Antonia Hitchens

And she's reposted his content.

He's reposted her content from time to time.

But for me, it was just really interesting that an almost decades-long sense of

So I think this carries on until even today when you hear that, you know, Loomer is despised by everyone in the West Wing except for the president in the Oval Office.

That starts out even before the Straub offer when in 2022, around the time of her race, you know, she's

getting in fights at Mar-a-Lago.

She's alienating other Trump-backed candidates.

She's saying that the Republican Party needs a hostile takeover.

She's not willing to make nice with any of the kind of coalition builders who are needed to be brought into this America First movement to bring them to actual electoral victory.

And so I think she's seen as this really toxic kind of dead weight around the neck of the party that

Yeah, absolutely.

This second administration, I think, to many, loyalty would be described as kind of competence and falling in line and not speaking out against the president because they feel that the first term was so stymied by these kind of wars happening in the open between different factions and leaks and...

sort of general turmoil.

So the most loyal allies Trump has, you know, if you think of Susie Wiles, is just, as he calls her, the ice queen, basically.

In Loomer's conception of loyalty, loyalty means it's like a different kind of love almost, like even to call out someone who you love to tell them in public that they've failed you.

increasingly Loomer feels completely free to criticize Trump, the object of her greatest affection, to tell him, you know, you shouldn't have the Syrian president at the White House.

When you make a post about radical Islam, you don't have to use the word radical.

She's almost taken to, like, she has more expertise somehow than

than even the person she most cares for.

And I think that's what in many corners of Washington has really led to her being seen as a liability because she feels willing in a climate where there's meant to be no dissent against the president.