The GOP nominee for an Illinois House seat touted conspiracy theories that the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were an inside job, and that pop star Beyoncé has ties to the Illuminati, according to an investigation by CNN’s K-FILE.

CNN reported that Bill Fawell, who is running to unseat Rep. Cheri Bustos Cheryl (Cheri) Lea BustosThe Hill's Campaign Report: Biden asks if public can trust vaccine from Trump ahead of Election Day | Oklahoma health officials raised red flags before Trump rally DCCC dropping million on voter education program Clark rolls out endorsements in assistant Speaker race MORE (D-Ill.), wrote about the theories in his book, “New American Revolution,” as well as in blog posts.

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In the 2012 book, Fawell pushed a conspiracy theory that a third building that collapsed in the 9/11 attacks, after the twin towers, was intentionally demolished to destroy CIA documents.

He also wrote in a 2013 blog post that Beyoncé’s Super Bowl halftime show would have Illuminati influences; he made the same allegation about Madonna’s halftime show the year before, while referring to her as a "narcissist skank with the crooked teeth,” according to K-FILE.

Fawell stood by the 9/11 and Illuminati theories in an interview with The Hill, saying that the musical artists’ videos showed their support for the Illuminati.

“These aren’t my opinions, these are based on videos that these people have put out themselves,” Fawell said.

“If these are true, these are real problems aren’t they?” he added. “They go in the same hopper with every other problem in America.”

Fawell said he verified the 9/11 theory by personally collecting samples of gray dust at ground zero and having it tested.

CNN reported that in other blog posts, Fawell wrote that former President Obama created false flag attacks to prompt support for his foreign policy agenda, and referred to Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonButtigieg stands in as Pence for Harris's debate practice Senate GOP sees early Supreme Court vote as political booster shot Poll: 51 percent of voters want to abolish the electoral college MORE as a “bitch” and former Secretary of State Colin Powell as an “Uncle Tom.”

He said he stood by the comments, but that in the comment about Clinton, he would “take out the b and replace it with a w,” and that his remark about Powell was “most likely [about] his complicity in the Iraq War.”

Fawell criticized the media for focusing on what he called the “most sensational” of his past comments, and said the theories about 9/11 and the Illuminati are a reflection of the corruption in government, which is the main focus of his campaign.

“The system can lean on me all it wants, but the people want freedom and the people want their country back,” he said. “My job is to see that they get it. I’m not going to waver, I’m not going to apologize.”

Fawell ran uncontested for the GOP nomination for Illinois’s 17th District. Trump won the district in 2016 by a narrow margin, though incumbent Bustos won her seat by 20 points. She is the favorite and the race is not listed as competitive on the Cook Political Report.

The Hill has reached out to the Illinois Republican Party for comment.