Laura Loomer accuses magazine of using 1950s stock photo to push for Trump assassination

Laura Loomer, the pro-Trump right-wing activist whose history of unhinged behavior even worries some of her fellow MAGA devotees, posted a bizarre new conspiracy theory accusing The Atlantic magazine of sending subliminal messages to assassinate former President Donald Trump.

In particular, Loomer says that a recent Atlantic article about the rapid decline of both inflation and crime over the last year is actually a call to murder Trump given that it features stock photos of a bullet hole shot through a piece of glass and a fistful of dollar bills that happen to contain the numbers 4 and 5, which Loomer believes is code for the 45th president.

"It gets even more obvious that the image published by The Atlantic... is a call for the assassination of President Trump," Loomer declared on Twitter. "The $10 and $20 bills on the bottom have a 4 and a 5 on them. As in 45!"

DON'T MISS: Alina Habba is persona non grata at her Pennsylvania law school

And the "45" wasn't the only numerological significance Loomer found in the photo.

"The $10 bill in the photograph next to the bullet says 'WILL PAY TO THE BEARER ON DEMAND,'" she wrote in a separate post. "That writing on the bill was replaced with “IN GOD WE TRUST” in 1963. Alex Soros and The Atlantic specifically used this old $10 bill to highlight the JFK assassination.

"In fact, all of the paper currency in this photo is associated with political assassination. *Abraham Lincoln was assassinated *Alexander Hamilton pistol duel with Aaron Burr *Andrew Jackson was the first President to have an assassination attempt against him in 1835."

In reality, the two photos were simply used as illustrations for the article's discussion of crime and inflation.

What's more, a community note on Loomer's post reveals that "the image of a hand holding out money is a stock image, sourced from Getty Images" and that "given that the photo is from the 1950s there is no basis for a conspiracy that the photo was created to send a cryptic message about a presumptuous presidential candidate in 2023."