Alex Jones’ Connecticut trial is the latest, but not the last, of the legal fallout from his Sandy Hook hoax claims
Infowars host Alex Jones is again facing a jury, the latest in a long series of legal troubles still to come for the shock jock.
Weeks after he was ordered to pay millions in damages to the parents of a Sandy Hook victim for spreading lies that the 2012 mass shooting was a hoax, Infowars host Alex Jones is again facing a jury, the latest in a long series of legal troubles still to come for the shock jock.
Jones is currently on trial in Waterbury, Connecticut, about 20 miles from Newtown, where the shooting took place. A jury is being asked to decide how much he should pay in damages to the families of eight Sandy Hook shooting victims and an FBI agent who responded to the attack, all of whom say his lies about the shooting caused them suffering. A judge has already issued a default judgment of liability against Jones because he did not comply with the court’s order to turn over records ahead of trial.
This trial is the second of three on the same issue — the first was decided last month and the other is yet to come.
For years, Jones peddled false stories on his radio and online show that one of the deadliest school shootings ever committed was “synthetic” and a “false flag,” and that the families of the victims were “crisis actors.”
Twenty children and six educators were killed after a gunman entered their school and opened fire in Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown on Dec. 14, 2012.
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