Alex Jones tries to cut deal with DOJ against Trump world
Three weeks ago the New York Times revealed that the Department of Justice has had a January 6th grand jury secretly targeting Trump world for months. Since that time we’ve heard relatively little about this grand jury, as tends to be the case; grand jury proceedings are secret, and things only leak out when a target decides to blab to the media. Now that has indeed happened.
Alex Jones, through his attorney, is now telling the New York Times that he’s trying to cut a deal with the DOJ. Jones is offering to give fully cooperative testimony in exchange for immunity. Because Jones is the source for this story, it has to be taken with a grain of salt. And of course the DOJ doesn’t comment to the media on these kinds of things, regardless of whether it’s taking Jones’ offer seriously or not. But Jones knows he would need to give up everyone in Trump world – including Donald Trump – in order to get such a deal.
It’s unclear why Jones is announcing that he’s trying to cut a deal with the DOJ. Typically, when you’re in the process of trying to sell out your friends and allies to the federal government, you don’t tell anyone you’re doing it. But Jones is unstable, and given that he just filed for bankruptcy, presumably desperate.
Whether a deal happens between Alex Jones and the DOJ or not, the real story here is that the DOJ’s January 6th criminal probe into Trump world is so serious, people like Jones now think they need to try to cut a deal. The NYT is also reporting tonight that, months ago, the DOJ secretly hired a respected prosecutor to lead its probe into Trump world.
In other words, the DOJ is several steps ahead of where we thought it was, and is in fact months into attempting to dismantle Trump world. Once the DOJ finished flipping its way upward through the Capitol attackers and managed to take down the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys in January – including flipping at least one Oath Keeper against Trump world – it always felt logical that the DOJ would then target Trump world. Sure enough, it’s now clear that the DOJ began targeting Trump world immediately after it nailed the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys. Now Alex Jones of all people is trying to hurry up and cut a deal while there’s still a good deal to be had.
