Laura Loomer's Reversal on Ukraine Stirs Up the MAGA Civil War
For years, Laura Loomer’s position on Ukraine was crystal clear. It was “a country full of Nazi apologists” led by “a Jihadi apologist.” Loomer, a conspiracy theorist and avid Trump supporter, called American politicians who supported Ukraine in its war against Russia “traitors.”
But Loomer, who traveled to Ukraine last week, has changed her tune. She has posted a seemingly endless stream of content from the country, including a sit-down interview with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and pictures of her eating McDonald’s surrounded by bombed-out buildings in the capital, Kyiv.
Earlier this month, hours after news broke of Senator Lindsey Graham’s death, Loomer was the first to raise the conspiracy theory that Russia was responsible. “Did Russia just murder a US Senator?” Loomer wrote on X.
Loomer is on one side of a MAGA civil warthat has split Trump’s supporter base over the course...
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