Antonia Hitchens

I just want to be here.

I just want to be heard.

Why don't you want me here?

And so I think for a number of people, their kind of introduction to Loomer was interesting.

seeing these bizarre public stunts that were sort of hard to read.

I think even to this day, despite her increased prominence, if you ask her a question about who is paying her or

what her work really is or the nature of her relationship with the president, she often will double back to the idea that all she really is ultimately is a clairvoyante and that she kind of exists in this freeform way in society as someone who, before anyone else, can parse what's going on.

The case that you brought up just now when she wrote that she was like Cassandra and

She had stormed a hearing that Jack Dorsey, the then Twitter CEO, was testifying in about kind of complaints on behalf of many Republicans and more sort of also far right figures that they were being, quote unquote, shadow banned, which means that their voices were not being directly silenced, but that

the algorithm was kind of primed to never have any of what they wrote show up.

So they were in effect banned in their view.

And so Loomer storms this hearing with Jack Dorsey testifying, and she's screaming that if Dorsey doesn't stop these shadow bans against Republicans, they won't be able to speak out and the 2020 election will be stolen from them.

And

You know, this is well before anything happened with January 6th or even Trump was saying that the election had been stolen.

So this notion that years before an event happens, she's screaming about it in the halls of Congress saying, this will happen if you don't stop silencing us.

I think in retrospect was cast by her and others as this kind of ability to see the future that led her to believe she was uniquely positioned to not just protect, but kind of profoundly understand what the president needs.

So when Loomer runs for Congress in 2020, she runs in the district where Mar-a-Lago is.

at that time was, I say in the past tense because it's since been redistricted.

And so in her telling of that race, the president endorsed her and voted for her.

In her second race in 2022, there were sort of a slew of candidates who came about because they were primarying