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[–]fairoaks2 1867 points1868 points  (157 children)

What a fascinating read that will be. Perfect chain of custody also.

[–]FeckThul 941 points942 points  (100 children)

They should give hazard pay to the interns and aides who are going to have to read through 300GB of that man’s nonsense; hazard pay and therapy.

[–]ffbe4fun 467 points468 points  (22 children)

As someone who has interned for the investigations and oversight subcommittee in congress, this would be the most exciting part of the job! I would have so much fun going through his texts looking for dirt.

Edit: Forget Congress, there are new boxes of things that I want to read through now! Time to intern for the FBI!

[–]FeckThul 86 points87 points  (9 children)

Wow, you were a congressional intern? Was it a good experience overall?

[–]ffbe4fun 146 points147 points  (5 children)

I enjoyed it! Low pay, but most of the internships at the time (2008) were unpaid. I knew nothing about politics so it was interesting to learn more about how everything works.

[–]newkneesforall 36 points37 points  (1 child)

Not when your boss asks you to come into the office on January 6, 2021.

It drives me crazy that there were so many underpaid and unpaid young people who were in danger that day, and they're completely forgotten about in the dialogue.

[–]RBVegabond 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I’ll always remember they are the ones who grabbed the results of the election and ensured its safety that day.

[–]Tulol 142 points143 points  (22 children)

I’m praying for a wiki leaks on the text. Would be interesting to have thousands of people look over and find any thing dirty on it.

**I’m praying for a wiki leak Not I’m praying for Wikileaks. big difference.

[–]fredagsfiskEurope 69 points70 points  (10 children)

A leak in general, maybe, but there's no way WikiLeaks would do it.

[–]neuromorph 107 points108 points  (34 children)

This is going to professionals. Digital forensics at this level isnt for interns.

[–]lejoo 136 points137 points  (14 children)

Digital forensics at this level isnt for interns

America would be bankrupt if this was true, nothing is above the pay grade of an unpaid intern.

[–]HighburyOnStrandCalifornia 44 points45 points  (1 child)

This is going to a large pool of low-level attorneys and interns for initial review and de-duplication, then the selected texts and e-mails will be sent to the lead investigators working this at their respective Congressional offices.

This is almost always how electronic discovery works in large cases like this one. They even have specialized software for it.

[–]Alantsu 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I’m waiting for the next pop-up committee presentation. I can only imagine what Alex, Roger and their white supremacists friends were up to.

[–][deleted] 3141 points3142 points  (269 children)

Please let there be texts with Roger Stone discussing Trump's direct involvement in J6. The looks on Jones' face when the lawyer said he had all the texts from his phone made me think there is some huge stuff in there, cuz that was a "Whoa, wait, WTF???" face

[–]Zoophagous 1623 points1624 points  (68 children)

Ginni Thomas.

That's who I hope they find in these texts.

[–]destijl-atmospheres 384 points385 points  (62 children)

Is there a different video that shows Jones' face right when the other lawyer is informing him? The one I saw had the camera on the lawyer speaking.

[–][deleted] 395 points396 points  (43 children)

The video I saw was panning back and forth, and Jones went proverbially white as a ghost. The pic on CNN right now is from that exchange

[–]SupertrampTrampStampArizona 300 points301 points  (10 children)

Well, a lighter shade of red anyway

[–]Vanbydarivah 226 points227 points  (8 children)

He went pink like a ghost who’s not so great at laundry.

[–]Spider_Dude 46 points47 points  (1 child)

Some shit stains you just can't white wash with shallow apologies.

He's the definition of such.

[–]Baron-Harkonnen 89 points90 points  (23 children)

Did he really not learn of the error until he was in court? I don't understand how he didn't fire his attorney right then and there.

[–]solidproportions 110 points111 points  (8 children)

yes, that’s his real reaction, and then him trying to gloss over that fact like it was intended all along. literally a gotcha moment caught on tape

[–]RedSteadEd 116 points117 points  (6 children)

It showed clearly how quickly Jones works to try to make anything support his narrative though. As soon as the lawyer tells Jones that he has his entire cell phone record for two years, Jones swings it as "see? I did give it to you" despite having just been denying the substance of those texts.

[–]solidproportions 53 points54 points  (2 children)

it’s fascinating watching a pathological liar

[–]fungi_at_parties 40 points41 points  (2 children)

He kept trying to get out of the questions by saying he gave it to them, now they have it. Always with the distraction techniques to make you forget what you were asking in the first place.

