In his tirade against MAGA war critics, Trump blasted Alex Jones for calling Sandy Hook a hoax.

This seemed odd. So I went back and checked. At the time Trump hailed Jones as "amazing" and rebuffed demands that he denounce lies about the shooting.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/208951/trump-maga-war-critics-alex-jones-surprise-admission

April 10, 2026 - 17:35 UTC

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I talked to numerous people in Newtown. They were surprised to hear Trump condemn Alex Jones for his Sandy Hook denial, because they expressly asked Trump to disavow this in 2017 during his first term and he refused.

I've got quotes from them and the backstory here:

newrepublic.com/article/208951/trump-maga-war-critics-alex-jones-surprise-admission
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Jizus, people still don't get the guy???
There's not truth coming out of the guy. It's only about what serves him at the moment. That's why.he calld his twitter "Truth".
He wants to be the one deciding what's true or not.
And right now, he wants to hurt Jones. See no further.
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Votes make him pimp himself for anyone. That's why
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Nobody should be surprised FFS. He *always* says whatever is most convenient in the moment. He counts on his base having the collective memory of a goldfish. He's been doing this for at least a decade so why would anyone feign surprise.
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Yup
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They shouldn't be so surprised. That Man chose to skate over Jones' lies about Sandy Hook when it was to his political advantage with Jones and his audience to do so. Now that he's apparently definitively broken with Jones, he feels no compunction in doing a 180 on the subject.
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Trump's only condemning Jones on his Sandy Hook stance now because Jones has turned on Trump for the time being. Trump doesn't care about Sandy Hook, but will say anything if he thinks it's to his advantage.
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Trump has always been a trash human being. It has always been obvious to most people. I could never understand the people that support him. When you embrace Trump, you embrace all of this or in the very least, endorse it
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Not a surprise. He only denounces people that cross him or call him out. Alex is a long time simp for him.
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Whether or not it’s ok to smear elementary school gun massacre victims and families is just a political calculation in the moment. That’s how the MAGA “brain” works
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When Trump needed the conspiracy-theorizing masses of Alex Jones in his coalition, he was fine with Jones' Sandy Hook denial. Now that Alex Jones has shown disloyalty to *him,* suddenly Trump professes to care about it.

This gets at MAGA's deepest perversities.

newrepublic.com/article/208951/trump-maga-war-critics-alex-jones-surprise-admission
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Small reminder:

18 hours ago he posted a video of a woman being beaten to death with a hammer.
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wait, what?
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Stop with this article. We’ve seen it. Fuck.
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Had to unfollow you. Enough is enough.
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Thanks for doing this, that stood out to me too
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Trump believes in nothing. He hasn't a conviction that can't be bought.
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His relationship to truth is both casual and opportunistic. Every day is a new day. Every second is a new second to be exploited.
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Trump is completely transactional. He says whatever he has to say that gets him thru the moment. But, many times, moments change which results in him looking ridiculous
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He never feels ridiculous though, so it never ends.
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Honestly our politics are so fucking stupid there's a chance this falling out between Trump and RW influencers polarizes Trump to the left lmao.
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trump is a slimy opportunist. He never protested or spoke out against the Iraq War. He said Bush should’ve “finished the job” in ’91 by going into Kuwait.
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Trump is absolutely despicable. So sick of him!
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It's almost as though he's being inconsistent.
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All serial liars forget their lies.
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Maybe this is the way they all forget what they've said.
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This is just another sign that he is mentally incompetent, probably from dementia.
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The number one rule of Shitler's commentary on anything is: get me thru this one moment.

It doesn't matter if whatever he says conflicts with past comments. GET ME THRU THIS ONE MOMENT.

No principles except: protect Shitler.
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He says all kinds of things outside of a Court Room, but works hard to avoid situations were he has to make statements under Oath.

When a person points out that he has changed his position, he insults them & shouts them down rather than admit that he that he lacks the backbone to own mistakes.
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We all know that the minute anyone disagrees with Trump, they become his enemy! What an insurcure individual, that is totally not presidential material.
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Trump just says things for utility. He doesn’t give two shits about the Sandy Hook community or CT in general. He knows Jones is a fellow born liar and of course he’s going to use what Jones is most famous for against him.

P.S. Connecticut hates these two assholes just as much as they do us.
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Greg, take a look at this post by @nick-carmody.bsky.social:
bsky.app/profile/nick-carmody.bsky.social/post/3ljflpibsi22g

If 🍊 wd not deny SH in 2017, it's because it benefited him. He's completely transactional; maybe he counted on Alex Jones to build credibility with the fringe voters, don't know. Maybe Nick has more insight.
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House is falling down. When will Heritage Foundation get away from him? Maybe this wasn’t in the project.
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very good piece
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It’s not just odd: it is continuously observable pathology.

This is what he does. He has ZERO consistency outside his narcissism. He bullshits and lies and pursues his own glorification at all times. There is barely a person under all that pathology.
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Some people are endangering their own prospects for pardons.
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Surely you cannot be suggesting that Donald Trump contradicted himself….
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I JUST READ A WHOLE BOOK ABOUT THIS!! Trump was on Infowars!! He helped stoke this shit!!
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All of these fuckers need to see their just ends. And I dont care how.
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A-fucking-men!!!
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👍👍
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Thank you for pointing that out but are you new here? Trump is not known for truthiness or consistency, only what he perceives shows his superiority in the moment, regardless of facts or ethics.
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"...by extension, fully recognize, well over a decade too late, the horrors that the people of Newtown endured."

