Laura Loomer: The ‘Free Spirit’ Whispering in Trump’s Ear
WIRED Politics Lab
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🗓️ 19 September 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
From political fundraisers to the presidential debate to a September 11 commemoration, far-right influencer Laura Loomer has become a staple in former president Donald Trump’s political entourage. WIRED’s David Gilbert and Tim Marchman join Leah to discuss Loomer’s history of conspiracies, Islamophobia, and how she ended up in Trump’s orbit.
Leah Feiger is @LeahFeiger. David Gilbert is @DaithaiGilbert. Tim Marchman is @timmarchman. Write to us at [email protected]. Be sure to subscribe to the WIRED Politics Lab newsletter here.
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| 0:16.0 | In New York's Central Park in 2017, a crowd was enjoying a production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar |
| 0:21.7 | when a woman stormed onto the stage. She was upset that the theater company decided to recreate |
| 0:26.8 | Caesar as a Donald Trump-like figure, who was then bloodily stabbed to death. She disrupted the show |
| 0:32.8 | shouting, Do you want Trump to be assassinated? Stop the normalization of political violence against the right. |
| 0:39.1 | The woman was escorted offstage and arrested. |
| 0:41.8 | Later, she appeared on Sean Hannity's Fox News show to talk about the experience. |
| 0:46.0 | Yeah, look, this is assassination porn, right? |
| 0:48.9 | So the left is taking pleasure in watching an assassination attempt on President Trump. |
| 0:54.4 | Shakespeare once said that violent delights lead to violent ends, right? |
| 0:58.8 | And so when you're going to delight in the assassination of our president, it's going to have a violent end. |
| 1:03.8 | That woman would later ingratiate herself with the real Donald Trump and go on to become a megastar of the far right. |
| 1:10.0 | Her name was Laura Lumer. |
| 1:14.9 | This is Wired Politics Lab, a show about how tech is changing politics. I'm Leah Figer, |
| 1:20.6 | the senior politics editor at Wired. You might have heard Loomers name over the last few weeks. |
| 1:26.6 | She's become a fixture in Trump's entourage. |
| 1:29.1 | She flew with him to Philadelphia for the presidential debate. |
| 1:32.4 | Then, he ranted about one of her favorite recent conspiracy theories on Springfield, Ohio. |
| 1:37.9 | They're eating the dogs, the people that came in. |
| 1:41.0 | They're eating the cats. |
| 1:42.1 | They're eating the pets of the people |
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