A bankruptcy sale of the media giant InfoWars site owned by Alex Jones to satire site The Onion was halted Friday after a judge paused the proceedings. Donald Trump’s former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark may have been the catalyst, due to his appearance on Steve Bannon’s War Room on Friday where he strongly denounced corruption in how the sale was handled, and warned of ramifications for those involved after Trump becomes president and assumes control of the DOJ. Jones subsequently amplified Clark’s appearance by covering his WarRoom appearance on InfoWars.
Jones filed for bankruptcy in 2022 after losing a defamation lawsuit for $1.5 billion over his statements that the children shot in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting were crisis actors who weren’t actually killed. In June, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez ordered the sale of Jones’ assets.
Although friends of Jones, First United American Companies, had bid the highest amount for the news site, $3.5 million, the trustee chose the lower bid offered by The Onion’s parent company Global Tetrahedron. Its CEO Ben Collins said the plan was to turn the site into a parody of itself and mock Jones and others like him.
Clark said during his interview on War Room, “As one of my closing acts at the end of the Trump administration, I argued a case about the U.S. bankruptcy trustees, who are the same folks here who are bedeviling Alex Jones and went in and shut him down. And look, as you were describing, they have, you know, in connection with the private trustees that are set up and that they supervise fiduciary duties to make sure that they get a maximum return for the creditors, right.”
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