One of Arizona’s kookiest exports, conspiracy theorist and Donald Trump ally Laura Loomer , is making it her own personal mission to purge the Trump administration of anyone she sees as not sufficiently loyal and subservient to the president. It’s made her an influential figure in Trump’s increasingly authoritarian regime.
And now, the 32-year-old Tucson native has applied her Trump suck-up purity test to the wife of Stephen Richer , a prominent Republican critic of Trump’s election denialism and the former Maricopa County Recorder.
On Friday morning, Loomer tweeted a long-winded complaint about Lindsay Short, whom Loomer identified as working for the U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona. Because of Short’s association with Richer and because of an honor given to her years