A Connecticut jury ordered Alex Jones to pay nearly $1 billion to families of the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Jones told millions of listeners on his Infowars show the shooting was a hoax and the victims were crisis actors.
He was sued in multiple states. Jones was combative in court saying at one point, “Is this a struggle session? Are we in China? I’ve already said I’m sorry hundreds of times and I’m done saying I’m sorry.”
A Texas jury ordered Jones to pay $49.3 in August. Erica Lafferty, the daughter of Sandy Hook Elementary principal Dawn Hochsprung, who was killed during the school shooting, said:
“And in this big moment, like in every big moment, since the shooting, I wish I could just call my mom and tell her about it.“I would tell her about the horror of watching Alex Jones hold court with the press […]
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