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27 Jun 2022
Alex Jones has been involved in and paid for many abortions, including pressuring women who did not want them.

So Alex, as we know, has been involved in a lot of abortions. Yes. He has paid for a lot. Loves them. From an episode, I believe, in 2015 that we found, he was talking about paying for abortions for women who even didn't want to get them. Yep. He pressured them into abortions.

10 Nov 2021
Alex Jones was obsessed with Satan during his teenage years.

Okay, so I subsequently did a story about Alex's teenage years for This American Life. One thing that came out in that story of kids who knew him when he was at high school was that he was obsessed with Satan then. It would be Hail Satan this, Hail Satan that.

29 Sep 2021
In 2003, Alex Jones ran a website promoting Virgin, Utah as a model community for those who support the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

So apparently, in 2003, Alex was running a website promoting a town in Utah called Virgin, which was, quote, a model community for small towns and big cities alike. The Virgin City Council and citizenry have made Virgin a friendly place to live for those who support the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

03 Apr 2020
Alex Jones previously attempted to co-opt QAnon to promote his own agenda but failed.

But what's interesting is like I've listened to this show like forever and I know that back on January 6th, Alex literally told his good buddy Joel Skousen that he attempted to and wanted to co-opt QAnon. I remember that. It didn't work. Nothing that QAnon has said has ever come true. This is a pure disinformation expert. And sadly, a lot of Trump supporters, including some of my subscribers, I was thinking I'm just going to endorse it and then co-opt it publicly and go, oh, Q says this, Q says that, because everybody loves all the magic stuff because it's definitely a delusional issue and it's sucking up so many good people into it. Yes. Here was my plan. I was going to take over Q, say that I was Q, and then tell all of QAnon's dumb-dumb followers that it's my stuff. Yes. I was just going to use the name that's very popular to promote my own things. Exactly. Very honest, straightforward, straight shooting. For sure.

27 Mar 2020
Alex Jones did not discover Bohemian Grove or expose Janet Reno and Hillary Clinton during the Waco massacre.

Alex didn't discover Bohemian Grove. There were plenty of people who talked about it prior to him from the mainstream media to a 1989 piece in Spy magazine, all well before Alex did his publicity stunt. Alex didn't expose Janet Reno or Hillary Clinton during Waco. For one, that's rewriting history a little bit with the lens of the Hillary obsession, considering there was Bill who was president back then, but let's just forget about that. She was the shadow president, Dan. Second, Alex did get a lot of attention for trying to help rebuild the Branch Davidian church in Waco, and it was a huge part of his early identity, but he didn't expose anything.

02 Mar 2020
Alex Jones's brand has historically been anti-military and opposed to martial law, contradicting his current praise of General Flynn for wanting military control.

Because if I'm not much mistaken, he was super anti-military until at least around like 2009. Hey, whoa. If I'm not mistaken, Alex's entire brand was warning about the coming martial law in militarized state. It seems like everything he's stood for since at least 1995 has been strongly, emphatically opposed to the idea of the military being in control of the state. But here he is crying on stage with Mike Flynn's son about how the globalists jammed up his dad because he was going to bring the military back in charge.

03 Feb 2020
Alex Jones falsely claimed he warned Trump not to hire John Bolton.

And it's interesting because he doesn't really have much to add to the entire thing, but he does try to rewrite his own history. Why the hell did Trump hire him? He warned him. He's trying to shink Trump right now as they try to get witnesses, which will be Bolton. So Alex is trying to say that he warned Trump not to hire Bolton. Warned him about Bolton. Steve Pieczenik did. Alex argued with Steve Pieczenik that Bolton would be an apparatchik and he would do Trump's bidding. He knew this way around the swamp, and so he would be a really useful tool because that's what Roger Stone had told Alex. Presumably, I don't even know if this is true, but it's been discussed on InfoWars that Roger Stone and John Bolton play poker together. I have no fucking idea if that's even true or just some shit talk. But Roger was like, no, no, John Bolton's cool. Alex went that way. Steve Pieczenik was the dissenting voice who is now Alex is trying to pretend. Oh, yeah, we listened to him all along. Yeah, absolutely. We said don't hire Bolton. No, you didn't. You rationalized it.

