Arizona Sen. Wendy Rogers remembers 9/11 with a conspiracy theory (naturally)

Sen. Wendy Rogers marked the 23rd anniversary of the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history by promoting a long-ago debunked conspiracy theory about how the World Trade Center was really brought down.

With a nice side dish of antisemitism, to boot.

The Arizona Mirror reports that Rogers on Wednesday reposted a video clip of a Donald Trump interview on Sept. 11, 2001, wherein the future president said he believed bombs had gone off “simultaneously” with the planes crashing into the building.

As the conspiracy theory goes, the jet fuel from the airliners could not have brought down the building.

Say it with me now: It was an inside job.

Rogers (again) promotes a debunked conspiracy

The theory Rogers is promoting was debunked years ago but, of course, that doesn’t faze Rogers and people like her.

The post she amplified also makes note of the fact that the buildings had been recently purchased by Larry Silverstein.

As the conspiracy theory goes, this Jewish businessman plotted to destroy the towers so he could collect millions of dollars in insurance money. Or possibly to help the Mossad bring down the Twin Towers.

It is all utter bunk. But that is the world in which this Arizona legislator lives. 

Whether it’s stolen elections, Jewish dreams of world domination or a Democratic plot to “replace” white Americans with brown immigrants, conspiracies are the currency that has made Rogers a rock star on the right.

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She rakes in millions of dollars with hysteria-laden fundraising pitches about the many ways in which George Soros and other nefarious characters are out to get her.

And … it works. MAGA supporters from all over the country dig deep to send her cash, cementing her place at the Capitol for as long as she wants it.

Don’t expect Republicans to shun her over it

One might think that even Rogers would give it a rest on one of the country’s most solemn anniversaries.

Or that she’d be shunned at the Legislature, where she chairs the Senate Elections Committee, just on the general belief that kooks are, well, too kooky to put in control of anything.

Don’t bet on that happening.

Just last week, Rogers celebrated a win by the hard right in Germany’s state elections by posting to social media what amounts to the Nazis’ theme song.

“Deutschland, Deutschland über alles,” she wrote.

The words — Germany, Germany above all — were written in the late 1800s as a call for unity and later adopted as part of the country’s national anthem. But they became the Nazis’ rallying cry, as they claimed their superiority, and were removed from the anthem after World War II.

Turns out, Rogers posts the offending line to social media from time to time, whenever she feels the need to embrace her inner Adolf.

And the response last week from the Senate President Warren Petersen?

“She’s just a nice, patriotic grandma.”

Reach Roberts at laurie.roberts@arizonarepublic.com. Follow her on X (formerly Twitter) at @LaurieRobertsaz and on Threads at @LaurieRobertsaz.

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