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The Maga world — those who vociferously support Donald Trump — are quite fond of conspiracy theories. They have peddled many such ideas, including ones on the Trump-Harris debate, on immigrants and on USAID.
Now, as the Trump administration battles Signal-gate — senior officials mistakenly added The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal group where plans for strikes on Yemen’s Houthis were discussed — comes another conspiracy theory, courtesy hard-right conspiracy theorist and outspoken Trump supporter Laura Loomer.
But what is Loomer’s theory?
A China link to Signal-gate
A day after Goldberg made the disclosure of Yemen’s war plan leaked on Signal , Loomer, who was on Trump’s campaign trail last year, made a stunning revelation that there could be a possible ‘China link’.
To support her conspiracy, the right-wing commentator pointed fingers at Alex Wong, US principal deputy national security advisor, because his wife, Candice Chiu Wong, is of Chinese descent and once worked as a prosecutor on January 6 cases.
Chiu is the daughter of Meiling Fang and Ya-Hui Chui. Fang served as senior manager of satellite operations at AsiaSat in Hong Kong while Ya-Hui retired as a dietitian from Hong Kong’s Grantham Hospital. Loomer wrote on X that Fang had direct ties to the Communist Party of China & the People’s Liberation Army of China via his 23 year long career with AsiaSat, the leading satellite solutions provider in Asia. She explained in an X post that AsiaSat is essentially partially owned by the CCP as a state owned entity in China.
🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) March 26, 2025
Deputy National Security advisor Alex Wong’s father in law had direct ties to the CCP @MikeWaltz47
The father of Candice Chiu Wong, the wife of Alex Wong, the Trump-appointed Chinese Deputy National Security Advisor under @michaelgwaltz who is now at the center… https://t.co/adHatO6Sgm pic.twitter.com/pYVDILPY5o
She wrote on X, “Wong is married to US Attorney Candice Chiu Wong, a Chinese woman who was one of the key attorneys involved in prosecuting J6ers.”
She further added, “I have discovered that Alex’s wife, Candice Chiu Wong, worked under the Obama administration and the Biden administration as an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, where she led the Violence Reduction and Trafficking Offenses Section for more than two years.
“She was involved in the prosecution of many J6ers during the Biden regime, under which she was nominated to become a Member of the United States Sentencing Commission. Additionally, Candice Chiu Wong served as a Law Clerk to Obama-appointed US Supreme Court Justice Sonia M Sotomayor!”
Loomer in her long X post also added that the deputy national security advisor had previously worked for the large legal defence firm Covington & Burling. In February, the White House had suspended the security clearances of the company’s lawyers with Trump also calling for ending all contracts Covington has with the federal government after he the US president accused them of being involved in the weaponisation of government.
However, Loomer has not provided any concrete evidence to back her claim.
The Yemen war plan leak
Loomer’s conspiracy comes after the US was stunned when The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg published an article titled ‘The Trump Administration accidentally texted me its war plans’ in which he outlined how he was added to a group chat on the Signal app where 18 Trump officials, including National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance among others, discussed secret military plans for attacks on the Houthi armed group in Yemen.
The news was met with outrage and calls for an investigation in the US, with Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer calling it “one of the most stunning breaches of military intelligence I have read about in a very, very long time”.
However, Trump’s team has tried to downplay the leak, saying no classified information was shared, with the US president himself, terming it as a ‘witch-hunt’.
Hegseth is doing a great job he had nothing to do with it. "It's all a witch hunt,"
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) March 26, 2025
God, I love Trump 2.0! pic.twitter.com/CB7GDYH4rU
This led to the US-based news magazine to publish another article — this time titled ‘Here are the attack plans that Trump’s advisers shared on Signal’ in which Goldberg provided more details of the attack.
Laura Loomer’s controversial past
This isn’t the first time that Loomer is peddling conspiracy theories online. The 31-year-old far-right influencer has in the past promoted a 9/11 conspiracy theory — in which she claims that the 9/11 attacks were an “inside job” carried out by the US government.
But that’s not it. Last year, during the presidential debate with Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, Trump had claimed that illegal immigrants from Haiti have been eating domestic pets in a small Ohio city. “They are eating the pets of the people that live there,” he said.
Trump said he was repeating claims he had heard on television, but the theory was aired by Loomer just a day before the debate. And a day later, she repeated the claims to her 1.2m followers on X.
Moreover, according to some of Trump’s advisers, it was Loomer who had peddled the theory questioning Kamala Harris’ ethnicity, which Trump then mentioned during an interview at the National Association of Black Journalists convention.
“He wasn’t the one who came up with that talking point,” the adviser told CNN, adding that it was Loomer, who had baselessly accused Harris on X of hiding her Black heritage leading up to Trump’s appearance.
She has also claimed that the son of billionaire George Soros was sending cryptic messages calling for Trump’s assassination.
Most recently, she’s in the news for accusing Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett of assaulting a correspondent who questioned her about vandalism at Tesla showrooms.
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