Alex Jones to SELL Infowars — what's the main takeaway?
There are some big changes coming for Infowars.
Alex Jones has dropped his efforts to declare bankruptcy and has agreed to liquidate his assets in order to pay the $1.5 billion in damages he owes families of the Sandy Hook mass shooting.
The victims' families had asked a bankruptcy judge in Texas to liquidate Jones’ media empire and Infowars parent company, Free Speech Systems. One attorney representing the families explained that “speech is free, but lies you have to pay for.”
“There’s really no avenue out of this,” Jones said on Sunday. “I’m kind of in the bunker here. And don’t worry, I’ll come back. The enemy can’t help but do this attack.”
Pat Gray is not happy with the outcome.
“It’s unconstitutional, and more people need to be pissed off about this,” Gray says. “You can’t fine a man who doesn’t make anything like that, won’t make that in a lifetime, you can’t fine him 1.5 billion dollars.”
“I don’t like that he thought it was a hoax,” Gray adds, referencing Jones’ previous claim that the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax. “I think it was silly that he thought it was a hoax, but to drive him out of business over it, to sue him for 1.5 billion dollars over it.”
Jeffy notes that there seems to be an ulterior motive here — which is silencing Jones.
“They’ve already done a pretty good job of it,” Gray agrees.
“If there is one case you can point to and say, you can only pick one, ‘this is un-American,’ it’s right here. You are going after a person’s voice with this ridiculous amount of money,” Keith Malinak says. “I don’t care if he told 500 lies about fill in the blank. It’s free speech man.”
“It’s agonizing that America just doesn’t exist in its foundational form anymore,” Gray adds.
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BREAKING: Jury orders Alex Jones to pay $4.1 million to two parents of a Sandy Hook victim for calling it a hoax
A jury ordered talk show radio host Alex Jones to pay $4.1 million in compensatory damages to the parents of a victim of the Sandy Hook massacre for calling it a hoax.
The jury only deliberated for several hours before delivering their order Thursday. Eight of the ten jury members signed the verdict.
Scarlett Lewis and Neil Heslin asked for $150 million in damages when the trial began.
Heslin testified in court that he could not “even begin to describe the last nine-and-a-half years of hell” that the plaintiffs went through on account of Jones' assertions that the shooting was orchestrated by the government.
“It seems so incredible to me that we have to do this,” Lewis said to Jones during the trial. “That we have to implore you — not just implore you, punish you — to get you to stop lying ... It is surreal what is going on in here.”
Lewis and Heslin said they faced a decade of harassment by people believing them to be lying about the massacre because of the claims made by Jones on his show.
Judge Maya Guerra Gamble had already ruled that Jones was liable for defaming Heslin and legally responsible for the emotional distress he inflicted on both Heslin and Lewis.
Among the many stunning moments from the trial was one where an attorney questioning Jones on cross-examination revealed to him that his attorney had accidentally emailed all of the contents of Jones' phones to the prosecution.
Jones appeared to be shocked by the admission but pressed on.
He also admitted during the trial that the attack was not a hoax but "100% real," contrary to some of the statements he had made on his show.
“I unintentionally took part in things that did hurt these people’s feelings,” he added, “and I’m sorry for that.”
Jurors will return on Friday for the punitive damages trial where they may order Jones to pay more to the plaintiffs.
Here's more about the trial against Alex Jones:
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