The rightwing conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer has expressed involvement successful joining the Trump administration.
Loomer took to X connected Saturday to say, “I truly privation to enactment for President Trump. There is honestly thing I privation much than that.”
Loomer’s comments travel aft Trump fired respective members of the National Security Council pursuing a gathering with the conspiracy theorist during which she pressed the president to region those she deemed disloyal.
The manager of the U.S. National Security Agency, Gen. Timothy Haugh, who besides heads the US Cyber Command, was dismissed connected Thursday with NSA lawman manager Wendy Noble.
Donald Trump and Laura Loomer airs astatine an LIV play lawsuit successful August 2023 (Laura Loomer / X)
Following the news, Loomer posted connected X: “NSA Director Tim Haugh and his lawman Wendy Noble person been disloyal to President Trump. That is wherefore they person been fired.”
Democrats voiced alarm implicit the firing of the cyber professional, who has much than 30 years of subject service. Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia said: “At a clip erstwhile the United States is facing unprecedented cyberthreats... however does firing him marque Americans immoderate safer?”
The New York Times initially reported that Loomer met with Trump, Vice President JD Vance, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, and others successful the Oval Office connected Wednesday. She came with probe she thought was to the detriment of respective of the staffers. During the meeting, she pushed Trump to occurrence respective members that she felt were disloyal to the president, condemning 2 members successful beforehand of their boss, Mike Waltz, The Times noted.
On Thursday, successful a lengthy station connected X, Loomer said she “woke up this greeting to larn that determination are inactive radical successful and astir the West Wing who are LEAKING to the hostile, left-wing media astir President Trump’s *confidential* and *private* meetings successful the Oval Office.”
“I’m going to diminution [to divulge] immoderate details astir my Oval Office gathering with President Trump,” she added. “It was an grant to conscionable with President Trump and contiguous him with my probe findings. I volition proceed moving hard to enactment his agenda, and I volition proceed reiterating the value of … STRONG VETTING, for the involvement of protecting the President of the United States of America, and our nationalist security.”
Following the Signalgate scandal, Loomer claimed connected societal media that Waltz had been acceptable up to embarrass the Trump medication by insufficiently vetted hires who are secretly moving against Trump and his agenda.
Loomer met with Trump successful the Oval Office connected Wednesday and encouraged him to occurrence high-ranking nationalist information unit members she deemed ‘disloyal’ (Getty Images)
In response, Trump admitted gathering with Loomer, calling her a “patriot” and a “good person,” but playing down her power successful his determination to occurrence the nationalist information unit members.
He told reporters helium had listened to her, “like I bash with everybody. I perceive to everybody and past I marque a decision.”
And helium said of the firings: "Always we'll fto spell of radical — radical that we don't similar oregon radical that we don't deliberation tin bash the occupation oregon radical that whitethorn person loyalties to idiosyncratic else.”
Loomer denied that a “power struggle” was going connected betwixt her and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, calling it “fake news.”
“I person thing but respect for @SusieWiles and I get on with her great. I ever have. I similar Susie precise much,” Loomer said connected X connected Saturday afternoon. “There is nary ‘power struggle’. I don’t adjacent enactment for the administration.”
“Susie Wiles is doing a large occupation arsenic Chief of Staff to President Trump, she did a large occupation connected the campaign, and I anticipation I get the accidental to enactment alongside her someday. I respect Susie,” she added.
Loomer raised eyebrows erstwhile it was discovered she was traveling with Trump during the 2024 predetermination run (REUTERS)
Loomer, who says she’s an “investigative journalist,” roseate to fame during the archetypal Trump medication erstwhile she filmed herself yelling astatine apical Democrats. She has shared the baseless claims that the 9/11 panic attacks were an “inside job” and that Casey DeSantis, the woman of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, lied astir having bosom cancer.
There was daze among immoderate Trump supporters during the 2024 run erstwhile it emerged that she was accompanying the Republican campaigner connected his plane.
Given her publicly-expressed views connected 9/11, she raised eyebrows by joining Trump astatine a memorial lawsuit for the violent attacks successful New York.