Images of Loomer not being affiliated with the Trump campaign:

Laura Loomer getting off Trump’s plane at a campaign stop, not being affiliated with the campaign:

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    4 days ago

    Let’s assume that she isn’t, being generous and disregarding OP’s photos for a moment.

    If both Trump and Vance are echoing this “pet-eating” stuff that she has said, it doesn’t really matter whether she’s affiliated or not, does it? The campaign is about putting two people – Trump and Vance – in office. Any formal affiliation that Loomer has is only meaningful insofar as it affects what Trump or Vance (or, I guess, the Trump-Vance campaign) is doing. And it really does seem that what she’s doing is affecting all three. Or that she’s drawing from campaign planners via a backchannel, which is again functionally equivalent to being formally-affiliated with the campaign in terms of what anyone would care about.

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      3 days ago

      Why is it an issue that she is affiliated with Trump?

      If anything, this is a great development for Democrats. Loomer is incompetent. So we should hope that Trump is listening to her

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    “Loomer is not affiliated with games, playing games and/or wanting to play games. She has never owned a tricycle and she wouldn’t even know how to operate one if given the opportunity.”

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    Some people will sincerely believe Vance, and then be offended that Democrats think they’re stupid.

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    I hate trump as much as the next guy but I have to wonder whether it’s appropriate to editorialise posts like this?

    Like linking to an article, and then providing a rebuttal in the post body. I mean it’s funny as hell in this case, but would it be more appropriate as a comment?

    Mad respect to flyingsquid, prolific poster, commenter, and active mod. No rules being broken of course. I’m just concerned it might not be the right practice for a news community.

    If it were a conservative perspective with MAGA editorial I sure wouldn’t appreciate it.

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      I don’t feel like I was editorializing apart from being sarcastic. I was showing that it was a complete lie. Fact-checking is not editorializing.

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          I’m sorry you don’t like it that Laura Loomer is, in fact, part of Trump’s campaign, but it’s still a fact.

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            You’ve misunderstood my concern.

            I despise Trump and this vapid weirdo.

            I suspect that if a MAGA idiot was posting in this way users would be quick to point out that it’s not appropriate for a news community.

            That said, I don’t want to make a big deal out of it. Do what you like.

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    JD Vance is not affiliated with any semblance of objective truth and reality. Most of us have Internet access buddy, you can’t gaslight this kinda stuff away

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    “Look, Laura Loomer is not affiliated with the Trump campaign. She said something about curry in the White House that I first read about this morning actually, because I knew that you would ask me about it…” [emphasis my own]

    These guys are terrible liars. Between him and Trump, they sound like they have no idea what is going on.

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    “If I have to create stories so that the American media actually has to pay attention to the suffering of American people, then that’s what I’m going to do,”

    • Jack Dick Vance, a U.S. Senator representing Ohio.