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In a stunning plot twist, radio show host Alex Jones has filed suit against The Onion and the Sandy Hook families.

Recall that the Sandy Hook families originally filed a lawsuit against Jones after he spread false rumors that the infamous 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting was a “false flag.”

The families eventually won their lawsuit, with a judge ordering Jones to pay them a total of $1.5 billion in damages.

After Jones lost the case, his company InfoWars filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, after which a bankruptcy auction was scheduled. The Onion, a leftist satirical news site, ostensibly won the auction last week.

“The Onion, via its parent company Global Tetrahedron, offered $1.75 million in cash along with a ‘credit’ from the Connecticut families, who offered to forgo 100% of their portion of the winning bid to support the effort,” according to CNN.

“The one other competing bid, at $3.5 million, came from First United American Companies, which is affiliated with Jones and operates his lucrative online nutritional supplements store,” CNN notes.

Notice how the upfront amount offered by The Onion was LESS than the upfront amount offered by First United American Companies.

Here’s where problems started to crop up. Jones now says The Onion’s winning bid was made illegally.

“In a lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Houston, attorneys for Jones alleged that several Sandy Hook families and the Onion’s parent company, Global Tetrahedron, submitted an illegitimate bid for the assets of Infowars’ parent company and planned to misuse his intellectual property,” according to the Wall Street Journal.

Jones specifically alleged that The Onion’s bid violated the rules of the bidding process and called it a “flagrantly non-compliant Frankenstein bid.”

“Though the rules of the bidding process mandated that parties submit a specific purchase price, he said, Global Tetrahedron’s bid relied on a hypothetical promise of future payments from the Connecticut families, designed to be slightly higher than whatever First United bid,” the Journal notes.

“Without those payments, he said Global Tetrahedron’s bid was $1.75 million, far below First United’s $3.5 million bid,” according to the Journal.

Exactly.

“This is not a cash bid,” the lawsuit reads. “In fact, it is difficult to understand and literally impossible to value. The entire arrangement violates the bid protocols and is neither legal, moral or ethical.”

Jones has also reportedly sued the trustee, Christopher Murray, claiming that he rigged the rules to favor The Onion’s bid.

The lawsuit concludes by recommending that The Onion’s bid be rejected and that First United American Companies — Jones’ ally — be chosen as the winning bidder.

“The lawsuit also seeks to bar Global Tetrahedron and the Sandy Hook families from using Jones’s intellectual property, including his name or persona, arguing that some of his intellectual property was improperly put up for sale,” according to the Journal.

Jones’ reported goal is to win an injunction of last week’s sale.

“I will personally be harmed if this is not done, as Tetrahedron and the Connecticut Plaintiffs will not just tear down everything I have worked a lifetime to build, but they will seek to confuse my loyal following and drive them away from me,” Jones said in a signed declaration.

Social media users meanwhile say that the rigged nature of the auction proves that this was never about holding Jones accountable but about silencing him.

Look:

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