On the somber 2024 anniversary of September 11, 2001, Donald Trump showed up in New York City with conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, who described herself as being “pro-white nationalism” and a “proud Islamophobe”.
One cannot doubt that Christian conservatives who ardently want to outlaw abortion, blowjobs, and contraceptives will have no problem with the devil himself traipsing around with a 31-year-old woman while his wife, Melania, has been scarce.
People magazine reported Melania is “uncomfortable” with Trump’s third run for the presidency and was “angry” over his indictment and the allegations that he orchestrated hush money payoffs related to three sexual affairs he had during their marriage.
Few are even speculating whether the elderly presidential candidate is engaging in inappropriate behavior with the 31-year-old conspiracy theorist.
At 78, Trump is the oldest major party candidate ever nominated for the US presidency. He was the first person without government or military experience ever to be elected president of the United States.
In the past seven years, Loomer has consistently posted offensive content laced with racist and Islamophobic rhetoric, while promoting unfounded conspiracy theories about school shootings, election fraud, and the January 6 Capitol riot.
Throughout this period, Trump has publicly praised Loomer, both online and at his rallies, even encouraging her congressional bid and amplifying her most outrageous claims.
She has cultivated relationships with figures close to Trump, including Roger Stone and Donald Trump Jr.
Trump and Loomer’s connection has recenly grown closer.
Just days after Loomer posted a racist comment about Vice President Kamala Harris, she was spotted traveling to the presidential debate aboard Trump’s plane.
Loomer’s remark, “The White House will smell like curry & White House speeches will be facilitated via a call center,” was so insulting that Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, a representative of the lunatic fringe known for her own controversial statements about school shootings, labeled her recent social media posts as “extremely racist.”
When Loomer attended the September 11 memorial event with Trump, neither one responded to inquiries about her repeated endorsement of conspiracy theories suggesting the attacks were an “inside job.”
Her rising proximity to Trump has caused concern even within the Republican Party. Senator Lindsey Graham condemned her rhetoric as “disturbing,” which prompted Loomer to retaliate by calling him “gay.”
Senator Thom Tillis dismissed her as a “crazy conspiracy theorist who regularly spouts divisive, disgusting nonsense.”
Despite mounting criticism, Loomer’s influence within Trump’s circle has only grown. Over the past year, she has emerged as a key, though unofficial, figure in Trump’s reelection campaign, appearing at numerous rallies and fundraisers, where she has been repeatedly mentioned by Trump.
The New York businessman and former reality TV show star is also prone to subversive influence but he made a feeble attempt to fend off bipartisan outrage over his association with Loomer.
“Laura Loomer doesn’t work for the Campaign. She’s a private citizen and longtime supporter,” Trump wrote on Truth Social days later, defending his association with the far-right agitator and disassociating himself from her divisive remarks. “I disagree with the statements she made but, like the many millions of people who support me, she is tired of watching the Radical Left Marxists and Fascists violently attack and smear me, even to the point of doing anything to stop their Political Opponent, ME!”
Despite losing the popular vote by about three million ballots, Trump won the 2016 election after a campaign that defied norms and commanded public attention from the moment it began.
His approach to governing was equally unconventional.
He vilified perceived adversaries, from the news media to members of his own administration, elected officials in both political parties and foreign heads of state.
The more than 26,000 tweets he posted as commander in chief provided an unvarnished, real-time account of his thinking on a broad spectrum of issues and eventually proved so provocative that Twitter permanently banned him from its platform.
In his final days in the WhiteHouse, Trump became the first president ever to be impeached twice – the second time for inciting an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol during the certification of the election he lost – and the nation’s first chief executive in more than 150 years to refuse to attend his successor’s inauguration.
He achieved some radical conservative domestic victories, including the biggest corporate tax cuts on record, the elimination of scores of environmental regulations and a reshaping of the federal judiciary.
In the international arena, he imposed draconian new immigration restrictions, abandoned several multilateral agreements,
The U.S. trade deficit over the four years of Trump’s presidency soared to its highest level since 2008, despite his tactics that instigated a trade war with China.
The combined U.S. goods and services trade deficit increased to $679 billion in 2020, compared to $481 billion in 2016, the year before Trump took office.
Consumers are still reeling from the inflationary reaction to tariffs that Trump used as part of an effort to address what he saw as glaring imbalances in America’s economic relationship with other countries.
Critics described the tariff as a 30 percent sales tax imposed on imported products.
Loomer has falsely claimed that school shootings in February 2018 in Parkland, Florida, and in May 2018 in Santa Fe, Texas, were staged, and that the perpetrator of the 2017 Las Vegas shootings was affiliated with ISIS. She claimed on Twitter that crisis actors were used for the Santa Fe school shooting.
In July 2018, Loomer said that a man arrested in South Dakota with bomb-making equipment and illegal weapons had been a “leftist antifa terrorist.” According to the man’s social media activity at the time, and per his brother, he was a conservative who despised liberals and Antifa. During the October 2018 United States mail bombing attempts, Loomer falsely said that the bombing attacks were a “false flag” operation orchestrated by Democrats.
In 2023, Loomer accused Casey DeSantis, wife of presidential candidate and Trump competitor Ron DeSantis, of exaggerating her bout with breast cancer to boost her husband’s presidential campaign.
Following the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, Loomer and other right-wing influencers amplified a false story claiming that October 13, 2023, was to be a global “day of jihad,” a story that motivated a 71-year-old landlord in Illinois to allegedly attempt murder on a Muslim tenant and stab to death her 6-year-old son. After a fatal car crash in Long Beach on October 14, Loomer said that the crash was “Islamic terrorism,” claiming that police had a gag order. Police later stated there was “no indication that this incident was an act of terror nor associated with the current violence in Israel.”
In November 2023, Loomer was part of a study by the Atlantic Council, analyzed by Bloomberg, of Community Notes on Twitter regarding misinformation in the Israel–Hamas war. On October 12, she shared a video of a “pro-Hamas caravan” that had driven through London shouting racist abuse, implying the incident was recent. The video was in fact from May 2021 and police had made arrests after the incident. Loomer also tweeted false information about the 2023 Rainbow Bridge explosion in Buffalo, New York. She claimed the FBI suspected a terrorist attack and that there may be a “Jihad plot” at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, despite the vehicle traveling on the U.S. side of the border towards Canada.
Loomer falsely claimed that a winter storm that occurred before the 2024 Iowa Republican presidential caucuses was created by the American deep state using HAARP in order to benefit the electoral chances of presidential candidate Nikki Haley.
In 2023 and 2024, Loomer falsely attributed social media posts to family members of judges Arthur Engoron and Juan Merchan. The two judges were overseeing court cases involving Donald Trump. Loomer inaccurately claimed these family members had called for Trump’s imprisonment on social media. Loomer’s misinformation was amplified by Trump to support his claims that Engoron and Merchan were biased against him.
In July 2024, Loomer falsely claimed on X that “Joe Biden is dying and final preparations are being made for him.” In September 2024, Loomer promoted the Springfield, Ohio, cat-eating hoax, lying that the city is populated by “20,000 cannibalistic Haitians.”
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