'How Was It Staged?' Alex Jones Floats Conspiracy Theory On WHCD Shooting
Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones suggested that Israel may have "staged" a shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner to influence American foreign policy.
During his Monday show, Jones noted that White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt had said that the war with Iran had been won as he was preparing for the broadcast.
"That's 30 times they've done that with the Iran thing that I know of. I mean, people go, well, just be pro-Trump. But just go, just go along with total horse crap? No, I will not do it," he explained before moving on to the alleged gunman, Cole Allen, at Saturday night's dinner.
"But I'm very torn on this because you got a bunch of police and Secret Service standing around because everybody was already in the gala. And a guy runs past him, but there should have been checkpoints in front of that," the conspiracy theorist argued. "He gets a shot off, shoots a Secret Service agent. First, they said body armor stopped it. Now, it slowed it down when the buckshot went through the telephone, but embedded in his thigh."
Jones went on to question whether a so-called manifesto was written by Allen.
"But because I've now learned even more than we've said on air, I'll stop there," he insisted. "[Alleged Charlie Kirk shooter] Tyler Robinson's family, the parents, the grandparents, all of them say he's innocent, this is all made up, we think he's mind controlled, only believe 2% of what you hear, but they're scared, and they just say none of what you're hearing is true."