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.'
Tucker Carlson (pictured) 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
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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'
Jones credits the Fox television series The X Files and its spinoff The Lone Gunmen for also predicting it, saying that series creator Chris Carter had been contacted by the CIA to put certain plotlines in the show.
'It was in the collective unconsciousness,' Jones claimed, based on how society was trending at the time, adding that he predicted the assassination of Donald Trump as well.
Carlson openly wondered why the federal government was 'so intent on taking [Jones] out' before offering a theory.
'The summer of 2001, you go on TV and say someone's gonna' fly planes into the World Trade Centers, they're gonna' blame Osama bin Laden, call the Bush White House, warn them.'
'You're the only one that called 9/11 in detail and we can prove that, we have the tape,' Carlson added.
'9/11 happens in September, there's a 9/11 commission immediately impaneled, they go and interview a bunch of people in the US government and outside and ask if there were signs this was happening and nobody interviewed you.'
Carlson called Jones 'the only guy who predicted it in public' and nobody bothered to ask him.
'Then they set about trying to destroy you or hailing you as a prophet or asking the question... and then they mobilize against you and I think there's a connection between those two facts.'
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
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 is in the middle of a desperate last-ditch effort to save his platform from a bankruptcy auction.
First United American Companies, which runs a website in Jones' names that sells nutritional supplements, submitted an offer of more than $7million to buy the website, an attorney overseeing Jones' bankruptcy told a judge at a brief hearing in Houston on Monday.
The figure is more than double what the company proposed during a closed-bid auction in November, when it lost to The Onion satirical news outlet, which offered $1.75million in addition to an agreement with the families of victims from the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre.
Global Tetrahedron, the parent company of The Onion, said the agreement would decrease the overall amount of debt Jones owed to the families - after he was ordered to pay nearly $1.5billion in defamation lawsuits from Connecticut and Texas filed by relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
It also planned to kick Jones out and relaunch Infowars in January as a parody, while First United American Companies was expected to let Jones stay on at Infowars.
Christopher Murray, the bankruptcy trustee in charge of selling Jones' assets, valued Global Tetrahedron's bid at $7million, according to the Houston Chronicle.
But US Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez later halted the sale to The Onion, saying the bidding process was flawed, not transparent and didn't raise enough money for creditors. He also said there was too much confusion about The Onion's bid and its actual value.
Now, Joshua Wolfshohl, an attorney representing Murray, said he expects to receive another bid from Global Tetrahedron to further compete with First United American Companies.
Pictured: Alex Jones is seen out to walk his dog on Sunday morning with his wife Erika Wulff Jones in Omaha, Nebraska, August 14
In Marc, a reporter for InfoWars was brutally murdered outside his south Austin apartment.
Jamie White was found mortally wounded outside his home on Douglas Street around midnight in a slaying that Jones blamed on Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza.
Officers from Austin Police Department responded to 911 calls reporting a man with 'obvious signs of trauma.'
White was rushed to a nearby hospital where he later died from his injuries.
Police have called the incident a homicide but have not identified any suspects. The slaying had been investigated as a shooting/stabbing but authorities have not released additional information.
In a fiery and emotional video, Jones did not hold back in assigning blame, squarely targeting the district attorney.
'I lay all of this squarely at the feet of Soros and of the sort of crime syndicate of the Democratic Party. They are the ones that administratively cut the police, prosecuted the police, and even cases that are hundred percent clear to be lawful, legal activities,' Jones ranted.
'You murdered Jamie White, you opened the door, you created the climate, you created conditions on purpose. George Soros. Alexander Soros, you murdered Jamie White.'
'These are sick, degenerate, evil people that know what they're doing and they aided and abetted. They are accomplices to the murder of a great American and Infowars long time veteran reporter Jamie White.'
InfoWars, founded by Jones, has been embroiled in controversy for years over its inflammatory far-right content and conspiracy theories.
