Posted on 04/08/2023 5:59:12 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Former President Donald Trump recently told aides to hire Laura Loomer, a far-right, anti-Muslim activist with a history of expressing bigoted views, for a campaign role, according to four people familiar with the plans.
Trump met with Loomer recently and directed advisers to give her a role in support of his candidacy, two of the people familiar with the move said. On Tuesday, after Trump’s arraignment in New York, Loomer attended the former president’s speech at Mar-a-Lago, his resort and residence in Palm Beach, Florida.
Some of Trump’s aides were said to have concerns that such a hire would cause a backlash, given her history of inflammatory statements and her embrace of the Republican Party’s fringes.
That proved to be correct: The New York Times’ report on the potential hire ignited a firestorm among some of Trump’s most vocal conservative supporters, and by late Friday, a high-ranking campaign official said Loomer was no longer going to be hired.
Reached by phone Friday morning, Loomer said, “Out of respect for President Trump, I’m not going to comment on private conversations that I had with the president.”
Trump’s 2016 campaign focused heavily on anti-Muslim sentiment, and as president, he barred travel from several predominantly Muslim countries. He has been a supporter of Loomer’s, backing her Florida congressional campaign in 2020, when she ran to represent a Palm Beach County district that included Mar-a-Lago.
“Great going Laura,” he wrote on Twitter when she won the Republican primary. “You have a great chance against a Pelosi puppet!”
She lost that race in the fall, in which she was supported by her friend Roger Stone, Trump’s longest-serving adviser.
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Good for Trump.
That election was stolen from her. Thousands of ballots showed up at the last minute.
If the New York Times hates her, she must be doing good....
Screw you Slimes.
One is not gonna say what one is tempted to say, except that one likes Laura Loomer. Anything more would probably be in poor form.
You go girl.
Golden Calf worshiper Haberman, a JINO slandering a true Jewish woman. Moses knew what to do with Golden Calf types.
This thread is more sensible than the one last night where the establishment neocons here trashed her. Truth is Loomer has more loyalty and intestinal fortitude than anyone here...
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4144041/posts
And the problem is.....she sounds like she’s well informed and makes correct decisions.
> with a history of expressing bigoted views <
That’s exactly the way the propaganda machine works. If you deviate in the slightest from the leftist viewpoint, you are automatically a bigot and a hater.
Freedom of thought, that’s so 18th century. Conform or be denounced.
She is against people who want to kill us. We can’t have THAT!
*you go girl*
DJT shouldn’t hire her.
Think of the scene in Blazing Saddles when the old lady secretly gives Cleavon Little the pie.
I wonder if Trump was ever going to hire her in the first place or for what position. The entire story seems forced.
Plus I don’t know how we’ll known she is to actually cause any backlash.
It wasn’t the Times that did this.
”…the potential hire ignited a firestorm among some of Trump’s most vocal conservative supporters, and by late Friday, a high-ranking campaign official said Loomer was no longer going to be hired.”
Why does it take more than one lefty writer to do a hit piece on a conservative? Does a dimwit like Maggie Haberman need assistance to write this drivel?
Trump should hire Loomer if it increases his chances to be elected in 2024. Otherwise, no. Gotta keep the eyes on the prize.
My main concern here is the way the NYT smeared her. Conservatives can no longer just be wrong about something (if Loomer is indeed wrong). Now we’re bigots and haters. It’s a dangerous and slippery slope.
And?
Trump has Maggie Haberman on speed-dial. He's sat down with her one-on-one more times than probably any other reporter.
I think we were pushed down that slippery slope forty years ago.
Who wrote the article pertaining to the thread?????
What is the source listed in the header of the thread???
And the problem is?
We should always remember that journalism has no lowest depth of depravity.
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