Alex Jones has declared ‘the cavalry is here’ as attorneys for Elon Musk’s X jumped in to help put a temporary pause on the sale of his controversial Infowars to The Onion.
The satirical news publication said the bid was sanctioned by the families of Sandy Hook Elementary victims who won a $1.4 billion defamation lawsuit against Jones in 2022 over his egregious on-air insistence that the elementary school massacre was a hoax.
But a federal judge has questioned the secretive bidding process, with Jones believing it gives him a chance to reclaim his outlet.
Lawyers for the Musk-owned social media outlet filed a notice of appearance in Jones’ bankruptcy case Thursday.
The filing doesn’t specify why they’ve appeared, merely that they want to become an interested party in the case and want to receive all relevant documentation.
Jones reveled in the news in a broadcast on X Sunday evening, believing that ‘the cavalry is here’ to rescue Infowars.
‘I was told Elon is going to be very involved in this,’ Jones said, while heaping praise on Musk as a defender of freedom and free speech.
‘Elon Musk understands these basic fundamentals that more people need to understand,’ he said.
He also believes that Donald Trump – who Jones has also expressed support for in the past – is equally outraged by what’s happened to Jones.
‘The cavalry is here. Trump is p****d,’ he said. Harrison Smith, an Infowars host, posted a video to X also claiming Trump to be involved in the case.
‘Apparently, Trump is involved, Elon Musk’s lawyers were at the hearing yesterday because it has to do with them trying to take Alex Jones’ name and his personal Twitter account, so Elon is invested in it because it will set a precedent for using lawfare to force X to sign over their personal accounts,’ he said.
Both X and The Onion have yet to publicly comment on this development but CEO Ben Collins’ gave the comedy site’s take on the controversy earlier this weekend.
‘Long and short of it: We won the bid and — you’re not going to believe it — the previous InfoWars folks aren’t taking it well,’ he wrote.
‘We expected all of this, obviously. Buying this site was always going to be fun later on, but annoying right away. Anyway, we look forward to completing this process at the next scheduled court date — which, at present, is a week from Monday,’ Collins continued.
Judge Christopher M. Lopez announced during a status conference in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas that the meeting would be held to discuss whether the people running the auction ran ‘a fair and full process.’
‘I personally don’t care who wins the auction, I care about process and transparency,’ the judge said, adding that ‘nobody should feel comfortable’ about what happened. No date has been set for the hearing
Jones has raged against that very process since the winning bid on behalf of the satirical news site was announced Thursday.
In two videos posted Thursday evening, a furious Jones claimed that the sale is not yet official.
‘[My lawyers] had a total consensus: they’ve never seen anything like it. This was a private, secret sale… basically illegal, this is bankruptcy crime on its face disguised as an auction that wasn’t an auction.’
‘The people didn’t even pay real money, they paid some weird FIAT thing that wasn’t agreed to by the judge’s order and then they had the corporate media say that The Onion bought Infowars.’
Jones says that the people behind The Onion ‘didn’t do anything’ and called it ‘unprecedented,’ blaming it on his frequent targets at the ‘Deep State.’
‘It’s crazy. Nobody sees how the federal judge, who’s known for being straight-laced, cannot end this fake sale, where he basically said it didn’t happen and bare minimum, there’ll be a new, open, public auction.’
He then made a promise: ‘Everybody thinking Infowars was shut down, you’re in for a rude awakening.’
