Spat Between Sen. Rubio And InfoWars’ Alex Jones Breaks Out In Senate Hallway

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While Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) was talking to the press outside a Senate Intelligence Hearing featuring officials from Facebook and Twitter, InfoWars founder Alex Jones repeatedly interrupted Rubio to ask about conservative voices being “silenced” on social media platforms.

Tension between the two escalated, culminating in Jones calling Rubio a “frat boy,” and Rubio telling Jones he would “take care” of him himself rather than call the police.

Rubio ultimately walked away, leaving the assembled reporters to interview “this clown” if they wanted.

From a Daily Beast reporter:

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  1. Avatar for rod rod says:

    Little Marco is a sissy.

  2. Maybe Jone’s influence is waning if Marco is calling him a clown in public.

  3. Avatar for erik_t erik_t says:

    How dare you impugn the courage and thrown-down-itude of Senator HOLD ME BACK, BRO, HOLD ME BACK…!

  4. So this is what they’ve come too. LOL. A joke and a punch line. Carry on Republicans.

  5. Confrontation between a slick nuthin’ and a loudmouth nuthin’ produces, to nobody’s real surprise, a whole lot of nuthin’. Modicum of credit to Rubio for not giving Jones the shouting match he obviously wanted.

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