Laura Loomer pushes Trump to dismiss national security officials at the meeting of the Oval Office

Laura Loomer, the far -right activist and promoter of conspiracy theories, met President Trump on Wednesday at the Oval Office, where she pressed for him to fire members of the staff of the National Security Council whom she considered unfair to him, according to seven people knowing the events.

Trump can act on Ms. Loomer’s recommendations, two of the people said. Ms. Loomer entered the White House with a wreath of papers, which was equivalent to a mass of opposition research attacking the character and loyalty of many NSC officials, two of the people said. She continued to excil them in front of their boss, the national security advisor Michael Waltz, who was also in the meeting.

The rhetoric and the actions of Ms. Loomer were so extreme that it alienated the others even on the far right. She shared a conspiracy theory on social networks calling the terrorist of September 11, 2001 attacks “inner work”. During the 2024 campaign, Ms. Loomer said that “the White House felt the curry” if Kamala Harris was elected, a blow in her Indian heritage. During the republican primary campaign, in which she was Mr. Trump’s online attack dog against Governor Ron Desantis of Florida, Ms. Loomer launched the baseless concept that Mr. Desantis’s wife, Casey, had lied to breast cancer.

But Wednesday afternoon, she seated with the president at the Oval office, the outgoing with allegations concerning the staff members she insisted so that he should reject.

The meeting intervened after a recent series of attacks on Ms. Loomer’s social networks against officials of the Trump administration, including Alex Wong, Deputy National Security Advisor. Mr. Wong’s boss, Mr. Waltz, has been under the fire of detractors inside and outside the administration for more than a week after the revelation that he created a group on signal, an unsecured commercial messaging application, to discuss sensitive details of a military strike in Yemen and inadvertently added a journalist to the discussion.

Mr. Waltz was already on a brisable foot before the incident and could now lose the ability to protect their staff against layoffs, with several senior executives potentially on blocking. Trump spoke somewhat sympathetically about Mr. Wong in some of his private conversations with advisers.