Antonia Hitchens

So I had laid out as much as I could about just what I knew about where it seemed like she was being influenced or compensated.

And she had always said to me when I would bring up these questions to her, I'm not a lobbyist.

I'm a clairvoyant.

And, you know, the implication that her work was about anything other than purity and love was really insulting to her.

Well, I think you have someone who for years is posting out of real passion and with a really intense frequency and volume about a number of different things, but they weren't the specific niche interests that lobbyists and consultants and lawyers care about.

And they weren't phrased in the terms of, as you say, almost kind of jargon level.

And so you see those kind of creeping into these posts about how wonderful Trump is and

there's a point at which I think people start to wonder when did the original Laura become the kind of Laura who was working for a number of different interests and weighing in on as you mentioned the

I think what's notable is how porous the barrier is between all of these things.

And I think especially when it comes to lobbying, if you register with FARA as a lobbyist, it's clear why you would advance a certain position.

And it's because you are a lobbyist for a foreign government.

I think in the past, there would have been no reason why someone posting online all day from home would be

subjected to the same kinds of disclosures as a lobbyist in Washington going to a steakhouse.

But as one of Loomer's allies put it to me, you know, if Laura posts online and nearly two million people see it, including her following in the U.S.

government, and then their position is changed based on that, that's not lobbying.

Lobbying would only be if she had taken a meeting officially that she had acknowledged took place between, you know, a member of Congress after meeting with foreign government.

And so it's not as though she's skirting any requirement that her position would impose on her.

She's just existing in a new kind of netherworld of everything is allowed.

Loomer told me that her parents were, quote unquote, registered Republicans, I think is a way of gesturing it.

A certain kind of down the line, we vote for whoever is on the ballot in Arizona, but not especially engaged and, you know, going to protests or anything like that.