The conservative mouth piece gets hit up in Texas this time….
TEXAS…..
His lying comments and push against the Sandy Hook mass shooting on social media, whihch resulted in actions against the parents, is costing him ….
And the court cases against him ain’t over….
A Texas jury on Friday ordered Infowars’ Alex Jones to pay $49.3 million in total damages to the parents of a first-grader killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, which the conspiracy theorist falsely called a hoax orchestrated by the government in order to tighten U.S. gun laws.
The amount is less than the $150 million sought by Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, whose 6-year-old son Jesse Lewis was among the 20 children and six educators killed in the deadliest classroom shooting in U.S. history. The trial is the first time Jones has been held financially liable for peddling lies about the 2012 attack in Newtown, Connecticut….
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Lawyers for the Sandy Hook families suing Jones contend that he has tried to hide evidence of his true wealth and have sued him claiming he’s tried to hide money in various shell companies.
During his testimony, Jones was confronted with a memo from one of his business managers outlining a single day’s gross revenue of $800,000 from selling vitamin supplements and other products through his website, which would approach nearly $300 million in a year. Jones called it a record sales day.
Jones, who has portrayed the lawsuit as an attack on his First Amendment rights, conceded during the trial that the attack was “100% real” and that he was wrong to have lied about it. But Heslin and Lewis told jurors that an apology wouldn’t suffice and called on them to make Jones pay for the years of suffering he has put them and other Sandy Hook families through.
The parents told jurors about how they’ve endured a decade of trauma, inflicted first by the murder of their son and what followed: gun shots fired at a home, online and phone threats, and harassment on the street by strangers. They said the threats and harassment were all fueled by Jones and his conspiracy theory spread to his followers via his website Infowars….
My Name Is Jack says
I see this POS is begging the idiots who listen to his hate filled rants for money?
Keep at it Alex !
Take the rubes for every penny they’ve got!
The only thing more contemptible than this piece of trash are the garbage that support him.
jamesb says
He’s got a few more cases to bleed him out…..
The more he gets?
The BIGGER that awards to the plantiff’s….
jamesb says
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Alex Jones now saying the trial was rigged. So much for his contrition about lying about the shooting.