'Doesn't mean this is a lie': Alex Jones breaks down why the WHCD shooting wasn't staged

Radio host and prominent conspiracy theorist, Alex Jones, has come forward to dismiss all the theories surrounding the shooting incident at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday. As numerous posts on social media claimed the incident was a "false flag", sharing clips and photos from the night, Jones broke down some of the popular claims. While he admitted there were cover-up attempts for other incidents, he claimed this wasn't one of them. 

In a post on X, Jones claimed that the incident could not have been staged, claiming that there were too many police personnel present at the scene, and it isn't possible for all of them to be corrupt. "You had too many of the D.C. police, Secret Service, all of them involved. A very small percentage of those guys are corrupt," Jones claimed. He then addressed the questions on how the 31-year-old shooter, Cole Thomas Allen, made it past security, saying "he didn't." Jones explained that Allen never reached the ballroom, and he was taken down early. "He had a shotgun. He shot one of the Secret Service, but the body armour stopped the buckshot. That's just the facts."

Similar defense was put up by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche at NBC's 'Meet the Press' on Sunday, where he claimed "the system worked," recounting how the suspect made it only feet past the security perimeter. Furthermore, Paul Eckloff, who served on Trump's security detail during the first term, said the incident could have been much worse if the security had failed. "It wasn't, because armed, trained professionals stood between the attacker and a ballroom full of people. The question is not, 'How did he get close?' The question people should be asking is, 'Why is everyone alive?' It's because the security plan worked," he told the New York Times.

He then moved on to people calling out FBI Director Kash Patel, looking too casual during the incident, saying, "There's footage of Kash Patel out in the dark. He's all on his phone, not knowing what's going on, because they ushered him all out." Jones then claimed that President Donald Trump was told that the venue wasn't safe, but he "still did it." Moving on to the conspiracy theories of Karoline Leavitt foreshadowing the events, Jones claimed that the phrases "shots will be fired" and "it's going to get heated" were common, and they meant nothing.

On Leavitt's husband telling reporters that he was told to be "careful" and he needs to "watch out," Jones claimed that, too, was normal, as it was the first public event since the Iran war, and there was lax security. "So they're all moving on to military bases. They're all getting death threats. They're concerned. I'd be concerned if I were them. So people take those few things and say, 'Look, it's total proof of what's going on,'" Jones said, adding that none of the claims had supporting evidence of the incident being staged.