President Trump has fired six National Security Council staffers a day after meeting withfar-right troll and conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer.
Loomer — a 9/11 conspiracy theorist known for chaining herself to the doors of Twitter after losing her account — met with Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday, where according to The New York Times she reportedly presented the president with a list of individuals she deemed disloyal to the president and his agenda. Loomer reportedly bashed the employees on her shit list to the president in front of embattled National Security Adviser Michael Waltz, who defended them.
CNN reported that the terminated individuals include Director for Intelligence Brian Walsh, Senior Director for Legislative Affairs Thomas Boodry, and Senior Director David Feith. All six NSC staffers were on Loomer’s list of targets, according to CNN.
Loomer’s presence in the White House — especially on the day Trump unveiled a sweeping tariffs package — is surprising considering the pains the campaign took in the fall of 2024 to distance the president from the noxious conspiracy-monger. After Loomer appeared alongside Trump at an event commemorating 9/11 — which she once claimed was “an inside job” — MAGA insiders scrambled to dig a canyon between the two. Following the incident, CNN reported that Loomer had been instrumental in influencing some of Trump’s most insane statements during his 2024 campaign, including claims that Haitian migrants in Ohio were eating local pets, and unfounded accusations that former Vice President Kamala Harris was misrepresenting her Black and Indian heritage.
One Trump national security official says bluntly to Rolling Stone: “Too many people here have feared since the [presidential] transition Laura Loomer putting your name on one of her lists. It’s a possibility that is discussed way more than I’d like. …She’s not even on staff and calling more shots than some actual officials.”
Waltz’s office being in Loomer’s comes as the national security adviser is still trying to weather the fallout over revelations last month that he inadvertently added journalist Jeffrey Golberg to a Signal chat where high-ranking members of the Trump administration discussed sensitive attack plans against Yemen. On Wednesday, Politico reported that Waltz had, over the course of the first two months of the Trump administration, set up over 20 signal chats to discuss sensitive national security information. The Trump administration has tried to spin the national security scandal as no big deal.
In a statement to Rolling Stone on Thursday, Loomer said: “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.”
It’s unclear what kind of vetting Loomer presented to the president, but she has placed a call on her social media for tips regarding “any Biden Holdovers who are sabotaging directives of the Trump admin.”
“Are you sitting around wondering when the Biden holdovers will be removed from their positions so we can truly make America Great Again? Time to make them famous. DM me,” Loomer wrote Thursday, the day after her meeting with the president.
