MEDIA LOSER:
Ali Alexander Far-right MAGA activist Ali Alexander, an organizer of the Jan. 6, 2021 election protest that ended in a violent riot at the U.S. Capitol, unleashed an unhinged rant on Friday bragging about starting an “insurrection” and declaring that if he were president journalists would be monitored and thrown in prison.
“You don’t want me as president. You don’t want me because I’ll just get stuff done,” Alexander said. “I will just get stuff done. And — metaphorically of course, and I would jail a bunch of journalists, you know? I think there are a ton of journalists that frankly need to be jailed and a ton of other journalists that need to be monitored.”
The rhetoric targeting reporters is to be expected from someone who identified so closely with the MAGA movement — given how Trump spent years trashing the media as “the enemy of the people.” Alexander’s relevance to the events of January 6th has brought him under the microscope in the past, but he didn’t seem to be worried about that while responding to a commentator who put him down as a “nobody.”
“I’m a somebody!” Alexander shot back. “I started an insurrection!”
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