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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Wed Sep 9 11:04:52 2026 Blakeman endorsement:https://youtu.be/iXPsKa68P9A?t=147 What endorsee thinks: https://x.com/JoelAzumah/status/1783436748560752737?oref=csny_firstread_nl&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CSNY%20First%20Read%20-%20September%209%2C%202026&utm_term=newsletter_csny_firstread From City & State Read First By Rebecca C. Lewis Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman feels strongly that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani should not attend this Friday’s 9/11 memorial event. But that hasn’t stopped Blakeman from appearing with – and even endorsing – a 9/11 conspiracy theorist who has called the attack “an inside job.” An unlisted YouTube video posted last week and shared with City & State shows Blakeman making an endorsement video with congressional candidate Joel Anabilah-Azumah, who is running on the Republican and Conservative lines against Democratic Rep. Yvette Clarke in Brooklyn. “He is going to make a great member of Congress,” Blakeman said while filming the previously unreported and as-of-yet unposted endorsement. “We need fighters like that in Congress.” Anabilah-Azumah has spread the conspiracy theory that the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center was “an inside job.” He made the assertion in a 2024 post on X that remains up on his official campaign account. “I don’t even bother to argue it any more,” Anabilah-Azumah wrote in the lengthy post that also touched on other topics including the firebombing of German cities during World War II. “You don’t have to believe it, but that is what happened and history is pretty clear on that.” The unlisted video showed Blakeman filming endorsements of other Republican candidates as well, including Assembly Member Michael Novakhov and state Sen. Steve Chan. Those videos don’t appear to be publicly posted yet either. A spokesperson for Blakeman did not return a request for comment, nor did the Anabilah-Azumah campaign. It’s not the first time Blakeman has received scrutiny for appearing with right-wingers who espouse 9/11 conspiracies. He filmed a video with Rochester GOP leader Marcus Williams, who had previously shared a conspiracy theory video that blamed “Zionists” for the attack. That was after Blakeman’s running mate Todd Hood already got flak for filming an interview with Williams. Addison Dick, a spokesperson for the state Democratic Party, called Blakeman’s endorsement of Anabilah-Azumah “disqualifying” and called on the Republican gubernatorial nominee to apologize for appearing with him and others who have espoused 9/11 conspiracies. “Blakeman’s surrounding himself with strictly far-right extremists as he echoes Trump’s election denial lies, endorses the Great Replacement Theory, and aligns himself with conspiracy theorists,” he said in a statement. |
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