Tesla billionaire and close Trump ally Elon Musk deleted a Wednesday tweet, agreeing with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s claim that the devastating LA-area fires were “DESTRUCTION BY DESIGN” – suggesting they were part of a “globalist plot” to trigger the collapse of the United States.
On Wednesday, Jones posted to X a live stream of his conspiracy-based program and captioned it, “DESTROYED BY DESIGN: Los Angeles Fires Are Part Of A Larger Globalist Plot To Wage Economic Warfare & Deindustrialize The Untied States Before Triggering Total Collapse.”
Jones begins the clip by saying that if you look at what’s happening in LA right now, its “not mismanagement but perfect administrative, economic, industrial sabotage, this is murder” by the “design” of the globalists.
Musk replied to Jones’s tweet and wrote, “True.” On Wednesday night, Jones celebrated Musk agreeing with him and released yet another video.
“Breaking! Elon Musk Responds To Alex Jones’ Claim That The Democrat Deep State Is Responsible For The Catastrophic Fires In Los Angeles,” Jones captioned the follow up clip, also listing points he claim prove the “Globalists Are
“Just a few hours ago, Elon Musk responded to a post from the first half hour of my show today where I laid out the basic evidence that the Democratic Party, with their policies, are 100% responsible consciously for the historic fire destroying much of Los Angeles in the last 48 hours,” Jones says in the second clip, adding:
Now, I want to just lay out some of the facts here, because I would take ten hours to cover at all. And then look at where we’re going. But Elon Musk response to my report laying out just some of the evidence was, “True.” So here’s the facts.
Notably, the term “globalist” has often been used by the far-right to refer to Jews or claim some kind of Jewish control of global institutions. The Anti-Defamation League explains the use of the term writing, “ Because of the long history of antisemitic associations of Jews with money
Musk offered his own take on Thursday as to what fueled the unprecedented fires. “Climate change risk is real, just much slower than alarmists claim,” Musk said, adding:
The immense loss of homes in LA is primarily due to:1. Nonsensical overregulation that prevented creating fire breaks and doing brush clearing.2. Bad governance at the state and local level that resulted in a shortage of water.
While embracing alternative media sources, Musk has repeatedly shared inaccurate information, conspiracy theories, and hoaxes.
Last October, Musk shared a doctored image of a fake headline in The Atlantic that read, “Donald J. Trump is the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler.” In August, he shared another fake news headline, this time from the Telegraph, which claimed that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer wanted to build “emergency detainment camps” for those engaging in the race riots in the country. In July, Musk shared a video claiming to show polling sites being raided in Venezuela with gangs carrying out voting machines, which were in fact air conditioners. Musk also shared and deleted in 2022, a conspiracy theory article alleging that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, was attacked with a hammer by a