Mediaite: The 5 Wildest Moments From Laura Loomer’s Rollercoaster Bill Maher Defamation Case Deposition

Laura Loomer recently sat for a deposition pertaining to her defamation lawsuit against HBO’s Bill Maher, who suggested Loomer might be having an affair with President Donald Trump in September of last year after Loomer accompanied Trump to his one and only presidential debate with Kamala Harris.

It went how you might expect.

LOOMER WAS OFFERED A JOB BY DONALD TRUMP HIMSELF IN 2023

According to Loomer, a self-styled white nationalist who has celebrated the drowning deaths of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, Trump himself tried to hire her to work on his campaign back in 2023.

“I was actually told that I was going to be working for President Trump when he hired me in his office in March of 2023 during a private meeting with him and Susie Wiles at Mar-a-Lago. And this was during the primary. And President Trump had actually instructed Susie to onboard me to do research, and — research — yeah — research for — and perhaps assist with communications
as well, in the primary,” explained Loomer, who said a New York Times story about her ended up sinking her chances of landing a job with the campaign. “And the president was very impressed by just how well-versed I was. And he was very impressed by my reporting and my understanding of political affairs. And so he said that he wanted to hire me on the spot, even though it was not a job interview.”

…AND THEN AGAIN IN 2024

After being asked if she had ever been offered a job by Trump or members of his staff again, Loomer answered in the affirmative, recalling that Trump had told her “You’re coming to D.C. with me” and that she “had conversations with Susie Wiles that I would have a position at the White House after the election if — if President Trump won.”

“I was promised a position multiple times, not just by President Trump, but also, by Susie Wiles,” she asserted.

LOOMER FORESAW A LUCRATIVE MEDIA CAREER AFTER SERVING TRUMP

After serving Trump in the White House, Loomer believed she would be well set-up to enjoy a cushy, lucrative media career — perhaps on TV.

Check out this exchange between Loomer and HBO lawyer Katherine Bolger:

BOLGER: So other than your claim that the reporting about your response to Mr. Maher stopped you from traveling on the airplane and you say getting a job in administration, is there any other financial damage that was caused by Bill Maher reporting?

LOOMER: As I said before, I would have been paid much more than I was making previously. And who knows what I could have parlayed having that on my resume into in the future. There are people that go on who work for administrations who get to go work at boards. There’s people that get to have foundations. They get to go work in future administrations. They get to, you know, get paid for speaking engagements once they leave their official role with the federal government. You don’t know. You know, there’s people that write books. They — there’s people that get to go become Fox News contributors. They become contributors on mainstream media. Look at — look at somebody like Jen Psaki or Karine Jean-Pierre, for example. You know, they both have shows. Karine Jean-Pierre just announced a book deal today. So when you work for an administration, once the person is out of office, or once you’re done with your job, you know, that could parlay into a lot of speculative opportunities

BOLGER: Speculative opportunities —

LOOMER: It’s not speculative. It’s — it — it really is — it’s compounding, is what it is. It’s compounding damages. It’s punitive damages.

MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE AND ARBY’S

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Loomer recently reignited their feud, which began last September when Loomer suggested that the White House would “smell like curry” if Harris defeated Trump in a post on X.

“This is appalling and extremely racist. It does not represent who we are as Republicans or MAGA. This does not represent President Trump. This type of behavior should not be tolerated ever,” declared Greene in a quote tweet of Loomer.

Loomer responded by mocking Greene for her infidelity and referencing “the Arby’s in your pants.” That led to the following discussion between her and Bolger in their deposition:

BOLGER: Can you explain to me what it means to say to her that “the Arby’s in her pants”?

LARRY KLAYMAN, LAURA LOOMER’S ATTORNEY: Objection. Relevancy.

BOLGER: Answer the question.

LOOMER: Arby’s sells roast beef.

BOLGER: Right. Can you tell me what — why you were talking about “the Arby’s in her pants”?

LOOMER: Well, it’s just a — an expression.

BOLGER: What is the expression trying to convey?

LOOMER: It conveys the reason why she got a divorce by her own admission.

BOLGER: Because she had roast beef in her pants?

LOOMER: Yeah.

BOLGER: She’d put roast beef in her pants; that’s what you’re trying to say there? You’re literally saying she put Arby’s in her pants?

LOOMER: I’m saying she literally — it’s so ridiculous. I’m saying she literally put Arby’s in her pants. Yes.

KLAYMAN: Objection. Relevancy.

It went on like that for some time.

‘YOU’RE A COWARD’

At one point, Bolger attempted to get Loomer to admit that she was talking about Harris’s vagina when she tweeted that Harris had an “infested snatch,” but Loomer refused, causing Bolger to blow up on her:

BOLGER: You wrote a sentence saying she had an “infested snatch”; what is your basis?

LOOMER: I don’t know what I was referring to, honestly. I could be referring to Kamala Harris, herself.

BOLGER: What? Of course, you’re referring to Kamala Harris.

LOOMER: Yeah. I’m talking about Kamala Harris herself.

BOLGER: You’re talking about her body; you’re talking about her vagina?

LOOMER: No. I’m just talking about Kamala Harris.

BOLGER: Well, a snatch is a vagina; isn’t it?

LOOMER: It’s up for interpretation.

