July 24, 2025: The Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theory, with its sensational allegations of a child sex ring reaching the highest levels of government, became a defining issue for Donald Trump’s base. While many of Trump‘s loyalists, including those now in power like FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino, have walked back their indulgence in such narratives since Trump’s return to the White House, not everyone followed suit. Among the most vocal holdouts is Laura Loomer, an enigmatic far-right internet celebrity who continues to wield influence despite holding no official position.
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A Unique Position in the Far-Right Landscape
Loomer, who describes herself as “a feisty Jewess,” maintains her profile despite tensions with the pro-Trump far-right due to her staunchly pro-Israel stance and support for aggressive military action against Muslim-majority countries. This unique positioning has helped forge a new model of far-right politics, attempting to bridge the gap with American Jews often wary of the MAGA movement’s conspiratorial and white nationalist tendencies.
Despite her associations, Loomer made nearly successful runs for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2020 and 2022, securing an astounding 44% of the vote in the 2022 Republican primary. She remains a loud and influential voice to Trump’s right, pushing him to fulfill even his most extreme promises.
From Alt-Right to MAGA: The Evolution of a Movement
The American “alt-right” emerged around 2008 but gained significant traction with Trump’s 2015 primary run. It blended pseudo-academic white nationalism with a brash, offensive online culture stemming from platforms like 4chan and movements like men’s rights activism and “Gamergate.” A new class of “alt-light” influencers, including Milo Yiannopoulos and Gavin McInnes, mainstreamed some of these ideas without fully embracing overt white nationalism. This community eventually fed into the MAGA base, providing the environment from which Loomer rose.
Loomer, however, diverged by focusing on outlandish conspiracy theories rather than race-based pseudo-science. She has promoted claims that mass shootings were staged, used crisis actors, and frequently warns of impending Islamist jihadist attacks. She has also spread 9/11 conspiracy theories and boosted claims of Haitian migrants eating Ohio pets.
Jewish Identity and White Nationalism
A defining feature of the alt-right was its virulent antisemitism, often rooted in pseudo-scholarship from figures like Kevin MacDonald, who posited Judaism as a “group evolutionary strategy” to manipulate non-Jews. Loomer’s Jewish identity created a significant ideological rift with hard-line white nationalists like Richard Spencer, who view her as representing Trumpism’s intellectual bankruptcy and oppose her pro-Israel stance.
However, certain segments of American white nationalism, like American Renaissance (AmRen), founded by Jared Taylor, have occasionally welcomed white Jews, with Taylor famously stating Jews “look white to me.” Loomer spoke at the AmRen conference in 2022, referring to herself as a “white advocate” and stating that “most Americans, and conservative Americans, actually share our views.” During an interview for the AmRen website, she thanked white nationalist Nick Fuentes for his support and echoed sentiments about an “immigration moratorium” and the “great replacement” theory as a “fact.”
Stunts, Racism, and “Loomered” Targets
Loomer is known for outlandish public stunts, such as screaming at a Shakespeare performance, handcuffing herself to Twitter’s office, and jumping Nancy Pelosi’s fence. These spectacles garnered significant media attention, amplified by her followers and even the liberal media. She uses the term “Loomered” to describe the trail of disruption she gleefully leaves for her targets.
Loomer has also openly embraced racist discourse, advocating for “white advocacy” at AmRen. She claims her bans from social media platforms were due to her being an “unapologetic right-wing nationalist activist” who tells “uncomfortable truths.”
Islamophobia and the “Israel First” Shift
A core tenet of Loomer’s brand is confronting Islam, citing acts by Hamas and other Palestinian factions. This aligns her with segments of the Jewish right, particularly those who prioritize an “Israel First” approach. Figures like Florida House Representative Randy Fine, a Jewish MAGA politician, have similarly built their careers on staunchly pro-Israel, anti-Muslim messaging. Fine’s online persona is marked by frequent Islamophobic comments, calling a keffiyeh a “terrorist rag” and taunting U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar.
The “Eurabia” conspiracy theory, which posits a coordinated takeover of Europe by Muslim immigrants, and the “great replacement” theory, often linked to antisemitic tropes, are normalized by some right-wing Jewish figures like Fine, who seemingly no longer view them as inherently threatening to Jews. Loomer, too, utilizes these narratives, alleging that immigrants are “spreading Islam like AIDS” and aiming to “dominate the United States.”
The October 7th attacks accelerated a shift among some American Jews towards an “Israel First” approach, pushing them further right due to anger over progressive responses. This has led to a convergence with an Israeli brand of right-wing politics, influencing American Jewish foreign-policy opinions. Groups like Betar, a new iteration of a Revisionist Zionist youth movement, are now offering to support the Trump administration in deporting Arab activists and provide lists of diaspora Jewish anti-Zionists.
Loomer embodies this perspective, appearing at Palestine protests wearing a “Donald Trump did nothing wrong” shirt. She also operates a financial model selling supplements and “alternative” medical cures, much like Alex Jones, and is critical of vaccines and COVID-19 mandates. She has crafted a potentially Jewish-friendly populist language to bridge the gentile and Jewish right wings, even attempting to outflank figures like Robert F. Kennedy Jr.