Alex Jones says he is 'f**king sick' of Donald Trump, wishes he had never met ex-POTUS in leaked video
Far-right radio show host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was heard saying he is "so sick of f**king Donald Trump" in leaked footage from 2019, despite being one of the most vocal supporters of the ex-president. In fact, Jones is currently being investigated by federal authorities over the alleged role he played in the January 6 Capitol riots.
The video was part of an interview which was shot by filmmaker Caolan Robertson who was hired by the conservative commentator to film a promotional video in Austin, Texas, called 'You can't watch this'. Robertson reportedly leaked the footage to Hatewatch, a blog run by Southern Poverty Law Center that monitors and exposes the activities of the American radical right. The clip shows Jones ranting that he wishes he "never would have met" both the former president or Roger Stone, Trump's ex-campaign aide who was convicted of lying to Congress and is a member of the hate group, the Proud Boys.
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'Wish I never would have f**king met Trump'
"I'm so sick of f**king Donald Trump, man. God, I'm f**king sick of him," Jones says at the start of the video released on Tuesday, March 2. "Part of me — the selfish part — wishes that I'd never met Donald Trump, wishes that I'd never met Roger Stone. He goes on to envision the meetings as the "time-space continuum reflections" of bringing "Donald John Trump into awesome." "Because unlike the previous things I've done that were game-changing, those were just time-space continuum reflections of the third big change that I was involved in — and that was bringing Donald John Trump into awesome," he says.
Jones then corrects himself saying he meant to say "office" not "awesome." He turned to the camera and says, "I'm going to say it again in a minute. It's the truth and I'm just going to say it. That I wish I never would have f**king met Trump," Jones says later in the footage. "I wish it never would have happened. And it's not the attacks I've been through. I'm so sick of f**king Donald Trump, man. God, I'm f**king sick of him. And I'm not doing this because, like, I'm kissing his f**king a**, you know. It's, like, I'm sick of it."
'Please don't put me b**ching in the film'
After he shot the interview, Robertson told Hatewatch that Jones contacted him asking him not to put comments where he slams Trump in the final cut. "Please don't put me b**ching in the film. I don't do it a lot. But when I do look out," read text messages said to be from Jones.
Jones stands to lose the friendship he enjoys with the former president after the leak of the video. The comments were out of character for him as he largely tends to promote Trump on his InfoWars show on a near-daily basis. He has even pushed the claims that Trump won the election encouraging his listeners to 'fight' the outcome in the days leading up to the insurrection. According to reports, he paid $500,000 toward the Washington rally held moments before the storming of the Capitol.
"We have only begun to resist the globalists. We have only begun our fight against their tyranny. They have tried to steal this election in front of everyone," he said on his show on January 5. "I don't know how this is all going to end, but if they want to fight, they better believe they've got one." At the time, he warned his followers "big things are afoot" and urged them to descend on the Capitol that day. "Roger Stone spent some substantial time with Trump in Florida just a few days ago, and I'm told big things are afoot and Trump's got major actions up his sleeve," he said on January 1.