Alex Jones just got dragged into the Trump Fulton County criminal probe
For awhile now Alex Jones has been acting like someone who was preparing to be criminally indicted. So far that hasn’t happened. While we wait to see if he gets charged as part of Jack Smith’s reportedly ongoing investigation into the Trump command center at the Willard Hotel, it turns out Jones has been dragged into a different criminal case.
Fulton County DA Fani Willis is now planning to call Alex Jones to testify in the criminal trial of Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro according to Lawfare. You can never be forced to testify against yourself. But you are automatically required to testify about crimes you witnessed.
As heavily involved as Jones was in the January 6th plot, he doesn’t appear to have been a criminal participant in the Fulton County plot. There’s no such thing as pleading the fifth when it comes to crimes you merely witnessed. So Jones has to testify, fully and truthfully about everything he knew about the Fulton County plot, or he’ll go down for obstruction of justice.
So we’ll see what Alex Jones does. But to be clear, there is no such thing as him getting out of testifying. That’s simply not a thing in this situation. Even if Jones decides to try to delay things by waging a losing court battle over whether he has to testify, Willis can respond to that by simply granting him blanket immunity in the Fulton County plot.
Because this is so widely misunderstood, it’s worth repeating once again that there is no such thing as pleading the fifth when it comes to crimes you witnessed but did not participate in. You simply have to testify. Jones will either testify against Powell and Chesebro, or he’ll lie on the stand and go to prison for perjury, or he’ll refuse to testify and he’ll go to prison for obstruction.
