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Hegseth blasted by Loomer, conservatives over Qatari air force facility in Idaho
The Hill ^ | 10/10/25 4:59 PM ET | by Ellen Mitchell

Posted on 10/10/2025 5:07:09 PM PDT by RandFan

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Friday announcement that the U.S. will host a new Qatari air force facility in Idaho has drawn the ire of the Trump administration’s closest allies, including Laura Loomer, who said she felt “betrayed” over the matter.

In a flurry of social media posts Friday afternoon, Loomer unleashed on the administration’s announcement that it had signed the letter greenlighting the building of a Qatar Emiri air force contingent at the Mountain Home Air Force Base in southwestern Idaho. The air arm of Qatar’s armed forces, Qatar Emiri air force pilots would train to fly F-15s in the U.S.

“There isn’t a single Trump supporter who supports allowing Qatar to have a military base on US soil,” Loomer posted to the social platform X. “I don’t know who told President Trump this was a good idea, but it has made people not want to vote.”

She also wrote that “no foreign country should have a military base on US soil. Especially Islamic countries.”

In another post about Hegseth, she admonished him as he “should know how bad of an idea it is to allow Terror financing Qataris who fund HAMAS and the Muslim Brotherhood to have an AIR FORCE BASE ON US SOIL.”

“I don’t think I’ll be voting in 2026” over the issue, she added.

Loomer, a staunch supporter of Trump, has made no secret of her disdain for Qatar and other countries with a majority Muslim population

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What to make of this?
1 posted on 10/10/2025 5:07:09 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

She doesn’t know what she doesn’t know ...


2 posted on 10/10/2025 5:11:34 PM PDT by bankwalker (Feminists, like all Marxists, are ungrateful parasites.)
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To: RandFan

“The United States shall regard any armed attack on the territory, sovereignty, or critical infrastructure of the State of Qatar as a threat to the peace and security of the United States,”


3 posted on 10/10/2025 5:11:37 PM PDT by Theoria
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To: RandFan

Mark Levin was all over this today, and I agree with him, he does not like it.


4 posted on 10/10/2025 5:11:51 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: RandFan

This after they gave Trump a replacement Air Force One


5 posted on 10/10/2025 5:12:15 PM PDT by Syllojism
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To: RandFan

What to make? I trust Trump and Pete. Laura Loomer adds value in many ways, but she’s another one straddling the line of insanity who thinks she wields more influence than she does. She’s also an attention wh*re.


6 posted on 10/10/2025 5:12:50 PM PDT by usafa92 (Donald J. Trump, 45th and 47th President of the United States of America!)
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To: RandFan

“no foreign country should have a military base on US soil. Especially Islamic countries.”

It will make attacking the great Satan much easier. Will we be loading them up with fuel and ammo?


7 posted on 10/10/2025 5:13:44 PM PDT by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: Fungi

All Levin cares about is Israel. It’s tiresome listening to him these days.


8 posted on 10/10/2025 5:13:45 PM PDT by usafa92 (Donald J. Trump, 45th and 47th President of the United States of America!)
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To: usafa92

“”What to make? I trust Trump and Pete.””

This.


9 posted on 10/10/2025 5:14:14 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: RandFan

Didn’t the Germans pull out of their base in New Mexico? That would seem to be a better base for year round training, and the climate would be familiar.


10 posted on 10/10/2025 5:14:58 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: RandFan

Nothing, really. Qatari pilots are not the ones who maintain, arm, or service the planes. They walk away from them like they are just things.

Once back in country they will fall apart like they always do, if they are not hiring good people to maintain them and arm them.

In a war, you don’t target the planes, you target the support. The Arabs haven’t quite figured that out yet.

Additionally, Qatar is far more worried about Iran. They have begun letting the Israelis do their thing over there because they know that the best lever against Iran is Israel. And it is F-15s. Not the latest and greatest in the air. And it seems Qatar is picking up a lot of the bill, to train their pilots, to use against Iran.


11 posted on 10/10/2025 5:15:00 PM PDT by wbarmy (Trying to do better.)
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To: RandFan

who gives a flying **** what that screechy bitch thinks


12 posted on 10/10/2025 5:16:43 PM PDT by pissant ((Deport 'em all))
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I voted for this.


13 posted on 10/10/2025 5:19:37 PM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: RandFan

bad news. oh well, not gonna agree with Trump on everything. especially qatar. ushner strikes again!

and now we’re also training their pilots again; whatever can go wrong with that?

sheesh.


14 posted on 10/10/2025 5:26:11 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: RandFan

Loomer is my goto for national security issues.


15 posted on 10/10/2025 5:26:13 PM PDT by cornfedcowboy ( )
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To: RandFan

The Qatari’s will love that when they aske a girl where she is from, the answer is Idaho./s


16 posted on 10/10/2025 5:27:09 PM PDT by Waverunner (Torah! Torah! Torah! my favorite IDF radio code.)
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To: RandFan

She’s mostly full of shit and often is


17 posted on 10/10/2025 5:27:25 PM PDT by wardaddy (I now know what “furry” is in)
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To: proust

Totally.

We need more allies in the region, they don’t like iran at all.
Let’s help them join the West.

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸


18 posted on 10/10/2025 5:28:30 PM PDT by GRRRRR (Make America Greater Than Ever Before!)
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To: pissant

“who gives a flying **** what that screechy bitch thinks”
We NEED allies in the middle east. Russia and China have Iran and others under their wing and are trying to get India.
China is a huge problem. We may need saudi and Qatari fliers and others when China makes it’s move to usurp the south China sea islands.
Does Loomer think outside the box?
Apparently not.


19 posted on 10/10/2025 5:28:55 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: usafa92

Then don’t listen, I turn him off too.


20 posted on 10/10/2025 5:29:22 PM PDT by Fungi
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