John Oliver gleefully mocks Alex Jones over trial screw-up: 'To wake up one morning and find out that Alex Jones’ lawyers mistakenly shared his cell phone records is a true blessing. We don’t deserve this, but one thing’s for sure: he definitely does.'
The jury awarded Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, the parents of slain 6-year-old Jesse Lewis, $45.2 million in punitive damages and $4.1 million in compensatory damages. Jones, 48, is facing additional defamation suits in Connecticut, the state where the mass shooting took place, and Texas.
After describing Jones as “a man who boldly answers the question: what if Grimace were a Proud Boy?”, Oliver exclaimed, “Guess what, Alex? You fucked with info and this time info fucking won,” later adding, “And the way he’s handled this trial is almost a master class in what not to do in court.” For starters, as Oliver pointed out, the judge became so “exasperated” with Jones’ lying in court that she at one point stopped the proceedings to address it, telling him, “It seems absurd to instruct you again that you must tell the truth while you testify, but here I am: YouThat hasn’t stopped Jones, who continued to appear on his truth-averse Infowars show during the trial, where he, according to Oliver, “baselessly linked [the judge] to pedophilia” and suggested that his political enemies...
He concluded: “Look, clearly, none of this is going to stop him. There are two more trials coming up, and he’s probably going to find ways to turn those into a clown show as well and fundraise off them too. But at the very least, this phone thing could make his life much more difficult—and for a while. And that is something that we should all be allowed to enjoy, because to wake up one morning and find out that Alex Jones’ lawyers mistakenly shared his cell phone records is a true blessing.
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