted three messages equating the indictment with election interference. “THOSE WHO RIGGED & STOLE THE ELECTION WERE THE ONES DOING THE TAMPERING, & THEY ARE THE SLIME THAT SHOULD BE PROSECUTED,” he wrote in his typical all-caps style.

His language was repeated dozens of times in the two following days on right-wing media, podcasts and television. Internet personality Catturd posted a screenshot of Trump’s post to Twitter an hour later, where it garnered 150,000 views. That afternoon, Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Tex.) wrote on Facebook and Truth Social that the justice system was rigged against Trump, ending the post with an allegation of “election interference!”

The phenomenon is a “steroidal version of political messaging,” according to Chris Stirewalt, politics editor at NewsNation and a former political editor at Fox News. “Trump says or does something egregious and the people who are currying favor with him say, ‘Well, let’s workshop this,’ and they share his message on their own account, but add their own twist.”

One of the reasons Trump has not regularly posted on X is that he wants to create and keep financial value for his Truth Social site, which he carefully tracks, according to people close to him who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations.

He has relentlessly tried to promote it, telling his advisers that he wants to break news on the platform to bring in more users. That focus paid off with an early, heady valuation of the company that peaked at more than $10 billion in late March, though shares in parent company Trump Media and Technology Group have fallen sharply since then.

Supporters use their phones during a rally in Erie, Pa., on July 29. (Dustin Franz for The Washington Post)

Trump has posted on X only once since leaving the Oval Office — his mug shot last year from an Atlanta jail, where he was booked on charges of trying to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results.

But “even though Trump had been kicked off Twitter, people like me can get out Trump’s message on Twitter,” said Mike Davis, a former Senate aide who helped guide the confirmation of Supreme Court justices Neil M. Gorsuch, Brett M. Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.

Davis, who founded the Article III Project, a judicial advocacy organization, is a frequent podcast guest on shows hosted by influencers such as Charlie Kirk, Benny Johnson, Jack Posobiec and Bannon. He estimates that he’s done over 3,000 media appearances, “and that’s in addition to constant social media and writing opinion pieces defending Trump.”

Davis said that being kicked off social media is galvanizing for conservatives, and he would know. He has been suspended from Twitter five times. But each time, “it was the best thing ever, because then I would go on Fox News and talk about how I was being censored and that would build a bigger audience.”

An ideal testing ground

The day before the Conservative Political Action Conference in February, Bannon hosted a “force amplifier” event for influencers to discuss the most effective ways to support Trump’s causes.

Truth Social is an ideal testing ground, Bannon said, because it provides a way to test a message among a relatively small group that can then pass along the most effective lines to a wider audience.

“This entire industry is predicated upon the Trumps of the world creating compelling content daily,” said Bannon. “From YouTube to Facebook to Twitter to Instagram, the whole thing. People are making businesses and careers out of his content.”

A radio show is live-streamed as supporters of Donald Trump gather to watch election results following the presidential primaries on March 12 in Smyrna, Ga. (Megan Varner/For The Washington Post )

On July 27, new charges against Trump in the mishandling classified documents case were filed by special counsel Jack Smith. The following day, Trump wrote three posts on Truth Social referencing the “weaponization” of the Department of Justice or FBI, including one post that garnered over 8,400 reposts and 29,000 likes. The language quickly found its way off Truth Social.

“People are not stupid,” Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina said that night on Sean Hannity’s show, which typically reaches 2.3 million people. “As a whole, they are starting to understand that the weaponization of the justice system is full throttle right now.”

“This morning, I joined Fox and Friends to discuss the illegal weaponization of the DOJ against Joe Biden’s top political opponent,” Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) posted on her Facebook page, which has 360,000 followers, that afternoon.

Newsmax posted a video to its YouTube channel, which has 2.2 million subscribers, promoting an interview with former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, who said the Biden administration had “weaponized the justice system in a shameful and disgraceful way.” (A Newsmax spokesperson said the network covers both sides of Trump’s trials. Guilfoyle said that the “censorship of President Trump is un-American, a total assault on the First Amendment.”)

Despite his frequent public complaints about how Fox treats him, Trump is also still amplified by its major prime time shows. The night he posted about the Georgia indictments, guests on the popular Hannity, “Jesse Watters Primetime” and “Fox News @ Night” shows, cited the indictments as evidence of election interference.

“For mainstream outlets, it’s the laziest kind of rage revenue because TV producers and web editors go out to find the posts that online rage merchants have already made,” said Stirewalt, who is also a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. “And then you can bring it back to your more mainstream audience and say: ‘Aren’t you enraged by how enraged they are?’”

From anonymity to influencer

Some of the former president’s biggest boosters have built their identities almost entirely online, with no credentials beyond their instinct for amplifying his words.

Philip Buchanan, a 59-year-old living in the panhandle of Florida, is the person behind the social media personality Catturd. Buchanan began tweeting in 2018 as a so-called “Reply Guy,” someone with a small social media following who communicates primarily in the comments section of prominent users. Today, his X account boasts 2.4 million followers, including former Fox host Tucker Carlson, billionaire X owner Elon Musk, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Trump.

Buchanan, who is behind the social media personality Catturd, has 2.4 million followers of his X account. (Screenshot from social media)

Buchanan’s interactions with Trump highlight how each benefit from the other. Through much of 2020, the Catturd account had featured pandemic-era jabs at Democrats, often with a scatological twist. But after the election, Buchanan — like Trump — became fixated on false claims of a rigged vote. Trump retweeted him three times that November.

More recently, Buchanan posted a screenshot of an April 6 Trump post on Truth Social attacking New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, who is presiding over Trump’s hush money case. “Trump just violated the gag order and dares the corrupt activist hack judge to put him in jail,” Buchanan wrote on X. He followed up with a flame emoji to express his appreciation for Trump’s stance.

Buchanan, whose identity was revealed by Rolling Stone and confirmed by The Post, has credited his social media fame with changing his financial life. In January, he told Carlson, the former Fox News personality who now hosts a show on X, that he bought a new truck, started a podcast and now sells a line of Catturd-branded merchandise.

A clerk under threat

The public scrutiny of Allison Greenfield began with a Wisconsin man named Brock Fredin, who unearthed the photo of the law clerk with Schumer. Fredin posted the photo on X, using the handle @JudicialProtest, and added a caption asking why she was “palling around with Charles E. Schumer?”

Fredin did not respond to a request for comment.

Days later, Trump took a screenshot of Fredin’s post, added a link to Greenfield’s Instagram account, and pushed the message out to his followers. His campaign sent out an email blast targeting Greenfield minutes later.

Although Trump did not directly threaten Greenfield, he clearly voiced his disapproval to his many followers. Right-wing influencers publicized Greenfield’s cellphone and social media accounts, and she scrambled to hide her personal information and that of her family. Court security directed her to stop taking the subway and instead travel by car.

Judge Arthur Engoron, right, sits on the bench with principal law clerk Allison Greenfield, center, during former president Donald Trump's civil business fraud trial in New York on Nov. 2. (John Taggart for The Washington Post)

Laura Loomer speaks during protests against the indictment of former president Donald Trump outside the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. U.S. Courthouse in Miami on June 13. (Thomas Simonetti for The Washington Post)

Greenfield, who is now running to be a Manhattan civil court judge, declined to comment for this piece. But her experience was described in court papers and by Jerry Skurnik, a consultant for her campaign.

Trump’s post resulted in roughly 20-30 calls per day to Greenfield’s personal cellphone and approximately 30-50 messages per day across social media, Linkedln and two personal email addresses, according to court papers. The threats, many of which were sexist and antisemitic in nature, included several death threats.

Loomer was among those who focused attention on Greenfield, sharing Trump’s Truth Social message about the clerk to her nearly 1 million followers on X and proclaiming the case against the former president a “WITCH HUNT.” When reached for comment, Loomer said that “it is important for me and the MAGA base to be Donald Trump’s bullhorn,” a role that she said has only become more crucial since he has been subjected to multiple gag orders.

Once an appellate judge temporarily paused the gag order on Nov. 16, Trump lashed out again at Greenfield and Engoron on Truth Social. “His Ridiculous and Unconstitutional Gag Order, not allowing me to defend myself against him and his politically biased and out of control, Trump Hating Clerk, who is sinking him and his Court to new levels of LOW, is a disgrace,” Trump wrote.

Trump continues to attack several of the judges overseeing his cases, and recently flouted a gag order in his hush money case in New York by lashing out against two potential trial witnesses and the jury.

Trump said he would be “honored” to go to jail for violating the gag order. Instead, in late April, Merchan fined Trump $9,000.

The same day, Trump posted on Truth Social that the judge was “Rigged, Crooked, and above all, and without question, CONFLICTED.”

Loomer shared Trump’s post on X, and Catturd reshared the message to his followers, adding three fire emojis.

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Angry White Men: Laura Loomer: Kamala Harris Is A ‘Braindead Bimbo’ And ‘Not A Woman Of Color’

On her Rumble show, Loomer Unleashed, Trump ally Laura Loomer went on a racist and misogynistic rant about Vice President Kamala Harris. Loomer, a white nationalist and conspiracy theorist, referred to Harris as a “braindead bimbo” who is not Black or a “woman of color.”

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During the June 27 CNN presidential election debate between former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden, Trump made false and misleading claims about immigration and migrants seemingly drawn straight from the right-wing media echo chambers.

Trump falsely claimed that Biden “wants open borders” and “wants our country to … be destroyed,” as migrants are supposedly violent criminals stealing American jobs. He also pushed the “great replacement” theory, saying Biden wants to import migrants to vote Democratic.

Below are some of Trump’s debate claims and recent instances of right-wing media making the same points.

Claim: Migrants are stealing jobs from Americans

In the debate, Trump claimed that migrants “are taking Black jobs and they’re taking Hispanic jobs. And you haven’t seen it yet.” The New York Times, [6/27/24]|}:

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Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and others in MAGA media have recently praised disgraced Sen. Joe McCarthy and his blacklists, a tactic that Project 2025 partner organization the American Accountability Foundation is attempting to bring to the White House should Donald Trump win in November.

According to The Associated Press, AAF is planning to create and publicly post a list of “100 names of government workers to a website this summer to show a potential new administration who might be … ripe for scrutiny, reclassifications, reassignments or firings,” with a focus on “those in senior executive positions who could put up roadblocks to Trump’s plans for tighter borders and more deportations.”

The plan is reportedly underwritten by a $100,000 grant from conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation as part of Project 2025, its far-reaching and extreme effort to provide policy and personnel recommendations for a potential second Trump administration. One of Project 2025’s top priorities is the implementation of “Schedule F,” a scheme to remove job protections from federal workers by reclassifying career staffers as political appointees — a direct attack on federal unions that could be used to fire civil servants deemed insufficiently pro-Trump.

AAF is one of more than 100 conservative organizations on Project 2025’s advisory board, and its initiative — synergistically dubbed Project Sovereignty 2025 — is the latest broadside against the 2.2 million people who work for the federal government. The AP article notes that the group’s list of what Heritage referred to as “anti-American bad actors” echoes the blacklist era of McCarthy, the disgraced anti-communist crusader whose name became synonymous with one of the most repressive periods in U.S. history.

Notably, MAGA media have been attempting to rehabilitate McCarthy’s illiberal tactics and goals using rhetoric that often dovetails with justifications for AAF’s project.

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Project 2025’s Schedule F and AAF’s proposed blacklist are clear, direct descendants of the literal McCarthyism that MAGA media figures are so quick to praise. The McCarthy era saw massive purges of left-wing federal employees as part of the Cold War’s rightward shift in national politics, halting the potential for American social democracy and helping to plant the seeds for the neoliberal turn of the 1970s and the ensuing rise in inequality that accompanied it.

McCarthy and fellow anti-communists like FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover also directed their oppressive tactics toward gay people — and those suspected or accused of being gay — who worked for the federal government during a period known as the Lavender Scare. McCarthy “directly linked homosexuality and Communism,” depicting gay people working in government as a national security threat. Historians estimate that between 5,000 and 10,000 federal workers were forced to resign during this period, often behind closed doors for fear of their gay identity — real or perceived — becoming public.

McCarthyist attacks on workers extended far beyond federal government employees. The broader Red Scare was disastrous for unions and the working class, hollowing out organized labor’s power and setting the stage for the wage stagnation and exploding wealth inequality that have defined the United States since the early 1980s. As leading historian of McCarthyism Ellen Schrecker writes, “labor's declining percentage of the workforce” had its “roots in that grim moment."

MAGA media’s celebration of that “grim moment” for workers further highlights the superficial rhetoric of right-wing populism.

Now, Project 2025 has taken up the mantle of targeting the federal workforce — and the working class at large— with effects that could be just as long lasting. As Roberts told Bannon in June, “What we're doing here is building not just for 2025, Steve, but for the next century in the United States."

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The Conservative Partnership Institute’s three highest-paid contractors had connections to the group’s leaders or their relatives, raising concerns about self-dealing.

It’s not clear who’s behind the newly launched Fair Election Fund.

Loomer is dead set on landing a role in a second Trump administration, no matter what his aides think. (“That will never happen in any way shape or form,” said a person close to Trump’s advisers, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak for the campaign.) Either way, she sees the stakes of his reelection as dire — not just for the country, but for her.

