TWO DECADES TOO LATE

GOP Senator to Hold Hearings on Bonkers 9/11 Conspiracy Theory

Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson peddled a 9/11 conspiracy in a Monday interview with a conservative pundit.

It’s been two decades since 9/11, but a Republican lawmaker still has questions about what happened that day. Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, is preparing to launch hearings on the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attack, according to Politico. On Monday, Johnson peddled an old 9/11 conspiracy theory on the podcast of conservative pundit Benny Johnson. The senator said “there’s an awful lot of questions” about the collapse of 7 World Trade Center, a 47-story skyscraper that came down hours after the Twin Towers without being hit by a plane. A three-year probe concluded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology in 2008 found that the building caved in due to uncontrolled fires that lasted nearly seven hours. But Johnson slammed that investigation as “corrupt” and called for another look: “Hopefully now with this administration, I think President Trump should have some interests—being a New Yorker himself—what actually happened in 9/11,” he said. “My guess is there’s an awful lot being covered up in terms of what the American government knows about 9/11.”