Alex Jones claims the Pentagon stole Kentucky primary win for Trump

Tuesday’s Republican House primary in Kentucky was the most expensive primary in American history, and in the end, incumbent Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) was unseated by challenger Ed Gallrein, who ran under the endorsement of President Donald Trump. Massie drew Trump’s ire by opposing several of his signature policies and forcing the release of the Epstein files, and in the wake of his loss to a MAGA-blessed candidate, many on the right are suggesting that the president’s win may prove to be political folly in the November general election amid an increasingly anti-Trump atmosphere.

Now one of Trump’s former allies, Alex Jones, who helped launch the president’s political career, is accusing him of something much worse than electoral ineptitude. Jones asserts that the Kentucky election was stolen altogether.

Speaking on his podcast on Wednesday, Jones asserted that he became suspicious in the run-up to Tuesday.

“I said, ‘I’ve got a bad feeling — my feelings are pretty much never wrong — when I saw Hegseth the night before so confident and just the body language and all of it,” claimed Jones. “I knew that when you have the Pentagon campaigning against you for the first time ever in U.S. history, they’re not going to be embarrassed. They’re not going to, on something like that, have defeat. I knew right then that the fix was in.”

Jones was referring to a stump speech for Gallrein delivered by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth the day before the primary, in which the Pentagon chief criticized Massie for his disloyalty. As Politico noted, “The Defense secretary’s remarks — which came after he awarded medals to service members at nearby Fort Campbell — were unusual for the civilian head of the military, who has traditionally avoided overt political posturing.”

“This is so dangerous and so wrong,” said Jones of Hegseth’s foray into the race.

Jones — a notorious conspiracy theorist — didn’t lay out the specifics of how he thought the election was stolen, but he did have a few general suggestions.

"There are major anomalies that are too astronomical for this to be organic,” he asserted, “like the AIPAC-funded opponent increasing voter turnout by 357 percent.”

Jones drew his information from former far-right senatorial candidate Sam Parker, himself prone to election conspiracy theorizing, who posted a series of charts to X along with the question, “Did Massie get 2020’d?” According to his unsourced figures, Gallrein did little debating and significantly underearned Massie in small-dollar donations, and while the latter saw only a 19 percent increase in incumbent voter turnout versus the 2024 election, Gallrein supposedly saw a 357 percent increase as the challenger.

It must be reiterated that these are unsourced numbers from a pair of notorious conspiracy theorists. Jones also mentioned that a surge in last-minute mail-in ballots could have contributed to the steal, which was a common assertion among deniers of the 2020.

While he was an instrumental influencer in the early days of Trump’s MAGA movement, the two have split recently over Jones’ disappointment at the president’s handling of the Epstein case, his decision to launch war against Iran, and other issues. Jones has also questioned Trump’s physical and mental health, suggesting that the president may have dementia and that his “brain’s not doing too hot.”

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