Relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting are asking a bankruptcy judge to liquidate conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ media company, including Infowars, instead of allowing him to reorganize his business.
  • magnetosphere
    181•6 months ago

    It’s maddening that they even had to ask. Our legal system sucks.

    Edit:

    On Saturday, Jones was defiant, saying “At the end of the day, we’re going to beat these people. I’m not trying to be dramatic here, but it’s been a hard fight. These people hate our children.”

    I can’t even.

      • Billiam
        73•6 months ago

        Yes, but he’s lost custody of his children to his first wife.

        Fun fact- he couldn’t remember details about his children in the hearing, and attributed that memory lapse to, and I shit you not, the fact that he had a “big bowl of chili for lunch.”

        • magnetosphere
          22•6 months ago

          That needs to become more widely known, both as a story and as a legal tactic: The Chili Defense

        • @[email protected]
          13•6 months ago

          The man is half actually crazy and half faking crazy. Statements like that make no sense for a grift. Why not just say you’re stressed?

          • Billiam
            8•6 months ago

            At the time, his lawyer argued that Jones is just a performance artist. But honestly, I think it’s much more likely he’s a paranoid schizophrenic. He just wholesale invents reality to be whatever he wants it to be when it’s convenient for him and his grift. I honestly think he doesn’t have a grasp on objective reality any longer.