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Alex Jones has been ordered to pay a staggering $473 million in punitive damages to the families of Sandy Hook victims, in addition to the $965 million in compensatory damages ordered last month.
The latest judgment brings the total owed by Jones to $1.44 billion.
“The record clearly supports the plaintiffs’ argument that the defendants’ conduct was intentional and malicious, and certain to cause harm by virtue of their infrastructure, ability to spread content, and massive audience including the ïnfowarriors,” Judge Barbara Bellis wrote in her ruling, according to the Associated Press.
Additionally, Judge Bellis has ordered Jones assets frozen and is temporarily blocking him from “transferring any assets or spending money other than for ordinary living expenses,” according to Bloomberg.
Alex Jones responded to the ruling live on-air during the Thursday edition of the Alex Jones Show:
They already had a $965 million rigged deal where the judge said I was guilty, and told the jury that I was a bad person and wouldn’t let me put on evidence and put on fake evidence against me.
I don’t have $2 million, so it’s a joke on them and they know that. They got all our discovery, they got all our financials and then said we didn’t give it to them and then did this.
Now the judge has issued a ruling, my lawyer just sent it to me 10 minutes ago and it’s already all over the news, “Alex Jones ordered to pay $473 million more to Sandy Hook families.”
They’d asked for $2.75 trillion, or 2,750 billion, [laughs] which is ridiculous, and then now they – ‘Oh, it’s more reasonable, only $473 million.’ If I sold everything I had, it’s not $5 million, $4 million, So… that’s the camera equipment in here and everything.
So, they’re doing this so you hear billion dollar numbers, you hear 400 million numbers, you hear trillion dollar numbers and you go, ‘Well, he’s over.’ That’s not how America works, folks. They can’t stop me from being on air. They can’t stop me from broadcasting. They can’t stop any of it, even though they admit that’s their goal.
So I’m gonna briefly explain this: we’re in chapter 11, subchapter 5 bankruptcy – because the system’s not set up yet to just shut businesses down. So, Alex Jones won’t get any money, but the company and the crew and the operation will continue on as long as it is profitable.
And the reason we could do bankruptcy is we’ve been almost insolvent in the last year and so it was a very real bankruptcy. That’s why buying products at InfowarsStore.com is great, and it keeps us on air and when we make it out of this bankruptcy in the next three or four months then we continue on and then it’s agreed that in the next two years if they win these appeals – which everybody says they’re going to lose, total kangaroo court, that’s why they’re so mad – then in two years if we lose the appeal then whatever profit there is from Infowars, and there is almost no profit, goes to them. And they know that, that’s why they’re like, ‘No we don’t want that judge,’ they told the bankruptcy judge. ‘We just want him taken off air.’ The judge is like, ‘Well, wait don’t you want money as creditors?’ ‘No we don’t want money! We want him off air!’ They said it in their closing arguments in Texas and Connecticut.
So, again you’re keeping us on air. You’re letting us do the appeals. You’re doing the exact opposite of what they want by going to InfowarsStore.com right now and getting Vitamin Mineral Fusion, DNA Force Plus, x3’s about to sell out, Super Male Vitality, Alpha Power, Ultimate Krill Oil. These are all incredible products. There is not anywhere you can fight for the republic stronger than InfowarsStore.com and spreading the articles and videos from the sites.
Lawyers for the families in October attempted to ask the judge for a $2.75 trillion punitive damages judgment arguing only “the highest possible punitive damages” would stop Jones from harming the families.
At the time, Bloomberg News reported:
“The families said they’re entitled to the amount because Jones broke a state law barring the sale of products using false statements. They reached the sum by multiplying the state law’s $5,000 per-violation fine by the 550 million social media exposures Jones’s audience received on his Facebook, YouTube and Twitter accounts in the three years following a school shooting that claimed the lives of 20 first graders and six educators in 2012.”
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