'She's a lunatic!': GOP insiders call for 'wake up moment' as Trump embraces MAGA 'kook'

Laura Loomer, a right-wing activist who has earned the rare distinction of being a MAGA supporter too extreme for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), has increasingly become a member of former President Donald Trump's inner circle.

A pair of CNN panelists on Thursday sounded the alarm about the fact that Trump has embraced someone like Loomer, who is notorious for pushing conspiracy theories and racism in her social media posts that are too much for even a one-time QAnon believer like Greene to stomach.

Former George W. Bush spokesman Pete Seat, for one, did not mince any words when host John Berman asked him for his opinion of Loomer.

"She's a lunatic," he said. "I don't think anyone should pay any attention to anything she says, and it is troubling that the Republican nominee... holds her in such high regard. And the reason is because she feeds his worst impulses. That's what he wants: He feeds off of that type of rhetoric and those types of conspiracy theories."

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Former Republican strategist Ana Navarro found it remarkable that Trump is even letting Loomer fly on his campaign plane with him.

"His wife isn't on the plane, his daughter isn't on the plane, but this kook is on the plane," she said. "And I think it should be incredibly concerning that, potentially, the next president of the United States is surrounded by racist conspiracy theorists. Listen: When Marjorie Taylor Greene is all of a sudden the voice of reason... call it a wakeup moment."

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