How Loomer expects to protect Trump isn’t clear, given that she is barred from owning a firearm anywhere in the United States. In fundraising emails, Laura Loomer tells her fans that she has been targeted by the FBI for political persecution. They’ve blacklisted her from owning a gun, she says, which threatens her physical safety.
But Loomer’s account misses out a critical detail: It’s not her politics, but rather her fragile mental state that prompted the Bureau to block her from possessing a firearm. Far from singling her out, the FBI has bent over backwards to gently explain to Loomer why she is not a fit person to own a gun. For instance, a letter they sent her in 2020, in response to her appeal, delicately cited the two involuntary psychiatric holds her own father, Jeff Loomer, had placed her under in the prior half-decade. I know because I’ve seen the letter they sent her in response to her appeal. I have a copy of it in my safe in Los Angeles.

And I know because Jeff, at first reluctant to speak with me, but eventually, once again fearing for his daughter’s mental health this week, confirmed it by telephone on Friday. Jeff, evidently frightened of his daughter, spoke in hushed tones about her emotional volatility and admitted she had attempted suicide several times. “I wouldn’t allow her a gun,” he admitted.

Laura Loomer has been diagnosed at various times and by various doctors as suffering from bipolar disorder, histrionic personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, and narcissistic personality disorder. Loomer’s mother, whom we are not naming today, is an alcoholic, manic depressive and suffers from bipolar disorder, in common with her daughter.
“I just remember the police were often at my home.” Loomer told The Spectator in 2019. “I grew up a very anxious, depressed kid. I had struggles with depression, so I would use politics as a kind of outlet to escape all the dysfunction of my life.”
“I had really bad anxiety and depression, and then I started to basically deal with the depression by doing cocaine. I was never a drug user before, but I was using cocaine to kind of deal with it.
“There were phases when I wouldn’t sleep for three days straight, and one morning I woke up and drove myself to a cliff, and it was cold and kind of snowy outside. It was February. I tried to kill myself… like, legitimately tried to kill myself.”

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Years earlier, James O’Keefe had taken Loomer out of the field during her employment at Project Veritas until she got back on her medication. O'Keefe declined to comment for this story, possibly because, according to two people who worked with Loomer between 2021 and 2023, Laura claims she secretly filmed the pair of them having sex, and says she threatened O’Keefe that she would release the tape if he ever talked about her publicly.In order for Loomer to run for office, her general consultant required that she regularly see a psychiatrist, and that she stay on every medication prescribed to her. She didn’t. Eight days out from the election in 2020, Loomer–after being confronted about sexually assaulting a young male campaign volunteer–called advisor Roger Stone, and told him she had driven past the retailer Lowe’s several times, mulling over the purchase of rope with which to hang herself.