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BumRushDaShow

(167,189 posts)
Sun Feb 8, 2026, 04:52 AM 17 hrs ago

Laura Loomer Accuses Tim Scott of 'Trying to Sabotage' Trump

Source: Newsweek

Published Feb 07, 2026 at 04:32 PM EST updated Feb 07, 2026 at 04:54 PM EST


Far-right political activist Laura Loomer hit out at Senator Tim Scott, a South Carolina Republican, over his comments he made in response to controversial video that was posted, then deleted from President Donald Trump's Truth Social account on Friday.

"I showed this tweet posted by Tim Scott to President Trump last night. 14 million views on a lie because [Scott] wants to cost the GOP the midterms & smear President Trump," Loomer, a staunch supporter of Trump, wrote in part on her X account on Saturday. "Why hasn’t he deleted this tweet? He is deliberately trying to sabotage President Trump." Newsweek reached out to Scott's office by email on Saturday afternoon for comment.

Why It Matters

Trump set off a media firestorm on Friday after it surfaced that a video about alleged voter fraud in the 2020 election posted to his Truth Social account had a brief clip at the end that showed former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama's smiling faces superimposed onto the bodies of apes.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt rejected criticism of the post as "fake outrage," but after Scott posted on his X account the video was "the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House," the video was deleted, and the White House later said a staffer posted the video to the account and the president had not seen the full video.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/laura-loomer-accuses-tim-scott-trying-sabotage-trump-11483652



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Laura Loomer Accuses Tim Scott of 'Trying to Sabotage' Trump (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 17 hrs ago OP
I call her Laura Loony... wcmagumba 17 hrs ago #1
I. Call her. Laura Loser !!!!!! Trueblue1968 7 hrs ago #27
Good job Laura! liberalgunwilltravel 17 hrs ago #2
Nut C Moon 16 hrs ago #3
Ahh, so they are already creating 'fall guys' for their upcoming losses. OldBaldy1701E 15 hrs ago #4
14 million views? Roy Rolling 14 hrs ago #5
And I'm wondering... Trueblue Texan 12 hrs ago #8
Rat Fight! travelingthrulife 13 hrs ago #6
I'll never understand Tim Scott radical noodle 12 hrs ago #7
People like him BumRushDaShow 11 hrs ago #10
You have to wonder when Magas of color are going to read the room and realize they will never be accepted by Maga Fil1957 11 hrs ago #13
It took people like Michael Steele BumRushDaShow 10 hrs ago #16
I knew him years ago SCantiGOP 11 hrs ago #12
He goes where the wind goes. ificandream 8 hrs ago #20
So somebody else posted something on Trump's account and he didn't know about it because he Botany 11 hrs ago #9
Go Laura! Go! You tell 'em! Fil1957 11 hrs ago #11
Senator Tim Scott is trying to smear the president? patphil 10 hrs ago #14
Laura knows how to stroke his...ego. hay rick 10 hrs ago #15
Loomer's like Stefanik...she does tricks for him all day, and yet he never tosses her a Snausage. Miles Archer 10 hrs ago #17
But the difference between Loomer and Stefanik BumRushDaShow 10 hrs ago #18
True, and... Miles Archer 8 hrs ago #23
Lake is definitely lumped into that group along with Karoline Leavett BumRushDaShow 7 hrs ago #24
Loomer is a depraved creature... GiqueCee 9 hrs ago #19
One Cuckoo calling the other one the clock. mdbl 8 hrs ago #21
Since when did Trump need any help sabotaging himself? Martin68 8 hrs ago #22
I know someone who met her mercuryblues 7 hrs ago #25
Well that's telling scott to sit down and be quiet, boy. Figarosmom 7 hrs ago #26

Roy Rolling

(7,524 posts)
5. 14 million views?
Sun Feb 8, 2026, 08:10 AM
14 hrs ago

Someone’s significant orange in the shade? MAGAt Tim Scott stealing the spotlight with 14 million views? Did Loony get orders to give Scott the hook and yank him off the MAGA Circus stage?

