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InfoWars "Sale" To 'The Onion' Halted After Tainted Auction Process Revealed

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Friday, Nov 15, 2024 - 4:48

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When news broke that InfoWars was sold to the satirical rag The Onion, liberal NPCs throughout the world rejoiced at what they saw as the irony of the ultimate demise of Alex Jones' media empire. Following an emergency hearing in the wake of that supposed "sale", their reveling has come to an abrupt halt as questions about the legality of the auction process of InfoWars proved that the overzealous celebration was not just premature but the epitome of everything Jones was warned against for over 25 years. During an emergency hearing on Thursday just hours after MSM pushed headlines about The Onion's acquisition of InfoWars, Federal Bankruptcy Judge Christopher M. Lopez expressed his concerns over the transparency of the auction process. Lopez set a subsequent hearing for next week to examine questions over whether the auction was conducted fairly, transparently, and most importantly; legally. Lopez said the upcoming hearing will determine whether bankruptcy trustees running the auction executed “a full and fair process" and will ultimately determine whether or not the sale of InfoWars to The Onion will be approved.

Jones returned to the InfoWars studios to breaks the news about next week's hearing over the legality of the process of the auction against him.

Following the scheduling of next week's evidentiary hearing, Jones returned to the InfoWars set after broadcasting from the studio of the Alex Jones Network that he set up as a contingency when the writing on the wall of InfoWars demise became impossible to deny. This marks the second time that Jones has been illegally removed from the InfoWars studios, following an episode in May in which federal bankruptcy officials attempted to shut the network down without a court order. Jones stood his ground again as he had in May when he issued a broadcast across his various channels on X detailing the latest development in his Homeric bankruptcy saga.

According to Jones, trustees in charge of the auction conducted the entire process under cloak and dagger. While bidders had the right to submit offers for InfoWars under seal until November 8th, Jones asserts that the secrecy of that process was exploited by the trustees. He contends that not only did they not award the sale of InfoWars to the highest bigger but that The Onion's bid was vindictively facilitated by the families of the Sandy Hook school shooting victims whose judgment against Jones in the amount of $1.5 billion has led to the bankruptcy proceedings. According to Jones, those families leveraged the $1.5 billion award from the judgement that is presently on appeal as a form of credit — effectively attempting to purchase InfoWars with Jones' own money.

During Thursday's emergency hearing, chief bankruptcy trustee Christopher Murray acknowledged that The Onion did not have the highest bid for InfoWars and its assets submitted at auction. Despite not having the highest bid, Murray told Judge Lopez that The Onion was preferred by bankruptcy trustees because the Sandy Hook families who joined it agreed to forgo a portion of the sale proceeds to pay Jones’ other creditors.

Murray also revealed that only one other bid was submitted for InfoWars in the secretive auction process. That bid was submitted by First United American Companies, a business affiliated with Jones' network of websites that sell products including health supplements under the InfoWars brand. Murray's admission that The Onion did not submit the highest bid at the auction coupled with the fact that he admitted that Jones' allies submitted the only other bid is a tacit admission that the auction process was conducted in a manner to deny the sale of InfoWars to a party that would keep it in the hands of Alex Jones.

When asked to reveal the amount that First United American Companies bid on InfoWars, Murray brazenly refused to reveal the amount. Ben Collins, the CEO of Global Tetrahedron, The Onion's parent company, refused to disclose the amount it bid as well. Collins stated “We thought it would be a very funny joke if we bought this thing, probably one of the better jokes we’ve ever told....The [Sandy Hook] families decided they would effectively join our bid, back our bid, to try to get us over the finish line. Because by the end of the day, it was us or Alex Jones, who could either continue this website unabated, basically unpunished, for what he’s done to these families over the years, or we could make a dumb, stupid website, and we decided to do the second thing.”

Walter Cicack, an attorney for First United American Companies, raised even more red flags over how the auction process played out. He told Judge Lopez that Murray changed the auction process just days before, deciding not to hold a round of bidding Wednesday where parties could attempt to outbid each other...or in other words: an actual auction. Instead, trustees limited the auction process to only include the bids submitted under seal so that they could choose from them without revealing the amount of each side's bid to its opposing party. In addition to having no transparency, that auction process inherently minimized the maximum bid by preventing each side from getting into a bidding war that would ultimately drive the price of the sale of InfoWars up.

Judge Christopher Lopez amplified Jones' doubts about the fairness of how the auction was conducted when he scheduled next week's evidentiary hearing, stating “We’re all going to an evidentiary hearing and I’m going to figure out exactly what happened," concluding that ​​​​​​"No one should feel comfortable with the results of this auction.”

Lopez's remarks echo the rallying cry of Jones and his supporters throughout the persecution against InfoWars. Since the onset of the lawfare waged against him by the families of the Sandy Hook shooting victims, dubious decisions from courts have only made it obvious that the proceedings against Jones have been conducted in a manner guided by ulterior motives to silence one of the greatest champions of free speech and icons of alternative media. As the edifice of the media establishment has come crashing down on itself, the lengths its crumbling empire will go to in order to silence dissent have become even more desperate. That desperation has made the fallacy of the arguments those tactics are built on clear, shifting the Overton Window toward a perspective which proves that Alex Jones was right once again.

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