On Friday, Elijah Schaffer appeared as a guest on Timcast IRL — a YouTube show hosted by right-wing streamer and conspiracy theorist Tim Pool. Schaffer used his appearance on Pool’s show to defend Holocaust denier and white supremacist Nick Fuentes, arguing that “gatekeepers of the right-wing movement” were wrong to ostracize him.

Valentina Gomez is a Nestlé employee and currently running for Missouri Secretary of State.

Two months ago, the RNC hired two lawyers to oversee the party’s election-year legal efforts. One has been indicted, and the other has been pushed out.

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From traditional Christian-right figures to secret societies envisioning a ‘national divorce,’ a growing contingent of radical activists is planning for Christian supremacy.

Fiery debate over a bill to protect health care workers who provide abortion and gender-affirming care from out-of-state lawsuits crossed a line in the Maine House, leading lawmakers to formally censure a pair of colleagues on Thursday.

On his BlazeTV show, Auron MacIntyre interviewed longtime white nationalist Kevin DeAnna about the potential demise of VDARE — a racist, anti-immigrant website he writes for. MacIntyre also promoted the white supremacist “Great Replacement” conspiracy, and praised white supremacist figures like Sam Francis and Pat Buchanan.

The woman who went viral for hugging former President Donald Trump at an Atlanta Chick-fil-A is a longtime conservative activist connected to the “BLEXIT” organization.

CROW’s 7 stories on the Christian Right that you need read this week.

“We’re on the brink of absolute societal collapse. I don’t want any more immigration, legal or illegal. So, we need to pressure more Republicans into adopting this position. People like to say it’s xenophobic. People like to say it’s too nationalistic. Well, I think that, you know, nationalism keeps you safe. Profiling keeps you safe. Discrimination keeps you safe.”

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u.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake has been cultivating the support of far-right commentator Laura Loomer, who has described herself as a “proud Islamophobe,” said she is “pro-white nationalism,” and celebrated the death of thousands of migrants.

Lake has praised Loomer as “a true warrior,” told her “Trump loves you and appreciates you and so do I,” and promoted her attacks on election officials, including against a Republican who has sued Lake for defamation.

Lake’s friendship with Loomer appears to be paying dividends, as the far-right commentator frequently praises the Arizona Republican to her followers and attacks Lake’s perceived opponents.

On April 3, Lake held a fundraiser at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. Loomer attended the fundraiser and promoted it on social media, writing: “Kari Lake has become a dear friend over the last 2 years, and she has my complete support and endorsement. I encourage all of my supporters to donate to her campaign. I will be donating to her campaign. If you would like to attend this fundraiser, you can RSVP here.”

After the fundraiser, Loomer posted a picture of herself with Lake and again encouraged people to donate to her campaign. Lake responded: “Thank you, Laura. And thank you for being an incredible investigative journalist. President Trump loves you and appreciates you and so do I.”

Loomer is a twice-failed Republican congressional candidate and conspiracy theorist who hosts a show on Rumble. The following is a brief history of her bigotry:

Lake has endorsed and courted extremists during her relatively short political career, making her friendship with Loomer a natural alliance.

In May 2023, Lake promoted a Rumble video by Loomer claiming that election officials, including from Arizona, would be participating in a conference in Washington, D.C., “and it's a sign that the theft of the 2020 election is about to replicate itself as we head into the 2024 presidential election season.” The “Kari Lake War Room” account also promoted Loomer and told her: “Phenomenal reporting.”

That Lake-promoted Loomer video included an attack on Stephen Richer, the Maricopa County recorder in Arizona who sued Lake for defamation after she claimed he helped rig the 2020 election against her. Lake has declined to defend herself in the case.

Loomer has repeatedly attacked Richer in other instances.

Loomer has also called for Democratic secretaries of state to be imprisoned. She has attacked Arizona Democrat Adrian Fontes as a “radical Leftist Secretary of State” and “confronted him” at the D.C. conference.

Last November, Donald Trump Jr. said that he would like to see Loomer serve as White House press secretary should his father win the presidency. (Loomer said she would accept.)

The former president is also apparently a fan of Loomer. She has said that “every time President Trump sees me, he always says, ‘You're so smart. I love your site so much. You're so intelligent. I love your articles,’” and additionally stated that Trump supposedly told her that “I read your website every day.” (Trump’s reliance on Loomer has repeatedly spurred him to attack judges who oversee his cases.)

Trump also shouted out Loomer during Lake’s fundraiser, saying: “That’s a woman with courage. You don’t want to be Loomered. If you’re Loomered, you’re in deep trouble. That’s the end of your career, in a sense.”

Loomer regularly hosts Republican officials on her Rumble program, including Sen. J.D Vance (R-OH), Reps. Nancy Mace (R-SC) and Cory Mills (R-FL), Republican National Committee member Sigal Chattah, and Colorado GOP head Dave Williams. Trump senior adviser Jason Miller has appeared on Loomer’s program and praised her as “the best.” Miller is also an adviser for Lake.

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:{LAURA LOOMER (HOST): Nobody gives a shit about profanity. Nobody gives a shit. Nobody cares anymore about optics. Nobody cares anymore about how you say things. Because once people start starving, right, once people have to look their children in the eyes and their kids are hungry, and they say, mommy, I'm hungry, and they say, I'm sorry, baby. I don't have any money for food, that's when things are about to get real in this country. OK?

That's when things are gonna get real, and you're gonna see massive amounts of people switch from voting Democrat to voting Republican, and you're already seeing it. Because there's people that are sitting there, they're busting their ass, working two to three jobs a week, working 80 to 90 hours a week, not even able to meet their expenses. OK? Their kids are starving. They're starving. Their marriages are struggling because they and their husband, or they and their wife are struggling to just get by, OK?}:

And meanwhile, every damn day, we see another story about illegal aliens going to the Ritz Carlton. Illegal aliens getting free flights. Illegal aliens getting free clothes and free cell phones, and someone's gonna snap. Someone's gonna snap. It's gonna happen. And you know what? I'm not gonna care when it happens. You know why? Because there's only so much people can take.

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They're pushing people to the brink. We have a mental health crisis in this country. And when you have people who are feeling unstable and they can't afford to get help because they can't even afford food and they can't even afford gas and they can't afford rent, you're creating an unstable environment in your country. You're -- it's like a -- it's a -- it's like a powder keg waiting to explode. That's how I would describe it. And so I wouldn't be surprised if we start to see people losing their minds and having, you know, psychotic episodes or if we see people start to snap and more shootings take place, or more acts of violence take place.}:

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The censure resolution stems from a mistranslation of Omar’s speech circulated by conservative social media accounts.

Loomer says that it’s “inappropriate for Islamists to hold elected office in this country,” calling it “a national security risk.”

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson appeared Wednesday with pastor Jonathan Cahn – whose sermon highlighted three ancient deities which Cahn equated to demonic spirits that have now “come to America” – at the anti-LGBTQ+ hate group Family Research Council’s National Gathering for Prayer and Repentance.

Democrat launches the most aggressive official inquiry ever into The Family and the National Prayer breakfast.

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The presidential candidate made the claim while noting her own experience with racism, and in spite of the whole slavery thing.

On the extremist-friendly platform Rumble, Elijah Schaffer moderated a debate on Zionism between Adam King, Gavin McInnes, Nick Fuentes, and Vincent James Foxx. During the often-chaotic debate, participants used racial slurs, cheered the ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip, and promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories.

The Congressional Freethought Caucus has valid questions about how Mike Johnson wants to legislate his faith.

One Trump ally told NBC News that Loomer, who has a history of making anti-Muslim remarks, is widely seen as a “liability” by people who work for the former president.

The disgraced conservative pundit, who previously seemed indifferent to casualties of this broadly-applied law, is now naturally aghast.

Over the years, the Berkeley Castle has been a private residence, boys’ camp, event space, even aspiring “ghostbuster college,” as local author Jeanne Mozier wrote in The Story of Berkeley Castle: What’s True and What’s Not. The castle has inspired tales of ghosts, secret passageways, even a curse. Today the castle has become a wedge in this town of fewer than 800 residents.

Farris Wilks is a key funder of Defend Texas Liberty, the state party’s largest donor, which is under fire for its ties to white supremacists

The Capitol Police are investigating remarks made by pro-Trump political operative Roger Stone discussing the assassination of two prominent House Democrats. A source told Mediaite the FBI is aiding with the investigation.

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On January 8, former President Donald Trump shared a Gateway Pundit post on X falsely claiming that Trump’s former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is constitutionally disqualified from a “presidential or vice presidential candidacy.”

The false argument, which made its way to Trump through a far-right blog and a notoriously Islamophobic conspiracy theorist, follows a separate, simmering conservative media trend of calling Haley by her first name, Nimarata, rather than the middle name she goes by. Taken together, the two lines of commentary expose the racism behind some of pro-Trump media’s Haley coverage. This attack comes as Haley's polling numbers approach Trump's in New Hampshire.

The Gateway Pundit article the post is based on builds on a post from another pro-Trump blog, American Greatness, which itself pressed the same points as a blog from Rumble host and failed congressional candidate Laura Loomer: Since Haley’s parents weren’t U.S. citizens at the time of her birth, these conservative outlets argue, she is merely a birthright citizen, and not a “natural born citizen” as the Constitution requires for presidents and vice presidents.

This is simply not true: Haley is constitutionally eligible for either office, with her South Carolina birth qualifying her as a “natural born citizen.” The immigration status of her parents is legally irrelevant, despite right-wing media’s long-standing hatred for birthright citizenship and repeated attempts to use these arguments against enemy politicians.

On X (formerly Twitter), the author of the American Greatness piece credited Loomer’s “great investigative work” for having “uncovered” the fact of Haley’s parents’ citizenship -- a secret which Haley wrote about in her 2012 autobiography, and shared with a newspaper in 2015. Longtime Trump ally Roger Stone also promoted Loomer’s so-called investigative work before it ultimately reached the former president.

The racist claim notably echoes some falsehoods levied against former President Barack Obama who, among the many conspiracy theories about his birth, also faced incorrect allegations that he was ineligible for office because of his Kenyan father. (Right-wing influencers also made similar claims about Vice President Kamala Harris.)

But this is not the only commonality between right-wing media coverage of Obama, Harris, and Haley. During the Obama years, conservative media frequently referred to him by his full name, Barack Hussein Obama, in a racist attempt to otherize him for what he called his “funny-sounding name.” Again, similar things happened with Harris. And now, some pro-Trump voices are beginning to deploy a similar playbook against Haley and her birth name, Nimarata Nikki Randhawa.

Perhaps the most frequent example is Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk, who seems to find a certain thrill in using Haley’s first name. “Yeah, that’s right. Her real name is Nimarata,” he once quipped. (Nikki, her middle name, is also her real name.)

Kirk does not exclusively or even mostly use her first name. But for months he has peppered in references to Haley as “Nimarata” while attacking her campaign, warning against her for vice president, or once as an aside while pushing restrictive immigration policy. During an interview with businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, he even corrected himself after calling her “Nikki” instead.

American Greatness also had a hand in this trend, with a November debate recap mentioning her squabble with Ramaswamy. The article, which refers to her as Nikki Haley elsewhere, reserves her full name for one brief paragraph that reveals the racist attitudes at the heart of this type of coverage:

Ramaswamy then said something, to which Nimarata Nikki Randhawa Haley replied, “You’re just scum.” She must be right: after all, Ramaswamy’s the child of people who immigrated from India. Scum indeed!

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Right-wing media figures exploit anti-immigrant riots in Ireland to demonize migrants and Muslims, and attack legal immigration

Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson, and others pushed the “great replacement” conspiracy theory and falsely portrayed immigrants as threats to public safety

WRITTEN BY JOHN KNEFEL

RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM JACINA HOLLINS-BORGES, SOPHIE LAWTON & JACK WHEATLEY

PUBLISHED 11/30/23

Right-wing media figures reacted to anti-immigrant riots in Ireland by demonizing Muslims, falsely accusing migrants of being a risk to public safety and attacking the very idea of legal immigration. Their response is an escalation of the xenophobic rhetoric that right-wing media frequently direct at unauthorized migration, and is a clear attempt to push for policies that would drastically reduce legal immigration levels.

The riots in Dublin were sparked after early reports on November 23 that an Irish citizen who allegedly stabbed five people, including three children, was believed to have been born abroad — thus highlighting the suspect’s perceived foreignness. Subsequent reporting found that although the alleged attacker was apparently born in Algeria, he has lived in Ireland for at least 20 years, according to Irish authorities. Numerous studies have found that increased levels of immigration do not cause a rise in crime rates either in the United States or European countries.

This manufactured panic and demonization of a marginalized group echoes a similar episode from last week, when Fox News invented a terrorism scare over a car crash at the U.S.-Canada border and used the nonexistent plot to paint Muslims, Arabs, Palestinians, and their supporters as the culprits, only to retract its reporting hours later. Anti-Muslim hate incidents have also skyrocketed during Israel’s bombardment and invasion of the Gaza Strip after Hamas’ attack on October 7.

Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon exploited the Dublin attack to spread his anti-immigrant message across multiple platforms, including his own War Room podcast as well as Tucker Carlson’s show on X (formerly Twitter) and Donald Trump Jr.’s streaming show on Rumble, a far-right competitor to YouTube. In several of these segments, Bannon and his interlocutors endorsed versions of the racist “great replacement” conspiracy theory, which holds that liberal elites are attempting to change the demographics of white-majority countries through mass migration from the Global South to maintain political and economic dominance.

Prior to Fox News’ firing of Carlson, he was the network’s — and perhaps the entire country’s — most visible proponent of the great replacement theory. During Bannon’s appearance on Carlson’s show on November 27, both figures pushed openly nativist bigotry alongside the racist conspiracy theory.

Bannon referred to migrants to the United States and Ireland as “alien invaders,” adding that Irish politicians have “sold out the sovereignty of the Irish” and that the riots were “natural blowback.”

“The Irish government is trying to replace the population of Ireland with people from the Third World, obviously,” Carlson responded. “But why? What's the justification for that?”

“You talk about the great replacement theory and people are — oh, you know, people get very upset when you talk about it, but just look at the math,” Bannon answered.

“It’s not a theory,” Carlson interjected.

“This has happened across Europe,” Bannon continued. “It's happened in Germany.”

“In 100 years, there'll be a minority of Irish people in Ireland,” Carlson said. “That's a big change, and it's on purpose.”

Later in their conversation, Bannon endorsed mass deportations, saying: “I think illegal alien invaders are coming because they've gamed the asylum system. My belief is those people have to go home. They have to be returned, they have to leave our country or we're not going to have a country.”

Later that day, Bannon appeared on Donald Trump Jr.’s Triggered to celebrate Hungary’s far-right authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán and Irish mixed martial arts fighter Connor McGregor, who had come under police investigation following anti-migrant social media posts.

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Former President Donald Trump fought “for the sovereignty, not just of nation-states, but the sovereignty of the individual citizens in those nation-states,” Bannon said. “I think it's inspired Orban in Hungary. I think McGregor in Ireland standing up the other day was inspired by Donald Trump.”

The discussion then turned to the knife attack in Dublin, with the host claiming Arab and Muslim cultures celebrate anti-social violence.

“In their culture, they can stab people in the streets. It's fine. We must allow them to do that to our children,” Trump Jr. facetiously said, adding, “I mean, the government is taking an actively hostile position against their citizens in favor of, like, seemingly savages in many cases.”

Bannon returned to the subject the next day on his War Room podcast, calling for the “deportation of the 9 million — at least 9 million to 10 million — illegal alien invaders coming in the Biden regime.”

“What happened in Ireland — it's all coming here, folks,” Bannon warned ominously. “It’s all coming here.”

His guest the following hour was conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who has been increasingly embraced by right-wing media in recent years. Jones falsely claimed that “illegal aliens or migrants” are responsible for “the majority of muggings, rape, and murder in every European country."

That evening, Bannon discussed the violence in Ireland in another episode of War Room, where his guest, author Michael Walsh, again pushed the great replacement conspiracy theory.

“This was the spark that set off what’s become a powder keg across the country, which is the notion — widely held among the Irish people — that they’re being replaced by foreigners,” Walsh said. He added that the Irish government “is committed to this program of quiet replacement and has demonized what we would have called Irish patriots,” referring to the far-right mobs.

Several other right-wing media figures also used the riots to spread anti-migrant bigotry.

"Across the West, the status quo has become intolerable,” Loomer added. “The endless waves of immigrants, the devastation of our culture, and the crackdown against anyone who dares to stand against it has all become too much to bear.”

“There can be no doubt that the average person is, at last, awake to the gravity of the situation, and their anger is brewing,” Loomer continued. “White people, in particular, have taken all of this on the chin for the last few decades, but that appears to be coming to an end.”

Following the riots, some observers of the far right argued that anti-immigrant sentiment had become a major issue in Ireland in recent years, and that politicians needed to do more to address the rising xenophobia. Right-wing media figures are determined to stand in the way.

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The claim that the rioters were invited into the Capitol is false. ... There were hours-long battles between police and rioters near some entrances. CNN obtained footage from police body-worn cameras showing how dozens of officers engaged in hand-to-hand combat with rioters in a desperate effort to keep them out of the building. There are plenty of instances where rioters waltzed into the Capitol without a fight, but only after they had stormed past barricades and, in some cases, even stepped through broken windows. In some areas, police were so outnumbered by the mob that they retreated, stood aside or tried to politely engage with rioters to de-escalate the situation rather than fighting or making arrests, but that is clearly not the same as welcoming rioters into the building. CNN, [1/4/22]

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Trump Jr. says he wants self-described “Islamophobe” Laura Loomer as White House press secretary and Mike Davis as attorney general | Media Matters for America

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https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/elon-musk-reinstates-twitter-accounts-proud-islamophobe-laura-loomer-and-dirty-trickster

A week after declaring he would grant “general amnesty” to previously suspended accounts, Twitter CEO Elon Musk is continuing to reinstate high-profile right-wing users. His latest move has brought back anti-Muslim extremist Laura Loomer and “Stop the Steal” organizer and longtime GOP operative Roger Stone to Twitter.

Shortly after Musk’s acquisition of Twitter was finalized on October 27, previously banned users — including Loomer and Stone — celebrated the completed deal. Musk initially promised civil rights organizations that there would be a “clear process” for reinstating previously suspended accounts but quickly went back on his word when he declared “Freedom Fridays” on November 18 and brought back Jordan Peterson and The Babylon Bee. He has since reinstated multiple other high-profile right-wing users, including former President Donald Trump, and granted “general amnesty” to include accounts that push misinformation and white nationalist rhetoric.

Now, Musk has reinstated two more high-profile far-right accounts: Laura Loomer and Roger Stone.

Loomer, a conspiracy theorist, has previously described herself as a “proud Islamophobe” who is “pro-white nationalism” and was banned from Twitter in 2018 after making anti-Muslim attacks against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). After she was reinstated on December 8, Loomer tweeted that Musk “has finally unchained me from the doors of Twitter HQ,” referencing her bizarre 2018 protest over the suspension.

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trump ally and self-proclaimed dirty trickster Stone supported Trump’s claim that the 2020 election was stolen, promoted violence ahead of the January 6 insurrection, and has spread conspiracy theories about 9/11. He was banned from Twitter in 2017 after threatening multiple CNN reporters. Stone tried to rejoin the platform in April 2022, when Musk was still in the process of buying Twitter, but was suspended again shortly after. On December 7, Stone was officially reinstated and thanked Musk for his “commitment to fairness and free speech.”

Other high-profile right-wing accounts that are being brought back to Twitter under Musk’s leadership include:

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According to a report from Vice's Tess Owen, the romance between Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and followers of notorious Holocaust-denier Nick Fuentes is irreparably on the rocks after she put some distance between herself and him following his dinner with Donald Trump.

While the former president has been circumspect in attacking the young far-right anti-semitic demagogue, the equally controversial Taylor Greene fired off a tweet stating, "Of course I denounce Nick Fuentes and his racists anti-semitic ideology. I can’t comprehend why the media is obsessed with him."

That, in turn, led Fuentes to lash back out at her, and his followers have since piled on the one-time darling of the Christian nationalist movement.

As Vice's Owen reported, Fuentes told his supporters, "She’s just weak. She goes and says something edgy to get attention, and then when the pressure comes, she buckles. You know, she’s gonna be a MAGA-mom and QAnon and all that, and then the second Kevin McCarthy reprimands her and she loses her committee, she goes and apologizes.”

Noting that Fuentes has taken to referring to her as "Large Marge" in his diatribes, Owen writes that she has become a central topic among the "groypers" tied to Fuentes' extremist movement.

According to fringe conservative Laura Loomer, "MTG is no longer an ally to America First. She may have claimed to be so that she could climb the political ladder, but she has shown she is all talk and zero action, unless of course the action is selling t-shirts and wine glasses.”

Holocaust denier Vince James added, "You are their slave Marjorie, a slave to the Democrats and the Media that you constantly talk about. By that statement [disavowing Fuentes] it just got to show you're living according to the rules of their game, that they've completely rigged against us."

"Here’s my take: grifters are gonna grift, and it’s just sad that we have to go through that kind of betrayal,” far-right podcaster Dalton Clodfelter proclaimed.

According to Owen, Taylor Greene isn't taking the backlash against her lying down, calling Fuentes "immature" and then adding, "What has he ever done in his life? He knows nothing more than anyone else.”

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https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/far-right-congressional-candidate-laura-loomer-predictably-refuses-to-concede/

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Far-Right Congressional Candidate LauraLoomer Predictably Refuses to Concede

By Kristen Doerer | August 24, 2022

Laura Loomer poses with Roger Stone, a leader of the so-called "Stop the Steal" campaign. Photo from campaign Facebook page.]

Laura Loomer—a far-right activist so extreme that she would have easily eclipsed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene as the most far-right congresswoman—lost her bid for the GOP nomination to Congress in Florida’s 11th Congressional District.

The Associated Press called the race in favor of longtime Republican Rep. Daniel Webster late Tuesday night. Webster, who was the preferred candidate of religious-right groups like the Family Research Council, had clinched 51 percent of the vote;Loomer had won 44 percent.

Nevertheless, Loomer refused to concede and declared the election fraudulent.

“I’m not conceding because I’m a winner, and the reality of this is our Republican Party is broken to its core,” she said to supporters after the results came in Tuesday night.

“What we have done tonight has really honestly shocked the nation, we have further exposed the corruption in our own feckless, cowardly Republican Party.”

“It breaks my heart that we are in a position in this country today where the Republican Party establishment is participating in the voter fraud machine. And I stand on the stage before you today with the American flag behind me to tell you that we do not live in a free country. We do not live in a country with free and fair elections,” she said.

Only about an hour before, Loomer seemed to acknowledge that she would lose to Webster, Mike DeForest of News 6 reported. “A win’s a win, and a loss is a loss,” Loomer told a supporter who was trying to cheer her up. White nationalist Lauren Witzke interjected. “No, no, no. You are our next congresswoman,” she told Loomer.

Loomer’s baseless accusation of fraud and refusal to concede was predictable—if not still damaging to public trust in the integrity of our elections. Since former President Donald Trump refused to concede his loss in the 2020 election, every Trumpian Republican candidate running for federal, state, and local level who loses can now claim electoral fraud and allege a grand conspiracy against them even if they’ve only won a few hundred votes.

A score of far-right activists attended Loomer’s planned “victory party,” including Witzke, who was the Delaware GOP nominee for Senate in 2020, Nick Fuentes and Tyler Russell of the white nationalist America First movement, Peter Brimelow of the white nationalist-promoting VDARE website, and Edward Szall, who has somehow only become more extreme since he left his job at the brazenly antisemitic TruNews.

“We’re so proud of you, Laura!” Witzke posted on Telegram with a photo of the “celebration.”

Lauren Witzke shared a photo from Laura Loomer’s 2022 planned “victory” party on Telegram. Among those who attended were far-right activists Ed Szall, Tyler Russell, Peter and Linda Brimelow, Lauren Witzke, and Nick Fuentes. Loomer is pictured center in yellow.]

Far-right activists and operatives predictably jumped on Loomer’s false election fraud narrative or else tried to spin her loss into a win.

Radical conspiracy theorist Stew Peters said that the election must be rigged, writing on Telegram, “Here’s some fake results from a fake election – because, every election is fake and rigged.” Tyler Russell, who has dubbed himself the leader of the Canadian offshoot of the America First movement, agreed. “LOOMER IS RIGHT FOR NOT CONCEDING! RINOS ARE RIGGING!” he wrote on Telegram.

Even ahead of voters casting their votes, Trumpian operative Ali Alexander—who led the so-called “Stop the Steal” campaign to keep Trump in power and who baselessly alleged voter fraud to justify such efforts—suggested the only way Webster could win would be through fraud: “don’t put cheating and grifting past the establishment,” he wrote.

On Tuesday night, Alexander briefly seemed to acknowledge Loomer’s loss, blaming Reps. Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene for not donating to Loomer as well as Trump’s advisers for keeping the former president from endorsing her.

“Real talk: Gaetz or MTG could’ve put Loomer over the top. $200,000 more dollars could’ve,” Alexander wrote on Telegram. “Trump’s advisors not blocking a Loomer endorsement could’ve put her over the top.”

But Ali went on to call the primary a “Rigged game,” and suggested something nefarious was afloat. “Just magically outside the margin of a runoff? What a coincidence!” he wrote. In another post, he wrote, “STOP THE STEAL.”

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Fuentes—who has referred to Loomer “as one of our own”—spun her loss as a win for the white nationalist America First movement.

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“Despite being the most cancelled woman in America,” Fuentes wrote, “She out-raised her opponent in every single quarter and came within 6,000 votes of Congress.”

“Tonight showed that there is very little left in the way of REAL AMERICA FIRST PATRIOTS like Laura Loomer from TAKING OVER!”

As Right Wing Watch reported ahead of the GOP primary, Loomer was eager to spread her extremism throughout the halls of Congress and promised to promote both white nationalism and Christian nationalism. We reported:

Loomer has long rallied behind white nationalist figures, spread right-wing conspiracy theories, and promoted disinformation. She proclaimed that she did not care about what happened to Muslims in the 2019 Christchurch shooting in New Zealand, where more than 50 people were murdered by a white supremacist.

