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Conspiracy theorist said to have been key promoter of false rumour about immigrants ex-president repeated in debate

Republicans are blaming the influence of Laura Loomer, a rightwing conspiracy theorist, for this week’s botched debate performance by Donald Trump, which included the former president repeating a bizarre and unfounded claim that pet cats and dogs were being eaten by Haitian immigrants.

Loomer flew with Trump on his private plane to Tuesday’s debate in Philadelphia and has been identified as a key promoter of the pets rumour, which has been dismissed as false by authorities in Springfield, Ohio, where the practice was alleged to have been taking place.

Loomer, who styles herself as an “investigative journalist”, last year promoted a conspiracy theory alleging that 9/11 was an”inside job”. On Wednesday she posted an unfounded allegation that Harris had worn earphones disguised as earrings during the debate.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ah good, they found a woman to blame

[–] RagingSnarkasm 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Has anyone seen my lost shaker of salt?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Head on home and get that heel looked at.

[–] Burn_The_Right 31 points 6 days ago

So they admit he is easily fooled and is not a critical thinker?

[–] 2ugly2live 32 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Okay, and?

Trump still said that shit. If Walz went to Harris and said, "The radical right is injecting holy water in babies' eyes so they can see the lord" and she just said that shit without checking, I'd be looking at her sideways too. He went to a national debate and sputtered out nonsense that he didn't verify or even question. That shit's on him.

[–] captainlezbian 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And it’s not Walz to compare that to. It’s more like if Natalie Wynn or another bread tuber did it. There’s a level of assumed trust between vp candidate and presidential candidate that this completely lacks (and this still would violate it). This lady is just some low level pundit calling herself a journalist

[–] qarbone 4 points 6 days ago

I think the connection is that it became a talking point because Vance brought it up. While it's likely he doesn't listen to Vance unless it's filtered through an LCD, I think the comparison is pretty apt

[–] Gumbyyy 24 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Maybe they should actually - hear me out here - blame, I dunno, Donald Trump for what comes out of Donald Trump's mouth? Rather than whatever idiot planted the most recent brain-dead conspiracy theory into his head? There will always be more idiots with brain-dead conspiracy theories, so maybe, just maybe, your candidate for President of the United States shouldn't be a complete moron who falls for every single one of them?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

Their constituents also always fall for these brain dead conspiracy theories.
Because Trump said it and is being mocked for it they are currently falling over themselves to prove that it's real. Anything that looks like evidence proves it is true, any lack of evidence proves the Liberal Deep State is hiding it.

[–] aesthelete 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I too don't understand why everyone around him is just OK with the idea of the guy being a completely responsibility-free empty vessel.

It seems that once again they want to absolve this...former president of all responsibilities, but him being responsible for what comes out of his donkey-brained mouth is the lowest possible bar of accountability before the bar clangs to the floor.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

They love that about him because he can be manipulated to do anything they want. They just get upset when other people do it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is another sign of weakness and his unfitness for presidency. What's Trump for a president if he cannot stand and take responsibility for his own utterings?

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Republicans are blaming the influence of Laura Loomer, a rightwing conspiracy theorist, for this week’s botched debate performance by Donald Trump

Mmmhmm.

If that's the case, no doubt Mr. Trump will desire to get rid of Loomer and then take on Harris in a second debate without that damaging baggage hanging around.

[–] TheHotze 20 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I wanted to make a joke about Trumps campaign admitting that he believes anything the people around say, but then I remembered the goat dewormer and injecting bleach claims and it's not funny anymore.

[–] captainlezbian 16 points 6 days ago

Charge her with incitement for every crime against these people. This is such a heinous thing to do.

And if you want proof that American Christianity is a tribal identity not a belief in the gospels it’s the fact that it’s the people demanding this be a Christian nation terrorizing these refugees who happen to be predominately Christian

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

I can see how an unrepentant compulsive liar would want to style themselves as an "investigative journalist".

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

He's just flying vapid bimbos around now?

[–] dyathinkhesaurus 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] captainlezbian 3 points 6 days ago

Yeah I’m pretty sure that was a big part of his schtick in the 80s and 90s

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

What about his comments on windmills, Mexican people, immigrants, the central park 5, soldiers, disable people... Fuck this POS doesn't nerd help being a shit person. His domain expansion is being the worse person you ever met.

[–] Mobiledecay 8 points 6 days ago

They're eating the dogs! 🤣🤣🤣

[–] lennybird 6 points 6 days ago

Is Loony Loomer another Russian ~~asset~~ asshat? Hmm...

[–] nifty 8 points 6 days ago (18 children)

So they fixed the electoral college, and they know victory is all but certain. That’s why they came up with the most cruel and despicable lie so that when Trump wins, despite losing the debate, progressives and leftists and sane people will be heartbroken and soul shattered.

This is how you know the electoral college is fixed, they have no fear of repercussions

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Oh is that why she "snapped" so hard on twitter/x and MTG "reprimanded" her? It was obviously staged to have a fallgirl.

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