Trump spoke on Air Force One on Thursday, confirming the NSC firing and acknowledging Loomer’s role in advising him. “She makes suggestions… Sometimes I listen to those suggestions…I listen to everyone and then make a decision.”
Loomer has promoted conspiracy theories about the 9/11 attacks and espoused anti-immigration and anti-Muslim rhetoric, and has become increasingly voiced on Trump’s political trajectory. In recent weeks, she has publicly attacked members of Trump’s own team, accusing them of undermining his agenda. “Laura Loomer is a very good patriot,” Trump said Thursday. “She is a very strong person.”
On Monday, Reuters reported that Elon Musk, who was assigned to the U.S. Department of Justice’s Department of Justice, had previously been a hacker who ran a website that distributes pirated e-books and software. According to Reuters’ comments on the Wayback machine’s domain name registration data and archive page, a website like FKN-PWND.com features “anging Up Servers!”. Next to it is a rough sketch of the penis.
Christopher Stanley, a 33-year-old engineer who worked for Musk’s social media companies X and Space Company SpaceX, is listed on the listing of staff catalogs reviewed by former Justice Department officials and Reuters. Stanley allegedly started about 10 years after joining SpaceX, Stanley has hosted several online forums covering software piracy, video game cheating and hacking. Reuters reported that he used various pseudonyms on these sites, including Enkrypt and Reneg4d3. The FKN-PWND.com website launched in 2006 will be created at Stanley High School.
The Reuters report asked Edward Coristine, another doorman tech expert, who worked for a company known for hiring reformed hackers.
Last week, when the Atlantic reported that the person using the signal account belonged to National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, the Atlantic revealed a stunning operational security failure, accidentally invited the editor-in-chief of the publication to have a private signaling group chat to discuss Yemen’s cover bombing operation. Now, Politico reports that Waltz’s team often uses signal chats (a wider range than before) to coordinate official work on sensitive issues such as Ukraine, China, Gaza, the Middle East, Africa, Africa and Europe.
Sources who spoke with Politico under anonymous conditions said they directly participated in or learned about at least 20 such group chats. Although none of these four people could confirm whether classified information was shared, all said discussions often included sensitive national security details. After these revelations, Waltz and other U.S. government officials were also under scrutiny for revealing their Venmo accounts and reportedly used personal Gmail addresses for government business.
The Pentagon’s acting inspector general announced Thursday a review of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of an encrypted signaling app to share his plan of action against Hotis in Yemen.
