Alex Jones on Wednesday was ordered to pay $965 million to people who suffered from his false claim that the Sandy Hook Elementary School was a hoax. The conspiracy theorist was sued by the relatives of five children, three educators killed in the incident and plus an FBI agent who was among the first responders to the scene. A Texas jury in August awarded nearly $50 million to the parents of another slain child.
The mass shooting in the Sandy Hook Elementary School took place on December 14. Twenty children and six adults died.
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What did Alex Jones say about the Sandy Hook school shooting?
Alex Jones on his radio show Infowars claimed that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax. He further said that it was staged by the government so they could “go after our guns” and “start a civil war.”
Jones also called the shooting ‘completely false’ and accused the grieving parents of being “crisis actors”.
Jones was removed from all major social media platforms in 2018. He refused to provide evidence in the Sandy Hook litigation. However, lawyers of the families managed to get some of his clips.
“My gut is, with the timing and everything that happened, this is staged. And you know I’ve been saying the last few months, get ready for big mass shootings, and then magically, it happens. Folks, we got to get private investigators up to Sandy Hook right now. Because I’m telling you this — this stinks to highest heaven,” the 48-year-old can be heard saying in one clip.
“We’re sorry for everybody’s losses, whatever. We’re investigating this, though. It’s as phony as a $3 bill,” he adds.
Alex Jones then compared the government to Hitler and called the shooting ‘ a drill’.
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“You’ve got parents laughing — ‘hahaha’ — and then they walk over to the camera and go ‘boo hoo hoo,’ and not just one but a bunch of parents doing this and then photos of kids that are still alive they said died? I mean, they think we’re so dumb. Why did Hitler blow up the Reichstag — to get control! Why do governments stage these things — to get our guns! Why can’t people get that through their head? I watched the footage, and it looks like a drill.”
