they were already under oath to tell the truth.
You've already violated that oath twice today.
In just those two examples, it seems absurd to instruct
you again that you must tell the truth while you testify yet
here I am, you must tell the truth while you testify.
This is not your show, you just heard from
the judge in the Alex jones defamation trial.
He's already been found guilty for defamation after he very clearly and
repeatedly defamed the parents who lost their Children as a result
of the Sandy Hook massacre.
He called them actors, he referred to that mass shooting as a fall flag operation,
meant to take guns away from law abiding citizens and
that led to all sorts of lunatics within his audience attacking the parents who
are already suffering with the extreme emotional distress of losing their
Children as a result of a cold blooded mass shooter who was on their campus.
Now, what's incredible about this trial,
aside from the fact that it has taken years to get to this point
is the fact that much like other incredibly entitled individuals,
Alex jones has been caught lying under oath many times.
He started testifying in this trial yesterday.
His second day of testimony took place today and it has been a complete and
utter disaster for jones now since he's already been found guilty of defamation.
The real question now is what will the jury award
the plaintiffs in terms of compensatory damages?
How much money will Alex jones have to pay and
that is what they're trying to determine through this trial.
Now lying under oath, I shouldn't have to tell you is a big deal when
you are testifying, you have to tell the truth or else you perjured yourself.
And apparently Alex jones is a big fan of doing just that.
Let's watch Mr jones.
You may not say to this jury that you comply with discovery.
That is not true.
You may not say it again, you may not tell this jury that you are bankrupt.
That is also not true.
You may have filed for bankruptcy.
I don't know that, but
I've heard that it doesn't put it doesn't make a person or company bankrupt.
You need to slow down and not take what you see as opportunities to
further the message you're wanting to further and
instead only answer the specific and
exact question you have been asked.
No asides the comments about discovery, the comments about the larynx or
whatever less the comments about bankruptcy, none of those were
responsive to questions, none of those were responsive to questions.
And she specifically calls him out on things that he lied about
while testifying during this trial.
Now he loves to bring up the bankruptcy issue because he purports to be broke.
But what I thought was really fascinating about today's testimony was
that he was asked by the plaintiff's attorney about the amount of money,
the revenue that Alex jones and his company brings in and
it's telling how Alex jones has really ripped a page out of the book of all
these corporations who do terrible things, they get sued and
when it looks like they're about to pay out a massive settlement,
they'll file for bankruptcy to avoid having to pay out a big settlement.
He's taking a page out of their book and he's trying to do the same thing.
The question is whether he will be able to do that and
what I love about the plaintiff's attorney is that he's done his homework and
he has revealed it's incredibly depressing but he's revealed just how
much money Alex jones brings in Somewhere around $740,000 a day,
close to a million dollars a day just by selling these garbage supplements
that are not FDA approved that have no evidence of its efficacy.
It doesn't matter.
Apparently there are enough people who watch his show and who are convinced
that these supplements might make them insta hard that they spend their
hard earned money on the snake oil that this huckster cells on his programming.
There are other telling moments in his testimony that we'll
get to in just a moment.
It's the moment that I'm sure you might have seen already but before we get to
that I want to give you some more context about who else testified in this trial.
Scarlett Lewis and Neil Heslin, who are the parents of Jesse Lewis jesse was
actually killed in the 2012 shooting in Newtown Connecticut.
They're seeking 100 $50 million in damages from the info wars radio show and
webcast host and his media company in a defamation trial.
And they had a psychologist testify about what the parents have been going through
and imagine, I mean look, you don't really need an expert to tell you if you're
human and you feel anything at all, it's easy to understand just losing your child.
The way that these parents have is horrific enough is
psychologically damaging enough, but to add insult to
injury by making these victims by making these parents targets for
these lunatics who believe the nonsense that Alex jones
spews of course it's gonna cause huge psychological issues.
And so a forensic psychologist who testified said Heslop and
Lewis suffered from PTSD.
I mean I'm not an expert, but I'd venture to say it goes well beyond PTSD,
which is obviously bad enough.
Now there was another moment in the trial today that
I thought was worth sharing with you all.
And it was when Alex jones was called out on another lie.
Now the reason why Alex jones was found guilty of defamation, it was a default
judgment by the judge who by the way he has accused of being a child trafficker
maybe not a good idea to do that on your programming when you're standing trial and
the judge, you know presides over this trial but you know, he's an idiot.
So of course he's accusing her of insane things like being involved with
pedophiles.
Great, great idea.
Real smart guy there.
