Conservative radio show host Alex Jones announced over the weekend that President-elect Donald Trump gave him a call after he won the presidential election. "He said, 'Listen, Alex, I just talked to kings and queens of the world, world leaders, you name it ... but it doesn't matter. I wanted to talk to you, to thank your audience, and I'll be on [the show] the next few weeks to thank them," Jones said in a video posted to Infowars.com, the website he operates.
Jones claimed Trump was grateful that listeners of Jones' radio show never stopped "standing up for what's right." "It shows he's not the average elitist," Jones said of Trump's call, applauding the fact that we "finally have people in Washington" who "don't buy the propaganda of the big main-line corporations that are using weaponized media to mind-control simple-minded people."
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