WSJ Editorial Board Roasts Trump For Listening to ‘9/11 Conspiracist’ Laura Loomer: ‘Is He Trying To Lose The Election?’

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The Wall Street Journal editorial board took aim at Donald Trump for rubbing elbows with right-wing provocateur Laura Loomer .

On Friday, the paper penned an op-ed entitled, “Donald Trump and Loomer Tunes: Why is the former President hanging with a 9/11 conspiracist?” In recent days leading up to the ABC News debate against Kamala Harris , Trump was seen at public events with the 31-year-old Loomer.

She traveled with the GOP nominee during his visits to memorials of 9/11 in New York City and the site of the Flight 93 crash in Pennsylvania during the anniversary of the attack. Loomer has previously suggested that 9/11 was “an inside job,” according to The WSJ.

“Does she think Osama bin Laden was a CIA front man,” the editorial board asks in the op-ed. “Ms. Loomer is usually described in the press as ‘far right,’ but that’s unfair to the fever swamps.”

The editors go on to note that Loomer wrote posts on X insulting Harris’s Indian heritage by stating that if she wins the election “the White House will smell like curry.” Furthermore, the authors point out that Loomer has also attacked Casey DeSantis and questioned Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) sexuality.

“All of this would be ignorable, except that others close to Mr. Trump say he is listening to Ms. Loomer’s advice,” the editors wrote. “People in the Trump campaign are trying to get her out of the former President’s entourage, to no avail. Even Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks Ms. Loomer is damaging the former President’s election chances.”

The WSJ board concludes:

The press is naturally having fun with all this and asked Mr. Trump about it on Friday. “Laura’s a supporter,” he said. “I have a lot of supporters.” He added that “she’s a strong person; she’s got strong opinions,” and he wondered why people are asking about her.

They’re asking because they know Mr. Trump’s association with Ms. Loomer feeds the concern among voters that Mr. Trump listens to crazy courtiers who flatter him and play to his vanity. Is this who the next four years are going to feature?

The problem here is deeper than Mr. Trump’s electoral prospects. A growing segment of the American right is populated by, and susceptible to, cranks and conspiracists. A movement that used to admire William F. Buckley Jr. and Thomas Sowell now elevates a pseudo-historian who blames Winston Churchill for World War II and media personalities who sell falsehoods as a triumph for free speech.

This isn’t an intellectual or political movement that is going to win converts, nor will it deserve them.