Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., on Monday echoed a conspiracy theory about the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, suggesting that the twin towers in New York were brought down by a “controlled demolition” that was subsequently covered up by the federal government.
Johnson, who sits on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, said in an interview on conservative influencer Benny Johnson’s “The Benny Show,” the senator praised the 2020 film “Calling out Bravo 7,” which questions the official explanation for the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7.
An investigation by the National Institute of Standards and Technology found that the building’s collapse was caused by a prolonged fire that could not be extinguished due to issues with water pressure caused by the damage to the building by the planes that struck the twin towers.
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