The Republican congresswoman tasked with revisiting “federal secrets” surrounding the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. — and Jeffrey Epstein’s so-called “client list” — is among a new class of GOP insurgents and Donald Trump loyalists who recently floated a bill to put Trump’s face on Mount Rushmore.
Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a member of the far-right House Freedom Caucus who was elected to the House in 2022, has repeatedly pushed for “transparency” in federal government — specifically, to dive into conspiracy theories surrounding unidentified flying objects, the origins of COVID-19, and the September 11 attacks, all of which will be at the center of her task force.
“The federal government has been hiding information from Americans for decades,” she said in a statement Tuesday.
The government has spent years investigating political assassinations and “other government secrets without success,” she claimed, and “it is time to give Americans the answers they deserve.”
The Independent has requested additional comment from Luna.
Before her election to Congress — where she’s one of a group of MAGA-fueled digital natives using their offices and social media to blow up the institutions they now control — the 35-year-old lawmaker spent six years in the military, serving in the Air Force and Oregon Air National Guard.
She also worked as a cocktail waitress at a gentlemen’s club and as a swimsuit model for several publications, including Liberty Belles, which included women in camouflage bikinis holding firearms, and made a name for herself as an Instagram influencer as she pivoted into far-right politics.
After graduating from the University of West Florida with a degree in biology, Luna served as the director of Hispanic engagement for Turning Point USA, landing a spot on Fox News in 2018 in which she compared Hillary Clinton to herpes, prompting the network to apologize to viewers.
She spent most of her life up to that point as Anna Paulina Mayerhofer, using her father’s last name. Her grandfather immigrated from Germany after serving in the Wehrmacht army in Nazi Germany. She formally changed her last name to Luna, recognizing her Mexican-American mother’s ancestry.
Shortly after becoming the 12th member of Congress to give birth while in office, she released the children’s book The Legend of Naranja, which she co-wrote with her husband, Andrew Gamberzky. In the book, a Joe Biden-esque Senor Banana is depicted plotting a “scheme” to steal Fruitlandia’s presidential election from the title character in a plot echoing conspiracy theories from the 2020 presidential election.
Luna similarly, falsely, believes Trump won the 2020 election.
Within her relatively short time in office, she joined Republicans who initially refused to support former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, sponsored resolutions to impeach former Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, and Washington, D.C., U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves.
Following Trump’s executive order to release government files connected to JFK’s assassination, Luna blamed “corrupt bureaucrats” who have “hidden this information from the American people for far too long.”
“Americans deserve to know the truth, whether it makes the government look good or not,” she said at the time, promising to use her role as a member of the House Oversight Committee to deliver the “truth” regarding JFK’s killing.
