Over two hours pass before Weaver texts Jones again. I doubt 20 year old groypers will want to buy supplements but the older wiser crowd isn’t digging it. Countless Infowars supporters that buy products kept asking me “why is Alex promoting the groypers” and expressed their willingness to stop supporting you financially. On another note, White House Admins told me the groypers have the Democrats and Taliban behind them. Also told me about how one of their guys committed suicide over it. Also that many of them were arrested at Charlotteville and became FBI informants. An intoxicated leader in their group close to Nick told me that yes Fuentes is antisemitic and most of them are. I went and hung out with the groypers at a bar last night to find out info about them.
Millie Weaver to Alex Jones, 6:15.48 p.m.: Jones misspells Weaver’s name in his phone, listing her as “Milly” Weaver. In the texts, Weaver warns Jones that his audience does not like Fuentes and that Fuentes’ younger-skewing fans are unlikely to purchase the supplements Jones sells through his website. Hatewatch observed Fuentes among the crowd. 27, a Hatewatch reporter briefly attended a private Infowars event at a venue a few blocks away from CPAC. He’s not a bad guy.” The next day, on Feb. When Fuentes spoke at that event, Jones praised him, saying, “This is a good guy right here. 26, Jones had joined Fuentes and several other prominent far-right figures at a Washington, D.C., event called “Emergency Save the First Amendment Summit,” sponsored by the Infowars-linked website National File. Days before, Fuentes held his first America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC), which he promotes as an alternative to the relatively more mainstream Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).Īround the same time, on Feb. Weaver first raises her concerns about Fuentes to Jones via text on March 1, 2020. When Hatewatch reached the FBI for comment via email on the allegations that Colligan may have been an informant, the Bureau’s press office replied, “The FBI does not have a comment.” ‘I went and hung out with the groypers at a bar last night’ Weaver spoke to Hatewatch by phone about the texts. Hatewatch reached out to Jones and Fuentes by email for this story, as well as other extremists who knew Colligan in the run-up to the 2017 Unite the Right event. Hatewatch also emailed an address associated with Colligan’s mother and attempted to contact his brother by both email and phone in an attempt to get in touch with him for this story. The person operating the Matt Young number declined incoming calls from Hatewatch. Hatewatch also tried a number associated with “Matt Young,” which an alias Colligan is believed to use in Idaho. Hatewatch tried to reach Colligan at multiple phone numbers, but could not locate him. His once chatty and ostentatious public online persona is otherwise hard to find. More recently, Colligan appears to have orbited around a cluster of radical right figures who live in Idaho, where Hatewatch found that he registered two vehicles and caught misdemeanor charges for a DUI. He resurfaced in Hatewatch’s reporting when he appeared around Fuentes in photos, as Weaver mentions. Colligan seems to have kept a lower profile in the years that followed that event.
In addition to warning Jones about Fuentes’s hatred and his interest in Nazism, Weaver claims that a man named Matthew Colligan confessed to her that he monitored Fuentes and his friends and relayed information about them to the FBI.Ĭolligan went by the pseudonym “Millennial Matt” in the runup to attending the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia and associated himself with “alt-right”-era internet performers like Timothy “Baked Alaska” Gionet. Weaver, the Infowars performer who warned Jones against collaborating with Fuentes in the texts, told him in early March 2020 that associating with the then 21-year-old extremist was a mistake. Separately, they both appeared outside of the Capitol on the day of the insurrection, riling up their respective fans. Prior to announcing his public-facing relationship with Fuentes, the two men helped Trump push lies about a stolen election in the run-up to the Jan. Jones started simulcasting his Infowars show through Fuentes’s Cozy.TV streaming service in February 2022, suggesting that he ultimately ignored Weaver’s warning.
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