00:02:07.880Alex Jones is one of the most influential and controversial figures in independent media.
00:02:13.320For more than three decades, the founder and host of Infowars has built a massive audience
00:02:17.460by challenging official narratives, confronting political power, and sounding the alarm about
00:02:22.060government overreach, globalism, surveillance, and the erosion of individual liberty.
00:02:28.080Praised by supporters as a fearless truth-teller and condemned by critics as one of America's
00:02:32.520most dangerous conspiracy theorists, Jones has endured deplatforming, billion-dollar court
00:02:37.840judgments, bankruptcy proceedings, and relentless efforts to remove him from public life.
00:02:42.580Yet through every controversy, he has remained an unmistakable force in American politics and media.
00:02:48.120So today, I sit down with Alex Jones to discuss the rise of the populist right, his complicated relationship with Donald Trump, to put it mildly,
00:02:56.740the growing divide between MAGA and America First, and whether the movement he helped inspire is still fighting for the principles it once promised to defend.
00:03:04.920Alex, thanks for sitting with me today.
00:03:05.840Brandon, great to be here with your podcast. You're doing man on the street, huge debates, regular shows, and now these. Good job.
00:03:11.140Yeah, brand new, just getting started.
00:03:12.900And one of the things I like to do with my podcast, it's very new.
00:07:52.360But I've always been against these offensive wars.
00:07:57.520But it does get to me when people buy into the corporate media a straw man
00:08:02.420and then their false belief about me becomes detrimental to overall freedom and liberty.
00:08:07.800But, no, it's a pleasure to be demonized and lied about in the service of truth.
00:08:12.420And I'm not really a masochist, but at the same time, no pain, no gain.
00:08:16.260Or they said in World War II, you know, they knew they were over the target because they were getting the flack from the anti-aircraft guns.
00:08:22.220And so, no, I've never let what would be most popular or what would make me the most money be my North Star.
00:08:29.280An example of that is I was on 200 radio stations or so in the heyday of talk radio.
00:08:33.720a bunch of them 50,000 waters in you know new york and sacramento and dallas and chicago
00:08:40.580and all of a sudden millions of dollars were coming in i was putting into crew and film
00:08:45.060editors and expanding you know my operation because i wasn't thinking i'll just get a bigger
00:08:48.840house and you know a private jet most talk shows are successful do that not that that's bad i
00:08:53.420thought wow this is seed money to really expand the 9-11 happened and i said day one because i
00:08:58.200was watching the news they said we blew up building seven the government blew it up but nobody archived
00:09:03.460it then later they said they never said that later the archives were released and it said that
00:09:07.160and so we had about 70 of our stations turn me off that month they gave me a chance they said
00:09:12.440stop saying that or you're off the air and i and i didn't so in from on 200 stations like 35 stations
00:09:16.900um and uh the network i was on said fine that's what you want to do that's fine and of course
00:09:21.580money went down like 90 but that was fine uh because it was the truth so anybody ever says
00:09:28.100i do something for qatari money or israeli money or you know republican money or democrat money
00:11:37.160And the media went, Jones says police blew it up.
00:11:39.340No, they were on the emergency radio that was Red Cross, actually, which you learn is really CIA, not your average Red Cross volunteer, but at the top.
00:11:48.200They can always go behind enemy lines for, you know, a thousand years or whatever, actually goes back to 800 to the Crusades.
00:11:54.420We had PBS saying, get back, they're going to bring it down.
00:11:56.560and then it blows up i talked to the very cops who heard it in their ear so i had them on tv
00:12:02.680then i interviewed the cops in on video in new york saying yeah they blew it up well now that
00:12:08.920was pretty powerful i was going to get into 9-11 but we're already there so it might as well i was
00:12:13.380actually in new york city on 9-11 i watched the towers fall from my rooftop um and because i'm
00:12:18.300a lunatic my first instinct was to run down to the scene uh you know this was also like you know
00:12:23.040people didn't really have smartphones and things like that at the time but i grabbed a camera and
00:12:26.660i went down there at the time i believe we could get as close to the scene as canal street i think
00:12:31.740that's where they had cut it off and there were police officers there with a barricade
00:12:34.680and um i had asked you know is any updates about what's going on and the police officer said well
00:12:40.420yeah building seven just fell down and i remember saying how did that happen and he said well or i
00:12:47.100think i said was that you know another crash or like what happened and he said well you have to
00:12:51.360Keep in mind, when buildings fall with that type of force, it's like an earthquake, and that actually caused the building to fall.
