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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

Meet Alex Jones, Donald Trump's Favorite Conspiracy Theorist


Donald Trump’s first address to the United States Congress was lauded as a “teleprompter triumph” and a display of a “kinder, gentler president.” After taking arrows for ignoring the resurgence of anti-Semitic events in the United States, Trump opened his speech by denouncing “hate and evil”, explicitly mentioning the threats against Jewish centers.

Mere hours before, though, Trump suggested to Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro that the post-election string of anti-Jewish bomb threats and cemetery vandalisms could be a false-flag, perpetrated by Trump opponents to make the president look bad.

That is just the latest statement made by Trump parroting or channeling right-wing commentators or conspiracy theorists - in this case, Alex Jones. Jewish leaders, such as Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, were appalled.

Alex Jones, 43, has been on the air for over 20 years. He began his radio career in 1996, aged 22, in Austin, Texas, with spreading conspiracy theories, including that the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing was actually perpetrated by the U.S. government - what has become known as a false-flag attack. Today Jones has an eponymous program, “The Alex Jones Show,” which like his website and YouTube channel “InfoWars,” has attracted record traffic in the Trump era.

InfoWars has run articles accusing Israel of involvement in planning the 9/11 attacks, charged the Rothschild family with promoting “endless war, debt slavery and a Luciferian agenda,” and stating that health-care in the U.S. is controlled by the “Jewish mafia,” to name but a few topics.

Unlike most web publishers of his ilk, Jones can boast a distinction: he is in regular, personal contact with Donald Trump. "Trump and I have talked several times since the election — about freedom and our common goal to destroy our enemies," he told the German paper Der Spiegel.

Trump is the only U.S. president who (albeit before his election) appeared on Alex Jones’ online show, via video from Trump Tower in December 2015, and praised the notorious conspiracy theorist. "Your reputation is amazing. I will not let you down.” Jones takes credit for Trump calling the media the “true enemy” of the American people, saying he originally coined and introduced the term to Trump in 2015.

Jones has repeatedly claimed over the last 20 years that various attacks on the U.S. were staged by the U.S. government. The list of tragedies that Jones and Infowars have claimed were false-flag include: the 9/11 attacks, the Columbine school shooting, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Sandy Hook shooting, and the Boston Marathon bombing, among others.

Trump and his White House have undeniably elevated the credibility and profile of Alex Jones and InfoWars, even sending the website “exclusive details” Monday night about President Trump's Tuesday night speech to Congress.

Adding to the controversy surrounding Trump’s reported false-flag remarks to Shapiro was a tweet by White House Office of Public Liaison and Intergovernmental Affairs head Anthony Scaramucci, saying, “It's not yet clear who the JCC offenders are. Don't forget The Democrats’ effort to incite violence at Trump rallies.” At the other end of the rainbow, Rabbi Jack Moline, the president of the Interfaith Alliance, said that Trump “must be listening to Alex Jones again.”

Jones, for his part, denies having any influence over Trump. “MSM (the mainstream media) tries to say Alex Jones is an eight-headed kook with all these warts and Trump’s copying everything he says. It’s just not true,” Jones told the New York Times in mid-February.

Author Norman Cohn, offered a stark warning against elevating eight-headed kooks to prominence in the political discourse: “There are times when this underworld emerges from the depths and suddenly fascinates, captures, and dominates multitudes of usually sane and responsible people, who thereupon take leave of sanity and responsibility,” Cohn wrote in his 1967 book “Warrant for Genocide: the Myth of the Jewish World-Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” adding, “And it occasionally happens that this underworld becomes a political power and changes the course of history."

read more: http://www.haaretz.com/us-news/1.774690

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam

Post 16 is an indication of the close relationship between Mr Trump and Mr Jones. It is one of the few that isn't a personal attack of someone. You 2 seem to support him, are you being deliberately obtuse regarding who his supporters are?

