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Well, it turns out Laura Loomer is not going to be working on Trump’s campaign.
The New York Times reported on Friday that Trump had asked his staff to hire Loomer — a notorious far-right conspiracy theorist with a rich history of bigotry —to work on his 2024 presidential campaign. The news led to backlash both inside and outside Trump’s team. “Hell fucking no,” a campaign official told Rolling Stone, describing heavy internal resistance to bringing Loomer into the fold.
The Times reported later on Friday that Loomer was not going to be hired, after all.
Loomer confirmed to Rolling Stone by phone that she had been in communication with Trump and attended his post-indictment speech at Mar-a-Lago. “I’ve had conversations with the president,” she said. Refusing to discuss details “out of respect” for Trump, Loomer insisted she’d leap at the chance to join Team Trump: “It would be my honor. I would happily accept.”
“This is an announcement for him and his senior advisers to make when the time is appropriate,” Loomer adds, expressing disgust that drama about her potential hire is playing out in the press. “It’s a shame that there are leakers in the president’s orbit, who would run to the run to the press with private conversations, as opposed to keeping it internal,” she says.
There are indeed members of Trump’s staff who aren’t so fond of hiring Loomer. In addition to the official who said “hell fucking no” to the idea, another Trump adviser told Rolling Stone that it would be best for “everybody if we can find her something else to do, maybe,” meaning something Trump-aligned, but not on the campaign proper itself.
Loomer is rabidly anti-Islam, even proclaiming herself a “proud” Islamaphobe on Twitter. She has described the religion as a “cancer,” and has been banned from everything from Twitter to Uber for rampant hate speech. She famously tried to recover her Twitter account in 2018 by handcuffing herself to the platform’s New York office. Elon Musk reinstated her late last year. Loomer is also a longtime friend and associate of the white nationalist Nick Fuentes, who advised Kanye West on his “I like Hitler” media blitz of late 2022. She has described the United States as “white Judeo-Christian ethnostate” that’s been defiled by immigration.
Trump has long been a fan of Loomer’s antics. “Great going Laura,” he wrote in 2020 after she won a Republican primary to represent Mar-a-Lago’s district in Congress. Loomer lost the general election by over 20 percentage points. She made another run at Congress in 2022, this time in Florida’s 11th District, but lost the GOP primary to incumbent Rep. Daniel Webster. Loomer refused to concede, alleging the result was fraudulent.
“He likes me very much,” Loomer told the Times on Friday of her meeting with Trump.
“I’ve ran for Congress in the state of Florida twice. I ran in President Trump’s district and 2020, where he endorsed me and he voted for me,” she added to Rolling Stone. “The president has certainly known who I am for many years now.”
Trump and Loomer share a common enemy in Ron DeSantis. Loomer touted her work “leading the charge on the opposition research” against the Florida governor and prospective 2024 GOP presidential contender. “I’m not a supporter, nor am I a fan, of Governor Ron DeSantis, or DeSanctimonious, as we call him,” she said, blasting him as “disloyal.”
“He owes his entire political career to President Trump,” Loomer added. “I believe in loyalty. I know that the president believes in loyalty. And it seems like Ron DeSantis doesn’t care about loyalty. And that’s really what it means right to be a sanctimonious person when you think that you’re above all others.”
The news rankled Trump’s staff, and also his closest allies in Congress. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) unloaded on Loomer on Twitter, calling her a “mentally unstable and a documented liar” who “cannot be trusted.”
Greene alleged that Loomer tried to get hired to the Kanye 2024 campaign, “but Kanye West refused to hire her so now she’s running to Trump.” She called Loomer “toxic and poisonous,” and insisted she would take action to prevent Trump from bringing her aboard his campaign.
“I’ll make sure he knows,” Greene wrote.
