'Makes me want to puke': Piers Morgan flattens Elon Musk's new embrace of Alex Jones

Piers Morgan has written a scathing editorial for the New York Post attacking X CEO Elon Musk's decision to embrace conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

As Morgan documents at the start of his piece, Musk once held Jones in total contempt for telling lies about the massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in which he smeared the parents of dead children as "crisis actors."

As Musk has gone further down the rabbit hole to promote openly white nationalist conspiracy theories, however, his attitude toward Jones has apparently changed. On Monday, he reinstated Jones on the social media platform — a year after promising it was closeed to him.

That decision prompted Morgan to remind Musk why Jones' lies about the Sandy Hook families were so despicable in the first place.

"Mark Barden, father of 7-year-old victim Daniel Barden, said one of Jones’ followers urinated on his son’s grave, and another accused him of dismembering and killing his own little boy," noted Morgan.

"David Wheeler, father of slain Ben Wheeler, endured in-person confrontations at his home with Jones supporters claiming he was a 'crisis actor.' Robbie Parker, who lost his daughter Emilie, was chased in the street by a Jones supporter who hurled abuse and asked him how much he had earned from the government for lying about the shooting."

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After the families of the Sandy Hook victims successfully sued Jones for defamation, writes Morgan, some of his supporters tried to paint him as a free speech martyr who was being punished for just asking questions about murdered children.

"All of which makes me puke," retorted Morgan. "What Jones did to the Sandy Hook families wasn’t him exercising free speech, it was him spewing deliberate lies to make huge amounts of money by exploiting terrible grief."

Read the whole column here.