WI-AD14: Wisconsin GOP Assembly candidate posts debunked 9/11 conspiracy theory on Facebook
On Tuesday, Wisconsin Republican Assembly candidate Jim Engstrand posted a long-debunked 9/11 conspiracy theory to his personal Facebook account.
The post features text saying, “NEVER FORGET 9/10/2001 When $2.3 trillion went missing from the Pentagon.”
Engstrand’s caption reads, “Hmmmm, is this real?”
According to a fact-check piece by Reuters updated last September, the misleading post relies on a press conference given by then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on Sept. 10, 2001. Contrary to the theory, Rumsfeld did not say that $2.3 trillion was missing, but that $2.3 trillion in transactions could not be tracked due to an outdated network of technological systems.
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