Donald Trump ally Laura Loomer garnered backlash after attacking Charlie Kirk critics despite her ridiculing the right-wing activist months earlier.
“It’s time for the Trump administration to shut down, defund & prosecute every single leftist organization,” Loomer wrote on X after Kirk was fatally shot while speaking at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. “We must shut these lunatic leftists down. Once and for all. The left is a national security threat.”
However, responses to her request that the president target US leftists in Kirk's honor were flooded with screenshots of a long post from July 13 in which she denounced the deceased 31-year-old as a "charlatan" and "political opportunist" who "stabs Trump in the back" and engaged in "mental gymnastics."
Kirk had previously opposed Trump's planned military strikes against Iran, which TPUSA had mobilized young voters to support.
Kirk has also been outspoken in his desire for the complete disclosure of documents related to the prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein, the former Trump associate who entered a guilty plea to soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2008 and died in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges.
In those days, Loomer also expressed her displeasure that Kirk had hosted comedian Dave Smith at a conference after the latter called for the Republican president to be impeached and for his supporters to "abandon" him, just a year after Trump had escaped an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania.
“I don’t ever want to hear [Kirk] claim he is pro-Trump ever again,” Loomer’s post said, adding that TPUSA had only thrived “thanks to the generosity” of the president. “The honorable thing to do is to have a position and actually defend it to the death instead of flip flopping.
“It really is shameful. And I am honestly just disgusted by the nonstop flip flopping on the right.” Using screenshots of a passage from the July article, Loomer's responses to Kirk's murder included the following: "Maybe sit this out," "I think you need to shut up," and "You're nothing but a sociopathic hypocrite." Others were on Loomer's side.