Trueblue Texan

(4,260 posts)
8. And I'm wondering...
Sun Feb 8, 2026, 09:55 AM
12 hrs ago

What happened Friday that we all missed? It must have been something big that TSF needed such a disgusting distraction.

radical noodle

(10,510 posts)
7. I'll never understand Tim Scott
Sun Feb 8, 2026, 09:45 AM
12 hrs ago

trump has been obviously racist for decades, and it's hard to believe Scott has been unaware of it. How he can continue to support trump is a mystery to me.

BumRushDaShow

(167,189 posts)
10. People like him
Sun Feb 8, 2026, 10:47 AM
11 hrs ago

attribute the GOP's continual use of racist memes and tropes as nothing more than "political hyperbole". But apparently some in his state must have called him up and read him the riot act and/or he blinked and finally "saw it".

I posted this elsewhere but the same kind of sudden "awareness" happened to Distort D'Newza this past fall -




Dinesh D'Souza
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In a career spanning 40 years, I have never encountered this type of rhetoric. The Right never used to talk like this. So who on our side has legitimized this type of vile degradation? It’s a question worth thinking about.
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You’re Indian, you made nothing, you are nothing, and devoid of creation. Your ilk has been a race of slaves for hundreds of years, and even after being given a chance, you prove what worth you are, devoid of actual thought. Your existence causes me disgust
9:20 AM · Oct 21, 2025


I know it took A LOT for something to break through HIS diamond dense skull!!!

Fil1957

(627 posts)
13. You have to wonder when Magas of color are going to read the room and realize they will never be accepted by Maga
Sun Feb 8, 2026, 11:33 AM
11 hrs ago

or the modern Republican party because of their race. I wonder how long it's going to take for them to realize this.

SCantiGOP

(14,682 posts)
12. I knew him years ago
Sun Feb 8, 2026, 11:29 AM
11 hrs ago

When he was on the Charleston County Council. He got that job by running as a Republican in a red area and parroting the hard right line. It was always just about personal advancement - he never had any true core beliefs.
And don’t forget that he was appointed to the Senate position so the SC GOP (and Tricki Nikki Haley) could show that they would accept the occasional black person as long as they toed the line and didn’t support any civil rights nonsense.

Botany

(76,721 posts)
9. So somebody else posted something on Trump's account and he didn't know about it because he
Sun Feb 8, 2026, 10:34 AM
11 hrs ago

…. only saw part of it and yap and yap and yap. Hey Scott Trump has always been a racist shit.
Remember Trump’s pushing the “Obama wasn’t born in America” lie even though 3 different News-
papers in Hawaii had his birth announcement?

patphil

(8,841 posts)
14. Senator Tim Scott is trying to smear the president?
Sun Feb 8, 2026, 11:52 AM
10 hrs ago

Oh, c'mon. We all know that Trump is self-smearing with every vile comment that spews forth from his mouth.
All Senator Scott did was point it out. It's a "the emperor has no clothes" moment that most republicans refuse to acknowledge.
Laura Loomer is fully invested in the hatred that Trump exudes from every pore of his body.

Miles Archer

(22,256 posts)
17. Loomer's like Stefanik...she does tricks for him all day, and yet he never tosses her a Snausage.
Sun Feb 8, 2026, 12:14 PM
10 hrs ago

She's like Stefanik...too much for Trump.

With Stefanik, I guess the reason was that she's so NEEDY. I KNEW people like her in my younger days. They'd show up and before they opened their mouth it was "OH NO, not HER again." She also is light years away from "hot," by Trump's definition. I don't think Kristi Noem is hot, but until the Cricket story came out, I GUARANTEE YOU she was his top pick for VP. She had the same level of flattery and fealty as Stefanik, but...too creepy. Not to say that Noem's not creepy...she certainly is. Just a different kind, that doesn't rub Trump the wrong way.

