Far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones claims to have begged Thursday this week in a closed-door impeachment with the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riots.
On Monday night, in a segment of his InfoWars radio show Firstly flagged by PoliticoJones then went on to reveal about his experience in the insurgency trying and revealing the questions the congressional committee posed to him.
“I just had a very stressful experience when I was questioned by the committee on January 6. They were polite, but they were stubborn,” Jones said as part of “informal testimony” to radio listeners. his bar.
“The questions are generally quite reasonable,” he added. However, citing “advocate’s advice,” the far-right media star claimed he invoked Fifth Amendment rights “almost 100 times” in the interview.
“And I wanted to answer the questions, but at the same time, that was a good thing I didn’t do,” Jones explained, “because I am the type of person who tries to answer everything correctly even though I don’t know how to answer the questions. know all the answers. And then they might try to claim it as perjury.” “It’s a very dangerous process,” he added.
Jones oddly compared the January 6 committee to eating tainted soup. “The whole thing is unclean. It’s like a big bowl of soup. You put a rat in there, no good,” he said. “Well, this looks like hundreds of mice. And I don’t eat soup. “
During his broadcast, Jones mentioned a former Trump adviser and the person who organizes January 6th Caroline Wren — who was was also subpoenaed by the commission last year — was his contact on the day MAGA rioted trying to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory.
“And that’s what I call ‘contacting the White House,'” Jones said.
He further revealed that the committee asked him about his connections to far-right militia members of the Oath keeper and Proud boys—The groups that Jones claimed were part of his security details that day. (He did reveal, however, that he once dined with some of the Proud Boys at a Hooters in Atlanta after the “Stop the Steal” event.)
Jones rejected the notion that either group posed a real threat on January 6, although Oath Keepers frontman Stewart Rhodes indicted for sedation. “I see it all as LARPing,” Jones stated, referring to the acronym for live action role-playing. He continued: “I’ve seen a lot of that playing a soldier in the backyard.”
The far-right radio presenter moved further and further away from the militias, claiming that while “I do agree with” their mandate, “if the indictment is true then they think they have can incite and start and ignite a rebellion that will then lead to a greater war, which is not something I know or something I support or something I want. ”
