The Wall Street Journal editorial board has taken aim at former President Donald Trump for his recently reignited association with right-wing provocateur Laura Loomer. In an op-ed published on Friday, entitled “Donald Trump and Loomer Tunes: Why is the Former President Hanging with a 9/11 Conspiracist?”, the board raised concerns about Trump’s decision to align himself with the controversial figure, particularly in the lead-up to the ABC News debate against Vice President Kamala Harris.
Loomer, a 31-year-old activist known for her inflammatory rhetoric, was seen accompanying Trump during public events commemorating the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. She joined the GOP nominee during his visits to memorial sites in New York City and Pennsylvania, including the Flight 93 crash site. However, Loomer has previously drawn ire for suggesting that 9/11 was “an inside job,” a conspiracy theory highlighted by the Wall Street Journal in their op-ed.
“Does she think Osama bin Laden was a CIA front man?” the editorial board asks rhetorically, before adding that describing Loomer as simply “far right” is too mild for her extreme views.
In their critique, the WSJ editors also pointed to Loomer’s history of inflammatory comments. On X, she insulted Kamala Harris’s Indian heritage, writing that if Harris were elected, “the White House will smell like curry.” She has also taken aim at other public figures, such as Casey DeSantis, the wife of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and cast conspiracies about Senator Lindsey Graham.
While Loomer’s provocations have long been on the fringe, her proximity to Trump raises broader concerns for the WSJ editorial board. “All of this would be ignorable, except that others close to Mr. Trump say he is listening to Ms. Loomer’s advice,” the board wrote. “People in the Trump campaign are trying to get her out of the former President’s entourage, to no avail. Even Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks Ms. Loomer is damaging the former President’s election chances.”
Trump, when asked by the press about his association with Loomer, downplayed the controversy, saying, “Laura’s a supporter. I have a lot of supporters,” and added, “She’s a strong person; she’s got strong opinions,” without directly addressing her history of incendiary remarks.
The WSJ editorial board expressed its broader concern over the former president’s decision-making process, writing that Trump’s association with Loomer “feeds the concern among voters that Mr. Trump listens to crazy courtiers who flatter him and play to his vanity. Is this who the next four years are going to feature?”
The op-ed goes further, cautioning that the problem extends beyond Trump’s immediate electoral prospects. The editors argue that a troubling segment of the American right is increasingly populated by figures who peddle conspiracy theories and extreme rhetoric.
“A movement that used to admire William F. Buckley Jr. and Thomas Sowell now elevates a pseudo-historian who blames Winston Churchill for World War II and media personalities who sell falsehoods as a triumph for free speech,” the board lamented, concluding that this shift in priorities “isn’t an intellectual or political movement that is going to win converts, nor will it deserve them.”
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Trump can’t help but lose. His populist MAGA movement has killed true conservativism in the United States. Trump lost the popular vote in 2016. He lost Congress in 2018. He lost the presidential election in 2020. His actions cost the GOP two Senate seats in Georgia. His flawed MAGA candidates cost the GOP winnable seats in PA and elsewhere and will cost the GOP in Arizona and and North Carolina this year. Trump will lose again because he is a flawed candidate who favors tariffs and dumping our European allies and wastes his time with spreading fear of migrants. The blame is squarely on GOP primary voters.
No, this is just who he is and always has been.
Harris aligning herself with Tampon Tim Waltz is worse then what Trump has ever done. Of course I agree he should get rid of her
I’m not saying the optics are good, but a little bit of skepticism towards the government might be in order.
The answer clearly is that he “can’t help himself”. His tendency to periodically just go off the rails and surround himself with these lunatics is fine but for the fact that he also has his finger on the nuclear button. In his first term, at least there were sane individuals on the national security staff and military around to mitigate his impulses but unclear if there will be any adults in the next administration.
Neither MAGA nor WOKE can win, and so in a two way election (i.e. Trump v Harris), the winner is the one who appeals best to the independents, and the RINOs (Reagan Republicans, traditional pro-business conservatives) and DINOs (traditional Democrats (similar to Truman, Kennedy, Johnson and Clinton as he was in 1992). Harris knows this and is modifying her previous radically WOKE beliefs (i.e. flip flopping). Trump does not understand this is focusing on rallying his MAGA base while more or less rejecting support from independents and RINOs, which will cost him the election and cost the Republicans control of the Congress, and saddle the country with a counter-productive radically left-wing, quasi-socialist, anti-democratic regime.
America stay out of Israel, you are monsters and the most evil country and nation in the world…..once upon a time you were different….G-d lived with you…now living in Israel with Torah and his people, shame on you , monsters , leave our people and country alone as far as this news centre of American…….you are the worse