In March, Loomer joined white nationalist Jared Taylor’s podcast and told him that she thought her white nationalist views would get her elected to Congress. She switched districts, she said, because Florida’s 11th District has more white people and she could be more honest about her extreme right-wing views. She went on to praise Taylor’s “white advocacy”—the preferred term of white nationalists to describe their efforts to secure a nation ruled by white people.

Loomer addressed her supporters in a Telegram post Wednesday afternoon. In it, she accused the Republican Party of being “an active participant in the voter fraud machine here in America,” called for Webster to resign, and again, refused to concede, illustrating the monster the Republican Party itself created by choosing to peddle election fraud conspiracy theories in its effort to keep Trump in power.

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https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/i-love-nazis-kanye-west-repeatedly-praises-nazis-and-especially-hitler-in-wild-interview-with-alex-jones/

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‘I Love Nazis’: Kanye West Repeatedly Praises Nazis and ‘Especially Hitler’ in Wild Interview With Alex Jones

Kyle MantylaBy Kyle Mantyla | December 1, 2022

Kanye West, the rap mogul who now goes by the name Ye, recently teamed up with Nick Fuentes, the racist, misogynistic, America-hating, Christian fascist leader of the white nationalist America First movement. Brought together by their mutual virulent antisemitism, the two recently had dinner with former President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort, andFuentes is reportedly playing a key role in planning West’s presidential campaign.

Today, West and Fuentes joined far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones live in studio, where West, shielded behind a face mask, spent hours delivering bizarre rants, attacking Jews, and repeatedly praising Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Jones, West, and Fuentes were joined later in the program by far-right activists Laura Loomer and Ali Alexander.

West kicked things off by boldly declaring that he sees good things in every person, “especially Hitler.”

Jones, who grew increasingly uncomfortable with West’s praise for Hitler and the Nazis as the show went on, repeatedly tried to downplay West’s comments. But at every turn, West doubled down, openly insisting that people need to stop criticizing the Nazis all the time.

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“I love Nazis,” West stated at one point,prompting Jones to respond, “well, I disagree with that.”

In a final, desperate effort to help West extricate himself from the potentially career-ending debacle the interview had become, Jones tried to get West to admit that he did not, in fact, love Hitler. But West was having none of it: “There a lot of things that I loooooooove about Hitler. A lahhhhhhhht of things.”

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Extremism on the Menu: Trump’s Dinner With Ye, Milo, and Nick Fuentes

Kyle MantylaBy Kyle Mantyla | November 28, 2022 2:23 pm

Nick Fuentes—the racist, misogynistic, antisemitic, America-hating, Christian fascist leader of the white nationalist America First movement—is usually a prolific poster on social media (at least on the far-right platforms from which he has not already been banned). Given that Fuentes is fully aware that his radical views and relentless bigotry have largely rendered him politically toxic, it raised some questions about just what he might be up to when he mysteriously and uncharacteristically went silent a little over a week ago.

It turned out that Fuentes had good reason to fall silent, as he was busy dining with former President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago and hanging out with Kanye West, reportedly to help the rap mogul plot a run for the White House.

How did we get here?

First, let’s begin with West. West, who now goes by the name Ye, received widespread criticism and condemnation earlier this month after his latest antisemitic outburst. But he found support in Fuentes, who has long idolized West, and shares his antipathy toward Jewish people. Galvanized by West, Fuentes has doubled down on his own virulently antisemitic views.

On Friday, Nov. 18, TMZ reported that West had been photographed in Beverly Hills with Milo Yiannopoulos—the far-right shyster who was once a right-wing enfant terrible until his career imploded after he defended pederasty and who has since rebranded himself as “ex-gay” and militantly Catholic. Yiannopoulos and Fuentes are close allies, with Yiannopoulos orchestrating Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s appearance at Fuentes’ America First Political Action Conference in February. Given that Yiannopoulos, who was until recently interning for Greene’s congressional office, was publicly seen hanging around with West in California, it seemed likely to Right Wing Watch that Fuentes was doing the same, especially when Fuentes briefly reemerged on Telegram to post an illustrated image of himself shaking hands with West.

These suspicions were confirmed on Sunday, Nov. 20, when a video was posted on YouTube showing West and Yiannopoulos together in which West announced that he intends to run for president. At one point in the video, Fuentes could be seen briefly in the background.

On Tuesday, Nov. 22, West posted a message on Twitter revealing that he had met with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. That same night, Right Wing Watch received an email from a reader containing a brief video showing West and Fuentes walking through the Miami airport together.

Initially, it was unclear what sort of meeting West had had with Trump and whether Fuentes had been involved, but eventually it was revealed that West, Fuentes, and Yiannopoulos had dined with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago club. Trump was “really impressed” by Fuentes, according to West, a statement Fuentes himself confirmed.

When Fuentes finally returned home from his whirlwind trip, he did a livestream broadcast on Friday night in which he announced that his nightly program is being suspended indefinitely as he and Yiannopoulos transition to working on West’s presidential campaign.

Predictably, a wave of outrage followed the revelation that Trump had dined with Fuentes, whose radical political agenda and unrelenting stream of racism, misogyny, homophobia, antisemitism, and bigotry have been diligently documented by Right Wing Watch for years.

This development has created a worst-case scenario for Trump. Not only is the former president flailing about desperately to shield himself from the ramifications of dining with two notorious antisemites, but he’s trying to do so without denouncing Fuentes directly, apparently for fear that doing so will harm his 2024 presidential prospects. But that ship has already sailed; Fuentes and those in his America First movement who had been militant Trump supporters have already nearly universally shifted their loyalties to West and his nascent presidential campaign.

In addition to damaging Trump, the West presidential campaign is deepening a rift in the America First movement. Fuentes’ ally Laura Loomer, a far-right activist and failed congressional candidate, is using the news to go scorched earth in attacking Yiannopoulos, whom she blames for sabotaging her recent congressional campaign. Loomer has been posting messages on Telegram blasting Yiannopoulos as a “narcissistic fraud” and a vindictive sociopath who has weaseled his way into West’s orbit for the purpose of blackmailing him.

Over the weekend, Loomer posted messages allegedly from Yiannopoulos earlier this year in which Yiannopoulos repeatedly asserted that West is gay, as well as a video of Yiannopoulos publicly bragging that he collects “shit” on nearly everyone he interacts with and keeps it stored on a hard drive he calls “The Vault.” Having Yiannopoulos on his campaign, Loomer suggested, would only spell trouble for West.

West’s presidential campaign is off to a predictably rocky start, as he appears to have given Fuentes and Yiannopoulos access to his Twitter account, which they promptly used to attack right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro, whom both despise. The tweets have since been deleted, but this likely provides a preview of the chaos to come from a vanity presidential campaign being run by three raging narcissists.

For his part, Fuentes has said that he has shifted his allegiance to West because “we must dream bigger” and West is the only one “talking about how the aspirations of the Trump Movement have been hijacked.” It is worth remembering just what Fuentes’ stated “aspirations” are: to see a far-right authoritarian seize control of this country who will ignore the Constitution, suspend elections, and install himself as dictator while imposing Christian fascism on the nation.

Fuentes had hoped that Trump would be the vehicle by which to achieve his goal, but it appears his loyalty has shifted to West, which raises the question: Does West agree with Fuentes’ authoritarian vision?

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...On Friday, Nov. 18, TMZ reported that West had been photographed in Beverly Hills with Milo Yiannopoulos—the far-right shyster who was once a right-wing enfant terrible until his career imploded after he defended pederasty and who has since rebranded himself as “ex-gay” and militantly Catholic. Yiannopoulos and Fuentes are close allies, with Yiannopoulos orchestrating Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s appearance at Fuentes’ America First Political Action Conference in February. Given that Yiannopoulos, who was until recently interning for Greene’s congressional office, was publicly seen hanging around with West in California, it seemed likely to Right Wing Watch that Fuentes was doing the same, especially when Fuentes briefly reemerged on Telegram to post an illustrated image of himself shaking hands with West.

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when Fuentes finally returned home from his whirlwind trip, he did a livestream broadcast on Friday night in which he announced that his nightly program is being suspended indefinitely as he and Yiannopoulos transition to working on West’s presidential campaign.

Predictably, a wave of outrage followed the revelation that Trump had dined with Fuentes, whose radical political agenda and unrelenting stream of racism, misogyny, homophobia, antisemitism, and bigotry have been diligently documented by Right Wing Watch for years.

This development has created a worst-case scenario for Trump. Not only is the former president flailing about desperately to shield himself from the ramifications of dining with two notorious antisemites, but he’s trying to do so without denouncing Fuentes directly, apparently for fear that doing so will harm his 2024 presidential prospects. But that ship has already sailed; Fuentes and those in his America First movement who had been militant Trump supporters have already nearly universally shifted their loyalties to West and his nascent presidential campaign.

In addition to damaging Trump, the West presidential campaign is deepening a rift in the America First movement. Fuentes’ ally Laura Loomer, a far-right activist and failed congressional candidate, is using the news to go scorched earth in attacking Yiannopoulos, whom she blames for sabotaging her recent congressional campaign. Loomer has been posting messages on Telegram blasting Yiannopoulos as a “narcissistic fraud” and a vindictive sociopath who has weaseled his way into West’s orbit for the purpose of blackmailing him.

Over the weekend, Loomer posted messages allegedly from Yiannopoulos earlier this year in which Yiannopoulos repeatedly asserted that West is gay, as well as a video of Yiannopoulos publicly bragging that he collects “shit” on nearly everyone he interacts with and keeps it stored on a hard drive he calls “The Vault.” Having Yiannopoulos on his campaign, Loomer suggested, would only spell trouble for West.

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West’s presidential campaign is off to a predictably rocky start, as he appears to have given Fuentes and Yiannopoulos access to his Twitter account, which they promptly used to attack right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro, whom both despise. The tweets have since been deleted, but this likely provides a preview of the chaos to come from a vanity presidential campaign being run by three raging narcissists.

For his part, Fuentes has said that he has shifted his allegiance to West because “we must dream bigger” and West is the only one “talking about how the aspirations of the Trump Movement have been hijacked.” It is worth remembering just what Fuentes’ stated “aspirations” are: to see a far-right authoritarian seize control of this country who will ignore the Constitution, suspend elections, and install himself as dictator while imposing Christian fascism on the nation.

Fuentes had hoped that Trump would be the vehicle by which to achieve his goal, but it appears his loyalty has shifted to West, which raises the question: Does West agree with Fuentes’ authoritarian vision?

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 October 2021, white nationalist Nick Fuentes, who had managed to get kicked off all mainstream social media sites as well as loosely moderated streaming sites, launched Cozy TV. The new streaming network would be explicitly “anti-gay, anti-woman, anti-Black, antisemitic,” he said.

Fast forward to today, and a host of familiar far-right names have joined the network in the past week alone: Roger Stone, Trump confidant and dirty trickster; Ali Alexander, the leader of the movement promising to “stop the steal” after Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election; and Laura Loomer, a two-time failed congressional candidate and self-declared proud Islamophobe. 

While each now has a channel on the network, it’s unclear whether they will offer any original content there. Stone streamed his “The Stone Zone” show on the channel last night, as well as on Mike Lindell’s Frank Speech Platform. This follows the pattern of other streamers on the network, including radical conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who streams the same content he offers Cozy TV on his conspiracy theory network InfoWars. Though Jones has been welcomed back to more mainstream right-wing media like Fox, Jones was broadly deplatformed from mainstream sites after he falsely claimed the parents of the slain children at Sandy Hook were paid actors, leading to their harassment; he was recently ordered to pay $965 million for his lies.

Not everyone on Cozy TV who has made it the cesspool that it is appears welcoming to these newcomers. Kai Schwemmer, a 19-year-old influencer with the white nationalist America First youth movement, lashed out at Ali Alexander Tuesday, claiming that he had heard “credible” accusations that Alexander is a pedophile. (It looks like the right’s obsession with accusing of people of pedophilia applies to their own as well.)

And while the Christian nationalist Fuentes threw his support behind Laura Loomer, who supports a white ethnostate, during her congressional primary in Florida this summer, calling her “one of our own,” fractures between Loomer and Fuentes have appeared before. After Fuentes attacked Jews this summer, Loomer, who is Jewish, tried to come to terms with her ally’s antisemitism, posting on Telegram, “I don’t understand the obsession some people have with demonizing all Jews.” During her second congressional bid, Fuentes also tried to convince his followers that Loomer was OK, even though she is a woman and a Zionist. “People say, ‘Well, she’s a Zionist, she’s a woman. We don’t support women in office, we don’t support Zionists.’ And that’s true,” Fuentes said. “But she would be the only one out of 530-some congressmen and senators who is going to be fully red-pilled.”

It’s unclear how much of an increase in viewership this new cast of characters will see from joining Fuentes’ platform. Former associates of Fuentes have claimed that he manipulates the viewership numbers to make himself appear more popular than he is, though extremist researchers have been unable to confirm the veracity of this allegation. 

