Laura Loomer tells me what REALLY happened inside the Oval Office
Loomer came to Washington with a video exposing one of Trump’s top officials…
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If you talk to Laura Loomer, she believes it’s her job to save the President of the United States from the many disloyal people around him.
In her first sit-down interview since she took out six members of the National Security Council, Loomer opened up to me on-camera about her relationship with President Trump. She revealed how, at 31, she earned a side door into the Oval Office and became one of his top advisors with the power to overrule his National Security advisor Mike Waltz and fire top national security brass.
“When you say ‘Who's my biggest ally in the White House?’ It's literally Donald Trump,” she told me on Thursday. “Donald Trump is my biggest ally in the White House. I don't get invited to events.”
Loomer is known for being a far-right conspiracy theorist and proud Islamophobe, but at the same time she can bypass the most senior White House officials to meet with Trump, despite their many attempts to keep her out. She claims Trump has told her he’s very impressed with her research and wants her to join the administration, but unnamed staffers are blocking her.
“Obviously, it's people who are very threatened by my friendship with President Trump and the fact that I'm able to get him this information,” she said.
Regardless of whether she has a West Wing lanyard, Loomer is undeniably powerful with her access, opinions, and agenda.
According to Loomer, Trump “obviously loves me,” calls her directly and invites her to the White House, but she is still waiting to get approved for a press badge.
“I'm able to have these direct meetings and phone calls and conversations with President Trump,” she told me. “But somehow his directives to onboard me are always blocked by his staff who don't want to listen to him.”
Loomer chalked it up to the dysfunction around Trump, despite the narrative that it’s a much tighter operation under Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. She said his second term is plagued with the same type of infighting as his first term.
“They don't get along,” she said. “The advisors don't get along with each other. The heads of agencies don't get along with each other.”
If anything, Loomer’s unparalleled access and ability to overrule senior administration officials suggests that Wiles has as much control over the rotating Oval Office door as Trump’s first Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.
“People are constantly trying to pit me against Susie [Wiles] and say that Susie doesn't want me around,” she said. “But if Susie didn't want me around, I wouldn't have had a meeting at the Oval Office, right?”
Loomer’s account not only offers a look into the highest office in the land but the true way to the president’s heart—by showing him that the people around him can’t be trusted.
“Nobody wants to address the vetting crisis in the White House,” she said.
A very clearly paranoid Trump values her research. “You don’t want to be Loomered,” Trump said at an event at Mar-a-lago. “If you’re Loomered, you’re in deep trouble. That’s the end of your career, in a sense.”
He has praised her for antagonizing his enemy Ron DeSantis on the campaign trail. She at one point suggested that his wife Casey exaggerated her breast cancer. Trump openly refers to Loomer lovingly, as “beautiful” and as a “patriot” whose advice he appreciates and considers.
Loomer sees herself as a cross between a reporter, an investigator, and an executive vetting machine, although now she’s also offering “matrimonial due diligence” services to root out “gold diggers,” as she launches her consulting firm Loomered Strategies.
Even though she’s desperate to get a White House position, she offered her consulting services to the White House because she fears they are woefully ineffective at rooting out disloyal staffers. One of her top criteria for purging officials is whether they were appointed by the Biden administration. That’s what killed off General Timothy D. Haugh, the National Security Director of Central Security Service and leader of the U.S. Cyber Command, and his civilian deputy Wendy Noble, who were both fired during the April 3 Loomer Massacre, among others.
The other disqualifier is if they’ve said anything critical of Trump or associated with people who tried to undermine him. I asked about JD Vance, who has called Trump “America’s Hitler,” and Loomer said that he’s shown contrition but she worries that Trump is too forgiving.
But on April 3, Loomer didn’t travel all the way to Washington just to fire senior security officials, which arguably puts our country at risk. She likely could have made the case over the phone to Trump.
She was there to show the 78-year-old Trump video footage on her phone that would expose one of his most senior officials.
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