I don't think Trump is capable of fully recognizing anything beyond what he wants at any given moment. He's angry that Jones denounced him, so he lashed out. No full recognition needed.
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Thank you!
Mentioning something as a part of a much larger, self-serving scree isn't anywhere close to being recognition/empathy.
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In the bizarro era of Trumpenstein, when the honeymoon's over it's REALLY REALLY REALLY OVER!!!
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Him going on Jones' show back in 2016 remains such a shocking and weird moment
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Trump’s not exactly a liar because he doesn’t care what is true. He says whatever he thinks will help him in the moment.
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very much what I keep trying to say...
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Speaking of this, I hate to see people doing the "even Alex Jones" thing when this man hounded the grieving parents of slughtered 7 yr olds for years.
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For profit!
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So, Alex Jones was a a "nutjob" after all, huh Trump?
Well why didn't you just say so when you were asked to?
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Der Pantloaf💩 is a life form of many faces... bsky.app/profile/foofiter1972.bsky.social/post/3mhme5w4l4k2h;
mostly recognized by the two that routinely contradict each other; and another that speaks to alimentary nature of his entire being... bsky.app/profile/foofiter1972.bsky.social/post/3m5mt6f6obc2k;
bsky.app/profile/foofiter1972.bsky.social/post/3m5ozrwhoo22l
"Domine, salvam fac rempublicam nostram"
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The President of the United States does not have idea permanence.
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the point is more that he only cares about the conspiracy theorizing when he can turn it into a weapon against people who have crossed him
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So President Snuff Film is falling out with his horde, having gone too far with Operation Epic Stupidity?
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mid term memory
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Whether you’re Donald Trump or Graham Platner, going back into past statements and social media post is terribly unfair.
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A la Don King: "I was lying then. I'm telling the truth now."
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This is how you know G Maxwell is on his side.
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Thx for checking this and posting about it. They're all such sociopathic liars. All of them! It's good though that now Trump is going off on him about Sandy Hook. I bet the Truthers are in a tizzy and then some.
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You don't fight conspiracy theorists with conspiracies. You need evidence.
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Trump views every interaction as purely transactional, how it can benefit him personally. He also sees the world in a very juvenile binary of good or bad: If someone supports him, they are great. If/when they say something negative, they are terrible.
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Trump is proof of the rule that if you always tell the truth you don't need to remember anything.
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Him ranting about these people is all part of the show... the distraction... for you pro wrestling fans "the shoot"
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Trump doesn’t believe in anything but himself. Sandy Hook is a “thing” to him. He uses it when it serves his own needs and purpose. It was convenient to deny it when it suited him to support Jones, now it’s a cudgel to punish Jones.

Trump has no ethics, no empathy, only vengeance and manipulation.
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I'm on tenterhooks for the next Knowledge Fight episodes
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Nice job dude, you caught Donald Trump in a lie
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The Good Place: MAGA Edition, where these slobs dwell together forever in one room with no internet.
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Of course he did.
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With recent ruling Trump can be held civilly liable for J6 statements, seems those families who claimed harm from Jones' statements have a case against Trump and more so with Trump now admitting a hoax.
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Trump has 1 card left to play: “I get big laughs when I say I like people who like me & hate people who hate me. My fans laugh because they know it’s true & they like it when I’m being me. Now, I have more haters than ever & they want Republicans to kick me out of office. I f*ckin’ dare them to try”
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Yes. Right Wing con artists con. They change their stories if a contradictory story will help them in their current con.
And it usually does.

Bc most media consumed in the U.S. are Right Wing. So most ppl hear the current lies w/o mention of the contradictions

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bsky.app/profile/upine.bsky.social/post/3mcpsppgtq22h
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He doesn't care how much he contradicts himself because he knows that the magats sticking with him despite his war are all too far gone to figure out the scam they fell for. The only thing the ones bitching about the war now are good for is breaking that cult apart, none of them get a pass for it.
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At this point I’m pretty sure we can simply assume anything Trump says contradicts an earlier statement and/or will shortly be contradicted by himself and cronies.
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The transactional orange monster strikes again.

bsky.app/profile/katpic57.bsky.social/post/3mj63ufwmy22sas
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Does this mean Trump can learn something? Are you sure?
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And how much more there must be that Trump knows to be true but denies when it’s to his advantage-for example losing the 2020 election.
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For him to speak (or react to the speech of others) is only to engage in tactics. Support, compliments, criticism, and attacks are completely unrelated to any truth. They are merely combat actions.
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It’s almost as though they’re all opportunists who don’t believe in anything but self enrichment.
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Yep. That’s exactly what they are. If they have to lie, sell snake oil, throw away what little integrity they had to carry out their grift projects they’ll do it. They are not honorable people to be respected in any way.
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Beyond deeply ingrained racism and misogyny, the guy doesn't actually think anything or believe anything. All his positions derive from how he answers "does this make me feel good?" or "can I benefit from this?" Any and all reversals of course on specific issues merely reflect new answers to them.
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Everyone will be thrown under the bus at some point by this demented evil wannabe king.
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Yeah but then Jones lost in court and was held at least somewhat accountable, while MaraLardo is all about criminal impunity.

bsky.app/profile/idiokratie.bsky.social/post/3lfcigebn272w
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The total lack of interpersonal continuity and mere in-the-moment transactional reactions to whatever people around him do, shouldn't come as surprise by now.
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