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ALEX JONES'S TEXTS WITH SOME OF TRUMP'S CLOSEST ALLIES JUST GOT TURNED OVER TO
THE JAN. 6 COMMITTEE

At least one of the texts is allegedly NSFW and Tucker Carlson is reportedly
"shitting himself," but it remains to be seen whether these communications will
be much help for the high-profile investigation into the Capitol riot.

By Charlotte Klein

August 9, 2022
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Last week, as conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was being questioned in court for
spreading lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school shooting, the trial
took a turn: attorney Mark Bankston, who is representing the victims' parents,
revealed that Jones’s own legal team had accidentally sent Bankston a digital
copy of his entire cell phone. The disclosure—which raised questions about
perjury, since Jones had claimed under oath that he didn’t have Sandy Hook
messages on his phone—got the attention of the January 6 committee, which has
for months been trying to get its hands on Jones’s phone records and other
documents as part of its investigation into the Capitol riot. On Monday, days
after Jones was ordered to pay nearly $50 million to the victims in both
compensatory and punitive damages, Bankston turned over the InfoWars founder's
text messages to the Jan. 6 committee, CNN reported.

The nearly two years’ worth of text messages may not end up being of much
interest to the committee after all: Bankston previously said that the most
recent message on the phone was from mid-2020, CNN noted, before Jones started
helping organize the rally at the Ellipse that preceded the Capitol riot.
However, the New York Times reported that while most of the recipients of the
Jones’s texts are InfoWars staffers and contractors or family members, some show
the conspiracy theorist was in contact with Donald Trump’s allies, including
Roger Stone. Both Jones and Stone were among the Trump allies who gathered in
the hours before the Capitol riot at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel, near
the White House, to devise a scheme to keep Trump in power.

Apparently, the “intimate messages” between Jones and Stone that Bankston said
he’d obtained aren’t limited to election-related matters. This past weekend,
Jones cleared up some questions by admitting “there was a photo I sent my wife
of her naked” in his phone’s contents. And on Monday, Bankston confirmed that an
“intimate photo of his wife” was part of the trove, noting that Stone was the
recipient. “I'm a little concerned about it because that intimate photo was sent
to Roger Stone,” Bankston told The Young Turks. “And I don't know if that was
consensual.” (Which may explain Stone’s panicked reaction to the accidentally
leaked texts.)



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Stone isn’t the only big name potentially implicated in Jones’s lawyer’s
colossal mistake. Fox News star Tucker Carlson is “shitting himself” over the
potential disclosure of messages between him and Jones, a source told the Daily
Beast on Monday. The conspiracy-inclined duo reportedly “trade text messages on
a daily basis," and sources told the outlet it would be “highly embarrassing”
for Carlson if their texts got out. Given what both Carlson and Jones have been
willing to say publicly, one can only imagine what the longtime friends talk
about while off-air.

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