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'Stop pretending': MAGA firebrand unloads on Jared Kushner for Russia visit

A MAGA firebrand put Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff in her crosshairs just hours after the pair landed in Russia for peace talks.

On Saturday, Kushner and Witkoff arrived in Moscow to meet with special representatives for Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Trump said on Friday that Kushner and Witkoff are carrying a proposal to "end the war" in Ukraine, adding, "We have an idea for peace."

Trump loyalist and MAGA diehard Laura Loomer wasn't buying the Trump administration's message, however. She took to X to cast doubt on the Trump envoy's mission and rally more of MAGA against them.

"Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are in Moscow, Russia," Loomer wrote. "They just arrived for more 'peace talks' despite the fact that Putin is aiding the Iranians in killing US soldiers."

Loomer notably used to be fiercely anti-Ukraine, a country she once claimed was "full of Nazis," PBS reported. She visited the country in July, and since then, has reversed course. She said that she was "bamboozled by Russian propaganda" and "came to believe a lot of untrue things about Ukraine," CNN reported. She called out Russia in her Saturday rant.

"Meanwhile, Russia continues to pummel Ukraine with ballistic missiles and shows no sign of stopping anytime soon," Loomer wrote. "Everyday, Ukrainian civilians are slaughtered and Putin has shown no good faith in ending the war."

She then added that Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky "has offered to travel to the US to sign a peace deal to end the war, but Putin continues his aggression against Ukraine." She then tied Putin to Iran again, writing that he hasn't stopped "his support for the Islamic regime of Iran despite pretending to support President Trump."

Loomer demanded, "We should stop pretending like Russia isn't a terrorist state," and mentioned that "Russia is still holding 10 Americans hostage as well," although groups like the Foley Foundation report that at least six Americans are detained in Russia.

'Resign': Jarring break inside Trump world as his own envoy defies him

President Donald Trump's own ambassador to Turkey publicly contradicted official U.S. policy on the Golan Heights this week, asserting that Israel holds the territory in defiance of United Nations resolutions and triggering a MAGA backlash.

Tom Barrack, who also serves as Trump's special envoy for Syria and Iraq, made the remarks in an interview Friday with Lebanese-Australian entrepreneur Mario Nawfal. His comments put him directly at odds with a signature foreign policy move of the president he serves.

"In the Golan with Syria, they still occupy the Golan against the UN resolutions, against all of the international order, which has said the Golan is Syria's," Barrack said, according to Middle East Eye.

Pushback came swiftly from far-right activist Laura Loomer, a close Trump ally, who posted on X that Barrack "should resign for his lack of understanding of U.S. foreign policy." She called on Secretary of State Marco Rubio to correct the ambassador and claimed, without evidence, that Barrack was "compromised by Arab money."

The rupture is jarring given Trump's own record on the issue. On March 25, 2019, Trump signed a proclamation declaring that "the United States recognizes that the Golan Heights are part of the State of Israel," reversing decades of American policy alongside a beaming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Israel seized the strategic plateau from Syria during the 1967 war, then formally absorbed it under Israeli law in 1981. That annexation has never won international recognition, and U.N. resolutions continue to demand an Israeli pullback to the June 4, 1967, line.

Washington had stood alone in endorsing the annexation until this month, when Colombia became the second nation to formally acknowledge Israeli control of the Golan on Aug. 10.

Barrack's contradiction landed as the Trump administration is escalating pressure elsewhere in the region. Trump announced an "unprecedented" economic warfare campaign against Iran this week, promising an "economic D-Day" aimed at forcing Tehran to abandon its nuclear program and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, meanwhile, told state media that "the entire world approved our victory and the U.S. is hated."

Fired CIA officer reveals stunning detail about removal: 'They still needed me'

A fired CIA officer revealed a detail that stunned a CNN anchor during an interview about the Trump administration.

