Laura Loomer has managed to wield an outsized influence in the Trump administration, despite not having a formal role in it.Michael NigroSipaAP Get your news from a source thats not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily.
Conspiracy theorist and self-described proud Islamophobe Laura Loomer continues to wield a jarring amount of power in the Trump administration. The latest example: She appears to have had a Democratic Senators classified visit to a military spy agency cancelled.
On Wednesday, Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that his visit to the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)s Virginia headquarters had been cancelled after Loomer launched what Warner called a campaign of baseless attacks on social media against him and the NGAs Director, Vice Admiral Frank Whitworth, who is also known as Trey.
The classified visit, planned for Friday, had not been publicized. It was intended to be an oversight visit to the agency, which works within the Department of Defense (DOD) to provide intelligence through maps and satellites.
*Reporting by Motherjones.*
