LEFT: Laura Loomer (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey) RIGHT: JD Vance (Press Association via AP Images)
Vice President JD Vance met one-on-one with conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer on Tuesday morning, according to CNN’s Alayna Treene, who dove into the story during an afternoon segment on the network.
“This is really interesting because the last time Laura Loomer, at least the last known time, I should say, that she was here at the White House, there were significant events that came after. One is she came to talk to President Donald Trump personally and essentially told him, urged him, really, to fire a number of people she deemed as disloyal. That included and ultimately ended up in the president firing a number of different people on the National Security Council, including the director and the deputy director of the NSA,” began Treene. “But this morning, we are learning now that Loomer came back to the White House and met one-on-one behind closed doors with Vice President JD Vance. Now, three of the sources we spoke with would not divulge what exactly they discussed in the substance of the meeting, but they confirmed that the two met privately.”
She continued:
She [Loomer] did not meet with President Donald Trump while she was here, and she’s now no longer here at the White House. But all to say, the reason it’s so important is because of the impact we’ve known that she’s continued to have. She obviously has a large following online. She’s someone who trades in conspiracies-, theories at time to time, and she’s also now come to have a big influence on this president. So newsworthy in and of itself that she was here today, and meeting directly with the vice president.
A diehard Trump fan who has called herself a white nationalist and celebrated the drowning deaths of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, Loomer also made headlines last fall after traveling with the president to his debate with former Vice President Kamala Harris.