Laura Loomer tried to bury her offensive tweets before foreign trip. Too bad a journalist with receipts was waiting for her

Right-wing influencer and presidential adviser Laura Loomer found herself being confronted with some tough questions regarding past racist tweets during a trip to India over the weekend.

Loomer had previously tried to erase all evidence of her old posts before her visit to the country, likely hoping nobody would notice, but unfortunately for her, the internet never forgets. At an event in New Delhi, she was forced to explain her old posts after journalist Rajdeep Sardesai arrived with a collection of her old posts and read them aloud to Loomer’s horror.

The right-wing social media personality has made numerous controversial statements in the past that reek of both racism and islamophobia. According to the Independent, roughly 15% of the Indian population, (about 205 million) are Muslim. However, Loomer has loudly and proudly stated in the past that she believes Islam is “a cancer on the world.” 

She has also expressed her belief that Islamophobia does not exist and that “it should be illegal in the United States for Muslims to hold office.” On top of that, she has made other remarks and posts in the past that are just plain racist.

Laura Loomer’s racist tweets are exposed

Loomer almost immediately backed down after being asked about previous disparaging remarks about the country and its people while at the event.  “I shouldn’t have said some of the things that I said,” she stated, when confronted, “I apologize if my remarks offended people.” However, she still stood by her criticism of the H-1B visa program as she claimed, “our immigration laws have been exploited and abused, and our labor laws have also been exploited and abused.”

Towards the end of the discussion Sardesai, a journalist for India Today, began reading some of her deleted posts, such as her claim that the White House would “smell like curry” if Kamala Harris was elected. In another particularly offensive post she stated that the U.S. was built by “white Europeans, not third-world invaders from India.”

Loomer sits in awkward silence while Sardesai reads the disgusting tweets and chastises her for her highly offensive words. “I think you should do more than just express regret,” he says, “from what I can see you’re brazenly racist and islamophobic… which has no place, ma’am, in today’s world.”

Sardesai’s speech was met with a round of applause from others in the room and online people commended the journalist for calling out Loomer and her deleted tweets while remaining classy and respectable. “She looked like she wanted to delete herself next,” wrote one person on X, “The journalist is [a] real hero.” Seeing Laura Loomer get called out in such a public setting does spark a great deal of joy.