Alex Jones has finally found a story alleging a widespread international conspiracy that he thinks is too far-fetched and too thinly sourced to be believed.
The Washington Post reported this weekend that a “secret CIA assessment” found the Kremlin interfered in the 2016 U.S. election to help President-elect Donald Trump best Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
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“It is the assessment of the intelligence community that Russia’s goal here was to favor one candidate over the other, to help Trump get elected,” an anonymous U.S. official said. “That’s the consensus view.”
For Jones, who believes the government is putting chemicals in the water that “turn the friggin’ frogs gay,” there’s no evidence to back what he calls a “conspiracy theory”:
Absolutely no evidence has been produced to substantiate the conspiracy theory. https://t.co/HjrCd1dnAQ
— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) December 12, 2016
Jones’ personal website, Infowars.com, featured a lengthier criticism of the Post report. The Infowars.com criticism, titled “TRUMP BLASTS ‘CONSPIRACY THEORY’ RUSSIA/CIA CARD FBI,” concluded by suggesting the Post article is likely a “bullshit fake news” story.
Jones’ sudden thirst for concrete evidence is a change of pace for a radio host who has endorsed theories alleging the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook was staged by government actors and that President Obama is literally possessed by a demonic spirit.
In fact, Jones’ skepticism for anonymously sourced news reports alleging widespread conspiracies is somewhat shocking considering some of the stories he has pushed on his radio show.
He claimed in 2010, for example, that the U.S. government has been waging a covert war to make everyone gay.
“The reason there are so many gay people now is because it’s a chemical warfare operation,” he said. “I have the government documents where they said they’re going to encourage homosexuality with chemicals so people don’t have children.”
Jones cut open a juice box on air and claimed the plastic lining had been injected with “estrogen mimickers.”
“After you’re done drinking your little juices, well, I mean, you’re ready to go out and have a baby,” he said. “You’re ready to put makeup on. You’re ready to wear a short skirt. You’re ready to go, you know, put together a, you know, garden of roses or something. You’re ready to put lipstick on.”
In 2013, Jones claimed a shadowy, underground group had mastered technology that allowed them to use the weather as a weapon. His remarks came after a series of deadly tornadoes ripped through Oklahoma.
“[Of] course there’s weather weapon stuff going on — we had floods in Texas like 15 years ago, killed 30-something people in one night. Turned out it was the Air Force,” he said.
The government, he added, “can create and steer groups of tornadoes.”
Later, in 2016, Jones was one of the chief proponents of a theory alleging the late Justice Antonin Scalia had been murdered in his sleep by secret government agents.
“You just get used to this, ‘Scalia found, it’s natural, nothing going on here, he just died naturally,'” Jones said. “And you’re like, ‘Whoa. Red flag.’ Then you realize, Obama is one vote away from being able to ban guns, open the borders and actually have the court engage in its agenda and now Scalia dies. I mean, this is hardcore.”
“I wonder if Clarence Thomas will die of a heart attack next week. If this is an assassination, it signifies that they’re dropping the hammer, that’s the canary in the coal mine,” he added. “My gut tells me they killed him and all the intellectual evidence lays it out,” he added.
As of this writing, Jones has produced no evidence to substantiate any of these conspiracy theories.