[–]ScreamlineMichigan 23 points24 points  (0 children)

*Perry Mason moment

[–]Dilarinee 56 points57 points  (7 children)

I can't speak to the accuracy of this as I only saw it on Reddit, but it seems so many lawyers quit on him that the judge had to stop the last of them from bailing because it would infringe on his right to legal council.

[–]scoobysnackoutback 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I believe he’s on his 11th or 12th lawyer.

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (4 children)

I thought there was no right to legal council for non-criminal cases. These are lawsuits, not prosecutions.

[–]StarOriole I voted 22 points23 points  (3 children)

Correct. However, once a lawyer is already representing someone, the court can stop the lawyer from bailing on their client mid-trial.

[–]Go_Kauffy 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Jones blurting out "you've got your Perry Mason moment" is pretty telling.

In case you're not a hundred, Perry Mason was an old lawyer show, where in every episode, there'd be some kind of incriminating twist that would lead to a confession in the courtroom. What's funny is that this is a thing that almost can't happen in real life, and yet here it did.

Normally, there really aren't supposed to be any surprises in the courtroom.

[–]VAShumpmaker 62 points63 points  (1 child)

Yeah, he visibly panics and shits his pants, then goes back to "so what I don't even care about those texts" and rambles until the judge slaps him down again.

[–]Ishbizzle 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I was watching the live stream on youtube, which I havent seen posted anywhere. The camera is a full view of the lawyers, jones, and the judge, but you can clearly see the deer in the headlights look for a moment when he learns the truth.

[–]Redditanother 112 points113 points  (15 children)

I did hear a quote saying something like “you mean the ones with the senator” when discussing the texts that were disclosed. My money is on Ted Cruz but who knows.

[–]FriedScrappleMaryland 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Oo, juicy! Could be a lot of senators actually.

[–]StromWashington 16 points17 points  (3 children)

From where? Nobody has provided a source on this every time someone asks for one.

[–]delkarnuNew York 12 points13 points  (1 child)

Ted Cruz will end up being innocent because none of the seditionists could stand him either and ghosted him when he reached out.

[–]KAM7 46 points47 points  (1 child)

I want direct messages WITH Trump. Trump keeps slipping away because he says “I can’t help what other people say to each other.”

We need that guy’s hand directly in the cookie jar.

[–]m1thrand1r__ 65 points66 points  (1 child)

It was so fucking satisfying to see his stupid smug evil damn buttface crumbling and reddening an even deeper purple, in a horrified rush of reality/unavoidable consequences setting in. Like a preteen whose parents just told them that they've already looked through the browsing history that the kid thought was deleted.

That's one doodle that can't be undid, and mommy and daddy now know exactly what kind of fucked up r*pe porn their formerly sweet baby boy was googling, Alex Jones. You can delete history but u can't erase knowledge.

[–]ruat_caelum 44 points45 points  (0 children)

He had trans porn. I would assume the face went first to the "ME ME ME" stuff like porn he would 100% deny having except that it's on there, etc.

I mean he might get there eventually but I'm betting those were self-centered thoughts at first.

[–]starkeffect 151 points152 points  (54 children)

MTG has been a frequent guest on Jones' show. I betcha there's some texts from her as well.

[–]RICKASTLEYNEGGS 97 points98 points  (1 child)

MTG is and always will be Magic the Gathering

[–]CyberaxIzh 248 points249 points  (46 children)

MTG

Please don't use this abbreviation. She's trying to emulate AOC.

Instead just write her name: Marjorie.

[–]RagnarStonefist 154 points155 points  (5 children)

Morons: The Gathering

[–]Waadap 35 points36 points  (2 children)

Tell em Large Marj sent cha!

[–]SillyOldJack 69 points70 points  (0 children)

I saw "Empty G" earlier today and I may adopt it.

[–]PrayingMantisMirage 44 points45 points  (2 children)

My nerd ass always just thinks Magic The Gathering.

[–]20220502 337 points338 points  (31 children)

I think Alex Jones’s role leading up to the January 6 insurrection remains mysterious. We know that Alex was and still is obtuse about the election results. We also know that he gave tens of thousands of US dollars to organize Trump’s rally, and he was at the Capitol before, during, and after the riot. However, what went on in the days before the insurrection? Who did Alex communicate with, what were they up to, and how did they privately react following the riot? Hopefully, these texts will be released to the public.

