MAGA Civil War: How Trump Campaign Chief Tried to Whack Laura Loomer
Former president Donald Trump moved to hire his racist firebrand pal Laura Loomer—a far-right, Islamophobic 9/11 conspiracist who earlier this month was paid to say she eats dog food—but one of his top advisers swooped in and blocked the hire, according to a report in Axios.
The news site said Trump held an interview with Loomer last year, but his campaign co-manager Susie Wiles made a point of sitting in so that she could nix the hiring.
The news comes as several senior figures in the Republican Party who are normally sympathetic to Trump, including Senator Lindsey Graham and Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene, have excoriated the former president for palling around with Loomer this week, including by bringing the 9/11 truther to September 11 memorials in New York City and Pennsylvania.