GOP Senator Ron Johnson Is Dredging Up a 9/11 Conspiracy Theory and Wants to Hold Hearings

Go home, Ron. You’re an idiot.

From NBC News:

“There’s an awful lot of questions,” Johnson, the chair of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, said Monday in an interview on the conservative activist Benny Johnson’s podcast. “What actually happened on 9/11? What do we know? What is being covered up?” Johnson said of the 2001 attacks. “My guess is there’s an awful lot being covered up in terms of what the American government knows about 9/11.”

Johnson’s comments focused on a long-debunked claim about a building in the World Trade Center complex that collapsed hours after the Twin Towers were brought down by airliners. The Wisconsin senator, who has a history of amplifying conspiracy theories, said in the interview that the investigation into the building that came down, Building 7, was “corrupt” and suggested its collapse was the result of a “controlled demolition.”

My guess is that even this Republican Senate majority isn’t willing to swill down this vinegary old wine of undiluted Krazee. But honest to God, Wisconsin, can you please stop inflicting ol’ Shreds of Freedom on the rest of our battered republic? You traded down from Russ Feingold and then rejected him again, and you couldn’t quite get Mandela Barnes, a seriously charismatic candidate, across the finish line in 2022. So instead we get Ron Johnson, exhuming the bones of ancient paranoia and proposing to run his own Cadaver Synod on a long-closed investigation of an unforgettable national trauma. Do your actual job in the present, guy. You’re bad enough at that.