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.

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”.

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

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        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…”

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            She has apparently been spending some nights at Mar-a-Lago IIRC, and has also been traveling with him in his jet. Theres also quite a few pictures of them being really close. Sure, we don’t have video of them having sex, but it’s about as obvious as it can be without that. We all know how much Trump likes to take advantage of women and also likes sycophants, so it’d only make sense that he takes her in.

        • @[email protected]
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          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.

  • @[email protected]
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    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]
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      286 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]
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      To be fair, with all the work she’s had done she probably does look different every time you see her.

      • Optional
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        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.

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

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

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

    • @[email protected]
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      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]
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      46 days ago

      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.

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

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

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      76 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/

  • rhys
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    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]
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    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.