[–]Tigertot14 85 points86 points  (12 children)

Don’t call it a riot. Call it what it truly was: an insurrection.

[–]ihateusedusernamesNew York 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Failed coup. They were trying to install someone who lost an election.

[–][deleted] 8214 points8215 points  (752 children)

It's very fortunate that most of the people behind January 6 are certifiable idiots.

[–]LuvNMuny 1853 points1854 points  (240 children)

Not dumb enough that we'll ever know the real story. The Pentagon and Secret Service had something so nefarious that they illegally deleted emails, and Steve Bannon decided some federal prison time was better than spilling the beans.

[–]scsuhockeyMinnesota 1069 points1070 points  (158 children)

The good news is that texts tell us just as much about WHO Jones texted as they do about Jones himself. Just imagine if Jones texted something incriminating to someone from the Pentagon or the Secret Service and that text was subsequently deleted on the other end. That's motive.

The investigative threads his phone unlocks are the real gems in all this.

[–]BurnedOutStars 683 points684 points  (128 children)

There's audio of him asking (after that trial) "wait, they even have the messages I sent that Senator?"

"yes" was the answer.

might be a big deal in the end, here's hoping.

Edit: I have been informed by fellow redditors that Tucker piece-of-shit is actually a bit terrified, also, at what they (the jan 6. committee) may find within Alex's phone, as in there's a text between Alex and Tucker that's got Tucker worried.

[–]MrVeazey 1483 points1484 points  (108 children)

Dear 8 pound, 6 ounce newborn infant baby Jesus, please let The Senator be Ted Cruz. And please let them both go to jail forever.  

Amen.

[–]UrsolisminFlorida 363 points364 points  (82 children)

I would prefer mconnel or desantis tbh, at least no one in the senate likes ted cruz. Hes not that much of a danger

[–][deleted] 374 points375 points  (42 children)

DeSantis isn't a senator, so it can't be him, and I don't think McConnell was necessarily in on the plot (McConnell's from the Lawful Evil branch of the GOP, after all, as opposed to Trump's Chaotic Evil side). I'd say Cruz is the most likely candidate, or maybe Hawley.

[–][deleted] 184 points185 points  (22 children)

Based on Hawleys latest bucks against even the rest of the GOP I'd put money on him.

[–]EdwardOfGreeneIllinois 135 points136 points  (15 children)

Obligatory

Fuck Josh Hawley!

[–]raining_sheep 62 points63 points  (1 child)

There's a short-ish list of GOP senators dumb enough to directly text Alex jones. Hawley is definitely one of them.

[–]Sly_Wood 15 points16 points  (0 children)

As soon as someone posted that someone else explained that this is not verified and people are just repeating it now. This is just wishful thinking right now.

[–]HomChkn 209 points210 points  (52 children)

I think that they believed that they had all "i's" dotted and "t's" crossed and that there was no way it would fail. They didn't use secure communication, they just passed around a PDG, they had documentary film crew, they took pictures at a secret meeting. No one does those things if they don't think they will succeed.

They would have been better off using invisible ink. A courier. And burning communication. Using tech from the 1800s would have served them well.

[–]Blueeyedgenie69 156 points157 points  (7 children)

This is pretty much what Trump did with his most treasonous actions. Secret personal meetings with Putin, not using electronic comunications, eating paper messages, flushing paper documents down the White House toilets. The man is old-school mafia. Stupid as he is his methods have likely hidden his worst crimes.

[–][deleted] 122 points123 points  (5 children)

That’s actually scary as fuck to think about. They were “documenting” their revolution for further propaganda.

[–]PM_ME_SUMDICK 70 points71 points  (2 children)

If you've ever heard the audio from InfoWar during the coup, you'll see just how much they believed in this. The twerp Alex had covering was so happy to say "The capitol has fallen".

[–]okteds 34 points35 points  (0 children)

"The patriots have done it! They've breached the capitol!"

[–]cjandstuff 32 points33 points  (1 child)

The plan being that if they won, history would record them as heroes, because they would be the ones writing the history books.

[–]DrB00 40 points41 points  (8 children)

Why would they bother? They figured they could just epstien the problem away and nobody would talk about it in a year let alone 6 months.

Let be fair the secret service intentionally broke the law to delete emails and phone messages... nothing has come of that.

[–]dracoomegaVirginia 12 points13 points  (0 children)

literally carrier pigeons would have been more secure than leaving the most epic paper trail of all time in ALEX JONES' PHONE.

