Alex Jones is in the middle of his second defamation trial regarding his comments about the Sandy Hook shooting. Jones wasn't in Connecticut for the trial.
After peddling misinformation and conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, Alex Jones is facing another defamation trial. Jones was found guilty of defamation in Texas last month and was ordered to pay nearly $50 million in damages.
The trial got off to a rocky start before opening statements were even made. Three years of data on website traffic and purchases were not accounted for by Jones because he did not turn over the data from the previous year. The defendants were sanctioned by the Judge Barbara Bellis because she didn't want them to argue that Free Speech Systems didn't profit from Jones' comments.
Chris Mattei began his opening remarks by analyzing Jones' business model of appealing to his audience's fear, anxiety, and paranoia Alex Jones used to sell products like chemical filters and fertility drugs because his audience failed to remember that he was not a journalist. The day after the Sandy Hook shooting, Jones said that the shooting was a lie. The damage that Jones has done has been overstated by the people who sued him.
Jones faced a nine-day trial in his home state of Texas, where he admitted that the shooting was fake. The legal team sent a copy of his phone records to the other side. Jones claimed yesterday on his website that he would be going to Connecticut in the near future.
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