Arizona GOP nominee appears on show with Hitler-praising host who said Jewish people were behind 9/11

Written by Eric Hananoki

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Mark Finchem, the Republican nominee for a state Senate seat in Arizona, was a guest on the September 11 show of Hitler-praising antisemite Scott McKay, with the host offering to help Finchem when he becomes a state senator. 

McKay has praised Adolf Hitler for purportedly “fighting the same people that we're trying to take down today,” said that Jewish people practice “child sacrifice” and eat their hearts, and claimed that Jewish people engineered 9/11, among other antisemitic statements. 

Finchem is a former Arizona state representative, failed secretary of state candidate, and an election denier who was reportedly near the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. He also has a history of promoting QAnon propaganda. He is now the Republican nominee for a state Senate seat in Arizona’s District 1. 

Finchem appeared on the September 11 edition of McKay’s streaming program, where the two spent significant time pushing election denial. 

They also talked about Finchem’s state Senate race, with the antisemitic host telling Finchem that when he’s potentially elected senator: “You need any help in any of the messaging coming out of there, you know you can come here.” 

Finchem replied: “Well, I appreciate that.” 

Toward the end of the interview, McKay told Finchem: 

From the September 11, 2024, edition of The Tipping Point with Scott McKay

SCOTT MCKAY (HOST): Mark, thanks for everything you've done contributing in this country. You're a great man and I just love that I get a chance to spend time with people like you who have been doing these things when it wasn't cool or in vogue. You were doing it because it's who you are and because you're a true American and sworn to defend the country, and now you're taking the biggest risks of your life doing what you're doing. So we'll follow you right into that state Senate seat. Anywhere where we can help deliver some body blows to that criminal machine, we're here for it.  

MARK FINCHEM: Thank you very much, Scott. Have a great day.  

MCKAY: Much love to you, brother.

The video page for Finchem’s interview with McKay also included a link to donate to his campaign. 

McKay has repeatedly pushed antisemitism and pro-Hitler rhetoric on his show and elsewhere, as Media Matters previously documented: 

  • McKay claimed that Jewish people “built Hitler. … He was created by them” because they needed a catalyst to profit from a military conflict. He also praised Hitler for supposedly attempting to spurn his Jewish creators by trying to break “free of the Rothschilds’ corrupt money-magic fiat system” and create “a banking system for the people and the free world.”  
  • McKay said: “Hitler was actually fighting the same people that we're trying to take down today.”
  • McKay claimed that 9/11 was perpetrated by “the same group of people that has done a very good job at hiding under the religion of Judaism." 
  • McKay claimed that many Jewish people are hiding “under the cover of this religion called Judaism” so they can “murder children.” 
  • McKay claimed that Jewish people practice “satanism, child sacrifice, bleeding them out, torturing them, consuming them, eating their heart.” 
  • McKay claimed that Jewish people created a banking system “in exchange for the child blood sacrifices.” 
  • McKay claimed that Jewish people were responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing and the assassinations of Presidents Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, and William McKinley. 

McKay was so antisemitic that he was kicked off the far-right ReAwaken America tour, where he had appeared with Eric Trump and other allies of the former president. 

Finchem’s appearance on the program of an antisemite isn’t an anomaly. Several other prominent Arizona Republicans have appeared on shows hosted by people with antisemitic histories, including U.S. Senate nominee Kari Lake and state Sens. Anthony Kern and Wendy Rogers. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) has also repeatedly promoted antisemitic media figures, including Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes.