Update (4/3/25 4:45PM CT): In comments to the press aboard Air Force One Thursday, President Trump said he listens to Loomer’s recommendations on both hirings and firings, but that the recent NSC firings were not influenced by Wednesday’s meeting.
“Laura Loomer is a very good patriot and a strong person. I saw her yesterday for a little while. She makes recommendations of things and people, and sometimes I listen to those recommendations,” Trump said.
Asked, “Did she have anything to do with the NSC aides that were ousted?” Trump abruptly responded, “No.”
Original story appears below…
The liberal mainstream media is accusing journalist and Trump insider Laura Loomer of helping expel three members of Trump’s National Security Council team suspected of having pro-war foreign policy agendas contradictory to the administration.
Loomer reportedly went to the White House Wednesday following Trump’s tariff announcement, entered the West Wing and then spoke with the president about several NSC staffers inside the Oval Office, according to the NY Times:
“Ms. Loomer walked into the White House with a sheaf of papers, which amounted to a mass of opposition research attacking the character and loyalty of numerous N.S.C. officials, two of the people said. She proceeded to excoriate them in front of their boss, the national security adviser Michael Waltz, who was also in the meeting.”
Following Loomer’s meeting Wednesday, Axios reported Thursday the Trump administration had laid off three “neocon” NSC staffers, though it did not confirm the firings were due to her meeting with the president:
Several members of President Trump’s embattled National Security Council have been fired, a U.S. official and a second source familiar told Axios on Thursday.
Why it matters: The firings come a day after conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer visited the Oval Office and pressed Trump to fire specific NSC staffers. Axios has not confirmed whether the firings were directly linked to that incident, but the source familiar said they were “being labeled as an anti-neocon move.”
Behind the scenes: The U.S. official said Loomer was furious that “neocons” had “slipped through” the vetting process for administration jobs, referring to hawkish foreign policy views commonly associated with the Bush administration.
Despite noting Loomer has been campaigning for Trump to fire Waltz’s Principal Deputy National Security Adviser Alex Wong since last month’s Signal leak, his name was not among three fired staffers identified by CNN Thursday, which included:
Brian Walsh, a director for intelligence and a former top staffer for now-Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the Senate Intelligence Committee; Thomas Boodry, a senior director for legislative affairs who previously served as Waltz’s legislative director in Congress; and David Feith, a senior director overseeing technology and national security who served in the State Department during Trump’s first administration.
Journalist Glenn Greenwald remarked, “Wild,” at the prospect of Loomer possibly influencing the firings.
CNN commentator Kaitlin Collins also suggested without evidence Loomer was behind the firings.
“I woke up this morning to learn that there are still people in and around the West Wing who are LEAKING to the hostile, left-wing media about President Trump’s confidential and private meetings in the Oval Office,” Loomer wrote on X Thursday. “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.”
“Out of respect for President @realDonaldTrump and the privacy of the Oval Office, I’m going to decline on divulging any details about my Oval Office meeting with President Trump. 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.”
Loomer noted in a podcast she does indeed have receipts on anti-Trumpers and Trump loyalists.
The latest firings come as Loomer was credited last week with affecting the termination of “Biden holdover” assistant U.S. attorney Adam Schleifer, “less than two hours after she called him a ‘Trump hater,’ who should be fired on social media,” according to the New York Times.
If Loomer really did inspire Trump to get rid of neocon war hawk Biden, Bush or Obama holdovers, though, is that really a bad thing?
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