After years of litigation, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his news network Info Wars stand at the precipice of liquidation.
The man described by CNN, BBC, MSNBC, and NBC as a “right-wing conspiracy theorist,” and by CBS and The Daily Beast as a “far-right conspiracy theorist,” may be forced to sell his business to pay restitution to the Sandy Hook school shooting families he accused of being crisis actors. The families are pushing for “the total destruction of Alex Jones” and his departure from the public stage, and the media is celebrating his financial destruction.
Jones is most definitely a conspiracy theorist. He spends his days ranting about the New World Order, vaccines giving children autism, false flag operations, and the alleged truth about 9/11. However, the ocean of furious news stories on his trial consistently gets one thing wrong — Jones is not a conservative, at least in the traditional sense.
Jones is a man who was kicked out of George W. Bush rallies, voted for Barack Obama in 2008, picked fights with David Duke, antisemites, and Neo-Nazis, and recorded videos with Joe Rogan wearing Bush masks outside of the White House to protest the Bush administration. He was not nor is he now a man of the right — and he hasn’t claimed to be, to my knowledge.
Not Right or Left, but Anti-Establishment
You’d be understandable for thinking otherwise, given that he’s thrown himself fully behind President Trump, hangs out with Tucker Carlson, interviews paleoconservative gadflies, and
