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Famed Conspiracy Nut and Trump Supporter Alex Jones Scuffles With Protesters Outside RNC

Alex Jones today in Cleveland.

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The kind of extremist organizations that used to be described as “fringe groups” have assembled in Cleveland this year to support their favorite mainstream candidate in decades, Donald Trump. One such visitor is InfoWars, the global-conspiracy paranoiac outlet led by Alex Jones. This afternoon Jones was briefly involved in a scuffle with protesters calling him a Nazi in what appears to be the first physical altercation involving pro- and anti-Trump groups outside the RNC:

Jones believes that the U.S. government helped carry out the Oklahoma City and 9/11 attacks. Donald Trump has appeared on Jones’ show and called him “amazing.”