# Laura Loomer Far-right activist, self-described "proud Islamophobe," and freelance Trump-whisperer with no official position but documented influence over personnel decisions in [[Trump II]]. Launched the December 2024 attacks on [[Sriram Krishnan]] that ignited the MAGA H-1B civil war — including doxxing him via FEC records (followed by an apology) — putting her at the front of the nativist wing against the tech right of [[Elon Musk]] and [[David Sacks]]. Aligned with the [[Steve Bannon]] / [[Immigration Restrictionism]] pole of the coalition. ## The April 2025 purge — the mechanism, documented On **April 2, 2025** Loomer met Trump in the Oval Office and presented a dossier alleging disloyalty by named national security officials. [[Mike Waltz]], Chief of Staff [[Susie Wiles]], Vice President [[JD Vance]] and Commerce Secretary [[Howard Lutnick]] were reported present. Loomer holds no office, no appointment and no security clearance. Within roughly 24 hours, six National Security Council staffers were dismissed, and the director and deputy director of the [[NSA]] were removed: | Removed | Position | Date | |---|---|---| | [[Timothy Haugh]] | Commander, [[US Cyber Command]]; Director, [[NSA]]; Chief, Central Security Service | April 3, 2025 | | [[Wendy Noble]] | Deputy Director, [[NSA]] (senior civilian) | April 3, 2025 | | Brian Walsh | NSC senior director for intelligence | April 3, 2025 | | Thomas Boodry | NSC senior director for legislative affairs | April 3, 2025 | | Maggie Dougherty | NSC senior director for international organizations | April 3, 2025 | | David Feith | NSC senior director (technology and national security) | April 3, 2025 | [[Alex Wong]], the principal deputy national security adviser, was named in Loomer's booklet but not removed that week; she continued to attack him publicly as the "Chinese Deputy National Security Adviser," and he left the NSC on **May 1, 2025** alongside Waltz. Loomer's argument against Wong ran substantially through his wife, [[Candice Chiu Wong]], a sitting member of the [[United States Sentencing Commission]] — an attack on the spouse to reach the official. > [!important] What the episode establishes > No cause was stated for any of these removals, and none has been stated since. The mechanism is not persuasion through channels — it is a single meeting, a booklet, and no requirement to prove anything. The cost is measurable: the [[NSA]] and [[US Cyber Command]] went **eleven months without a Senate-confirmed head**, until [[Joshua Rudd]] was confirmed 71–29 on March 10, 2026, with Lt. Gen. William Hartman acting in the interim. The vetting a Senate confirmation performs was replaced, for these seats, by a loyalty dossier from a private citizen. Trump has publicly minimized her role while the pattern continued; the New York Times profiled her in July 2025 as, in effect, an instrument of the purges rather than their author. ## Stub — still to fill out - Origin: [[Project Veritas]], banned-from-everything era, congressional runs in Florida - Relationship arc with Trump, X reinstatement, verification stripping during H-1B fight - [[H-1B Visa]] fight blow-by-blow - Later 2025–2026 removals attributed to her intervention — needs its own verification pass