The families of Sandy Hook victims have rejected a desperate attempt
by Alex jones to settle their defamation lawsuit against him.
Now, he offered them.
What I would argue is a tiny amount of money, and
they got together and every single one of them said, no way.
Let me give you the details.
Jones offered to give each plaintiff $120,000, which the families
unanimously rejected, In court filings, they said the offer was a transparent,
and desperate attempt by Alex jones to escape a public reckoning,
under oath with his deceitful, profit driven campaign,
against the plaintiffs, and the memory of their loved ones lost at Sandy Hook.
Now, this is a story we've been following,
Alex jones decided to engaged in some of the most horrific
defamatory content, calling the Sandy Hook massacre a hoax,
referring to parents who lost their children as crisis actors.
And what did that lead to?
It led to all sorts of audience members harassing these individuals,
harassing these people who lost their own children.
There's the Posner family.
They had to move seven times,
because of the credible death threats they were dealing with.
In fact, some members of Alex jones's audience,
had to deal with prosecution as a result of the threats,
that they were directing toward the families of the Sandy Hook victims.
It's just keep in mind, that massacre left 28 people dead, two injured.
Okay. There were 18 Children,
innocent Children who died as a result of that.
And you have Alex Jones profiting off of his defamatory content,
in regard to these families.
Now, also offering them $120,000 is a joke, especially when
you look at how much Alex Jones profits from his garbage programming.
Here's a recent headline from rolling stone, Alex Jones raked in $165
million dollars over three years selling supplements and prepper gear.
Let's just say listen, I get the desire to be healthy,
everyone wants like a magic cure for whatever ails them, and
sometimes those commercials for those whatever supplement can be very enticing.
I would just take a good hard look,
at the sweaty toothed madman who's shilling for these supplements.
I don't look at Alex jones and think that guy nailed it.
Yeah. He looks like he's super healthy mind,
body soul totally gets it.
No, not really.
I can't believe he makes that much money of selling these supplements.
Now let's get back to the defamation suit.
Because Alex jones did lose the defamation suit.
And it's his own doing, it's not only because of the fact that he engaged in
defamation, but because he just refused to cooperate with the lawsuit.
He refused to hand over documents in the discovery portion of the suit, and so
to give you the details on that the settlement offer in the Connecticut case
came from jones personally, and a constellation of companies associated with
him including free speech systems info wars, health and prison Planet tv,
It also included something approaching an apology from jones, reading in full Mr.
jones extends his heartfelt apology for any distress his remarks caused.
Well that apology wasn't good enough for these family members,
they did not wanna settle.
Now the families sued Jones in a Connecticut court back in 2018 for
repeatedly claiming on air that the shooting was a giant hoax to
advance a gun control agenda.
They won a default judgment against him in November,
Sandy Hook families in a separate case against Jones in
Texas also won a default judgment against him in October.
Now why is it a default judgment?
Again because of the fact that he refused to cooperate, with the court.
When you're being sued and you are asked to hand over documents,
as part of the discovery process, It's not like a suggestion you have to do it.
And since Alex jones refused to do it repeatedly the judge had no choice but
to find him guilty of defamation.
Now he's dealing with other legal issues as well and
it's very costly for him to the tune of $50,000 a day.
We'll get to those details in a second.
But before we do, I just really wanna emphasize the pain and suffering that
these parents dealt with as a result, of this disgusting Grifter Alex jones.
We're gonna hear from Lenny Pozner who again lost his six year old son Noah and
he ended up becoming the target of Alex jones viewers, let's watch.
>> I've described it as it's it's not a wound that heals over and disappears.
It's always there.
It's it's carrying that this is a wound that you carry for
the rest of your life, That's the new normal.
And some of the conspiracy theories that came
out early on was that I never even attended Noah's funeral.
Because there were no photos or video of me in this reality show for
conspiracy theorists.
>> It should be investigated.
All I'm saying is you should investigate what really happened.
Most fake mass shootings, they have shooters and then kill a Patsy.
