Anti-Muslim Extremist Laura Loomer Flew To Debate With Trump

Laura Loomer , the well-known anti-Muslim extremist and Donald Trump sycophant , rode in the former president’s jet to the debate Tuesday, a shocking, if not surprising, embrace by Trump of one of the most blatant, open bigots in American public life.

Fox News broadcast footage of Trump’s campaign plane touching down for the debate in Philadelphia, with Loomer exiting the plane a few minutes ahead of the former president. Trump’s campaign did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment.

Trump has been close with Loomer for years and has repeatedly praised her, including when she won the Republican primary for an ultimately-doomed 2022 congressional race.

Loomer has called Muslims “savages,” celebrated the deaths of migrants and called Islam a “cancer” and has used the hashtag “#proudislamophobe.”

“I’m pro-white nationalism,” the anti-Muslim activist, who is Jewish, said in 2017. She added that “this country really was built as the white Judeo-Christian ethnostate” and that immigration and calls for diversity were “starting to destroy this country.”

Loomer was barred from both Uber and Lyft in 2017 after writing on Twitter (now X) that “someone needs to create a non Islamic form of Uber or Lyft because I never want to support another Islamic immigrant driver.”

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