In
July 2001,
Jones warned his audience that the government was planning to blame
Osama bin Laden for the future destruction of the World Trade Center. On
September 11th, he
opened his radio show saying:
“They need this as a pretext to bring you and your family martial law.”
As the founding father of the 9/11 Truth movement, Jones has been
pushing that the U.S. government was behind the attacks for over 15
years.
Based on his reading of the
9/11 Commission Report, Jones
believes that the government was complicit in the attacks by assisting
Saudi Arabia. “It says Saudi Arabia ran the attacks to blame Iraq that
was always the plan,”
he said. “And then our own government bare minimum stood down.” Last year, Infowars posted a
video of Trump
perpetuating the theory. “But it wasn’t the Iraqis, you will find out
who really knocked down the World Trade Center,” Trump said. “Because
they have papers in there that are very secret, you may find it’s the
Saudis, OK?” In November, Jones pointed to Trump’s public comments on
the attacks as evidence that he wasn’t part of the insider elite. If he
were, “he would have gone along with the official story,”
Jones said. “But he didn’t. He was there Day One saying what I was saying on the radio at the exact same time.”
But Jones doesn’t stop with 9/11 – he also claims the Boston Marathon bombing was an inside job, and has said the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax that involved child actors. Jones has also said Jared Loughner, who killed six people and seriously wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in 2011, was a “
staged mind-control operation.”
“The government employs geometric psychological-warfare experts that
know exactly how to indirectly manipulate unstable people through the
media,” Jones said. “They implanted the idea in his head by repeatedly
asking, ‘Is Giffords in danger?'” In 2016, the
Brussels attacks and the Pulse
shooting in Orlando were
“false flag”
operations, Jones said, arguing that the government allowed radical
Islamists into the country so they “can attack us and then have our
freedoms taken.”
Most recently, Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway echoed Jones’ belief
that the media ignores terrorist attacks when she spoke on the
non-existent Bowling Green massacre by Iraqi refugees. Conway has since
admitted her
wrongdoing, but that
didn’t stop Trump from going further
and suggesting the media actively doesn’t report on such attacks and in
“many cases the very, very dishonest press doesn’t want to report it.”
Why not? “They have their reasons,” Trump said, “and you understand
that.”