Sep 13, 2024
Trump DEFENDS His Ties With Conspiracy Nut Laura Loomer
Former President Donald Trump defended advisor Laura Loomer, calling her a "supporter."
- 11 minutes
Far right conspiracy theorist
and all around loon.
Laura Loomer is apparently behind
the scenes, building a closer and closer
relationship with that guy,
Donald Trump and Laura Loomer.
Big buds, for some reason,
who saw that mashup coming.
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But many in the even the Trump circle
are worried about this and think
that this is a strange thing to do
to bring in independents,
convince people to support you.
And Donald Trump was asked questions
about these new reports earlier today,
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and this is what he had to say about it.
Your Republican colleagues or your allies
who are concerned about your
close relationship with Laura Loomer?
Well, I don't know what they would say.
Laura's been a supporter of mine,
just like a lot of people are supporters
and she's been a supporter of mine.
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She speaks very positively
of the campaign.
I'm not sure why you asked that question,
but Laura is a supporter.
I don't control Laura.
Laura has to say what she wants.
She's a she's a free spirit.
She made racist remarks
about your opponent.
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She also espoused conspiracy theories
about nine over 11.
Do you disavow those remarks?
Well, I have to see what the remarks are.
You're telling me
for the first time, we hear about.
We're here discussing the destruction
of San Francisco and California
by a person that's running for president.
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So I don't even know
what you're talking about.
I do know that she may have said something
based on what you're telling me,
but I don't know what she said.
But I'll go take a look
and I'll put out a statement later on.
But I really don't know. Please.
Oh, I can't wait for the statement.
Let's check truthsocial.
I bet it's out by now.
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It's been a few hours.
Obviously that's never going to come,
by the way.
Note to all reporters when you're going
to ask a question like that, which you
should, and you're going to say this
person said something, you have the quote.
Okay.
Because he's going to say,
I don't know what you're talking about.
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I don't know the quote.
So you read it to him.
That's what you do.
He still will pretend he doesn't have
to answer the questions.
But that was what I would do.
By the way, that presser
that you just saw there with the world's
Shakiest Podium was one in which he
brushed off the fact that there have been
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bomb threats in Springfield,
apparently tied to the conspiracy
theories that he's spreading there.
He ignored a fact check
of the eating the dogs thing
and just pressed on with his life.
He accused the FBI of defrauding America
by making up crime data,
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and he also said that David Muir's hair
isn't as good as it was five years ago.
All of that from the man
who would be president.
But obviously the big topic there,
he doesn't know why he's being asked
about Laura Loomer.
But I think we all understand if you're
new to politics, maybe this is your first
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election really paying attention to this.
You might not be that familiar with
Laura Loomer, and I wish more Americans
could join you in that.
But she's one of the craziest people
in this whole thing.
Like one of the craziest.
One of the dumbest.
We call Matt Gaetz stupid.
We call Marjorie Greene conspiratorial.
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She makes them look relatively reputable.
She's just a legitimate, crazy person.
You listen to one sentence
out of her mouth.
You take a look at her face
and it's very clear.
And she has the track record to prove that
it is truly strange for a guy who wants
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to be president, fresh off a whoopin
at a debate to be gallivanting around
the country with her for some reason.
Now I have theories as to why he might
be doing this now more than before.
But what do you all make of this?
And his answers there.
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with a very saucy theory on it.
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All right, we'll get to that in a minute.
So first off, I just for those of you
who don't know, not only is Laura
Loomer has said like the most outrageously
racist things against Muslims,
but again, in in America, especially
in the right wing, that's Tuesday.
But she says, yeah,
I'm a white nationalist.
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And she has said that America is a
white Judeo do Judeo-Christian Ethnostate.
So forget democracy.
It should be a state based on white,
Christian and Jewish identity only.
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And not only it should be.
It is, she says.
And that's so.
Look, if you're Donald Trump
and you just ran into her, let's say you
even took a picture with her, I'm not
going to get on you for it, I get it.
There's a lot of people
with a lot of crazy thoughts
you didn't know or you just.
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But wait a minute.
You've been spending a long time with her.
She's on the plane.
She went with you to commemorate
nine over 11. Later, we'll tell you she's
a nine over 11 conspiracy theorist.
Of course.
Right.
You you you're taking advice from her?
A couple of the lunatic conspiracy
theories, like the cats and dogs
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getting eaten, are from Laura Loomer.
And I didn't know this.
I found this out today.
It turns out Kamala just turned black.
Also from Laura Loomer.
So you're spending all this time with her
getting your thoughts from her and Trump?
First of all, let me clarify.
The main reason why Trump is hanging out
with her because Trump is Laura Loomer.
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Like there is.
It's not like there's
a credible presidential candidate
and they happen to get hoodwinked.
And they had no idea
about what she believed.
No, Trump believes the same exact
hateful things she does and the
same lunatic conspiracy theories she does.
You can't name one ridiculous conspiracy
theory that Laura Loomer has come up with
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that Trump doesn't believe.
It doesn't exist.
So they're the same person.
And then there's the interesting
theories otherwise.
But the bottom line is, yeah,
when she says like, of course it should be
a white nationalist ethnostate, that's not
that big a surprise to Donald Trump.
