A fierce backlash from Trump-backers ensued, led by Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who wrote on Twitter that “Laura Loomer is mentally unstable and a documented liar. But the intense reaction to it being reported changed things,” Haberman added. Before the intense blowback, Trump had been telling aides to give Loomer a job, obsessed with her attacks on DeSantis. But the intense reaction to it being reported changed things. She was at once able to leverage her extensive sources in Trumpworld to break the story, and command Trumpworld’s attention to sink Loomer.

Source: New York Times April 08, 2023 20:42 UTC