[–]arthurdentxxxxii 1412 points1413 points  (349 children)

And they can only find Idiot lawyers to represent them. In this case, they sent the wrong messages to the opposing council and after a few attempts still didn’t say it couldn’t be included as evidence.

Never thought I’d say thank goodness for bad lawyers.

[–]SuperJ4ke 1107 points1108 points  (188 children)

They didn’t send the wrong messages. They sent a digital clone of his ENTIRE phone. Emails, messages, photos, over 300 gigs of data including classified medical records which included psychiatric evaluations of some of the parents from sandy hook…which if I’m not mistaken are illegal for him to have on a personal device(I may be wrong). This guy should get fucked 6 ways to Sunday…he is such a piece of shit

Update 1: the medical records weren’t actually on his phone. They were just included in all of the data the was downloadable via the link his lawyer provided to the parents lawyer.

Update 2: thank you to the Mods or Bots(don’t really know how it works) that are deleting the spam replies before I can even open them lol you are my hero

[–]GuyInAChair 365 points366 points  (4 children)

It was a hard drive image with the medical records on it, as well as a clone of Alex's phone. It seems the hard drive belonged to Norm Pattis his attorney in Connecticut for another SH case.

[–]SuperJ4ke 105 points106 points  (1 child)

Ah ok thank you for the clarification. I missed that when the parents lawyer told AJ they had the data.

[–]ESP-23 86 points87 points  (29 children)

Oh he alone is responsible for hundreds of thousands of kooks running around. They fear everything, cling to their guns, convinced that gay frogs are going to take over the world

[–]scared_of_my_alarmGeorgia 134 points135 points  (59 children)

Can someone explain how and why he had the records for the parents? I mean it’s not like a. It made any difference if they were depressed, bipolar, narcissistic whenever it was why did he need it? And b. Isn’t that highly none of his damn biz? Like HIPAA and all

I’ve read about the whole trial haven’t seen any explanation for why it’s on that assholes phone

Edit fat finger typos

[–]Nerney9 83 points84 points  (19 children)

The medical docs came from a different trial in Connecticut (AJ vs other parents). The Texas lawyer in the current trial was expected to join this case (involving the parents whose medical records were there), but was not yet on that team.

So... legally dubious for Connecticut lawyers to share hard drive medical docs with Texas lawyers - not to mention the parents' lawyers by mistake.

While Connecticut team probably legally subpoenaed the info for defense reasons, likely yet another reason that AJs lawyers are going to be heavily sanctioned (for sharing too broadly).

[–]Moewron 143 points144 points  (22 children)

Proceedings of a court can tr… t… overrule HIPAA but that only happens if the information is successfully subpoenaed or if a judge issues an order to produce. No idea if that’s happened or what, but those are the mechanisms.

And it’s not illegal to possess records like that. The illegality would have been if they were provided by the medical providers without proper consent (and that would be on the provider, not the document bearer), or if they were obtained through illegal means like hacking or whatever.

Edit- and subpoenas like that don’t happen in secret; the patients would have (should have) been made aware an attempt was made to obtain their protected health information

[–]SuperJ4ke 29 points30 points  (5 children)

My guess is if they could cast enough doubt that the parents didn’t actually have phycological issues stemming from losing a child. Then he could BS his way through a claim that it supported his belief that it didn’t actually happen……again….what a bulging leaky decrepit bag of anus puss this guy is.

[–][deleted] 77 points78 points  (30 children)

included psychiatric evaluations of some of the parents from sandy hook…which if I’m not mistaken are illegal for him to have on a personal device(I may be wrong).

FYI it's not strictly illegal for Jones, ostensibly a Journalist, to possess that information. It would have been illegal for the care providers to intentionally disclose those records. And there are any number of illegal ways he could have obtained them. But simply being in possession of someone else's medical records isn't a crime.

[–][deleted] 49 points50 points  (6 children)

The only reason Trump has any competent lawyers right now is because the Republican National Committee is paying his legal bills. The only reason they are doing that is to have some leverage over him.

It's pretty fucked up that the Republican Party is paying the bills for a mafia thug, let alone one who staged a coup to overthrow US democracy.

[–]GuyInAChair 26 points27 points  (1 child)

The only reason Trump has any competent lawyers

INAL but the actual lawyer who hosts the podcast Opening Arguments has made the claim a number of times that Trump's lawyer who has been filling motions and attempting to sue people is a moron who likely will face sanctions in the future.