"us 2 seem to support" who?

there is nothing in either mine or nnanji's posts in support of jones OR trump.

consider that an attack on your thinking---

You 2 seem to support Mr Trump. Would you disagree? hell, I daresay you'd support Satan if he had an (R) after his name.

yeah, youre full of "integrity"

as I said, you cannot find one post in the thread where nnanji "supported" trump in the way you are referencing it.

as for me, you cannot find one post ive made here since trump first announced his candidacy of my "supporting him" as opposed to either my criticizing the comrade detractors reasoning ability, their hysteria, or just leftism in general.

and to that point---since you seem to be struggling here to get it---its not a matter of supporting trump or not. its a matter of the veracity of the academically unsupportable statements of alex jones being a "famous trump news source" for trump and his having a "close relationship" with him.

its also not a matter of who supports trump. unless you like getting caught out and have to change your story.

will be looking forward to all the evidence you have.

otherwise, detractions are good, or maybe you can try some blustering?

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

Meet Alex Jones, Donald Trump's Favorite Conspiracy Theorist


Donald Trump’s first address to the United States Congress was lauded as a “teleprompter triumph” and a display of a “kinder, gentler president.” After taking arrows for ignoring the resurgence of anti-Semitic events in the United States, Trump opened his speech by denouncing “hate and evil”, explicitly mentioning the threats against Jewish centers.

Mere hours before, though, Trump suggested to Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro that the post-election string of anti-Jewish bomb threats and cemetery vandalisms could be a false-flag, perpetrated by Trump opponents to make the president look bad.

That is just the latest statement made by Trump parroting or channeling right-wing commentators or conspiracy theorists - in this case, Alex Jones. Jewish leaders, such as Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, were appalled.

Alex Jones, 43, has been on the air for over 20 years. He began his radio career in 1996, aged 22, in Austin, Texas, with spreading conspiracy theories, including that the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing was actually perpetrated by the U.S. government - what has become known as a false-flag attack. Today Jones has an eponymous program, “The Alex Jones Show,” which like his website and YouTube channel “InfoWars,” has attracted record traffic in the Trump era.

InfoWars has run articles accusing Israel of involvement in planning the 9/11 attacks, charged the Rothschild family with promoting “endless war, debt slavery and a Luciferian agenda,” and stating that health-care in the U.S. is controlled by the “Jewish mafia,” to name but a few topics.

Unlike most web publishers of his ilk, Jones can boast a distinction: he is in regular, personal contact with Donald Trump. "Trump and I have talked several times since the election — about freedom and our common goal to destroy our enemies," he told the German paper Der Spiegel.

Trump is the only U.S. president who (albeit before his election) appeared on Alex Jones’ online show, via video from Trump Tower in December 2015, and praised the notorious conspiracy theorist. "Your reputation is amazing. I will not let you down.” Jones takes credit for Trump calling the media the “true enemy” of the American people, saying he originally coined and introduced the term to Trump in 2015.

Jones has repeatedly claimed over the last 20 years that various attacks on the U.S. were staged by the U.S. government. The list of tragedies that Jones and Infowars have claimed were false-flag include: the 9/11 attacks, the Columbine school shooting, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Sandy Hook shooting, and the Boston Marathon bombing, among others.

Trump and his White House have undeniably elevated the credibility and profile of Alex Jones and InfoWars, even sending the website “exclusive details” Monday night about President Trump's Tuesday night speech to Congress.

Adding to the controversy surrounding Trump’s reported false-flag remarks to Shapiro was a tweet by White House Office of Public Liaison and Intergovernmental Affairs head Anthony Scaramucci, saying, “It's not yet clear who the JCC offenders are. Don't forget The Democrats’ effort to incite violence at Trump rallies.” At the other end of the rainbow, Rabbi Jack Moline, the president of the Interfaith Alliance, said that Trump “must be listening to Alex Jones again.”

Jones, for his part, denies having any influence over Trump. “MSM (the mainstream media) tries to say Alex Jones is an eight-headed kook with all these warts and Trump’s copying everything he says. It’s just not true,” Jones told the New York Times in mid-February.

