In America, there was once a thing called free speech.
On Wednesday a Connecticut jury reached a verdict in the Alex Jones case and ordered the conservative author and TV host to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to the Sandy Hook families for something he said back in 2014.
Jones was ordered to pay $965 million to the families. That’s insane!
Jones allegedly owes $229 million to just the first three plaintiffs, all family members of Sandy Hook victims.
This is a travesty. Jone is not a killer. He is not a criminal. He was wrong on a report.So, will the fake news channels ever be forced to pay for their COVID lies that resulted in millions of deaths and ruined lives?
Following the jury verdict, Alex Jones called into Steve Bannon’s War Room show.
Alex Jones: I’m worth less than $5 million. You’re trying to claim I’m worth billions of dollars. The jury believes it and they sit there for over 20 minutes, actually it took about 30, to read out 15 plaintiffs including an FBI agent, never said his name, never showed a photo of him, and didn’t know who he was until he sued me. And now the Texas Secretary of State who is a Republican is talking about suing me for questioning election fraud. I didn’t even focus on Texas. I focused on the national deal. They said that Jones released hell on us. And now any government bureaucrats is talking about they’re going to sue anybody if they ever get a threatening phone call or ever get a bad email. It’s Steve Bannon’s fault, it’s Donald Trump’s fault, it’s Alex Jones’s fault. This is a new legal strategy the ambulance chasers are creating. And just like a said 4 years ago on these platforms, “You’ll be next America!” … I’m just the first domino to fall. I’m worried about everyone else right now.