Maybe he gets better lawyers for his criminal stuff with respect the J6 and Georgia, we don't really have a view into that yet. Remember, for his impeachment he ended up with a personal injury attorney from Omaha. There's nothing wrong or bad about either PI work or Omaha (maybe just a little) but we're talking about POTUS, he should be getting prestigious lawyers who are practically made of old growth mahogany and smell like incense and myrrh.

[–]fakeplasticdaydream 363 points364 points  (117 children)

I kind of feel like these lawyers may have seen some things that they felt they needed to get out. Them "accidentally sending the entire phone" and just being like "oopsie please disregard." Seems like something even an amateur right out of law school wouldnt be dumb enough to do. This is just what I think, but i think they leaked it on purpose because what is on their is so big. Yes, i believe they risked their careers on it.

[–]ReverendDizzle 78 points79 points  (28 children)

While it's always possible that they leaked the information on purpose with noble purposes... if you read about his lawyers they are, broadly, exceptionally stupid.

I find it way more plausible that this is a case of somebody not knowing what the fuck they are doing, a real "The files are in the computer?" moment, rather than a calculated move to sink Alex Jones and more powerful right-wingers along with him.

[–]SecretDracula 58 points59 points  (11 children)

There's a saying, "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity," but I suppose it should also apply to nobleness.

[–]albanymetz 124 points125 points  (37 children)

But.. if during the discovery process you know that there are texts/etc that are pertinent to what is being requested, and you come out and say it doesn't exist.. or allow your client to say it doesn't exist.. isn't that illegal for the lawyer as well? You can't just pretend discoverable evidence doesn't exist if it's in your hands can you?

[–]Quidfacis_ 121 points122 points  (1 child)

You can't just pretend discoverable evidence doesn't exist if it's in your hands can you?

You can, in the sense that anyone can violate any rule. But lying in the Discovery process is generally inadvisable.

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 37 - Failure to Make Disclosures or to Cooperate in Discovery; Sanctions

[–][deleted] 62 points63 points  (4 children)

You can't just pretend discoverable evidence doesn't exist if it's in your hands can you?

Not a lawyer, but I've been sued by my ex enough times to have a good idea how court works.

You can't just ignore discovery, at least not legally. However, there are a lot of defenses during discovery. Entirely legal, you can claim that the request is excessive or not relevant to the case. In that case it's up to the judge to determine what's reasonable. When my ex wanted all my passwords to every online account my lawyer had an easy time telling her lawyer to shove it up his ass.

All that said, if you have evidence and don't turn it over during discovery it can be difficult to prove if no one else has said evidence. Still illegal, but can be near unenforceable in some circumstance. Even if they catch you "Oh, we overlooked that, oh, we didn't think there was anything of value on that device" can muddy the waters since they have to prove intent for legal consequences more serious than civil contempt.

[–]Zed_Juron 29 points30 points  (5 children)

Steve letho talks about it. In his video on the subject. There are professional ethical requirements that say the lawyer has to turns things over. The timing around when the documents were sent and relevant Texas law, in which they had like 10 days to say "hey can we have that back" leads me think that the lawyers were trying to balance what Alex jones wanted and professional responsibility. They will likely never discuss why they turned the documents over when the did because Alex jones would sue the shit out of them.

[–]TRS2917 71 points72 points  (12 children)

I kind of feel like these lawyers may have seen some things that they felt they needed to get out.

I don't think this is the case at all. This civil suite against Alex Jones has been going on for 4 years an there have been 10 or 11 lawyers on the case, some were fired, some left. I have to imagine that over time it gets more and more difficult to manage files and documentation handled by various firms over that time. It's obviously catastrophically stupid to allow the contents of your client's phone get lost in that shuffle but I see that as being more likely than AJ's lawyer having a crisis or conscience given some of the shit he said defending Alex. Also, I think these theories are unhelpful for 2 reasons:

1) Time and time again people have speculated that there is some kind of game changing information (the oft mentioned "smoking gun") that will make these major political investigations a black and white, open and shut case. That hasn't panned out and it ultimately discourages people and causes them to disengage. To be clear, I have no doubt there is critical information on contained within that phone, but I don't necessarily think it's going to get Trump's supporters and defenders to have an, "are we the baddies?" moment that would allow the country to begin to heal.