00:12:59.900No, Larry Silverstein told PBS in a documentary narrated by Kevin Spacey that they made a decision to pull it and gave the order and watched the building come down.
00:13:08.700And I interviewed Barry Jennings, or a crew I interviewed, interviewed Barry Jennings, the deputy of emergency management.
00:13:13.280They told him they blew the building up.
00:13:15.180And a few weeks after we heard the interview, he died.
00:13:17.700Well, I wanted to ask you the question about do you care what people think of you?
00:13:21.160Because it's, you know, you really came up at a time where, again, the Internet was not mainstream.
00:13:29.000Now, I'd say these days a person almost has to be outrageous or controversial to be able to make it in the world of political commentary.
00:13:37.200But I feel like at the time you were coming up, that wasn't mainstream.
00:13:40.440In fact, I think you really bucked that.
00:13:43.460and so I'm always curious like what it is inside somebody uh that gives them that sort of confidence
00:13:49.200or or what it is to go out and say what other people are not saying and take the hits for doing
00:13:54.320it I was just following what I believe to be the truth and I wasn't always right but I was most of
00:13:58.700the time and so to me it was just I'm reporting what what what are the facts so I wouldn't worry
00:14:04.080about it so many people now because there's not really ever have any problems there's not as much
00:14:09.040heat for being an edgelord they do it on purpose a lot of them i'm not judging them i don't really
00:14:14.720resent other people that don't have to pay the cost i paid but but it's still kind of a paradigm
00:14:20.440conundrum for me or paradox that they people are saying stuff a lot of times that's just
00:14:27.100haphazard way more radical than i ever said but because the system's so discredited
00:14:31.300their fault now it's completely safe but i still have the taint of being demonized and i'm still
00:14:38.840the guy, you know, don't say his name.
00:14:40.760I'm still, ooh, watch out for that guy.
00:14:42.700Even though if you actually watch my show,
00:23:26.580So, I mean, I would call that kind of just like a person that doesn't, you know, believe in empirical evidence or science or testing anything.
00:23:33.300Doesn't mean it's not good to question things, but, no, I mean, I always get accused of the flat earth and reptoids.
00:23:41.700Because I became kind of the archetypal conspiracy theorist.
00:23:44.560So whether I like the term or not, I mean, to me, it's just objective how somebody sees it.
00:23:49.760I am, you know, Fauci, I am the science.
00:23:53.200I mean, you can say if anybody's conspiracy, you'd have to say it's me.
00:23:55.580is it something that you've leaned into because you strike me as somebody who's incredibly savvy
00:24:01.000when it comes to marketing obviously you're aware this is your reputation do you ever say things
00:24:05.740intentionally just because you know that'll go viral but you don't maybe necessarily believe
00:24:10.600what you're saying you ever say things just to be outrageous i say stuff all the time to go viral
00:24:15.940it's true i got plenty of stuff that's true without having to invent stuff truth stranger
00:24:19.680fiction so no i've never said something that's not true on purpose what happens is i'll do an
00:24:27.980hour-long rant on atrazine in the water when it's doing the frogs and they'll take 10 seconds of me
00:24:32.920making a joke and make that the thing so it's kind of their curation of what i've done even
00:24:39.060though that's not really what i did and its full compendium is is is a distortion so no i mean
00:24:44.780there's so much real stuff i don't need to invent stuff and i never really thought about that there
00:24:49.560It was, I mean, like, I researched, like, two hours last night, about two hours this morning, and I covered maybe 20% of what I had on my desk.
00:25:38.880No one cares about fabulous Buck Rogers, dystopic, you know.
