Lawyer: I’ll Give Alex Jones’ Texts To Jan. 6 Committee

The New York Times reports:

The lawyer for plaintiffs who are suing the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones said Thursday that he plans to turn over two years of text messages from Mr. Jones’s phone to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

The lawyer, Mark Bankston, who represents Sandy Hook parents suing Mr. Jones in defamation lawsuits for lies he had spread about the 2012 school shooting, said in court in Austin, Texas, that he planned to turn over the texts unless a judge instructed him not to do so.

“I certainly intend to do that, unless you tell me not to,” Mr. Bankston told the judge, Maya Guerra Gamble, who appeared unsympathetic to requests from Mr. Jones’s lawyers that Mr. Bankston return the materials to them.

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The lawyer representing Sandy Hook parents in Alex Jones’s defamation trial said he plans to turn over Jones’s texts to the Jan. 6 committee, which has been pushing to obtain them for months to understand his role in organizing the rally before the attack. https://t.co/d6EC1RhyTZ

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