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Before he was one of Alex Jones’ biggest defenders and trusted confidants, Tucker Carlson claimed that the Infowars founder “freaks me out” while denouncing the far-right host’s 9/11 conspiracy theories and the way such claims hurt the victims’ families.
A year before Jones began attacking the grieving families of the Sandy Hook mass-shooting victims as “crisis actors” and labeling the massacre a hoax—defamatory actions that resulted in Jones owing those families a billion dollars—Carlson had not-so-kind things to say about the infamous conspiracy theorist.
Outside of a GOP presidential campaign event for Michelle Bachman in January 2012, Carlson then merely a Fox News contributor and editor-in-chief of The Daily Caller—was approached by Adam Kokesh, a libertarian activist and radio host who rose to prominence as an anti-war veteran who boosted Ron Paul’s presidential campaign.