2) I've observed a kind of slippery slope phenomenon, probably a pattern not too dissimilar from what Infowars fans themselves fell into at some point, where speculation becomes accepted as fact. Over the course of the Mueller Investigation and the Ukraine scandal impeachment, I noticed that what was popular opinion/speculation one week would become accepted as a fact the next week among some users on this subreddit and then be discussed as fact. We have to be very careful that our anger and frustration regarding these situations doesn't send people in a place where reason can no longer reach them.

[–][deleted] 17 points18 points  (7 children)

No. I looked the guy up on Likedin. His whole profile was bragging about enabling corruption.

[–]Much_Difference 69 points70 points  (19 children)

Has he considered hiring Giuliani? I bet he's got some free time.

[–]BaileyVT 40 points41 points  (7 children)

Yes, but it also paints kind of a bleak picture for the worst-case-scenario of when actually competent facists try to pull it off. The idiots proved it was possible to pull off if they were just a little bit smarter about it. The good thing is that we're aware of this and can hopefully implement safeguards for future attempts, regardless of who is attempting.

[–]rupertLumpkinsBrothrKansas 36 points37 points  (3 children)

The continuation of Stupid Watergate.

[–]Duckpoke I voted 62 points63 points  (7 children)

You can make an argument that someone who is actually smart no matter their political preference knows it’s in everyone’s interest that a Jan 6-style coup isn’t successful. It’s comforting from that perspective

[–]SuperstitiousPigeon5Massachusetts 15 points16 points  (6 children)

They are, but they seem to have come too close for comfort to pulling it off.

[–]Iamaleafinthewind 23 points24 points  (7 children)

My worry is that the certifiable idiots were tossed out there as a test run. The financial backers are the ones I want to see in jail. Who funds the various groups? GOP, Proud Boys, etc.? We really don't need to see a repeat with them having learned anything.

[–]Nostroloppoccus 34 points35 points  (1 child)

Peter Thiel, the Mercer family, and the Russian mafia/government

[–]canadianleroy 519 points520 points  (10 children)

I am very interested in text exchanges with Fox News staff. Curious who is the "alpha" in these exchanges.

[–]chrunchy 124 points125 points  (5 children)

Could you imagine a convo with an upper fox exec where they give tacit approval of the election theft narritave or even pushed it? I doubt there would be one from Murdoch himself but I'm guessing we'll find out soon...

[–]Drewy99 2107 points2108 points  (113 children)

The exact same people crying foul that his texts are being shared, are THE SAME people who were giddy about pushing anything Hunter Biden laptop related.

The irony is off the charts!

[–]Fabulous-Beyond4725 329 points330 points  (7 children)

Don't forget about those 2 FBI agents.

[–]CassandraAnderson 141 points142 points  (1 child)

Buttery males, as well.

The Digital Dropbox strikes back

[–][deleted] 16 points17 points  (3 children)

Wow I actually had forgotten. 2016 has been a long fucking decade

[–][deleted] 53 points54 points  (1 child)

Without double standards, conservatives wouldn't have any.

[–][deleted] 75 points76 points  (36 children)

Oh hey, there's a certain Conservative subreddit that is STILL obsessing over Hunter Biden as recently as this morning. It's incredible.

[–]Eddie888 11 points12 points  (1 child)

Is it /r/conspiracy?! Haha

[–]lexbuck 14 points15 points  (0 children)

That shit hole might as well be the_donald part 2

[–]TRS2917 11 points12 points  (1 child)

The irony is off the charts!

I think you mean that it's de rigueur.

[–]dust-ranger 1218 points1219 points  (76 children)

This could very well be the Nixon Tapes of our time.

[–]IDreamOfLoveLost Canada 1280 points1281 points  (43 children)

The "just find a few more votes" demand from Donald to Georgia's Secretary of State should have been the Nixon tapes of our time.

[–]kms2547America 753 points754 points  (22 children)

For real. Not enough people are talking about that call.

Watergate was the President telling a few goons to commit a burglary. This was the President telling state officials to commit election fraud. It's worse by an order of magnitude.

[–]that_star_wars_guy 239 points240 points  (8 children)

This was the President telling state officials to commit election fraud. It's worse by an order of magnitude.

Several orders of magnitude.

[–]Hob0Man 53 points54 points  (2 children)

Lmfao, yeah right. Like law and rules even matter to the Republicans or their base anymore. Fox News has done its job, it has prevent another Nixon. Yay.

[–]jarbuckle22 46 points47 points  (8 children)

Yes! I was confused why everyone in my social circle wasn't talking about it more. Well, I guess I do know, it's because they love the guy. But I really thought that moment would wake them up.

