Right-wing influencer Laura Loomer announced she is taking a “brief hiatus” from her Loomer Unleashed podcast just hours after a Trump administration adviser exposed her for being paid to post some of her manic, hateful content.
It all started on Thursday, when Alex Bruesewitz, who is behind much of Trump’s digital media strategy, took aim at conservative social media influencers following the GOP’s massive midterm election loss.
“Believe it or not attacking Democrats over their relationships with a streamer (Hasan Piker) wasn’t an effective hit,” Bruesewitz posted, not mentioning Loomer by name. “GOP candidates probably shouldn’t take messaging advice from fringe right-wing ‘influencers’ moving forward.”
Loomer took the bait.
“But they should take their advice and meetings with @TuckerCarlson instead?… It’s completely reasonable for people to be appalled with Democrat candidates campaigning with a guy who said America deserved 9/11. Hasan Piker regularly makes comments in support of jihadi groups,” she wrote. “What wasn’t helpful was your friend Tucker Carlson essentially endorsing Abdul El-Sayed over Mike Rogers and using his show to tell people to not support Rogers just a few weeks out from an election. But we all know you will never condemn your buddy Tucker.”
“Laura, you are basically the Republican version of Hasan Piker. Democrats over the years have attacked Republicans for affiliating with you. Those weren’t effective hits either,” Bruesewitz replied. “Voters simply don’t care enough about ‘influencers’ or streamers. lol”
Loomer took offense to that, claiming that she was not an influencer and criticizing Bruesewitz for his association with Omeed Malik, a conservative venture capitalist and major Republican donor.
“I’m a journalist and an opposition researcher Alex. What are you? What is it that you do for Omeed Malik exactly? He’s a Muslim right? Half Iranian and half Pakistani if I’m not mistaken,” Loomer fired back. “Is that why you have such an issue with the things I say about Islam?”
“Okay lol. But is it common for journalists to get paid for their opinions and tweets?”
“You say ‘Okay lol.’ Not sure why you are laughing. I recall last year your company X strategies reached out to me asking me for help. Do you deny that? What is so funny? I guess I don’t get the joke,” Loomer said, admitting that she was indeed paid to tweet. “You loved sharing my journalistic reports during the 2023/2024 DeSantis-Trump primary too. What changed?”
“No I don’t deny that. I’ve paid you for tweets before. I haven’t for at least a year though,” Bruesewitz wrote back. “I also know you still get paid by others for tweets so I do think it’s fair to refer to you as an ‘influencer.’ What percentage of your tweets are paid for?”
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Hours later, Loomer announced a “one to two month show hiatus.”
This smells like Stephen Miller cleaning house and purging enemies now he’s chief of staff. I think he wants to strictly control the information that is getting to Trump, and Loomer was a threat to that control.
The author of project 2025 is a sneaky backstabbing bastard? I’m shocked. Shocked.
This smells like Stephen Miller cleaning house and purging enemies now he’s chief of staff.
Very funny to imagine Miller coming through the White House like Georgy Zhukov in Death of Stalin, but the person he’s coming for is Loomer.
Lol amazing.
I love his reply, “no I dont deny that. Ive paid you for tweets before” 🫳🎤
God I can’t get enough of American politics. If it wasn’t so terrifying it would be the greatest show on earth.
I feel our politicians are way too canny. They work against us very slowly and subtly, helping us all along, but gradually moving the commons into the sphere of private property until I suppose we’ll have nothing left.
Maybe we’re just in the earlier stages of the frogboil.
Love to see these people crashing out. It nourishes my weary soul.
She could use more filler.
Is she like pinocchio, except every time she lies her chin gets bigger?
Better to go after her nose, it’s a clear issue for her, considering her nose job. She had it cut down, now it’s growing bigger every time she opens her mouth. Maybe she’ll go full Michael Jackson with it.
No one should hold back with these assholes, they don’t deserve kid gloves. She chases the spotlight, so say whatever you want. Bully these cunts at will, it’s akin to punching fascists.
These women-like people benefit from chaos, instability, and polarization. Twitter-like platforms incentivize and reward engagement regardless of misinformation or propaganda
“I’m getting married, and I want to give this exciting part of my life the time that it deserves, as I’ve spent a lot of time fighting for our country, and for President Trump—sometimes at the expense of my own personal life,” she said.
Imagine marrying someone who clearly blew Trump.
Him: You are getting herpes in my chlamydia. Her: You are getting chlamydia in my herpes.
She’s doing the classic tit press. On a pus filled sausage skin.
make it permanent
Another paid actor gone.
Hardly. She’s “on vacation”. She’s be back, and in greater numbers.
She should start a wrestling team with the DELL lady.
You’re a yatus!
Eat each other. Do it.
I thonk it should be illegal to push someone else’s message without an explicit and obvious disclaimer.
Beyond that I think it is shameful and embarrassing. Anyone who posts other people’s opinions or propaganda as their own for money should feel like a piece of shit, because that’s what you are.
The FCC already has rules that influencers must disclose they were paid to endorse a product. That why you see those “#ad” tags in YouTube videos or whatever. It’s kinda crazy that it doesn’t extend to political influencers.
It does still impact political influencers, just not in the desired way since the content itself nor the group it’s endorsing aren’t a product per se. They should close that loophole.
I thonk
Derp.
Yu dun thunked?
Apparently I didn’t thonk very hard
Thank.
Why use many word, when few word do trick?
Thenk again
Thönked
Bröther. May I have some thöughts?
There used to be a law against using federal funds to spread political propaganda domestically, but it was abolished some time in the past few years.
Hey, I heard we control both houses now. Hmm.
I thonk it should be illegal to push someone else’s message without an explicit and obvious disclaimer.
Representing it as your own message when someone else wrote it, OK. Otherwise it steps on free speech far too much.
It’s not free speech if you get paid to say it.
I think that’s what they actually said.
The listeners should have a right to know whose message they are hearing. It’s a civil issue - I think any laws should have fines and required communication fixes, not any criminal charges or jail time - but allowing fake grass roots movements that are actually collaborations between billionaires and grifters is harmful to civil society.
One stopped and admitted he did it. The other doubled down.
Hasan is still doing it. Loomer took a break. She’ll be back too. It’s just a fucking grift for all of them.
Fortunately, I read the article and know it’s not about Piker.
No it’s about Loomer. And all of the other grifters. But it’s also about Piker because it’s the same bullshit.
I mean, journalists, newscasters and any other media organization about news are being paid to say what they’re told. We all know that, but I don’t think it makes a difference. The 1% decides what most of us hear.
I think there is an extremely big difference in how I view a message coming from someone who believes what they are saying, and someone who i know is getting paid to push a message.
I will actually attempt to process and debate someone’s honest opinion. A paid shill? You know its disingenuous so why even waste your time on it.
TIL Laura Loomer thinks she’s a journalist.
They all think they’re journalists unless they’re being sued, then suddenly they’re commentators or entertainers.
I feel so seen lol
You were sued for something you wrote in your capacity as a journalist and then tried to evade consequences by claiming you’re just an entertainer?
More called out than sued, it’s like the shitposter’s “just a prank” :p
Aha. Yeah I thought that was weirdly specific, like, I’d wanna hear that story hahaha. Np. :)
I’m a journalist and an opposition researcher Alex
Hahaha. Oh wait, you’re serious, let me laugh even harder:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
An “opposition” researcher who litteraly blows the potus? It’s also so funny seing maga blaming the deep state.
Holy shit, that is delusion cranked up to 11 and tearing off the knob.
