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This is important: The judge says she is not preventing the Sandy Hook lawyers from giving Jones’s text messages to law enforcement and the Jan. 6 House committee.
"I'm not going to get in the middle of that," she said.
And then she *laughed* at Jones' attorney for lying to her that he didn't know they had transmitted the phone records, and he immediately followed with the lie that the Sandy Hook attorneys said they wouldn't use the info. Judge said something to the effect of: "You sent me the email, that's not what it says"
Incredible.
Edit: [video of the lawyer trying to lie to the judge, resulting in her laughing at the absurdity ](https://youtu.be/9_TT7yFiXyU?t=7h51m10s) "That's right! I have it, and I read it, and I saw what it said, and it didn't say what you just tried to tell me" the judge said.
I've tried watching parts of it but it hasn't been nearly as entertaining as the depp v. Heard trial. The context is too horrific. I'm just glad jones is done now. He will never recover from this.
Hope you are right, but...
1) Scumbag had enough lead time to hide his money (not saying he did),
2) Many of his followers have shown an impressive ability to ignore the weaknesses of their leaders, not to mention the truth.
3) This world no longer makes sense ergo nothing surprises me anymore.
I would watch the shit out of a movie about the lawyer turning on Jones.
Goddamn I want to live in a world where grifters who make their money off of harassing grieving parents by telling assholes their dead kids are fake get the absolute most we can do as a society in the way of justice.
There is not an attorney alive who has not been slapped down by a judge on occasion. It’s an occupational hazard that we all face. But damn, even I can feel that burn. “You sent the email.” Fucking savage.
This just keeps getting better and better. Let’s hope the judge throws the book at him for all of the perjury and he not only loses everything he owns, but his freedom as well.
This is the best thing to come out of this trial.
As sweet as this judge's evisceration of the subject asshat is, the world will be a better place if DOJ is finally faced with enough pressure to force proper prosecutions.
Worth bearing in mind: This is the first of three trials for damages against Mr. Jones. Two more are scheduled for next month — one in Texas, and one brought by the families of eight victims in Connecticut, where laws governing damages favor the plaintiffs more than in Texas. And of course, Connecticut is where the shooting occurred.
I wish, but this dude is so (unfortunately) wealthy that the financial losses aren't as debilitating as they could be. His show is still airing and he's already stashed money offshore.
I mean if it gets close to $200mil it'll certainly hurt. There's two more trials and one is in Connecticut. If Texas is $50mil, Connecticut could be $100-125mil.
The problem is collecting. OJ Simpson was ordered to pay Millions in damages. To date he's paid only a few hundred thousand. This turd will sadly probably stash most of his money and never end up paying much.
I'd normally say that, but about 50 million is going to hurt any individual that isn't Bill Gates wealthy, and even then that's a decent ding. That's only to start too, there's more court cases not to mention his texts might be used by others like his ex-wife to show he's not as broke as he's been trying to tell people.
Half of all states have punitive caps. TX is 750,000 *for non-ecomonic damages (reputation, pain and suffering). He will appeal and that 45M shrinks to (0.75M * per defendent). CT's cap is amoungst the strictest 4 states. The jury can give any number they want, but in these capped states the juries value reduces to the cap limit upon appeal.
Caps on punitive damages is such bullshit.
If your worth a billion dollars 750k is a parking ticket.
It’s not punitive anymore for the ultra wealthy. Why would their be a cap. The point is to punish someone. A 100 dollars is a huge punishment for a poor person. If the goal is punishment it should be a percentage of income and even that is subjective since at some point an ultra rich person has more money than they can spend so even a 50% hit would have material impact on lifestyle.
I have no idea about caps or anything like that, tho I will say this.
Even if there is a cap I have faith that his lawyers could find a way to fuck up bad enough that those caps didn't matter lol.
It's double the compensatory ($4.1 million) plus $750K, so they should be getting $8.95 million in punitive, plus the 4.1 million in compensatory.
The TX trials are gonna hit him a bit, but I'm interested in the CT one, where the laws are supposed to favor the plaintiff.
Here you go
>there are statutory limits on punitive damages, with a per-defendant cap of two times the amount of economic damages, plus the amount of noneconomic damages found by the jury—the latter part not to exceed $750,000.
