Alex Jones is the middle of a bankruptcy process. Both he and his Infowars business have gone into Chapter 11 hoping to get some relief from the many lawsuits they have lost. He has pled poverty because his actions and the anguish he has caused dozens of people have led to well-earned settlements against him that total almost $1.5 billion.
Jones is also not necessarily out of the woods legally. Over the summer of 2022, during Jones’ Sandy Hook defamation trial, a slew of his personal texts were released to Sandy Hook attorneys. While superficially embarrassing on the one hand, there was a more material consequence: It allowed the House of Representatives’ Jan. 6 committee the chance to subpoena those texts in their investigations.
What the committee believed they might be able to find has been the subject of much speculation since Jones and his Infowars show made a recent career of platforming so many of the mouthpieces of the insurgency. On Thursday a new report came out about one of the more disturbing things detailed in the Jones’ bankruptcy filings.
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The Washington Post reports that in one of the sections of his bankruptcy statements, the area where one puts in property he owns and/or controls for another person, Jones (or his lawyers) wrote the vague “Holding firearms for certain January 6th participants to be provided.” Excuse me?
Jones definitely attended the “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded the riots and insurrection at the Capitol building. Investigations into what happened that day have shown that there is a mountain of evidence that many of the participants in that day’s disgraceful attack on our democracy were armed to varying degrees. The Post has the bankruptcy filing, and there is no other information besides the quote above. There is no “value” attached to the items. There is no location of where those firearms may be.
In addition to the firearms, Jones, 49, lists boats and lifetime helicopter access as part of his personal financial disclosures, records show. Jones reported his gross income in 2021, the most recent year that data is available, as $617,143.02, according to the filing. He reported a gross income of nearly $639,000 in 2020, the filing shows.
It will be interesting to see what comes of Jones in regards to connections with Jan. 6 criminals. His deposition for the committee back in January 2022 included Jones acting strange, stressed out, and throwing out baseless accusations. There are all kinds of legitimate reasons to be overly stressed out by being deposed by the congressional investigative body. There are even more reasons to be stressed out if you’ve spent your entire career lying about things for money.
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