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A jury in Texas decided Thursday that Alex Jones must pay $4.1 million in damages to the parents of a Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim who were wrongly accused of lying.
Alex Jones tried to answer questions about his emails.
The parents of Jesse Heslin, who was killed in the 2012 Connecticut shooting, asked a jury to award $150 million in a defamation case against Jones.
The family was awarded $4.1 million in damages and a trial is expected to award more.
At one point in the trial, Jones stated that any penalty over $2 million would sink the group.
Net worth of Jones and Infowars will be the focus of the trial.
During the trial, Jones admitted that he believes the Sandy Hook massacre is real, after years of promoting conspiracy theories that the shooting was a hoax. A Connecticut judge has held Jones liable in a defamation case brought by other families. Jones was found liable by default last year after he refused to turn over financial records and other documents to the court, but jurors deliberated this week in the damages portion of his trial.
There were strange things happening inside and out of the courtroom during the Texas trial. Mark Bankston found out that Jones' lawyers accidentally sent him two years' worth of his phone records. Jones was accused of perjury by Bankston after he testified that he did not use email and that he did not mention Sandy Hook in his text messages. On his radio show this week, Jones said that the judge and the attorneys in the case are demonic.
According to Alex Jones' lawyers, they forwarded his "damning text" to opposing counsel.
Alex Jones said that the trial judge was possessed just before he was set to testify.
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