Laura Loomer operates as a self-described investigative journalist and unofficial adviser to Donald Trump. She frequently spreads unverified and inflammatory allegations, including claims about Marjorie Taylor Greene and Palestinian children's medical care. She praises McCarthyism and advocates a recrudescence of Joseph McCarthy's tactics. Her history includes pranks, platform bans for hate-speech violations, arrests for protests, and failed Republican primary campaigns in Florida, one of which she refused to concede citing alleged voter fraud tied to social-media restrictions. She pursued efforts to get federal employees fired over perceived disloyalty to Trump and expressed expectations of a White House job that did not materialize.
You never know just how far she will go, but that's the game she plays. I suggested at one point that her effort to get federal employees fired for supposed disloyalty to Trump recalled the Red Scare of the early 1950s, when Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin exploited the private musings and personal associations of alleged communist sympathizers to end their careers. She loved that.
She had toiled for a decade on the dark edges of relevance, pulling public pranks and getting chased off financial and social-media platforms for hate-speech violations. She was arrested after storming the stage at New York City's Shakespeare in the Park to protest a Trump-inspired Julius Caesar and kicked off Uber and Lyft for saying that she did not want Muslim drivers.
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