MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When Donald Trump called in to Alex Jones’s radio show, during the Republican presidential primary, he told the host known as a leading 9/11 ‘truther’ that his reputation is ‘amazing.’ When Trump accused the media of covering up terrorist attacks, in February, the president appeared to be echoing a conspiracy theory promoted by Jones’s website, Infowars.
And when Trump was preparing to deliver his first address to a joint session of Congress, Infowars somehow got a preview of the president’s talking points, hours before White House press secretary Sean Spicer shared them in a briefing with reporters.
If Trump buys into what Jones says on the air or publishes on his site, the president is falling for the work of a ‘performance artist.’
That is how Jones’s own attorney described him at a recent pretrial hearing in a child custody case, according to the Austin American-Statesman.
‘He’s playing a character,’ attorney Randall Wilhite said of Jones. ‘He is a performance artist.’ “
-Callum Borchers, “Trump called Alex Jones ‘amazing.’ Jones’s own lawyer calls him a ‘performance artist.’,” The Washington Post online, April 17, 2017 11:16am