Steven Crowder, Accused Workplace Harasser, Apparently Thinks the Solution to His Business Troubles Is Alex Jones

As of late, business—and, quite frankly, life—has not been good for far-right commentator Steven Crowder. His show has suffered declining viewership on the right-wing streaming site Rumble. He’s been attacked by a host of conservative pundits and faced accusations of fostering a wildly toxic workplace, allegedly exposing his genitals to staff, and Pregnant-wife-over-wifely-duties/” target=”_blank”>being abusive toward his now estranged wife. So naturally, in an apparent effort to turn things around, he’s turned to Infowars founder and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

Crowder announced Tuesday that he will be partnering with Jones on a new streaming venture. Jones, who was found liable for a combined nearly $1.5 billion for defaming the families of those killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, said the partnership was a step toward building “a conservative populace economy.” Crowder called Jones, who filed for personal bankruptcy last year, the “number one draft pick” in a media project that he billed as “the replatforming.”

There were a whole lot of mushy words exchanged between the two with this announcement. “Getting you involved with it,” Crowder told Jones, “It’s a stamp of approval that we’re offering something that no one else is.” Jones, who has had nearly all of his social media accounts banned or suspended indefinitely, will host the Friday edition of Crowder’s daily show.

“It was Steven Crowder—back when everybody turned their back on me pretty much during deplatforming other than Tucker Carlson—that stood up for me,” said Jones Tuesday. “So he’s the type of guy I want to work with.”

The $89-per-year subscription package will air on Rumble and marks an expansion of Crowder’s Mug Club service. It will feature a number of other right-wing entertainers, including comedians Nick Di Paolo and Bryan Callen. Di Paolo, who lost his SiriusXM show in 2018 after urging school shooters to target “faculty lounges” at UC Berkeley and Fresno State, has been a contributor to Fox News host Greg Gutfeld’s late-night show.

Callen previously starred on ABC’s The Goldbergs and Schooled; he also played a role on ABC Family’s The Secret Life of the American Teenager. However, his time in mainstream entertainment came to an end in 2020 after multiple women accused Callen of sexual assault and misconduct. (He has adamantly denied the allegations and even sued the husband of one of his accusers, claiming the spouse was trying to ruin his career. But after a judge issued a tentative ruling that Callen “did not meet his burden of demonstrating a probability of prevailing on his claim,” Callen settled out of court.)

Meanwhile, after losing a pair of lawsuits related to his claim that the Sandy Hook massacre (that took the lives of 20 elementary school students) was a “false flag” carried out by paid government actors in a plot to quash the Second Amendment, Jones is apparently seeking to resolve the financial penalties imposed on him through a bankruptcy settlement. Crowder, as pointed out by Media Matters’ Jason S. Campbell, has seen his show’s influence on Rumble sharply decline over the course of the last year. After the host engaged in attacks against right-wing publication Daily Wire in January, Ben Shapiro called Crowder’s actions “nasty” and conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg said he was an “untalented buffoon.”