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Conspiracy theorist denies Trump affair claims by smearing Kamala Harris

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Right-wing influencer Laura Loomer hurled misogynist invective at Kamala Harris to deny having an affair with Donald Trump.

The 9/11 conspiracy theorist threatened to sue talk show host Bill Maher for speculating about her handsy relationship with the Republican presidential nominee, with whom she's been traveling around the country to campaign stops and other events, and she complained the rumors amounted to bullying, reported The Daily Beast.

“They’re taken it so far, and you know if I was a leftist journalist, if I was a Democrat, oh my God, the media would be up in arms if the Republican media was doing this to a left-wing journalist,” Loomer said on her podcast.

She then imagined what leftist outlets would say if she were one of them.

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“‘Oh my god, they’re misogynist, they’re bullying a woman, they’re trying to Monica Lewinsky her, they’re trying to discredit the fact that she’s a working woman,’” Loomer said.

Loomer then smeared the vice president by dredging up ugly rumors from her past often advanced by right-wing commentators saying that Harris owed her career to sleeping with then-San Francisco mayor Willie Brown, who had been her mentor and helped advance the careers of many California politicians.

“But some of us women, we actually work hard, and some of us women have no desire to have sexual affairs with politicians or men with elite political status to climb the ladder,” Loomer said. “I know that Kamala Harris can’t say the same, but believe me when I say that’s not me – or as Kamala Harris likes to say, ‘They ain’t like us,' right? She ain’t like me. I ain’t like her.”

Loomer's closeness to the former president has triggered outrage from Sens. Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), in addition to fellow conspiracy theorist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who pointed to her racist social media posts and inflammatory comments as disqualifying.

Trump himself pointed out Friday that Loomer “doesn’t work for the campaign” and said he doesn't always agree with her statements, although he expressed appreciation that she was, like him, "tired of watching the Radical Left Marxists and Fascists violently attack and smear me.”