'She excoriated them': Controversial Trump ally met president to push for major firings
Loomer sat across the Resolute Desk from the president in the Oval Office on Wednesday and pressed him to fire National Security Council staff members she believes are disloyal to him, according to seven people with knowledge of the meeting who spoke to the New York Times, and two of them said Trump may act on her recommendations.
"Ms. Loomer walked into the White House with a sheaf of papers, which amounted to a mass of opposition research attacking the character and loyalty of numerous N.S.C. officials, two of the people said," the Times reported. "She proceeded to excoriate them in front of their boss, the national security adviser Michael Waltz, who was also in the meeting."
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The meeting came after Loomer, who was driven away from Trump's re-election campaign for floating conspiracy theories about 9/11 and insulting Kamala Harris' Indian heritage, issued a string of social media attacks on Trump administration officials, including deputy national security adviser Alex Wong.
Wong's boss, national security adviser Mike Waltz, has been under fire since The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg revealed that he had been inadvertently added to a group chat where defense secretary Pete Hegseth disclosed plans for a military operation using the non-secure Signal app.
Loomer questioned Wong's loyalty because his wife had worked as a Justice Department lawyer during the Biden and Obama administrations, and because her father had been a large shareholder in a Chinese satellite company.
She speculated that Wong, not Waltz, had been responsible for adding Goldberg to the infamous Signal chat “on purpose as part of a foreign opp to embarrass the Trump administration on behalf of China.”
Trump met with Loomer shortly before announcing his global tariffs in the White House Rose Garden, and also present in the Oval Office sit-down were vice president JD Vance, head of presidential personnel Sergio Gor, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and White House communications director Steven Cheung, according to three sources.
Seated next to her was Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA), who played a key role in Trump's efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, and he had a separate list of staff concerns he wanted to discuss, and one of the sources said his planned meeting with the president collided with Loomer's.
Waltz briefly attended the meeting, which lasted about a half hour, to defend his staff, one of the sources said.