Laura Loomer, one of President Donald Trump’s most influential outside allies, recently returned from Ukraine with an unexpected message for the Make America Great Again movement: she had been wrong about the war.Like many of Trump’s supporters, Loomer had long opposed U.S. military aid to Ukraine, reflecting the Republican Party’s broader divide between traditional national security hawks and the increasingly dominant “America First” wing. But after touring bombed neighborhoods, meeting Ukrainian officials, and documenting the destruction caused by Russian missile and drone strikes for her millions of followers, Loomer publicly reversed herself.“We need to have moral clarity. I don’t care if people in the GOP disavow me. They will come to see how evil Russia is as they continue funding Iran with weapons to murder US soldiers as they call for President Trump to be assassinated,” she wrote in a series of posts on X. “I am my own person. I think for myself because I am not a Russian bot.”
Her reversal also carries unusual weight inside Trump’s political orbit. Trump himself amplified a clip from Loomer’s interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Truth Social July 23, writing simply, “very good!!!!”Trumpworld insiders told the Washington Examiner the shift could further reinforce the president’s evolving views on the conflict.(Examiner illustration; AP Photos; Getty Images)
