Laura Loomer has Donald Trump’s ear. What she wants is a White House press credential

Laura Loomer can get President Donald Trump on the phone, but she can’t get a seat in his briefing room.

Laura Loomer can get President Donald Trump on the phone, but she can’t get a seat in his briefing room. As the White House opens its doors to a new class of media personalities – online commentators, podcasters, web video hosts and partisan influencers – one of the most prominent figures in the pro-Trump digital ecosystem remains on the outside looking in. Loomer, a far-right provocateur with a loyal online following, has a direct line to the president and a proven record of influencing his personnel decisions. Yet her requests for press credentials from Trump’s White House have gone unanswered. Loomer has a theory why. “I do think there’s a fear that I may ask questions about the loyalties of people in the White House,” Loomer told CNN, “and they fear me having a national and global microphone to ask those questions.” She wants to know why Hunter Biden, the son of the former president, still had Secret Service protection after Trump took office (he revoked it in March, days after Loomer posted pictures that allegedly showed a detail joining Biden in South Africa). Why the White House legal team isn’t pushing to disqualify judges she sees as conflicted. And most of all, why certain staffers with what she claims are questionable allegiances have been hired in the first place. “I would hold people accountable,” Loomer said. “Not to be malicious toward anyone in the administration but to support the America First agenda.”