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Yesterday, it was revealed that The Onion placed the winning bid to purchase Infowars, the outlet founded by Alex Jones. The longtime host on the outlet claims that isn’t exactly the case.
Jones was forced to put the company he founded up for auction amid bankruptcy filings tied to a judgment he owed the families of the Sandy Hook massacre more than $1 billion for defamation.
The Onion was announced as the winning bidder Thursday. However, a Texas judge said he had questions about the fairness and legitimacy of the outcome and put a stay on the situation.
“We’re all going to an evidentiary hearing and I’m going to figure out exactly what happened,” Judge Christopher Lopez said. “No one should feel comfortable with the results of this auction … I personally don’t care who wins the auction. I care about process and transparency.”
In a video published to X, Jones argued that the process was illegitimate from the start and that a federal trustee acted inappropriately in awarding The Onion the winning bid for control of Infowars.
“This was an auction that didn’t happen, with a bid that was lower, with money that wasn’t real,” said Jones.
Jones insisted that the sale of Infowars was not an auction, but rather a private sale controlled by the government away from a conservative backer that would have allowed the longtime host to continue operating the brand.
