“The Bankruptcy Trustee can legally shut you down, change the locks on your business and keep you from operating,”
In this case not without a court order. Not to mention the Trustee was recorded by Jones. The trustee called him in a drunken stupor and said some shady dishonest things. He was also caught on tape telling Jones there was a sum of money in the company that Jones himself could keep and didn’t need to declare. Trying to set him up as hiding assets.
You assert “what he said about Sandy Hook was repulsive and is not protected by the 1A.”
Well, as I asked others, what exactly did he say besides thinking the laughing dad and other anomalies were very strange? And a reminder, most of the discussion was from a guest he was interviewing”.
So what was the disgusting thing he said?
Their appointment as Trustee gives them that power, my wife was Bankruptcy Trustee for over 30 years, she routinely shut down businesses without getting another order from the Judge.
What most people don’t understand is that when you file bankruptcy and it goes to a chapter 7 as in this case, Alex Jones no longer controls the assets, the Trustee has all the legal rights to shut him down, seize the assets and liquidate them.
What happened to Alex Jones, he originally filed a Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, which requires agreement with the creditors on a plan to repay the debts, when that process broke down, the creditors forced a liquidation, and the Trustee then has full control over everything.
The part about the Trustee telling Alex Jones he could keep certain things is not about trapping Alex Jones, its standard procedure, every State has Federal Bankruptcy exemptions, for example Florida exempts a person’s home and a certain amount of capital above that to help them restart.
Here is a list of Florida’s exemptions.
And here are the exemptions in Texas.
https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/texas-bankruptcy-exemptions.html
What the Trustee told Alex Jones to keep was probably exemptions allowed in Texas and not some attempt to trap him.
Alex Jones in the bankruptcy case wanted to make himself a martyr and made misleading or false statements about the bankruptcy so when he comes back and starts his show again, he can cry how mistreated he was.