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The presence of hard-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer alongside Donald Trump on the campaign trail in recent days has raised questions, including from some Republicans, about the influence the controversial former congressional candidate may have on him.

Ms Loomer is well-known for her anti-Muslim rhetoric and for spreading conspiracy theories, including that the 9/11 attacks were an "inside job" carried out by the US government.

She joined Trump at an event on Wednesday commemorating the attacks, raising eyebrows and prompting outrage in some US media outlets.

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Now, she is known for her vocal support of Trump and for promoting a long string of conspiracy theories including claims that Kamala Harris is not black, and that the son of billionaire George Soros was sending cryptic messages calling for Trump's assassination.

These posts led her to be banned from a number of platforms including Facebook, Instagram and even, according to her, Uber and Lyft for making offensive comments about Muslim drivers. She once described herself as a “proud Islamophobe”.

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[–] [email protected] 108 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Wasn't it Laura Loomer, who started the whole Kamala gave BJs to get to her position? I guess it was truly just projection.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 5 days ago

🌎🧑‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Still gross to make that accusation about someone as reprehensible as Loomer. And it let's Trump off the hook. She's not traveling with him because of sexual favors, she's traveling with him because he supports her insane views.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The pictures of her with Mango Musalini make it look like they're sharing more than just a political viewpoint.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Herpes they are sharing herpes

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Just because she's a horrible person doesn't mean he's not also taking advantage of her. After all, "When you're a star, they let you do it..."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (3 children)

It's not a gross accusation when it's a gross truth.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

accusation

Every accusation IS an admission of guilt with Republicans, without exception.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

This thought terminating cliche is used on the right as well. It makes no sense (so...Trump is the one who "became black?") and just exists so people can reinforce their world view uncritically.

If you have an opinion, back it up with evidence and say that.

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 5 days ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 days ago

That gross little toadstool isn't going to suck itself! Who do you think will do that? Melania? She's busy getting plowed by her favorite secret service agent in New York.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 days ago

Yeah, that word is doing some real heavy lifting here.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 days ago

More like Firecracker I think.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I am really good at recognizing faces but every time I see a new pic of this lady I’m, "who the fuck is this?"

But the answer seems to be, a racist asshole.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago

I had never heard of her until this week. To me, she looks like they took pictures of every woman Trump is known to have been attracted to in his life, made an AI mashup of all of them, and dyed her hair dark just to throw us all off.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago (2 children)

To be fair, with all the work she's had done she probably does look different every time you see her.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 days ago (1 children)

She's only 31.

Let that sink in.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

That sink won't come in.

It's scared of whatever she did to her face.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Her face is fascinatingly odd and . . upsetting.

Born in Arizona in 1993, the self-styled investigative journalist has worked as an activist and commentator for organisations including Project Veritas and Alex Jones's Infowars.

BBC, don’t get played, man. That restraint you show with “self-styled” is just creaking terribly. Personally I would have gone with “considers herself” or “claims to be . . . despite [the obvious]”. Yeah yeah “objective”, look whatever you gotta tell yourself, man.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Self-styled means “that’s what she calls herself”. Otherwise they would not include the qualifier.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

It’s also a “journalistically accepted” way to say “no she isn’t” while allowing that yes, she may be. My point is that they should lean harder into flat-out saying “no she isn’t”.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 days ago (1 children)

She's he's new cock socket. We all know it and see it. But the evangelical Christians will explain it away.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

That's why I said socket and not sleeve

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

Reminds me of Melisandre from Game of Thrones tv-series (havent read the books).
Red haired witch that acts as kings counselor.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago

Funny you said that. I saw her photo in the thumbnail, thought the same thing, and went down a Game of Thrones rabbit hole, came back, scrolled down and found your comment. Trump isn’t exactly a Stannis though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Or Firecracker from the boys 🤣

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think that's giving her (and him) far too much credit. This is more like a couple of mentally unwell drifters hooking up in an alley in between grifting.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Didn’t Milesandre councel someone to burn their own daughter in sacrifice to a battle that guy lost?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 days ago (2 children)

She was the one that started the pet eating lies right? I thank her for making Trump look a fool.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

I don't know about her involvement with this but there's a snopes article about it. It's wholly unfounded based on some random Facebook post.

A social media post originally from a Springfield Facebook group went viral nationally in recent days. The original poster did not cite first-hand knowledge of an incident. Instead they claimed that their neighbor's daughter's friend had lost her cat and found it hanging from a branch at a Haitian neighbor's home being carved up to be eaten.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cats-ducks-haitians-springfield/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

I don't think she started it. Very well could have popularized it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

The saga of Laura's "slashed" tire.

It's always amazing to me when these idiots show up in public again after something like that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

Oh, I remember this bitch now.

That was hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 days ago (3 children)

She's my favourite of the RWNJs for the sheer degree of entertainment she provided the night she live streamed chaining herself to the doors of Twitter HQ wearing a star of David armband after they banned her.

I wasn't aware she was embedded in Trump's troupe nowadays but that certainly tracks.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 days ago (1 children)

She locked herself to a single door

People just walked past her and she had to ask the police to cut her free after two hours because nobody cared lol

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/laura-loomer-twitter-hq-video-ban-handcuffs-facebook-jack-dorsey-ilhan-omar-islam-a8660351.html

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Thank you for sharing that.

This is crazy and extremely moronic on her part.

And interesting how she saw fit to wear a yellow star on that occasion. Seemingly likening being banned from a social networking platform to being the victim of genocide.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

They're sending their best.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

I mean the obvious place to look for detritus is at the bottom.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

It would be funny if her racist rhetoric wasn't effective.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

Jewish white supremacists crack me up..

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

She "outed" Lindsey Graham too

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

Her and Stephen Miller should get married. It would save us all a lot of trouble of having to deal with them because they'd be too exhausted from out-crazying each other.

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