Welcome to Power Players, The i Paper’s opinion series in which our writers and experts take an in-depth look at the key figures in American politics as the US reshapes itself and the world.• The Bronx real-estate hustler who proves Trump is the boss from hell• The most powerful woman in the world you’ve never heard of• The ‘swamp creature’ eclipsing JD Vance in the race to succeed Trump• The white nationalist at the heart of the Trump machine• The greatest hope of the Trump resistance is a 34-year-old immigrant• The 28-year-old Trump attack dog ripping up the Washington playbook

Welcome to Power Players, The i Paper’s opinion series in which our writers and experts take an in-depth look at the key figures in American politics as the US reshapes itself and the world.• The Bronx real-estate hustler who proves Trump is the boss from hell• The most powerful woman in the world you’ve never heard of• The ‘swamp creature’ eclipsing JD Vance in the race to succeed Trump• The white nationalist at the heart of the Trump machine• The greatest hope of the Trump resistance is a 34-year-old immigrant• The 28-year-old Trump attack dog ripping up the Washington playbook

Laura Loomer began an event at the annual conference of one of India’s largest news groups earlier this year by saying she had an “announcement” to make.

“I spoke to President Trump on the phone about an hour ago or so, actually. And I wanted to read you exactly what he said to me,” she said at the India Today Conclave in March, before reading a short message from the President in which he expressed his affection for India and its Prime Minister, Narendra Modi.

Loomer, 32, holds no official position within the Trump White House or its administration and thus may seem to be a strange unofficial ambassador for the President’s movement in India. The self-styled “investigative reporter” and former congressional candidate has been accused by critics on the left and the right of spreading conspiracy theories and hate. (Loomer once described herself as a “proud Islamophobe” and has said she’s “pro-white nationalism”.)

Yet within the past few years, she has ascended the ranks to emerge as one of Donald Trump’s most powerful loyalty enforcers. During his second term, she has claimed credit for multiple scalps, including that of his former national security adviser, Mike Waltz, who was removed from his job last March. Through her X account with nearly two million followers and her podcast,........

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