Donald Trump spent the 23rd anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks in the company of a right-wing conspiracy theorist who had previously claimed that the attacks were an inside job.

Laura Loomer, a self-proclaimed “pro-white nationalist” and “proud Islamophobe”, accompanied Trump and JD Vance attended the annual service at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum on Wednesday and then went to a fire station in Lower Manhattan to meet with New York firefighters and remember the victims of the September 11 attacks.

For Loomer, however, these deaths had special meaning because she is convinced that the U.S. government was involved in the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Americans—at least that’s what she posted on X last year.

“On September 10, 2001, the day before September 11, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld under the Bush administration said the U.S. government had ‘lost’ $2.3 trillion. The very next day, September 11, 2001, we were attacked,” Loomer said. wrote in a post in June 2023.

In addition to those killed on September 11, there was another 6,781 By December, it is estimated that people had died from illnesses related to exposure to Ground Zero in the days following the collapse of the World Trade Center. In Afghanistan and Pakistan, an estimated 70,000 As a result of the US military campaign, civilians were killed between 2001 and 2023.

It makes sense that Loomer stayed close to Trump and his troops, because she was already Depend with them on the plane before the presidential debate on Tuesday evening.

Loomer has spread numerous right-wing conspiracy theories, including that Kamala Harris’ mother has committed immigration fraud and that former U.S. Representative Gabby Giffords, who survived a gunshot wound to the head, “brain dead.”

Loomer spent her time at Ground Zero on Wednesday, posting on X about how President Joe Biden “looked like death.”