{"id":76533,"date":"2026-07-25T05:55:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T10:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/25\/whats-behind-maga-influencer-laura-loomers-about-face-on-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T05:55:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T10:55:39","slug":"whats-behind-maga-influencer-laura-loomers-about-face-on-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/25\/whats-behind-maga-influencer-laura-loomers-about-face-on-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s behind Maga influencer Laura Loomer\u2019s about-face on Ukraine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a Kyiv visit, rightwing firebrand now supports Ukraine \u2013 but perhaps it\u2019s just because Trump favors a winner<\/p>\n<p>Laura Loomer, the online Maga provocateur, has never worked in the White House or anywhere else in the government, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/24\/maga-influencer-laura-loomer-reverses-course-on-ukraine-after-kyiv-visit\">her sudden conversion to the Ukrainian cause<\/a> this week is significant because her social media posts often have real policy implications in the second <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The rightwing commentator has spent the last few days in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/kyiv\">Kyiv<\/a>, where she announced a newfound sympathy for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ukraine\">Ukraine<\/a> in its long war with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/russia\">Russia<\/a>, and admitted that she had previously fallen for Russian propaganda.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/25\/laura-loomers-ukraine-visit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a Kyiv visit, rightwing firebrand now supports Ukraine \u2013 but perhaps it\u2019s just because Trump favors a winner Laura Loomer, the online Maga provocateur, has never worked in the White House or anywhere else in the government, but her sudden conversion to the Ukrainian cause this week is significant because her social media posts &#8230; <a title=\"What\u2019s behind Maga influencer Laura Loomer\u2019s about-face on Ukraine?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/25\/whats-behind-maga-influencer-laura-loomers-about-face-on-ukraine\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about What\u2019s behind Maga influencer Laura Loomer\u2019s about-face on Ukraine?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}