I sometimes think Jones may be a plant with a mission of trying to make conservatives look like nuts.
I think he simply discovered early on that farming conspiracy theories gave him an audience. I’d be surprised if he believes everything he says.
Occasionally he comes up with a nugget or two of something worthwhile well before it hits the news. I think that comes from people inside the intel community or other parts of the gov’t leaking stories to him. The risk in running with stories gained that way is that he can be played by sources with an ax to grind. Not that that same problem has ever stopped MSM journalists.