A bankruptcy judge has just declared that Alex Jones will not be able to file for
bankruptcy on Friday, June 10th in Texas.
According to the Associated Press, US Bankruptcy judge Christopher Lopez,
great name, dismissed a bankruptcy protection case involving three companies
that jones controls, InfoWars LLC, Prison Planet TV and IW Health.
The judge's actions allow parents defamation lawsuits against Jones to
continue in Texas and
Connecticut where trials are pending on how much he should pay families.
After judges in both of those states found that his companies were liable for
damages.
And again this has to do with the defamation case that
was brought forth by the victims of the Sandy Hook mass shooting.
He had defamed those family members by declaring that that mass shooting,
which killed their children, was nothing more than a false flag operation meant to
take guns away from Americans.
Now at the same time, Jones is obviously losing one legal battle after the next and
he doesn't wanna take any responsibility for it.
So instead he has decided to eat his own and go after his own legal team,
which I'll give you the details of in just a moment.
But I'm very curious what you all have to say about this, Cenk,
thoughts on the rejection of the bankruptcy claim.
>> Critical, if the courts allowed him to hide his money then all this would have
been for naught.
And this is the court saying no we already have evidence of your money.
For example, we have said this a couple of times cuz it's so startling.
He apparently made $165 million dollars from his shop where he basically sell
snake oil over the course of just 3 years,
let alone all the other money from all the other years from the shop.
Let alone any other kind of money that he makes from his audience.
So he's got hundreds of millions of dollars,
it would have been a total farce if they let him hide it.
And so it's great news that the judge said no we're not gonna fall for
those silly tricks.
>> I agree 100% with Cenk and I'll speak as somebody who lives 20 minutes from
Newtown, 20 minutes from Sandy Hook elementary School.
In this part of Connecticut words cannot describe how painful what Alex Jones
did to these families, to the relatives, to the friends, to the teachers.
I mean the horrifying truth is that there's nothing like what a parent goes
through when your kid gets shot up and is unrecognizable,
whether it's Sandy Hook, whether it's Uvalde, whatever it is.
But then to add insult to that, to have somebody who's got such a big platform
make up stuff about your kids, about what happened, it is again,
there are no words that can describe how horrified and
sickened people here in Connecticut have been by Alex Jones.
And so anything that makes Alex Jones, not only have to pay more money, but
be miserable is goodness.
>> I couldn't agree more.
I mean, time to time the Posner family comes to mind, and
this is the family who lost their little boy as a result of this shooting.
And then after that had to deal with the harassment of Alex Jones' audience,
they had to deal with credible threats.
In fact a woman was arrested as a result of that.
They had to move seven times because of the harassment and
the threats they were dealing with.
I wish there was as much passionate attention towards this
case as there was with the defamation case brought forth for
Amber Heard's claims against Johnny Depp, right?
That story got a lot of attention, a lot of people were fired up,
but this particular story is just one of such extreme injustice and
it might finally lead to justice for these family members.
Alex Jones knows it, he's flailing, he's struggling to come up with a scapegoat.
So the latest group of people who are dealing with his ire dealing
with the blame, his lawyers, okay?
So one of his current lawyers, Brittany Paz says the following in
regard to the previous legal team and it has been a rotating legal team.
I did have concerns on behalf of the company regarding the company's prior
representation, yes,
she said in a deposition that was obtained by the Daily Beast.
Paz doesn't say in her deposition,
which of their former attorneys InfoWars might sue.
So they are planning on pursuing legal action.
But she singled out three lawyers, Mark Randazza,
Brad Reeves and Robert Barnes for special criticism.
Paz also says, that some of InfoWars lawyers were botching the case,
that they screwed up the discovery process,
that they were just completely incompetent.
Now, Mark Rendazza and Robert Barnes have both become celebrity lawyers for
all sorts of right-wing grifters.
So I've got no love for them to be clear.
As for Randazza though, he does have a pretty shady past and
I wanna give you guys the details on that.
For instance, The Daily Beast reports that Randazza once pleaded
guilty to ethical violations in a Nevada Bar investigation into
whether he had cut a side-deal with another client's legal foes.
So just imagine that, cutting deals with the other side.
So, there could be some legitimate accusations here by Jones, but
nonetheless, he's blaming his other colleagues at InfoWars to save
his own ass, and I'm talking about the lawyer here, Rendazzza.
The revolving cast of lawyers at InfoWars has included
some outstanding lawyers who are confident in their own abilities.
It has also included some utterly terrible lawyers.
Remember he's not talking about himself here, he's talking about others.
Utterly terrible lawyers who made some of the dumbest moves I've ever seen,
those in the latter camp seem to be interested in deflecting attention from
their incompetence onto the competent lawyers who compete with them.
Remember this is the guy who got investigated by the Nevada Bar and
he's like, no, it was the other lawyers, they're bad.
>> Yeah, so there's two elements here, guys.
One is the circular firing squad, and that's awesome.
And so, look, unfortunately Democrats are terrible at fighting republicans,
the right-wing, etcetera.
So our only hope is the right-wing is so
crazy that they all just turn on each other and it happens all the time,
Lin Wood just turned on Mike Lindell, the pillow guy.
