Hey, guys, me, Sam Stein, managing editor at the Bullwork. I am joined by our fearless publisher, Sarah Longwell, and our less than fearless newsletter writer Will Summer. We are going to be talking about Ron John, 9-11 conspiracies, maybe a little bit of Mike Lee, if we can get into it, and conspiracies around Trump's attempted assassination in Butler. Before we do that, subscribe to the feed.

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All right, let me set the stage and then I'm going to kick it around.

Ron John, our senator from Wisconsin, was on Benny Johnson's show yesterday, I believe.

And I don't know how the topic turned to 9-11, but eventually it did. And whether or not 9-11 was an inside job or

government planned. And here's what Ranjan had to say. You know, You know, Thank you. All right, so there you have it. Senior Senator from Wisconsin. I guess we can say, you know,

he's one of 100 respected member of the upper chamber, just dabbling in 9-11 conspiracy theories.

I guess what stuck out to me, Sarah, was that how little reaction there was to it.

Like, in normal times, I think people would have been freaking out that this guy is embracing

the, this was a controlled demolition idea.

But this is a senator.

I couldn't believe it.

Not only is he a senator, but he has the

unique distinction of being a pre-Trump senator. It is one thing, right? Post-Trump. You get Marjorie

Taylor Green with the Jewish space lasers and like conspiracy theories are now because Donald Trump

So it's the PT versus the post-true.

That's right.

No, I think this is important because what it shows us is something important, which is that this strain, it like lived inside of them.

And they now, they just get to let their freak flag fly because it's cool now, right? Like based Mike Lee, it's so funny about Mike Lee.

I used to be Mike Lee, like for the Supreme Court.

Mike Lee was a super interesting, thoughtful conservative who is now shaped his head

and his game for every conspiracy theory in town.

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