Laura Loomer , the well-known anti-Muslim extremist and Donald Trump sycophant , rode in the former presidents 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 Trumps campaign plane touching down for the debate in Philadelphia, with Loomer exiting the plane a few minutes ahead of the former president. Trumps campaign did not immediately respond to HuffPosts 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 2020 congressional race.
Loomer has called Muslims savages, celebrated the deaths of migrants and called Islam a cancer and has used the hashtag #proudislamophobe.
Im 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.
I DONT CARE ABOUT CHRISTCHURCH, she wrote separately after a white supremacist gunman killed 51 Muslim worshippers in two mosques in New Zealand.
She has also called for Democrats to be executed for treason.
Loomers racism, of course, extends to Vice President Kamala Harris , the Democratic nominee for president.
If @KamalaHarris wins, the White House will smell like curry & White House speeches will be facilitated via a call center and the American people will only be able to convey their feedback through a customer satisfaction survey at the end of the call that nobody will understand, she wrote Tuesday .
CORRECTION: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated which year Loomer won her congressional primary race and was praised by Trump. It was in 2020.
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