Antonia Hitchens

And then she has a team of producers remotely who help her with, you know, the lights for her show and her at-home studio.

But Loomer Unleashed is very much a – it's a Laura production.

And so there's a sense of –

kind of non-finito ragtag, I'm pulling this together myself, to her content, which I think, you know, tonally bears some resemblance to the long screeds she posts on Twitter.

I think there's a style to them that's not polished, and that's part of what draws in some of her support.

By the time that the New Yorker wanted to profile her, and I went back and looked at the recollections I had already from the times over the past 18 months that my life had intersected with her, I think what surprised me was that she became a figure who would be worthy of a New Yorker profile.

When I first saw her kind of in the flesh, she was, you know, storming into restaurants, filming people.

She was chasing Frank Luntz to his car.

asking him about Nikki Haley.

She was traveling with Trump to his debate in Philadelphia.

I think as the months went on and she became this figure who shows up in the Oval Office and takes credit for firing a dozen of national security officials, it was more about squaring that person I'd seen running through Iowa.

with no clear role, with someone who had developed for herself at least enough of a sense of a role that there was enough to write about.

So I think she was flattered in some ways by being seen as having any stones left to turn over.

And I think both Trump and Loomer, who accept many interviews from what is seen by them as unfavorable media, they still understand the kind of validity to continuing

Do you know what it was like for the fact checkers to fact check this story and what the most difficult part was?

I think the experience of any subject for a New Yorker profile dealing with the fact checkers is very intense because you're being asked, you know, what time was it when you remember getting your divorce papers or, you know, having to reconstruct on this almost molecular level these details of your life.

I think in Loomer's case, she was really grateful for that process because she feels that she deals so much in the same realm of

looking for truth.

And she feels that she's been so maligned by every force in society who's never asked her what's true.

And so to have someone call her up five times for an hour and have her reconstruct these almost mundane details of her existence that