WTF?
Wingnut whisperer Will Sommer:
RIGHT-WING ACTIVIST LAURA LOOMER is still collecting scalps. After purging the National Security Council and the CIA’s health branch earlier this year, Loomer appears to have outdone herself this week, helping to boot two top government officials in less than twenty-four hours.
First, Loomer’s social-media attacks against the Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official, Vinay Prasad, for his previous support for Democrats prompted Prasad to resign. That was on Tuesday.
Then on Wednesday, after a series of attacks from Loomer, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll ordered West Point to fire Jen Easterly, who had previously been the head of the Biden administration’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, from a chair at the military academy.
Maybe more than anyone, Loomer demonstrates the power right-wing media figures can have in Washington even without actually holding a government job. Even Prasad, whose criticism of vaccines had earned him the support of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., proved unable to fend off Loomer’s campaign.
One interesting thing to note here: Loomer is targeting a lot of Kennedy associates. She went after Prasad, and has raged against surgeon general pick Casey Means, even accusing her of witchcraft and highlighting her efforts to find a husband by using psychedelic mushrooms.
Sommer speculates that her fixation is because these people are ex-Democrats which is probably correct. Loomer believes she is the true keeper of the MAGA flame.
Moe importantly, how can it be that this fringe figure is exerting this kind of influence on the presidency? There is very little reason to allow her to have this influence. I sometimes wonder if she doesn’t have something on Trump.