Alex Jones "admission" that Sandy Hook was "real" is much too little, and much too late

  

A Texas jury awarded the parents of six-year-old victim of the Sandy Hook mass shooting, Jesse Lewis, $4.1 million in compensatory damages on Thursday, with the potential of a much greater amount being awarded in determination of punitive damages. This followed two days of testimony by Jones himself, who was already found guilty of defamation by summary judgment after his failure for years to comply with discovery, mainly the turning over of his emails and text messages in regard to Sandy Hook.

The attorney for the plaintiffs, Mark Bankston, reminded Jones that he was testifying under oath, and if he knew what the word perjury meant, pointing out that Jones still insisted that he “complied” with discovery. Jones had claimed that he did a “search” for the phrase “Sandy Hook” on his phones and claimed to have found no reference to it. But Bankston introduced as evidence an exchange with a British far-right conspiracy theorist named Paul Watson, who apparently was chastising Jones for an Infowars piece which claimed that a hospital was using dummies in an emergency room to stage an “appearance” of a hospital “flooded” with coronavirus patients. Watson texted Jones that “this makes us look ridiculous suggesting this means Covid is fake. This is Sandy Hook all over again.” 

Bankston pointed to the fact that the messages in the “blue” background indicated a sender’s messages from their own cell phone, and he pointed out that the number for the phone was Jones’ own, so this alone was proof that Jones lied about his not having any communications concerning Sandy Hook on his phone. Jones pretended to have no knowledge of the existence of this text messaging or any other in regard to Sandy Hook. Jones then claimed that if they had these messages, then he must have “complied” with discovery. 

Bankston then revealed that almost two weeks prior Jones’ own legal team had “messed up” and sent him “an entire digital copy of your entire cell phone with every text message you sent for the past two years” and that his attorneys did not identify those messages as “privileged or protected in any way.” Here we see Jones’ attorney being "surprised" by this revelation:

 

 

Jones snidely remarked that this was Bankston’s “Perry Mason moment,” and again lied about his complying with discovery. Bankston again pointed out that this was a false statement, that the plaintiff’s attorney had received thousands of messages from sources outside of Infowars and Jones, and the only emails provided by Jones or Infowars were those that referenced Wolfgang Halbig, whose outrageous conspiracy theories about Sandy Hook were given endless airing by Jones, but he has now since been thrown under the Infowars bus as a scapegoat. 

Jones told more lies about how he never used his own email account save through an “assistant” for things like “broken drains.” When confronted with the fact that he had been using his email to discuss Sandy Hook, Jones claimed that somebody else must have gotten into his email account and sent those messages. 

Jones became irritated when Bankston introduced into evidence other incidents of conspiracy mongering, such as Jones claiming that the Boston Marathon massacre was a “fake DHS drill” using “crisis actors” who were also “used” in Sandy Hook, and that the Sutherland Springs Church massacre was a “false flag” event staged by Antifa, and that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ shooting was actually a “government mind control experiment.” Maybe he got these ideas from his friend Vlad Putin (who actually has some experience in these kinds of operations), but in this country, I suspect that even Art Bell would have laughed this nonsense off his Coast to Coast show.

Jones was also accused of not taking the trial seriously, as Infowars was repeatedly broadcasting images of the judge on fire…

 

 

…which Jones claimed was merely to represent “justice on fire.” That piece also suggested that the judge was involved in “pedophilia and child trafficking,” which Jones lamely defended by trying to make a connection of Texas judges being involved in child protective services cases. It was also pointed out that Infowars was referring to the jury as being from “another planet” because they had “never heard of him (Jones).” He essentially accused the jurors of being “ignorant” because they were “blue collar” and lived in a “bubble,” and didn’t know what is “really going on,” and were just easy pickings for the “new world order” dictated by “leftist jurisdictions”—a strange bogey man in a deep red state. 

Jones also accused the plaintiffs—who endured years of violent threats and false allegations from believers in Jones’s and Halbig’s conspiracies—of being “tools” of some nefarious plot against Second Amendment rights at “best,” and at worst personally involved in perpetrating the “hoax.” This is a very sick man indeed, as is Infowars programming in general.

Bankston noted that Jones claimed he could not appear for most of the trial due to health issues, yet observed that hasn’t prevented him from appearing on his show every day, where he is never seen coughing, as he has been doing during most of his testimony—perhaps to gain “sympathy” from the jury that he is a “sick” man being unjustly persecuted in this “witch hunt.” 

Far from being “broke,” the texts and emails that were “mistakenly” provided to the plaintiffs also revealed that Jones filing for bankruptcy is an apparent effort to protect his business empire, and prevent discovery of Jones’ wealth, accused of being hidden in shell companies and overseas tax shelters. 

This is only the first trial for damages that Jones is facing, and that “mistaken” cell phone message dump is putting Jones into more legal jeopardy, as they reveal that he “facilitated” a donation providing “80 percent of the funding” for the January 6 rally that Donald Trump and others spoke to before it marched on to the Capitol Building. The January 6 committee is preparing a subpoena for the Jones emails and text messages which indicate he was involved in coordinating the rally that eventually led to the insurrection. It also appeared that Jones was in contact with the Secret Service, and although the service claimed to have (illegally) deleted all its messages pertaining to Trump or anything else to do with January 6, it is hoped that those messages will be uncovered after all, since for every receiver, there has to be a sender, and it appeared that Jones’ messages were not deleted.

After all of this, Jones apparently hoped that this would all “go away” when he testified, finally, that he “believed” that the Sandy Hook massacre was “100 percent real.” The problem with this admission, of course, is that it is entirely self-serving at this point, and much too little and much too late. As the Washington Post is reporting, "Alex Jones is shocked that lies have consequences," although interestingly the mainstream media doesn't apply that same standard to Amber Heard.

There is no doubt that Infowars is going to continue disseminating fraudulent conspiracy theories if there is an audience mired in anti-matter universe thinking for it; it may take a hefty punitive judgment or two to put it out of “business” as it deserves to be.