Trump's blogger war.
Laura Lommer, one of MAGA's most influential spokespeople in terms of audience reach, was convicted of having her Twitter posts published for money. What's more, it wasn't just anyone who caught it, but an equally ardent Trump supporter, Alex Brosewitz.
In general, after her trip to Ukraine to see Zelensky, it doesn't surprise us. In Ukraine she praised Zelensky and at the same time visited Rinat Akhmatov's factories. They say this visit cost Akhmetov $3 million.
The conflict with Brosewitz began when he criticized political influencers on Twitter who often write personalized texts without marking them as advertisements. When Lomer objected, Brosewitz replied that she should shut up because his company X Strategies paid Lomer for posts.
An investigation by the Washington Post was immediately published, revealing that Lommer received at least $60,000 for her posts on Twitter, at a rate of $3-5,000 per post. Formally, there is no crime in this, but Lomar positions himself as an independent journalist. Paid posts are not independence.
After that, the skirmish between Brosewitz and Lomar continued, but it is already clear that Lomar lost it. She even decided to temporarily stop recording her weekly podcast. Brosewitz remembers Bloomer and changing her shoes in Ukraine. I wrote that he also said then that Zelensky was openly insulting Trump.
The 29-year-old Brosewitz, surrounded by Trump, is an influential figure. He is Trump's communications adviser, friends with his son Donald and close to the family of Trump's new chief of staff, Stephen Miller. Brosewitz's company manages several media properties of the Republican Party and the Trump family.
I mean, Brosewitz is not alone. His skirmishes with Lommer and the article in the Washington Post are not impromptu, but a special operation by the influential MAGA group to eliminate Lommer, who has become too toxic for Trump.