Laura Loomer, a right -wing personality known for her incendiary presence on social networks, seemed to have been sidelined at points by Donald Trump’s campaign and then by his administration.
But she has long had her ear of the president and can see him again, at least for the moment.
At an oval office meeting on Wednesday, the conservative activist urged Trump to dismiss officials of the National Security CouncilWhile the team finds it difficult to answer questions not only on the reasons why it used Signal, an encrypted application accessible to the public, to discuss a military operation in Yemen, but how a journalist was wrongly added to the group cat. Trump has followed suit, said familiar people with the Associated Press.
It was the last sign of the influence of Loomer, even if it was criticized to entertain the theories of the conspiracy of September 11 and its history of anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim posts. Loomer, who is prolific on social networks, has destroyed some of Trump’s allies and advisers, calling what she calls a “verification crisis” in the White House and involving that his team’s members try to overthrow her agenda.
Trump has long praised Loomer while sometimes distanting himself from his most controversial comments.
Here’s what you need to know about Loomer and what she and Trump said about the last incident.
How did she approach Trump?
Loomer, 31, was involved in politics as defender of Trump. She twice without success has run for the congress In 2020 and 2022 in southern Florida and was known to have organized demonstrations, in particular to handle in a Twitter office after the service prohibited it and jumped a fence in a house belonging to the house of the room Nancy Pelosi. She says she was invited to Mar-A-Lago after conducting attacks against the Governor of Florida. Ron Desantiswho was preparing to challenge Trump during the presidential primary of the 2024 GOP.
Last year, Loomer Accompanied Trump During his trips on September 11 to New York and Pennsylvania and was also seen out of the plane the day before after Trump landed in Philadelphia to debate his electoral adversary, the president of the time, Kamala Harris. Loomer said she was invited to that time as a guest.
Loomer said that she had never officially joined the campaign after Trump’s allies preferred to keep his distance.
What makes her an influential figure?
Loomer has been prohibited from many social media platforms, including Facebook. She Published in the presidential campaign last year That if Harris beat Trump, “the White House feels the speeches of Curry and the White House will be facilitated via a call center.” Harris was the first black woman and person of South Asian origin to be vice-president.
In December, she Public goat with billionaire councilor Elon MuskOriginally from South Africa, on their opposite positions on the use of qualified migration visas.
The conservative activist says that these visas go against the “America First” agenda. Her account on X, a social media platform belonging to Musk, was temporarily suspended, and for a while after the quarrel, she said that she had lost access to other paid features.
Earlier this month, Trump Protection of finished secret services Details allocated to the adult children of the Democrat Joe Biden following a Loomer report with photos showing Hunter Biden’s Protective details in South Africa.
Why is she known?
Loomer has a podcast called “Loomer Unleashed” on Rumble, a known platform for streaming extreme right figures. His last name was invented as a verb that people on both sides of the political aisle use when politicians, civil servants or other personalities are publicly ashamed.
The influencer frequently makes anti-Islam and anti-immigrant publications on social networks and has made ugly racist and sexist attacks against Harris. She has already shared a video on X who said “September 11 was an inner job!”
The conspiracy theory that US officials hide information on September 11 attacks or was somehow involved in planning has taken root among a determined “truth” segment, but many of their most widespread claims collapsed after a more in -depth examination.
What happened with Loomer this week?
People who speak on condition of anonymity to discuss the questions of the staff say that Loomer met Trump, the vice-president JD Vance, the chief of staff Susie Wiles, national security advisor Mike Waltz And Sergio Gor, director of the presidential staff office and presented “research results”.
When he was contacted to comment, Loomer referred the Associated Press to an X post shared earlier Thursday, saying that she was not going to disclose the details of his oval office meeting with Trump “out of respect” for the president.
“I will continue to work hard to support its program, and I will continue to reiterate the importance and the need for a strong verification, to protect the president of the United States of America and our national security,” said Loomer.
In an article later on Thursday on X, Loomer seemed to take credit for layoffs, writing: “You know how you know that NSC officials I reported to President Trump are unfair people who played a role in the sabotage of Donald Trump?” She then noted that “licensed officials” were defended by Trump criticisms on CNN and MSNBC.
Loomer criticized Waltz and his own verification process. Before the meeting, she complained to the officials of the sympathetic administration which he counted too much on the “neocons” or the neoconservatives within the GOP and the types “not-maga-tas”.
Loomer attacked the deputy vice-adviser of national security, Alex Wong, who took the lead of Waltz constituting the team on the basis of the conversation shared by journalist Jeffrey Goldberg.
What did Trump say about her?
During the election of last year after his racist publications on Harris, Trump said: “Laura was a supporter of my supporters” and that she had “strong opinions”, but denied knowledge of her comments. He would later publish on his Truth social account that he disagreed with his comments.
Trump denied Thursday that Loomer had anything to do with employees of their jobs on the National Security Council, calling it “very good patriot and a very strong person”.
Trump told journalists on the Air Force One when he went to Miami that she only made recommendations.
“Sometimes I listen to these recommendations, as I do with everyone,” said Trump, adding: “She is generally very constructive. She recommended some people for jobs.”
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Gomez Licon reported Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The writer Associated Press Darlene Superville in Washington contributed to this report.
