Alex Jones sued The Onion and Sandy Hook families over the ‘rigged’ auction of Infowars.
As previously reported, The Onion purchased Infowars in a bankruptcy auction on Thursday with plans to turn it into a satire website — but the judge overseeing the case has ordered a hearing into how the satire website won.
The legal team representing Jones has alleged that the auction was rigged at the last minute to allow The Onion to win — despite a seven-figure bid from Infowars allies.
Infowars was not sold to the The Onion. I am breaking the news now. Please watch and share the link below. https://t.co/cEddhBp0Df
— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) November 14, 2024
Alex Jones is seeking an injunction.
The Wall Street Journal reported:
In a lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Houston, attorneys for Jones alleged that several Sandy Hook families and the Onion’s parent company, Global Tetrahedron, submitted an illegitimate bid for the assets of Infowars’ parent company and planned to misuse his intellectual property.
The Onion said last week it was buying Infowars with the support of the Sandy Hook families after a trustee overseeing the sale of the assets designated Global Tetrahedron and the families as the winning bidder. The Onion said it plans to relaunch Infowars as another satirical site, enlisting gun-control advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety as an advertiser.
First United American Companies, a runner-up bidder associated with Jones’s new online store, ShopAlexJones.com, filed a request last week for a judge to review the trustee’s decision. The judge, Christopher Lopez, expressed some concerns about the transparency of the hearing process and ordered a hearing to review the sale, which can’t be closed until it is approved. The hearing is scheduled to take place next week.
Alex Jones weighed in on the new development:
Deep State Caught Redhanded: Court Documents Prove The Onion Did Not Buy Infowars.
MSM Now Admits Plan To Shutdown Infowars Has Collapsed
Breaking News, Analysis and Reports Here: https://t.co/1FCxwmY9hW pic.twitter.com/dHD3uRzkgJ
— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) November 20, 2024
Alex Jones also went on Steve Bannon’s War Room to give updates on the auction of InfoWars.
WATCH:
. @RealAlexJones Gives Updates On What Really Happened With The Auction Of Infowars pic.twitter.com/TJhRAOCLLD
— Bannon’s WarRoom (@Bannons_WarRoom) November 19, 2024
