Dan Friesen and Jordan Holmes dissect Knowledge Fight’s May 18, 2025 episode where Alex Jones peddles unproven claims: Biden’s "puppet" status via a shadowy council (including Obama, who allegedly used an auto-pen), suspicious prostate cancer timing, and exaggerated cognitive decline tied to debunked Secret Service reports. Jones mislabels James O’Keefe’s June 2024 undercover video as "Project Veritas," mocking his own conspiracy tactics—like the vague "Pelican" source—while right-wing peers half-heartedly embrace his predictions. Their critique frames Jones as a failed "Palpatine," trading in weak analogies and incremental outrage instead of bold, decisive moves, exposing his lack of real influence despite self-styled bravado. [Automatically generated summary]
No, if you've ever hit a home run, like when you the feeling of hitting a home run and really just hitting the barrel onto the ball, you don't feel the bat.
You don't feel it.
It's the one time when you're playing baseball where you don't feel yourself swing and you sit there and you go, that was fucking great.
So first, shout out to Connor, whose partner, Jenna, wants to wish her favorite policy wonk a wonderfully happy birthday and remind him that Ivermectin might cure his IBS.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is Sunday, May 18th, 2025.
I am your host, Alex Jones.
And right as it all officially comes out that Joe Biden was always a puppet, and there was this council that really ran things, and that Obama was the head of it, and that they signed 99% plus of the bills and orders with the auto pin.
He gets aggressive cancer, prostate cancer.
And you've got all the Jake Tappers writing their books about how he was a vegetable.
But, oh, did Jake Tapper attack anybody that exposed that?
But we didn't need the corporate media to admit all this.
I knew it before Biden ran and got massively attacked.
But Biden was an illegitimate president.
Biden was always a puppet.
They didn't just steal the 2020 election.
They had a committee that reported back to Barack Obama.
And now James O'Keefe got huge undercover footage of the former deputy chief of staff admitting that Biden was a near vegetable and that who really ran the White House.
So I was interested in the way that Alex was presenting this because he's saying that now that it's all coming out that the 2020 election was stolen and that there's this council that's puppet mastering Biden.
Yo, he usually, these videos, they're someone oftentimes on a dating app, they'll end up connecting with somebody who's the Project Veritas or James O'Keefe plant.
I don't know, and it doesn't really, the cancer part, I don't really, like, I'm not really too interested in getting to the bottom of who knew what was.
But it's entirely plausible that the story, as we understand it, which is like pretty close to when this news came out, was when they found the diagnosis.
I don't know if everybody is like slightly avoiding this to some extent, but he's a very old man.
Sure.
He's a very old.
He's an old man.
He's very, very old.
don't think people are avoiding that like but he's very he's like you you should be more surprised he didn't have cancer right Like, that's where we're at.
And I've been talking to, I'll just leave it at that high-level folks in the government today, several of them.
Very interesting about what's going on at the DOJ and the rest of it.
I'm going to think about the information I've got for a little while.
I may break it tonight.
Definitely break it in the next few days.
But when you learn stuff like this, it's very important.
You've got to cogitate on it and do your own research.
And then I come up with my synthesis for you.
We obviously have more on the 8647 Comey being brought into questioning by the Secret Service and what's happening on that front, the attempts of the corporate media to spin it.
We have Trump posting on TrueSocial the Clinton body count.
So, right now, we're in a situation where information is coming out that some people in the media knew things involving Biden's declining condition who failed to cover what they knew properly because they believed that to be in their best interests.
As Biden's presidency went on and the 2024 campaign began, a lot of people had a lot of subjective takes on Biden's status.
I don't want to get too bogged down in that kind of conversation because I think that people who had no concrete information at all had equally valid perspectives.
At the time, it was sensible to say that you had concerns about Biden's seeming decline, and it would also be fine to hold the position that publicly available information wasn't really the full picture, and it was hard to make that assessment.
Sure.
I'm not interested in those differences because the other difference is what matters.
There were people who had access to more information, which could have helped people get a fuller picture who chose not to provide that information.
That strategic withholding of information is a problem, and it's a valid point of criticism for the mainstream media to receive at this point.
The reason I bring all this up is because Alex is doing the exact same thing as the worst case scenario of the mainstream media's actions would have been in that case.
He supposedly has some bombshell information from the highest levels of the Trump administration, and instead of reporting what he knows, he has to cogitate for a while to come up with a synthesis.
All that means is that he's trying to come up with a spin and a good way to sell a story to the audience.
Alex is capable of complaining about the mainstream media engaging in behavior that is definitely unethical, and there appears to be some value in that, but there's really not.
His criticism appears to be about their behavior, but it can't actually afford to be about the behavior because he does that shit all the time.