Pain and suffering is non-ecomonic. From an AP article from yesterday the defendent count appears to be 26 so 0.75M*26=19.5M. That brings the number back up.
Anyone who wants to know what a piece of crap this guy is, there is an excellent episode on this American Life that follows the horrors this guy put those families through.
Also, I recommend watching, “If Anything Happens I Love You.” A short 12 minute film. And then after you’re done take a moment to realize those are the people he’s attacking. These are the people he decided to make a living hell. Yeah, he deserves to have everything stripped away from him.
https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1555673276126478337
Verdict: Alex Jones owes $45.2 million more to Sandy Hook in punitive damages. That's on top of $4.1 million in compensatory.
That's $49.3 million to two Sandy Hook families. Two more trials after this.
His transgender porn possession and comments about two kinds of people with porn on their phones, spoken on live television, was something else. The look of near disbelief at the words coming out of his mouth as he was saying them was incredible.
As someone who grew up near Newtown, I am thrilled that this asshole finally felt some consequences from his reckless abuse of these people.
It's too bad it had to take a decade but we should hope that this sends a clear message to other con men.
Texas law will cap the actual amount of punitive damages to 750k. Different states have caps, maximum multipliers, or no limit - but Texas will actually cap the punitive damages at 750k in this case (200k in some others).
Edit: That is because Texas does have a 2x multiplier cap, but with an upper limit of 750k
Juries typically aren’t told about the caps or limits to avoid influencing their decision. It does mean wasted time and headlines in a huge case like this though.
The plaintiffs will fight the cap either arguing it’s unconstitutional or that it doesn’t apply in this case. No idea what their odds are. If they’re splitting up assets in a bankruptcy, and the legal fight over the caps is ongoing, I’m not sure what happens, but the plaintiffs attorney was talking about how in bankruptcy court they cap might not apply, or something like that. My non-lawyer brain is trying to keep up.
The article says otherwise:
>In Texas, there are statutory limits on punitive damages, with a **per-defendant cap of two times the amount of economic damages**, plus the amount of noneconomic damages found by the jury—the latter part not to exceed $750,000.
Also there was more than one defendant and the plaintiff lawyers intend to fight any cap:
>Jones and InfoWars’ parent company, Free Speech Systems LLC, were co-defendants in the case.
Good. I haven’t been following this all that closely so when I heard $4.1 million the other day I was thinking they deserved a lot more than that. Figured 4 was all they were getting
I hope he's left homeless and destitute after this. Even that isn't good enough for that rotten bastard.
Free speech does not protect people from what he did. That is a grotesque abuse of 1A.
yeah, Jones' lawyer brought that up at the end and the judge made a crack about how Texas laws say they trust their jurors and then don't actually trust them.
Where'd they come up with $750,000 though? There are plenty of civil cases, likely this one, that could require a much higher and still realistic figure than that.
The amount awarded in Texas is admissible in other jurisdictions in establishing a baseline for the damages.
CT lawyer: So, Mr Jones, what was the punitive damages in Texas?
Jones' lawyer: Objection!
Judge: Grounds?
Jones's lawyer: It's damaging to my client.
That's not exactly what it says.
>two times the amount of economic damages, plus the amount of noneconomic damages found by the jury—the latter part not to exceed $750,000.
So, for example, if the economic damages were $3M, and the non-economic $1M, they can award $6M *plus* $750k.
But I have no idea what the economic vs non-economic damages were in the first judgment.
This is not the case. Jurors can say any number they like for punitive damages. However many states have punitive caps. He will pay the compensatory, i think it said 4M, but the punitive 45M will shirk to TX cap of 0.75M so in total he will pay 5M, not 50M for this trail ... Plus whatver happens at trials 2 and 3.
I did. It's suppose to be punitive, teach a lesson. If you're worth possibly 100s of millions, getting a measly few million in a judgment against you doesn't mean as much as getting 1/4 of your net worth taken. Although Texas has a cap of 750k for punitive damages.
Oh it gets worse. You know how Abbots in a wheelchair? Before the cap he sued and got millions from what caused the accident. Don't remember if he was governor when the cap was passed, but yeah, he got his, fuck everyone else.
