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A Connecticut jury on Wednesday ruled radio host Alex Jones will have to pay close to $1 billion to Sandy Hook families for speculating the school shooting could have been staged.
After deliberating for over two days, the six-person jury reached their decision on compensatory damages Jones should pay on Wednesday, despite the radio host in many instances never mentioning the names of many of the plaintiffs who sued him.
In the second highest payout amount to the plaintiffs, the jury awarded FBI agent William Aldenberg – who Jones never mentioned by name – $90 million in compensatory damages, despite the fact he had no connection to any children or staff who died in the mass shooting.
Jones reacted to the unprecedented verdict on The Alex Jones Show moments after it was delivered.
“They want to scare everybody away from freedom, and scare us away from questioning Uvalde and what really happened there, or Parkland or any other event. And guess what? We’re not scared, and we’re not going away, and we’re not going to stop,” Jones said.
“For hundreds of thousands of dollars, I can keep them in court for years, I can appeal this stuff, we can stand up against this travesty, against the billions of dollars they want. It’s a joke.”
“This corrupt, dying political system wants to try to make me the devil. I’m not the devil, and God is my judge, not you, you globalist scumbags,” he continued.
“This is how desperate the establishment is. I am so honored to have this happening. So we’re waiting while the judge sent the jury back out because they didn’t put decimals on how many millions I’m suppose to give, and that’s why it’s such a joke. I don’t have 2 million dollars in cash.”
In a press conference following the verdict, Jones’ attorney Norm Pattis said he looked forward to appealing the verdict.
“We disagree with the basis of the default, we disagree with the court’s evidentiary rulings. In more than 200 trials in the course of my career I have never seen a trial like this,” Pattis told reporters.
“Today is a very, very dark day for freedom of speech.”
Pattis also joined The War Room to break down in more detail the show trial verdict and what this means for free speech going forward:
The verdict comes as a Texas jury in August also ordered Jones to pay $45 million in defamation compensatory and punitive damages in another Sandy Hook case.
This is a developing story…