Alex Jones testifies in trial over his Sandy Hook hoax lies
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones took the stand Thursday at his defamation trial in Connecticut as he tries to limit the damages he must pay for promoting the lie that the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre was a hoax.
“Mr. Jones, if someone were to falsely claim that a group of families who had lost loved ones were actors and had faked the deaths of their loved ones, that would be a horrible thing to say, correct?” Mattei asked Jones before showing the video.Jones was found liable last year by default for damages to plaintiffs without a trial, as punishment for what the judge called his repeated failures to turn over documents to their lawyers.
On his show, he has called the trial an attack on free speech and when asked Thursday how important he felt the proceeding was, he answered, “I think this is historic.” “This is not the appropriate forum for you to offer that testimony,” Bellis said. Jones indicated that he understood. Jones also has been found liable by default in two similar lawsuits over the hoax lies in his hometown of Austin, Texas, where a jury in one of the trials ordered Jones last month toin damages to the parents of one of the children killed. A third trial in Texas is expected to begin near the end of the year.
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