Infowars host Alex Jones praised Elon Musk for reinstating him to X (formerly Twitter) but warned that “big establishment sponsors” will begin their counter-move and “come after him.”
On Sunday, Musk restored Jones’s X account after he posted a reply to a poll on Saturday asking the platform’s users whether he should reinstate the InfoWars host, who was banned from the platform in 2018.
The results showed that 70.1% of responders wanted Jones back on the platform.
The people have spoken and so it shall be
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 10, 2023
Jones joined his first Twitter space Sunday to discuss returning to the platform.
When asked whether Musk would face backlash for reinstating him, Jones said that while it could temporarily hurt the platform, Musk is a “rebel.”
“Well, I think you said that yesterday … But he basically said it’s the right thing to do because the principle and it’s also what the majority of the vote said,” Jones said.
“So this probably will hurt X monetarily but ‘justice be done, may the heavens fall’ basically,” he added.
“But at the end of the day, it already has way more traffic and way more people — it’s avant-garde, it’s revolutionary, it’s rebel, it’s Maverick.”
“I’m not kissing [Elon Musk’s] ass, it’s true.”
“And the fact that he could take over Twitter, free it and bring back one of the most demonized people — if not the most demonized in the world, talk about a witch hunt — shows he put his money where his mouth is and is the Maverick’s Maverick.”
Jones said that while he was on Tucker Carlson’s show last week, he predicted that establishments like the ADL and CIA will “come after” Musk “at a never-before-seen level.”
Jones also claimed that they trying to “bully” Musk because they know Jones is a “rebel populist” that the “establishment fears.”
“So I said, ‘Look, I understand he knows I’ve been so demonized, so lied about, they built me into the devil’s devil at an emotional level of so many people that they will absolutely come after him at a never before seen level — this happens,'” Jones stated.
Alex Jones Interviews Elon Musk!
— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) December 10, 2023
Tune in here: https://t.co/F3j26jVEg4
“And the ADL, the CIA and the Justice Department and the Southern Poverty Law Center, Media Matters — they were already doing it when I was taping the interview like three weeks ago.’
“But since then, all those big establishment sponsors who are already being boycotted by the American people, by the way.”
“Well, now they’re trying to bully Elon, to bully the American people, the people of the world.”
“But I think … as soon as they did that to him, even though he tried to, you know, basically work with them, was being very very fair … As soon as they doubled down he said, ‘You know what? Screw you, I’ll go ahead then and release the Kraken.'”
“And it’s not that I’m that good on Twitter or that I’m even that great of a talk show host. It’s the symbol of what they built of Alex Jones is now an archetype of the rebel populist and what the establishment fears,” Jones said.
“And so what Elon did was really throw down the gauntlet,” Jones stated.
Jones and his Infowars show were banned from Twitter in 2018.
Other platforms like YouTube, Apple, and Facebook followed suit.
Twitter claimed Jones had violated their “abusive behavior policy.”
Jones said he was banned for telling “the truth” and that they were “popular.”
“This is the deep state striking back and really pressuring these tech firms to censor,” Jones stated, according to NPR.
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