Aaron Rodgers responds to CNN report on Sandy Hook beliefs

New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers responded Thursday to a CNN report that he cast doubt on the veracity of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, which killed 20 children and six adults.

New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers responded Thursday to a CNN report that he cast doubt on the veracity of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, which killed 20 children and six adults.

CNN reported Wednesday that Rodgers, the sure-fire Hall of Fame signal caller, has privately espoused the patently false theory — that the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, "was actually a government inside job and the media was intentionally ignoring it."

The Sandy Hook shooter carried out his massacre before he turned a gun on himself. Earlier that day, he killed his mother at the home they shared. The shooting was, at the time, the second-deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. after the 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech.

CNN's Pamela Brown said she clearly remembers Rodgers telling her, at a 2013 Kentucky Derby party, that Sandy Hook was a staged government event.

In the CNN article, Brown recalls Rodgers' asking her about "men in black in the woods by the school. " 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/aaron-rodgers-responds-cnn-report-sandy-hook-beliefs-rcna143445

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