Trump breaks his silence on ‘free spirit’ Laura Loomer

Donald Trump claimed to be completely unaware of the growing controversy around conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer as he faced questions about why he had allowed a woman who said 9/11 was an inside job to travel with him for commemoration events this week.

Loomer has become a regular fixture at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home despite her outlandish views, and this week made racist comments about Trump’s opponent Kamala Harris.

But at a press conference at his Los Angeles golf club in front of the Pacific Ocean on Friday, Trump refused to criticize her.

‘I don’t control Laura,’ he said. ‘I can’t tell Laura what to do. She’s a supporter.’

Instead he called her a ‘free spirit’ and claimed to know nothing about a post in which his supporter said ‘the White House will smell like curry & White House speeches will be facilitated via a call center’ if Harris, the daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants, won the election.

Former President Donald Trump broke his silence about Laura Loomer at a press conference

Trump spoke to reporters for more than an hour, railing against debate moderators once again, slamming California’s political leaders and taking aim at Haitian migrants.

But he faced most questions about Loomer, a 31-year-old far-right activist.

Her presence on Trump’s private jet has alarmed many of the former president’s allies who believe that she is hurting his chances of winning over new voters.

He shrugged off questions about why she rode on his plane this week to a 9/11 event in Pennsylvania, and the memorial to flight 93 despite once saying the attack on the Twin Towers was an inside job.

‘A lot of people do,’ he said. ‘It’s a very big plane.’

Instead he claimed ignorance about her history of controversial remarks. He promised to read up on her comments and issue a statement. 

Loomer is so far from even fringe Republicans that the likes of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has pushed her own conspiracy theories, have called her out as ‘extremely racist’ for her curry comment.

Trump also used the occasion to launch an attack on Harris, hitting some of the lines aides thought he would use during the debate.

He focused on her record in California, where she was attorney general and before that district attorney of San Francisco. 

Laura Loomer arrives with Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump for a visit to the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Company in Shanksville

She also traveled with him this week to the presidential debate in Philadelphia

Trump spoke to reporters in front of the Pacific Ocean at his Los Angeles golf club

‘She destroyed San Francisco and she destroyed the state,’ he said.

After the event at his golf club he is due to head to a fundraiser hosted by billionaire software developer Tom Siebel and his wife Stacey.

Tickets start at $3000 all the way up to $500,000 for a couple to on the host committee at the event in the Bay Area town of Woodside.  

Trump is playing catchup with Harris who has had a fundraising bonanza since entering the race in late July. 

The two are locked in a tight battle. The DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners election model gives the former president a 55 percent chance of victory, with less than two months to go. 

Both candidates have hit the campaign trail since the debate in swing states, making the case that they had the best debate night.

Trump was in Arizona on Thursday, when he was unapologetic about coming across as angry.  

Trump held the press conference before a fundraiser and a rally in Las Vegas later Friday

‘People said that I was angry at the debate, angry,’ he told a raucous crowd in Tucson.

‘I was angry, and yes, I am angry because she allowed 21 million illegal aliens invading our communities. Many of them are criminals.’

And he unveiled another populist economic measure, promising to abolish tax on overtime.

‘You know what that means? I think that gives people more of an incentive to work,’ he said. 

‘It gives the companies a lot … it’s a lot easier to get the people.’ 

Critics will wonder how he plans to pay for it without adding to the nationall debt.