So, two of the craziest guys, now they're fighting,
because once you're crazy, there's no off switch on crazy.
So then you're crazy towards your lawyers, you hire crazy lawyers,
they're crazy towards you and towards other lawyers.
And so is it true that some of his lawyers are utterly terrible?
I think, as they put it, yeah, of course, it's true.
One of the lawyers accidentally sent child pornography to the plaintiff lawyers.
Now, look,
there was good credible information that it wasn't Alex Jones's child porn.
But do you think Alex Jones would have been honest about that if someone
on the left had sent child porn?
Someone accidentally, no, they'd call him a pedophile for
the rest of his life, right?
And so one of the lawyers did that from Jones' computer, right?
They lost the cases badly.
And then now here comes a really interesting second part.
In the midst of all this, Alex Jones sued us for defamation,
in the middle of all these trials.
Now, not only are the families of the of the kids suing them for defamation because
he called them crisis actors and said they didn't really have kids etcetera.
And not only that he also picked a random guy and
said he was a real killer, and of course that guy's suing him.
So when he went to sue us for defamation, it was a monumental error.
Not only because of course we didn't defame him,
we just stated facts that were true.
But the plaintiff's lawyers, that were representing the family said if Alex Jones
suit against the Young Turks and Cenks are true, then we definitely win our case.
What he did was not the same,
it was way worse than what he is alleging the young Turks did to him.
They withdrew the suit within a week, cuz they're serial bunglers,
they're morons and lunatics.
So of course the lunatics have turned on each other and
this is gonna be a wonderful mess.
>> Yeah, I didn't know about that story, Cenk,
I didn't know that he had pursued a lawsuit against us.
Breaking news and I love it, it's amazing.
>> And he shot himself in the foot instantly.
>> I've long maintained that Alex Jones is not one of the best and the brightest,
that maybe the reason he's gotten as far as he has,
maybe it's because of his voice.
Or there's something bombastic about his personality that attracts people
in a broadcast medium, but he's not a smart guy, he really is not very smart.
And too many people say, Alex Jones is brilliant, he's not brilliant,
he's an idiot, but he has something about him, about his personality that somehow
transcends broadcasting and that's the only thing that he has going for.
>> And look, he's on camera, I mean, there's one broadcast
after another after another where he's very clearly defaming.
I mean with the Johnny Depp Amber heard trial,
they're secretly recording each other and doing all sorts of stuff on the down-low,
with Alex Jones, he's like, yeah, I'm gonna do the defamation out there,
I'm just gonna say it out loud, I'm gonna do it on my show.
In fact, we have a compilation for you, let's take a quick look at that.
>> It's all a fraud ladies and gentlemen, this is just the anti-gun lobby and
anti-free speech lobby attaching themselves to some parents who basically
now have attached themselves to me.
So anytime my name's brought up, their children and
what happened to them gets back in the news.
The Newtown kids, they take them, put them in our face, tell us their names
who they were, Sandy Hook, it's got inside job written all over it.
Sandy Hook is a synthetic, completely fake with actors, in my view manufactured.
I couldn't believe it at first, people just instinctively know that there's
a lot of fraud going on, but it took me about a year with Sandy Hook to
come to grips with the fact that the whole thing was fake.
This is nothing but a bunch of propaganda, America sees through it and
this is really a symptom of how sick our nation has become.
>> And the fact that he was so brazen with the defamatory statements,
to me demonstrates that he knows the right-wing more often than not gets
away with everything, because no one fights back.
But in this case the victims of Sandy Hook, the victims of Alex Jones' lies,
fought back and they did so in a courageous way, it's not easy to do it.
The right wing is vicious and they protect their own at all costs, but
I'm really proud of these families and
I hope that they get rewarded the damages that they deserve.
And I love watching people like Alex Jones suffer, he absolutely deserves it.
To blame it on his lawyers who might or might not be incompetent, I don't know,
I don't care, is ridiculous,
considering again how openly he used those defamatory statements on his show.
>> Yeah, it's startling how similar he is to Donald Trump,
just brazenly lie over the top lines, just be loud.
Just repeat it a thousand times, hire completely incompetent people and
then blame them for incompetence.
Well dude, aren't you the guy who hired him?
I mean that's to David's point.
The media is constantly talking about Trump's strategy and Alex Jones strategy.
There ain't no strategy, they are mentally unbalanced.
It's just the reason for their success is because unfortunately a very large
percentage of this country wants to be lied to.
They wanna believe that,
no guns are gonna keep you safer and that white people should always be in charge.
And that real democracy is when you don't have equality and
that's why we should take away rights from gay people and trans people etcetera.
They they wanna hear these lies and Alex Jones and
Donald Trump are just serving that need, they don't have any grand strategy at all,
and these court cases are certainly proving that.
>> And I'll just say that the families here,
they'll make it clear that they don't care about the money,
this isn't about money to them, they do want Alex Jones to be wiped out.
They want him to be financially destroyed.
They wanna make sure that Alex Jones can never do his gig again.
And if cleaning out his money is the way to do it, then the families are fine, but
I guarantee the families, every dime that they make out of this defamation.
I would guarantee it's not gonna go in their own pockets, it's gonna go to
try to fight the gun lobby, the NRA to try to pass common sense gun reforms.