Alex Jones Goes Shirtless After He Learns The Onion Is Acquiring Infowars | EUROtoday

Alex Jones had an excessive response to the information that his Infowars media platform could quickly be acquired by The Onion.

The satirical information web site first tried to purchase the conspiracy-peddling web site in November 2024, at an public sale meant to boost the $1 billion in damages Jones was ordered to pay households of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook faculty capturing. The conspiracy theorist spent years falsely claiming the capturing by no means occurred and that the victims had been actors.

Although a choose later rejected the sale over considerations of transparency, Ben Collins, chief govt at The Onion’s guardian firm, mentioned Monday {that a} deal to take over the location had been reached.

Jones didn’t appear to be taking the information of the acquisition very nicely, based mostly on a clip the Infowars social media channel posted Monday evening on X.

In the clip, a shirtless Jones crashes the present of Infowars host Harrison Smith, who jokes that The Onion “has stolen the shirt off of Alex Jones’ back.”

Jones then goes on a tirade ― a shirtless tirade, to be particular ― as he gripes concerning the unfairness of all of it.

“They’re gonna misrepresent that they’re us to confuse people and quote, ‘Rip people off like Alex Jones did,’” Jones laments. “They’re gonna make money. The whole thing’s about defaming me. You can’t take something over and then act like you’re somebody, even if you say it’s a parody. You could do a parody of somebody, but not if you took something from them.”

Jones claims he’s “already checked with lawyers, so they’re in deep shit,” and proclaims, “Look, just because you’re wearing my shirt don’t mean you’re me, so let’s be 100% clear about that.”

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Under the phrases of the information deal ― which nonetheless wants court docket approval ― Global Tetrahedron, The Onion’s guardian firm, gained’t personal Infowars outright however will license its title and web site from a court-appointed supervisor of the location.

Jones may nonetheless enchantment the proposed deal.