In the same video, before setting off toward the Capitol building, Jones told the crowd: “We’re here to take our rightful country back peacefully, because we’re not globalist, antifa criminals. The next day, InfoWars posted a video that shows Jones riling a crowd up again, saying: “We declare 1776 against the new world order.… We need to understand we’re under attack, and we need to understand this is 21st-century warfare and get on a war-footing….” “I don’t know how this is all going to end, but if they want to fight, they better believe they’ve got one,” Jones said that night, according to the same video. They have tried to steal this election in front of everyone.” We have only begun our fight against their tyranny.
On January 5, the night before the assault on the Capitol, a video posted on Jones’ website showed him telling a crowd in Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C.: “We have only begun to resist the globalists. Leading up to the attack, carried out while Congress was certifying Joe Biden’s electoral victory, Jones had been at the forefront - along with several other Trump supporters - of amplifying false claims that the election had been rigged and that Trump had actually won. Another who was charged with writing threats was accused of sending texts to acquaintances ahead of time, saying he wanted to run over or shoot House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
One person who was later charged with unlawful possession of a destructive device allegedly parked a vehicle with 11 homemade bombs two blocks from the Capitol building. The unprecedented insurrection left five people dead, including a Capitol Police officer and a woman who was shot by police while participating in the siege. The pro-Trump mob that ransacked the Capitol building chanted slogans like, “fight for Trump,” and were spurred on by the conspiracy theory that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. Then came January 6 and a vivid illustration of the consequences of the conspiracies the president and the right-wing conspiracy theorist had been promoting. Capitol, President Donald Trump and Alex Jones had already helped weave once-fringe conspiracy theories into the highest levels of American politics. When FRONTLINE first aired the documentary United States of Conspiracy in July 2020, months before the attack on the U.S.
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