Alex Jones continues to disavow Donald Trump’s comments taking credit for the acceleration of the COVID-19 vaccine, saying he could go on a political “warpath” in opposition.
Trump, the likely Republican nominee for president, is preparing for his third general election since 2016 and strongly refuted statements President Joe Biden made in his State of the Union address on March 7.
Biden said: “The pandemic no longer controls our lives. The vaccines that saved us from COVID are now being used to help beat cancer, turning setback into comeback.”
On Truth Social, Trump claimed the credit for the vaccine being quickly developed and distributed to the public in the throes of the global pandemic, writing: “YOU’RE WELCOME, JOE, NINE MONTH APPROVAL TIME VS. 12 YEARS THAT IT WOULD HAVE TAKEN YOU!”
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Jones, the conservative host of Infowars, is a staunch Trump ally who has defended the former president for years. However, Jones—and myriad other conservatives who support Trump—has questioned the safety of the COVID vaccine and the federal government’s role in administering it, rejecting some of Trump’s views on COVID vaccination.
“If I see any more of this from Trump—any more of this—I’m going to have to go on the warpath, politically,” Jones said on Infowars Monday.
The host continued: “I just cannot take this. I cannot put my head down on the pillow at night and say that I’m a true person to everybody when I’ve already held my nose because the overwhelming good he’s doing, and all the persecution, and put up with stuff like this.
“It’d be like if your mother created this great Thanksgiving meal and cooked for two days to get it ready—and it’s this beautiful meal on the table. And your mother comes out and pulls her pants down and s**** all over the table.”
Alex Jones is irate at Trump’s recent post taking credit for vaccines: “If I see any more of this from Trump, I’m going to have to go on the warpath. I just cannot take this.” pic.twitter.com/uhDWo46Gy2
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) March 11, 2024
Newsweek reached out to the Trump campaign and a spokesperson for Jones via email for comment.
It’s not the first time Jones has called out Trump’s COVID-related statements.
After the former president took to Truth Social to reclaim vaccine credit from Biden, Jones accused Trump of spreading “bulls***” in the form of a vaccine that the Infowars host has falsely labeled “a biological weapon.”
Jones also said that some people are so aware of the purported scandal surrounding the vaccine that not even Trump “can sell it.”
During Trump’s first term and into Biden’s time as president, Jones criticized Trump for embracing the vaccine.
“I almost see Trump as destructive because he becomes the opposition to Democrats, but he’s got his own issues,” Jones told Tim Pool, a pro-Trump commentator, in November 2021.
A month later, Trump pushed back against conservative host Candace Owens when she questioned the safety and efficacy of the vaccine. Trump said at the time that those who got the vaccine were “protected,” while others who got very sick and ended up in a hospital were those who remained unvaccinated.
In response, Jones gave an “emergency Christmas Day warning to President Trump,” in which he said: “You are either completely ignorant about the so-called vaccine gene therapy you helped ram through with Operation Warp Speed, or you’re one of the most evil men who has ever lived to push this toxic poison on the public and to attack your constituents when they simply try to save their lives and the lives of others.”
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