Decorated former CIA officer Julia Curlee told CNN anchor Dana Bash in an interview on Tuesday that the Trump administration fired her shortly after she was called out publicly for being trans. However, what caught Bash by surprise was Curlee's account of how they asked her to return immediately after firing her.

"Laura Loomer had demanded my identity," Curlee said, detailing how the incident unfolded after the right-wing influencer "asked for someone to reveal [Curlee's identity] to the world so that we could drive out this trans Biden holdover."

Curlee worked in both the first and second Trump administrations. She recounted how she was a security advisor for Vice President Mike Pence and what Curlee called an "incredible" scene where Pence consoled her mom, who was having trouble dealing with Curlee's transition.

However, Bash, who agreed that Pence was "nice," was more caught off guard by how the Trump administration fired Curlee on a Saturday and asked her to come in on Monday.

"At the end of this call from my boss, who had said that my tour was over, they also had asked me to come back to work on Monday," Curlee said. "So I was fired on [Saturday] and asked to return."

"Can we just talk about that?" Bash asked. "So you're fired on a Saturday, when you're out with your family, after a not-so-subtle tweet from Laura Loomer about you, and then they said, 'But please come back on Monday anyway, even though we're firing you?'"

"Yeah, they still needed me," Curlee explained. "I was helping with a very important budget item. The new administration was still getting up and running, and we had two years of turnover to conduct."

DOJ hauled into court as MAGA boasts of ousting prosecutor over 'secret anti-Trump blog'

A former federal prosecutor is suing the Department of Justice after he was fired for an anti-Trump blog, per reports.

According to reporting by The New York Times, right-wing influencers celebrated the firing of Will Rosenzweig last year, but he's now suing the DOJ. Rosenzweig was two weeks away from trying a multimillion-dollar Medicare fraud case when he was targeted by right-wing influencers and then fired by the Trump administration, according to reporting by ABC News.

Rosenzweig, who worked as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of Florida, was fired only hours after MAGA influencer Natalie Winters posted a photo on social media of his LinkedIn account and claimed that he "secretly ran anti-Trump blog for YEARS attacking Trump," according to reporting by CNN.

The Times reported that Laura Loomer posted that Winters "got him fired" shortly after former Attorney General Pam Bondi dismissed him.

His lawsuit, filed in a Miami court on Friday, now demands financial damages and that he get his job back, per The Times. The lawsuit warns that the DOJ is setting a criterion that would only allow people who have always been loyal to the government to work for it, according to ABC News.

Rosenzweig's lawsuit said that his blog was "effectively defunct" by January 2019 and was started before President Donald Trump was elected to office.

"The Department's conduct rests on a single premise: a citizen must forever refrain from criticizing the government and its leaders to remain eligible to serve it," his lawsuit reads. "That rule would force every American who might one day serve to choose between speaking freely now and working for the government later."

The lawsuit claimed that the DOJ violated his right to free speech by firing him. Reports also mention that Rosenzweig was fired amid a sweeping personnel purge in the DOJ and that a growing list of former prosecutors and federal agents have gone to court in an effort to fight back.

"Conditioning public employment on political loyalty, where a party card rather than merit opens the door to a government job, is a way of life in Havana and Caracas," Rosenzweig's lawsuit reads, per ABC News. "It has no place here."

Raging Trump pal unravels at Fox News CEO with vomit of sexist profanities

Far-right activist Laura Loomer erupted at Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott with a string of sexist profanities Thursday after the network canceled a podcast appearance at the last minute.

Loomer had been invited by an unnamed Fox host to discuss her recent reporting trip to Ukraine, where she made headlines this week by reversing her longtime support for Russia.

The recording was set for 4 p.m. — then Fox pulled the plug with 20 minutes to go.

"I was just supposed to record a podcast episode with a Fox News host who invited me on their podcast to discuss my reporting in Ukraine," Loomer wrote on X. "I was supposed to record at 4 pm EST, but then they canceled on me 20 minutes before our interview because Fox News management said they can't have me on."

