Donald Trump Spoke Directly to Stop the Steal Leader Alex Jones on Insurrection Day

Jones's confession raises the stakes significantly for the under-review possibility that—based on photo analyses—Jones's lieutenant Owen Shroyer may have been inside Trump's ops center on January 6.

Introduction

We know that Donald Trump has long been a fan of InfoWars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. During the 2016 campaign, in an interview arranged by Trump friend and adviser Roger Stone—who’d later co-organize the Stop the Steal “movement” with Jones and convicted felon Ali Alexander—candidate Trump said the following to a man notorious for alleg…