Republican Party hundreds of thousands of dollars for Laura Lommer to post on X/Twitter Right-wing activist Laura Lommer was paid by private clients to publish political posts on social media without publicly disclosing the payments, according to a former campaign aide to President Donald Trump and three others familiar with the arrangements, shedding light on what they say is the business practices of one of the most influential online firebrands. The allegations were made by Alex Brosewitz, an adviser to Trump's 2024 campaign, and three other people who spoke on condition of anonymity. Two of the three people said they paid Lomer directly to post political messages on her X account, where she has 1.9 million followers. The third said they monitored clients who paid her to advertise on the account. The three spoke on condition of anonymity. Emails of bank transactions and a wire transfer statement reviewed by The Washington Post appear to show four payments totaling more than $60,000 sent to Lomer and a Florida company registered under her name, King Breaker Media, since May of last year. The documents do not specify the purpose of the payments, but two people familiar with the arrangements said they were for political positions. Say, one of Trump's best-known online companies, denied to the Post that it gets paid to post on social media. Instead she described herself as a journalist and activist and disputed the idea that she was a paid influencer to advance any political cause. The new allegations about Lommers' influence on the business could add fuel to a growing debate over the little-regulated industry of political messaging on social media, where influencers on both sides of the aisle have operated in a legal gray area between advocacy and advertising. Brozewitz first published his claims in X on Thursday.

Republican Party hundreds of thousands of dollars for Laura Lommer to post on X/Twitter Right-wing activist Laura Lommer was paid by private clients to publish political posts on social media without publicly disclosing the payments, according to a former campaign aide to President Donald Trump and three others familiar with the arrangements, shedding light on what they say is the business practices of one of the most influential online firebrands. The allegations were made by Alex Brosewitz, an adviser to Trump's 2024 campaign, and three other people who spoke on condition of anonymity. Two of the three people said they paid Lomer directly to post political messages on her X account, where she has 1.9 million followers. The third said they monitored clients who paid her to advertise on the account. The three spoke on condition of anonymity. Emails of bank transactions and a wire transfer statement reviewed by The Washington Post appear to show four payments totaling more than $60,000 sent to Lomer and a Florida company registered under her name, King Breaker Media, since May of last year. The documents do not specify the purpose of the payments, but two people familiar with the arrangements said they were for political positions. Say, one of Trump's best-known online companies, denied to the Post that it gets paid to post on social media. Instead she described herself as a journalist and activist and disputed the idea that she was a paid influencer to advance any political cause. The new allegations about Lommers' influence on the business could add fuel to a growing debate over the little-regulated industry of political messaging on social media, where influencers on both sides of the aisle have operated in a legal gray area between advocacy and advertising. Brozewitz first published his claims in X on Thursday.