The Secret Service interviewed InfoWars founder Alex Jones in 2017 after the media personality claimed to have knowledge of plots to assassinate President Trump.
Jones’s conversation with the Secret Service, which is redacted in files given to the Washington Times after a Freedom of Information Act request published on Friday, was one part of the Secret Service’s file on the conspiracy theorist.
The outlet filed its FOIA request back in December 2017, after Jones claimed he had a meeting with the agency dedicated to protecting the nation’s leaders and their families regarding threats against President Trump.
“I had the Secret Service call me yesterday, and it wasn’t a secret meeting, but they want to come here and — it’s total twilight zone — and want me to brief them on all the data we’ve collated on whose setting up a plan to kill the president,” he said at that time. A spokesperson for the Secret Service declined to comment at the time, noting that they “do not comment on protective intelligence matters.”
The records also show that a search of government databases revealed that Jones has been on the Secret Service’s radar “multiple times due to conspiracy theory articles posted on his website and comments made during his broadcasts.”
The file on Jones included references to pushing the “birther” movement, which questioned Barack Obama’s U.S. citizenship during his presidency, the “Pizzagate” conspiracy regarding Hillary Clinton, and the InfoWars founder’s conspiracy theories about mass shootings.
“Between March 2017 and December 2017, Jones made references to several assassination plots targeting President Trump, including a theory that the ‘deep state’ was planning to assassinate President Trump, a poisoning plot referencing the President’s drinks, and a globalist plot evidenced through a plea agreement of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn,” the Secret Service’s records said.
