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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I liked her until I met her. Lake county blood red told her no thanks.
Lol. Funny. That’s ridiculous. Webster has been our congressman for awhile and she isn’t even a resident. She goes from district to district trying to win. She’s a professional campaigner.
The Times simply reported the fact that
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Fact ?
Says who ?
The n.y. slimes ?
The n.y. slime’s urinalist ?
You ?
Perhaps she should run in your district. Maybe she’d have luck. Her last three elections in different districts in Florida have not been successful.
Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸
@mtgreenee
Laura Loomer is mentally unstable and a documented liar.
She can not be trusted.
She spent months lying about me and attacking me just because I supported Kevin McCarthy for Speaker and after I had refused to endorse her last election cycle.
She loves the alleged FBI informant and weirdo Nick Fuentes.
She tried to get hired on the Ye campaign after the infamous Maralago dinner, but Kanye West refused to hire her so now she’s running to Trump.
Never hire or do business with a liar.
Liars are toxic and poisonous to everything they touch.
I’ll make sure he knows.
Trump is courting the secret servers in Germany nutjobs for the primaries. Loomer would help out there, obviously.
Yeah. Like I said perhaps she’d win in your district. Blood red lake county which is home to the villages said no thank you.
NYT “firestorm”
Most likely the firestorm was one junior aide suggesting “Let’s look at the upside and the downside as we should be doing with every hire.”
That is a “firestorm” in the eyes of the NYT?
Bigoted Views = Not Woke
It looks like it was enough to keep her from being hired.
Got a link for that mtg thingy ?
( I adore MTG /-) even though I was against Mitch also. Still am )
Yeah. Like I said perhaps she’d win in your district.
( MY district just outlawed voting machines, yours THAT red ?)
Blood red lake county
What state ?
Yet Trump sat down with Haberman no less than three times to give one-on-one interviews for the book she wrote about him, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America.
It's been called the book that Trump fears the most.
Trump on Haberman, "I love being with her. She’s like my psychiatrist."
Which is why our never Trumpsters and the elite liberals hate her.
Anti-Muslim ‘cause she didn’t favor kissing BinLaden’s butt, no doubt.
Thank you for the fast service.
Thanks. Always aim to please here. Cheers.
So the anti-white, anti-West crowd hates her? I like her even more.
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