The staff of the National Security Council dismissed after Trump met the far -right activist Laura Loomer: Sources
The White House pulled a handful of staff members of the National Security Council after a meeting on Wednesday with the far -right political activist, Laura Loomer, who made recommendations to President Donald Trump on whom he should dismiss, said familiar sources with the ABC News affair.
Loomer met Trump on Wednesday, shortly before his pricing announcement in the Rose Garden, the sources said. Trump chief of staff, Susie Wiles, vice-president JD Vance and staff chief Sergio Gor were involved in the meeting. The representative Scott Perry was also present, but he had to meet Trump on a variety of different subjects, added the sources.
“The NSC does not comment on staff ‘questions,” said NSC spokesperson Brian Hughes, in a statement.
The New York Times was the first to report on Trump’s meeting with Loomer.
“Out of respect for President Trump and the private life of the Oval Office, I will refuse to disclose all the details of my meeting of the Oval Office with President Trump. It was an honor to meet President Trump and present my research results to him, I will continue to work hard to support his agenda, and I will continue to repeat the importance of the strong complicity, to protect the president and our national security,” Lomer told ABC News.
Laura Loomer photographed in the villages, in Florida.
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The loomer frequently distributed the disinformation. In July, she falsely said in a position of social media that President Joe Biden had a medical emergency after landing at the joint base Andrews – a complaint for which there was no evidence.
She had also launched baseless allegations concerning the members of the family of judge Juan Merchan in the Monetary case of New York Hush of Trump, including her daughter published a false photo of Trump in prison on social networks, which the court denied. It prompted Trump to share Loomer’s messages and spread rumors.
Loomer accompanied Trump to several campaign events last fall – a decision that caused criticism of certain Republicans at the time.
Although it is not clear if one of the recent layoffs is directly linked to the National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and to the use by its staff of the messaging application, to be reported to communicate on sensitive subjects, it arrives because Waltz had to defend themselves in private and its staff to the president and other senior executives in the White House.
The day after the inauguration, the Trump administration served more than 150 NSC staff because the new administration wanted to ensure that the NSC objectives aligned with Trump’s agenda. The dismissal of non-political employees, which generally serve two-year stays on the Council, left the NSC in an under-effective and lacking experts in the matter of the whole government.
