Bronx and Westchester County Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) espoused conspiracy theories about the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks while serving as a public high school principal, it was revealed this week.
Bowman — a member of the liberal House “Squad” that also includes Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — kept a blog that claimed World Trade Center building Number 7 was destroyed in a controlled demolition and that hijacked planes Flight 93 and Flight 77 caused minimum damage and left behind minimal debris.
The posts, which were unearthed by The Daily Beast, were reportedly made before 2014, when Bowman was principal at the Cornerstone Academy for Social Action in The Bronx, and deleted by 2016.
Bowman, 47, claimed that Osama Bin Laden, a Saudi native, was “blamed” for the attacks as an excuse to wage war in Afghanistan, when in fact the terror leader had openly taken credit for the massacre.
Investigators have determined that Building 7 buckled after debris from the Twin Towers started a fire, and hijackers steered Flight 77 into the Pentagon in Virginia killing all 64 people on the plane and 125 in the building.
Flight 93 was crashed in rural Pennsylvania after passengers fought back against the hijackers. All 44 people aboard were killed.
Bowman, who was elected to the House in 2020, also reportedly promoted the conspiracy theory movies “Loose Change” and “Zeitgeist” on the blog.
“Loose Change” asserted that the US carried out the 9/11 attacks and “Zeitgeist” promoted the conspiracy that globalist bankers were behind the tragedy to influence the US to go to war and take on more debt.
The movies were a favorite of Infowars host Alex Jones — who served as executive director on the final cut of “Loose Change” — and of Arizona mass shooter Jared Loughner, who injured former Rep. Gabby Giffords and killed a federal judge and five others during a 2011 supermarket rampage.
Bowman has openly commemorated anniversaries of the attacks without promoting conspiracy theories while in office.
On Monday, the progressive Democrat issued a statement to the Daily Beast saying he “regrets” his past blog posts, but did not clarify why he wrote them at the time.
“Well over a decade ago, as I was debating diving into a doctoral degree, I explored a wide range of books, films, and articles across a wide swath of the political spectrum and processed my thoughts in a personal blog that few people ever read,” the statement read.
Bowman also disavowed the films in his statement and walked back his endorsements of conspiracy theory authors John Perkins and William Cooper, “Zeitgeist” filmmaker Peter Joseph, and left-wing documentary makers Michael Moore and Adam Curtis.
“I don’t believe anything that these cranks have said, and my life’s work has proven that. As a Congressman, I’ve written a Congressional Resolution condemning a dangerous conspiracy theory, I’ve stood up to MAGA extremists, and I’ve called out the endless bullshit of the far-right,” his statement said.
“I regret posting anything about any of these people. Anyone who looks at my work today knows where I stand.”
In 2015, Bowman went on an online rant that compared standardized tests to slavery and post-slavery racial segregation policies in the US, The Post reported at the time.
“Public school high-stakes standardized testing is a form of modern-day slavery, and it is designed to continue the proliferation of inequality,” wrote the then-principal in his blog.
“America was born of horror for black people and that horror continues today for brown and poor people as well. Slavery, Jim Crow, redlining, crack cocaine and now standardized testing were all sanctioned by the American government. All designed to destroy the mind, body and soul of black and brown people,” the post read.
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Jesse O’Neill
