Jones asked the bankruptcy court to stop the sale and side with another bidder who challenged the closed auction process.
Mark Bankston, a lawyer for families of Sandy Hook victims, questions Alex Jones during his trial in Austin in 2022.and families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre in an attempt to block a takeover of Infowars.But the sale of Free Speech Systems, Infowars' parent company, isn't a done deal; a bankruptcy judge agreed to hear a challenge from the losing bidder, First United American Companies.
In a lawsuit filed Monday, Jones asked the federal bankruptcy court to side with First United, which runs his online supplement store. He also asked the court to preventJones tweeted that he was"taking on the deep state at point-blank range." He also claimed without evidence that court documents proved the CIA was behind the sale.
"I need funds," he said, while plugging his alternate online store for supplements."We are suing these people up one side and down the other."planned to revamp the site to parody the longtime conspiracy theorist and host, something CEO Ben Collins called"the funniest thing ever." "We're going to ... give some people a good place on the internet to go to because that's very rare now. That's a big part of why we want to do," he told."The media ecosystem is just filled with lies and hate and garbage, and we want to give people a place to at least laugh at it."
First United American Companies has contested the auction, suggesting the closed-bidding process was opaque."No one should feel comfortable with the results of this auction," he said, putting a pause on the sale while the case is heard.Andrew Weber is KUT's government accountability reporter. Got a tip? You can email him at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @England_Weber.
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