Laura Loomer

Laura Loomer is a Trump loyalist and supporter of white nationalism who styles herself as an “investigative journalist” to promote far-right conspiracy theories. After Trump’s criminal conviction by a New York jury, Loomer advocated for prosecuting his political opponents and Democrats, declaring, “Not just jail, they should get the death penalty.”

Trump wanted to hire Loomer for his 2024 campaign, but was met with internal criticism that she could be a liability. Still, she has remained in Trump’s orbit, was praised by Trump at an April 2024 fundraiser for Kari Lake, and rode with Trump on his plane as he campaigned in Iowa earlier this year. The Trump campaign has reportedly delicately avoided “alienating supportive outside voices, like Loomer’s, or cutting off their access to him.” Despite lacking an official campaign role, Loomer has claimed she was “independently leading the charge on opposition research, aggressively exposing damning and consequential stories about Ron DeSantis and other Trump opponents.” After she was removed from DeSantis and Haley events during the primary season, she referred to herself as Trump’s “street fighter.”

Donald Trump Jr. also said he would “love to see [Loomer] as press secretary just to watch D.C. just explode.” Loomer has stated she would “gladly accept the position” and “nobody will fight for President Trump harder or defend him against the fake news media harder than I will.”

Loomer supports Trump’s lies about the 2020 election, saying “[p]ersonally, I think J6 should be a national holiday in which we celebrate the bravery of American patriots who protested a stolen election” while also claiming it to be an “inside job” to keep Trump from the White House. She has also proclaimed, “I think John [McEntee] would be much more favorable of a ride or die Trump supporter who demands loyalty to the highest degree. You know, someone like me.”

Loomer is a self-proclaimed “proud Islamophobe” whom Loomer asserts herself as “pro-white nationalism” and “a really big supporter of the Christian nationalist movement […] even though [she is] Jewish.” She has claimed that “Islam is cancer” and “There’s no such thing as a moderate Muslim. They’re ALL the same.” She believes it should be illegal for elected officials to take an oath on the Quran and routinely makes prejudiced statements like “Leave it to Muslims to ruin everything.” After 50 people were killed in a New Zealand mosque, Loomer claimed, “Nobody cares about [the] Christchurch [shooting]. I especially don’t.” She previously rallied behind self-declared white nationalist Faith Goldy in her bid to be Toronto’s mayor. She also openly advocated instituting a 10-year moratorium on illegal and legal immigration.

In 2015, Loomer sought out James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas, the far-right group known to “selectively edited videos intended to discredit [progressive groups] and compromise their operations.” The group agreed to work with Loomer, though her first Project Veritas undercover sting video got her suspended and one of her targets filed a criminal complaint against her. She was later part of a scheme attempting to get Clinton campaign officials to accept illegal campaign contributions.

Loomer went on to affiliate herself with Alex Jones’s InfoWars, which was notorious then for smearing the families of the elementary school children murdered in Sandy Hook (he was later ordered to pay more than $1 billion in damages). After the mass murder at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018, Loomer traveled to Parkland for InfoWars. In response to students’ grief over the deadly gun violence at their school, she claimed “It’s obvious these kids are reading a screen or notes someone else wrote for them.” Similarly, after the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman in American history occurred in Las Vegas in the year prior, Loomer spread discredited conspiracy theories that there were multiple gunmen or even ISIS members behind the attacks; she even heckled the Las Vegas sheriff during a press conference.

Nevertheless, she was the Republican nominee for a Florida House seat in 2020 and a Republican primary candidate for Florida’s 11th congressional district in the U.S. House in 2022. Alex Jones vouched for her campaign, “They think MTG is dangerous—I can’t wait until you’re in Congress.” Loomer proclaimed she “would love to serve on the House Energy and Commerce Committee” and “personally invite [Jones] to testify.” She told Jones, “I look forward to platforming your voice in the United States Congress.” Loomer lost both races.

Loomer, who boasts being “the most banned woman in the world” from online platforms, was also behind a number of her own viral stunts. For example, after she was removed from Twitter, Loomer handcuffed herself to their New York headquarters with a yellow Star of David on her clothes, just as “Nazis made the Jews wear during the Holocaust,” as she put it. In 2019, she and men she claimed were undocumented immigrants joined her in trespassing Nancy Pelosi’s home to protest immigration policy. Loomer reportedly said she tried to open Pelosi’s doors, but they were locked. She also downplayed COVID-19 and spread disinformation about vaccines.

More recently, Loomer rallied outside the Miami courthouse Trump was arraigned in and called the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago illegal.