Author Norman Cohn, offered a stark warning against elevating eight-headed kooks to prominence in the political discourse: “There are times when this underworld emerges from the depths and suddenly fascinates, captures, and dominates multitudes of usually sane and responsible people, who thereupon take leave of sanity and responsibility,” Cohn wrote in his 1967 book “Warrant for Genocide: the Myth of the Jewish World-Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” adding, “And it occasionally happens that this underworld becomes a political power and changes the course of history."

read more: http://www.haaretz.com/us-news/1.774690

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

Which one of us ran down to free sex slaves from a pizza parlor again?

Even better, which one of us tweeted Alex's nonsense?

You are in a deep pit of delusion and denial.

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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam

Post 16 is an indication of the close relationship between Mr Trump and Mr Jones. It is one of the few that isn't a personal attack of someone. You 2 seem to support him, are you being deliberately obtuse regarding who his supporters are?

I'm serious,until the Megan Kelly interview I'd never heard of him and all the blather about the Megan Kelly interview didn't interest me so I didn't read it. If Jones is a right wing news source, nobody I know ever mentioned him. So I doubt he's important to anybody on the right.

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

this is dated from early in the administration, so it may be out of date:

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InfoWars founder Alex Jones claimed Wednesday that he had been offered a White House press pass. But a White House spokesperson denied to TPM on Thursday that Jones is currently credentialed for any type of press access.

“Alex Jones is not credentialed for any type of press pass to the White House,” White House deputy press secretary Lindsay Walters told TPM in an email.

In a video published Wednesday by Jones and surfaced by , Jones says the White House press corps “aren’t real journalists,” and argues that “you should see Breitbart and Drudge, and also just reporters that are known to tell the truth from mainstream, promoted and put up at the front of those briefings to bring up real questions.”

He then claims to have been offered “credentials” from the White House.

“I know I get White House credentials, we’ve already been offered them, we’re going to get them, but I’ve just got to spend the money to send somebody there. I want to make sure it’s even worth it,” he says, before launching into a fundraising appeal….

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/alex-jones-white-house-press-access

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ORIGINAL: Wayward5oul
As Nannji pointed out, he is probably one of many extremist publications that have been granted a temp pass in the history of the White House press briefings. But it is one more sign of this administration's approval of Jones and his views. I am willing to bet that Infowars was never granted any such privilege under Bush, Clinton, nor Obama.

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

regardless---as I result of reading this, I still don't see infowars being a "famous trump news source" nor what alex jones apparently said as evidence of a "close relationship" between the two, nor how jones is "trumps favorite conspiracy theorist."

keep reaching comrades.

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

regardless---as I result of reading this, I still don't see infowars being a "famous trump news source" nor what alex jones apparently said as evidence of a "close relationship" between the two, nor how jones is "trumps favorite conspiracy theorist."

keep reaching comrades.

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

regardless---as I result of reading this, I still don't see infowars being a "famous trump news source" nor what alex jones apparently said as evidence of a "close relationship" between the two, nor how jones is "trumps favorite conspiracy theorist."

keep reaching comrades.

After your 100 page hillary probed thread, you have the gall to say that< LMFAO
comrade you are priceless,

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ORIGINAL: BoscoX

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

regardless---as I result of reading this, I still don't see infowars being a "famous trump news source" nor what alex jones apparently said as evidence of a "close relationship" between the two, nor how jones is "trumps favorite conspiracy theorist."

keep reaching comrades.

After your 100 page hillary probed thread, you have the gall to say that< LMFAO
comrade you are priceless,

If Hillary had been clean she would likely be president

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ORIGINAL: WhoreMods

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ORIGINAL: BoscoX

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

regardless---as I result of reading this, I still don't see infowars being a "famous trump news source" nor what alex jones apparently said as evidence of a "close relationship" between the two, nor how jones is "trumps favorite conspiracy theorist."

keep reaching comrades.

After your 100 page hillary probed thread, you have the gall to say that< LMFAO
comrade you are priceless,

If Hillary had been clean she would likely be president

If Hilary hadn't been clean, she would likely have been arrested.