Trump’s HR director is on a tear. The WSJ reports:
White House officials have grown tired of her posts and Loomer’s efforts to work around them, several administration officials said. Top administration officials have launched a hunt to try to find out what motivates her posts and attacks, the officials said.
On Wednesday, she claimed that Nicholas Waytowich, a U.S. Army official, was fired because she had identified him as the creator of Red Dot, an app that tracks ICE officials. An Army official said Waytowich is suspended and under investigation.
“I don’t work for the administration, and I don’t control hiring,” said Loomer. “I’m posting facts.”
Some White House officials have also grown concerned about Loomer’s access to Trump and suspected that she was being paid for some of her attacks. Several posts outside her usual national security interests, including a campaign against a Food and Drug Administration official and push for the administration to approve a drilling license off the coast of Venezuela, raised particular concerns at the White House, according to administration officials. Loomer has denied taking money for specific posts.
Let’s back up a little bit, shall we? Some White House officials have also grown concerned about Loomer’s access to Trump. Really? Does that mean she really is behind all the firings of national security officials and others? She’s calling up Trump and he’s just issuing he orders?
I think that’s probably right. How else to explain how this stuff is happening? And why does Trump do whatever she wants? It’s kind of strange, don’t you think?
Anyway, here’s a bit of information I didn’t know before:
Her work has often been funded by conservative donors who supported right-wing positions on Israel or critical views of Islam. She has worked for years with an Israeli-American cyber intelligence analyst, Yaacov Apelbaum, who was involved with analyzing and distributing content from Hunter Biden’s laptop before the 2020 election.
Apelbaum has provided Loomer with research for her recent attacks, according to a person with direct knowledge of the work, including against national security officials the two deemed to be Muslim sympathizers.
Hookay.
Meanwhile. Loomer is starting to go after MAGAs, which is the main thrust of the article:
In recent weeks, the right-wing conspiracy theorist has:
Gone after former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, dubbing him “Tucker Qatarlson” who is being “bought off by the Muslim Brotherhood,” and attacking his son who works for Vice President JD Vance;
Accused Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of funneling government money to her own daughter and called her a “loud-mouthed bitch.”
And she said that Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, whose wife was killed by a suicide bomber, was soft on terrorism.
“They can attack me all they want, I’m more America First than them,” Loomer said in an interview, adding that she believed she faced targeting herself because she is Jewish.
Loomer’s intraparty attacks have expanded as some Trump allies have openly started criticizing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and veering into antisemitic conspiracy theories. Carlson and podcaster Candace Owens, for example, have suggested that Israel may have been involved in the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last month, which had allegedly targeted him for his shifting views on the country.
In his speech at Kirk’s memorial, Carlson likened the killing to that of Jesus Christ, saying: “I can just sort of picture the scene in a lamp-lit room with a bunch of guys sitting around eating hummus, thinking about what to do about this guy telling the truth about us.”
Netanyahu has said it is “insane” and “outrageous” to suggest that the country had anything to do with Kirk’s death. Top Turning Point officials have denounced the theories.
Loomer has since claimed Carlson took money from Doha and suppressed damaging information about Biden, referencing claims derived from Apelbaum’s analysis.
Carlson said he has never taken money from any government, including Qatar, and has no debt or investors. “I’m the only one to blame for my opinions,” he said. Owens said supporters of Israel were “scraping the very bottom of the barrel, and at the bottom is Laura Loomer.”
Loomer’s attacks on other Trump officials have continued.
I don’t have an opinion on Israel’s involvement in anything but the horrors in Gaza but it’s very weird how much this stuff is affecting American politics. If it manages to be the catalyst for the MAGA freak show to eat it’s own I can’t say I’m sorry.
Again, Loomer is a very, very bizarre person who has a very bizarre relationship with the president of the United States which apparently no one in the White House can do anything about. I guess that’s just another data point in our increasingly surreal body politic.