He, the reason why the judge made a default judgment here
in finding him guilty for defamation is because during a lawsuit like this,
a civil lawsuit like this, the plaintiffs ask for certain documents.
It's part of the discovery process and Alex jones would not comply.
He would not hand over those documents.
Alex jones was asked under oath whether he had any text
message exchanges in which he discussed the Sandy Hook story.
He said, no, no, not at all.
I don't sorry.
He said that under oath.
Okay, great.
Well today, something interesting happened and
it showed the incompetence of not just Alex jones but his own attorneys.
So let's watch this moment where the plaintiff's attorney
asks Alex jones about those very text messages.
One left corner.
Is that your phone?
Yes.
So you did get my text messages said you didn't nice trick,
you didn't give this text message to you don't you don't know where this came from.
Do you know where I got this Mr jones, Did you know that?
12 days ago, 12 days ago your attorneys messed up and sent me an entire
digital copy of your entire cell phone with every text message you've sent for
the past two years and when informed did not take any steps to identify it
as privileged or protected in any way and as of two days ago it felt free and
clear into my possession and that is how I know you lied to me when you said
you didn't have text message about saying, did you know that?
I see, I told you the truth.
This is your perry mason moment.
I gave them my phone and no,
no, it's happening.
No, I didn't know what this happened.
See, I told you the truth, except I didn't.
I lied under oath and said that I didn't have any text
exchanges conversing about the Sandy Hook story.
He got caught.
But what's amazing about that moment is how the hell did
his lawyers make that colossal mistake of sending the entirety
of a digital copy of Alex jones's phone to the plaintiff's attorney.
And then when they had an opportunity to make a big stink about that and and
prevent that from being, you know, presented in court,
they passed up that opportunity.
It's weird.
I mean, maybe his attorneys have somewhat of a conscience and
realize that he's a terrible person who did a terrible thing in further
victimizing parents whose Children were slaughtered by a gunman, I don't know, but
he doesn't need incompetent attorneys to lose this trial because he himself is so
unbelievably it's either incompetence or honestly,
a level of entitlement that I have never seen anywhere before because
he seems to think that certain rules of the court do not apply to him.
He's not supposed to talk about the trial outside of the courtroom and
he has been talking about it on the show.
He's not supposed to talk about the trial outside of the courtroom yet.
The second he leaves the courtroom, he talks to the press and
he accuses the judge of all sorts of insane things.
He even went after the jurors claiming that these jurors,
you know, they ain't with it.
I'm paraphrasing, but he even attacked the jurors and
that came up during this trial as well.
I mean, this guy is his own worst enemy.
He's like coughing, constantly complaining about some sort of throat issue.
He has just, it's a mess.
But what you can't run away from even with all of the side shows and
even with all the circus atmosphere that we're seeing in this trial,
can't run away from the fact that there are hours and
hours of this man along with his co hosts and staffers lying and
defaming the victims of Sandy Hook for profit.
It's really important to understand that because why would anyone do that?
Like what's the incentive who in their right mind would feel
any type of pleasure in victimizing parents whose little kids were killed.
He's making a lot of money off of it and
then he has the goal to pretend that he's broke that he's bankrupt.
He's really suffering that he's the real victim here.
I'm sorry.
I don't think anyone's buying it now.
I don't know what the end result will be.
This is the first of three trials to determine compensatory
damages because there are several families who have been
defamed by this man or the sad excuse for a man.
So we'll see what happens.
The jurors being insulted by him, the judge being insulted by him,
multiple examples of him lying under oath, I would argue does not bode well for
Alex jones, but for anyone who might have been persuaded by Alex jones and
his commentary for anyone who might think that he's a good guy and
sometimes he gets things right, understand that this trial has made it
very clear that Alex jones knew he was lying, he was intentionally lying and
he was doing it for profit and if he's willing to do that in regard
to victims who lost their Children in a mass shooting,
ask yourselves, what other stories is he willing to do that on?
And I think that the plaintiff's attorney also did a fantastic job in outlining all
of the other tragic stories, all the other tragic mass shootings bombings that have
occurred in this country, that Alex jones lied about.
That Alex jones claimed was a deep state operation.
He claimed that the boston bombing was some sort of conspiracy and
it's because look, I get it, it draws an audience,
people have lost faith in our institutions.
I think that's actually the root of the problem here.
Why is it that someone like Alex jones is able to
cultivate the kind of audience that he's able to cultivate?
That is a deeper problem that I think needs to be addressed.
But there's no mistake, Alex jones is definitely a symptom of that deeper
problem, and he should suffer the consequences of what he has taken part in.