Here’s the story on Loomer, from last May. She is on the inside of the Trump campaign:
Loomer, a far-right activist and former Republican congressional candidate, has plenty of evidence that Trump likes her. There are all the times he’s boosted her videos on Truth Social. There was the event last summer, at Trump’s New Jersey golf club, when the former president spotted Loomer on the rope line and invited her onto his private balcony. There was the shout-out at a rally in Iowa, in January, when Trump praised her as “a very important person, politically.” There were the former president’s invitations to fly on Trump Force One, his Boeing 757 — Loomer remembers being a passenger three times, Trump aides recall only two — bobbing along to Sinéad O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares 2 U”en route from Palm Beach to Des Moines last January. There’s also the fact that Trump reportedly wanted to hire her for a campaign role last spring,before aide sintervened.
So she’s been working toward a second coming of Trump on her own, as something of a cheerleader-slash-opposition researcher. Loomer has made Trump’s causes her own since 2015, when Trumpaccused Mexico of sending “rapists” across the border and called for a “complete and total shutdown” of Muslims entering the United States. That kind of incendiary rhetoric didn’t keep Trump out of the White House, but Loomer’s anti-Islam utterances, among other alleged terms-of-use violations, cost her access to Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. She can’t use Lyft or Uber (including Uber Eats) because she criticized the companies for employing “Islamic immigrant driver[s].” (“I’m not anti-Muslim,” she told me, “but I am anti-Islam.”) She claims PayPal, Venmo, Cash App and GoFundMe also booted her.
None of this has chastened Loomer, who maintains she’s done nothing wrong. “I actually collect Mohammed cartoons,” she told me at one point, referring to the prophet of Islam,the depiction of whom is considered offensive among Muslims. She hasa copy of a January 2015 cover of Charlie Hebdo — the one depicting a tearful Mohammed, published in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the headquarters of the French satirical magazine. “It’s iconic,” she says of the magazine cover. “It’s about free speech. It’s a testament to how barbaric Islam is.”
Loomer is too much for even her ostensible allies in the MAGA-friendly media to stomach. She often claims Fox News has blacklisted her andlaments that the right-wing media personalities of Turning Point USA and the Daily Wire don’t invite her on their shows — even though they’re quick to applaud her handiwork online. A Fox News spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment; a spokesperson for Turning Point USA said that Loomer has attended their events and that hosts have shared her reporting. In a recent post on X, Daily Wire CEO Jeremy Boreing called Loomer “occasionally effective,” if also “occasionally hyperbolic” and “prone to seeing correlation as causation and connection as conspiracy.”
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“I get calls all the time — from our allies in the House, for example — ‘How can you have that sewer rat on?’” says Stephen K. Bannon, the MAGA field general and “War Room” podcast host,of Loomer.
“Laura Loomer is a political science experiment gone wrong,” says Peter Schorsch, a former Republican operative who now runs the website Florida Politics. “She’s what happens when you take a gadfly and inject it with that radioactive waste from Godzilla.” “Some people say, ‘Oh, Laura has a personality disorder,’” Loomer says. “I don’t. I just don’t like how disloyal people are.”
But never mind all that, because Trump himself likes her — which makes her,potentially, a player. A person of relevance. An influential figure, despite it all. The presumptive Republican nominee for president “appreciates her fearlessness and tenacity,” according to a senior Trump campaign aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters.
She is a player.
Oh my dear God.