{"id":56580,"date":"2016-11-15T08:43:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T12:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=56580"},"modified":"2016-11-15T08:43:19","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T12:43:19","slug":"alex-jones-says-trump-called-to-thank-him-for-his-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=56580","title":{"rendered":"Alex Jones says Trump called to thank him for his support"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tr\u00e9 Goins-Phillips
\nThe Blaze<\/p>\n

President-elect Donald Trump called Alex Jones to thank him and his audience for the support he received during the campaign, according to a video the far-right conspiracy theorist and publisher\u00a0of Infowars.com\u00a0posted over the weekend.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said, \u2018Listen, Alex, I just talked to kings and queens of the world, world leaders\u00a0\u2014\u00a0you name it,\u2019\u00a0but he said, \u2018It doesn\u2019t matter, I wanted to talk to you, to thank your audience, and I\u2019ll be on the next few weeks to thank them,’\u201d Jones recalled. \u201cI said, \u2018Is this is a private call?\u2019 And he said, \u2018No, I want to thank your viewers, thank your listeners for standing up for this republic, we know what you did early on, throughout this campaign, standing up for what\u2019s right.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Jones, who interviewed Trump in December 2015, is no stranger to controversy. He called Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton \u201can abject psychopathic demon from hell\u201d who is determined to \u201cdestroy the planet.\u201d He also said Trump was victorious last week, despite the Democrats, who he claimed \u201cstole five states on Nov. 8.\u201d<\/p>\n

But his controversies go much\u00a0<\/em>further back than this election cycle.<\/p>\n

According to an archive of his website<\/a>, his own biography describes him as one of the first people who \u201cpredicted the attacks on September 11th, 2001, and is considered one of the very first founding fathers of the 9-11 Truth Movement.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a 2011 interview with Rolling Stone<\/a>, Jones said the 9\/11 attacks were \u201ccontrolled demolitions\u201d carried out by the federal government:<\/p>\n

Seven weeks later, Jones became the only radio host in America to begin his September 11th broadcast with a tirade against the U.S. government. \u201cI went on the air and said, \u2018Those were controlled demolitions. You just watched the government blow up the World Trade Center.\u2019 I lost 70 percent of my affiliates that day. Station managers asked me, \u2018Do you want to be on this crusade going nowhere, or do you want to be a star?\u2019 I\u2019m proud I never compromised.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nevertheless, Trump apparently wants to continue his association with this very fringe radio host. Jones said the president-elect\u2019s call over the weekend \u201cshows he\u2019s not the average elitist, these stuck up nobodies who believe they control the world, who believe everybody\u2019s an idiot.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe finally have people in Washington who actually listen to the people and don\u2019t buy the propaganda of the big main-line corporations that are using weaponized media to mind-control simple-minded people,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n

In addition, Jones appears to very forcefully\u00a0agree with Trump\u2019s recent Twitter attack on the New York Times<\/a>\u00a0and his persistent rejection of the mainstream media:<\/p>\n

You are pathetic, Fox News, fake right-wing news. You are pathetic, CNN.\u00a0You are pathetic, MSNBC. You are demoralized, you are defeated, you are pathetic, you are overrun. Your hoaxes do not work on us. You are absolute enemies of the country.\u00a0We\u2019re going to drain the swamp and you know you\u2019re scum.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s not calling other media, he\u2019s not meeting with other media, he\u2019s not talking to media. He wanted to directly talk to you and thank you because you\u2019re the people, you\u2019re the Americans, you\u2019re the bitter clingers, you\u2019re the people they couldn\u2019t break your will, they couldn\u2019t mind control you, you\u2019re the core that\u2019s going to restore the Republic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is not clear when exactly Trump plans to call into Jones\u2019 radio program. During the video, he said the billionaire businessman said he will reach out \u201cin the next few weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n

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