Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) plans to launch hearings into “what actually happened” in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attack, adding another conspiracy theory to his portfolio. (Watch the video below.)
A spokesperson for the right-wing lawmaker, who’s chair of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, told Politico that he is gathering information to sustain a probe in Congress focusing on the collapse of World Trade Center 7, a smaller skyscraper in the complex.
This would be the same public servant who insisted the Jan 6, 2021, Capitol riot has been mired in a cover-up and peddled misinformation that the COVID-19 vaccine caused a spike in athletes “dropping dead on the field.”
On conservative host Benny Johnson’s show Monday, the senator resurrected a debunked assertion that a building in the center that was not among the twin towers directly hit by terrorist-commandeered passenger jets could not have collapsed on its own and was felled by a “controlled demolition.” Meaning it was perhaps an inside or government job.
Johnson called a report determining that World Trade Center 7 caved in due to fires “corrupt.”
“My eyes have been opened up,” he added.
“Hopefully now with this administration, I think President Trump should have some interests — being a New Yorker himself — what actually happened on 9/11,” he said. “What do we know. What is being covered up. My guess is there’s an awful lot being covered up in terms of what the American government knows about 9/11.”
The timing of the hearings would be reliant on the evidence gathered, the Johnson spokesperson told Politico.