Conspiracy Theorist Laura Loomer Gets NSA Director Fired After Meeting With Trump

Gen. Timothy Haugh was fired Thursday arsenic caput of the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command, on with NSA lawman manager Wendy Noble, successful a daze determination that’s befuddling nationalist information experts. Far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer was seemingly down the dismissals aft she presented President Donald Trump with what she called “vetting materials” astir radical who are disloyal to the president.

Loomer appeared to instrumentality recognition for the firings connected the societal media level X precocious Thursday, which came not agelong aft 3 different elder members of the National Security Council were besides fired astatine the behest of the 31-year-old online influencer.

“NSA Director Tim Haugh and his lawman Wendy Noble person been disloyal to President Trump. That is wherefore they person been fired,” Loomer tweeted. “As a Biden appointee, General Haugh had nary spot serving successful the Trump admin fixed the information that helium was HAND PICKED by General Milley, who was accused of committing treason by President Trump. Why would we privation an NSA Director who was referred to Biden aft being manus selected by Milley, who told China helium would broadside with them implicit Trump!?!”

Trump suggested successful a Truth Social station in 2023 that Milley should beryllium executed for “treason,” aft reports surfaced that helium had communicated with Chinese leaders successful 2021 aft China had received quality the U.S. was readying to onslaught the country. Milley was reassuring Chinese officials the U.S. was not readying to attack, arsenic helium would aboriginal testify to Congress, simply to de-escalate the situation. But Trump stripped Milley of his information item and information clearance astir a week aft being inaugurated connected Jan. 20, 2025.

NSA Director Haugh’s relation with Milley intelligibly upset Loomer, who has been unusually adjacent to Trump ever since she was archetypal spotted flying successful Air Force One to be a statesmanlike statement successful Sept. 2024 and adjacent going to a 9/11 memorial ceremonial with Trump. Loomer has antecedently said that 9/11 was an “inside job.”

The 3 NSC members that Loomer got fired see Brian Walsh, a manager for intelligence, Thomas Boodry, a manager for legislative affairs, and David Feith, a manager for exertion and nationalist security, according to the Associated Press. Trump confirmed Loomer was progressive successful the dismissals portion talking to reporters Thursday connected Air Force One, saying “she makes recommendations […] and sometimes I perceive to those recommendations,” according to Axios. The president hasn’t publically commented connected the firing of the NSA manager and lawman director.

Loomer has touted her bans from major online services similar PayPal, TeeSpring, and Instagram arsenic points of pride. The far-right influencer was besides banned from the ride-hailing app Uber successful 2018 aft saying that she didn’t privation Muslim drivers to prime her up. Loomer has repeatedly dispersed egregiously mendacious quality items, though it’s unclear if she knows they’re incorrect erstwhile she shares them. It’s wholly plausible that “tipsters” provender her bullshit accusation conscionable to messiness with her and she repeats them credulously.

As conscionable 1 example, Loomer said that an detonation adjacent the U.S.-Canada borderline successful Nov. 2023 was a effect of “jihad” terrorists who were coming from Canada connected their mode to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade successful New York. “STAY OUT OF NEW YORK CITY! AMERICA IS UNDER ATTACK BY ISLAMISTS AGAIN!” Loomer wrote successful a tweet that’s still up. Loomer claimed to person immoderate benignant of root astatine the FBI, but it’s hard to archer whether that’s true. However, it’s overmuch much believable now, since conspiracy theorist Kash Patel is virtually starring the FBI.

JUST IN:

🚨JIHAD PLOT IN NYC! GET OUT! 🚨

The FBI is suspecting that the Car Bomb Explosion TERRORIST ATTACK astatine the Rainbow Bridge US-Canada borderline successful Niagara Falls could person been heading straight to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade successful NEW YORK CITY. FBI and NYPD connected extreme… https://t.co/EQ4oGdG7md

— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) November 22, 2023

In reality, the car contained 2 Americans going into Canada with nary transportation to violent enactment and the detonation was a effect of either a aesculapian occurrence oregon a mechanical contented with the car, according to authorities at the time.

Loomer has repeated countless lies implicit the years and was banned from Twitter backmost successful 2018, prompting her to concatenation herself to the beforehand doorway of an bureau wherever immoderate Twitter employees worked. The far-right fig got her relationship backmost aft Elon Musk bought the level successful 2022. Other extremists similar Alex Jones and Nick Fuentes were besides allowed backmost connected the platform.

Loomer has sued HBO big Bill Maher for defamation aft the comedian suggested connected his Sept. 13, 2024, amusement that she mightiness beryllium successful “an arranged relationship” with Trump.

“She’s 31, looks similar his type. We did an editorial present a fewer years agone … it was basically, who’s Trump f***ing?” Maher said, according to the tribunal filing obtained by the Hollywood Reporter. “Because, I said, you know, it’s not nobody. He’s been a canine for excessively long, and it’s not Melania. I deliberation we whitethorn person our reply this week. I deliberation it mightiness beryllium Laura Loomer.”

Loomer wrote connected X Friday that radical who spell retired of their mode to “assassinate my quality and disrespect President Trump,” on with the president’s woman Melania, volition beryllium “held accountable.”

“Bill Maher volition beryllium held accountable contiguous for his egregious defamation of me,” Loomer wrote connected X Friday. “I americium a nonrecreational pistillate and I won’t tolerate Bill Maher falsely accusing maine of having an matter oregon committing adultery simply due to the fact that helium doesn’t similar the information that President Trump invited maine to the Presidential statement arsenic his guest.”

Gen. Timothy Haugh, Commander of U.S. Cyber Command and Director of National Security Agency, gives his opening remarks for the U.S. Cyber Command Legal Conference astatine Joint Base Andrews, MD connected August 9, 2024. © DVIDS / Skyler Wilson

Trump has systematically tried to purge the national authorities of anyone seen arsenic disloyal, an wholly expected crook of events fixed the president’s fascist ideology. But it is simply a spot surreal to spot immoderate random far-right fig with perfectly nary qualifications nonstop the firings of astatine slightest 5 apical information officials. Even immoderate accepted Trump allies look stunned by the move. Rep. Don Bacon, a Republican from Nebraska tweeted Friday that Haugh had done “a superb job.”

“General Tim Haugh is an outstanding person and was doing a superb occupation astatine Cyber Command and National Security Agency. He was fired with nary nationalist explanation. This enactment sets backmost our Cyber and Signals Intelligence operations,” Bacon wrote.

Unfortunately, it seems similar it’s lone going to get weirder the longer Trump remains successful office. And with Trump suggesting helium could tally for a 3rd word (something that he’s not allowed to legally do), that clip successful bureau could perchance beryllium overmuch longer than different 4 years. Fascists truly don’t similar giving up power, arsenic the full satellite witnessed connected Jan. 20, 2021.