It’s notable that so many of the far-right activists and Republican operatives who were prominent in the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election and who called for violence to keep Trump in office would join the same platform. A day before the election, Stone was caught on tape saying, “Fuck the voting, let’s get right to the violence.” Stone led the first so-called “Stop the Steal” campaign in 2018, which falsely alleged fraud and disrupted vote counting in Florida, while Alexander rebooted the campaign in 2020 and urged his followers to take matters into their own hands.

And of course, Fuentes was at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, after he suggested that his audience could off lawmakers to prevent them from “stealing” the election. Though he did not enter the Capitol himself, followers of his America First movement did, including Christian Secour, who was recently sentenced to three years in prison for his role in the insurrection.

Tags: Alex Jones Ali Alexander Kai Schwemmer Laura Loomer Nick Fuentes Roger Stone Deplatforming white nationalism Cozy.TV

Laura Loomer Accuses Milo Yiannopoulos of Sabotaging Her Recent Congressional Campaign

Kyle MantylaBy Kyle Mantyla | October 27, 2022 2:46 pm

Far-right activist Laura Loomer appeared on Ethan Ralph’s “Killstream” program Wednesday, where she accused her one-time friend and ally Milo Yiannopoulos of sabotaging her most recent run for Congress.

Loomer was ostensibly on Ralph’s program to discuss her new channel on Cozy TV, an explicitly “anti-gay, anti-woman, anti-Black, antisemitic” streaming platform created by white nationalist Nick Fuentes. During the discussion with Ralph, who also streams on the Cozy, Loomer was asked about her future political plans.

Earlier this year, Loomer made a second unsuccessful bid for a seat in the House of Representatives, losing the Republican primary to incumbent Rep. Daniel Webster. Loomer, who still refuses to admit that she lost the race, predicted that Webster will step down before the end of his term and that a special election will be held to replace him. Loomer said that she believes that she can win that special election, but noted that not only does she face opposition from the GOP establishment but also from her nominal allies in the America First movement. She called out Yiannopoulos explicitly.

Yiannopoulos was once a right-wing enfant terrible whose career imploded after he defended pederasty but who has since rebranded himself as “ex-gay” and militantly Catholic. In this new capacity, Yiannopoulos established close ties to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, orchestrating her appearance at the white nationalist America First Political Action Conference and then interning for Greene’s congressional office.

Loomer accused Yiannopoulos of using the connections gained through his internship for Greene to sabotage her congressional campaign and keep her out of Congress.

“It’s very clear to a lot of people that there were a lot of high-profile conservatives who worked against me,” Loomer said. “For example, you had Milo Yiannopoulos who was openly on Telegram talking about how he was forming coalitions while working in the office of Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, to form coalitions with the left and the right to try to keep me out of office.”

“I think it’s a problem when you have people who are claiming to be America First and promoting this idea that they are supporting and promoting America First candidacies, then working behind the scenes, in their own words, with the left, coalitions of the left, to take down America First candidates,” Loomer added. “It’s a shame that we have people that are so selfish on our side that they’re willing to actually work with the radical left to sabotage America First candidates.”

“At what point does the sabotage prevent America First from actually having a true America First fighter in Congress today, fighting for their values and fighting for their agenda?” Loomer asked. “These are very, very serious issues that we’re dealing with. We’re talking about deliberate forms of sabotage to attack and prevent a very viable, popular America First candidate, joining forces with the radical left to prevent the success of an America First candidate who has always been a free speech absolutist and has always been extremely pro-Trump. And so I find that to be extremely problematic.”

Loomer sent Ralph screenshots of messages that Yiannopoulos had allegedly posted on the social media platform Telegram bragging that he was “making sure she gets nowhere near the Capitol.”

Later in the livestream, fellow far-right activist Ali Alexander, leader of the so-called “Stop the Steal” movement, called in to vouch for Loomer and support her allegations, saying that Yiannopoulos is a washed-up has-been who turns against his friends when he begins to fear that they might have success without needing to rely on him.

These attacks prompted Yiannopoulos to send a message to Ralph in response:

Laura has an impeccable track record of failure: failure to sustain friendships, failure to keep employees, and failure to win elections. Her behavior turns allies into enemies. No one can stand to be around her for long. It’s beneath my dignity to debate or converse with her in any fashion, but I’d be open to boxing her at RalphMania; just two men in the ring, resolving things the old-fashioned way.

You can tell Ali, stop having sex with little boys.

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When hard-right socially conservative Rep. Daniel Webster defeated MAGA Republican Laura Loomer by 7 percent in a GOP congressional primary on August 23, she responded by refusing to concede and claimed, without evidence, that the election was stolen from her. There was no proof that any type of voter fraud occurred in that primary, but that didn’t stop a group of Loomer supporters from filing a lawsuit on her behalf. And according to Daily Beast reporter Will Sommer, one of the Republicans listed in the lawsuit as a plaintiff, Theresa Rinaldi, has demanded that her name be removed from it.

Webster is far from a moderate. Because of his extreme social conservatism, Democratic firebrand and former Rep. Alan Grayson slammed him as “Taliban Dan” when they ran against one another in the 2010 midterms (Grayson lost). But 12 years later, ironically, Loomer lambasted Webster for not being far enough to the right and attacked him as a RINO: Republican In Name Only.

When Loomer lost to Webster, she declared, on Election Night, “I’m not conceding.” And her supporters, believing her unsubstantiated voter fraud claims, filed a lawsuit. But Rinaldi, Sommer reports, wants no part of it.

READ MORE: ‘I’m not conceding’: Tearful Laura Loomer blames ‘big tech’ after losing GOP congressional primary

“Now, in the latest blow to Republican attempts to prove voter fraud, one of the five supposed plaintiffs listed on the lawsuit told The Daily Beast she had no idea her name was going on the case and doesn’t think malfeasance occurred in the election,” Sommer reports in an article published by the Beast on September 12. “Theresa Rinaldi, of Orange County, cast her vote for Loomer, but says she was added to the lawsuit without her knowledge or permission.”

According to Rinaldi, she spoke to John Pierce — a right-wing lawyer in the lawsuit — on the phone, but he never told her she would be listed as a plaintiff.

Rinaldi told the Beast, “I want my name off of that, because I did not witness any voter fraud…. I felt like he was tricking me in that phone conversation, I really did.”

David Towns, a reporter for Florida’s Villages-News.com, named Rinaldi as one of the plaintiffs in an article published on September 9. And seeing her name in that article, according to Rinaldi, came as a surprise.

READ MORE:**Watch: Lauren Boebert accuses 'state actor' Facebook of 'silencing' conservatives**

Rinaldi told the Beast, “When I saw the article, I just about fainted.” And she says that when she spoke to Pierce on Saturday, September 10 — the day after Towns’ Villages-News.com article was published — she told him, “Why did you put my name down? I’m not going to lie.”

Pierce’s clients, according to Sommer, have ranged from Kenosha, Wisconsin shooter Kyle Rittenhouse to a “bevy of Capitol riot defendants.”

Rinaldi said of Loomer, “If she’s going to sue, then let her sue,”

READ MORE:**Doug Mastriano consultant boasts of running 'Christian nationalist' candidates**

https://www.alternet.org/2022/08/im-not-conceding-far-right-laura-loomer-blames-big-tech-after-losing-gop-congressional-primary/

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/laura-loomer-wants-to-spread-her-extremism-in-the-halls-of-congress/

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/laura-loomer-believes-her-white-nationalist-views-will-get-her-elected-to-congress/

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got her mixed up with sim names, just wondered where is she now (rebel media?)

Tags: Laura LoomerLily CooperLiz CrokinMarcus LambShane VaughnCoronavirusLeftoversvaccinesOne America News

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florida's 13th Congressional District received a major bombshell in May when Rep. Charlie Crist, a former Republican turned Democrat, announced that he is running for governor (a position he held in the past) and is hoping to unseat Gov. Ron DeSantis if he wins the Democratic nomination. Meanwhile, on the GOP side, far-right Republicans in that district are engaged in a wild congressional primary battle to determine who will run against the Democratic nominee, whoever that turns out to be. And an article by Daily Beast reporters Zachary Petrizzo and Will Sommer, published on November 17, describes some of the ways in which that Republican primary has become a total circus.

The far-right Republican congressional hopefuls in Florida's 13th Congressional District have included Anna Paulina Luna, Amanda Makki and William Braddock, who dropped out of the race. Luna and Braddock both have had plenty of baggage. One of the controversies surrounding Luna involves her dog Gunner, who bit a nine-year-old child. Luna has alleged that Braddock wanted to hire a hit squad to have her killed.

Luna has been endorsed by former President Donald Trump, but not everyone in MAGA World likes her. Petrizzo and Sommer report that Luna's foes include veteran GOP operative and Trump ally Roger Stone and his wingnut associate Lara Loomer, who describes Luna as "Anna Paulina Lunatic."

No stranger to controversy herself, Loomer has been slamming Luna because of her dog's attack on a nine-year-old. Loomer wrote, "She needs to put her dog on a leash. They say people are a lot like their animals, and in this case, Anna and her dog are both CRAZY AND OUT OF CONTROL. Those b*tches both need to HEEL."

Stone, meanwhile, dressed as Luna on Halloween, which was the self-described "dirty trickster's" way of mocking her.

In a court filing, Luna said of ex-candidate Braddock, "I do not feel safe, and I am currently in fear for my life from Mr. Braddock."

"Braddock eventually dropped out of the race," Petrizzo and Sommer explain, "but in her court filings about the alleged murder plot, Luna also mentioned primary rival Amanda Makki and potential candidate and Stone friend Matt Tito as being involved in some sort of alliance with Braddock to foil Luna. Both candidates were angered by being mentioned in the filing, telling Politico in June that they had no connection to Braddock."

The Beast reporters continue, "Tito, who has not officially entered the race yet, was further incensed in July when, he said, Luna got him kicked out of a Tampa conference for Turning Point USA because of their rivalry. In Tito's telling, Luna allegedly asked TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk to have him removed."

READ:**'Biden delivered': Devastating Lincoln Project ad mocks 'so-called builder' Trump on 'infrastructure week'**

Tito, interviewed by the Beast, said of Luna, "She got me kicked out of a TPUSA event and lied to Charlie Kirk."

If Tito enters the race, which he says is "likely," Stone may become his adviser.Tito told the Beast, "I mean, listen — this is a complete mess. Somehow, someway, Luna got Trump's endorsement."

// tex state gop off deep end?

https://www.mediamatters.org/laura-loomer/republican-party-florida-backing-laura-loomer-proud-islamophobe-who-said-shes-favor

Republican Party of Florida recently expressed its support for right-wing commentator and congressional candidate Laura Loomer, who has described herself as a “proud Islamophobe,” has said that she didn’t “care” about the anti-Muslim mass shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand, and has stated that she’s in favor of “more” migrant deaths.

Loomer won the Republican nomination in Florida’s 21st Congressional District on August 18. The district is represented by Democratic Rep. Lois Frankel, who is heavily favored to win the race in November.

Shortly after her victory, the Florida GOP tweeted:

The Florida GOP is supporting someone who has been banned from numerous platforms because of her anti-Muslim hate and has:

Loomer has also worked for Alex Jones’ Infowars network. Jones and Infowars have pushednumerous conspiracy theories about 9/11 and school shootings. The Daily Beast wrote that after the February 14, 2018, school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, Infowars sent Loomer to Parkland, where she “accused students who spoke out against gun violence of being puppets. ‘It’s obvious these kids are reading a screen or notes someone else wrote for them,’ Loomer tweeted of students who spoke out against gun violence.”

That’s just a brief summary of Loomer’s horrific background. More on Loomer’s prior remarks and commentaries can be found here, here, and here.

In addition to getting support from the Florida GOP, Loomer has received backing from President Donald Trump, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), and Fox News hosts Jeanine Pirro and Pete Hegseth.

The Republican Party of Palm Beach County is also backing Loomer:

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https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/laura-loomers-victory-party-far-right-speakers-and-attendees/

a  cast of far-right figures joined anti-Muslim provocateur and self-proclaimed “Islamophobe” Laura Loomer at a party celebrating her win of the Republican nomination to represent Florida’s 21st Congressional District in the U.S. House last night. Although Loomer faces a difficult challenge against incumbent Democrat Rep. Lois Frankel in a solidly blue district, her GOP nomination has invigorated far-right activists and media personalities, and excited figures notorious for spreading disinformation.

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Right Wing Watch noted yesterday that Loomer, who was endorsed by a number of far-right personalities, was likely to win her primary. President Donald Trump congratulated Loomer on her win in a tweet last night.

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"great going Laura. You have a great chance against a Pelosi puppet!” Trump said.

A jubilant Loomer reacted in a video recorded after Trump’s tweet, which she said someone else had to tell her about because she was banned from Twitter.

“I am headed to Washington to provide you with some firepower and reinforcements Mr. President, so I look forward to meeting you soon next time you’re back in the Mar-a-Lago district,” Loomer said in response to the Trump’s tweet.

In attendance at Loomer’s celebration party were far-right notables, including:

Loomer is a right-wing conspiracy theorist, and promoter of disinformation who has been banned from multiple social media platforms for promoting anti-Muslim bigotry. She is best known for attention-seeking stunts like chaining her screaming self to the front door of Twitter’s New York headquarters in protest of being kicked off the service. She has rallied support for white nationalists while denouncing the supposed threat of “Sharia supremacy.”

