Comment: U.S. national security is getting 'Loomered'
By Andreas Kluth / Bloomberg Opinion
It can always get worse. There’s no reason to think that President Trump will stop at causing chaos in world trade and stock markets, the American executive branch, the legal profession and public health. He’s also well on the way to making America less safe under the most immediate definition: by undermining his own national-security staff, and thereby endangering the nation’s security.
In recent days, the White House has been orchestrating what you might call a Week of the Long Knives among the ranks of people who are normally expected to advise the president on foreign threats. More than half a dozen top counselors have already been let go, and others are at risk. In the latest neologism coined for this White House, they have been “Loomered.”
The word comes from the eponymous Laura Loomer. She calls herself an “investigative journalist” but is nothing of the sort. Having botched two runs for Congress, she’s instead a failed politician better known for her sycophantism toward Trump and her conspiracy theories, which are outlandish even by MAGA standards. In that way, she represents a rising demographic of more-or-less loony right-wing influencers who are famous just for being famous; and for being able to get near the president.
She had his ear again last week in a meeting in the Oval Office, where, like a Spanish Inquisitor of the TikTok age, she accused a raft of national-security experts of disloyalty toward Trump, prompting the president to have them fired. Her evidence was circumstantial at best.
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