03 Feb 2020
Alex Jones previously warned against nano-silver while selling only colloidal silver.

You see, back then, Alex wasn't selling nano-silver, only colloidal silver. But in the weirdo, dumb-dumb, fake medicine community, nano-silver was all the rage. Rima Leibo was selling it as an Ebola cure, and people were excited about this new breakthrough. But since Alex didn't have a stake in the market, his messaging was that it was dangerous and you should just use colloidal silver. Or you can go back to 2008 and find Alex posting an article titled, quote, Scientists Scared as Nanotechnology and Nanoparticles Become Common in Consumer Products. And the article is all about how there are dangerous side effects to nanosilver, like pollution that kills aquatic ecosystems. The article says, quote, ionic silver is only toxic to humans at very high levels. The toxicity of nanoparticle silver, said Westerhoff, has yet to be determined. At that point, Alex was not selling nano-silver.

01 Jan 2020
Dan Friesen asserts that Alex Jones has implied contact with Eric Prince and spoken highly of him in the past.

If he misunderstood, it was an intentional misunderstanding that Alex presented. He has implied contact with Eric Prince in the past. He's spoken really highly of him, especially during the early Trump years. He's been, no, he talks about how he has ex-Blackwater guards security and stuff like that.

12 Nov 2018
In his public access days, Alex Jones was primarily focused on anti-government and anti-police issues rather than culture wars.

Maybe they selectively cut out all the parts where he would be talking about these sorts of things, but he doesn't seem concerned with culture issues one bit. He doesn't seem to care at all about anything that is his bread and butter now. All he cares about is the government. And he is fucking anti-government to a T. Is he anti-government? Which I don't think is any... That's not going to come as a surprise to anybody. Okay. But he is... All about the government. He is all about being anti-police.

26 Sep 2018
Alex Jones promoted 10th Amendment resolutions in 2009 using state representatives with racist pasts.

So, to fill everybody in who hasn't listened to all of the 2009 stuff, recently we found Alex Jones going pretty much... Whole hog for about a month in 10th Amendment resolutions that various state houses were putting forth. He had all of these weird state reps on who all seemed to have... Bizarrely racist pasts.

23 Aug 2018
When Donald Trump announced his candidacy in 2015, Alex Jones initially hated him and accused him of being part of the mob.

And one of the things that I found that was the most surprising was that when Trump announced his candidacy, Alex hated him. He was very clear about how Donald Trump was a part of the mob. He said that Trump was a front man for consortiums on the East Coast, that he was a bad, bad guy.

06 Aug 2018
Alex Jones previously opened a cable box on air to reveal a hidden microphone as an early rebellious act.

One of Alex's big claims to fame is from like way early in his career. He on air opened up like a cable box and showed that there was like a microphone inside or something along those lines. He talks about it. A lot.

16 May 2018
In 2009, Alex Jones was fully supportive of the Palestinians and opposed Israeli violence against them.

But again, it's important that we remember that we're also concurrently doing an investigation into 2009. And one of the things that we learned is that in 2009, Alex was full-throatedly supportive of the Palestinians. Yes. He was against the violence and atrocities that were being perpetrated by Israel upon the Palestinian population.

27 Apr 2018
In 2009, Alex Jones agreed with Russell Means rather than accusing him of being part of a globalist plan to divide Native Americans.

I'm concerned with the idea that in 2009, Alex Jones had a Native American activist on the show, and he was like, yep, absolutely. He was like, he was on board. He wasn't talking about how it's a plan to separate us and balkanize us, divide and conquer these Native Americans who want rights. It's all the globalists just trying to make white people feel guilty. It wasn't anything like that. He was talking to him from a position of like, I agree with you. And that's nuts.

11 May 2017
speculates · medium · dan friesen · 01:44:09
#40: May 10, 2017
Alex Jones was likely trolled by prank callers in his early career rather than courted by globalist elites.

I'm almost certain that someone trolled him in the past. Like, remember that BuzzFeed article I put out? Yeah. That Charlie Warzel wrote and they tweeted out. Yeah. It starts with a discussion of how he used to have a public access TV show and there was a guy, I can't remember the guy's name now, but the guy, I think it might have been like Space Hitler or something like that. This guy would just constantly call him and prank call him. He would just fuck with his TV show. Space Hitler. Yeah. And so, like, I have to believe that early on. He's got to get Space Hitler up. Oh, we got to find him. Oh, we got to find Space Hitler. He's still with us. He might be in Space Argentina. Well, he actually, he, you know, he killed himself in an underground space bunker. Space Argentina. Yeah, that was fake. That was fake? Okay. I read it in the space white papers. I remember the boys from Space Brazil. So, like, there's, I believe that it's entirely possible that in his early days, when there was sort of like his principles and his beliefs and his backstories of his own making were coming together, they're being formed. I bet someone fucked with him and pretended that they had like deep information or something like that. And they pretended they were deep throat for him and were like, we'll give you everything. Just come be a part of it. And then he.