Tucker Carlson on Thursday broadcast an interview with disgraced conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in which Jones claimed that President Joe Biden is drugged up on amphetamines and wanders the White House naked and lost in the middle of the night.
Carlson in recent months has taken to interviewing ever-more polarizing figures - among them Hungary's far-right prime minister, Viktor Orban, and accused sex trafficker and self-proclaimed misogynist Andrew Tate.
On Thursday he spoke to Jones, who last year was ordered by courts to pay nearly $1.5 billion to the families of Sandy Hook victims, after he defamed them by insisting the shooting was a hoax. Jones, who made hundreds of thousands of dollars peddling advertising on his Infowars conspiracy theory channel, has declared bankruptcy and says he does not have the money.
Elon Musk on Thursday said he was considering reinstating Jones on X - formerly Twitter: a move which would certainly help Jones' revenue stream.
Jones told Carson that he believed Joe Biden was 'completely out of his mind.'
Alex Jones, 49, appeared on Tucker Carlson's show on Thursday, broadcast on X
Tucker Carlson agreed with Jones saying he had confirmed that Biden took amphetamines
Jones said: 'He wanders around for the entire two and a half years naked in the White House. In the middle of the night, doesn't know who he is.
'They have to give him a bunch of drugs - a bunch of amphetamines in the morning, and they have to drug him at night.
'Sometimes he'll be out for the morning, for a while, then come back at night for a ball. That's when there's a real problem.'
Carlson nodded, looking grave.
'He is on drugs. I have established that,' said Carlson.
Carlson is seen speaking to Jones on Thursday
'I know someone who witnessed it - I'm not guessing at this. I know someone personally who witnessed him taking amphetamines. And this was during the 2020 election.'
Jones told Carlson: 'That's huge. I know you don't play games.'
Jones, who has made a career by shouting about a 'wicked Jewish mafia' and Muslim terrorists in our midst, claiming to have uncovered a 'Satanist, globalist plot' to impose a 'New World Order', was banned from Twitter in 2018.
He has claimed the Oklahoma City bombing; the 9/11 attacks; the Boston Marathon massacre; the mass shootings in Aurora, Colorado, and at Sandy Hook; and the 'Unite the Right' rally in Charlottesville, Virginia were all 'false flag' operations, staged in order to take away people's guns.
In 2022, Twitter ruled that Jones' ban from their platform was permanent.
Elon Musk said on Thursday that he would consider reinstating Alex Jones on X
Musk on Thursday, however, said he was considering reinstating him - and would put it to a vote on the platform.
Jones's wife Erika Wulff Jones wrote on X: 'Tucker Carlson's interview with the most censored man in the World drops tonight!'
Musk replied: 'Will consider. In general, since this platform aspires to be the global town square, permanent bans should be extremely rare.
'Also, if he does say something false on this platform, then @CommunityNotes will correct him, whereas that would not be the case elsewhere. Let's hold a poll.'
Last year, Musk refused to reinstate Jones.
One person posted: 'Bring back Alex Jones' - to which Musk replied: 'No.'
Musk continued: 'My firstborn child died in my arms. I felt his last heartbeat. I have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame.'