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Alex Jones of Infowars erupted on air Tuesday in graphic fashion as he slammed his star reporter Owen Shroyer who is leaving the media operation over purported disputes that Shroyer had become "too anti-Trump" and "negative."
"You stabbed your brother and this operation in the back and you're a f***in' liar! F***in' a**hole, piece of sh**!" Jones said on the air.
The 36-year-old Shroyer who has been with the company since 2016 explained Monday some of his difficulties with Jones, claiming: "Alex had been coming into my show and talking about how I'm negative and calling me a pessimist and all this other stuff, which is fine."
"You work for Alex, you're gonna get hit with it a lot. Alex is not easy to work for.
"He says I'm too negative, he says I'm a pessimist, whatever, I'm too anti-Trump. So I just said, all right, you know what? I'll just take some time off, I'll just disappear. And if Alex thinks I'm too negative then maybe he's right.
"But the same issues that I had started up immediately as soon as I came back," Shroyer continued.
"And it's not to say that I didn't have creative control over the Infowars War Room.
"But I mean, imagine it's like someone staring over your back 24/7."
'I couldn't do what I wanted to do," he added.
Shroyer indicated he "walked off the show, mid-show" on Thursday because Jones had been "disrupting" the War Room show.
"I kind of just reached my point of no return," he said.
Originally, Jones wished much success for Shroyer online, stating: "I wish Owen all the best for his life and the great work he does fighting evil and promoting freedom. I never censored him and agreed with 99% of what I saw him talk about."
"As for me I am taking the high road and will continue to promote Owen when I see cool stuff he does."
Shroyer claimed he was "basically just living paycheck-to-paycheck" after not receiving a raise since 2018, which Jones refuted on the air.
"He took snake to the next level. So, Owen Shroyer's dead to me," Jones said.
But he did offer Shroyer an olive branch of sorts, saying, "If he goes on air and repents to Jesus and apologizes for being demon-possessed or whatever it is he is, then I will forgive him."
Shroyer made national headlines after his 2023 guilty plea for entering restricted grounds at the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, mayhem, for which he served 60 days in prison.
Shroyer reportedly is looking to start his own news company, World Independent News, along with a new broadcast, "The Owen Report," to debut Oct. 6, on streaming platforms such as X and Rumble.
