The dishonesty of right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was spotlighted in a Texas court
on Wednesday as a lawyer for a pair of Sandy Hook parents cross-examined the Infowars founder and fact-checked his answers in real-time.
The jury hearing the case will determine how much Jones will have to pay the parents, Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, who won a default judgement against him earlier this year.
Jones, who was the sole witness for the defense during the trial, did not fare well Wednesday as he was cross-examined by the plaintiffs' attorney, Mark Bankston.
In a remarkable moment, Bankston disclosed to Jones and the court that he had recently acquired evidence proving Jones had lied when he claimed during the discovery process that he had never texted about the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting
Bankston 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.
The cell phone records, Bankston said, showed that Jones had in fact texted about the Sandy Hook shooting.
That is how I know you lied to me when you said you didn't have text messages about Sandy Hook," Bankston said.
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
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 said in a 2019 sworn deposition that a "form of psychosis" caused him at the time to believe it was staged.
And in court on Wednesday, Jones said that he does believe the Sandy Hook shooting happened, saying it was "100% real."
When Jones denied having done so, Bankston played video for the court of an Infowars video which did just that.
Gamble, whose office did not respond to an earlier request for comment about the fact Infowars has been attacking her in such terms