Alex Jones’ Second Trial Over His Lies About Sandy Hook Attack Begins

Alex Jones is facing another defamation test after year of peddle misinformation and confederacy theories regarding the the great unwashed shooting that occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 , when 26 instructor and pupil were off . Fresh off the heels of his first defamation trial in Texas last month where Jones was fined$49.3 millionin punitive amends for his lie , Jones ’ second trial begin Tuesday in Waterbury , Connecticut .

Plaintiff lawyer Chris Mattei began his opening remarks by dissecting Jones ’ business concern theoretical account of appealing to his interview ’s fear , anxiousness , and paranoia . Mattei reason that Alex Jones and his comrade have claimed that they are not journalists , but his audience fails to remember this , result in his perceive believability which Jones then used to betray products like chemical filters and fertility rate drugs . According to Mattei , InfoWars was receiving 468 million Sir Frederick Handley Page views the month prior to the Sandy Hook shooting , which occur on December 14 , 2012 — Jones would say that same day that the shot was a false signal flag military operation . Norman Pattis , representing Jones , argued that the plaintiff have overstated the legal injury that Jones has done .

Last calendar month , Jones faced a nine - day visitation over a hatchet job causa in his base state of Texas , during which he accept that the film was100 % existent . His effectual team also erroneously institutionalise a digital written matter of his phone records to the plaintiffs . While Jones was n’t in court today , he did claim yesterday on InfoWars that he would be journey to Connecticut in the occur days .

A woman holds a protest sign outside of the Waterbury Superior Court today. Alex Jones was not in attendance.