Good morning.

Tuesday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 64. Sunrise is 6:01 and sunset is 7:45, for 13 hours, 44 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 33.4 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Finance Committee meets at 5 PM.
On this day in 1970, the first Earth Day is celebrated.

Over his years in office, Ron Johnson has descended into error, fallacy, and conspiracy. He continues to fall, now into the false claim that the U.S. Government was responsible for 9/11:
Johnson said he’s talked to former U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon, who recently appeared on former Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s show alleging a cover-up. Weldon has pushed Trump to reinvestigate 9/11.
“I will work with him to expose what he’s willing to expose,” Johnson said. “My eyes have been opened up.”
In the interview, Johnson questioned how a third building, World Trade Center 7, could have collapsed in “any other way than a controlled demolition.”
Conspiracy theorists claim planted explosives caused it to fall. Others question how it collapsed when no airplane struck it.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology, whose investigation into the collapse Johnson called corrupt, determined that debris from destruction of the Twin Towers started fires on floors of Building 7. The sprinkler system failed, and heat from the flames meant a structural column failed, ultimately causing the whole building to fall.
Johnson has also claimed that the Great Depression was “pretty well planned,” adding he knew it sounds like a conspiracy theory. In his interview with Benny Johnson, the senator said he knew they would both be considered conspiracy theorists.
See Hope Karnopp, Ron Johnson suggests more congressional hearings into 9/11, spreads conspiracy theory, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 21, 2025.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s World Trade Center Investigation was exhaustive and definitive. Ron Johnson has no rational justification to doubt their work.
Benny Johnson, no relation to Ron except in perfidy, is one of a few men “secretly funded by Russian state media employees to churn out English-language videos that were “often consistent” with the Kremlin’s “interest in amplifying U.S. domestic divisions in order to weaken U.S. opposition” to Russian interests, like its war in Ukraine.” See also Shannon Bond, Jude Joffe-Block, and Caitlin Thompson, How Russian operatives covertly hired U.S. influencers to create viral videos, National Public Radio, September 5, 2024.
Ron Johnson has been and will always be a striving, seeking conspiracist. For more on Johnson, see a dedicated category at FREE WHITEWATER on his political career.
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