How far-right activist Laura Loomer is shaping the Trump administration
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🗓️ 13 August 2025
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| 0:00.0 | A right-wing political activist who spread conspiracy theories and used hate speech has become a central figure in the hirings and firings of Trump administration staffers. |
| 0:11.1 | Laura Lumer has successfully lobbied to remove aides from several key government roles, including the National Security Council. |
| 0:18.4 | Despite her close alliance with the president, she's drawn some foes within the Republican Party, |
| 0:23.6 | including Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green. |
| 0:26.6 | Stephanie Sy has more on her mission |
| 0:28.5 | to shape the Trump administration in her vision. |
| 0:32.2 | The state of Minnesota is a Somali hushabole. |
| 0:34.7 | I don't have any sympathy for self-aiding liberal Jews. We need to be focused on |
| 0:38.8 | America first, not black people first. She regularly utters disgusting garbage. That's how Republican |
| 0:45.3 | Senator Tom Tillis once described the self-styled journalist Laura Lumer. All of the meritless |
| 0:51.8 | DEI Shanikas talk the same way. It's very obnoxious. But despite her detractors, the online influencer seems to wield real influence, and she knows it. |
| 1:00.7 | I got multiple people fired this week. Observer say it's not a coincidence that more than a dozen high-ranking officials in the Trump administration have either lost their jobs or had their |
| 1:11.6 | nominations revoked after Lumer questioned their loyalty to the president. |
| 1:16.7 | You know, you think he's all these terrible things that all of his detractors call him. |
| 1:21.1 | Why do you want to work for him? |
| 1:23.7 | Aren't I doing you a favor? |
| 1:25.6 | She doesn't like things going on that she thinks are bad for the country. |
| 1:30.3 | I like her. |
| 1:31.3 | The woman Trump calls a patriot got her start in media with Project Veritas. |
| 1:36.3 | Known for using deceptive tactics, including undercover videotaping, often to make false or exaggerated claims about its targets. |
| 1:45.4 | How can I help you are? |
| 1:46.4 | I just have some questions about... |
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