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Conservative activist Laura Loomer says she’s been granted credentials to join the Pentagon press corps. She announced that on a social media post following a Washington Post report that she had been given the access. The Pentagon did not immediately comment. Loomer has had the ear of President Donald Trump through newsy social media posts that have sometimes questioned the loyalty of some people who work in the federal government, including at the Defense Department. Virtually all mainstream news reporters have turned in their Pentagon rather than agree new media rules set by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and have largely been replaced by conservative media figures supportive of the president.