Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones reportedly met virtually on Monday with the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol and pleaded the Fifth Amendment “almost 100 times,” saying he was afraid of potentially “perjuring himself.”
“I just had a very intense experience being interrogated by the January 6 committee,” Jones said on his podcast, according to CNN. “They were polite, but they were dogged.” Jones said he was asked what he described as “pretty reasonable questions” but was instructed by his attorney to plead the Fith.
Jones said that while he had wanted to answer the questions, he was afraid to do so because he believes that the committee would twist his words, and the media would say he was guilty.
“And I wanted to answer the questions,” Jones recalled. “But at the same time, it’s a good thing I didn’t because I’m the type that tries to answer things correctly even though I don’t know all the answers, and they can kind of claim that that’s perjury because about half the questions I didn’t know the answer to.”
“And the media tells you that’s because you’re guilty, or because you’re going to incriminate yourself, but it’s also just because it can be used to try to incriminate you and twist something against you,” he said.