Loomer's got the Botox / plastic surgery "Mar-a-Lago" face, but she took it too far into the Creature from the Black Lagoon zone. Last time I saw a face like that it was cleaning the algae from the inside walls of a fish tank. So she's crazy and not hot, two big strikes in Trump's book.

And, there's a bit of the "What the hell is wrong with Elon" thing (Trump's comment after Musk did the bouncing prancing drugged moron thing at his MAGAt rally).

SOMETIMES, in her zeal to please the master, she says things that cause him to back-pedal, directly or indirectly.

BumRushDaShow

(167,189 posts)
18. But the difference between Loomer and Stefanik
Sun Feb 8, 2026, 12:33 PM
10 hrs ago

is that Loomer is a bomb-thrower like MTG and Stefanik was "the obedient servant".

So Loomer does it to get the attention of and stay relevant with the MAGats, to keep her rabid "followers" entertained.

Meanwhile Stefanik was seeking to become part of the "power structure" but 45's GOP is not the group that would ever want to accommodate her because she is not ruthless enough.

You see Tulsi Gabbard trying to shoe-horn herself into the "ruthless club". But that is a tricky thing to do when you see members like Noem and possibly even Bondi, a step away from being ousted from that.

Miles Archer

(22,256 posts)
23. True, and...
Sun Feb 8, 2026, 02:06 PM
8 hrs ago

...with Trump, I am reminded of something a manager in a company I worked for told me something, years ago.

My manager was 10 kinds of awful. He'd worked with her in various companies for decades. He told me "One day you might end up on her LIST. You may not know it the moment it happens. But if you go ON it, you'll NEVER come off."

And, it was true. In hindsight he might have been alerting me to the fact that I was already on it. I was out of the company shortly after that.

Trump does the same thing, but because he's a whore for money and fealty and if you bring him both, like Musk and Bezos and Zuckerberg, you're GOLD...you CAN get back ON his list, but in a diminished form. Like Musk. He and Trump supposedly kissed and made up, but this time, we don't see him 7 days a week. That might be by design on his part. He's not gonna get that 1 trillion salary bump if he keeps stepping into the MAGAt spotlight.

But look at Kari Lake. I'd say she had the same level of ambition and anticipation as Stefanik and Noem, but she's too toxic, even for Trump. People really, really don't like her...even in her home state...and having her around would have been a constant drag on his "headlines."

BumRushDaShow

(167,189 posts)
24. Lake is definitely lumped into that group along with Karoline Leavett
Sun Feb 8, 2026, 02:43 PM
7 hrs ago

But interestingly, some like Susie Wiles & Linda McMahon (both older women too) have kept their heads down (although obviously McMahon's connections are part of that too, with her being a (wealthy) "working class"-affiliated version of Betsy DeVos).

GiqueCee

(3,627 posts)
19. Loomer is a depraved creature...
Sun Feb 8, 2026, 01:30 PM
9 hrs ago

... desperately dependent on ATTENTION! When she doesn't get enough to satisfy her ever-increasing need for a fix, she escalates the malice and mendacity of her attacks to absurd levels.
The solution? Ignore her. Don't give her the satisfaction of your attention to her histrionics; don't publish her rants and accusations. Treat her as if she wasn't even there, like you can see right through her. Deprived of the oxygenating attention she craves, she will implode. Let her clean toilets with her toothbrush to earn a crust of bread.
Few, if any, will mourn her passing from the public spotlight. Yeah, I know the hard-core hyenas of MAGA-land will always give her some attention, but that will never be enough; her addiction is too far gone. She will shrivel and shriek like the Wicked Witch of the West when drenched with the cleansing waters of truth and common human decency until there's nothing left of her but her tattered, tasteless wardrobe. Then we can get down to rebuilding what Trump tried so hard to destroy.

mercuryblues

(16,245 posts)
25. I know someone who met her
Sun Feb 8, 2026, 03:00 PM
7 hrs ago

Let's just say Du opinion of her his spot on.

If you hit her over the head with a sock full of rocks, you would make her smarter.

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