Donald Trump boasts of surrounding himself with only the best people. It seems that some of the best people accidentally left seven pages of plans for last Friday’s meeting with Russia’s President Putin on a public copy machine at the Hotel Captain Cook in Anchorage.

I read that the pages detailed plans for the day, the lunch menu (which wasn’t eaten), how to pronounce the Russian President’s last name, and that Trump was giving Putin an “American Bald Eagle Desk Statue.” Just what a Russian dictator wishes for!

It was reported that three hotel guests found the papers on the photocopier, but the White House said there was not a breach of security. Maybe not this time.

And then there’s Laura Loomer

A United States President is free to take advice from whomever he chooses. It is a sign of intelligence to seek advice from a variety of sources – even sources with whom one disagrees.

Trump, on the other hand, only takes advice from people who think just like he does. One of his advisors is political activist and conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer.

You may recall my mention of Loomer in my August 7, 2025, blog post, Speak Up For Justice.

All Loomer has to do is say, “Fire _____” and they’re fired. All she has to do is say, “Eliminate ____ “ and it gets eliminated.

Loomer’s measure for whether a federal government employee should keep their job or whether a member of the military should be recognized for valor on the battlefield is an easy watermark: Are they loyal to Donald Trump?

Yet, Loomer is a private citizen. She holds no public office or official capacity from which she should have access to or influence over the President of the United States.

Loomer now wants Florent Groberg, who suffered catastrophic injuries saving the lives of fellow soldiers targeted by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan stripped of his Medal of Honor because Dan Driscoll, while Secretary of the Army, allowed Groberg to be recognized as a past recipient of the Medal of Honor.

Her argument? Florent Groberg was not born in the United States and he dared to speak, as a private citizen, at the 2016 Democratic National Convention.

It is apparently beside the point that Florent Groberg served with valor on the battlefield in Afghanistan. He suffered catastrophic injuries while saving the lives of fellow soldiers who were targeted by a suicide bomber.

These people must work around the clock trying to find someone to bash. What a sad life they lead!

It seems Trump and his ilk support the people in our military as long as they were born in the United States and vote Republican.

Never before in our history have we seen coming from the White House such hypocrisy and blatant political discrimination against people in uniform. It is especially rich coming from a U.S. President who dodged the draft during the Vietnam War. And, as far as I can determine, Laura Loomer never served in the U.S. military either.

It is dangerous for a man whose opinions are so easily swayed to be taking advice from an avowed conspiracy theorist.

Just my opinion.

Janet