A judge has intervened and ordered a hearing to review the purchase of Alex Jones’s InfoWars website by the far left satirical news site the Onion.

On Thursday a federal bankruptcy judge in Texas ordered an evidentiary hearing to review the auction process that resulted in the Infowars site beiing sold.

During an emergency hearing, lawyers representing Jones and a company affiliated with him expressed concerns about the auction process. The judge ordered an evidentiary hearing for next week to determine if the auction was conducted fairly, which could delay the process.

Christopher Lopez, The US Bankruptcy judge who halted the sale said: ‘No one should feel comfortable with the results of this auction,’

Below, Alex Jones lays out the documents which he claims exposes the total rigging of the Infowars auction. He says that contrary to media reports, the Onion did NOT successfully purchased Infowars with the highest bid in a legitimate auction ….

Mother Jones reports: Alex Jones, has unsurprisingly declared that the auction process was “rigged” and vowed that the review process will return the site to him, while the Onion’s CEO told Mother Jones and other news outlets that the sale is proceeding. For reasons that no one has yet explained, attorneys for X, formerly known as Twitter, the social media giant now owned by Elon Musk, entered an appearance during the hearing and asked to be included on any future communications about the case.

“I was told Elon is going to be very involved in this,” Jones said during a live broadcast on X. After Infowars was seized and the site shut down, Jones promptly began operating under the name and branding of a new venture, dubbed the Alex Jones Network, which streams on X. Jones noted that lawyers for X were present at the hearing, adding, somewhat mysteriously, “The cavalry is here. Trump is pissed.” (He later elaborated that “Trump knows I’m one of his biggest defenders.”)

An attorney who entered an appearance for X didn’t respond to a request for comment; nor did X’s press office. Onion CEO Ben Collins, previously a journalist at NBC News covering disinformation, told Mother Jones on Friday morning, “We won the bid. The idea that he was just going to walk away from this gracefully without doing this sort of thing is funny in itself.” In a statement reprinted by Variety and other outlets, Collins said that the sale is “currently underway, pending standard processes.” Collins had said previously that the plan was to relaunch Infowars as a satirized version of itself in January.

As this odd situation played out, however, Infowars’ website came back online on Friday afternoon; soon after, Jones and his staff had also returned to Infowars‘ studios. Throughout Friday and Saturday morning, the site was full of stories preemptively declaring Jones’ victory over the Onion. 

“I told you,” Jones crowed during a Friday night broadcast, back behind his usual desk. “If you want a fight, you got one.”