After graduating, Jones briefly attended Austin Community College but dropped out. He attended Anderson High School, where he played football and graduated in 1993. He is of Irish, German, Welsh, English, and partially Comanche descent. His father is a dentist and his mother is a homemaker. Jones was born on February 11, 1974, in Dallas, Texas, and was raised in the suburb of Rockwall. 3.1.3 Relation to the 2021 Capitol attack.
A staunch supporter of Trump's reelection, Jones supported the false claims of electoral fraud in the 2020 presidential election and, on January 6, 2021, was a speaker at a rally in Lafayette Square Park supporting Trump, preceding an attack on the U.S. Ī longtime critic of Republican and Democratic foreign and security policy, Jones supported Donald Trump's 2016 presidential bid and continued to support him as a savior from an alleged criminal bipartisan cabal controlling the federal government, despite falling out over several of Trump's policies including airstrikes against the Assad regime. Jones has described himself as a libertarian. Mainstream sources have described Jones as far-right and a conspiracy theorist. He has claimed that several governments and big businesses have colluded to create a " New World Order" through "manufactured economic crises, sophisticated surveillance tech and-above all- inside-job terror attacks that fuel exploitable hysteria".
Jones has promoted conspiracy theories alleging that the United States government either concealed information about or outright falsified the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the September 11 attacks, and the 1969 Moon landing. Jones has provided a platform and support for white nationalists, giving Unite the Right attendee and white supremacist Nick Fuentes a platform on his website Banned.Video, as well as serving as an "entry point" to their ideology. Jones's website, InfoWars, promotes conspiracy theories and fake news, as do his other websites NewsWars and PrisonPlanet. He hosts The Alex Jones Show from Austin, Texas, which the Genesis Communications Network syndicates across the United States and online.
Alexander Emerick Jones (born February 11, 1974) is an American far-right radio show host and prominent conspiracy theorist.