"What a miserable b—!" Loomer wrote.

Loomer claimed the snub is part of a decade-long pattern, alleging Scott placed her on a blacklist in 2017.

"I've been on this blacklist since 2017," she claimed. "When Pete Hegseth and Judge Jeanine worked for Fox News and tried to have me on, Suzanne Scott (a liberal) told them they couldn't have me on and would be reprimanded if they interacted with me on X," referring to former Fox host Jeanine Pirro.

"I'm told she allegedly directed the entire network to not cover my trip to Ukraine," she added.

CNN reported in September 2024 that Fox mentioned Loomer just once the week she flew with President Donald Trump to his presidential debate.

Loomer has previously called Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) a "lunatic hooker" and a "harlot" during a social media feud, and has lobbed profane insults at other women in public life.

Associated Press reported this week that Loomer traveled to Kyiv and interviewed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, reversing years of pro-Russia rhetoric. Fox News, she said, refused to cover any of it.

"Censorship is alive and well at Fox News," Loomer wrote.

Laura Loomer apologizes to Ukraine after one night of air raids leaves her terrified

A super fan of President Donald Trump apologized Tuesday for downplaying Ukraine's plight since Russia invaded.

Right-wing influencer Laura Loomer has been backing off her pro-Kremlin characterization of the war since earlier this year, but she posted a mea culpa Tuesday on X after experiencing an air raid while visiting Ukraine.

"Just experienced my first air raid in Ukraine," Loomer posted. "Sirens blaring. This is everyday for every Ukrainian. I feel like such an a--hole for minimizing the struggle of Ukrainians for the last 5 years."

"I often said I don’t care," she added. "Looking back, that wasn’t very nice of me to say."

Loomer, a conspiracy theorist with White House ties and the president's ear, explicitly denounced some of the Kremlin narratives she has pushed over the years.

"There are people in Ukraine who have to run to a bomb shelter everyday and some of us had the audacity to say Russia wasn’t wrong because we believed the lie that Ukraine is a country full of Nazi sympathizers," Loomer posted. "We have been so propagandized by Russia and we don’t even realize it."

She couldn't resist an opportunity to attack her own domestic political rivals, however.

"Air sirens could very well be the future of America if we don’t start demanding our lawmakers crack down on communism and multipolarity," Loomer said, citing no evidence to back her claim.

"We won’t have Trump forever and the axis of evil is moving fast."

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky's office welcomed Loomer's visit, saying that firsthand experience was the best corrective to Russian propaganda.

"It is really important that Laura Loomer is in Ukraine and sees things with her own eyes as they are," Zelensky's office said on X.

Right-wing fracas explodes over MAGA influencer's attack: 'Spreading poison for cash'

An online battle broke out Thursday between right-wing influencers and MAGA conspiracist Candace Owens.

Owens, who has been vocal about alternative theories behind Charlie Kirk's killing while the trial was underway for the Tyler Robinson, the suspect accused of killing the Trump ally, fired off a post on X attacking Ben Shapiro and Turning Point USA spokesperson Andrew Kolvet.

"This your daily reminder that Charlie Kirk always hated Ben Shapiro— he thought he was an Israel-First Jew supremacist. And for years, Andrew Kolvet pretended to hate Ben too until the moment Charlie died. Andrew Kolvet encompasses the spirit of Judas."

Shapiro responded to Owens, saying "I don't really care about personal drama."

"I've said repeatedly that Charlie and I weren't best friends," Shapiro wrote on X. "Maybe you were best friends with Charlie. Maybe not. I don’t know, nor do I care."

He called her out for the unfounded claims.

"For ten months, you’ve been slandering Charlie's wife, his friends, and all of the people he worked with. You're working to acquit his murderer," Shapiro added. "You're spreading conspiratorial poison for cash. That’s something anyone of decency should condemn."