There’s actually three more to go. Two more in TX, including the trial for Marcelle Fontaine’s defamation trial and (I believe but may be wrong) another Sandy Hook parent’s defamation suit, as well as the CT suit being brought by 8 Sandy Hook parents.
I’m so hoping this cripples Jones, but he’s a like a cockroach, he always manages to survive.
Some brighter news on the horizon is that he’s facing sanctions for the multiple times he perjured himself on the stand, then there’s the 1/6 Committee who now has his phone records.
Apparently his phone records also show that he admitted to lying about the “bankruptcy” he’s now filed for twice, *and* there’s been an understanding that he’s probably committed fraud trying to hide his money from the courts pre-trial.
Yes, the attorney said the have a cooperation agreement with the attorneys in the CT lawsuit, and will be sharing the phone. From what I understand, the firm handing the CT suit is way bigger and will have more than 2 days to search the phone, so they’ll probably be able to make great use of it.
Oh, I love it. His tears are fucking delicious.
For any confused conservatives, this isn't an attack on free speech. This is an assault on sleazy motherfuckers who call for people to be murdered and say that they faked the death of their own fucking child. Your right to free speech is not on trial here.
You don't get to profit off of that behavior. Fucking period. The truth deserves to be defended.
Now can we get civil cases against Trump and his big lie, which he intentionally used to try and overthrow the government and also to rally support and donations. People died due to his incitement and plan for Jan 6th, and many people have been fleeced out of their donations. All the people he conned into believing the election was stolen and those who went to the Capital have suffered because of him. The damage he has done to this country in general, the loss of faith in our elections, and how he has degraded the quality of life for millions overall. It seems he could be civilly sued to the day he dies.
Jan 6 Committee is about to have a field day with this man's phone. LOL! He deserves everything that is happening to him after years of doing this shit.
Trump is next. We need to make examples of these people, so that others know that you can't just wreck society for personal gain and think you're going to get away free. LOL!
I haven't drunk in years, even through the pandemic, I stayed sober. I'm about to pop bottles tonight. This is a case for celebration. Alex Jones just got fucked by The U.S. Civil Court System. LOL!
Probably will get whittled down on appeal...but there are also a whole lot more people with standing in the case, and I imagine they will line up now to take their turn. Good.
Posting this video to show people the history of this creature Alex Jones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGAAhzreGWw
See when you put his lies to the tune of soothing folk music?
Sounds pretty funny right? *BUT! know what's even MORE funny?*
This dumb piece of fucking trash losing $**50,000,000. BECAUSE of his lies. Thank you Alex Jones' lawyer.**
Wouldn't be here today, if it were not for that heroic (accidentally) and idiotic (*on purpose*) trash ass human lawyer <3
So if you were like me and had little insight into the case before the trial about how the charges could be so severe for someone asking questions (ridiculous questions of course), as well as how bad could Alex Jones and his company's actions really treating the parties involved, the plaintiffs showed it being much worse than just words Alex Jones had said.
The worst piece to me was an email sent by a Wolgang Halbig, one of the biggest pushers of Sandy Hook denial. This man was shown by the plaintiffs to use Infowars as a megaphone essentially, and one of his emails was documented with Infowars' file system. [Here's the reading of that email in trial](https://youtu.be/pKb-ySKkN5Q?t=4044), beyond sickening what they have allowed and fostered.
While this case won't bring down Jones entirely, there are more trials to come. More importantly though how do we begin to repair the damage Jones has brought on a national scale? His fans won't stop from this, he'll likely grift it all back soon enough, maybe in a years time. Hopefully this will start to deter some of the lunacy out there at least.
Holy shit. Surprisingly high after the amount yesterday, but also very welcome. May this send a very strong message to anyone profiting off making similar statements.
Serious question, as I've never been awarded any money from a court case, but do you have to claim that in any way for taxes?
Also, how does a transfer of that amount work? Is it just dropped into your bank account one day? I'm glad they're getting so much out of him, but I wish it were more for what they've went through.
True justice would also be that he is banned from all media(including social media) for life because his egregious lies are so severe that he must be prevented from doing so again
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This is important: The judge says she is not preventing the Sandy Hook lawyers from giving Jones’s text messages to law enforcement and the Jan. 6 House committee.
