This week just keeps getting better and better-er: The Daily Beast reports that Fox host and guy who threw parties in high school because he never got invited to any Tucker Carlson is “shitting himself” because he exchanged emails with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones that may outline embarrassing–and potential criminal– activity.
Carlson and Jones reportedly exchanged multiple text messages daily–perhaps coordinating coverage of things that would enrage their audiences, which is a Venn diagram of crazy. In the defamation suit Jones lost and which he was ordered to pay nearly $50 million to the survivors of one of the students killed during the Sandy Hook massacre, Jones’s lawyers handed over a digital copy of the contents of Jones’s phone and did nothing to “pull back” the information from the plaintiffs, allowing them to put it all into the public record.
Those messages have been provided to the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Republican-led domestic terrorist attack on Congress, and it’s likely the FBI has also requested copies of the information to facilitate its investigation into the Trump campaign attempts to undermine the Constitution.