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Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones lost his bid to cut down the $50 million defamation verdict he received over his false claims that the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting was staged. A Texas judge ruled that, despite a state law that usually caps punitive damages, Jones must pay in full the amount determined by jurors. In August, a jury awarded Sandy Hook parents Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis $45.2 million in punitive damages plus $4.1 million in compensatory damages. According to Texas law, plaintiffs can collect up to twice what was awarded in compensatory damages, plus $750,000. If the cap had been ap...
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Former White House adviser Steve Bannon said the life of ex-President Donald Trump could be on the line. “I do not think it’s beyond this administrative state and their deep state apparatus to actually try to work on the assassination of President Trump. I think – I think everything’s on the table,” he told host Alex Jones during an appearance on Infowars. “I think security ought to be at the highest it’s ever been,” Bannon added. “And honestly, I think he ought to and I think he should have flown down in Mar-a-Lago this morning, walked out there at noon today, and said, hey, I’m running for p...
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After battling lawsuits brought by families of Sandy Hook victims, Alex Jones has placed his company, Free Speech Systems, in chapter 11 bankruptcy. The news comes as Jones is facing several defamation cases for spreading conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting in 2012. The lawyer overseeing the Sandy Hook families’ trial, Avi Moshenberg, said in an interview that Jones was trying to evade responsibility. “There’s all sorts of protections that are supposed to be designed for a swift, quick bankruptcy with not a lot of oversight — the kind of oversight you’d see in a norm...
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Far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones‘ Inforwars filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as he faces defamation lawsuits for comments he made regarding the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy halts civil litigation while the company reevaluates and moves finances around. Infowars will be able to continue operating during this time. In the filing, Infowars reported assets of up to $50,000 and liabilities between $1 to $10 million. Late last month, Connecticut judge Barbara Bellis ordered Jones to pay $75,000 after he failed to show up to his March ...
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A Connecticut judge ordered far-right radio show host Alex Jonesto pay $25,000 to $50,000 in fines per weekday beginning on Friday until he participates in a deposition in a lawsuit brought forward by relatives of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims. Jones, a prominent conspiracy theorist, pushed claims on his show, InfoWars, that the massacre that killed 20 young students and six educators in December 2012 was just a hoax to promote gun control. He later walked back his statements and stated that he actually believes the shooting occurred. Judge Barbara Bellis found Jones in contemp...
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A video was circulated in which Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) claimed that she “works in Congress for free” to conservative podcaster Alex Jones. In the undated video, she complained that Congress took money out of her paycheck to cover fines for refusing to wear a mask. Greene said that she was breaking the law to stand “against authoritarian Democratic mandates because I don’t want the American people to stand alone.” Reports show that Green was fined $48,000 in fines through last November. By January, Greene announced that she had racked up $90,000 in fines that came out of her $1...
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Alex Jones, the host of the conservative radio show InfoWars, said he met with the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and pled the Fifth nearly 100 times. Jones was subpoenaed by the committee in November. The committee believed the radio host had “relevant information” pertaining to the attack since he spoke at a rally on the day before and the day of the riots. He also collected donations to fund what he determined to be “80 percent” of the money needed for the rally while contributing $50,000 of his own money. “Mr. Jones has repeatedly promoted unsupported allega...
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Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones issued a “warning” to former President Donald Trump on Christmas Day on his InfoWars show and called him either “ignorant” or “evil” for encouraging people to take the COVID-19 vaccine. “This is an emergency Christmas Day warning to President Trump,” he said. “You are either completely ignorant about the so called ‘vaccine’ gene therapy that you helped ram through with Operation Warp Speed, or you are one of the most evil men who has ever lived.” Jones, of course, had been a staunch supporter of Trump and even helped secure funding for the “Stop the Steal” rally ...
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Infowars founder Alex Jones’ wife was arrested on Christmas Eve on a domestic violence charge that the conspiracy theorist said stems from a “medication imbalance.” Deputies took Erika Wulff Jones into custody and booked her into an Austin jail around 8:45 p.m. Friday, and jail records show the 43-year-old faces misdemeanor charges of assault causing bodily injury to a family member and resisting arrest, search or transport. She had not received a bond Saturday afternoon. Jones declined to elaborate as to what happened but believes it was related to his wife’s recent change of medication. “It’...
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Conservative radio host Alex Jones plans to sue the January 6 select committee to block the release of his phone records and the panel from compelling his testimony at next month’s deposition. Jones said he intends to plead the Fifth Amendment against self-incrimination and added that the committee rejected his offer to provide written answers to its questions. He said the panel asked him to appear for a deposition on January 10 and suggested it’s considering offering immunity. He added that he doesn’t intend to produce documents because his “journalistic activity” is protected under the First...
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