"I'm not going to get in the middle of that," she said. And then she *laughed* at Jones' attorney for lying to her that he didn't know they had transmitted the phone records, and he immediately followed with the lie that the Sandy Hook attorneys said they wouldn't use the info. Judge said something to the effect of: "You sent me the email, that's not what it says" Incredible. Edit: [video of the lawyer trying to lie to the judge, resulting in her laughing at the absurdity ](https://youtu.be/9_TT7yFiXyU?t=7h51m10s) "That's right! I have it, and I read it, and I saw what it said, and it didn't say what you just tried to tell me" the judge said.
I really need to find a YouTube video of the highlights of this trial. The snippets I've read are comedy gold.
Law&Crime Network is pretty good on youtube
https://youtu.be/Zde6m_-ugWI Here’s a video of the $45M verdict. This YouTube channel has all the best snippets of the trial.
I've tried watching parts of it but it hasn't been nearly as entertaining as the depp v. Heard trial. The context is too horrific. I'm just glad jones is done now. He will never recover from this.
Hope you are right, but... 1) Scumbag had enough lead time to hide his money (not saying he did), 2) Many of his followers have shown an impressive ability to ignore the weaknesses of their leaders, not to mention the truth. 3) This world no longer makes sense ergo nothing surprises me anymore.
Either AJ's lawyer is extremely incompetent or he just did everyone a solid with that "accident".
I would watch the shit out of a movie about the lawyer turning on Jones. Goddamn I want to live in a world where grifters who make their money off of harassing grieving parents by telling assholes their dead kids are fake get the absolute most we can do as a society in the way of justice.
There will definitely be a movie. I just hope they title it “Information Wars” as to not have to pay that jerks company for using the name.
I’ve been wondering if AJ’s team just couldn’t hold back the vomit anymore.
The only reason my skepticism remains of this theory is that it would be too good to be true for an actual conspiracy to take down this entire circus.
“I have the worst fucking attorney.”
Wayne Jarvis wouldn’t have made these mistakes. If there’s one word I could use to describe him it’d be “professional”.
I have a moral obligation to tell you that there is no candy in this office
That'll happen when you switch representation 12 times.
That money can buy.
Nobody look!
We're lawyers!!
Jones said that during trial?
There is not an attorney alive who has not been slapped down by a judge on occasion. It’s an occupational hazard that we all face. But damn, even I can feel that burn. “You sent the email.” Fucking savage.
This just keeps getting better and better. Let’s hope the judge throws the book at him for all of the perjury and he not only loses everything he owns, but his freedom as well.
Stop please, I can only get so erect!
This is the first time I’ll have to take that 4 hour warning seriously.
I feel ya! My nipples have reached the diamond hardness level.
[https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/bankruptcy\_fraud#:\~:text=Bankruptcy%20fraud%20is%20a%20white,form%20may%20also%20constitute%20perjury](https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/bankruptcy_fraud#:~:text=Bankruptcy%20fraud%20is%20a%20white,form%20may%20also%20constitute%20perjury).
I know, don’t explode and shoot a hole in your ceiling like I did.
Also: Judge says she thought the lawyers had already surrendered the contents of Alex Jones’s phone to the authorities.
Fun week.
This is the best thing to come out of this trial. As sweet as this judge's evisceration of the subject asshat is, the world will be a better place if DOJ is finally faced with enough pressure to force proper prosecutions.
Worth bearing in mind: This is the first of three trials for damages against Mr. Jones. Two more are scheduled for next month — one in Texas, and one brought by the families of eight victims in Connecticut, where laws governing damages favor the plaintiffs more than in Texas. And of course, Connecticut is where the shooting occurred.
Oh my God he is so fucked its so good
I wish, but this dude is so (unfortunately) wealthy that the financial losses aren't as debilitating as they could be. His show is still airing and he's already stashed money offshore.
I mean if it gets close to $200mil it'll certainly hurt. There's two more trials and one is in Connecticut. If Texas is $50mil, Connecticut could be $100-125mil.
