Actress Roseanne Barr endorsed far-right activist Laura Loomer and plans to help fundraise and campaign against Democratic Rep. Lois Frankel in Florida’s 21st District congressional race.
“I’ve known Roseanne for about three years or so. We’re friends. We talk on the phone often and email back and forth, and when I went out to California last year she interviewed me, and we’ve just maintained a really close friendship,” Loomer told the Washington Examiner on Thursday about Barr’s decision to endorse her. “I was supposed to go to Israel with her. She’s invited me to her home in Hawaii. We’re just good friends.”
Loomer said they bonded over the fact that she and Barr were both “deplatformed.” Barr tweeted in May 2018 a “joke” where she referred to former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett as “planet of the apes,” which led to ABC ending her TV show Roseanne.
“Roseanne loved the fact that I put illegal aliens on Nancy Pelosi’s lawn, and that’s one of the reasons she put me on her podcast last year because she thought it was brilliant performance art.”
In October of the same year, Loomer was kicked off Twitter for criticizing Rep. Ilhan Omar as “anti-Jewish” and part of a religion in which “homosexuals are oppressed.”
“They’ve tried to destroy her livelihood and her reputation for making a joke. She used to be a member of the Left. but she realizes the importance of protecting free speech and our constitutional values like freedom of expression,” Loomer said about Barr.
Loomer said the two bonded after she jumped the fence outside of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s house with several illegal immigrants. She was arrested for a similar stunt outside of Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s home in October 2019.
“She admires the fact that I’m taking on the Muslim Brotherhood and the Jew-haters in Congress head on.”
Barr will begin campaigning with Loomer in Palm Beach, Florida, and will hold a fundraiser “as soon as the coronavirus passes.” Loomer confirmed to the Washington Examiner that her campaign has raised more than $400,000 to support her congressional bid.
