Trump Is Being Forced To Choose Between Loomer And Traitor Greene
As far as I know, no one has ever accused South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem— mistress of Trump’s latest campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski— of eating any of her children’s pets, but she did shoot them (the pets, not the children). Yesterday, Alfred Lubrano reported that Noem, best known for shooting her kids’ 14-month-old puppy— and a goat and a pony— will be campaigning for Trump Thursday evening at a Trump town hall in Morgantown, Berks Co, Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania’s crucial 19 electoral votes are still up for grabs but polling averages show Kamala ahead by around half a point. And Berks County is an important constituency northwest of Philly with urban, suburban and rural areas. Trump won it both times, in 2020, 53.2% to Biden’s 45.1%. Voter registration leans slightly red:
Republican- 107,690 (42.5%)
Democrat- 104,430 (41.2%)
Independent- 30,154 (11.9%)
Other- 10,912 (4.3%)
Friday evening, in a provocative editorial, Donald Trump and the Loomer Tunes, the Wall Street Journal warned that Loomer could spell disaster from Señor T. “We can’t believe we have to write this about a presidential candidate, but then Trump seems to like the company of Loomer, the 31-year-old online provocateur. She was backstage with the Trump team during this week’s debate with Kamala Harris and was in the spin room with the former President afterward. She then flew on Trump’s plane to the anniversary memorials of 9/11 in New York City and the site of the Flight 93 crash in Pennsylvania. Her attendance at these events was especially insulting since Loomer has claimed that 9/11 was ‘an inside job.’ Does she think Osama bin Laden was a CIA front man? Loomer is usually described in the press as ‘far right,’ but that’s unfair to the fever swamps.”
In 2018 Loomer chained herself to Twitter’s New York headquarters after the platform banned her. She suggested that Casey DeSantis, the wife of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, might have lied about having breast cancer: ‘I’ve never seen the medical records.’ This week she smeared Sen. Lindsey Graham after he criticized her association with Trump.
All of this would be ignorable, except that others close to Trump say he is listening to Loomer’s advice. People in the Trump campaign are trying to get her out of the former President’s entourage, to no avail. Even Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks Loomer is damaging the former President’s election chances.
As North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis put it on Friday: “Laura Loomer is a crazy conspiracy theorist who regularly utters disgusting garbage intended to divide Republicans. A DNC plant couldn’t do a better job than she is doing to hurt President Trump’s chances of winning re-election. Enough.”
The press is naturally having fun with all this and asked Trump about it on Friday. “Laura’s a supporter,” he said. “I have a lot of supporters.” He added that “she’s a strong person; she’s got strong opinions,” and he wondered why people are asking about her.
They’re asking because they know Trump’s association with Loomer feeds the concern among voters that Trump listens to crazy courtiers who flatter him and play to his vanity. Is this who the next four years are going to feature?
The problem here is deeper than Trump’s electoral prospects. A growing segment of the American right is populated by, and susceptible to, cranks and conspiracists. A movement that used to admire William F. Buckley Jr. and Thomas Sowell now elevates a pseudo-historian who blames Winston Churchill for World War II and media personalities who sell falsehoods as a triumph for free speech.
This isn’t an intellectual or political movement that is going to win converts, nor will it deserve them.
Yesterday, Kristen Welker and Alexandra Marquez went further, noting that Señor Trumpanzee’s allies are worried that his ties to Loomer could cost him votes in key battleground states. Judging by the dozens of social media posts she has used to talk about the race sex life of her newest mortal enemy, Marjorie Traitor Greene, many people are saying that she’s been fellating Trump.
“The allies,” wrote Welker and Marquez, “told NBC News that there are ‘real concerns’ about Loomer and Trump’s association, especially in the wake of her racist social media post about Vice President Kamala Harris this week, where she wrote that the ‘White House will smell like curry & White House speeches will be facilitated via a call center’ if Harris wins the presidential election. ‘She has to go. Laura Loomer cannot stay. She just can’t. She is unapologetic,’ one Trump ally told NBC News, adding: ‘This woman attacked the vice president of the United States in such a racist manner. It was appalling and she hasn’t apologized.’ Several allies… warned that Loomer’s rhetoric about Harris could hurt Trump’s standing with critical voters, particularly in the key states of Georgia and North Carolina, which have large Indian American and Hindu populations.”
Señor T was told directly that if he doesn’t do something “it will be a problem.” Traitor Greene posted this yesterday:
Indian Americans account for a bit more than 1% of the total U.S. population, according to Census estimates. Georgia has the highest share of any 2024 battleground at about 1.5% of the state population, followed by Pennsylvania and Michigan at 1.2% and North Carolina at 1.1%.
…“There are people who want to be helpful, who want to win, and have the operations to do so. But there is a bridge that those people won’t cross, and it seems right now that Donald Trump is intent on crossing it,” a Georgia Republican strategist said. “If he crosses that bridge with people like Laura Loomer, the people he needs to win won’t be on the other side of it with him.”
And, by the way, on This Week, Ohio Gov, Mike DeWine (R) told Martha Raddatz: “I think it’s unfortunate that this came up. Let me tell you what we do know, though. What we know is that the Haitians who are in Springfield are legal. They came to Springfield to work. Ohio is on the move, and Springfield has really made a great resurgence with a lot of companies coming in. These Haitians came in to work for these companies. What the companies tell us is that they are very good workers. They're very happy to have them there, and frankly, that's helped the economy. Now, are there problems connected? Well, sure. When you go from a population of 58,000 and add 15,000 people onto that, you're going to have some challenges and some problems. And we're addressing those… There are hate groups coming into Springfield. We don't need these hate groups. I saw a piece of literature yesterday that the mayor told me about from purportedly the KKK. Look, Springfield is a good city. They are good people. They are welcoming people. We have challenges every day. We are working on those challenges.”
evidently, laura gives better BJs than margie or lindsay.