Jones promoted the theory on his web site and on social media.įollowers of the conspiracy relied on opaque "clues" hidden in emails exchanged between Clinton and her campaign chairman, John Podesta, which were stolen by hackers and then released by Wikileaks in the final weeks of the 2016 election. The "pizzagate" conspiracy theory included the baseless claims that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her top associates were running a demonic sex-trafficking ring inside the pizza shop. Welch was later sentenced to four years in prison. pizzeria Comet Ping Pong in late 2016, followed Jones on Facebook and listened to his radio show, according to reports at the time. Jones did not invent the so-called "pizzagate" conspiracy theory.īut Edgar Maddison Welch, the self-proclaimed "investigator" who fired multiple rounds into the kid-friendly D.C. Hillary Clinton is running a child sex ring out of a pizza parlor Earlier this year, families of children who were killed in the shooting sued Jones for defamation, specifically citing comments he made in an April 2017 broadcast titled "Sandy Hook Vampires Exposed."Įight families have sued Jones, claiming that his reports on the Sandy Hook massacre have caused them immense personal pain and led his followers to harass them.Īfter originally calling the shooting a "hoax," Jones later said that he believed it "really happened" but insisted that the families suing him were agents of the Democratic Party. Jones claimed that the shooting was "completely fake" and staged in order to promote more restrictive gun control policies. One of the few conspiracy theories that has led to real consequences for Jones is his claim that the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School that left 26 dead, including 20 children between six and seven years old, was a hoax that employed so-called "crisis actors." That claim led to increased pressure on social media companies, particularly Facebook, to take down Jones' pages. You're going to get it, or I'm going to die trying, bitch." It's going to happen, we're going to walk out in the square, politically, at high noon, and he's going to find out whether he makes a move man, make the move first, and then it's going to happen. "That's a demon I will take down, or I'll die trying," he said. Jones then threatened to "take down" the former Marine, who is now leading the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Can you imagine being a monster like that?" He hedged the claim later in the broadcast, noting that "the word is he doesn't have sex with kids, he just controls it all.
"Everyone's so scared of Mueller, they'd let Mueller rape kids in front of people, which he did," Jones said in July. Jones took his attacks up a notch a year later. John McCain, R-Ariz., was the real leader of the Democratic Party, Jones said Mueller was "the literal swamp king creature come to kill America." After briefly claiming that the late Sen. "He is now the king of the swamp," Jones said of Mueller in a broadcast in the fall of 2017, according to Media Matters. Jones has reserved some of his harshest vitriol for Trump's enemies, in particular special counsel Robert Mueller. A 2013 report in Gizmodo notes that the same lab also requested funding for "bad-breath bombs, flatulence bombs and bombs designed to attract swarms of stinging insects to enemy combatants," noting that "the gay bomb is certainly the most novel." Robert Mueller is a demon, and also a pedophile In 1994, a government lab did request funds to pursue the development of a weapon that would turn enemy combatants gay, though the project was quickly shelved and no such weapon was developed. "The majority of frogs in most areas of the United States are now gay," Jones said in 2017. In a rant that has since become a meme and a line of t-shirts, Jones said he didn't like the government "putting chemicals in the water that turn the friggin' frogs gay." "The reason there's so many gay people now is because it's a chemical warfare operation, and I have the government documents where they said they're going to encourage homosexuality with chemicals so that people don't have children," he said on his broadcast in 2010, according to NBC News.įive years later, the theory took a turn. One of Jones' most notorious conspiracy theories is that the government is using chemicals in order to turn people gay, using a mysterious "gay bomb" devised by the Pentagon.
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