Tag Archives: Alex Jones

BREAKING: Jury Awards $4M To Sandy Hook Parents

CNN reports: Right-wing talk show host Alex Jones will have to pay the parents of a Sandy Hook shooting victim a little more than $4 million in compensatory damages, a jury decided Thursday, capping a stunning and dramatic case that showcased for the public the real-world harm inflicted by viral conspiracy theories. The award from the jury was far less …

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Report: Law Enforcement Wants Jones’ Phone Data

Law & Crime reports: After the bombshell revelations that Alex Jones’s legal team inadvertently disclosed years of his phone data, an attorney for a Sandy Hook victim’s parents disclosed that “various” law enforcement agents want to scrutinize the information. On Thursday, Jones’s lawyer Andino Reynal tried to mitigate the fallout by asking Travis County Judge Maya Guerra Gamble to order …

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Jan. 6 Committee Wants Contents Of Jones’ Phone

Rolling Stone reports: The January 6th House committee is preparing to request the trove of Alex Jones’s text messages and emails revealed Wednesday in a defamation lawsuit filed by victims of the Sandy Hook massacre, Rolling Stone has learned. On Wednesday, Sandy Hook victims’ attorney Mark Bankston told Jones that his attorney had mistakenly sent Bankston three years worth of …

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Sandy Hook Lawyers: Alex Jones’ Lawyers Accidentally Sent Us The Entire Contents Of His Cell Phone [VIDEO]

The right wing Daily Wire reports: The defamation trial against Infowars founder Alex Jones took a big turn on Wednesday when the attorneys representing the parents of a Sandy Hook victim said that that Jones’ attorney accidentally sent them the conspiracy theorist’s text messages. Mark Bankston, who is representing the parents of a Sandy Hook victim who are suing Jones …

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Jones: Sandy Hook Judge Is “Demonically Possessed”

Media Matters has the transcript: They had to default me in all four cases, saying I turned over nothing, while they sit there and show the jury, they’re deciding how guilty I am. Not if I’m guilty or innocent, showing the juries all these emails and all these videos that we turned over to them while the judge tells them …

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Alex Jones Trashed Sandy Hook Parents On-Air Today

The Insider reports: Far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones railed against the mother and father of one of the children killed in the Sandy Hook massacre on his InfoWars broadcast on Tuesday as the dad testified against him at his defamation damages trial. Jones appeared on InfoWars while the trial was ongoing and Sandy Hook father Neil Heslin was testifying against …

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Sandy Hook Parents Still Live In Fear Of Jones’ Fans

Law & Crime reports: The parents of a 6-year-old boy killed during the Sandy Hook massacre retained private security to protect themselves from Alex Jones followers who believed that their late son was a child actor, a forensic psychologist testified on Monday. According to the testimony, both of the parents sought mental health treatment and have reported unique mental health …

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Jones’ InfoWars Parent Company Files For Bankruptcy

Reuters reports: The parent of far-right conspiracy website InfoWars filed for U.S. bankruptcy protection on Friday as the company and its founder Alex Jones face up to $150 million in damages in a trial over longstanding falsehoods he perpetuated about the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre. Three other companies associated with InfoWars filed for bankruptcy protection in April, but they …

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Alex Jones Sues Own Company In Ploy To Derail Trial

Law & Crime reports: In Connecticut court documents dated Friday, Infowars host Alex Jones sued his own media company in what his opponents have characterized as yet another last-ditch attempt to stall an upcoming defamation damages trial. The ticking clock in Connecticut appears to have spurred Jones to sue Free Speech Systems, his own media company, according to a filing …

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Plaintiffs Seek $150M In Alex Jones’ Defamation Trial

The Associated Press reports: Testimony is set to begin Tuesday in a Texas lawsuit to decide how much Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay Sandy Hook Elementary School parents for falsely telling his audience that the deadliest classroom shooting in U.S. history was a hoax. Jones arrived at the courthouse wearing a piece of silver tape over …

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Jury Selection Begins In Alex Jones’ Sandy Hook Trial

The Huffington Post reports: On Monday, a jury in Austin will be selected to determine how much Alex Jones and Infowars will ultimately have to pay to parents for the pain he inflicted on them for more than half a decade after the death of their child. Opening arguments start Tuesday at Travis County Court, and the trial will be …

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Alex Jones Asks Judge To Ban Mentions Of “Right Wing Extremism, White Supremacy” From Sandy Hook Trial

Law & Crime reports: In a flurry of court papers filed Tuesday and Wednesday, attorneys for Infowars host Alex Jones asked a Connecticut superior court judge to shove back a swiftly approaching trial date to determine the level of damages appropriate in a defamation lawsuit brought by the families of the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre. One …

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Jones Claims Infowars Co-Host Is Deep State Plant

NPR recaps a moment from yesterday’s hearing: On Dec. 19, the former president tweeted “Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 election. Big protest in D.C. on january 6th. Be there, will be wild!” This tweet and its message proliferated across right-wing media platforms from print to broadcast, Rep. Jamie Raskin said. “He is now calling for we the people …

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Jones Threatens To Cut Off His Finger Because Reasons

The Independent reports: Right-wing conspiracy theorist is known for making wild claims to followers of his Infowars network, but a Sunday episode of The Alex Jones Show took his brand of out-there entertainment to shocking new heights. Mr Jones unsheathed a knife and said he wanted to cut off one of his fingers to show how grateful he was to …

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Alex Jones’ Sandy Hook Lawyer To Defend Proud Boy

Law & Crime reports: The attorney best known for representing right-wing radio jockey Alex Jones against families of Sandy Hook victims has a new client—one facing the most serious allegations leveled to date in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Norman Pattis, the lawyer known for representing Jones and employees of Jones’s company InfoWars, filed a notice Tuesday of …

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Alex Jones Drops Bankruptcy Ploy In Sandy Hook Case

Axios reports: Alex Jones’ gambit to use the bankruptcy court to shield himself from litigation damages has come to end after less than two months. The embattled right-wing talk show host and hawker of wellness supplements has withdrawn the bankruptcy petitions of three companies linked to his Infowars empire. Jones tried to use a new subchapter of the U.S. code …

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Donor Gives “Bankrupt” Jones Another $6M In Bitcoin

The SPLC’s Hatewatch reports: Alex Jones’ anonymous Bitcoin donor dropped nearly $6 million more worth of that cryptocurrency on the embattled extremist and has now given him close to $8 million in 26 days, Hatewatch has determined. Jones’ Bitcoin windfall roughly coincides with a string of losses in the Sandy Hook defamation case. A judge ruled on May 24 that …

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Alex Jones Suggests Texas Massacre Was False Flag

Media Matters has the transcript: CALLER: You know, something that somebody’s not bringing up is the fact that the NRA is having their annual convention in Houston this weekend with a lot of Republican, Texas Republicans are going to be there. You don’t think this was done to demonize the Texas Republicans and the NRA? ALEX JONES (INFOWARS HOST): It’s …

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Alex Jones: Globalists Are Shrinking Your Dick [VIDEO]

“It does this to humans as well. That’s why genitals – I don’t care if you’re black or white – are a third the size they were of a 1960s male. “So the media makes jokes about that a few months ago when I gave the example, ‘If your daddy’s johnson was a foot long, yours is six inches long. …

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Alex Jones: QAnon Helped Dems Steal The Election

“Q is such a horrible thing that I hate even talking about it. It was all a delusion so the Democrats could steal the election. “Do you understand that we lost the country because of Q? And I have to put up with the Q people all over the place! And I’m tired of it! “So I’m not mad at …

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