Vera Bergen-Gruen
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50 appearances
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1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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Laura Loomer is a far-right Internet personality. She kind of defies characterization, to be honest.
She's only 31, which seems to surprise a lot of people because she's been around for a long time. And she's from Arizona and kind of has built a whole career ever since she graduated from college out of being Donald Trump's hatchet woman on the internet and doing these publicity stunts and these kind of shock tactics against anyone she thinks is this loyal to President Trump.
Exactly. And it's clear she's always been this way. She's not someone who necessarily picked it up recently from once these things became popular, right? But she seems to be a big fan of, you know, Project Veritas, you know, which is another kind of right-wing stunt outfit, for lack of a better word.
But she basically loves to do these very public things things that she films on video. For example, she tried to vote wearing a burqa under the name Huma Abedin, who was Hillary Clinton's aide in 2016, to make a point about voter fraud. And these things always push very much towards offensive and towards, you know, just really attention-calling.
She disrupted a production of Julius Caesar in 2017 in Central Park.
She's chained herself to, you know, the doors of Twitter's headquarters.
She's appeared at politicians' homes. And all of this is just always recorded and promoted and posted on social media. And none of it's ever quite cohesive. It's not always necessarily very smart, but it's very attention-calling because she's trying to make a point.
So apparently, you know, she was always a huge Trump fan. And she, at some point, just must have gotten onto his radar, as sometimes his very vocal supporters on social media do. And she seems to just have, you know, over and over again tried to, you know, she bought tickets to his golf tournaments. She was trying to put herself in his orbit.
And I don't think it's actually quite clear when they first really met. But at one point, it seemed to work when she started appearing next to him in the next last couple of years. So at one point, she appeared in a video with him at Bedminster at his golf course in New Jersey.
And he, you know, does the Trump thing where he says, you know, she's a great person. Great to have you. And you've been really very special. You work hard. She loves me. She's so complimentary towards me. You are a very opinionated lady. I have to tell you that. And in my opinion, I like that.
And, you know, he seemed to be aware that she was pretty fringe, even for some of the people who sometimes tend to be in his orbit when it comes to the far right. But he still seemed willing to let her in. And then she increasingly appeared around him during the last election.
So that's one of the really interesting things about her as a character is that she's quite transparent in many ways. She on social media, she posts these very long rants, especially now that you're allowed to, you know, basically go on forever. And she kind of seems to be very stream of consciousness. And she will just say very bluntly, she said this again a few days ago.
She very bluntly will say, I know better than anyone else who is actually loyal to President Trump and to his agenda and who is kind of a poser or who is kind of a deep state enemy.
And she says that she's vetting these people. And this kind of became a thing of hers during the last election. She said she was vetting, you know, who was the most MAGA of them all, right? You know, she was going into their employment histories, all of their previous statements, things they had liked, people they'd interacted with.
As far as I can tell, it's basically just using Google and Twitter the way most of us would do. She doesn't seem to be going much deeper. But she's kind of refashioned herself as somebody who's vetting people around the president and warning him if she thinks someone's not on his side. And she tends to post, quote unquote, receipts all over the Internet when she finds these people.
She definitely falls on the fringiest of the fringe, I would say. And you can tell because you've had a lot of people who themselves have been labeled as fringe, like Marjorie Taylor Greene and some others who say that she's crazy and who say that, you know, they are kind of on the more conservative end.
And, you know, she said she was being unfairly targeted because she was a conservative. But because she has this, she likes to be kind of offensive and, you know, really speak in pretty shocking terms about conspiracies, you know, 9-11 was an inside job, kind of trading these kind of things back and forth.
She's, you know, she's relegated to the very fringes because it's not only things that are necessarily related to President Trump. It's a particular worldview that that she's really not shy about putting all over the Internet.
I think what's important to remember is that it would have made headlines even if she had just sat with him in the Oval Office. That would have been shocking enough for a lot of people that someone like her, who, again, is pretty toxic, even in the far right circles, would have made her way into the Oval Office and gotten a sit down with President Trump.
But on top of that, we find out that she walked in with a folder with over a dozen people. She said were part of the administration that weren't loyal enough to him, that were somehow enemies to his agenda. And after she walked out, some of them were fired.
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