NBA star Kyrie Irving shared a 2002 video of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to his Instagram Story.
The Brooklyn Nets point guard raised eyebrows Thursday when he released the 20-year-old clip of Jones discussing a “New World Order.”
The video, titled “Never Forget – Alex Jones Tried To Warn Us,” refers to a “New World Order” that would “spread plagues.”
In the video, Jones said: “Yes, there have been corrupt empires. Yes, they manipulate. Yes, there are secret societies. Yes, oligarchies have existed throughout history.
“And yes, today in 2002 there is a tyrannical organization that calls itself the New World Order… by unleashing disease, virus, and plague upon us, we are basically being shoved into their system.”
Jones’ 2002 clip was one of several videos shared Thursday about Irving’s story. Irving, who serves as vice-president on the players’ association executive committee, released videos discussing a range of issues including “the saturation of the media with celebratory posts about the late Queen Elizabeth II” and decolonization.
Kyrie Irving shared a 2002 video of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to his Instagram Story
The 20-year-old video, titled “Never Forget – Alex Jones Tried To Warn Us,” refers to a “New World Order” that would “spread plagues.”
Irving is no stranger to conspiracy theories, having long been willing to go along with theories like the flat earth or staged moon landing.
The unvaccinated basketball star was unable to play at home games in Brooklyn last year because he failed to meet a New York vaccination mandate for many indoor venues.
The Brooklyn Nets guard was willing to go along with theories like the flat earth or the staged moon landing
In October 2021, he began following and liking Instagram posts from a conspiracy theorist who claimed that “secret societies” were planting vaccines in a conspiracy to connect black people to a mainframe computer for “a plan of Satan.”
In October 2018, when he apologized for endorsing the flat earth “theory,” Iriving admitted to being a conspiracy theorist.
‘I was definitely at the time, ‘I’m a huge conspiracy theorist. You can’t tell me anything.” I’m sorry about all that,” Irving said.
“Even if you believe in it, don’t come out and say something like that. This is for intimate conversations because perception and how you are received changes. I’m actually a smart guy,” he explained 18 months after first telling an interviewer, “The earth is flat. The earth is flat. … It’s right in front of our faces.’
But the decision to release the clip of Jones is particularly controversial given that InfoWars is currently suing the conspiracy theorist for spreading the Sandy Hook Elementary School hoax, in which he claimed the tragedy was staged by actors.
In an ongoing civil lawsuit, Jones is being forced to pay unlimited damages to the eight families and an FBI agent who is suing him for defamation.
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is being sued for spreading the Sandy Hook Elementary School hoax story in which he claimed the tragedy was staged by actors
The trial will determine how much money the Texas media mogul must pay to the families of victims of the school mass murder in Newtown, Connecticut. He was found liable for damages in a default judgment last November.
The civil suit, the second of three, is a consolidation of lawsuits filed by 15 family members and an FBI agent against the shock jock.
Jones was ordered by a Texas jury last month to pay nearly $50 million to the parents of one of the murdered children.
This latest case could potentially be far more financially devastating than Texas’ $50 million judgment against Jones last month in a civil lawsuit brought by the parents of 6-year-old Jesse Lewis, who died in the December 14, 2012 shooting.
Attorney Chris Mattei, representing 15 people suing the Texas media mogul, said Jones made $232,000 in a single day when the InfoWars website published the story that the FBI said no deaths had been reported.
Jones was reportedly making $232,000 in a single day when the InfoWars website ran the story that the FBI said no deaths were reported
Chris Mattei, the attorney for the families suing Jones, tried to draw a direct line between the lies on InfoWars about Sandy Hook and the money he made
“$232,000 in one day, just on this one platform,” Mattei said, according to the News Times. “What you see there is the relationship between the lie, the audience and the money tree.”
The lawyer said that the case is not just about money.
“If you don’t stop a bully, a bully will never stop himself,” he said.
In February 2020, Jones emailed another admission in a single day, this time the number had increased dramatically.
“We made about $810,000 yesterday,” he wrote.
‘Someday. Do the math,” Mattei told the jury.
Jones, who is expected to testify, failed to appear on the first day of the trial in Waterbury, less than 20 miles from Newtown, where the children and six teachers were shot, prompting Judge Barbara Bellis to stop the Millionaires podcaster to sanction.