Alex Jones: the conspiracy theorist's wildest assertions

Alex Jones filed for bankruptcy after being ordered to pay almost 1.5 billion for claiming that the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre is a hoax. Some argue that this could be the end of the conspiracy theorist and right-wing radio host.

Jones assured on his show that the Sandy Hook Massacre, where 20 children and six teachers died, was as “phony as a three-dollar bill”.

“It took me about a year with Sandy Hook to come to grips with the fact that the whole thing was fake. I mean, I couldn't believe it. I knew they jumped on it, used the crisis, hyped it up. But then I did deep research and my gosh, it just pretty much didn't happen”, he said on The Alex Jones Show back in December 2014.

The radio host also accused some Sandy Hook parents of being crisis actors, paid performers pretending to be victims for mainstream media.

This is hardly his only controversy. In 2018, Jones was formally charged for claiming that a death that occurred during the Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville was staged by the CIA to undermine the presidential campaign of Donald Trump.

However, making outrageous allegations about real-life tragedies is nothing new for him. Alex Jones claimed in 1995 that the Oklahoma City bombing, where 168 people died in a terrorist attack, was perpetrated by the government.

“I understood there's a kleptocracy working with psychopathic governments – clutches of evil that know the tricks of control,” Jones said at the time, as quoted by a Rolling Stone profile.

Alex Jones also theorized that 9/11 was orchestrated by the Bush Administration to garner support for a war in the Middle East.

“I went on the air and said, ‘Those were controlled demolitions. You just watched the government blow up the World Trade Center.’ I lost 70 percent of my affiliates that day.” Jones stated with pride, as quoted by a Rolling Stone profile.

“They blew up the World Trace Centers to get the seven billion in insurance money, they did it to get the oil, they did it to be able to invade the Middle East, they did it for weapons sales, they did it for Israel. It's all those reasons,” he said on The Alex Jones Show in 2006.

However, that’s hardly the only conspiracy theory Alex Jones believes in. In 2007, he spoke against fluoridated water on his show: “I grew up in Dallas, Texas, drinking sodium fluoridated water. All the scientific studies show my IQ has been reduced by at least 20 points.”

“The reason there are so many gay people now is that it's a chemical warfare operation. I have the government documents where they said they're going to encourage homosexuality with chemicals so people don't have children,” Jones said on his show on June 2010.

It would be hardly the last time the right-wing radio host would talk about homosexuality. In June 2015, Jones argued that being gay was becoming more prevalent thanks to government-induced chemicals in the water: “I don't like 'em putting chemicals in the water that turn the freakin' frogs gay!”

“I like women, not men! And if I liked men, I’d be proud of it and have a lot of em. But I ain’t never been in bed with no man. I’ve been in bed with probably 300 women,” the radio host stated on The Alex Jones Show in April 2018, just in case you had any doubts.

Alex Jones also had a few things to say about Microsoft founder Bill Gates, back in September 2011: “I've had it with control freaks and scum! You people are cancer! Ugh! Alright, I'm not in a good mood now. I start thinking about Bill Gates, that little chicken-neck, hopping around, little murdering eugenicist. You know how he walks, like a demonic elf”.

“I'm telling you folks, nerds are one of the most dangerous groups in this country, because they end up running things. But they still hate everybody, because they weren't the jocks in high school. So they play little dirty games on everybody. They use their brains to hurt people. And I'm aware of them. OK? I see you, you little rats!” Alex Jones stated on his show back in 2013.

And who’s his greatest foe? Well, as Alex Jones stated in March 2016, it’s the devil!  “The churches aren’t going to tell you. It is an alien force, not of this world, attacking humanity like the Bible and every ancient text says, and you can read the Bible, it’s hiding in plain view. It’s not of this world. And I don’t know exactly what it is or what it’s doing, but this is not human intelligence, OK?”

“These are demons. Just like the Bible says. Basically an intergalactic invasion into this space through people. I'm telling you it's what the ancients said. It's what they warned of. It's what we're dealing with. They're demons. They're freaking interdimensional invaders.” Jones stated about Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, back in June 2016.

But at least Alex Jones had his champion, as he stated back in March 2016: “The elite hate Trump. Let me tell you, if he is a psyop, he is the most sophisticated one I ever saw. And even if he is, he is a revelation of the awakening and they have to pull this trick to try to divert us. It doesn’t matter, it’s part of the awakening.”

Trump himself appeared on The Alex Jones Show in December 2015, praising Jones’s reputation and promising that he “would not let him down”.

However, sometimes the people you love and trust disappoint you, as the radio host said on The Alex Jones Show in April 2018: “They said if you just turn against Trump it would be better, but he was doing good, and that's what makes it so bad.”

Looking back, the only amazing thing about Alex Jones is that it took him so long to face the consequences of his words.