Donald Trump’s floundering presidential campaign is still reeling from his nightmare debate performance last week. And so from the depths of his insecurity, Trump has once again reactivated his sizable corps of yes-men and yes-women, to re-inflate his fragile ego.

And from there comes the newest scandal. One of Trump’s chief toadies, the racist social media influencer Laura Loomer, has worsened Team Trump’s political migraine. After a string of posts last week in which Loomer dragged long-time Trump ally Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and appeared to out South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) as gay, even Loomer’s fellow right-wing influencers began to turn against her in droves.

Milo Yiannopoulos, known for his own hate-speech-peddling shtick, lobbed a flurry of accusations at Loomer in a web series he titled “Moronica Lewinsky.” His posts not only alleged that Loomer had been subject to multiple involuntary psychiatric holds, but he also questioned Loomer’s Judaism.

This is hardly the portrait of the GOP that Republican Party officials hoped to project in the closing weeks of a massively consequential........

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