While being cross-examined at his defamation trial in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday, Alex Jones was told that his attorneys accidentally sent two years of text messages from his cellphone to a lawyer for the Sandy Hook parents suing him.
Bankston presented a text message that he said was from Jones.
Where did I get this? Bankston inquired about Jones.
Jones didn't reply.
Bankston said that his attorneys messed up and sent him an entire digital copy of his cellphone with every text message he has sent for the past two years.
Jones had testified in a deposition that he had searched his phone for text messages about Sandy Hook but found nothing.
Bankston knew that Jones lied when he said he didn't have any text messages about Sandy Hook. Is this something you knew?
Jones gave his phone to his lawyers.
He said it was his "Perry Mason" moment.
Do you know what perjury is? Bankston wanted to know.
Jones said yes. I'm not a techie.
On the second day of his testimony, Jones was cross-examined by a lawyer.
Jones wanted to portray himself as a victim who had been typecast for claiming that the Sandy Hook shooting was staged.
Jones, the only witness called by his defense team, began by complaining about media outlets that refuse to report that he now believes that the massacre happened.
Jones told his lawyer that it was 100% real.
Neil Heslin and Jesse Lewis' parents told the jury that false claims that the attack did not happen have made their lives a living hell.
Jones and his company Free Speech Systems are being sued for $150 million by Heslin and Lewis for the harassment they've received as a result of the conspiracy theory spread by Jones and his guests on the far-right website.
Jones was asked what he thought about the shooting.
I believe Sandy Hook did happen. He said that he thought it was a cover-up. The FBI was aware of it happening.
Under cross-examination, Bankston asked Jones about statements that have been made on Infowars during the trial, including the suggestion that Judge Maya Guerra Gamble is rigging the proceedings with an actual script, and that she is involved in a pedophile ring.
Jones was asked if the statements were proof that he was serious about the trial.
Jones said that he thought this was serious as cancer.
Bankston asked Jones about the mass shootings in Las Vegas, Florida, and Texas, as well as the Boston Marathon bombing.
Gamble reminded Jones to answer only the questions he was asked during his testimony on Tuesday.
The judge said this wasn't your show.
The case is going to be decided by a jury. Deliberations are expected to continue on Thursday.
The lawyers for the plaintiffs did not show the entire amount of video footage entered into evidence, but presented just 9 minutes of the jury's time.
The rebuttal said that the lawyers chose not to play for the jury video segments unrelated to Sandy Hook.
I don't know why I'd play you his conspiracy theories about frog being gay. I don't know why I'd play that to you. "People don't want to see that," he said.
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