Yeah.
So, this is an interesting moment where there's a superficial criticism that Alex has that he can't really take deeper without cutting off his own foot.
I mean, yeah, it is in a way like the reverse canary.
I don't know how I would describe it, but the way to look at it would be like, you know, the mainstream media is fucked up because they did the same thing.
They're doing the same thing.
You see, they're doing the same thing right now.
Like, that's what Alex is good for.
Whatever the two wheels line up and the lines are right there, you go, oh, see, now you fucked up.
I think that, you know, it feels the Alex's response to this and a lot of the right-wing media's response to this feels a lot like when Musk was like, they published my murder coordination.
Their attacks on Trump, their law fair, all the criminal activity.
How'd that work out for him?
They were dumb enough to brag.
Remember, everywhere.
It'll be over for Trump when this mugshot comes out in Georgia.
We're finally getting it.
Every channel, remember?
It's the end, the mug shot, the mug shot, the mug shot.
And then Trump nails it with a beyond clinic wood, badass, American eagle gaze of total defiance that everybody looks at and knows deep down that's the alpha male.
That's the badass.
That's the defiant real person.
You can't fake that look.
And then when they shot him, he got even more of that look, except the lips pulled down and the teeth bared and the eyes bugging out.
Yes.
Yes, we get to see who's really who at times like this, don't we?
And now the bad guys are gonna find out who's really who, aren't you?
Because the veneer of civilization is burning off.
And all the posers and all the thugs and all the boys who thought they had this country on its knees and cowed are now just beginning to understand that they have awoken the terrible giant.
I'm surprised that this had never really occurred to me.
Maybe I've thought about this before, but this is genuinely a kind of novel thought to me.
Like, we all know like St. Crispin's Day speeches.
We know like the Patton speech.
We know these inspiring speeches, but we've never heard one like delivered by Sauron to the orcs, you know, where it's like, hey, man, we're just going to go fucking murder these innocent people.
You will find out if you murder innocent people.
You know, and it's like, they must need those.
They must want a nice little.
That feels like what Sauron would say to get the orcs ready to start murdering people, you know?
And Roger Stone predicted before the 2020 election was stolen exactly how this was all going to be done and who would run what, because he knows who these politicos are.
And remember, he didn't pull up mainstream news headlines.
Barack Obama had his alternate White House a mile and a half away, a whole compound with all these hundreds and hundreds of people coming and going and dozens and dozens of staff working around the clock, coordinating all of this, and that the main committee chairman, they even had a committee, was Barack Obama.
So we had like a Pulit Bureau or a literal oligarchy running the nation.
And of course, you famously have Speaker of the House a year and a half ago when he first came in, Johnson, for months, trying to get a meeting with Biden when Biden had banned the sale of U.S. natural gas.
He finally gets a meeting with him, but they wouldn't leave the room.
He asked Biden to kick him out.
He kicked him out and said, hey, here's your order banning the sale of liquid natural gas from the U.S. anywhere in the world.
He said, I didn't do that.
No such thing.
I signed an order.
I heard about studying natural gas.
They said, no, let me take you to a computer.
Call your staff in.
They came in.
They had a meeting.
Oh, my God.
The next day, he signed an order himself reversing it.
So this is beyond a scandal.
This is massive treason.
And the corporate media is trying to spit it by making it about, oh, the cover-up by the Democrats.
Oh, who knew he was a vegetable?
You could see him on TV.
He had serious dementia.
Didn't know who he was half the time, literally falling down constantly.
So they spin the story and they turn it into that instead of the issue that they knew and that they had an auto pin and they had committee that got together and then implemented it through his chief of staff and others.
And this undercover video also has this high-level official saying it was a free-for-all too.
So these different groups in the committee could get whatever they wanted, but sometimes they put something else from another faction in front of him.
His Department of Energy put a freeze on giving out new permits to companies who wanted to sell natural gas outside the United States to countries that didn't have a pre-existing free trade agreement with the United States in place.
All of this narrative that Alex is talking about, it's built around a supposedly new video James O'Keefe has put out, which allegedly includes confessions from Biden's chief of staff.
And so you have these different factions within this committee, and they all have an auto pen that can sign things and make it look like Biden signed them.
Before Biden even stole the election 2020, that they would end up replacing him ahead of the 2024 election.
And then a year before it happened, he said, it's because Jill is making too many decisions as co-president against the Obama and Hillary and Soros factions that all are interconnected.
That's Soros, Hillary, and the Obama factions.
And they are just absolutely upset that now her fourth faction is dominant.
And at the end, it was Hunter and Biden's brother and Jill around him at all times.
And that more and more you had to go through them, and they were shutting off the Obama wing and others.
