Infowars host and charlatan Alex Jones has had a messy divorce and custody battle going on for some time now. The intricacies of it are beyond any of us not inside those proceedings. However, things continue to get nasty between Alex Jones and his ex-wife Kelly Jones, with Kelly Jones’ lawyers focusing on Alex Jones’ on-air antics and statements. Alex Jones’ lawyers are attempting to separate Jones the father and ex-husband from Alex Jones that megalomaniacal conspiracy-theorist-Trump-mouthpiece.
At a recent pretrial hearing, attorney Randall Wilhite told state District Judge Orlinda Naranjo that using his client Alex Jones’ on-air Infowars persona to evaluate Alex Jones as a father would be like judging Jack Nicholson in a custody dispute based on his performance as the Joker in “Batman.”
“He’s playing a character,” Wilhite said of Jones. “He is a performance artist.”
I can only imagine that this is a sample of what the court is looking at.
I would never presume to choose a side in a tragic case of divorce like this one as very few people “win” anything worthwhile in these situations and the people most likely to be hurt are children. But Alex Jones is an asshole and the people that believe him are being fooled by a charlatan asshole.