Kolvet also reacted to Owens' comments and expressed his frustration with her, saying "you’ve hijacked Charlie’s story by smearing and slandering his wife, his org, and his friends (and countless other people)."

"See, your big problem is that this entire thing is not about you, Candace," Kolvet wrote on X.

"You’re a record breaking narcissist, Candace," Kolvet added. "But your credibility is also collapsing at record breaking speed. Enjoy the crash out."

Laura Loomer also weighed in on Owens' remarks and said YouTube should investigate her.

"Candace Owens has been hinting for months that she is willing to help Tyler Robinson’s defense team," Loomer wrote on X.

Loomer claimed Owens had aligned herself with the left and wants Robinson to walk free.

"She is openly trying to help the radical left get away with assassinating Charlie Kirk because she is a narcissist who is now being exposed for all of her lies as everyone is seeing the evidence first hand as this trial is live-streamed," Loomer added.

'Can't stop laughing': Laura Loomer's World Cup 'crash out' sets internet howling

Far-right activist Laura Loomer was ridiculed across social media after melting down over a World Cup match because Turkey — a majority-Muslim nation — was playing the United States.

"Everywhere you look these days, Islam is in your face," Loomer wrote on X late Thursday. She said she had hit her "daily quota of Islamic bulls—," then turned on the TV to find "Turkey is playing the US."

"I'm sick of it," she added.

It was the United States' final group game at the 2026 World Cup. Turkey won 3-2 on the final kick of the match.

"I can't stop laughing at this tweet," wrote media reporter Justin Baragona on Bluesky.

"Knowing looney tunes like Loomer are crashing out over football matches is objectively hilarious," added actor and writer Nazanin Nour.

"Just when I thought the invasion was getting under control, I'm seeing FOREIGN SOCCER PLAYERS popping up in cities across the nation," wrote Current Affairs editor Nathan J. Robinson, satirizing her panic.

"It's almost as if you live in a world," wrote Wajahat Ali.

Loomer, who has called herself a self-described "proud Islamophobe" and described Islam as a "cancer," was banned from Uber and Lyft in 2017 after a tirade demanding non-Muslim drivers, and has repeatedly tied Muslims to terrorism.

In April, she defended a Truth Social post in which President Donald Trump threatened to bomb Iranian infrastructure amid the war with Iran and signed off "Praise be to Allah."

"President Trump is 100% right to completely humiliate these Iranian terrorists!" she wrote. "I wish Trump would kill every single one of these IRGC terrorists instead of just mocking them."

Loomer holds no formal White House job but has a Pentagon press pass and has become known as a "loyalty enforcer" whose name spawned a verb — "Loomered" — and after an Oval Office meeting last year, Trump fired six National Security Council officials she had flagged.

Comedian FreddyG kept his response short: "It's almost like she has a phobia."

Revealed: The cult that helped bring down one of Trump's biggest foes

A new theory has revealed that a cult was reportedly behind the sex secret allegations that led an ex-girlfriend of one of President Donald Trump's enemies to "kiss and tell," according to a report published Thursday.

The Bulwark's Will Sommer wrote how Cynthia West — a candidate for the Okaloosa School Board race in Florida — was telling right-wing media alleged personal information about her former boyfriend Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) as he was in the final days fighting to maintain his seat in Congress after Trump and his allies had fought to remove him.

West told Laura Loomer during her show that Massie had referred to his genitals as a "pine cone" and "claimed he slept with Rep. Lauren Boebert just weeks after his wife’s death in 2024." Massie has acknowledged that he dated West but has not commented on the claims.

Sommer described what prompted West to make these public claims.

"Of course, we can’t rule out the hidden hand of Trumpworld," Sommer wrote. "Trump, who promoted Loomer’s interview with West, clearly disliked Massie and helped drive him out of office. And for her part, West first publicized her salacious claims with the help of a Kentucky lawyer she described as meeting through a mutual friend 'in political circles,' though she insists she isn’t getting paid. In January, West posted a picture of herself driving to what she said was Mar-a-Lago."

