GOP Lt. Gov. Candidate Todd Hood did Campaign Interview with 9/11 Conspiracy Theorist who Claimed Earth is Flat and AIDS is a Bioweapon
JUDGE ST — In his bid for the Governor’s mansion, Republican Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman has not hesitated to condemn internet personalities who indulge conspiracy theories online.
“Nick Fuentes is, in my opinion, a nut, but a dangerous one, and he has no place in the Republican Party,” Blakeman told Jewish Insider.
But it appears his running mate for Lieutenant Governor, Todd Hood, may have more of a stomach for the absurd.
On April 19, Hood did an interview with Marcus C. Williams, an outspoken conspiracy theorist running for Rochester City Council who also chairs the Rochester City Republican Committee.
“I appreciate you doing this, first of all,” Hood told Williams in the three-minute interview that focused mainly on affordability.
Williams has claimed that AIDS came from a “biological weapons program” and was designed to target “melanated people in Africa against the actual Africans there, that was being run by—again you can’t even say racist because it’s not strong enough, right?—like, eugenicist like government in South Africa,” Williams said in 2025. “Most Americans don’t even know what happened down there. ”
A day later, Williams posted a video about 9/11 with the caption, “I don’t agree with all of this but 99% of this here is on point.”
“9/11 started as insurance fraud,” the speaker in the video begins. “It was known in 1988 that the Twin Towers were condemned. Because they didn’t want to pay the two billion dollars to dismantle the buildings the hard way—controlled demolition was forbidden. When that was briefed to Dick Cheney as Secretary of Defense, I believe he said ‘Praise the Lord, this is going to be a terrorism event that will give us a reason for invading Iraq and Afghanistan.”
“And at that point, 9/11, which was planned and executed by the Zionists, which is not the Jews. When I say Zionists, I’m talking about what’s called the Red Mafia—that’s the Russians, Israelis, and Americans who are a criminal network that happens to control Benjamin Netanyahu. It does not control Donald Trump. People don’t understand that Trump is biding his time.”
In February, Williams posted on Facebook, “So people mad about the Epstein files about child sacrifice and cannibalizing babies also support ABORTION. Same same not different.”
The next month he posted, “THEM: ‘the experts said get vaccinated for everyone’s health’ Me: ‘the experts are worshiping Baal and eating children’ ✌🏾.“
A few weeks ago, Williams claimed that the government and elites are trying to destroy the family unit by pushing “normalization of girl boss and I don’t need a man and gender confusion and homosexuality and abortion / baby murder.”
Williams also appears to believe the earth is flat, but also round.
“Well it might be round but it’s no globe,” he said in the caption of a cartoon that shows the earth as a two-dimensional circle in space.
Two weeks before doing his interview with Hood, Williams posted on Facebook:
“Today I found out that the US human alien breeding hybrid program is likely real. (Really demons not aliens)🥴 GOD help us.🤦🏾♂️.”
A Siena College poll from the end of April has Governor Kathy Hochul at 49%, Blakeman at 33%, with 16% of voters remaining undecided.
A spokesperson for the Blakeman campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
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