It’s no surprise, then, that classic 9/11 truthers—those who think Dick Cheney was controlling the planes from a White House bunker—seem to support Trump in droves. Reporters stumble upon them at Trump rallies all the time, and I’m no exception.
In December I talked to James “Owen” Greeson, a nice older man from Georgia who’d sent Trump $2,700 for his campaign and who told me Trump’s biggest concern should be that the elites might murder him. That wasn’t a stretch, he said, because of 9/11.

“It looked like a false flag to me, come on!” he said. “Two buildings burn like that? There’s been fires in other countries that burned for 15 hours and the buildings didn’t collapse.”

Rick Shaddock, who helps run the Association for Nine Eleven Truth Awareness, told The Daily Beast that that he “drove around Iowa to meet Donald Trump as much as possible.” He proudly tweeted “TRUMP tells the TRUTH! :)” when the real estate mogul suggested in the most recent Republican debate that Bush lied about the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

“I don’t agree with everything he says, but do agree with him, more than any other candidate, and he is our hope for getting the truth out on many issues,” Shaddock wrote in an email before informing The Daily Beast that thanks to real estate tips from Trump University, he now owns houses in both Washington D.C. and Iowa.