Associated Press
Donald Trump refused on Friday to condemn recent racist and conspiratorial comments from right-wing provocateur Laura Loomer, who traveled with him earlier this week to Tuesday night’s presidential debate and several 9/11 memorial events.
“Laura’s been a supporter of mine,” Trump told reporters at a press conference near Los Angeles, where he was pressed on concerns from Republican allies about his ongoing association with Loomer, who once declared herself a “proud Islamophobe” and has a long history of promoting ugly and extreme conspiracies.
Trump said Loomer has “strong opinions,” but insisted at the news conference he was unaware of her recent comments, including a post on X in which she played on racist stereotypes by writing that “the White House will smell like curry & White House speeches will be facilitated via a call center” if his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, wins in November. Harris is the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants.
“I don’t control Laura. Laura has to say what she wants,” Trump said. “I can’t tell Laura what to do.”
Yet later, via his Truth Social account, Trump tried to distance himself more clearly from Loomer, saying, “I disagree with the statements she made” and describing her as “a private citizen and longtime supporter” who “doesn’t work for the Campaign.” Even in that post, though, Trump defended Loomer, writing that “like the many millions of people who support me, she is tired of watching the Radical Left Marxists and Fascists violently attack and smear me.”
After the backlash, Trump seemed frustrated in a later post on his social media network in which he lashed out at the news media, and he had more bluster than usual that night onstage at a rally in Las Vegas, frequently shouting.
Loomer’s appearances on the campaign trail with Trump have alarmed some top supporters, who have taken the rare move of publicly airing their concerns that he is hurting his chances against Harris, who is driving up Democratic enthusiasm that intensified with her debate performance Tuesday. Harris was campaigning Friday across Pennsylvania.
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Republished with permission of the Associated Press.
10 comments
PeterH
September 14, 2024 at 1:03 pm
Narcissist Trump spends 95% of his free time in front of a television screen fawning over the news.
Does anyone believe that Donald Trump doesn’t know exactly what Loomer has stated in the present or past?
Florida is so lucky to host all of these miserable dangerous deplorables.
He's no Norris
September 14, 2024 at 1:45 pm
Lying through his teeth as usual, which his followers adore. They think it proves he’s strong. Stronger than the truth. Reminds me of the old Chuck Norris jokes, like why doesn’t Chuck Norris have any clocks in his house? — because Chuck Norris decides what time it is.
And now Donald Trump decides what’s true and what isn’t: behold, his “Truth Social.”
THE SAGE ELVIS PITTS AMERICAN
September 14, 2024 at 1:22 pm
Good Afternoon America,
I, THE SAGE ELVIS PITTS AMERICAN, am trying to research if this Loomer is a HOT MlLF or not prior to issueing guidance on how to proceed with these, likely bogus Dook 4 Brains Leftist Alligations, relax your political sphincters as I, THE SAGE ELVIS PITTS AMERICAN, will get back to you soon with Sage Guidance,
THE SAGE ELVIS PITTS AMERICAN
A Day without MAGA
September 14, 2024 at 1:55 pm
You are insane in the membrane,insane in the Republican brain, crazy loco,got no brain
Tom
September 14, 2024 at 2:13 pm
Well trumpie has been ‘swift boated’ now so that hopefully the John Kerry effect will kick and that will be the end of him.
Michael K
September 14, 2024 at 4:04 pm
Trump believes the American people are stupid enough to fall for garbage racist lies. And so does Putin.
Michael K
September 14, 2024 at 4:06 pm
He said the same thing when KKK David Duke endorsed him back in 2015. And when he dined with white supremacist Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-lago.
How soon we forget.
Jojo
September 14, 2024 at 10:46 pm
Donald Trump is the biggest piece of crap in America. His stupid racist allegations against the Haitian community in Ohio is putting their lives and the lives of everyone in that community in danger.
And I’m sorry, but if you vote for this racist narcissist you’re even stupider that he is.
Yrral
September 15, 2024 at 10:49 am
Trump bring out the worst attribute in White people that support him,he has nothing to.offer them, but his personal White Supremacy Demonic vision of himself
Dont Say FLA
September 16, 2024 at 10:30 am
Laura Loomer brings something to the Turnip Truck, but I wouldn’t call it “controversy.” I would call it “just another turnip”
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