A bankruptcy sale of the media giant InfoWars site owned by Alex Jones to satire site The Onion was halted Friday after a judge paused the proceedings. Donald Trump’s former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark may have been the catalyst, due to his appearance on Steve Bannon’s War Room on Friday where he strongly denounced corruption in how the sale was handled, and warned of ramifications for those involved after Trump becomes president and assumes control of the DOJ. Jones subsequently amplified Clark’s appearance by covering his WarRoom appearance on InfoWars.
Jones filed for bankruptcy in 2022 after losing a defamation lawsuit for $1.5 billion over his statements that the children shot in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting were crisis actors who weren’t actually killed. In June, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez ordered the sale of Jones’ assets.
Although friends of Jones, First United American Companies, had bid the highest amount for the news site, $3.5 million, the trustee chose the lower bid offered by The Onion’s parent company Global Tetrahedron. Its CEO Ben Collins said the plan was to turn the site into a parody of itself and mock Jones and others like him.
Clark said during his interview on War Room, “As one of my closing acts at the end of the Trump administration, I argued a case about the U.S. bankruptcy trustees, who are the same folks here who are bedeviling Alex Jones and went in and shut him down. And look, as you were describing, they have, you know, in connection with the private trustees that are set up and that they supervise fiduciary duties to make sure that they get a maximum return for the creditors, right.”
He went on, “And so if what Alex Jones describes is correct, Steve, that there were other bidders, you know, maybe led by Roger Stone — and he’s a hero for putting them together to try to rescue InfoWars — and they if they had the highest bid, and that was ignored, you know that’s a serious legal issue that will need to be examined.”
“I was looking at who the current director of the U.S. Trustee program,” Clark said. “It’s a woman named Tara Twomey, and you better believe that when the Trump administration starts, that she’s going to get investigated over how this bankruptcy of Alex Jones was investigated.”
He concluded, “And I think that we can probably count on Matt Gaetz as attorney general to do that kind of deep investigation, Steve, and so they’re trying to clearly rush this out and shut Alex Jones down as a kind of demonstration of, they’re still in charge for the next 67 days or so.”
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Robert Barnes, a constitutional attorney who represented Jones, said in an interview last month with Jones that the lawsuit and verdict “completely eviscerate the First Amendment by bringing claims on behalf of people who have sympathetic traumas and tragedies, but traumas and tragedies that have nothing at all to do with Alex Jones.”
He said the trial was rigged, with many legal rules ignored, and the jury only allowed to see certain information. He explained, “The jury’s going to be picked in a certain way, they’re going to be mis-instructed on the law, they’re not going to be allowed to see the real evidence.” Barnes said the judge wouldn’t allow Jones to answer some of the questions his attorney asked.
Barnes said the defamation lawsuit was a “crisscross between the star chamber and idiocracy.” It served two purposes, to “suppress and censor” Jones and to create a template for others to mimic. He said it was a “show trial” meant to “memory hole” Jones so people forget him.
He warned, “They want to use the receivership process and the bankruptcy process — this perilous precedent would endanger all of us.”
According to Bloomberg, First United American Companies filed an emergency motion seeking to disqualify Global Tetrahedron after the judge paused the sale. Jones filed a lawsuit on Monday against the parents of the shooting victims, Global Tetrahedron, and a bankruptcy trustee, alleging they colluded to win the auction.
Jones’ personal X account, which has 3 million followers, was not included in the auction, nor was InfoWars’ parent company Free Speech Systems. However, Lopez could still add those to the list of assets to be sold. Jones has already begun the process of selling a ranch in Texas and his gun collection. Lopez said that a hearing would be set for this week.
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Rachel Alexander is a reporter at The Arizona Sun Times and The Star News Network. Follow Rachel on Twitter / X. Email tips to [email protected].
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