In impromptu remarks in front of a crowd on January 6, he said, “We declare 1776 against the New World Order… We need to understand we’re under attack, and we need to understand this is 21st-century warfare and get on a war-footing.” But he also he urged them to demonstrate peacefully, saying, “We’re here to take our rightful country back peacefully, because we’re not globalist, antifa criminals.” His longtime attorney Norm Pattis told CBS that Jones was exercising his First Amendment rights, adding, “Congress's attempt to chill ordinary Americans in the exercise of these rights is terrifying."Īs Jones faces what could be a sizable legal judgement and another bout of withering press when he testifies before Congress, he’s also working on something much weirder. 6, and he was not in the Capitol himself. Jones has denied any connection to the violence of Jan. 6 rally but at a different one the night before, where the WSJ reported he said, in part, “I don’t know how all this is going to end, but if they want to fight, they better believe they’ve got one.”) (In the end, Jones didn’t speak at the Jan. According to the WSJ, Jones also personally pledged more than $50,000 to the event in exchange for the “top speaking slot of his choice,” according to documents reviewed by the paper. According to rally organizers, the Wall Street Journal reported, he also arranged a $300,000 donation from Julie Jenkins Fancelli, an heiress to the Publix supermarket fortune and a major Trump donor. rally before the riot that ended with a march to the Capitol.
Allen West.įinally, Jones has been subpoenaed to appear before a congressional committee to answer for his alleged role in the Jan. Jones and Infowars suggested repeatedly that Gilmore was a Deep State operative, as did a host of other right-wing commentators, including Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit and former Texas Rep.
Nor are his legal troubles necessarily over: He’s also still being sued for defamation by Brennan Gilmore, the man who captured on video the murder of demonstrator Heather Heyer at the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. His lawyers are appealing the default judgments.) (Jones claimed for several years that Sandy Hook was a fraud perpetrated by the government with the use of “crisis actors,” claims he has subsequently said he disavows.
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Decisions on how much Infowars’ parent company, Free Speech Systems LLC, owes in damages are expected next year. Also in 2018, a group of Sandy Hook parents sued him in both Connecticut and Texas for his repeated claims that the mass shooting that killed their children in 2012 was a “giant hoax.” Jones and Infowars recently lost both cases by default, with the judges in both states ruling the company had failed to produce documents and financial and operational information required by discovery. Between 20, Infowars and Jones’ personal accounts were booted off an array of social media platforms, including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Spotify, and YouTube. Jones’ relationship with the former president-as well as Trump’s most notorious adviser, Roger Stone, who’s appeared on Infowars many times-brought him a new, rather white-hot level of scrutiny. In the years since, Jones has tumbled precipitously, a descent that is, ironically, all due to his increased fame.
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