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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy Trump's connection to Laura Loomer is a real campaign issue
JD Vance claimed it's unimportant that Donald Trump has brought a pro-white nationalism activist into his inner circle. That's ... not persuasive.
Link to tweet
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-connection-laura-loomer-real-campaign-issue-rcna171258
I think what Laura said about Kamala Harris is not what we should be focused on. We should be focused on the policy and on the issues.
The problem, of course, is that as Election Day 2024 nears, its hardly unreasonable to see a presidential candidates team as a meaningful issue.
As a Politico report summarized, Who has the would-be presidents ear and what they say into it matters especially when, like Loomer, (A) that person has a history of virulent statements about race, religion and immigration, (B) has given voice to baseless conspiracy theories and (C) when the would-be president in question has been hesitant to disavow her remarks, as Trump has.
Im reminded of something Ezra Klein wrote in early 2016, before Trump had even secured the Republican Partys nomination for the first time. Still at Vox at the time, Ezra argued, in reference to Trump, His tendency to solicit, repeat, and retweet self-serving falsehoods served up by sycophants and hangers-on should be taken seriously. Among the most important tasks the president has is knowing what to believe, whom to listen to, which facts to trust, and which theories to explore.
Trumps terrible judgment in this regard is one of the many reasons hes not qualified for the office. Trumps record here also undermines the strongest argument for his candidacy: that his showmans persona is just a front, and at heart hes a calm, thoughtful, coolheaded businessman who will surround himself with the best people and govern in a pragmatic, results-oriented fashion........
It is, in other words, a little late for Vance to pretend Loomers associations with Trump are unimportant.
NBC News, meanwhile, reported that some of Trumps allies are worried that his Loomer ties could cost him votes in key battleground states. The report quoted an ally of the Republican candidate saying, She has to go. Laura Loomer cannot stay. She just cant. She is unapologetic.
The news prompted The Atlantics David Frum to write online, If a candidate for president surrounds himself with lunatics, crooks, and agents of hostile foreign powers, the patriotic response is not: Oh no, he might cost himself the election! The patriotic response is: He damn well should lose the election.
no_hypocrisy
(48,062 posts)by the company you keep.
stopdiggin
(12,404 posts)unpalatable extremist to be within Trump's orbit. I'm at a loss to explain why this would be - 'different'.
(it's 'important' only to those that would be previously inclined to reject ... )
Lochloosa
(16,307 posts)surrounding him.
CBHagman
(17,099 posts)Even after Charlottesville and the January 6th attack, even as the threats to Springfield, Ohio, are in progress, too many in the media are all about the strategy and not the substance.
Captain Zero
(7,302 posts)Maybe even an agent provocateur.
If she is connected to any foreign intelligence service she needs to be outed by those who know it.
SunSeeker
(53,154 posts)Bev54
(11,420 posts)the best BJ that he has ever had.
Liberal In Texas
(14,185 posts)Something Clinton got impeached for.
But I guess it's OK if you are a repub.