Alex Jones Continues To Be A Piece of Shit | True Crime Today

Episode 420,   Aug 04, 2022, 06:17 AM

In a Texas court on Wednesday, a lawyer for Sandy Hook parents cross-examined Infowars founder Alex Jones and fact-checked his answers in real time.
The jury will decide how much Jones has to pay his parents, Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, who won a default judgement against him earlier this year. Heslin and Lewis' lawyer wants $150 million in damages.

Mark Bankston, the plaintiffs' attorney, cross-examined Jones, who was the sole defense witness during the trial.

Bankston revealed to Jones and the court that he had recently acquired evidence proving Jones lied about never texting about Sandy Hook.
In an apparent mishap, Jones' lawyer sent Bankston two years' worth of cell phone records, including every text message Jones sent.

Bankston said Jones' cell phone records showed he texted about Sandy Hook.

That's how I know you lied to me about Sandy Hook text messages, Bankston said.

Jones was shown a text message exchange Bankston had about Sandy Hook. Jones testified, however, that he had never seen the text messages.

Jones insisted he "did not lie" when reminded he had testified under oath he searched his phone for Sandy Hook messages during discovery.

In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook shooting, in which 26 people were killed, Jones baselessly claimed the incident had been staged. As a result of lawsuits, Jones has since acknowledged the shooting took place.

As Jones stated in a 2019 sworn deposition, he believed it was staged at the time because he was experiencing a "form of psychosis."

According to Jones, the Sandy Hook shooting was "100% real" in court on Wednesday.

Jones was also asked if he had connected Maya Guerra Gamble, the judge overseeing the trial, to pedophilia and human trafficking during cross-examination Wednesday.

Bankston played video for the court of an Infowars video which Jones denied having done so.

In the video, Jones attacked Gamble's previous work for Child Protective Services, claiming the agency had been "exposed" for working with pedophiles.

On Wednesday, Gamble laughed when she saw a screengrab from the Infowars video in court, after her office did not respond to an earlier request for comment.

The person on the left is our judge, right??? Bankston asked.

Jones said it was.

Plaintiffs' lawyers said Tuesday they're going to ask for sanctions against Jones for lying. Also on Tuesday, Gamble admonished Jones for breaking his oath twice.

“You are already under oath to tell the truth,” Gamble said Tuesday. “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 again.”

Gamble told him Wednesday, "This isn't your show."

The defense rested its case after Jones finished testifying Wednesday, and closing arguments started.

It could be decided as early as this week how much the Sandy Hook parents will get in damages.

Jones' current trial is the first of three that will determine how much he owes Sandy Hook families who sued him and won default judgments.


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