Laura Loomer is now credentialed to cover the Pentagon [View all]

Source: Washington Post

Laura Loomer, the far-right political activist and former congressional candidate in Florida, has been credentialed to cover the Defense Department, according to one person familiar with the matter, joining a new cohort of right-wing media that have agreed to the Pentagon’s new press policy.

Loomer, 32, has forged a close alliance with President Donald Trump, routinely meeting with the president in the Oval Office during his second term. She has frustrated some in the administration with her proximity to Trump and public criticisms of high-ranking defense and national security officials who she argues are disloyal to Trump — some of whom have been dismissed soon after her rebukes.

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Loomer has built her semi-celebrity status online largely through feats of viral attention. Since 2017, when she was banned from Uber and Lyft for an online rant about “Islamic immigrant” drivers, she has styled herself as a free-speech warrior whom online platforms have unfairly mistreated and undermined.

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“I know she’s known as a ‘radical right,’ but I think Laura Loomer is a very nice person,” Trump told reporters in August. “… I think she’s a patriot, and she gets excited because of the fact she’s a patriot, and she doesn’t like things going on that she thinks are bad for the country. I like her.”

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