Trump Gal Pal Laura Loomer Got 6 National Security Officials Fired

The most important thing to know about a New York Times account of Laura Loomer’s meeting at the White House that resulted in the firing of six national security officials is that not a single member of Signalgate lost his job.

No, the six were fired for not being loyal enough to Loomer’s uh, friend, Donald Trump.

Here's The Times’ shocking lede:

President Trump fired six National Security Council officials after an extraordinary meeting in the Oval Office with the far-right activist Laura Loomer, who laid out a list of people she believed were disloyal to the president, according to a U.S. official with direct knowledge of the matter.

The six officials were among those vilified by Ms. Loomer during the meeting on Wednesday, the official said. Ms. Loomer walked into the White House with a sheaf of papers, which amounted to a mass of opposition research attacking the character and loyalty of numerous N.S.C. officials. She proceeded to excoriate them in front of Michael Waltz, the national security adviser, who was also in the meeting.

It was a remarkable spectacle: Ms. Loomer, a Sept. 11 conspiracy theorist who is viewed as extreme even by some of Mr. Trump’s far-right allies, apparently wielding more influence over the staff of the National Security Council than Mr. Waltz, who runs the agency.

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