


President Donald Trump nevertheless expressed his admiration for Alex Jones’s “amazing reputation” on the campaign trail, praise that was later rewarded with one of his weirdest public statements: ”I never expected Trump charging into a goblin’s nest to not get some goblin vomit and slop and blood on him - I just don’t want to catch him in bed with a goblin. No one was hurt, but Mr Jones was forced to apologise for his part in spreading the rumour.

Edgar Maddison Welch, 28, shot up the venue with an AR-15 assault rifle after deciding to “self-investigate” the claim. His propagation of the notorious “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory – about senior Democrats running an occult paedophile ring from the basement of a restaurant in Washington, DC – was also blamed for inspiring a shooting that took place at the pizzeria in question, Comet Ping Pong, in December 2016. He is currently being sued by several families whose children were among the 27 killed when gunman Adam Lanza, 20, burst into the Connecticut school and opened fire. He has repeatedly claimed that the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in December 2012 was “completely faked with actors”, a hoax sponsored by the Obama administration to provide a pretext for introducing stiffer firearms restrictions. Alex Jones sued by six more families of Sandy Hook victims.
