Laura Loomer
“ | "But look what I did with ZERO SOCIAL MEDIA and being blacklisted by all mainstream media
And a Wi***edia page that is full. of slander and defamation. Look what I did with zero help from anyone in the Republican Party. Look what I did with the GOP supporting big tech election interference in my race! Big tech and digital media play a huge role in communicating with voters. In good faith, I can’t continue fighting for a party that refuses to address big tech election interference and voter fraud. I can’t encourage all of you to keep fighting for a corrupt party that is complicit in blatant voter fraud while these frauds in our party keep lying on TV saying they are going to “fight for you” while they work to deprive you of free and fair elections. The GOP leadership is full of liars who are complicit in voter fraud. I refuse to support their corruption. The Republican Party doesn’t care about your vote enough to protect it in its entirety. they campaign against America First candidates like myself so they can continue their corruption and drive our country into the ground. Laura Loomer |
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Laura Elizabeth Loomer (born May 21, 1993[1]) is a jewish America-First and anti-Muslim political activist, fascist,[2][3][4][5][6][7] and internet personality. She was the Republican nominee to represent Florida's 21st congressional district in the 2020 United States House of Representatives elections, losing to Democrat Lois Frankel after the party abandoned her.[8][9]
Background
Loomer has worked as an activist and journalist for several organizations, including Project Veritas, a group known for producing secretly recorded and undercover audio and video investigations of media organizations and left-leaning groups.[10][11] She also briefly reported for the Canadian news website The Rebel Media in 2017, and has occasionally reported for the American news outlet InfoWars.[12][11]
Loomer gained notoriety as a result of being politically banned from numerous social media platforms, payment processors, vehicles for hire, and food delivery mobile apps for invented reasons, including "hate speech" and "spreading misinformation".[13][14][15][16] She has also been banned and removed from events, and had press credentials revoked.[16][17] After her 2018 ban from Twitter, she handcuffed herself to Twitter's headquarters in New York for two hours before police cut through the handcuffs.[7][18][19] Loomer was also banned from the March 2019 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) after attempting to heckle reporters and chasing them through the conference.[20]
References
- ↑ |last=Loomer|first=Laura|date=October 21, 2020|title=Laura Loomer on Parler|url=https://share.par.pw/profile/LauraLoomer/posts%7Curl-status=dead%7Carchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022034109/https://share.par.pw/profile/LauraLoomer/posts%7Carchive-date=October 21, 2020|access-date=October 21, 2020|website=Parler quote="I was born on May 21st.... I am 27 years old."
- ↑ Rohrlich, Justin (March 8, 2021). Audio:Anti-Muslim Activist Laura Loomer Backed Idea of 'White Ethnostate' in 2017 Podcast. The Daily Beast.
- ↑ last=Petrizzo|first=Zachary|date=March 8, 2021|title=Leaked Laura Loomer audio reveals she supports a 'white ethnostate'|work=The Daily Dot|url=https://www.dailydot.com/debug/leaked-laura-loomer-audio-white-ethnostate/%7Caccess-date=2022-08-23
- ↑ Cite web |last=Gais|first=Hannah|date=March 11, 2021 |title=Far-Right Extremists Gather in Florida for CPAC Spinoff Alongside Sitting Congressman|work=Southern Poverty Law Center |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021/03/11/Right-wing-extremists-gather-florida-cpac-spinoff-alongside-sitting-congressman%7Caccess-date=2022-08-23
- ↑ web|date=February 25, 2022|title=AFPAC III: The Groyper Army Seeks to Normalize White Nationalism|work=Anti-Defamation League|url=https://www.adl.org/blog/afpac-iii-the-groyper-army-seeks-to-normalize-white-nationalism%7Caccess-date=2022-08-23
- ↑ {{cite news|last=Leonard|first=Mike|date=April 13, 2020|title=Facebook Defends Decision to Ban Laura Loomer as Dangerous|work=Bloomberg Law|url=https://news.bloomberglaw.com/mergers-and-antitrust/facebook-defends-decision-to-ban-laura-loomer-as-dangerous%7Curl-status=live%7Caccess-date=May 16, 2020|archive-date=October 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020154859/https://news.bloomberglaw.com/mergers-and-antitrust/facebook-defends-decision-to-ban-laura-loomer-as-dangerous
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Cite web|last=Watson|first=Kathryn|date=August 18, 2020|title=Right-wing candidate Laura Loomer wins GOP primary for district that covers Mar-a-Lago|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/conspiracy-theorist-laura-loomer-wins-gop-primary-for-district-that-covers-mar-a-lago/%7Curl-status=live%7Carchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200819020554/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/conspiracy-theorist-laura-loomer-wins-gop-primary-for-district-that-covers-mar-a-lago/%7Carchive-date=August 19, 2020|access-date=August 19, 2020|website=CBS News|language=en-US
- ↑ Cite web|date=November 3, 2020|title=Democrat Lois Frankel wins reelection to U.S. House in Florida's 21st Congressional District|website=Associated Press|url=https://apnews.com/article/lois-frankel-florida-elections-c4b1aa4b2f244251ae6b1390b20916ce%7Curl-status=live%7Carchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201104011807/https://apnews.com/article/lois-frankel-florida-elections-c4b1aa4b2f244251ae6b1390b20916ce%7Carchive-date=November 4, 2020|access-date=November 3, 2020|agency=The Associated Press
- ↑ Cite web|last=Blake|first=Andrew|date=November 4, 2020|title=Laura Loomer, GOP candidate and activist, loses long-shot House campaign in Florida race|url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/nov/4/laura-loomer-gop-candidate-and-activist-loses-long/%7Caccess-date=November 4, 2020|website=The Washington Times|language=en-US
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- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Cite magazine|last=Marantz|first=Andrew|date=June 19, 2017|title=Behind the Scenes with the Right-Wing Activist Who Crashed "Julius Caesar"|url=http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/behind-the-scenes-with-the-right-wing-activist-who-crashed-julius-caesar-laura-loomer%7Curl-status=live%7Carchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170620030551/http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/behind-the-scenes-with-the-right-wing-activist-who-crashed-julius-caesar-laura-loomer%7Carchive-date=June 20, 2017|access-date=June 20, 2017|magazine=[[The New Yorker
- ↑ Cite web|last=Nover|first=Scott|date=November 9, 2018|title=The Legal Precedent That Could Protect Jim Acosta's Credentials|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/11/legality-revoking-jim-acostas-press-pass/575479/%7Curl-status=live%7Carchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200624123650/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/11/legality-revoking-jim-acostas-press-pass/575479/%7Carchive-date=June 24, 2020|access-date=August 19, 2020|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US
- ↑ cite news|last=Zhao|first=Christina|date=February 5, 2019|title=Paypal Bans Pro-Trump, Far-Right Activist Laura Loomer|work=Newsweek|url=https://www.newsweek.com/paypal-bans-pro-trump-anti-muslim-fanatic-laura-loomer-1319563%7Curl-status=live%7Caccess-date=May 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200507011206/https://www.newsweek.com/paypal-bans-pro-trump-anti-muslim-fanatic-laura-loomer-1319563%7Carchive-date=May 7, 2020
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- ↑ Cite news|last=Lorenz|first=Taylor|date=May 2, 2019|title=Instagram and Facebook Ban Far-Right Extremists|work=The Atlantic|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/05/instagram-and-facebook-ban-Right-wing-extremists/588607/%7Curl-status=live%7Caccess-date=May 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190503004014/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/05/instagram-and-facebook-ban-Right-wing-extremists/588607/%7Carchive-date=May 3, 2019
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- ↑ Cite news|last=Rozsa|first=Lori|date=August 17, 2020|title=An exotic dancer, a nuclear engineer, a QAnon enthusiast and Laura Loomer: The GOP race to represent Trump's Palm Beach district|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-candidates-florida-21st-congressional-district-trump/2020/08/16/a8d710b8-de2d-11ea-8051-d5f887d73381_story.html%7Curl-status=live%7Carchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200819025529/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-candidates-florida-21st-congressional-district-trump/2020/08/16/a8d710b8-de2d-11ea-8051-d5f887d73381_story.html%7Carchive-date=August 19, 2020|access-date=August 19, 2020|newspaper=The Washington Post|language=en
- ↑ cite news|last1=Sommer|first1=Will|date=August 2, 2019|title=Anti-Muslim Activist Laura Loomer to Run for Congress|work=The Daily Beast|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/anti-muslim-activist-laura-loomer-to-run-for-congress?source=articles&via=rss%7Caccess-date=August 2, 2019