On multiple occasions, Loomer has proclaimed that she does not care about what happened to Muslims in the Christchurch shootings, where more than 50 people were murdered by a white supremacist.

“Nobody cares about Christchurch. I especially don’t. I care about my social media accounts and the fact that Americans are being silenced more than Christchurch,” Loomer wrote on Telegram.

Last year, Loomer said she didn’t care about the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi by the Saudi government because she claimed he was a Muslim Brotherhood operative and thus “an enemy of the state.”

In 2019, Loomer lost her media credentials and was removed from the Conservative Political Action Conference after harassing journalists. She has also contributed to with Alex Jones’ conspiracy-theory site Infowars, which has also been kicked off multiple platforms.

Loomer has often worked in concert with far-right nationalists to accomplish her goals of Trump-world notoriety and influence. In turn, her campaign has received support from an eclectic mix of far-right figures. As Melissa Ryan wrote for Right Wing Watch:

White nationalist hate group VDARE has promoted her campaign for Congress, as has Fox News host Jeanine Pirro. Trump allies Rep. Matt Gaetz, who is up for reelection this year and has his own connections to far-right figures, and Roger Stone, a convicted felon and associate of the Proud Boys hate group, have endorsed Loomer.

Tags: Ali AkbarDonald TrumpGavin McInnesJacob WohlLaura LoomerMilo YiannopoulosRoger Stone

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Palm Beach, Florida, far-right activist Laura Loomer has won the Republican primary for the U.S. House district that’s home to President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. Loomer was banned from Twitter and Facebook in 2018 over her racist attacks on Ilhan Omar, one of three Muslim members of Congress. She was also banned from Uber and Lyft after making Islamophobic comments about drivers. Donald and Melania Trump cast absentee ballots in Tuesday’s primary, and after Loomer’s victory, the president tweeted his congratulations to her

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https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/the-gop-is-the-party-of-leftovers-political-observers-rip-far-right-activist-laura-loomers-primary-victory-in-florida/

proud boys gavin mcinnes at party, roger, and  milo

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only a week after QAnon supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene won a GOP congressional primary in Georgia, Laura Loomer won a GOP congressional primary in Florida — and now, Loomer will go up against incumbent Democratic Rep. Lois Frankel in the general election. Given how Democratic Frankel’s district is, Loomer will be fighting an uphill battle — unlike Greene, whose district in Georgia is deeply Republican. But Loomer’s campaign is sure to embarrass her party. This is the same Loomer who was banned from Twitter and other social media platforms because of her hateful rhetoric attacking Muslims and others — and who is so extreme that she was even banned from the 2019 Conservative Political Action Conference after harassing and badgering reporters (a practice she calls “Loomering”).

President Donald Trump was quick to congratulate Loomer on her win:

Great going Laura. You have a great chance against a Pelosi puppet! https://t.co/pKZp35dUYr

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 19, 2020

And Greene congratulated her as well:

Congratulations to Laura Loomer on her primary win!

Now Twitter should re-instate her account. @jack pic.twitter.com/SlDPToCS0X

— Marjorie Taylor Greene For Congress???? (@mtgreenee) August 19, 2020

Others on social media, however, have described Loomer’s victory as an example of how much extremists have taken over the Republican Party. Here are some more reactions to Loomer’s win:

At Laura Loomer’s party celebrating her win of the Republican nomination to represent Florida’s 21st District, we got a preview of the trouble that comes with her.

A hodgepodge of far-right actors and disinformation peddlers spoke and attended the party.https://t.co/TB71Opqp2p

— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) August 19, 2020

Trump supporting anti-Muslim bigot and fringe extremist Laura Loomer.

Congrats, Republicans. This is what you’ve become. Enjoy the tax cuts. Hope it was all worth it. https://t.co/Qt5JRMkTGs

— Wajahat “Wears a Mask Because of a Pandemic” Ali (@WajahatAli) August 19, 2020

Okay, so maybe I’m not excited about possibly sending to Congress the woman who slashed her own tires and handcuffed herself to Twitter HQ. But whatever.

— Erielle Davidson (@politicalelle) August 19, 2020

Anyone #TraitorTrump supports is an automatic failure. And should be.

— Kathy Terrified, Graduated from@ Kathy Concern (@KathyConcerned) August 19, 2020

She might single-handedly torpedo GOP efforts to shrink government, repeal Obamacare, and defund Planned Parenthood.

— Nuclear Dave (@woodstockdave) August 19, 2020

She has an almost 0% chance of winning and if Republicans were smart they would simply ignore her.

— Alex Ward (@poolboy88) August 19, 2020

That’s anti-Muslim, bigot, fringe extremist, and LUNATIC Laura Loomer.

This & the plethora of Q nuts running is indicative of the decay of the GOP.

Their policy wonks & fiscal conservatives have ridden into the sunset to count their loot. The GOP is the party of leftovers

— Husky Wee Wee (@NickKave) August 19, 2020

She also used hashtags such as #ProudIslamophobe and #BanIslam on Twitter.

— AZGirl (@k2m_10210) August 19, 2020

Trump via retweet calls for Twitter to reinstate Laura Loomer, who was kicked off for tweets on @IlhanMN violating rules agaisnt hateful conduct pic.twitter.com/EuoQUoyehb

— Cristiano Lima (@viaCristiano) August 19, 2020

She’s going to lose so hard, I’m already laughing that she’s bothering to try. But when you’re getting all those rubles via Roger Stone I guess you’ve gotta keep at it

— Stefanie Iris Weiss ?? (@EcoSexuality) August 19, 2020

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I’m not excited about possibly sending to Congress the woman whoslashed her own tiresand handcuffed herself to Twitter HQ

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[Right-wing political operatives Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl pitch reporters their latest far-fetched scandal on a balcony outside the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Feb. 27, 2020. (Photo: Jared Holt)]

Like bees to honey, the pro-Trump fringe descended on this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference outside of the nation’s capital of Washington, D.C., in hopes of stealing a sliver of the spotlight for themselves.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and a cohort of his Infowars employees roamed the conference’s exhibition hall and the escalators ​on their way to radio row, attracting a crowd of star-struck attendees with their cell phones hoisted above their heads to get video of Jones. Right Wing Watch asked Jones for his thoughts on the new coronavirus​ ​now spreading around the world, a subject that Vice President Mike Pence had directly addressed on the CPAC main stage hours earlier.

“We know it’s a manmade bioweapon, produced by the U.S. government, sold to China in 2015. That was in theJournal of Science.That’s why we got a bit concerned about it. It’s a chimera cross-viral species system,” Jones said, going on to argue that the U.S. should restrict travel from China.

Right Wing Watch was unable to track down a Journal of Science article that made that assertion, which was recentlyfloated by Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, as well. According to The New York Times, former White House strategist Steve Bannon is also a purveyor of the theory, which is widely disavowed by scientists.

[Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones rides an escalator to radio row at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference on Feb. 27, 2020. (Photo: Jared Holt)]

Jones told journalists at CPAC that he felt at home with CPAC attendees, “But the Republican establishment, I don’t feel at home with them. But we’re here to let them know that we’re taking the Republican party over.”

:{On a terrace overlooking the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center lobby, Republican political personalitiesJacob Wohland Jack Burkman hosted a press conference, as they did last year. In the audience, far-right political entertainer Gavin McInnes, who founded the Proud Boys hate group, accosted reporters. McInnes was later}ejected from the event:{. One attendee told Right Wing Watch they reported McInnes to security after McInnes threatened to assault them. A request for information from CPAC about McInnes’ ejection was not immediately returned.}:

Laura Loomer, anti-Muslim activistwho is pursuing a bid for Congress in Florida, was spotted around CPAC touting her ​campaign. Last year, Loomer had her media credentials revoked and was removed from CPAC after harassing journalists in the media filing center​; this year ​she donned standard attendee credentials.

But white nationalist organization leader Patrick Casey never made it past the conference center’s front door, according to a post in his Telegram chat channel. On days that the vice president or president speaks at CPAC, guards at the doors of the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center require conference credentials or hotel room keys to enter the building​. Casey falsely claimed to his followers that the policy was new for this year. 

Tags: Alex JonesGavin McInnesJack BurkmanJacob WohlLaura LoomerPatrick CaseyCPAC 2020Identity Evropa InfoWar

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gizmodo 320 cpac

Laura Loomer, congressional candidate banned from Uber and Lyft for racism

... I was banned for a tweet in which I said [Minnesota Representative] Ilhan Omar was anti-Jewish. And I posted a tweet after she was elected, and they said that it was hate speech for me saying she was anti-Jewish.

Uh huh. That was the specific wording that you used?

Yeah. That she is pro-Sharia and anti-Jewish.

Oh, OK. So you said something Islamophobic.

So it’s Islamophobic to point out Jew hatred?

No, it’s Islamophobic to accuse her of being pro-Sharia just because-

She is. She is pro Sharia. The use of hijab displays the fact that she is pro-Sharia. She’s upholding Islamic law.

So you don’t think that you can, you know, just say that on Twitter anymore.

There is nothing wrong. It’s completely factual. And she pals around with Linda Sarsour.

[Loomer once handcuffed herself to the Twitter offices in an unsuccessful attempt to get her account back. Representative Omar does not support the imposition of Sharia law.]

https://www.alternet.org/2020/02/heres-how-a-conspiracy-theorist-banned-from-twitter-made-the-journey-from-the-alt-right-fringe-to-a-gop-congressional-candidate/

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Here’s how a conspiracy theorist banned from Twitter made the journey from the ‘alt-right fringe’ to a GOP congressional candidate

Written by Alex Henderson February 28, 2020

Far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, known for her anti-Muslim posts on social media and claims that mass shootings are false flag operations, is so extreme that she has even been banned from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). But that isn’t preventing the 26-year-old Loomer from seeking the Republican nomination in South Florida’s 21st Congressional District, where she is hoping to run against incumbent Democratic Rep. Lois Frankel in 2020’s general election. And Amanda Carpenter takes a look at Loomer’s journey from the “alt-right” fringe to congressional candidate in a February 28 article for The Bulwark.

Carpenter, who is a CNN contributor in addition to her work for The Bulwark, is no liberal: she formerly served as communications director for Sen. Ted Cruz and a speechwriter for Sen. Jim DeMint. But Loomer, as Carpenter explains, is not a run-of-the-mill conservative — other Republicans shunned her in the past, and she has been banned from social media platforms ranging from Twitter to Facebook to Instagram.

As a candidate, Carpenter notes, Loomer’s “plan” is “to present herself as a politically incorrect social media martyr” — and she has reached out to President Donald Trump for help, declaring herself to be a staunch Trumpista.

“Whereas Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Lyft, Venmo, GoFundMe, Medium, Uber and UberEats have standards of behavior for members, the United States Congress does not,” Carpenter asserts. “‘Member of Congress’ is one of the few jobs where Loomer’s anti-Muslim tweets, musings that mass shootings are false flag operations and outlandish protests aren’t automatic disqualifications. In fact, those positions will probably help her attract a committed, albeit nutty, base of support.”

In May 2019, Carpenter recalls, Loomer appeared on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ show — where she “sounded like a woman on the brink” and “wailed like a teenager” after her inflammatory posts got her banned from Instagram and Facebook. But now that she’s running for Congress, Carpenter laments, Loomer’s claim that she is a political martyr “seems to be working. Loomer has transformed from a fringe member of the alt-right internet to someone embraced by people in the highest levels of GOP leadership.”

Carpenter goes on to list some of the Republicans who are now supporting Loomer’s campaign — including Trump, whose Mar-a-Lago resort is in her district.

“President Trump has tweeted supportively of her race, his presidential campaign is renting out her e-mail list — and Trump’s 2016 Florida director, Karen Giorno, is managing her campaign,” Carpenter reports. “Republican Rep. Jim Jordan appears to have rented out her list too. And Loomer claims endorsements from high-profile personalities and friends of Trump, including Roger Stone, Jeanine Pirro, Bo Snerdly and Michelle Malkin.”

Moreover, Carpenter adds, Republican Joe Gruters (a Florida state senator and chairman of the Florida Republican Party) “held a press conference with her (in January) to promote legislation that he said was inspired by Loomer. The bill,Stop Social Media Censorship Act, would allow people such as Loomer to sue Twitter for damages if their speech is censored or deleted. It’s commonly known as ‘Loomer’s Law.’”

According to Carpenter,  Loomer’s campaign “has raised more than $350,000 and had $115,000 cash on hand.”

“Take Laura Loomer’s name out of the picture here,” Carpenter laments, “and you have what appears to be a well-connected, establishment campaign designed for a rising party star.”

The good news is that if Loomer does win the GOP nomination, her chances of defeating Frankel in the general election are slim: Florida’s 21st Congressional District, Carpenter points out, “is safely Democratic” — and in 2016’s presidential election, Hillary Clinton carried that district by 19%. Had the entire state of Florida voted like the 21st Congressional District in 2016, Clinton would have won Florida’s electoral votes hands down.

But Loomer’s “longshot” campaign, Carpenter stresses, is a publicity stunt — and her chances of actually defeating Frankel should she win the nomination are “almost beside the point.” Plus, Trump now claims Florida, not New York City, as his primary residence and can vote in Florida elections.

