"Beyond disturbing": Trump's allies try to blame Laura Loomer for his racist debate claims

Laura Loomer is an appallingly racist, unhinged conspiracy theorist who has no business being anywhere near a major party’s presidential candidate. Loomer, who has suggested 9/11 was an “inside job” and celebrates the death of migrants, rode on Trump’s private plane to the debate in Philadelphia and then appeared alongside him at events marking the 2001 terrorist attacks, seen playing “on her phone while pacing between Mr. Trump’s two campaign managers,” The New York Times reported. Related City faces bomb threat after Trump falsely accuses Haitian immigrants of eating dogs According to Greene, Loomer is a “poisonous” and “mentally unstable” figure on the right, one whose open racism is making Trump “look bad.” Graham likewise took issue with Loomer’s potential impact on the campaign. “I hope this problem gets resolved,” he continued, saying Trump’s informal adviser — a person he wanted to formally hire last year — “doesn’t help the cause.” Loomer, 31, has responded as could be expected from a member of Trump’s inner circle: by leveling vicious personal attacks against her various critics. Loomer may have promoted the conspiracy theory about immigrants eating cats, but so did that state’s junior senator and Trump hand-picked running mate, JD Vance, whose response to being debunked was instructing his followers to “keep the cat memes flowing.” Trump team insiders insist that Loomer actually “has no role, official or unofficial,” on the former president’s campaign.