"To quote Emperor Palpatine, 'No, no, no, you will die!'"

Alex Jones Wants to Execute Rachel Maddow for Reporting on the Mueller Investigation

Alex Jones is mad at the media for doing its job and reporting on the Mueller investigation, now that we know FBI Director Robert Mueller found no proof of conspiracy between President Trump and Russia. He did, however, stop short of exonerating the president on obstruction.

Jones said he is available to execute Rachel Maddow and other journalists who reported on the investigation as it was taking place, claiming they committed an act of treason in so doing.

“If you’re found guilty of treason, and they want me to kick the switch to open that trap door and drop your neck down and snap that son of a bitch, I swear to God I’ll pull those levers all day,” the Infowars host yelled on his show on Sunday, as a picture of Maddow showed across the screen. “Cause I’m sick of your crap!”

He called journalists “scum” and “traitors,” and claimed they were trying to take his freedoms and “lock [his] ass up!”

“To quote Emperor Palpatine, ’No, no, no, you will die!'” he added.

Watch the moment play out in the video below, via Media Matters.

Jones’ dangerous rhetoric comes as earlier this year a Coast Guard lieutenant planned to kill Democrats and journalists. Last year, a man shot and killed five journalists, and injured two others, at the Annapolis, Maryland offices of the newspaper The Capital.

Trump has also added to the violent rhetoric against journalists, retweeting a video of himself wrestling WWE chairman Vince McMahon with a CNN logo superimposed over McMahon’s face. Trump also praised Rep. Greg Gianforte for assaulting a reporter when he didn’t want to answer his questions.