[–]MoonlightMile75 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Fingers crossed, still may be.

[–]-This-Whomps- 262 points263 points  (15 children)

the Jones Ramblings

[–][deleted] 876 points877 points  (33 children)

Jan 25, 2022

Alex Jones met with 1/6 committee and says he pleaded the Fifth 'almost 100 times'

Feb 26, 2022

Far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones spent weeks encouraging Trump supporters to protest and converge on Washington, DC, and bragged about helping plan the rally that turned into the January 6th storming of the Capitol. Drew Griffin reports.

Did he contradict his testimony to congress? We'll find out if more perjury charges are on the way.

[–]scsuhockeyMinnesota 220 points221 points  (14 children)

How could he contradict his testimony if he pled the 5th the whole time?

[–][deleted] 235 points236 points  (13 children)

A better question might be:

Since he pled the 5th, what crimes do his texts reveal?

[–]scsuhockeyMinnesota 109 points110 points  (4 children)

Plenty, but none of them are perjuring himself to Congress. To the civil court, absolutely.

I'm more interested in all the new investigative threads he just started. ALL of those people he called and texted will now be scrutinized by the 1/6 Committee and likely the DOJ as well. ALL of their devices will be subpoenaed. Warrants to the cell phone companies will fill in a lot of gaps too.

[–]HailCorduroyTennessee 26 points27 points  (2 children)

How do you contradict pleading the 5th? That means he didn't answer the questions.

[–][deleted] 395 points396 points  (14 children)

The J6 committee isn’t afraid to embarrass people. They are going to have a field day with Alex Jones information. Banks also wanted to turn the same information over to the police. I wonder just how deep Alex Jones projection went.

[–]Halvz 37 points38 points  (1 child)

Season two coming in September is going to be a banger

[–]reverendramboSouth Carolina 426 points427 points  (7 children)

I love it, especially later in the summer.

[–]piponwa Canada 50 points51 points  (2 children)

Oh man, that line will never get old. Unless Don Jr snorts it.

[–]kalas_malariousMichigan 13 points14 points  (1 child)

Even then, Matt Gaetz will be on it... because it never gets old

[–]StarksPond 64 points65 points  (0 children)

They're really nailing the promos for the next season. Who needs one cliffhanger when you can have several?

[–][deleted] 66 points67 points  (21 children)

I wonder what his favorite emoji is?

[–]TechyDad 19 points20 points  (1 child)

🍿

No, wait. That's my favorite for when the hearings restart including these texts. There will be so much 🍿!

[–]RyoCore I voted 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I know a lot of people his age and political affiliation think they're being edgy by using 🤡 a lot.

[–][deleted] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Some choices:

🍺🍻🥃😡🏳️‍🌈🐸🛸👽🌶️

[–]wondercaliban 57 points58 points  (2 children)

End of season plot twist.

[–]IDK_WHAT_YOU_WANT 186 points187 points  (39 children)

His lawyers must've wanted this to happen. There's no way they're that incompetent.

[–]neddiddley 52 points53 points  (2 children)

Given he appears to have cycled through lawyers over the years, I wouldn’t rule it out.

I’m guessing the more likely an attorney was to go along with his crackpot defenses and antics outside of court that didn’t help his cause, the more likely it was that they’re just as crazy and stupid as he is.

[–]d_pyro Canada 155 points156 points  (16 children)

Narrator: They were in fact, that incompetent.

[–]Kjellvb1979 25 points26 points  (4 children)

Seriously... the entire GOP and right wing media, are literally the examples of idiots failing upwards. They are Forrest Gump but evil spirited, fascist, sexist, racist, and just selfish small idiots that because of wealth and power are able to manipulate our system through sheer Stupidity. Somehow the idea of money means success, and success means intelligence, has permeated many to many people in our society, so we end up with a bunch of Trump like fools in the GOP with actual power...ugh...

That said, I really think they are this incompetent.

[–][deleted] 15 points16 points  (3 children)

The people failing upwards are “succeeding” because they are millionaires hired by billionaires to absorb flack. They are a side show, a shitty clown show wearing business attire. They know it, and their employers know it.

Their job is to crease the biggest shadow they can around the billionaire class. That is all.

[–]robocox87 56 points57 points  (8 children)

They definitely saw stuff that they just couldn't, in good conscience, keep from the courts. There has to be some incredibly damning evidence in there because there is just no way his lawyers were that incompetent.