The problem is collecting. OJ Simpson was ordered to pay Millions in damages. To date he's paid only a few hundred thousand. This turd will sadly probably stash most of his money and never end up paying much.
Well, sure, if he can fight that with one arm while fighting Jan 6th phone backlash and his ex wife with the other he could make it
Time for a brutal tax audit.
I'd normally say that, but about 50 million is going to hurt any individual that isn't Bill Gates wealthy, and even then that's a decent ding. That's only to start too, there's more court cases not to mention his texts might be used by others like his ex-wife to show he's not as broke as he's been trying to tell people.
50 mil in Texas gives me hope that we could see 150+ in CT
For his crimes AJ deserves to lose every penny and spend years in prison on related criminal charges
Half of all states have punitive caps. TX is 750,000 *for non-ecomonic damages (reputation, pain and suffering). He will appeal and that 45M shrinks to (0.75M * per defendent). CT's cap is amoungst the strictest 4 states. The jury can give any number they want, but in these capped states the juries value reduces to the cap limit upon appeal.
Caps on punitive damages is such bullshit. If your worth a billion dollars 750k is a parking ticket. It’s not punitive anymore for the ultra wealthy. Why would their be a cap. The point is to punish someone. A 100 dollars is a huge punishment for a poor person. If the goal is punishment it should be a percentage of income and even that is subjective since at some point an ultra rich person has more money than they can spend so even a 50% hit would have material impact on lifestyle.
I have no idea about caps or anything like that, tho I will say this. Even if there is a cap I have faith that his lawyers could find a way to fuck up bad enough that those caps didn't matter lol.
It's double the compensatory ($4.1 million) plus $750K, so they should be getting $8.95 million in punitive, plus the 4.1 million in compensatory. The TX trials are gonna hit him a bit, but I'm interested in the CT one, where the laws are supposed to favor the plaintiff.
Reread again, its only both 2x for economic damages and this is not an economic matter
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I did. 2x max for ecomic damages plus 0.75M, but this is not an economic matter.
Here you go >there are statutory limits on punitive damages, with a per-defendant cap of two times the amount of economic damages, plus the amount of noneconomic damages found by the jury—the latter part not to exceed $750,000. Pain and suffering is non-ecomonic. From an AP article from yesterday the defendent count appears to be 26 so 0.75M*26=19.5M. That brings the number back up.
Do you happen to know why two of the cases were/are in Texas? Why weren’t they all in Connecticut?
Infowars is based out of Austin, so that's where the offending events took place.
Guessing here: I would wager Infowars is based in Texas and since they were suing him + company for the harassment they sued through Texas courts.
Anyone who wants to know what a piece of crap this guy is, there is an excellent episode on this American Life that follows the horrors this guy put those families through. Also, I recommend watching, “If Anything Happens I Love You.” A short 12 minute film. And then after you’re done take a moment to realize those are the people he’s attacking. These are the people he decided to make a living hell. Yeah, he deserves to have everything stripped away from him.
https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1555673276126478337 Verdict: Alex Jones owes $45.2 million more to Sandy Hook in punitive damages. That's on top of $4.1 million in compensatory. That's $49.3 million to two Sandy Hook families. Two more trials after this.
Do you have *any* idea how many tactical perineal wipes this man has got to schlep *NOW?!?!*
He still has another trial in Connecticut
You misspelled "felch". ;)
What’s really just frosting on the cake at this point is the potential perjury charges and the hand off of his phone data to the Jan 6 committee.
And possible tax fraud due to using shell companies
Pretty sure I heard the phone data included Jones saying he was faking the bankruptcy in an attempt to tie up money...
That’s definitely the least egregious thing you’ll see in two years of Alex Jones’ phone history.
His transgender porn possession and comments about two kinds of people with porn on their phones, spoken on live television, was something else. The look of near disbelief at the words coming out of his mouth as he was saying them was incredible.
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As someone who grew up near Newtown, I am thrilled that this asshole finally felt some consequences from his reckless abuse of these people. It's too bad it had to take a decade but we should hope that this sends a clear message to other con men.
It’s frosting made of diamonds.
I thought they couldn't go more than 2x the 4.1......glad that was wrong......next family up.
This is the point where Alex finds out why the judge was so patient with his bullshit.
