According to NBC News, Alex Jones on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to hit pause on an almost $1.5 billion defamation judgment that was imposed over his false claims that the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.
In a new filing, Jones said the court’s immediate involvement is needed because his website, InfoWars, is on the verge of being turned over to satirical news site, The Onion, to help fund payments to family members of the Sandy Hook victims.
If the case is not put on hold, “InfoWars will have been acquired by its ideological nemesis and destroyed,” Jones’ lawyers wrote.
The massive judgment was awarded to the families after Jones conspiratorially said Sandy Hook was a false flag. He reportedly harassed the parents of the murdered children. Twenty children and six adults were slaughtered by a mentally deranged youth in Newtown, Connecticut.
The Onion failed in a previous attempt to acquire InfoWars via a bankruptcy auction, but Jones’ lawyer said a new attempt is underway in Texas state court.
The Sandy Hook parents who sued vowed to destroy Alex Jones’s business.
The whole case against Jones and Infowars was to shut down free speech. He never harassed Sandy Hook families,a nd merely talked about the event on his show a few times. Once again, this was bribed judges, prosecutors and d=the Democrat party to destroy a person they don’t like. The trials and judges involved were paid bifg money to conduct… Read more »
They have no right to shut down his free speech and they do want to do that. They also want to take our guns away.
Jones did not make false claims that Sandy Hook was a hoax. He may have said it once, that it may have been a hoax, so what. He was pointing out the suspicious aspect of the events. A prime example is that the school was officially on the books as having closed 4 years earlier than the event. Another is… Read more »
You are mistaken. That is something I must respond to. Please do not go there. It was a horrific clear cut massacre. 2013: Jones called the shooting “staged” and said, “It’s got inside job written all over it.” 2014: Jones said, “I’ve looked at it and undoubtedly there’s a cover-up, there’s actors, they’re manipulating, they’ve been caught lying, and they… Read more »
Jones did not say anything that caused anyone harm. If this was the evidence, then all democrats are guilty of killing Charlie KIRK FOR ALL THE VIOLENCE THEY SPOKE AGAINST HIM; AND THEY SHOULD LOSE ALL THEY HAVE ON THIS EARTH!!! !
That wasn’t all the evidence, but I like to forget about that chapter. He didn’t kill anyone or cause anyone’s death, I wasn’t saying that and it doesn’t mean I condemn everything Alex Jones says or does. He hurt the families who were suffering. Is it punishable? They did start getting death threats. The $1.5b judgment is way too much… Read more »