“If the president of the United States votes for her in 2020,” Carpenter asks, “what further validation does she need?”

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**Laura Loomer Tried to Sue CAIR and Failed Miserably**

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...Categories of tweets tagging Rashida Tlaib 13. PJ Media #ISLAMOPHOBIA / 19 nomination for state legislature. The article was based on an anonymous comment on a forum for the Somali diaspora, Somalispot.com.59 The post claimed, without providing evidence, that Omar’s previous husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, was actually her brother. Five days later, AlphanewsMN.com, a fringe website in Minnesota, ran a story claiming, “New Evidence Confirms Rumors About DFL Candidate’s Marriages.” Omar has repeatedly denied the allegation and has never been charged, though she has avoided addressing certain inconsistencies.60 The largest local newspaper, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, did not give credence to the claims at the time.61 Despite the fringe media allegations, the story remained unproven and essentially faded away until it was revived during the 2018 primary by PJ Media (Figure 13), a conservative news site that attracts an average of fifteen million unique readers per month62 and is rated by Media Bias/Fact Check as “right-wing” and “borderline ‘Questionable’ based on numerous failed fact checks.”63 

On August 8, six days before the primary vote, PJ Media posted this story: OMAR’S MEDIA AND PARTY SUPPORTERS HAVE BEEN AGGRESSIVELY UNINTERESTED IN A DISTURBING ALLEGATION ABOUT OMAR WITH LEGAL RAMIFICATIONS: THAT IN 2009, SHE SEEMS TO HAVE MARRIED HER BROTHER. THAT ALLEGATION HAS BEEN PUBLIC FOR NEARLY TWO YEARS WITHOUT OMAR ADDRESSING ITS SPECIFIC FOUNDATIONS. NEWLY UNCOVERED EVIDENCE—EXCLUSIVELY PUBLISHED BELOW—ADDS ANOTHER ALLEGATION: ILHAN OMAR HAS SINCE SIGNED OFF ON APPARENT FALSEHOODS, UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY, DURING HER 2017 DIVORCE FROM THE MAN IN QUESTION: AHMED NUR SAID ELMI.64 The story included copies of divorce documents and screengrabs of pictures on social media, but none of the “evidence” proved Omar’s first husband was her brother. Nevertheless, the allegation had been rereleased into the echo chamber. The same day, Robert Spencer, cofounder of Stop Islamization of America,65 reposted the story on his Jihadwatch.org website, which is dedicated to tracking the “current state of radical jihad theology and ideology.”66 Daniel Pipes’s Middle East Forum, which the Center for American Progress puts “at the center of the Islamophobia network,”67 also posted an excerpt of, and link to, the PJ Media story on its Islamist Watch website.68 Two days later, on August 10, Gateway Pundit, an extreme right-wing website,69 ran a headline, “Democratic Congressional Candidate from Minnesota Divorces Her Brother,”70 which cut and pasted from the original 2016 Powerline story.

The uncorroborated story was given another boost on August 12 when media provocateur Laura Loomercrashed a joint event between Omar and Rashida Tlaib (see Appendix 2: Queen of the Trolls).71 “VIDEO: Laura Loomer Confronts Democrat Muslim Candidate on Why She Married Her Brother—Is KICKED OFF FACEBOOK after Posting the VIDEO,” Gateway Pundit reported.72 On August 16,Gateway Pundit published news that Loomer was suing Tlaib for assault allegedly committed during the confrontation, and reprinted most of the previous story.73 

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A week later, American thinker.com mentioned the allegation in an article on Muslims running for office nationally.74 14. Married her brother 20 / #ISLAMOPHOBIA On October 23, two weeks before the midterm election, PJ Media revived the story yet again with “exclusive new evidence” that consisted of high school records of a man by the same name as Omar’s ex-husband. The new allegations were quickly picked up by WMD.com, which reposted the first few paragraphs of the PJ Media story and then linked to the piece.75 The story set off a social media frenzy (Figure 14). A tweet linking back to the article and demanding that she be “thrown in jail or deported” was retweeted more than 5,000 times. 

A Laura Loomer tweet asking, “@IlhanMN why did you marry your brother?”was retweeted 890 times over the next three days. In fact, a keyword search of the 90,000 tweets tagging @IlhanMN in the eight weeks before the election found that (after “Minnesota” and “Congress”) three of the top six words in tweets tagging Omar involved terms associated with the alleged marriage (Figure 15). The word “brother” and the terms “marry/married” appeared in more tweets—almost 16,000—than any others, followed closely by “fraud.” The way in which innuendo was a hallmark of alt-right media coverage of the allegations was reflected in an October 27 article on AlphanewsMN.com, one of the two sites that originally published the story. Under the headline “Did City Pages Expose Evidence of Ilhan Omar’s Marriage Controversy?” writer Preya Samsundar reported:

[CITY PAGES] WROTE THAT ILHAN OMAR’S FATHER IS NAMED “NUR SAID ELMI MOHAMED”. A DAY LATER, [THE] ARTICLE WAS CHANGED AND NOW OMAR’S FATHER’S NAME APPEARS IN THE ARTICLE AS “NUR OMAR MOHAMED”. WHY THE SUDDEN CHANGE? IT COULD VERY WELL BE THAT BY ADMITTING THAT ILHAN OMAR’S FATHER’S NAME IS NUR SAID ELMI MOHAMED, IT VALIDATES THE INFORMATION DISCOVERED EARLIER BY ALPHA NEWS THAT ILHAN OMAR MARRIED HER BROTHER AND COMMITTED IMMIGRATION FRAUD… THE ORIGINAL NAME USED BY CITY PAGES TO IDENTIFY ILHAN OMAR’S FATHER LENDS CREDENCE TO THE FRATERNAL STATUS OF AHMED NUR AID ELMI UNDER SOMALI NAMING CONVENTIONS. THE CHANGE WOULD ALSO REMOVE ANY SUSPICION FROM THE READER THAT OMAR MARRIED A MAN WITH AN ALMOST IDENTICAL NAME OF HER FATHER.76

But the story did not rest there. It was resurrected by another right-wing media outlet, and given credibility by Donald Trump in July 2019, the same week Trump posted a series of racist tweets about Omar. As he departed for a campaign rally at which he would again denounce Omar, prompting the crowd to break into chants of “Send her back,”77 Emerald Robinson, a reporter for the hard-right One America News Network, asked if the administration was looking into “possible immigration fraud committed by Ilhan Omar for possibly marrying her brother.”78 Trump’s response: “Well, there’s a lot of talk about the fact that she was married to her brother. I know nothing about it. I hear she was married to her brother. You’re asking me a question about it. I don’t know, but I’m sure there’s somebody who will be looking at that.” 15. Ilhan Omar network top keywords #ISLAMOPHOBIA / 21

With that, the story had been released back into the social media echo chamber with new imprimatur of credibility for those who wanted to believe it.

5.3.2 Case Study: FGM A similar twisting of facts by online outlets led to a false allegation about Omar that formed the basis of another Twitter narrative: that she supports female genital mutilation (FGM). Omar’s native Somalia has one of the highest rates of FGM in the world.79 Despite Omar’s opposition to the procedure, its high prevalence in Somalia has made the issue a potent vector for innuendo. “In 2017, Omar rejected Muslim reform-driven efforts against gender discrimination and female genital mutilation (FGM),” the website for the Clarion Project reported in August 2018.80 The group describes itself as “a non-profit organization that educates the public about the dangers of radical Islam,”81 though it is designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-Muslim hate group. This October 17 post by Laura Loomer, an influential anti-Muslim troll,

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http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/heres-who-fox-news-considers-prominent-conservative-voices/

Laura Ingraham took to her primetime program on Fox News last night to defend conspiracy theorists, extremists, and an unabashed neo-Nazi as “prominent voices” in the conservative movement that have been supposedly “censored on social media.”

A graphic produced by Fox News featured eight people who have been suspended or claim to have been throttled on social media platforms. The figures featured were dubbed “prominent voices censored on social media."[nice grfx]

Here’s who Fox News considers a “prominent” conservative figures.

The graphic featured first Alex Jones, the creator and leading voice of the conspiracy theory outlet Infowars. Jones is currently facing multiple defamation lawsuits regarding his insistence that the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax, which resulted in the families of slain children being harassed and traumatized by Jones’ viewers. Jones’ intentional spread of disinformation, harassment, and bullying of victims of tragedies and his regular distribution of offensive content broke enough community guidelines on social media platforms to result in a wide-scale deplatforming of his operation online. Infowars has regularly provided a safe space for extremists to recruit to their efforts.

Next on the graphic was Milo Yiannopoulous, a disgraced right-wing hate monger who stirredharassment and vitriol online and violated the community guidelines of many social media sites, resulting in his accounts being permanently suspended. His comments online after the Christchurch massacre in New Zealand, where a white supremacist slaughtered practicing Muslims in two mosques, resulted in him being banned from entering the country of Australia. Yiannopoulous was once a prominent figure in the right-wing movement, thanks in large part to flush funding from the conservative mega-donor Mercer family. The Mercer family funding and Yiannopoulous’ spotlight was dimmed after BuzzFeed News published leaked emails showing Yiannopoulous’ collaboration with white supremacists and his attempt bring them into the mainstream. After audio surfaced of Yiannopoulous appearing to endorse pedophilia, Yiannopoulous was effectively designated persona non grata among conservatives.

Beside Yiannopoulous isLaura Loomer, an anti-Muslim activist whose targeting of Islamic worshipers (and any random person whose appearance led her to believe they are Muslim) violated social media rules against hateful content and resulted in her removal from major tech platforms. Loomer has had numerous affiliations with members of the white nationalist movement and endorsed:{ Faith Goldy, who recited the white supremacist “}14 Words:{” in her bid to become mayor of Toronto.}::{ Loomer, a former Project Veritas operative, has collaborated with Infowars on disinformation campaigns surrounding shootings in Florida and Las Vegas.}:

Candace Owens,who began her career in conservative media using the moniker “Red Pill Black,” joined Ingraham in-studio for the segment and was also featured on the graphic. She was briefly suspended by Facebook earlier this month after one of her posts had been flagged for violating community standards, but she currently uses the site freely. Owens got an early boost in her career from Alex Jones and has continued to advance in conservative circles despite her early affiliations. Owens was recently filmed saying that the problem with Adolf Hitler was that he was too ambitious and took his plans beyond Germany.

Michelle Malkin, who argued in a 2004 book that the United States was right to displace and intern 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry in America during World War II, was another “prominent” voice Ingraham featured. Malkin frequently parrots white nationalist rhetoric on immigration; at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, she likened immigration to an “invasion” that “endangers” Americans. She closed that speech by saying, “diversity is not our strength,” and followed her speech by giving an interview to the racist website VDARE.

Actor and ardent Trump supporter James Woods, who is not banned from Twitter, but rather has refused to delete a post on his Twitter profile with the hashtag “#HangThemAll” that would result in his account being unlocked, was also featured as a “prominent” censored conservative voice. Before being locked out of Twitter, Woods also shared a meme of the Christchurch shooter depicted as a clown, part of a push by white supremacists to find a new way to launder their voices into relevance.

Fox News deemed Paul Nehlen as another “prominent” conservative voice. Nehlen is a failed state congressional candidate in Wisconsin who pivoted his campaign message to explicitly target Jews and then funneled the money he made to his wife and neighbor. He was banned from social media for being an explicit Nazi and is so aggressive that even the white supremacist internet haven Gab decided to boot him. Angry White Men recently reported that Nehlen and his likewise-failed neo-Nazi counterpart Patrick Little had been debating the best way to start a race war in the United States. And as Right Wing Watch reported earlier this week, Nehlen has promoted the writings of neo-Nazi James Mason, which advocate terrorism to fulfill a white supremacist agenda.

Dan Scavino, White House social media manager,was also featured on this list because he accused Facebook of censoring him for replying to a comment. Platforms are known to throttle accounts if software suspects an account may be spamming and there is no evidence that Scavino was targeted for restriction otherwise.

It’s for segments like these that Democrat presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren rejected an invitation to appear on Fox News for a town hall interview, calling the network a “hate-for-profit” scam and drawing criticisms from conservatives. Figures like Meghan McCain insisted that Warren’s refusal to subsidize Fox News with her appearance were off-base and cut her off from conservatives.

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In the past 24 hours, both Alex Jones and Laura Loomer have taken to Instagram to promote white nationalism

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http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/jacob-wohl-is-in-the-hot-seat-again/

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Jacob Wohl is in the Hot Seat (Again)

By Jared Holt | March 13, 2019 2:21 pm

Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman hold a press conference in Arlington, Virginia, on November 1, 2018. (Photo: Jared Holt for Right Wing Watch)

Right-wing activists Jacob Wohl and Ali Akbar appear to have filed false information into a police report in Minneapolis, Minnesota last month while filming a smear video against Rep. Ilhan Omar.

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Wohl, Akbar and anti-Muslim activist Laura Loomer traveled to Minneapolis to film a short “documentary” based on unfounded allegations in order to paint Omar as a threat to the country, and to depict Minnesota as unsafe because of a vibrant Muslim community in Minneapolis.