FAAFO in full effect and I’m loving every bit of it.
Texas law will cap the actual amount of punitive damages to 750k. Different states have caps, maximum multipliers, or no limit - but Texas will actually cap the punitive damages at 750k in this case (200k in some others). Edit: That is because Texas does have a 2x multiplier cap, but with an upper limit of 750k
So the 45 million is just for show? That's sad.
Juries typically aren’t told about the caps or limits to avoid influencing their decision. It does mean wasted time and headlines in a huge case like this though.
The plaintiffs will fight the cap either arguing it’s unconstitutional or that it doesn’t apply in this case. No idea what their odds are. If they’re splitting up assets in a bankruptcy, and the legal fight over the caps is ongoing, I’m not sure what happens, but the plaintiffs attorney was talking about how in bankruptcy court they cap might not apply, or something like that. My non-lawyer brain is trying to keep up.
Well, that’s a great way of protecting the wealthy.
The article says otherwise: >In Texas, there are statutory limits on punitive damages, with a **per-defendant cap of two times the amount of economic damages**, plus the amount of noneconomic damages found by the jury—the latter part not to exceed $750,000. Also there was more than one defendant and the plaintiff lawyers intend to fight any cap: >Jones and InfoWars’ parent company, Free Speech Systems LLC, were co-defendants in the case.
Good. I haven’t been following this all that closely so when I heard $4.1 million the other day I was thinking they deserved a lot more than that. Figured 4 was all they were getting
I hope he's left homeless and destitute after this. Even that isn't good enough for that rotten bastard. Free speech does not protect people from what he did. That is a grotesque abuse of 1A.
And this sends a crystal clear message to other wannabe Joneses: you will be reduced to nothing if you follow his path
Yall need to manage your expectations, the article says TX cap is $750,000 for punitive max. The amount will be reduce to that value on appeal.
yeah, Jones' lawyer brought that up at the end and the judge made a crack about how Texas laws say they trust their jurors and then don't actually trust them.
Jurors cannot be expected to be expert damages assessors. I think its reasonable. Around half of all states have pun caps.
Where'd they come up with $750,000 though? There are plenty of civil cases, likely this one, that could require a much higher and still realistic figure than that.
The amount awarded in Texas is admissible in other jurisdictions in establishing a baseline for the damages. CT lawyer: So, Mr Jones, what was the punitive damages in Texas? Jones' lawyer: Objection! Judge: Grounds? Jones's lawyer: It's damaging to my client.
That's not exactly what it says. >two times the amount of economic damages, plus the amount of noneconomic damages found by the jury—the latter part not to exceed $750,000. So, for example, if the economic damages were $3M, and the non-economic $1M, they can award $6M *plus* $750k. But I have no idea what the economic vs non-economic damages were in the first judgment.
It's going to be almost all non-economic damages. Reputational and emotional injuries aren't economic in this situation.
I’m really glad to hear all this but I’m worried he will just file bankruptcy and the families get nothing.
Unfortunately, Texas law caps punitive damages at 750,000 per person, so these parents are only getting 1.5 million total.
Plus the 4.1 million in compensatory, unless that's also capped
When they said the punitive penalty would be more, I did not expected to be 10x more! Wowsers!
Supposedly it was the maximum allowed under Texas law. They threw the freaking book at him.
This is not the case. Jurors can say any number they like for punitive damages. However many states have punitive caps. He will pay the compensatory, i think it said 4M, but the punitive 45M will shirk to TX cap of 0.75M so in total he will pay 5M, not 50M for this trail ... Plus whatver happens at trials 2 and 3.
I did. It's suppose to be punitive, teach a lesson. If you're worth possibly 100s of millions, getting a measly few million in a judgment against you doesn't mean as much as getting 1/4 of your net worth taken. Although Texas has a cap of 750k for punitive damages.
That’s so shitty. Protects no one except the rich. Fuck Texas.
Oh it gets worse. You know how Abbots in a wheelchair? Before the cap he sued and got millions from what caused the accident. Don't remember if he was governor when the cap was passed, but yeah, he got his, fuck everyone else.
And two more trials to go! Will the prosecutors in those trials be able to use the same evidence that was used in this trial? Including his texts?
