Conspiracy theorist and Trump superfan Alex Jones suffered one other setback on Tuesday after the conservative-majority Supreme Courtroom denied his attraction of the $1.4 billion defamation judgement in opposition to him after he promoted debunked falsehoods in regards to the Sandy Hook Elementary College capturing in 2012.
Jones was sued after households and members of legislation enforcement had been harassed by listeners of Jones’ Infowars, the place he claimed that the capturing was a staged occasion with disaster actors. They had been awarded after testifying in regards to the extreme emotional misery attributable to Jones’ defamation.
Invoice Sherlach, husband of Mary, one of many Sandy Hook College capturing victims, speaks to the media after the defamation trial in opposition to Alex Jones in October 2022.
“We look forward to enforcing the jury’s historic verdict and making Jones and Infowars pay for what they have done,” Chris Mattei, a lawyer for the households, mentioned in an announcement.
Jones’ attorneys unsuccessfully argued that his defamatory lies had been protected by the First Modification.
Whereas searching for aid within the Supreme Courtroom, Jones has additionally been assembly with the Trump administration. After Jones met with Pardon Legal professional Ed Martin, he despatched a letter in September to former FBI Particular Agent William Aldenberg.
Martin’s letter—that includes Division of Justice letterhead—basically accused Aldenberg of pursuing authorized motion in opposition to Jones with the assistance of Democrats. Martin later retracted his letter.
On the identical time, Jones has been complaining about Trump mishandling the Epstein recordsdata scandal. Jones was among the many most vocal on the correct echoing Trump’s claims that the Epstein recordsdata would reveal sinister secrets and techniques in regards to the world elite. However now that Trump is refusing to launch the recordsdata, Jones has lashed out, calling Trump’s stonewalling “just crazy.”
Jones has spent a long time pushing lies about practically each occasion in world historical past, with out concern for the hurt performed to harmless individuals. Now he’s on the hook for a whole bunch of thousands and thousands of {dollars}—and he can’t even depend on the pro-Trump Supreme Courtroom to assist him out.
