Far-right activist Laura Loomer has lashed out at the “haters” who have been attacking her recently amid her apparent rising influence within former President’s Donald Trump‘s campaign.
Loomer, a self-described “proud Islamophobe” known for spreading conspiracy theories, has come under scrutiny for her rhetoric and extremist views after she was seen accompanying Trump on a flight to the ABC presidential debate.
She has received widespread condemnation, including from the former president’s running mate JD Vance and Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, a fervent Trump supporter, for saying that White House “will smell like curry & White House speeches will be facilitated via a call center” if Kamala Harris, who is of Indian heritage, wins the presidential election.
Speaking on her Unleashed podcast, Loomer has thanked those who have “stood by me through all these vicious attacks” in recent days, adding she also wants to “thank the haters in the media for reminding people of why you’re so awful.”
“You can’t control me. That’s why you hate me,” Loomer said in the clip she posted on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday. “I’m not a violent person. I made a joke. Some people liked it, some people didn’t. I don’t really care. So I’m not a racist. I’m not a 9/11 conspiracy theorist. Say what you want about me. It’s not going to stop me from exposing you.
“You can’t stop me, because you can’t break me. You can’t break my spirit. I have nothing to lose anymore. You guys took everything from me when you canceled me years ago” Loomer added in an apparent reference to when she was banned from X, Facebook and Instagram. In 2017, Loomer was also banned from rideshare apps Uber and Lyft for posting anti-Muslim remarks about the service’s drivers.
“You know what they say, the most dangerous person in the world is somebody who has nothing to lose anymore,” Loomer added.
Newsweek has contacted Loomer for comment via email outside of regular office hours.
Loomer was also spotted standing with Trump’s entourage at 9/11 memorial events in New York and Pennsylvania on September 11, despite previously suggesting the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center were an “inside job.” On September 13, Loomer posted on social media that there were still “a lot of unanswered questions” about the 9/11 terror attacks.
“23 years later, and there’s still a lot of unanswered questions. The 9/11 documents are still classified to this day. The American people deserve to know the entire truth. Not just what our lying government chose to tell us. There’s so many unanswered questions… Why?” she wrote.
Laura Loomer, supporter of Donald Trump, gathers outside the courthouse where the former president was scheduled to be arraigned on June 13, 2023, in Miami, Florida. Loomer has lashed out at the “haters” who have been attacking her in recent days.
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Trump has both distanced himself and defended Loomer in recent days amid concerns about her apparent influence on his campaign, including claims she was the one who suggested the former president should repeat the false claim that immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, during the ABC presidential debate.
“I disagree with the statements she made but, like the many millions of people who support me, she is tired of watching the Radical Left Marxists and Fascists violently attack and smear me, even to the point of doing anything to stop their Political Opponent, ME!” Trump posted on Truth Social.
Trump has also denied that Loomer has a role in his 2024 campaign, but praised her as a “free spirit” with “strong opinions.”
Greene called her recent attacks on Harris “appalling and extremely racist.”
Speaking to NBC News’ Meet the Press on Sunday, Republican vice presidential candidate Vance, whose wife is of Indian heritage, said that he did not agree with the remarks from Loomer, and that the comments were a distraction for the campaign.
“I don’t like those comments,” he said. “What Laura said about Kamala Harris is not what we should be focused on. We should be focused on the policy and on the issues.”
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre recently told reporters that Loomer’s comments were “repugnant” and that Trump should not be associating himself with someone who spreads “racist poison.”
“It is repugnant, these types of comments. It is un-American to say these types of things. Exactly the kind of hateful and divisive rhetoric—rhetoric that we should denounce and…should not be part of the fabric of this country,” said Jean-Pierre on September 13. “No leader should ever associate with someone who spreads this kind of ugliness, this kind of racist poison.”
That same day, Republican North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis wrote on Twitter: “Laura Loomer is a crazy conspiracy theorist who regularly utters disgusting garbage intended to divide Republicans.
“A DNC [Democratic National Committee] plant couldn’t do a better job than she is doing to hurt President Trump’s chances of winning reelection. Enough.”
