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Showing Original Post only (View all)In Alex Jones' Sandy Hook deposition, a persona undone [View all]
Mark Bankston (Juanita Jean's son) had fun in this depo https://www.statesman.com/news/20191214/in-alex-jonesrsquo-sandy-hook-deposition-persona-undone?fbclid=IwAR0tHC9LXbZP1XjRvdVwAFIAUygH7zfDlOI-I8eZ25o2M5zXV7up2TSExXk
As Houston attorney Mark Bankston, representing Sandy Hook parents in four suits in Austin against Jones and his InfoWars operation, on Nov. 26 methodically asked Jones to explain how he came to report that tragedy as a hoax supposedly orchestrated as a pretext to crack down on gun rights, a subdued Jones seemed mostly befuddled.
Forty-four times he answered, I dont remember; 51 times, I dont know.
Pulling back the curtain on Jones news operation, it appeared there was no there there, just a slipshod hodgepodge of rumor, malign supposition, twisted words and recycled misinformation from notably unreliable sources, all hyped by Jones into the truth they dont want you to know.
Absent his gravelly and ferocious on-air growls, the various anomalies that Jones said made him suspicious of events at Sandy Hook, as recounted one by one by Bankston in the quietude of the deposition room, sounded ridiculous.
Jones deposition, and those of three InfoWars associates, became public Thursday when they were filed in a Travis County court by
Bankston in the case of Neil Heslin, the father of slain 6-year-old Jesse Lewis.
Bankston also filed a 49-page motion asking state District Judge Scott Jenkins, who is presiding over four Sandy Hook suits, to order a default judgment holding Jones and InfoWars liable without even requiring a jury trial, except to determine the size of the damages, as a consequence of what he contends is their flagrant refusal or inability to seriously answer questions.
Forty-four times he answered, I dont remember; 51 times, I dont know.
Pulling back the curtain on Jones news operation, it appeared there was no there there, just a slipshod hodgepodge of rumor, malign supposition, twisted words and recycled misinformation from notably unreliable sources, all hyped by Jones into the truth they dont want you to know.
Absent his gravelly and ferocious on-air growls, the various anomalies that Jones said made him suspicious of events at Sandy Hook, as recounted one by one by Bankston in the quietude of the deposition room, sounded ridiculous.
Jones deposition, and those of three InfoWars associates, became public Thursday when they were filed in a Travis County court by
Bankston in the case of Neil Heslin, the father of slain 6-year-old Jesse Lewis.
Bankston also filed a 49-page motion asking state District Judge Scott Jenkins, who is presiding over four Sandy Hook suits, to order a default judgment holding Jones and InfoWars liable without even requiring a jury trial, except to determine the size of the damages, as a consequence of what he contends is their flagrant refusal or inability to seriously answer questions.
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Responsible journalism needs to florish, while irresponsible journalism like this of alex j, is ...
SWBTATTReg
Dec 2019
#2
Exactly. You can not be **pre-emptively** censored, but you are responsible for what you say. nt
eppur_se_muova
Dec 2019
#26
What a punk ass, when faced to put up he punks out and acts like a cowards. ALL OF THEM art punks
uponit7771
Dec 2019
#7
Mark's parents were in a serious accident and Susan has just started posting again
Gothmog
Dec 2019
#14
Jones had to delete his 9-11 and Prison Planet Conspiracies to make the Drudge Report
MartyTheGreek
Dec 2019
#12
I got his point, he documented his sources well enough to be able to recall ...
marble falls
Dec 2019
#54
Thanks for posting this.How can he keep a straight face while spouting all this bullshit?
Cousin Dupree
Dec 2019
#55
He's also with the 'facts don't care about your feelings' crowd of reichwingers.
Mc Mike
Dec 2019
#53
This is how the entire GOP operates. . . . ". . . rumor, malign supposition, twisted words,
BigDemVoter
Dec 2019
#37