As Minneapolis journalist Tony Webster pointed out on Twitter, the video uploaded last night depicts Wohl and Akbar entering a Minneapolis police office and reporting that they had received a threatening message on Twitter. The video shows a threat that was sent by an account using the name “Drake Holmes” that NBC News’ Ben Collins reported to be controlled by Wohl.

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In the right-wing ‘documentary’ on Rep. Ilhan Omar released tonight by Jacob Wohl, Laura Loomer, and Ali Alexander, they included this screenshot of a threat they received. There's one problem: NBC News earlier reported that Jacob Wohl created the account which sent the “threat”.

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https://thinkprogress.org/cpac-tries-to-circle-the-wagons-against-the-far-right-60408d44e7df/

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CPAC tries to circle the wagons against the far-right

Far-right grifters were kept at arm's length, but a few still managed to sneak in.

LUKE BARNES

MAR 2, 2019, 11:13 AM

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD — In 2019, CPAC seems to have gone out of its way to put on a drab, non-controversial conservative show.

There was none of the drama of 2017, when far-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos was disinvited just days before the event after a video of him condoning pedophilia emerged, and when neo-Nazi Richard Spencer roamed the CPAC halls rubbing shoulders with younger attendees.

This year, by contrast, a collection of white nationalists, far-right grifters and conspiracy theorists were kept at an arms’ length and mostly had to be content with roaming the Gaylord Hotel outside of the convention. Many were initially denied passes, but managed to wangle their way inside, although they had to be content themselves with posting about CPAC on Twitter, rather than having direct contact with attendees.

Among those spotted was Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist podcaster who lurked around the edges of CPAC like a vulture. Faith Goldy, a white nationalist who ran for mayor of Toronto in 2018 — getting 3.4 percent of the vote — was also present. Patrick Casey, the executive director of the far-right group Identity Evropa, tried to get into CPAC before being informed that his pass had been canceled. Casey then promptly launched into an angry tweetstorm about how CPAC wasn’t a forum for real conservatives anyway.

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Certainly the most amusing example of the far-right and its associated grifters attempting to get some form of CPAC cred occurred on Thursday afternoon, when noted pro-Trump trolls Laura Loomerand Jacob Wohl — both of whom were also denied their in their initial attempts to get into CPAC — held a “press conference” along with conservative lobbyist Jack Burkman to outline another set of spurious, unsubstantiated allegations, this time against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).

The event rapidly devolved into farce, with Wohl talking over Loomer every time she tried to speak about her supposed “censoring” on social media, and journalists asking why a document marked “Strictly Private and Confidential” was being distributed to the public.

Wohl and Goldy were later spotted chatting to each other at CPAC, but wearing attendee and not media badges. It is not immediately clear why Wohl especially was allowed in, after being so pointedly denied entry earlier in the day.

Later that night Wohl made an appearance at an afterparty hosted by Turning Points USA, the conservative student group, which featured Donald Trump, Jr. and TPUSA leader Charlie Kirk. Among the (mostly college-aged) revelers was Enrique Tarrio, current leader of the far-right Proud Boys gang was also spotted roaming the halls.

On Friday, two members of the Proud Boys in New York City pled guilty to charges stemming from a fight outside the New York Metropolitan Republican club in 2018, where the Proud Boys viciously attacked counter-protesters.

But CPAC’s shooing away of far-right personalities, at least superficially, isn’t the sign of some conservative bulwark against far-right ideas.

Instead, CPAC this year has morphed into a celebration of Trumpism, not conservatism, and all the vitriol that comes along with it.

On Friday, for instance, Breitbart writer Michelle Malkin blamed moderate Republicans, including the “ghost of John McCain” for being in bed with “immigration saboteurs.” The crowd guffawed uproariously.

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Right-wing “journalist” Laura Loomer was de-verified on Twitter in 2017 after she exploded in an unhinged anti-Muslim meltdown, which prompted her to compare the site to Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler. Today, she joined other conspiracy theorists—including Alex Jones—on Capitol Hill and made her presence felt at hearings featuring Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.

Allegations that Twitter and other major social media platforms have discriminated in the enforcement of their terms of service to target conservatives have for the past year been bubbling out of the conspiracy theory fever swamps of the internet—where right-wing activists have been subject to suspensions and bans as platforms move to combat misinformation—into the GOP mainline, where they have inspired Congressional hearings. Aside from a handful of anecdotal stories about terms of enforcement errors, no tangible evidence exists to prove that tech companies are actually doing what the conspiracy theorists—and now GOP members of Congress—have claimed.

Today, representatives from Facebook and Twitter were called to testify before the House and Senate about misinformation on the platform and the way enforcement is carried out. The hearings attracted a swarm of right-wing media figures who work in the conspiracy theory media market, including Infowars’ Jones, One America News’ Jack Posobiec, alt-right troll Chuck Johnson, and Gateway Pundit’s Cassandra Fairbanks. These conspiracy theorists did not go quietly.

Jones spent a brief moment lambasting CNN’s Oliver Darcy, whose reporting on Infowars’ de-platforming has led Jones and his colleagues to target him with a smear campaign alleging that Darcy is anti-American and working on behalf of the communist Chinese government. [pix twit] When Twitter’s Dorsey exited the Capitol after the morning meeting, he faced a scrum of reporters intermingled with conspiracy theorists. As Dorsey entered his vehicle, Loomer yelled at him: “You unverified me and called me a white supremacist! I’m Jewish!You violated my First Amendment right.” Jones rambled about something to do with CIA and Barack Obama.

When Dorsey returned in the afternoon, he headed to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce for a personal grilling from Republicans based on the unsubstantiated claim that his website is systemically censoring conservative voices. While Dorsey repeatedly denied that his site discriminates against conservatives, he received a second dose of Loomer’s antics.

About an hour after the afternoon session began, Loomer interrupted the House hearing by bellowing that President Trump must “help us before it’s too late because Jack Dorsey is trying to influence the election, to sway the election so that Democrats can steal the election.” Rep. Billy Long of Missouri began rattling off like an auctioneer while Capitol Police escorted Loomer out of the chamber[pix]

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But as HuffPost’s Ashley Feinberg rightfully pointed out, while Rep. Long and his GOP colleagues may have enjoyed ridiculing Loomer, the conspiracy theories pushed by Loomer and her ilk are the basis of today’s largely pointless meetings.

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Infowars-affiliated “investigative journalist” Laura Loomer has traveled to the site of last week’s mass shooting at a Florida high school, apparently trying to recreate her disinformation and conspiracy theory-filled “coverage” of the aftermath of the mass shooting in Las Vegas last year.

Loomer has been increasingly desperate for validation from her conservative media counterparts after her anti-Muslim Twitter meltdown and her effort to portray the FBI’s investigation into the Las Vegas mass shooting as a government cover-up caused some to distance themselves. So last week, when Infowars rolled out a combination of conspiracy theories about the Florida shooting, claiming that globalists ordered the shooting to cover up the FISA memo and insisting that the shooting was the “perfect false flag,” it provided an opportunity for Loomer to once again appear on the scene of a mass shooting and pull her signature stunt of harassing public officials with conspiracy theory nonsense.

On Saturday, Loomer landed in Florida and quickly got to work on behalf of Infowars, an outlet that holds to this day that the Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax. In a videouploaded yesterday for Infowars, Loomer shouted down Democratic Congressman Tom Deutch. On camera, Deutch told Loomer if she had “any respect for the human lives that were lost in my district” that she “wouldn’t come here” and that he would “never give an interview” to Infowars.

Loomer, who also worked with Infowars while she was in Las Vegas, bombarded Deutch with questions about why he thought the “40 percent” of Americans who she claimed read Infowars are “absolute garbage” and asked him, “Why are you lying to your constituents about gun control?” She went on to assert that the shooting was a result of FBI incompetence rather than laws that enabled the teen to acquire the rifle he used to kill 17 people.

Loomer’s desperation to inject herself as a “reporter” in Florida is also evident in a blog post on her newly unveiled website, which features screenshots of her Twitter stats, a tab called “Winter Specials” that appears to link to nothing, and posts of exclusive stories with the tagline “get illuminated.” One “exclusive” that Loomer features is a story about a single, random Facebook user who wrote something about “shooting up an NRA meeting” in the aftermath of the Florida shooting. The user Loomer targets for her “exclusive” report is an aspiring actress with no inherent news value related to the Florida shooting besides the alleged fact that she is a “Florida native.”

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Laura Loomer Is In Florida To Help Infowars Sow Disinformation About Another Mass Shooting

Far-Right Pundits Defend Project Veritas After Botched Smear Campaign Exposed

Far-Right Activists Party With Bannon, Gorka, Congressmen & ‘Election Integrity’ Commissioner In Florida

Extreme Right-Wing Figures Melt Like Snowflakes After Their Twitter Verifications Are Revoked

Laura Loomer Goes Ballistic In Anti-Muslim Twitter Meltdown

Fear And Loomer In Las Vegas

Alex Jones Justifies Las Vegas Conspiracy Theories: ‘I Talk To The President Sometimes’

Conspiracy Theorist And Make-Believe Journalist Laura Loomer Says She’ll Appear On Fox News Tonight

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https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/fcc-chairman-ajit-pai-alt-right-sympathizer-net-neutrality

On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 along party lines to repeal an Obama-era regulation to preserve net neutrality, defying Silicon Valley executives and consumer advocacy groups, not to mention the will of the people. A recent University of Maryland survey finds that more than 80 percent of registered voters oppose the FCC's plans.

The move will fundamentally transform the internet as we know it, allowing corporate behemoths like Verizon and Comcast to manipulate loading speeds and charge customers a premium for access to individual websites and apps. Adding insult to democratic injury, circumstantial evidence suggests the man who cast the deciding vote, Ajit Pai, sympathizes with the so-called alt-right.

Back in November, the FCC chairman and Trump appointee unveiled his plans to junk the net neutrality rules established in 2015, arguing that websites and social media platforms, rather than internet service providers (ISPs), posed the greatest threat to an open internet. At the time, Pai singled out Twitter for blame.

“The company has a viewpoint and uses that viewpoint to discriminate," he told the R Street Institute, a libertarian-minded think tank. "And to say the least, the company appears to have a double standard when it comes to suspending or deverifying conservative users’ accounts as opposed to those of liberal users. This conduct is many things, but it isn’t fighting for an open internet."

It's difficult to know exactly who Pai had in mind, but Slate's April Glaser notesthat Twitter recently deverified the accounts of several prominent white supremacists, including Laura Loomer and Jason Kessler. The former is a YouTube sensation on the alt-right who was recently banned from Uber and Lyftfor her Islamophobic tweets, while the latter was one of the organizers of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. In October, Kessler was indicted on a felony perjury charge after falsely accusing a man he'd assaulted of attacking him first.

"What’s weird about Pai’s comments is that while these are all figures on the right, conservatives don’t typically count them among their ranks," Glaser writes. "And while conservatives do sometimes cast themselves as ideological victims of Silicon Valley's overreach, there have been no recent deverifications of prominent right-wing figures, 'conservative' or otherwise, not known for promoting hate. In other words, according to Pai, the demotion of racists on a social network is a bigger deal than an action that could radically change the architecture of—and who succeeds on—the internet."

Weirder still is the video Pai released Wednesday in conjunction with the Daily Caller assuring millennials that they can still "gram their food" and "post photos of cute animals" if net neutrality is scrapped. (In May, he made a separate appealto America's youth by reading aloud the meanest tweets about his proposals, a nod to the popular segment on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!") When he's not wielding a fidget spinner and assuring viewers they can still binge-watch "Game of Thrones," he can be seen doing the Harlem Shake next to a woman named Martina Markota, a far-right conspiracy theoristwho has speculated that Hillary Clinton's former campaign chair ran a child sex ring out of the basement of a Washington pizzeria.

Before joining the Daily Caller, Markota appeared in a video for the Proud Boys, a self-described "Western Chauvinist" men's club with ties to the alt-right, where she claimed that the (thoroughly debunked) Pizzagate was real. “This is not something I’m making up because I’m trying to...put in my fantasy version of what’s going on and interject it into these email scandals," she says at one point. "This is independent of the campaign. I know what cheese pizza is."

Pai, the son of Indian immigrants, has been a subject of racist attacks himself in recent months, some of them bearing the hallmarks of the alt-right. "We all have the power to murder Ajit Pai and his family," an FCC commenter wrote in May. "Jk jk." No one stands to lose more from the repeal of net neutrality rules than the patrons of websites like 4chan and Reddit, which internet service providers will soon be able to slow to a crawl, so it's difficult to imagine white nationalists embracing Pai as an ally, and vice versa.

And yet. After the FCC chairman pleaded his case that social media networks were suppressing free speech, he earned the effusive praise of far-right radio host Matt Forney and Andrew Torba of Gab, a platform where users "are generally free to be as racist or anti-Semitic as they’d like without fear of being reprimanded or censored," according to Slate.

It's possible, even probable, that Pai was unaware of Martina Markota's history before he recorded his latest video for the Daily Caller. But the fact remains that Jason Kessler got his start as a contributor for the right-wing publication, and Pai had no reservations about lending it his imprimatur. With a White House that has excused and enabled white nationalists at every turn, no one in the Trump administration has earned the benefit of the doubt.

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