Washington D.C. - The ultraconservative activist Laura Loomer has launched a campaign on the social network X against the Puerto Rican military officer Jaime Areizaga Soto, chief deputy legal counsel of the National Guard Bureau in the U.S. capital.

At a time when he is promoting a purge of officials who are not part of the MAGA movement, Loomer - who pushed for the dismissal of members of the Fiscal Oversight Board (FOSB) and the White House National Security Council - criticized that the Puerto Rican official is in his post as a Democrat and asked Defense Secretary Peter Hegseth, to be fired.

Without showing evidence, it also alleged that Areizaga Soto “is leaking information” to “pro-illegal immigration leftists” about National Guard mobilizations and even describes him as “a Marxist supporter of undocumented immigration.”

Areizaga Soto, the first Puerto Rican brigadier general to serve as an attorney in the U.S. Armed Forces, was appointed by President Joe Biden as head of the Board of Veterans’ Appeals, a unit of the Department of Veterans Affairs to which he was confirmed by the Senate without opposition.

He has also served as Virginia’s undersecretary of Veterans and Defense Affairs under the administrations of Democratic governors Terry McAuliffe and Ralph Northam; legal counsel at the Agency for International Development; and corporate counsel.

Areizaga Soto, who was part of the prestigious White House Fellows Program in 2007 during the presidency of Republican George W. Bush, was admitted to practice law in Virginia, Washington D.C., New York, Maryland and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Loomer criticizes him for also having worked in President Barack Obama’s administration, claiming to stand for “progressive values, diverse communities and equality for all” and having had endorsements, as a candidate for the Virginia state Legislature, from LGBTQ+ Democrats.

Conservative sectors such as those represented by Loomer maintain a social media campaign against officials who champion diversity, equity and inclusion, amid President Donald Trump’s effort to eliminate any type of program associated with those concepts.

“This is an example of another Biden appointee who should not hold the position he has under the Trump administration,” Loomer said.

Although he initially says that “a source” at the Pentagon told him that Areizaga Soto has leaked information about National Guard mobilizations, Loomer then limits himself, in his message on the social network X, to throwing it out as a question.

“Is that why there were so many leaks about the National Guard when it was sent to Los Angeles to control undocumented immigrant rioters?” questioned Loomer, who has had access to President Trump, including a week after he began criticizing the JSF, which controls the financial decisions of Puerto Rico’s elected government.

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This content was translated from Spanish to English using artificial intelligence and was reviewed by an editor before being published.