BOLGER: You wrote — stop talking. You wrote a tweet that says that Kamala Harris had an “infested snatch.” Now, be the First Amendment warrior you claim to be and admit that you were saying that the vice president of the United States had an infested vagina. Admit it. Because that’s what you were doing, and everybody knows it.

KLAYMAN: Let’s say it.

LOOMER: This is coercion. You just told me to stop talking. I’m not going to talk. I’m not going to be coerced. You’re — you’re asking me to say something —

BOLGER: God. You’re a coward.

LOOMER: that isn’t true. I’m not a coward.

BOLGER: You’re a coward; you won’t even admit to what you did.

LOOMER: I’m not a coward. I’m just not going to be —

BOLGER: Ms. First Amendment warrior won’t admit it.

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Mediaite: ‘MAGA HATES FoxNews’: Trump Lashes Out at Murdoch Media Empire in Truth Social Tirade

President Donald Trump lashed out at Rupert Murdoch’s conservative media empire in a Thursday morning Truth Social tirade that saw him declare that “MAGA HATES FoxNews.”

“The Crooked FoxNews Polls got the Election WRONG, I won by much more than they said I would, and have been biased against me for years. They are always wrong and negative. It’s why MAGA HATES FoxNews, even though their anchors are GREAT,” began Trump in his first post on the subject.

“This has gone on for years, but they never change the incompetent polling company that does their work. Now a new FoxNews poll comes out this morning giving me a little more than 50% at the Border, and yet the Border is miraculously perfect, NOBODY WAS ABLE TO COME IN LAST MONTH. 60,000 people came in with Sleepy Joe in the same month last year,” he continued. “I hate FAKE pollsters, one of the Worst, but Fox will never change their discredited pollster!”

Then in a follow-up post, the president fired a shot at Murdoch’s flagship newspaper, The Wall Street Journal.

“The Wall Street Journal has No Idea what my thoughts are concerning Iran!” he wrote. The Journal has reported that Trump has approved American plans to attack Iran, but is holding out to give the final go-ahead in a last ditch hope that the Iranians would willingly give up their nuclear program.

King Donald hates anyone who doesn’t inflate his ego sufficiently.

Mediaite: Bill Gates Goes Nuclear on Elon Musk: ‘The World’s Richest Man Killing the World’s Poorest Children’

Microsoft founder Bill Gates didn’t mince words in his evaluation of Elon Musk’s role in government, fuming that “the world’s richest man” was “killing the world’s poorest children.”

Speaking with the The Financial Times, Gates expressed his disgust with Musk’s role in shuttering the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

“The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one,” said Gates, who told the Times that he’d “love for him [Musk] to go in and meet the children that have now been infected with HIV because he cut” American aid that had been going to a hospital in Mozambique.

More here:

https://apnews.com/article/bill-gates-foundation-996819a2c13c58f0c7c658a58374f236

And here:

https://archive.is/rKUs0

Mediaite: ‘Slouching Towards Tyranny’: Conservative Outlet Issues Rare Editorial to Rebuke Trump Over ‘Pursuit of American Decline’

This is the editorial referenced in the Mediaite article:

Mediaite wrap-up:

The Dispatch, the conservative outlet founded by former Fox News contributors Stephen Hayes and Jonah Goldberg, issued a rare editorial rebuking President Donald Trump over his “pursuit of American decline” on Thursday.

Under the headline “Slouching Towards Tyranny: On a dark hour for the American right,” the publication’s editors lamented that the “old rules” of “American global leadership, free markets, limited government, fidelity to the Constitution,” have been set aside in favor of “new and fresh ideas.”

“What are these new and fresh ideas? For some, they are literally monarchism or autocracy. For others, they are mercantilism and a division of the world into ‘spheres of influence,’” they continued. “In short, their foreign policy was ancient when Charlemagne was on the throne, and their economic philosophy was hatched in the 15th century.”

Mediaite: The Wall Street Journal Torches Trump for ‘Hurting His Own Cause and Country’ Instead of China: ‘Making It Up as He Goes’

The Wall Street Journal continued its assault on President Donald Trump’s trade policy in a new editorial questioning if he even has a “China trade strategy.”

“It’s all going according to plan, says the White House, and you almost have to smile at this spin in trying to sell President Trump’s partial tariff reversal this week as a triumph,” began the Journal in its opening salvo. “The reality is that Mr. Trump is making it up as he goes, and it would help if he had an actual strategy to deal with China in particular.”

After noting that Trump has escalated his trade war with China, it went on to submit that it isn’t clear whether the administration seeks “complete decoupling” or a “trade deal” with the Chinese.

Robert Reich: Trump’s legal setbacks for the past week

Long read but a good wrap-up for the week:

Today I’m feeling nauseously optimistic. (Nauseous optimism is when your heart aches and you’re sick to your stomach but believe you’ll live to see the dawn.)

Although every other constraint on Trump is gone — congressional Republicans are in the MAGA cult, Democrats are zombies, big business doesn’t dare oppose Trump, and high-tech has gone over to the dark side — one constraint remains: the federal courts.

And the federal courts seem to be holding firm, at least so far.

Consider what the courts did this week:

https://www.facebook.com/RBReich/posts/1189986192494826