Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has agreed to liquidate his assets to pay some of the $1.5 billion he owes the Sandy Hook families he defamed, CNN’s Oliver Darcy reported on Thursday night.
Jones had long alleged that the 2012 mass shooting that killed 20 children and six adults at a Connecticut elementary school was a hoax and that no one died. He resisted filing for bankruptcy to help pay some of the damages, but has faced growing pressure from attorneys of the Sandy Hook families, who have yet to receive any money from Jones.
Darcy joined Thursday’s edition of The Source to discuss.
“They haven’t seen a dime since these judgments came down – meaning that Alex Jones owes them $1.5 billion for telling this really heinous lie about the Sandy Hook shooting back in 2012,” Darcy said. “It also means that he’s no longer eventually going to own Infowars, which is this conspiracy empire that he’s used for years and years to peddle all sorts of lies and conspiracy theories. He’s eventually going to lose control of that.”
Host Kaitlan Collins then aired a clip of Jones seemingly crying during a recent episode of his Infowars program.
“I believe in my parents, I believe in humanity,” he said in the clip. “I just wanna fuckin’ stop these people. They gotta be stopped. So, at the end of the day, we’re gonna beat these people.”
Darcy reacted by saying, “I think he sees the writing on the wall there, Kaitlan. “And he was talking all weekend about how this was likely possible that he was going to get shut down and now he is agreeing tonight in court to liquidate his personal assets, which again will mean that he’s not going to own when this conspiracy empire he’s owned since the 1990s and really used to poison the public discourse.”
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