In a Fact Social put up, Donald Trump stated that Laura Loomer does not work for the Marketing campaign.
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Donald Trump has defended his ties with Laura Loomer, who has drawn hearth from a few of his Republican allies for embracing conspiracy theories and making racist feedback, together with towards Kamala Harris.
“Laura has been a supporter of mine. Similar to lots of people are supporters, and she or he’s been a supporter of mine. She speaks very positively of the marketing campaign,” Trump, the previous president, stated on Friday at a information convention in Southern California.
He was responding to a query from a reporter about his allies expressing concern about his shut relationship with Loomer in latest days.
“I do not management Laura. Laura – she’s a free spirit. Nicely, I do not know. I imply, look, I can not inform Laura what to do,” Trump stated.
 “She is a powerful particular person, she’s acquired robust opinions, and I do not know what she stated, however that is lower than me,” he added.
A number of of Loomer’s posts on social media this week got here underneath hearth, together with one the place she nodded to a conspiracy principle concerning the 9/11 assaults.
“23 years later, and there is nonetheless plenty of unanswered questions,” Loomer posted on Friday, alongside a video of Trump in 2001 questioning whether or not aeroplanes might trigger explosions like those that occurred on the Twin Towers on 9/11,” Loomer wrote.
Loomer, usually seen as a right-wing conspiracy theorist, in one other put up on Sunday, stated the “White Home will scent like curry & White Home speeches might be facilitated through a name centre” if Harris wins the November 5 presidential election.
Harris, a Democrat, will tackle Trump within the November election.
NBC Information requested Trump whether or not he’d been knowledgeable of Loomer’s conspiracy theories.
“I do not know that a lot about it. No, I do not,” he stated, including, “I do know she’s an enormous fan of the marketing campaign, however I actually do not know.” Trump later sought to distance himself from Loomer’s statements, although with out specifying which of them.
In a Fact Social put up, Trump stated that Loomer “does not work for the Marketing campaign. She’s a personal citizen and longtime supporter. ” Even in that put up, Trump defended Loomer and stated: “Like the various tens of millions of people that assist me, she is uninterested in watching the Radical Left Marxists and Fascists violently assault and smear me.” A number of Republicans denounced Loomer for her remarks.
Republican Senator Thom Tillis stated Loomer was a “loopy conspiracy theorist who repeatedly utters disgusting rubbish supposed to divide Republicans”.
“The historical past of statements by Ms. Loomer are past disturbing,” Senator Lindsey Graham, additionally a Republican instructed The Washington Submit on Thursday.
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