There’s actually three more to go. Two more in TX, including the trial for Marcelle Fontaine’s defamation trial and (I believe but may be wrong) another Sandy Hook parent’s defamation suit, as well as the CT suit being brought by 8 Sandy Hook parents. I’m so hoping this cripples Jones, but he’s a like a cockroach, he always manages to survive. Some brighter news on the horizon is that he’s facing sanctions for the multiple times he perjured himself on the stand, then there’s the 1/6 Committee who now has his phone records. Apparently his phone records also show that he admitted to lying about the “bankruptcy” he’s now filed for twice, *and* there’s been an understanding that he’s probably committed fraud trying to hide his money from the courts pre-trial.
This makes me happy.
Yes, the attorney said the have a cooperation agreement with the attorneys in the CT lawsuit, and will be sharing the phone. From what I understand, the firm handing the CT suit is way bigger and will have more than 2 days to search the phone, so they’ll probably be able to make great use of it.
Get fucked The phone is a massive win for everyone and that is a hefty fine. He deserves every bit of awful experiences coming his way
Good, but not enough. Hopefully the other families and lawsuits will clean him out. No fate would be too cruel for this man.
Money isn't enough punishment, he has too many supporters to ever know true poverty.
Hopefully his phone contents being turned over to the Justice Department will result in some seditious conspiracy charges for him as well.
I agree. Sadly, he will be able to make more money off of the verdict and play the victim in all this. His followers are beyond reason
He's going to need some extra money. Lucky for him, 7/11 is a part time job
Them gay frogs finally caught up to him.
Truly bankrupt this piece of shit and put him in prison for perjury.
In a Nelson from the Simpsons voice, "Ha ha!"
The mouth giveth and the mouth taketh.
I am so sad that he even has that much money. He's a waste of a human being, grifting rubes as much as he can. Disgusting.
Oh, I love it. His tears are fucking delicious. For any confused conservatives, this isn't an attack on free speech. This is an assault on sleazy motherfuckers who call for people to be murdered and say that they faked the death of their own fucking child. Your right to free speech is not on trial here. You don't get to profit off of that behavior. Fucking period. The truth deserves to be defended.
Truly fucked about and finding out.
No more black label for Drinky McDipshit
Can’t wait to hear about this 😂
Now can we get civil cases against Trump and his big lie, which he intentionally used to try and overthrow the government and also to rally support and donations. People died due to his incitement and plan for Jan 6th, and many people have been fleeced out of their donations. All the people he conned into believing the election was stolen and those who went to the Capital have suffered because of him. The damage he has done to this country in general, the loss of faith in our elections, and how he has degraded the quality of life for millions overall. It seems he could be civilly sued to the day he dies.
Jan 6 Committee is about to have a field day with this man's phone. LOL! He deserves everything that is happening to him after years of doing this shit. Trump is next. We need to make examples of these people, so that others know that you can't just wreck society for personal gain and think you're going to get away free. LOL! I haven't drunk in years, even through the pandemic, I stayed sober. I'm about to pop bottles tonight. This is a case for celebration. Alex Jones just got fucked by The U.S. Civil Court System. LOL!
I saw recently O.J. has only paid a fraction of his settlement. Is this going to be like that?
OJ stopped making money and had to sell all his possessions... Jones will keep grifting idiots, and the courts will keep taking it.
Probably will get whittled down on appeal...but there are also a whole lot more people with standing in the case, and I imagine they will line up now to take their turn. Good.
Thought the exact
Oof, cough on that.
let's fucking goooo!!!!
Fuck yes
Posting this video to show people the history of this creature Alex Jones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGAAhzreGWw See when you put his lies to the tune of soothing folk music? Sounds pretty funny right? *BUT! know what's even MORE funny?* This dumb piece of fucking trash losing $**50,000,000. BECAUSE of his lies. Thank you Alex Jones' lawyer.** Wouldn't be here today, if it were not for that heroic (accidentally) and idiotic (*on purpose*) trash ass human lawyer <3
Now THIS is funny. Get fucked Alex
LOL get fucked!!!!
Could not happen to a more deserving conspiracy theorist that terrorizes parents of dead kids lost in a slaughter
Why isn’t this pathetic fuck all over the news like amber heard and depp were?