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And and the fact is, if you take
him at his word and you're MAGA
and he's the demigod and he never lies.
Okay, well, in that case, you've got a
thermonuclear political person next to you
that is going to burn tons of votes,
maybe millions of votes,
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because I know, MAGA,
you think that everybody should be
as hateful and ignorant as you are,
but sorry, the rest of the country isn't.
So if you want to win.
Doing this is so Oh, stupid.
So thank you very much
for being this dumb.
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But how about your candidate?
How about. He's a strategic genius?
Why is he walking around
carrying a toxic person around?
Who's going to burn
all those votes for him?
Because at a bare minimum,
he's a dumb ass.
He never checks anything.
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He just. Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
They're eating cats and dogs, by the way.
She didn't even say dogs.
He added in dogs. So of course.
Look, I this is starting to
this is starting to become gaslighting.
I mean, it's been for a long, long time,
but I'm Donald Trump is not just.
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Oh, he's slightly worse.
Oh, I'm slightly worried about him.
The guy is mentally unstable.
Period. Period.
He's totally mentally unstable.
If you're if you don't acknowledge
that you're not a serious person,
you're just a goofball who doesn't
understand anything about politics,
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doesn't understand, can't understand
the words that are spoken, or you think
mainstream media hates Donald Trump?
No way. They're scared to death of him.
In a lot of ways, yes, they attack him
from time to time, no question about it.
I'm not denying that they attack him
by doing things like fact checks
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and they're like, oh, what an attack!
That's so unfair.
They should just let him lie all the time.
But do they truly understand? They don't.
You know why?
Because they believe in great man myth.
And so they think Donald
Trump was president.
He's a great man.
He must have strategy
behind this Laura Loomer thing.
He can't possibly believe
the conspiracy theories she does.
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Of course he does. He's not a great man.
He's a tiny, tiny man
who is very mentally unstable.
So much more on Laura Loomer
and her attacks
against Kamala Harris's ethnicity, which
could prove problematic for JD Vance.
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All that coming up, Frannie.
Yeah, there's so much to say about Laura
Loomer, but if I were Kamala Harris,
I would absolutely start running ads
with all of the things
that Laura Loomer has said and say, yeah,
this is who he's hanging out with.
See for yourself.
And I agree with you
that sometimes mainstream media
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just goes way too high with this, or they
feel like they don't need to talk about,
you know, these characters
in the Subterranean MAGA movement
like Loomer or like Nick Fuentes.
But they should.
And sadly, we know their names.
But we should know their names
because this is Nazi stuff.
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Like the other thing, that even
Kamala Harris doesn't go hard enough.
I mean, she rarely even talks about being
a black woman and being a woman, you know,
which I think a lot of people
are excited about
and for many different strategic reasons.
But let's be clear, dude is a Nazi.
This week he's been spinning
and regurgitating Nazi talking points
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out of Springfield from a guy who was
in a group called Blood Pride.
How is he not a Nazi?
Let's take it from his wife, Ivana, that
he had Mein Kampf on his bedside table.
This is time and again.
So the other thing we all are pretending,
other than he should be running
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for president, that all of his criminality
shouldn't bar him from becoming president,
that he could somehow be president
while in prison is that he's
not an out and out white nationalist,
just like Laura Loomer said.
He's a white nationalist.
And I will just say, Jank to correct you.
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It's not a white nationalist ethnostate.
It's a white nationalist
ethnostate of filler.
And so don't forget the role that Botox
and filler play in this future perfect
race world country that we will live in.
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Francesca.
Really fast and correct me if I'm wrong,
but I believe a fact check
it wasn't Mein Kampf, it was a book of
Hitler's speeches, which I think is worse
because it's a deeper cut.
It's like you could say
Mein Kampf is a famous book.
I should be familiar with this.
But like, you're studying his speeches.
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Oh, okay.
Interesting.
But anyway, I just it's it's so strange.
Oh, by the way, I got fact checked.
Well, not fact check.
I didn't assert anything,
but I asked a question.
I said, you know, I wonder if he's
given his, his, put out a statement.
So he did.
Actually, ten minutes before we went live,
he says, Laura, Laura Loomer
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doesn't work for the campaign.
Dude, she's on your private jet.
Many people work for the campaign
that you're not literally hugging
by your side at Memorial events, so it's
way worse than working for the campaign.
She's a private citizen
and long time supporter.
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What does that have to do
with any of this?
I disagree with the statements she made,
but like many millions of people,
blah blah blah, they're being mean to me.
Okay, well, now to the media.
He's says he disagrees in general.
He's not going to acknowledge any specific
thing that she's said, any of the wildly
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Islamophobic, homophobic, racist comments.
She's wild conspiracy theories
beyond the wildest fantasies of anyone
from the Daily Wire or Fox News or Oan.
And so now get those specific comments
and at his next presser,
start to read the things she said.
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The insanely racist
comments about Kamala Harris.
She has years of this going back,
bizarre stunts and all that.
He is now saying it's not a problem.
I don't have a problem with it.
I'm going to keep her by me.
So now is your turn to to step up
and ask some necessary follow ups there.
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