And then when Biden was out in Las Vegas, suddenly, ooh, a medical emergency.
His doctor with all the drugs.
Oh, he's at the hospital, but no, he wasn't.
They tried to cover it up, but independent media broke that first.
Then they fly him out to the East Coast to his beach area in Delaware, and he's out there for weeks.
And there's a signature on a piece of paper without even U.S. letterhead, no presidential letterhead, no White House letterhead with his signature on it.
And he resigns as the 2024 candidate, but no one sees him for eight days.
And then he pops up with his hair sticking up, stumbling around, about to get on Air Force One of Lockheed, D.C.
They say, Why did you resign out of the presidential rights?
He said, I didn't do that.
Remember, what?
Yeah, right.
I mean, this was a coup from the beginning.
They stole the 2020 election from Trump, the American people.
And then they inserted a puppet who wouldn't know what was going on so they could commit all these crimes and steal all this money.
And then no one would ever know who to really blame because it's all done by committee.
But they can do it to the chief of staff through the White House lawyers and the people that actually wrote the bills and the orders.
They can all be indicted.
They can all be hauled in.
But that's why Biden pardoned all of them.
And part of that committee.
And on that committee, unofficial committee was Nancy Pelosi, Adam Shifty Schiff representing the neocons was Liz Cheney.
It's interesting and it's full of high drama, but none of this is going to matter if Alex has a future improv game that he wants to play and any of this contradicts that.
And I think some of the purpose that it serves for Alex is that like, all right, no one's going to hold me accountable for this kind of stuff and making all these connections and all this.
But if it's useful for me later, I can play a clip of me saying this stuff and it'll make me look like a prophet.
There would genuinely be a part of me, if I was Alex, that would have hit the moment where I realized no one is ever going to hold me accountable for anything that I say.
And I would have gotten really sad.
I think that would have broken my heart a little bit.
Yeah.
Like sooner, because part of his whole thing is like, somebody's got to take exception sooner or later, right?
But when he demanded that people take seriously his poltergeist encounter when he was a kid, I think that is where if I were in his shoes, I would start to feel like there's no challenge.
And now Trump can't even get in who he wants because the Republicans as the key U.S. attorney in D.C., the guy that'll actually do it, the guy that's not a coward, Ed Martin, and others.
So now they're making him his own new special office with power to go after government weaponization, government racketeering against the people.
And I can tell you, I've heard some very, very exciting things about that, and they're extremely scared.
The president can create a new task force and put a equivalent U.S. attorney over it with the power to go into any FBI office, any DOJ office he wants in the country.
So basically, to use a Star Wars analogy, this is, if Trump's Palpatine, Ed Martin's going to be his Darth Vader to go out and get stuff done.
So pray for him because that's going to be a serious position to be in, getting literally figuratively shot at.
Just a tiny little reminder that Darth Vader realizes that Palpatine was using him as an instrument for evil at the end of the story.
Quick little refresher that George Lucas went back and made Vader appear as a Force ghost, but as Anakin, which strongly suggests that his entire life as Vader was a transgression that he absolved himself of because he redeemed himself at the end of the story by helping Luke and turning on Palpatine.
I mean, I guess it's never occurred to me truly to ask from just a purely administrative standpoint, would the bureaucracy prefer Palpatine to the messiness of the Galactic Republican?
So the basic idea is that the Trump supporting folks want to have an argument to invalidate everything that Joe Biden did.
Right.
So if they feel like they're incorrect, but they feel like if they can somehow demonstrate that Biden's hand didn't sign the pardons for Hunter and shit, then they're not valid.
I don't feel any strong feelings about Trump's signature necessarily, but I have seen some people who have a pretty cool artistic style to help them sign something.
For all this grandstanding about the strength and beauty of a man's signature, there is nothing less respectable than the almost obscene love they have for the last-minute technicality being the thing that makes.
We don't want to win on the merits of our competition.
Yes, it's one of the biggest ever, but not compared to this, that we had an ongoing stolen election with a coup of bureaucrats and former presidents and vice presidents and secretaries of states and all of them in committees with Jill Biden deciding on what they were going to do.
Treasures Barack Obama, and that's what comes up.
He was the key.
And Hillary Clinton were running the White House under Joe Biden.
Obama is very involved.
Says Tyler Robinson, special advisor, the administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration, working directly as a deputy to the chief of staff, Ron Clain, who Roger Stone said if they steal the election 2020, it'll be Ron Clain, who works for who?
So Tyler Robinson testified about getting caught in this sting operation in June 2024.
He matched with a gal on an app that March, and she recorded him on some dates.
He said, quote, watching the video is embarrassing.
