Infowars: What Alex Jones Needs to Stop Getting Closer to the Establishment, and How “The Barbed Wire” Will Be Done

Infowars is stronger than ever according to Jones. He begged for financial help, while at the same time noting that the desperate attempts to silence him had failed.

Republican operative and Trump confidant Roger Stone was among those talking about putting together a conservative group of bidders. He declined to comment on the upshot of those efforts, but he echoed Jones’ sentiments about continuing to exercise his right to free speech.

Jeff Rotkoff, who runs a progressive media company in Texas called “The Barbed Wire,” opted out after it became clear that multiple bids from left-leaning parties are already “in the six- and seven-figure range.”

“It was very clear that we were not going to be able to put together a winning bid because we talked to a lot of people with a lot more money,” he said. We’re rooting for anyone who is interested in undoing the harms done to our country and planet by Alex Jones.

Rotkoff says he’s cautiously optimistic but adds, “There are billionaires on the other side as well” who want to help Jones maintain his audience, “so it sounds to me like a jump ball.”

Auctioning Jones’ media empire to fade out the Sandy Hook families: The case of Markell, a former U.S. bankruptcy judge

Whoever wins the auction might not necessarily be the highest bidder. The U.S. trustee has broad discretion to “determine the highest or otherwise best bid or bids” [emphasis added] according to the auction firms Tranzon Asset Advisors and ThreeSixty Asset Advisors.

The families of the Sandy Hook victims who won defamation suits against Jones for spreading false conspiracy theories about the school shooting will benefit from the sale’s proceeds. He accused the families of being actors, faking the killing of 20 children and 6 educators, in an effort to drum up support for gun control, and Jones supporters who believed the lies threatened and harassed the families for years.

The families “have a hunting license to go after any asset or any income that Jones has, regardless of source,” says Bruce Markell, a former U.S. bankruptcy judge and now Northwestern School of Law professor.

Jones is appealing rulings against him in Connecticut and Texas and he denied defaming the Sandy Hook families again this week even though he has previously said they were actors and faking crying on his show.

Jones made up baseless conspiratorial claims that the Democrats ran the whole thing. The FBI, they don’t understand that they cooked the whole thing up with the CIA,” he said.

The future owner of Jones’ media empire will become public once court papers are filed. The winning bid will be selected by the court-appointed Trustee in the Jones case after all the buyers have signed nondisclosure agreements.

Jones’ desk, microphones, online vitamins store, and Terradyne armored truck are all being auctioned for live at closed doors.

A group of Connecticut families backed the satirical news outlet’s purchase of Free Speech Systems. Jones said on today’s show that security has notified him he needs to vacate the premises this morning.

The sale, which still needs to be approved by a bankruptcy court, includes Jones’ studio equipment, his lucrative online nutritional supplement store, domain names, customer lists and some of Jones’ social media accounts, though not his X account.

“I don’t roll over to tyrants and I’ll never surrender,” he said, “but we need funds to beat them.” He implored his audience to go to his online store and buy his new “Trump Patriot Apparel” and limited edition posters that would help support his show.

“At the last minute, the rules of the auction changed,” he alleged yesterday. “What was going to be an open auction where you […] could offer more money and top [previous] bids, but now they’ve decided that it’ll just be sealed and there’s one bid and whoever’s the highest gets it.”

The Onion’s End: Why Jones and the Infowars Need Not Wanna Happen When You Can’t Stop Worrying

“Our clients knew that true accountability meant an end to Infowars and an end to Jones’ ability to spread lies, pain and fear at scale,” said Chris Mattei, attorney for the Connecticut plaintiffs.

Lawyers for the Connecticut families said they agreed to forgo part of their recovery in order to increase the value of The Onion’s bid.