In a guest appearance with conspiracy-obsessed media host Alex Jones, convicted arms transporter Viktor Bout endorsed the presidential campaign of recently-convicted candidate Donald Trump and agitated for “another American revolution.”
Beaming in Monday from somewhere in Russia, Bout sat in as a guest host on Jones’ Infowars program and spoke approvingly about Trump and American insurrectionists, according to coverage of the program and a video posted on Jones’ network.
Bout endorsed Trump as a “real person who is honestly, full-heartedly, not willing to see America being ruined and killed by the globalists.” Bout dismissed U.S. President Joe Biden — who ordered the Russian freed from an Illinois federal prison last year and sent back to Moscow in return for hostage basketball star Brittney Griner — as a “zombie.”
Bout appeared on Jones’ radio show and internet Infowars site Monday even as the beleaguered broadcaster struggled to prevent his media empire from being liquidated as part of a $1.5 billion lawsuit verdict against him. Jones was successfully sued by relatives of 2012 Sandy Hook massacre victims for claiming the deaths of 20 first graders and six educators was a hoax (according to media reports, Jones later offered to sell off his holdings, but for less than the plaintiffs have wanted).
After shunning the public spotlight during his decade as an arms dealer whose air cargo empire aided warlords and Islamic militants, Bout has acclimated to a new public profile under the long eaves of Russian president Vladimir Putin. Bout was elected last September to a legislative seat in the Ulyanovsk region after joining an ultra-nationalist party aligned with Putin’s regime.
Putin has spoken approvingly about Trump in recent months, and Trump has returned the favor — public stroking not lost on the new regional assemblyman from Ulyanovsk. “We all hope that Trump finally will quickly act after he was inaugurated, and literally make sure that this deep state or those globalists who are fully controlling the American administration would be unable to make more harm to the human being on the planet and stop killing, first of all, Americans,” Bout said.
Bout also talked approvingly, if somewhat elliptically, of the need for a new American civil war. “Look, if people go to the street in America, the real America, who they are, it’s over.” He added: “It’s two days, and it’s over. Forget about January 6th, it was a joke.”