"I think part of the answer to the strange question of West’s motivations lies in a very different type of dirty deeds," Sommer wrote. "I’m talking about West’s affiliation with a cult-like group of memestock investors known as 'MMTLP,' who dream of attaining untold riches—and resent lawmakers like Massie who won’t help them."

West apparently has ties to MMTLP, a "Frankenstein stock" that came out of the memestock explosions following the Gamestop and AMC stock trading. It included a company known as Meta Materials and a stripper pole manufacturer that captured the attention of retail investors.

"As West’s jilted-lover revenge-tour began in earnest this week, she offered several clues to her 'MMTLP' affiliations that were barely noticed by the national media," Sommer wrote. "For instance, she shared an X post that linked Massie with Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Gates and argued he had betrayed members of the MMTLP movement, despite dating 'MMTLP shareholder/advocate' West."

"Investors felt sure that the stock was facing the type of 'short squeeze' that would cause its price to skyrocket—the very thing that had propelled Gamestop to extraordinary heights just months earlier," Sommer wrote.

But the SEC started to question the MMTLP stock and a 2024 SEC complaint exposed that it could have been a "fantasy," or "exactly what executives at the combined companies wanted investors to believe."

"Sensing something sketchy, federal regulators halted trading right before the company went private—cutting off any chance at a lucrative short squeeze, and leaving retail MMTLP investors stuck with a bag of worthless, untradeable stocks," Sommer wrote.

"Rather than blaming the companies that hatched the scheme, angry MMTLP holders tried to convince the government to bail them out and punish the regulatory bodies they claim rigged the game in favor of short-sellers," Sommer added. "Even now, years later, they still bemoan their substantial losses in live X spaces, or dress up in bird costumes to demand justice. Inevitably, the bagholders have concocted conspiracy theories that blame their misfortunes on interference from a cabal that stretches from Epstein to meddling federal regulators."

And the group believed that Massie's defeat was "deserved."

"'You should have helped MMTLP and respect [sic] Cynthia,' crowed one jilted investor to Massie after Loomer posted about West’s story. 'Now instead you got MMTLPed.'"

MAGA civil war escalates as Trump loyalist claims to dig up dirt on right-wing outcast

MAGA infighting escalated with a Trump loyalist going after a dissenting right-wing influencer and her husband's past.

Laura Loomer threatened on Tuesday that she had a bombshell reveal in her back pocket that she expected would take down the reputation of right-wing influencer Candace Owens, who has sharply broken with the MAGA camp since Charlie Kirk's killing.

"George Farmer, the immigrant husband of Candace Owens @RealCandaceO, totaled his truck while driving drunk," Loomer claimed in a post on X on Wednesday, referring to a 2023 incident. She added that Owens' husband has been in "multiple accidents, including a 2023 DUI due to Farmer's excessive drinking and driving."

Loomer accused Owens of lying and trying to downplay the 2023 incident.

"Despite Candace Owens denying her husband had ever been arrested and claiming his accident was simply a 'fender bender' that the police were never called over," Loomer wrote. "Candace directly and deliberately lied to her viewers when she said this never happened."

Loomer also went after Farmer's immigration status, stating that he "was a green card holder" at the time and "in possession of a firearm."

She questioned "how Farmer was able to get U.S. citizenship in 2025," tagging Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the official accounts of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security.

Owens had not responded directly to Loomer's allegations as of Wednesday, which Loomer noted was Owens' birthday.

"Happy Birthday, Candace @RealCandaceO. I hope this birthday, you will practice being a better person and try to not lie so much," Loomer wrote. "Instead of obsessing over Charlie Kirk’s spouse @MrsErikaKirk, you should focus on your own spouse and his serious drinking problem."