It's painful to see myself trying to impress a date only to learn, along with the rest of the world, that she was lying and tricking me all along.
It's also uncomfortable to admit that in trying to impress my date, I overstated my role with the small business administration, as well as my knowledge of the workings of the White House.
I have no personal knowledge of how decisions are made in the White House or who is involved.
In trying to make my date feel less anxious about the November election, I found myself agreeing with misstatements that she made and making misstatements myself.
The result is a selectively edited, misleading video.
In the video, I agree to and say things that are not accurate and do not reflect the agency's true work and priorities.
I'm personally sorry for any confusion or misunderstanding.
So I think it's very understandable.
This is not some kind of he's trying to impress this person.
So, the idea that is taken away from the video is that there's this committee that's running everything.
And that comes from him trying to reassure this woman that he's on a date with, who he believes to be like a big Hillary supporter, that Hillary still has influence in the White House.
I think this is very simple with the additional element of like, I happen to work in the small business administration and I felt like I could embellish things in order to make this person not feel scared.
So most of this episode is Alex pretending that this James O'Keefe video is new and then embellishing and lying, much like the guy in the video is doing.
Right.
And so I found it really boring.
But then the end of this clip introduced something that I think is a great mystery.
Well, I've got a lot of other amazing news to cover, but it all ties into the fact that the Biden administration was always a fraud.
They stole the 2020 election.
We know that.
And then even if you want to debate that and live in a fantasy land, we have now undercover video of the deputy chief of staff, one of the main deputies, saying, oh, yeah, it was a committee of Hillary and Obama and Jill and the Soros representative, and they would just decide, and he wasn't the president.
But again, the media, the corporate media, and it seems like all the alternative media, too, that's the real media, has taken the bait.
I mean, the corporate media is just told what to say.
Oh, it's the scandal that they knew he had cognitive problems and covered it up.
It didn't cover up.
They pretended like we were believing their BS when they would gaslight us and say, this is the best Biden ever.
He has a photographic memory.
He's so incredible.
When he was falling down and didn't know who he was, just stumbling around like a complete maniac, falling off bicycles, falling downstairs, falling upstairs, squatting in the middle of the podium like he's taking a dump, crapping himself, then saying, My butt was just wiped.
As I told you years before, when he gets mad, he craps his diapers.
I didn't just pull out of the air.
I got that from the Secret Service and from the police, and I'll leave it at that, who witnessed it as well.
So if you understand how Alex's place in the propaganda machine works, what he's actually expressing in that clip is a frustration that he never gets to enjoy a win.
Biden having cancer and a recognition that the media didn't cover his condition thoroughly during the lead up to the election, that's an unqualified win for the extreme right-wing media community.
They've engaged in wildly inappropriate reporting themselves and were inaccurate in their own way, but now all of that doesn't matter because they can point to legitimate criticism of the mainstream press.
All of the other right-wing figures kind of get to enjoy this win from folks on Fox News to Tucker, but Alex doesn't get that satisfaction.
His role is beyond this kind of thing.
The stories that he sells the audience are far beyond prostate cancer and whatever's in Jake Tapper's book.
So none of this is actually all that validating for him.
Saying that Biden had dementia and was secretly dying is on the verge of what's acceptable for folks on the more respectable places of right-wing media to dabble in.
It's on the fringes.
So for them, this is an instance of legitimate reporting accidentally supporting their steps onto thinner ice.
This dynamic is not the same for Alex.
If you believe the things that he says on his show, your response to all of this should be a yawn.
Anything short of cancer forcing Biden to reveal his true demon form, wings and all, can't be interesting because everything up to that point is supposed to be proven and documented a hundred times over by this point.
And that's kind of, you know, that dynamic is why this leads to a tantrum.
No one else in the Patriot media gets it.
If you say, we told you so, that's a passive, almost defensive response to this news.
And they need to follow the Roger Stone method of always being on the attack.
Saying, I told you so is satisfying in the moment, but it denies you the opportunity to use this brief window to escalate your attacks and force your opponent to defend themselves against more and more sensational accusations.
They showed information war weakness by admitting that the media didn't cover Biden's condition well.
So you can't even give them a second to catch their breath.
And most people will be fine with it as long as administrative issues are pretty well taken care of and we leave the other stuff out in a foreign policy.
I mean, I don't, but I think it would be funny in the way that J. Jonah Jameson is sort of an Alex proxy if there was an Alex character in the prequels who is just like doing a radio show in favor of Palpatine.
So we come to the end of this, and Alex has reported on a year-old James O'Keefe video and done a bad job in order to try and hijack or course correct some of the more passive coverage that the media, the right-wing media is doing about Biden.
Yeah.
And I agree with you that I think that his position makes sense.