Editing Alex Jones (section)

==Support of Donald Trump==
In December 2015, Jones says he initially "formed a bond" with Donald Trump, after the presidential candidate appeared on ''The Alex Jones Show'', with Trump stating "Your reputation is amazing. I will not let you down." During the 2016 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton criticized Trump for his ties to Jones.

He indicated his support for Trump during the presidential campaign in 2016, also denouncing Trump's rival Hillary Clinton, whilst running a campaign attacking her husband, former President Bill Clinton, as a rapist. He designed a T-shirt, ran another "get on MSM" competition and even gate-crashed The Young Turks set at the RNC, whilst displaying the T-shirt, resulting in a physical altercation with Cenk Uygur. Jones said that Trump called him on the day after the election to thank him for his help in the campaign.

Following the 2016 Republican National Convention, Jones wanted Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to be removed from his Senate seat after he failed to endorse Donald Trump as the Republican presidential candidate. Potential primary challengers Katrina Pierson and Dan Patrick were discussed as replacement Republican candidates for the 2018 Texas election for Senate.

In April 2018, Jones publicly criticized President Trump during a livestream, after Trump announced a military strike against Syria. During the stream, Jones also stated that Trump had not called him during the prior six months. A leaked interview of Jones in January 2019 expressing displeasure over his relationship with Trump was released by the Southern Poverty Law Center in March 2021, with Jones stating "I wish I never would have fucking met Trump ... I'm so sick of fucking Donald Trump, man. God, I'm fucking sick of him." Nevertheless, he backed the president during his re-election campaign in 2020 and called on demonstrations to be held on the premise the election had been "rigged" against Trump, and voiced his support for the [[Stop the Steal movement]]. Jones eventually fully withdrew his support for Trump in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. After Trump recommended at an August 2021 rally that people choose to be vaccinated against COVID-19, Jones said that Trump was either lying or "not that bright" and "a dumbass". In December 2021, Trump announced that he had received the vaccine. Jones responded by calling him "a terrorist in league with [[Josef Mengele]]" and a member of the New World Order.
===Involvement in the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol===
Jones partially funded and raised other funds to finance the January 6, 2021 Trump rally in Washington that preceded the 2021 United States Capitol attack. Jones attended the January 5 and 6 rallies at the capitol. 

On January 5, he was a scheduled speaker at the March to Save America and said, "We have only begun to resist the globalists. We have only begun our fight against their tyranny. They have tried to steal this election in front of everyone." And "I don't know how this is all going to end, but if they want to fight, they better believe they've got one," Jones said that night, according to the same video.

The next day, Wednesday, January 6, at a gathering in Lafayette Park north of the Capitol, he addressed the crowd with a bullhorn, and stated that he had seen "over a hundred" members of [[Antifa]] in the crowd, a baseless assertion other Trump supporters had also made, even though the FBI has said there was no evidence of antifa involvement. 

The same day, a video of Jones was posted ''InfoWars'', in which he is recorded saying "We declare 1776 against the new world order.... We need to understand we're under attack, and we need to understand this is 21st-century warfare and get on a war-footing...". In the same video, before setting off toward the Capitol building, Jones told the crowd: "We're here to take our rightful country back peacefully, because we're not globalist, antifa criminals. So let's start marching, and I salute you all." When rioters attacked the Capitol, Jones called on them to stop. "Let's not fight the police and give the system what they want," he said.

In February 2021, ''The Washington Post'' reported that the FBI was investigating any role Jones might have played in influencing the participation of [[Proud Boys]], [[Boogaloo Boys|Boogaloo movement]] and [[Oath Keepers]] members in the incursion. Jones had previously hosted leaders of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers on his programs. Some members of the groups had been indicted for conspiracy in the incident.

[[Owen Shroyer]], one of Jones's ''Infowars'' co-hosts, was arrested in August 2021 for allegedly being part of the riot. Shroyer had previously given a speech about being "ready to fight" outside the White House the day before.