2024-09-16 17:35:15
When the plane carrying Donald Trump landed in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, where a televised duel with his opponent in the presidential election Kamala Harris took place, Laura Loomer also got off the board. The well-known spreader of conspiracy theories also accompanied the ex-president to memorial events for the attacks of September 11, 2001. The connection to the far-right activist angered even Trump’s fellow party members.
Thirty-one-year-old Loomer became famous for spreading various conspiracy theories and harsh statements against Muslims. She currently describes herself as an investigative journalist in the service of Trump’s re-election. But she doesn’t officially work for him.
Last spring, The New York Times wrote that the Republican candidate wanted to hire her on his team for the November elections. But it caused a great uproar among his advisers, so he finally changed his mind. Loomer confirmed that she spoke with Trump last spring about the possibility of joining the election campaign.
Representatives of the Trump campaign did not comment on the question of why she now accompanied the former president to commemorative events for September 11 in New York and Pennsylvania. Trump also met with Harris and current President Joe Biden at the New York rally.
Loomer told CNN that she “doesn’t understand why she went to the 9/11 memorial.” “In fact, the people who greeted President Trump at the memorial were very happy to see me and said, ‘Thank you for coming,'” she added.
Blocked accounts
Foreign media are now speculating how much influence Loomer has on Trump, they have already been linked together in the past. According to them, she could also be behind one of his most discussed statements from Tuesday’s duel with Harris. During it, Trump said that migrants in Springfield are eating dogs and cats. Loomerová also claims the same – she has repeatedly shared posts with such information on the X social network in recent days. On Monday, she herself wrote on this platform that “disturbing news is coming from Ohio that migrants from Haiti are eating pets”.
Disturbing reports came out this weekend about Haitian immigrants eating people’s pets in Ohio where Democrats like @SenSherrodBrown and the Biden-Harris regime imported over 20,000 cannibalistic Haitians who are now killing people’s pets and hunting domestic animals on the… https://t.co/TKReL5HEkN
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) September 9, 2024
He also makes repeated derogatory remarks about Harris. For example, alluding to her Asian roots, she said that if she wins the November election, the White House will “smell like curry”. In July, she called her a “drug-using prostitute” for no reason.
Foreign media also recall that social networks such as Facebook and Instagram have blocked Loomer in the past due to posts in which she sharply defines herself against Muslims. She also had access to X blocked even before billionaire Elon Musk bought the platform in 2022. She was also banned from using the Uber and Lyft taxi accounts due to offensive remarks against Muslim drivers. In the past, she described herself as a “proud Islamophobe”.
They are spreading one of many conspiracy theories about the September 11 attacks, which were carried out by terrorists from the Islamist Al-Qaeda network. Last year, she shared a video claiming that it was a so-called “inside job”, that is, that the attacks were carried out “from the inside” and at least the United States itself was complicit in them.
Now she told CNN that she “never denied the fact that Islamist terrorists were behind the attacks”. “In fact, the media is calling me anti-Muslim precisely because I spend so much time talking about the threats of Islamic terrorism in America,” she said.
Republican outrage
Two of his closest Republican allies – Senator Lindsey Graham and Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green, who has also spread conspiracy theories in the past – have come out against Trump’s connection to Loomer. According to Loomer, she preaches “open lies and toxicity” that have no place in Trump’s MAGA movement.
Graham expressed himself similarly. “This person’s history is really toxic,” he told The Huffington Post. According to him, Trump “would do really well to make sure that it (the connection with Loomer) doesn’t become a bigger story.” He called her comments about Harris “repulsive.”
Foreign media have connected Trump with Loomer in the past. He invited her to his golf resort in Bedminster last summer, and she accompanied him to some campaign rallies during the Republican primaries. At a rally in Iowa last January, the former White House chief said Loomer was “a very important person politically.” He has also called her a “courageous woman” in the past and repeatedly shares her posts on his social network Truth Social.
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