Alex Jones must pay damages to Sandy Hook families after calling shooting a ‘giant hoax,’ judge rules
District Judge Maya Guerra Gamble of Travis County, Tex., issued default judgments Monday against Jones and Infowars after he did not comply with court orders to give information in a pair of 2018 lawsuits brought against him by families of two children killed in the 2012 massacre. Jones repeatedly failed to hand over documents and evidence to the court supporting his damaging and erroneous claims that the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., which killed 26 people, 20 of whom were young children, was a “false flag” operation carried out by “crisis actors.”
I don’t know to respond without replying, so…. Did he really believe this? It’s so out there crazy, but to take it so far? I don’t get it. I don’t think I ever will.
The thing that’s remarkable about this isn’t that Jones lost the case, its how he lost - the “death penalty sanction,” as they call it in Texas, apparently.
The judge ordered default judgement against Jones (as in, the judge simply declared that he lost) as a sanction, because he disobeyed numerous court orders related to discovery, for more than 2 years.
This is not a common occurrence, but from what I can see, completely justified.