>> In 2014, I reached out to people that went on the show saying how can you go on
a show like that when he's spreading so much misinformation, and
causing the targeting of victims and they said well, that's show business.
>> Lenny Pozner and his family were forced to move, seven times for their own safety.
Because of the people targeting him and his family,
the threats that he was dealing with, they were afraid for their lives.
And you see what kind of like rabid lunatic Alex jones is,
can you imagine what his hardcore fans are like?
Can you imagine being targeted by Alex jones and having his audience
members come after you, and let me just say if you're forced to move for
your own safety, seven different times, that's costly.
And so offering a $120,000 settlement for all the pain and suffering this
family has dealt with for years, is a joke, and I'm glad that they rejected it.
I'm glad that it was unanimous.
Now I also want to get to how ridiculous Alex jones was during his own deposition.
He did show up for the deposition, and
it was a nightmare because it turns out he's a pretty bad guy.
So let's watch that video.
>> You've done mocking imitations of Sandy Hook parents crying, correct?
No, I wanna play you a video clip to from September 24th 2014 and
November 11th 2016 we play a video clip called crying?
>> And you've got parents laughing on and then they walk over some camera,
not just one, but a bunch of parents doing this and
we see footage of one of the reported fathers of the victims,
Robbie Parker doing classic acting training where he's laughing and
joking and they say, hey, we're lying.
He goes, maybe that's real.
I'm sure it is.
You realize now, you were mocking the difficult emotional reactions
of people who provably lost their Children.
>> No, I was not mocking.
I was showing what people were questioning.
It was not to mock the parents.
It was showing why people were questioning each you that is projecting mocking
onto it.
I was showing what he did.
>> Yeah, he was mocking them.
I think it's pretty clear what he was doing, but whether he's mocking them or
not doesn't matter.
It's the narrative that he was putting out there over and over and
over again, that the crying was fake that they were acting.
That it was all just a hoax meant to take precious guns away,
from rabid right wingers who love Alex jones and his show.
I mean and these people got all riled up.
Some of them ended up issuing threats that were so credible that they got prosecuted.
But let's go back to Alex jones and the trouble he's in.
So a judge has actually just decided to charge him $50,000 a day,
because he just refuses to show up to court.
Let me give you the details.
Jones is in trouble for
twice skipping a court ordered deposition in the Connecticut case.
His lawyer said in court filings that Jones was dealing
with an undisclosed medical issue.
The lawyers for the Sandy Hook families pointed out that jones wasn't too sick to
call into his own show, and asked the court to issue a warrant for his arrest.
Now ignore the last part of that graphic because this story has since been updated.
The judge has weighed in on what the punishment will be for Alex Jones and
he will be charged $50,000 a day until he shows up, to his depositions.
So we'll see how that all plays out.
He clearly has quite a bit of money selling those, scam supplements.
So, maybe maybe this is like a sustainable thing for him.
Who knows?
But I love to see the consequences that he so rightly deserves.
Okay, when we have discussions about freedom of speech.
We need to keep in mind that there are limitations to all of our freedoms.
We don't have the right to go around inciting violence towards people who have
already been victimized by a school shooting.
We don't have the right to engage in rhetoric that puts other people in
harm's way.
So for all the clowns out there who keep defending Alex jones,
not because they like him.
I thought that I like Alex jones, it's just that I really value free speech.
Well, even under our constitutional rights, what Alex jones engaged in,
not protected by our constitution.
It's not protected by our First Amendment.
In fact, what I just said is so true that he's actually
paying real consequences that have been decided in a court of law.
Okay, so I love it.
I think that this is what he deserves.
I think it sends a clear message to others who decide to add insult to injury and
make up all sorts of crazy inflammatory garbage stories about victims
like the Posner family, and we'll see how long this is going to go on.
But I just love the fact that he thinks he can just, that he's above the law,
doesn't need to show up to court, doesn't need to hand over the documentation
that's been ordered by the court.
Sorry, He's not above the law.
I love, I love seeing this happen to him.
He deserves it.