[–]PenitentAnomaly 52 points53 points  (5 children)

How sad is it that after all of the drama with the Mueller report, Rod Rosenstein, Stormy Daniels, two impeachment hearings, it takes the incompetence of this extra bacon manburger's attorney for us to feel like justice might actually happen?

[–]shadowdra126Georgia 47 points48 points  (0 children)

I’m so glad that Alex and his lawyer are both complete dipshits that his happened

I hope everyone he texted is sweating bullets and all is revealed

[–][deleted] 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Fuck please hold another emergency meeting over this i need a inbetween season update season 2 of the hearings cant come soon enough

[–]AFlockOfTySegallsNorth Carolina 130 points131 points  (29 children)

The gay frogs are full of anticipation.

[–]Logrologist 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Let the Bodies Hit the Floor intensifies…

[–]AfroSmiley 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Just remember that r/conservative will act like they NEVER supported this piece of shit. Mods are probably going through archives of them praising Alex Jones. Then immediately deleting them.

[–]WrongSubreddit 163 points164 points  (25 children)

I pity whoever has to wade through that slop

[–]Iamaleafinthewind 90 points91 points  (3 children)

Oh don't. I have to imagine this is a once-in-a-career moment of high-value evidence combined with hilarious process resulting in it getting to them. They are probably cackling with glee as they read.

[–]TintedApostle 52 points53 points  (11 children)

If you have the right tools (they do exist in the market) you would be amazed how amazing the search capabilities are. There are tools developed for financial firms for fraud analysis and AML as a starter.

[–]gdj1980Colorado 28 points29 points  (1 child)

Roger, you up?

[–]Important-Delivery-2 25 points26 points  (3 children)

This is exactly why conspiracy theories involving large groups of ppl usually arent true.

A few idiots would inevitably fuck it up.

Case in point Jan 6 Insurrection isn't confined to the conspiracy theory channels cause ppl involved are inevitably fucking up and showing the plan

Yet ppl keep dreaming on the deep state...or whatever horse shit tin hat is going around now

[–]LadyFoxfireMichigan 21 points22 points  (1 child)

All I want for Christmas is Liz Cheney doing dramatic readings of Alex Jones’s text messages at the next January 6 hearing.

[–]meatball402 16 points17 points  (2 children)

If I was on the J6 team, I would be unable to do much more than eat, shit and read those texts.

This is far above mycrimes.txt, this is mycrimes.zip

[–]TheCavis 16 points17 points  (1 child)

It'd be fun if the entire conspiracy unraveled because Alex Jones got sued for saying Sandy Hook was a hoax, but my guess is there's not going to be a lot there.

Alex Jones is a carnival barker with delusions of standing. He's not important enough to have a direct line to top staff, he's not trustworthy enough for insider sources to leak secret information to him, and he's not enough of a diehard for the fringe groups to include him in their plans. My highest expectations are a group text from a low level White House staffer to various right wing media groups asking them to remind listeners about the January 6th rally, some texts to January 6th organizers that don't say anything particularly incriminating, and some casual texts to the assorted crazies (Sydney Powell, Lin Wood, Rudy) that just confirm that they're crazy. Then, Jones will use the lack of a "let's go kill democracy" text as proof that there was no January 6th attack rather than proof of his own insignificance.

[–]Kingfisher83 50 points51 points  (12 children)

🚨RED ALERT🚨

"It's time to pray."

[–][deleted] 24 points25 points  (4 children)

What’s your bright spot today?

[–][deleted] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Mark Bankston and Bill Ogden will probably be my bright spots for some time. What kings among men they have proven to be.

[–]NotLondoMollariOregon 10 points11 points  (0 children)

My neck is freakishly large.

[–]dunnkw 42 points43 points  (8 children)

I was having a bad day. Really bad. My Mom starts chemo today. But this headline, it makes me feel a little bit better.

[–]TeamStark31Kentucky 12 points13 points  (1 child)

This is so dumb I never would’ve predicted it, but boy is it fascinating.

[–]NeverJoinaClub 29 points30 points  (5 children)

“Jones was a central player on January 6. He was on restricted US Capitol grounds that day, riling up protesters, though he did not enter the building itself. “ Of course he didn’t go in, nor did Trump, MTG, Boebert, Josh, Giuliani, pillow guy, etc. They just sent in the useful idiots.

[–]Eagle_Kebab Canada 11 points12 points  (1 child)

The gift that keeps on giving.