Terry Gross

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So you learn a bit about her childhood and what her early life was like.

Her parents were Republicans.

Were they active in politics?

Loomer told you that she has a brother who has schizophrenia and at age 12 that her father enrolled Loomer and her other brother in boarding school because their parents were afraid that home could be an unsafe environment.

Was that because of her brother's mental health problems?

Do you know what made home unsafe?

So we know that Laura Loomer was asked to seek therapy, like mental health therapy.

In 2020, Karen Giorno, who was a Trump advisor who had led Trump's Florida operations through the 2015 primary, she was tapped to run a congressional campaign for Loomer.

And she accepted, Giorno accepted, under the conditions that

Loomer agree not to lie about other candidates, meet with a psychiatrist once a quarter and stay on her meds.

What do you know about that?

Project Veritas was famous for people going undercover wearing disguises and falsely representing who they were, videoing with hidden cameras responses to the Project Veritas questions.

then taking them sometimes out of context and spreading them online to get those people in trouble, to get the organizations in trouble.

And there were organizations that were liberal or supported abortion.

I think Planned Parenthood was one of those organizations, right?

So after a successful stunt for Project Veritas, she takes a Veritas camera and uses it to troll her own college by talking to administrators and suggesting that the college start an ISIS club, which is sympathetic students in support of the Islamic State.

Tell us more about that stunt and what the outcome was.

Well, let me introduce you again.