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Far-right Trump influencer and failed Florida congressional candidate Laura Loomer escalated her growing public battle with tech billionaire Elon Musk on Thursday, after he deigned to respond to several of her rants earlier in the morning. Loomer has demanded President-elect Donald Trump purge his incoming administration of "Big Tech" influence, particularly taking issue with tech CEOs' support for high-skilled visa …
Tech billionaire Elon Musk contributed enormous amounts of money to getting Donald Trump elected, and is now heading up his "Department of Government Efficiency" task force to recommend spending cuts. Loomer, a self-professed "Proud Islamophobe" who has pushed white nationalist and 9/11 conspiracy theories and made multiple failed runs for Congress in Florida, has often been at Trump's side at …
