Bannon-backed Senate candidate Royce White is a 9/11 conspiracy theorist

Right-wing podcaster Royce White, who has the backing of Minnesota Republicans in his campaign for the U.S. Senate, is a 9/11 conspiracy theorist. During his podcast last December, White raised questions about the collapse of 7 World Trade Center and also falsely claimed that “there’s no camera footage of the plane hitting the Pentagon.” 

White is the host of the podcast Please Call Me Crazy and a regular guest on the program of former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, who has endorsed White’s candidacy. White has pushed numerous right-wing conspiracy theories, including about the hammer attack on Paul Pelosi, the tragic Maui wildfires, and the 2020 election.

Media Matters has previously reported about White’s history of using slurs and pejoratives to attack people, including hurling the words “f-g,” “c–t,” and “retard.”

White is also a frequent guest on the show of Alex Jones, the far-right host who has made a career out of pushing conspiracy theories about school shootings and 9/11, among other tragedies. Like Jones, White is a 9/11 conspiracy theorist. 

During the December 3 edition of Please Call Me Crazy, White hosted antisemitic conspiracy theorist Hotep Jesus (Bryan Sharpe), who called 9/11 a “false flag” and said that “you gotta be a complete idiot” to think that “some planes” took down the World Trade Center. Sharpe added that if he “had to take a guess, it was a controlled demolition.” 

White responded by saying he thinks “the planes actually hit” the twin towers, but pushed conspiracy theories about the collapse of 7 World Trade Center — a central component of the 9/11 conspiracy theory movement — and the Pentagon.