Six big stories for today: starting with an internet-famous conspiracy theorist somehow getting meetings in the Oval Office, and House Speaker Mike Johnson shutting down Congress to block a bill he doesn’t like. The White House is admitting they screwed up and mistakenly sent a dad to a notorious Salvadoran prison known for torturing prisoners… and they don’t want him to come back. Oh, and tariffs? Were you planning on buying a house this year? That could be harder. We talk to a small business owner who says price hikes aren’t the only thing to worry about on the tariff front — and they are suing the Trump administration over it. PLUS: Signalgate the Sequel.
Buckle up – there’s a lot to cover! Let’s start here:
Laura Loomer had research. And on Wednesday, she carried her stack of papers into the Oval Office to show it to President Trump. Some of his top employees in the National Security Council were disloyal, Loomer alleged, and she had the proof. By the next day, multiple people on the NSC had been dismissed.
Of course Mike Waltz, Trump’s National Security Adviser, has been mired in controversy over using a messaging app, Signal, to coordinate military attack plans and accidentally adding a journalist to the group message. But this meeting wasn’t about the security risks in doing that. It was about loyalty.
Loomer is not a government employee. She’s a right-wing “influencer” for lack of a better term, who describes herself as an investigative journalist. She’s twice run for Congress, and lost.
She’s been banned on just about every platform she’s been on. But not from the Oval Office.