Conservative activist Laura Loomer is sparring on social media with the brother of President Trump’s new nominee to serve as U.S. surgeon general. Loomer, who is known to speak with Trump and was seen as a player in the administration’s decision to dismiss several national security staff members,

Loomer has taken aim at Nesheiwat over her support for the covid-19 vaccine, taking issue with her support for the shot that saved an estimated 2.4 million lives and for calling vaccine hesitancy a “global health threat.

U.S. President Donald Trump and his health chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are defending the new U.S. Surgeon General nominee from attacks from influential far-right activist Laura Loomer, whose critiques of some other Trump administration officials have preceded their ouster.