Donald Trump ally Laura Loomer garnered backlash after attacking Charlie Kirk critics despite her ridiculing the right-wing activist months earlier.

“It’s time for the Trump administration to shut down, defund & prosecute every single leftist organization,” Loomer wrote on X after Kirk was fatally shot while speaking at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. “We must shut these lunatic leftists down. Once and for all. The left is a national security threat.”

However, responses to her request that the president target US leftists in Kirk’s honor were flooded with screenshots of a long post from July 13 in which she denounced the deceased 31-year-old as a “charlatan” and “political opportunist” who “stabs Trump in the back” and engaged in “mental gymnastics.”

Kirk had previously opposed Trump’s planned military strikes against Iran, which TPUSA had mobilized young voters to support.

Kirk has also been outspoken in his desire for the complete disclosure of documents related to the prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein, the former Trump associate who entered a guilty plea to soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2008 and died in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges.

In those days, Loomer also expressed her displeasure that Kirk had hosted comedian Dave Smith at a conference after the latter called for the Republican president to be impeached and for his supporters to “abandon” him, just a year after Trump had escaped an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania.

“I don’t ever want to hear [Kirk] claim he is pro-Trump ever again,” Loomer’s post said, adding that TPUSA had only thrived “thanks to the generosity” of the president. “The honorable thing to do is to have a position and actually defend it to the death instead of flip flopping.

“It really is shameful. And I am honestly just disgusted by the nonstop flip flopping on the right.” Using screenshots of a passage from the July article, Loomer’s responses to Kirk’s murder included the following: “Maybe sit this out,” “I think you need to shut up,” and “You’re nothing but a sociopathic hypocrite.” Others were on Loomer’s side.

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    escaped an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania.

    Alleged assassination attempt, you mean.

    Real bullet injuries to the external ear are ripped and bloody affairs that don’t heal within the week.

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      Dude a bunch of people got shot that day and died. The shooter admitted everything. This is an unbelievably stupid conspiracy theory.

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      and ear cartilage almost always heals lumpy. It’s very hard to keep everything neat and smooth. See: anyone who’s had trauma to an ear from a punch or blunt force. I have a lump on one ear towards the top where I clipped it walking into a freezer to roll racks of onion rings. Fucker bled ridiculously too.

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    The lady who looks like a puppet that kidnaps random people and puts then through a 2 hour long torture chamber escape room to teach them a lesson about their hypocrisies?

    Yeah, probably a sociopath.

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      Even Kirk’s wife is doing that, none of them give a single fuck other than seeing it as an opportunity to push their agenda.

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        Actually, Candace Owen put out a slideshow of her just goofing around with Kirk on Instagram. If I didn’t already know they were both terrible people it would have been really heartwarming. So she, of all people, gives a fuck, at least for now.

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    Everything happens in a vacuum with these people. Except when it’s about the “radical left.” This it’s just projection.