The Growing Divide on Trump's Team
Conspiracy theorist's Oval Office meeting was just the beginning
"The firing of several NSC officials who worked for NSC Adviser Mike Waltz - after President Trump met with far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer - represents the latest battle in a war that has been raging inside Republican foreign policy circles since Trump's ascendance about America's role in the world.
This is a clash between the "restraint" wing of Trump supporters, which prioritizes limited military engagements abroad, reduced foreign aid, and deep skepticism toward international alliances like NATO, versus the traditionalists – a coalition of defense hawks, internationalists, and free-trade advocates who see American leadership as indispensable to global stability. "
The purge was swift and merciless. Half a dozen National Security Council officials were fired last week after far-right activist Laura Loomer presented President Trump with a dossier of their alleged infractions against Trump's "America First" agenda.
Loomer, who calls herself an “investigative journalist” and has been shunned by even conservative outle…
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