Alex Jones was not in a Connecticut courtroom today as a nearly $1 billion judgement was read against him in the defamation case brought by families of children murdered in the Sandy Hook School Shooting, whom he has repeatedly and erroneously accused of being so-called crisis actors.
But Jones did find the time to do a simulcast mocking the judgement — and by extension the families — as it was read. “$50 million! $80 million!
Blah, Blah. You get a million! You get a $100 million! You get $50 million!” he shouted as anguished family members cried on screen even as the settlements were awarded them. “Do these people actually think they’re getting any of this money?”As the jury reads the damages and the Sandy Hook parents weep, Alex Jones is on his broadcast, laughing and assuring his audience that he won't actually be paying any of this money. "Do these people actually think they're getting any of this money?" pic.twitter.com/k9brmHaBWC “Ain’t gonna be happening.
Ain’t no money,” he later said, claiming he was in bankruptcy. Appealing to his audience to send him donations Jones promised, “The money you donate does not go to these people [the victims].
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