Far right kookspiracy nut Alex Jones hot another round of lawsuits heading his way. The embattled host of Infowars now has a defamation lawsuit against him.
On Wednesday, a group of Sandy Hook families filed in Connecticut. In 2012, a terrorist went into the elementary school and started killing 24 people before he turned the burner on himself. Since Sandy Hook, we have had more gun massacres and Congress refused to do anything to curb it.
Also the families of the Sutherland Springs massacre have filed a lawsuit against him.
ones, the site's owner, claimed the 2012 slaying of 20 first-graders at the Connecticut school was a hoax put on by paid actors. Leonard Pozner, who lost his 6-year-old son in the shooting and joined last month's suit, said his family suffered threats and harassment after Jones' claim from other conspiracy theorists who told him his son never existed.
This weeks' lawsuit seeks monetary and punitive damages as well as other costs, but doesn't specify how much. The prior lawsuits each called for $1 million in damages from Jones, Infowars and Free Speech Systems, a related company. They marked the first such civil action taken against Jones by parents of the shooting's victims, according to the New York Times.
"He knew his claims were false but he made them anyway to further a simple but pathetic goal: to make money by tearing away at the families’ pain,” said Josh Koskoff, a lawyer fielding the Conneticut lawsuit.
Jones, in a video last month, said the Sandy Hook shooting "really happened" but that families were being used by the Democratic Party as well as news outlets and that the lawsuits would be dismissed.
But Sandy Hook-related lawsuits aren't the first threats this year for Jones, who's spouted unfounded theories on tragedies from the car attack in Charlottesville, Va., to the Parkland, Fla., shooting.
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