A conspiracy theorist close to Donald Trump has sparked further controversy after waging war against Indian migrants in the US.
Laura Loomer, 31, a right-wing theorist and social media influencer, flew with the Republican president-elect in his private jet to a presidential debate in September.
She sparked concern among allies that she influenced him to make extreme remarks about immigrants eating pets – a baseless claim about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio.
And now she is threatening to tell MAGA supporters to ‘stay home’ during the next midterm elections in protest over Silicon Valley’s reliance on foreign-born workers.
It comes amid an ongoing feud with ‘tech bros’ Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, both immigrants and major Trump supporters.
Loomer is also raging over Trump’s appointment of Indian-American entrepreneur Sriram Krishnan as a senior policy adviser for AI.
She described workers from India as ‘third-world invaders’, called Krishnan’s appointment ‘deeply disturbing’, and said ‘the average IQ in …