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The Trump White House just got a spring cleaning, courtesy of activist journalist Laura Loomer, who waltzed into the Oval Office with a stack of opposition research thicker than a D.C. lobbyist’s expense report.
[H/T The Daily Wire]
Up to ten National Security Council officials got the boot after her visit, and if you believe Axios—who broke the story Thursday—this wasn’t just a random purge. Loomer reportedly handed Trump a hit list of staffers she deemed insufficiently loyal, and the firings followed like clockwork. A source close to the meeting called it “an anti-neocon move,” which is Washington-speak for “someone’s finally draining the swamp, and the alligators are pissed.”
Trump, ever the master of coy confirmation, chatted with reporters aboard Air Force One and didn’t exactly deny Loomer’s influence. “We’re always going to let go of people — people we don’t like or people that take advantage of or people that may have loyalties to someone else,” he said. When asked about Loomer, he didn’t hold back the praise: “Laura Loomer is a great patriot. She’s a very strong person. She makes recommendations and people, and sometimes I listen to those recommendations. I listen to everybody and then I make a decision. She always has something to say and it’s usually constructive … She recommended some people for jobs.”
The rumor, per Axios, is that Loomer was fuming over “neocons” who’d “slipped through” Trump’s vetting process like cockroaches in a cheap motel. “She went to the White House yesterday and presented them with her research and evidence,” an official told the outlet, adding that three senior NSC bigwigs—plus as many as ten total staffers—got the axe. “Bloodbath” was the word used, and I’m guessing the survivors are updating their LinkedIn profiles as we speak.
CNN, [aka Comedy News Network] never one to miss a chance to clutch pearls, named the fallen: Brian Walsh, Thomas Boodry, and David Feith. Walsh, a former Marco Rubio lackey, was director for intelligence. Boodry, once Mike Waltz’s legislative director, handled legislative affairs. Feith, a State Department vet from Trump’s first term, oversaw tech and security. Sounds like a mixed bag of establishment types who didn’t get the memo that MAGA means business.
The meeting wasn’t a solo act—National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, VP JD Vance, Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, and personnel guru Sergio Gor were all in the room, per the Associated Press. Axios says Loomer’s beef was that these NSC folks weren’t ride-or-die for Trump’s agenda. Fair enough—why keep snakes in the grass when you can mow the lawn?
Meanwhile, Trump jetted off to Florida with Waltz, Wiles, Gor, and a few other top dogs, per the travel pool. Sounds like the A-team’s ready to keep the MAGA train rolling, while the B-team’s left crying into their résumés.
Trump, ever the master of coy confirmation, chatted with reporters aboard Air Force One and didn’t exactly deny Loomer’s influence. “We’re always going to let go of people — people we don’t like or people that take advantage of or people that may have loyalties to someone else,” he said. When asked about Loomer, he didn’t hold back the praise: “Laura Loomer is a great patriot. She’s a very strong person. She makes recommendations and people, and sometimes I listen to those recommendations. I listen to everybody and then I make a decision. She always has something to say and it’s usually constructive … She recommended some people for jobs.”
Translation: She’s got a loud mouth, a sharp eye, and the president’s ear—deal with it.
The rumor, per Axios, is that Loomer was fuming over “neocons” who’d “slipped through” Trump’s vetting process like cockroaches in a cheap motel. “She went to the White House yesterday and presented them with her research and evidence,” an official told the outlet, adding that three senior NSC bigwigs—plus as many as ten total staffers—got the axe. “Bloodbath” was the word used, and I’m guessing the survivors are updating their LinkedIn profiles as we speak.
CNN, [aka Comedy News Network] never one to miss a chance to clutch pearls, named the fallen: Brian Walsh, Thomas Boodry, and David Feith. Walsh, a former Marco Rubio lackey, was director for intelligence. Boodry, once Mike Waltz’s legislative director, handled legislative affairs. Feith, a State Department vet from Trump’s first term, oversaw tech and security. Sounds like a mixed bag of establishment types who didn’t get the memo that MAGA means business.
The meeting wasn’t a solo act—National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, VP JD Vance, Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, and personnel guru Sergio Gor were all in the room, per the Associated Press. Axios says Loomer’s beef was that these NSC folks weren’t ride-or-die for Trump’s agenda. Fair enough—why keep snakes in the grass when you can mow the lawn?
NSC spokesman Brian Hughes played the “no comment” card, while Loomer herself dodged The Daily Wire’s request for a chat. Instead, she took to X Thursday morning to blast “people in and around the West Wing” for leaking to the “hostile, left-wing media” about Trump’s private powwows. “I want to reiterate how important it is that people who gain access to the White House or the administration respect the privacy of their conversations with President Trump and his senior staff,” she wrote, sounding like the only adult in a room full of gossipy teenagers.
But she couldn’t resist a victory lap: “It was an honor to meet with President Trump and present him with my research findings. I will continue working hard to support his agenda, and I will continue reiterating the importance of, and the necessity of STRONG VETTING, for the sake of protecting the President of the United States of America, and our national security.”
Preach, Laura—someone’s got to keep the RINOs from sneaking back in.
Meanwhile, Trump jetted off to Florida with Waltz, Wiles, Gor, and a few other top dogs, per the travel pool. Sounds like the A-team’s ready to keep the MAGA train rolling, while the B-team’s left crying into their résumés.
Loomer’s got her critics, sure, but if she’s the one sniffing out the disloyal, maybe she’s the pitbull this administration needs. Neocons beware—there’s a new sheriff in town, and she’s not afraid to bite.
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