Laura Loomer is in the crosshairs

“I get death threats every day,” Laura Loomer says matter-of-factly, as if discussing her junk mail. “I get death threats from Muslims, radical leftists, trannies, you name it.”

‘After what happened to Charlie Kirk, you have to wonder if people are hiding on a roof planning to kill you’

An alligator skull, a bullhorn, a red MAGA hat and a grinning pumpkin sit on a shelf behind Loomer in her pink-lit Florida studio – otherwise known as the spare bedroom of her Gulf Coast rental. This is the headquarters of Loomer Unleashed, the notorious podcast from which she has single-handedly ended the careers of dozens of members of the Trump administration by revealing their alleged treachery. Yet it is very much her future under discussion right now.

“Just this morning I had to have a conversation with state law enforcement because they’re monitoring an individual who they believe had a plot to take my life for being Jewish and conservative,” she says.

Since we spoke, the man Loomer referred to has been arrested by police in Texas for making death threats against her and other Jewish conservative members of the media. Nicholas Ray is in custody awaiting extradition to Florida to face charges.

Death is increasingly an occupational hazard in the polarized world that Loomer inhabits. What makes her even more of a target than other online provocateurs is the sheer number of enemies she has made – numerous groups from across the political spectrum could feasibly have her in their crosshairs. “After what happened to Charlie Kirk, you have to wonder if people are hiding in a tree or hiding on a roof planning to kill you. It’s at the back of my mind every day. There are Nazis out there, there are jihadis, there are radical leftists. There are all types of crazy people who believe crazy conspiracy theories or hold radical views on the left, and unfortunately on the right as well.”

Living anything approaching a normal life under such conditions is impossible, Loomer says. This is why she has few friends and rarely leaves her home. And when she does, she makes sure her boyfriend, or whoever she is with, has a gun.  “When you go out, one of you has to be armed. I keep an eye out when people are staring at me in restaurants. Do they recognize me? Are they friendly? Are they hostile? It’s a lot of stress, which is why I don’t really like going out. It’s dangerous.”

There are few things in life more certain than death, taxes and Loomer’s steadfast support for Donald J. Trump. They spoke just a week ago. She won’t reveal what about, but says with a flash of menace: “I like to serve as an extra set of eyes and ears on the outside to tell the President the truth about who’s being loyal, who’s being disloyal, who’s undermining him and his administration.”

It is in this role that she has been his most effective servant. Her stock in trade is “Loomering” – professionally kneecapping – apparent fifth columnists in his administration. She first identifies them – often via a digital deep-dive that uncovers an old Democratic alliance – and then blasts their treachery to her 1.8 million followers on X and 130,000 podcast subscribers.

In reality, however, the public demonstration is for an audience of just one: the President. Her scalps are racking up quickly. The biggest – and bloodiest – came when she dropped a dossier on the Resolute Desk during a meeting with Trump in April that led to six National Security Council staffers being fired. The President is appreciative and calls her “a patriot” and a “fantastic woman.” The love is mutual. Loomer says with palpable enthusiasm, “I’m very passionate about supporting President Trump and his agenda so that we can truly make America great again instead of just having it be some pipe dream and a slogan on a red hat.”

But a glimmer of daylight is now emerging between them over the issue that Loomer believes is the biggest threat to America at the moment: Islam. She goes so far as to admit that she is “disappointed” with the man she clearly otherwise reveres.

“I don’t know why his administration is playing footsy with Muslims right now. If you look at the Trump that ran for president in 2015 and 2016, he literally said Islam hates us and we have a Muslim problem in our country. There should be a complete Islamic travel ban. I have a lot of questions about this. I’m a bit disappointed. I don’t know what the reason is. Maybe he’s trying to normalize relations with Qatar. But normalizing relations does nothing for us if our country is conquered from within.”

Her advice for the President is typically radical. “Deport all non-citizen Muslims. We need to have an immigration moratorium on all Islamic immigration from every single Muslim country. We need to make it illegal to serve in Congress if you are a Muslim. It needs to be illegal to take your oath of office on the Qur’an as well. There is more Jew hatred and incitement to violence against Jews in the Qur’an than there is in Hitler’s Mein Kampf.”

The implications of not acting, to Loomer’s mind, are terrifying and impossible for America to recover from. “We’re going to become a Muslim country. We’re going to wake up one day and Muhammad is going to replace John as the most popular male baby name here in the United States, the same way that it has in the UK and France and Germany. Every single Muslim who’s ever been elected to office in the United States of America is a hostile force. Every single one of them has anti-Semitic and anti-Christian views, anti-American views and pro-Islamic terror views. I haven’t met a single Muslim candidate for office in this country that passes the bar, not a single one.”

If there is bleakness creeping into her worldview under Trump, how much worse will it be when he leaves office in 2028? Is there anyone she trusts to carry the MAGA torch forward? “J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio are definitely frontrunners,” is all she would say on the matter. “I need the GOP to actually pull their weight if I’m going to even cast a ballot. I have no love for or loyalty to the Republican party. In fact, I think that we live in a country where we have a uniparty that serves the interests of the political elites.”

What of her own future after Trump leaves office? Loomer has stood twice for Congress – but when asked about standing again, she says: “I can’t think of anything I’d like to do more aside from gouging my eyes out than running for office. Perhaps I’ll just pivot full-time into doing political consulting or political research. Maybe I’ll continue doing my show. Maybe I’ll be asked to come work on a presidential campaign in 2028. I’m very passionate about animals as well. Maybe I would get into animal rescue. I have no idea.”

Unusually for a 32-year-old, she is determined that when she dies, the world will remember her name. “Everybody dies someday and your friends are sad and your family’s sad and maybe your co-workers are sad, but then everybody forgets. You have to build a legacy while you’re alive.

Is Laura Loomer a sociopath? She’s variously called a conspiracy theorist, Islamophobe and a white nationalist

“It’s kind of like a taboo thing to talk about because it’s not really one of those socially acceptable things to have a conversation about, but everybody can get married and everybody can have kids, but not everybody can have a lasting impact. And maybe it sounds sociopathic. Maybe it is a little sociopathic. Some people will say, ‘Oh my God, she’s a sociopath.’ I don’t really care. I’ve had some people say, ‘Well, that’s a really terrible way to look at life.’

“But everybody has their own unique talent and it’s up to us, while we’re alive on this planet, to find out what our talents are and how we can utilize our talents. Not just to have a personal life but also how we can help our communities and help our country.”

Is Laura Loomer a sociopath? She’s variously branded a conspiracy theorist, an Islamophobe, a white nationalist and, horror of horrors, a body-shamer after tweeting: “Yikes AOC has gained at least 50 pounds since getting into Congress.”

Or is her dark secret that she’s content – and optimistic about the future? “I don’t know if I would ever run for president, but who knows?” she smirks. “William Shakespeare once said that expectation is the root of all unhappiness. They used to play that Rolling Stones song ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want’ at every single Trump rally – but if you try, you might just get what you need. So maybe in the end I’ll just end up with what I need, but not with what I want.”

This article was originally published in The Spectator’s October 27, 2025 World edition.