Far-right radio host and prominent conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was deposed over two days in a defamation lawsuit brought against him by families of victims of the Sandy Hook shooting.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, Jones was deposed. It came less than a week after Connecticut Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis held Jones in contempt of court, and fined him for failing to comply with multiple court orders to sit for a deposition.
Since the beginning of April, Jones racked up a large bill for every day that he did not provide sworn testimony. He has now paid a total of $75,000 in fines for non-compliance.
Jones had argued that doctors told him to avoid depositions due to “health problems.” But attorneys later said that during this alleged illness, Jones actually left his home to film his radio show, Infowars.
Jones posted a video on his Infowars site on Tuesday after he sat for the first deposition, saying that he sat with a plaintiff’s lawyer for 10 hours, and described it as “next level, like a hallucination or something.”
In the video, Jones admitted that he reported inaccurate things and that he could have done “a better job” on Sandy Hook.
The depositions are for an upcoming trial which will determine how much Jones needs to pay the eight victims’ families as well as an FBI agent, who all sued Jones over his claims that the school shooting was a hoax.
Twenty first grade students and six educators were killed in the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14, 2012.
Because of Jones’ fake claims that the horrific shooting was a hoax, the families of the dead children and educators, as well as the FBI agent, were harassed and suffered death threats. Jones was found liable last year for damages in the defamation suit.
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