Trump’s most controversial ally sets sights on taking down RFK Jr. staffer plotting his secret 2028 presidential run

President Donald Trump’s most controversial ally Laura Loomer has set her sights on taking out one of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s key aides. 

Loomer would like to see Stefanie Spear ousted, according to Wednesday’s edition of Politico Playbook. 

Spear now serves as principal deputy chief of staff and senior counselor to RFK at HHS but she previously served as Kennedy’s press secretary during his 2024 campaign. 

She was one of the most visible campaign officials during Kennedy’s run at the White House, which ended when the Democrat-turned-independent decided to endorse now President Donald Trump. 

‘I think that there’s a clear intention by Stefanie Spear to utilize her position to try and lay the groundwork for a 2028 RFK presidential run,’ Loomer alleged to Playbook.  

Loomer has tried to root out those disloyal to the president – and was largely credited for the gutting of the National Security Council earlier this year.

She appeared to have concerns about Kennedy too – a former political rival of the president who comes from a storied family of Democrats. 

But she told Playbook she thought Kennedy was likely firmly in his place. 

‘I’m not naive enough to think that the president is going to get rid of RFK, but I will say that … there are concerns about some of the staffing decisions over at HHS,’ she told Politico before pointing a finger a Spear. 

Loomer said that her suspicions about Spear forging ahead on a RFK 2028 bid come from ‘sources in HHS.’

Contacted by the Daily Mail, Loomer didn’t have anything to add to Politico’s reporting. 

Requests for comment to HHS and Spear were not immediately returned. 

Spear was already taking heat from MAGA loyalists during the opening weeks of the administration. 

In February, Axios reported that Trump-aligned insiders were sharing old social media posts from Spear that show support for Democratic causes. 

‘This woman just has every appearance of being a disaster from a conservative perspective,’ one source from a conservative-leaning organization told the publication. 

Last month, Axios reported that those involved in Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again movement seemed to be laying the groundwork for him to mount a 2028 campaign. 

That move could ruffle feathers with Trump. While he is constitutionally barred from running for a third term, the president will want to play kingmaker in the 2028 race.  

Hundreds of supporters and influencers participated in a mid-July MAHA call that was coordinated by Spear, vaccine skeptic Robert Malone and MAHA PAC leader Tony Lyons. 

Lyons’ involvement signaled to some sources that Kennedy’s political infrastructure was getting ready for another bid. 

But Lyons pushed back on this interpretation of the event. 

‘This is just a made up story,’ he told the Daily Mail last month. ‘There’s no truth to it whatsoever. The PAC was not involved at all in that media event and is mostly dormant now.’

‘Secretary Kennedy has given no indication whatsoever that he’s even considering running for president,’ Lyons added.