Far-right activist, conspiracy theorist, and die-hard Donald Trump supporter Laura Loomer took aim at the wife of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis this Saturday, suggesting in a tweet that Casey DeSantis faked her struggle with breast cancer.
“DeSantis supporters say you aren’t allowed to criticize Jill DeSantis because she claims she had cancer (I’ve never seen the medical records), but they have no problem attacking Melania Trump,” Loomer wrote, calling the Florida First Lady by her birth name. “Personally, I think Jill’s health has been over exaggerated in a desperate effort to get votes for DeSantis. They even used it in a 2022 campaign commercial which is very tacky.”
“They are welcome to release the medical records though to show that they aren’t exaggerating,” she continued in her tweet. “Especially since they want to use her as a campaign surrogate and cancer as a way to appeal to voters. You can’t say ‘my wife is a part of my campaign’ then also say ‘you aren’t allowed to criticize her because she had cancer.'”
Casey DeSantis was declared breast cancer-free in January of last year and completed her final chemotherapy treatment. She was first diagnosed in October of 2021. But Loomer, a known conspiracy theorist, is claiming, without evidence, that her health struggles have been “exaggerated.”
“She’s fair game,” Loomer declared in her tweet.
Loomer, a former congressional candidate who rose to prominence in alt-right circles as a vocal anti-Muslim activist, is also a prolific spreader of conspiracy theories, once claiming that ISIS was behind the mass shooting in Las Vegas.