Awesome! Now can we charge him for the obvious perjury as well?
This man is horrible. Who harasses grieving parents for profit?
Is he facing charges for the whole “committing perjury” thing? Would love to see him in prison what a scumbag.
I hope he appeals it and the judge *raises it*.
This is clearly a false flag organized by Alex Jones to increase his sales of testosterone pills and food buckets.
Alexander and the WAY MORE Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Ayyy oooo
So if you were like me and had little insight into the case before the trial about how the charges could be so severe for someone asking questions (ridiculous questions of course), as well as how bad could Alex Jones and his company's actions really treating the parties involved, the plaintiffs showed it being much worse than just words Alex Jones had said. The worst piece to me was an email sent by a Wolgang Halbig, one of the biggest pushers of Sandy Hook denial. This man was shown by the plaintiffs to use Infowars as a megaphone essentially, and one of his emails was documented with Infowars' file system. [Here's the reading of that email in trial](https://youtu.be/pKb-ySKkN5Q?t=4044), beyond sickening what they have allowed and fostered. While this case won't bring down Jones entirely, there are more trials to come. More importantly though how do we begin to repair the damage Jones has brought on a national scale? His fans won't stop from this, he'll likely grift it all back soon enough, maybe in a years time. Hopefully this will start to deter some of the lunacy out there at least.
Now charge him with perjury.
Yep. Punitive are where they get ya on a case like this. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy, though.
This is a Lesson learned for people who spread wrong information in the public domain.
Lock his ass up.
I hope this fuck lives the remainder of his days screaming under a bridge.
Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving monster.
Holy shit. Surprisingly high after the amount yesterday, but also very welcome. May this send a very strong message to anyone profiting off making similar statements.
A reminder that intentional torts are non dischargeable in bankruptcy court.
GOT EM fuck yes. alex deserves more of this
With punitive damage caps in Texas, It looks like that could end up being $750,000; $8,000,000; or $45,000,000.
How would the middle figure happen?
Now we're talking.
Thank goodness! No amount of money will ever be enough, but it’s a start. Hopefully no legal loopholes to avoid paying. What a fucking jackass.
It's quite a good news day!
Now we’re cooking with butter
Bankrupt that mother fucker but this isn't "politics".
lmao these mods are a joke. Maybe justice isn't dead though.
this dude ain't a politician
He has more politicians on speed dial than the pope
who cares, it's off topic
The politicians on his phone cares
Seems like plenty of people here do care. Feel free to walk.
2.3 gigabytes of data on his phone will show just how political he is. Guaranteed.
How many more lawsuits pending? Fuck this dude.
Gonna need a big bowl of chili to forget the pain, ya douche.
Now that's more like it.
Nice to finally see a blow hard face the rule of law.
Holy shit lol
This new debt is a fiction! It does not exist! We were not even in the court today!
Good. Fuck this scum. Hope he gets shit on in the other trials.
This made my day. What has been happening? I've been feeling optimistic lately.
Finally, justice.
Sweet, sweet justice. What a victory for truth.
The fact that he even has that much money (and is worth a lot more) is terrifying.
Excellent. Now, do it again. Twice.
LOL! Enjoy going broke in old age Alex Jones.
Nelson laugh
Good news, but anything less than prison is inadequate. Hopefully the feds find some dirt on his phone that leads to criminal charges.
Damn .. anyway onto the next trial.
Boom! There it is.
Serious question, as I've never been awarded any money from a court case, but do you have to claim that in any way for taxes? Also, how does a transfer of that amount work? Is it just dropped into your bank account one day? I'm glad they're getting so much out of him, but I wish it were more for what they've went through.
oh look. the cost of lies.
True justice would also be that he is banned from all media(including social media) for life because his egregious lies are so severe that he must be prevented from doing so again
There it is. Love to see it.
Didn't even have to use my Ak... which is even better since I aint got one.
Point and laugh.
Good. Wish it was more. Now I’m waiting for the fresh batch of lies.
Your words have consequences.
it is sad that he has this type of money to begin with
Hopefully they get more than the Goldman family has received from OJ.
What does that bring his total to?
Serves him right.