When Jones denied having done so, Bankston played video for the court of an Infowars video which did just that. In another notable moment during cross-examination Wednesday, Jones was asked whether he had connected Maya Guerra Gamble, the judge overseeing the trial, to pedophilia and human trafficking. Jones said in a 2019 sworn deposition that a “form of psychosis” caused him at the time to believe it was staged.Īnd in court on Wednesday, Jones said that he does believe the Sandy Hook shooting happened, saying it was “100% real.” Facing lawsuits, Jones has since acknowledged the shooting occurred.

Jones baselessly said in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook shooting, in which 26 people were killed, that the incident was staged.

When reminded Jones had testified under oath that he had searched his phone during the discovery phase of the trial and could not locate messages about Sandy Hook, Jones insisted he “did not lie.” But Jones testified that he had “never seen these text messages.”

“That is how I know you lied to me when you said you didn’t have text messages about Sandy Hook,” Bankston said.īankston showed Jones a text message exchange he had about Sandy Hook. The cell phone records, Bankston said, showed that Jones had in fact texted about the Sandy Hook shooting. Sandy Hook parents testify about the 'hell' Alex Jones inflicted on them through lies about the shootingīankston said that Jones’ attorney had, in an apparent mishap, sent him two years of cell phone records that included every text message Jones had sent. (Briana Sanchez/Austin American-Statesman via AP, Pool) Briana Sanchez/Pool/Austin American-Statesman/AP Jones has been found to have defamed the parents of a Sandy Hook student for calling the attack a hoax. 2, 2022, at the Travis County Courthouse in Austin. Scarlett Lewis, mother of 6-year-old Sandy Hook shooting victim Jesse Lewis, testifies against Alex Jones Tuesday Aug.

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