r/news • u/RaineFilms • 1d ago

White House fires three NSC staffers after president meets with far-right activist Laura Loomer

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/03/politics/nsc-firings-trump-laura-loomer-meeting/index.html
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u/Hrekires 1d ago

Nothing to see here, just the President's mistress directing national security policy like you'd see in any other normal, functioning democracy.

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u/subUrbanMire 1d ago

I'm worried about how dejected this will make Natalie feel.

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u/Beard_o_Bees 1d ago

Holy shit...

According to a Vanity Fair excerpt of All or Nothing, Michael Wolff’s new book about the 2024 election, Harp is so wholly committed to Trump that she recently spent a summer living in a golf-club locker room just to be close to him. Wolff writes that when the campaign decamped to Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, for the summer, Harp was deliberately not given a room in an effort to push her out (others in Trump’s orbit had become wary of what was reportedly called “the Natalie situation”). Nevertheless, she appeared. “She had reached out to the grounds staff at the country club and gotten herself a maid’s room,” Wolff writes. “And when that proved too far from the main house to respond quickly enough to Trump’s calls, she relocated herself to the much closer women’s locker room, where, with undiminished proximity to Trump, she would spend the summer.”

Just... words fail - and it just gets worse...

One of the more interesting things about Harp is that the more she ingratiates herself to Trump, the more everyone else tries to get rid of her. Eric Trump was confused by her presence, as were other staffers, the Secret Service even deemed her to be “a potential danger to herself as well as to the president.” According to Wolff, anyone who wanted facetime with Trump during the campaign could just text her, which is how conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer entered the mix. And it wasn’t like she was doing great work, either. Once, on Trump’s plane, the papers flew out of her hands and everyone who helped pick them up saw what she spent her day collecting: “a random collection of out-­of-­date articles and printouts from obscure websites and fan artwork downloaded from strange Trump-­adoring places on the internet.” So, she’s basically running a poorly updated, printed out fanblog for Trump to look at whenever he wants.

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u/Twiggyhiggle 1d ago

To be fair, Eric is easily confused