Alex Jones’s Text Messages Turned Over to House Jan. 6 Committee

WASHINGTON — A lawyer for plaintiffs who’re suing the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Monday turned over greater than two years’ value of textual content messages from Mr. Jones’s cellphone to the Home committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, together with messages that present Mr. Jones was in contact with allies of former President Donald J. Trump.

However the recordsdata don’t seem to incorporate textual content messages from the time most of curiosity to the committee: the day of Jan. 6, 2021, and the weeks constructing as much as the assault, in accordance with individuals acquainted with the doc manufacturing.

Although the cellphone knowledge was retrieved in mid-2021, the latest message is from mid-2020, in accordance with Mark Bankston, who represents Sandy Hook mother and father suing Mr. Jones for defamation for lies he unfold in regards to the 2012 college capturing. That point interval is earlier than Mr. Jones grew to become concerned in plans to amass a pro-Trump crowd in Washington to march on the Capitol as Mr. Trump fought to stay in workplace regardless of his defeat on the polls.

The textual content messages acquired by the committee on Monday — contained in a big file of paperwork and different data from Mr. Jones’s cellphone — embody some that point out Mr. Jones was in contact with Trump allies, an individual acquainted with the messages stated.

Mr. Bankston has stated they included texts with the political operative Roger J. Stone Jr. Mr. Bankston acquired the cellphone knowledge from Mr. Jones’s legal professionals, who had despatched it to him mistakenly.

Of the practically 250 recipients of the texts, most are staff of Mr. Jones’s Infowars enterprise and contractors and members of his household, a few of whom are concerned in his firm.

The supply of the textual content messages was reported earlier by CNN. In court docket final week in Texas, Mr. Bankston stated he deliberate to show over the texts to the committee, which had contacted him about acquiring them, except Choose Maya Guerra Gamble objected. Late on Friday, the choose stated she had no objection.

Mr. Bankston stated on the time that he had heard from “numerous federal businesses and regulation enforcement” in regards to the materials.

The Home committee has been pushing to acquire Mr. Jones’s texts for months, saying they might be related to understanding his position in serving to set up the rally on the Ellipse close to the White Home that preceded the riot. In November, the panel filed subpoenas to compel Mr. Jones’s testimony and communications associated to Jan. 6, together with his cellphone information.

The committee additionally issued a subpoena for the communications of Timothy D. Enlow, who was working as Mr. Jones’s bodyguard on Jan. 6.

Mr. Jones and Mr. Enlow have filed go well with in an try to dam the committee’s subpoenas. Mr. Jones finally appeared earlier than the panel in January and afterward stated he invoked his Fifth Modification proper in opposition to self-incrimination practically 100 instances.

Although Mr. Jones refused to share data with the committee, he stated the committee had already obtained textual content messages from him.

In response to the Jan. 6 committee, Mr. Jones helped organize a donation from Julie Jenkins Fancelli, the heiress to the Publix Tremendous Markets fortune, to supply what he described as “80 p.c” of the funding for the Jan. 6 rally and indicated that White Home officers informed him that he was to guide a march to the Capitol, the place Mr. Trump would communicate.

Mr. Jones and Mr. Stone additionally had been among the many group of Trump allies assembly in and round, or staying at, the Willard Intercontinental Lodge, which some Trump advisers handled as a warfare room for his or her efforts to get members of Congress to object to the Electoral Faculty certification.