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===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.
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