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The Miseducation of Laura Loomer

Speaking from her hotel room in Ukraine, Loomer explains her startling embrace of Zelensky and reveals the widening MAGA split over Russia, Israel, antisemitism, and America’s role in the world.

Laura Loomer
Right-wing influencer, Laura Loomer Photo: Jacob M. Langston for The Washington Post via Getty Images
Julia Ioffe
July 23, 2026

After years of slagging Ukraine as being full of Nazis and accusing the country of having planted agents among the January 6 insurrectionists, right-wing influencer and former RT contributor Laura Loomer decided to go see the place for herself. “I said, ‘What’s the worst thing that could happen if I went to Ukraine?’” she told me the other night from her Kyiv hotel room. “And I spoke to some people about it, and they said, ‘Well, you could get, you know, blown up.’”