Much as they did with another unhinged clown who broadcasts moronic “theories” to the gullible masses, it seems that by and large, the mainstream media finds Alex Jones simply too ridiculous to take seriously.
As it was with Trump, this is a mistake.
It’s no coincidence that as time goes on, Trump sounds more and more like Jones — he’s playing to a hardcore base heavily influenced by Jones and others from the Truth Movement who have gained large followings through their websites and YouTube channels.
It’s also no coincidence that longtime Trump bestie, fellow Roy Cohn acolyte, infamous Nixonite and Manafort partner, Roger Stone, has been working hand in glove with Jones and in turn, a coalition of the players from the remnants of the Tea Party and the Patriot Movement.
A prime example of this coming together of elements from the fringe and the Trump campaign was the America First United Rally held in Cleveland during the Republican National Convention.
Hosted by the Citizens for Trump and Roger Stone, the event featured such notable wingnut personalities as Alex Jones, Jan Morgan and Wayne Dupree and was sponsored by Infowars and an assortment of interrelated “for Trump” groups.
One of the most noticeable of the Jones/Stone activities in recent weeks has been the Bill Clinton is a rapist! “protesters” who have been infiltrating Clinton events, launching themselves in front of cameras and yelling “Bill Clinton is a rapist!”
As it turns out, these of course aren’t spontaneous protests but rather paid agitators seeking a “bounty” from Infowars for their “activism.”
As detailed on the Infowars site:
Originally spun off Roger Stone’s Bill Clinton “RAPE” t-shirt design, anyone can earn a bounty of up to $5k for calling out the former president on his multiple rape accusations.
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The campaign, launched on Alex Jones’ September 30 weekday radio broadcast, has tasked willing participants with appearing on national television for five seconds donning apparel branding former President Bill Clinton a rapist, preferably the shirt sold at the Infowars Store, for a payout of $1000.
Additionally, we called on patriots to vocalize the message, “Bill Clinton is a rapist,” while wearing Infowars’ Bill Clinton Rape shirt for a maximum payout of up to $5,000 per appearance – until $100,000 has been expended.
It’s not all agitation-by-proxy with Jones though. While in Cleveland for the Citizens for Trump event, Jones managed to get in some direct agitation of his own by way of a publicity stunt at the Cleveland Public Square on Tuesday, June 19, 2016.
Arriving with a large group from Infowars as well as uniformed police officers, Jones marches into the middle of a RevCom rally with a bullhorn, a camera crew, “security” thugs and a team of shills.
(Heads up, all of these videos contain considerable profanity)
As can be seen at 8:58 in the next video, Alex Jones is trying to mount the steps, pushing his way into a protester who uses his forearm to nudge Jones out of his personal space. At this point, Jones dramatically throws himself into the man and immediately tries to sell his performance to the nearest police officer —“he attacked me officer!”
I want to point out two people in the above video. At 5:55, you’ll see that Jones brought along Kenneth Lane — wearing a black Infowars “1776” hat. He’s a favorite of Infowars and the myriad of Drudge-dredged news blogs like the The Gateway Pundit. Then at 8:14, take note of the man in black shirt and sunglasses who can be seen arriving with Jones in the first video (walking on the right with the “Hitlary” t-shirt). This is Jordan Salik who sells anti-Hillary Clinton t-shirts at the website politicallyerect.com. We’ll get to him in just a moment.
In this next video, you’ll see what purports to be simply a group of Trump supporters outside a Long Beach, CA Hillary Clinton rally in early June.
Of course this is all staged. Infowars personality Joe Biggs knows at least four of the people in this video. First there’s Salik wearing one of his would be “shocking” t-shirts. Biggs had known him for at least months prior to the staged video and he’s now playing the part of “pollster” on Alex Jones’s show (5:41:41 @ video here).
Then there’s Laura, who was interviewed separately and has been a Facebook friend of Biggs since 2015. The three teens in the back were pulled out of line by two of the other men, “Skywalker” and “Johnny” (black Infowars distressed flag tee, blue Infowars “Hillary for Prison” tee) from Last Revolution Media, who along with their friends from Cool Hand Vets, had accompanied the Infowars crew to a number of local rallies (April in Costa Mesa, May in Anaheim, June in Huntington Beach) and have been announcing their affiliation at least as far back as July of 2015. Along with another Infowars cohort, photographer Adam (YouTube channel Shuttershot45), the group mostly goes around filming Infowars associates, spewing Alex Jone’s wingnuttery, shoving microphones and cameras into people’s faces and attempting to film Trump protesters being “triggered” (a word that we’ll all fucking forget soon I hope) — in other words agitating — as can be seen in the below video from the San Diego Trump rally/protest, starting at about 5:40.
And in this video from the same protest, you can see “Roque” from Cool Hand Vets doing his own agitating at 1:45.
It’s no coincidence that in the coverage of the San Diego rally/protest clashes, these “Infowarriors” kept showing up in news photos.
In my next post, I’ll be revealing more links between the formerly-fringe, Citizens for Trump, the Trump Twitter troll army, the “Taco Truck” guy, the egged Trump supporter and more and I’ll do so with a leaked document that to my knowledge, hasn’t been published anywhere.