00:25:43.720I mean, I can give you thousands of totally insane things we can go prove.
00:25:47.800And people love an Easter egg hunt, though.
00:25:49.440They love, like, I noticed people would take clips of me, like, here's the FEMA camp document, and here's the plan, and here's the military leakers saying they're planning for gun confiscations.
00:25:58.380Wouldn't say they were going to do it.
00:25:59.380The military was giving me this to stop it, you know, say in 98 or something.
00:56:04.200That's part of the coordination that you're saying that you come to realize when you get nauseous because they made me say I did something I didn't do.
00:56:12.440They were obviously already talking to the nonprofit law firm that was preparing the lawsuit, and the nonprofit law firm was representing eight black Capitol police officers who I'd never met in my entire life.
00:56:22.800And you were outside the Capitol in a nothing.0.81
01:06:29.700And so whether we have a good, viable candidate for president or not, is there a need right now for a new America First Party or some sort of movement that actually fulfills the promises of MAGA?
01:12:21.100But when I'm calling this stuff out, and again, this is a message directly to my audience.
01:12:25.100And when I talk about due weaponization, which to me was the biggest issue, like, I don't really think the Democrats are going to come after me again.
01:12:31.080They did about as much damage to me and my organization as they could possibly do.
01:12:34.500But the people who orchestrated January 6th and came after all these people, they're still working in the DOJ.
01:14:30.920Well, okay, so this is going to be my final question for you today, and you kind of just blew it.
01:14:34.680But, uh, so, uh, looking to 2028, I'm not asking for your answer to like the most realistic viable candidate. I'm saying in an ideal world where Alex Jones gets whatever he wants, who is the candidate or, or do you even want to vote Republican? Forget that. Who would you like to see become president of the United States in 2028?
01:16:49.840I mean, who do you think some good Republicans could be?
01:16:51.860Because I would support. Let me tell you something. I'll reform any party. And if the Democrats had Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr. ahead of it, I'd vote for them. I'd love the Democrats to reform. I'd be a Democrat right now.
01:17:03.120Well, I'm going to cop out a little bit in my answer here, but it's it's for very practical reasons. I'm going to say right now, I have a tendency when I get upset and I get frustrated.
01:17:12.400I told you this the other day to overcorrect and so what I'm trying to do right now is be a little
01:17:17.880more prudent because right now I'm finding myself starting to look at some of these people in this
01:17:22.440sort of new America first movement that's forming and say okay I left the Democratic Party because
01:17:27.380the Democratic Party lied to me didn't give me what I wanted I came over to MAGA because I believe
01:17:31.260the promise of MAGA and right now I'm feeling like MAGA didn't give me what I wanted so right
01:17:34.700now my instinct is well then I'm going to go over here and do it and I'm trying to be cautious about
01:17:38.220that i i'll tell you i am very interested in thomas massey uh because i i think he's interesting
01:17:44.860and i like the fact that he seems to be fighting the establishment his real integrity he's 100%
01:17:49.220real deal yeah but that does not mean i have a lot of research to do enough yeah yeah here's my
01:17:54.440issue yeah we're a two-party system which was built off the parlements because you can always
01:17:59.040have like five or six parties team up even if you win they can outvote you so parlements have a
01:18:03.880problem our two-party system has a problem too the last time one of the two parties got replaced was
01:19:27.800There's no, there's no thunderbolt and lightning
01:19:29.680with Marco Rubio, but he's more like tactician.
01:19:31.900You know, Vance is very slick and not Hollywood.
01:19:36.620He doesn't really have a ton of what you'd call, I guess, gravitas, but compared to the rest of the field, he does.
01:19:45.220So we should do a search here, but I think a lot of Republicans are going to sit it out, kind of like Gavin Newsom sat out the last election, and wait in the wings.
01:19:53.400And Newsom, as bad as he is, he's the best charisma they've got with zombies.
01:19:59.200So we've got to be thinking about that, or maybe we get our punishment for letting Trump sell us out, and we get four to eight years of the Democrats.