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Steve Bannon calls The Onion a ‘deep state gestapo’ as he and Alex Jones watch Infowars go offline
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Steve Bannon calls The Onion a ‘deep state gestapo’ as he and Alex Jones watch Infowars go offline

Alex Jones watched in real time as sound Information wars website and streaming video platform taken offline hours after satirical news was published The onion won an auction for the bankrupt conspiracy theorist’s operations.

Jones, broadcasting from his studio in Texas on November 14, was joined by former inmates Donald Trump advise Steve Bannon because Infowars.com was shut down.

“Force them to turn off the power…Let’s put the camera on them,” Bannon said. “Put the damn camera on them. …Let’s see the polish on these boots. … They are nothing other than the Gestapo. It’s the administrative state and the deep state Gestapo.”

Jones and Bannon, enraged by a long list of deep state conspiracy theories and the belief that Jones and Infowars were targets of Democratic officials, broadcast moments later The onion and the families of Sand hook Victims of elementary school shooting announced purchase of Infowars properties.

The Sandy Hook families sued Jones for defamation after he called the massacre a hoax, prompting his Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

“Elections have consequences,” Bannon said, pointing to Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election. “You are going to suffer the consequences of those consequences in the days, weeks and months to come.”

Seconds later, Jones announced that the Infowars website had been taken offline.

On his show, Infowars host Harrison Smith said he would rather be arrested by “booted Nazis” than the organization’s “casual” and “irritable” staff. The onionthe long-running satirical newspaper and website, which are “very trusting and condescending, contemptuous and mocking of us.”

Moments later, he discovered that the platform he was streaming from had been taken offline, with a “site unavailable until further notice” message.

In his latest Infowars post, Jones thanked his team and audience and pledged to continue broadcasting on separate streaming platforms, while noting his influence on Elon Musk, Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson.

“This is not a victory for the wicked. They are the ones who come to light. Globalist tyranny forced us to take off the mask,” he said. “Our ancestors are proud of us. …I will never surrender, I will never back down.

“The journey has only just begun,” he said before playing a clip of The Wolf of Wall Streetfollowed by an ad for Ultimate Hydraforce electrolyte drink mix.