Posted on 04/10/2025 3:33:23 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Tucker Carlson praised Alex Jones for 'predicting' the September 11, 2001 attacks on America before the federal government tried 'to destroy' the commentator and far right conspiracy theorist.
On September 11, 2001, Jones said on his radio show that there was a '98 percent chance [the 9/11 attacks] was a government-orchestrated controlled bombing.'
He set about spreading the conspiracy theory that the George Bush administration was behind the most deadly terrorist attack on US soil, and would go on to become a leading figure in the '9/11 truther' movement.
Carlson, interviewing Jones for his show on X, referenced a clip in summer of 2001 where Jones suggests that if a terror event was coming, it would be done 'by our government' and blamed on 'boogieman' Osama bin Laden.
While he mentions the World Trade Center, he appears to be referencing the 1993 bombing as an example of a 'false flag' attack, rather than specifically predicting it. Jones does claim his archives show him predicting a more detailed attack by the CIA in April and May of that year.
The former Fox News star said: 'It's the most amazing fact I ever heard in my entire life, you called 9/11 and no investigator ever called you.'
Jones puts forth his long held belief that the attack was an 'inside job,' saying that Osama bin Laden was a 'multi-national cutout used by Western intelligence agencies' and that 'certain segments' of US intelligence were 'tracking the supposed hijackers,' who were 'being trained on our military bases.'
Carlson ponders how Jones, a man who was broadcasting 'way out on the fringe' on cable access television at the time, 'figured it all out.'
Jones credits the Fox television series The X Files and its spinoff The Lone Gunmen for also predicting it,
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I actually remember this. He did do that
When he was fawning over Keith olberman, who I was attacking for being a pedophike
If you hold the gay fish by the genitalia...you can predict it all.
Correct! Jones was not the first to raise such concerns. William Cooper, another conspiracy theorist and radio host who influenced Jones early in his career, made a more explicit prediction on June 28, 2001. During his broadcast, Cooper warned that a major attack on U.S. soil was imminent, explicitly naming Osama bin Laden as the figure who would be blamed.
It was just a coincidence that the Patriot Act had already be written and passed 3 days later, I’m sure.
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