Former Trump White House advisor Steve Bannon spoke to conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer on Wednesday, who accused big tech of “covering up” the murder of a border agent by a German national in the U.S. on an H-1B visa. The conversation appeared to be an escalation in the MAGA civil war over H-1B visas, which has pitted MAGA influencers like Bannon and Loomer against Trump’s big tech allies on the right.
“There was a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont who was murdered. And there’s reports that Homeland Security had been monitoring three individuals. And when the Border Patrol agent approached these individuals in a car, he was shot in the neck and died almost immediately,” Loomer told Bannon on his influential War Room podcast, adding:
And the suspect involved, who is also now dead, is a German national who was in the United States illegally on an expired H-1B visa. And upon investigating this individual.
She went on to say, …