Alex Jones mocks $965M Sandy Hook verdict: ‘We’re not scared and we’re not going to stop’
Global News
"These families have been patient and they will make Alex Jones pay every last dollar that he has," said a lawyer representing the Sandy Hook families.
As a Connecticut jury on Wednesday ordered Alex Jones to pay nearly US$1 billion in compensatory damages to the families of several Sandy Hook victims, Jones went live in an “emergency” broadcast on his Infowars website.
Jones, who was not present in the courtroom, cracked jokes as he lost track of the $965 million verdict, which was announced case-by-case. During the Infowars livestream, Jones, 48, claimed he had no real intention of paying the damages owed to the Sandy Hook families.
“Do these people actually think they’re getting any of this money?” Jones asked, according to NBC reporter Brandy Zadrozny.
In a short clip Zadrozny shared to Twitter, Jones is seen mocking the families as several parents weep in the courtroom.
The $965-million verdict is the second big judgment against the Infowars host for spreading the myth that the massacre never happened and that the grieving families seen in news coverage were actors hired as part of a plot to take away people’s guns.
The verdict came in a defamation lawsuit filed by the relatives of five children and three educators killed in the 2012 shooting, plus an FBI agent who was among the first responders. A Texas jury in August awarded nearly $50 million to the parents of another slain child.
“Why not make it trillions?” Jones also joked during the livestream.