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BumRushDaShow

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45. Eventually it will come out that the ring leaders
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 06:15 PM
Mar 2022

would have absconded with the $$$ and will claim it was used for (fill in the blank lie purposes).

And regarding "legal defense" - they will find other suckers to fund that for them as long as they can keep up the clown show of "talking a good enough game", and perhaps even manage to pick up some seedy "well known" loonville "sponsors" to give them some sort of legitimacy.

One of their biggest mouthpieces is on the lam avoiding his scheduled depositions and the plaintiffs in that Sandy Hook case are calling for his arrest, but he has a deep pocket -

Alex Jones Raked in $165 Million Over Three Years Selling Supplements and Prepper Gear

By William Vaillancourt



US far-right radio show host Alex Jones (C) speaks to supporters of US President Donald Trump as they protest in front of the Maricopa County Election Department while votes are being counted in Phoenix, Arizona, on November 6, 2020. (Photo by OLIVIER TOURON / AFP) (Photo by OLIVIER TOURON/AFP via Getty Images)



Hawking supplements and survival gear has been quite a lucrative business for Alex Jones. The conspiracy theorist raked in $165 million from the Infowars store over three years beginning in September 2015, all while begging his supporters to help him stay financially solvent, records obtained by Huff Post revealed on Friday. Jones pleaded with a caller to his radio show to help him “pay the bills” as recently as Thursday. “I’m not going to stop growth and let them push us backwards,” he said in a typical appeal. “I need your help, Frank. I need your help!”

The bills Jones needs to pay aren’t for the cost of electricity at the Infowars studio. Jones is entering 2022 facing potentially massive legal expenses after losing yet another lawsuit stemming from his lies about the Sandy Hook shooting being fake. The news about just how fast merchandise has flown off the shelves of the Infowars store — which is known for selling a variety of survivalist items, dubious brain supplements, and more — came as the result of a discovery request in a court case brought by a parent of one of the victims of the 2012 massacre. Jones lost the case last September, as he has several others that have been brought over his Sandy Hook lies, and his wallet has taken a hit.

By March 2020, for instance, Jones had amassed $150,000 in legal fees in one case alone — one in which he had yet to even face a jury. “It is rare to see a legal defense so incompetent and disrespectful to the rule of law that it causes a defendant to rack up $150,000 in fines during preliminary motions before even reaching trial,” the attorney for the victims’ families said at the time. “These fines are only the beginning. A far greater reckoning awaits Mr. Jones.”

Jones has called the shooting, which left 20 children and six adults dead, a “false flag” with “green screen” images and “crisis actors.” Huff Post pointed out on Friday that on days when Jones pushed lies like these on his show, the sales in his Infowars store rose. “I’ve watched a lot of soap operas, and I’ve seen actors before,” Jones said on his Nov. 18, 2016 broadcast. “And I know when I’m watching a movie and when I’m watching something real.” Jones’ total profit that day: $103,513.11.

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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/alex-jones-infowars-store-165-million-1281059/


Sandy Hook families seek Alex Jones arrest after 2nd no-show

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press
March 25, 2022, 10:19 PM



Lawyers for relatives of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims asked a Connecticut judge again Friday to order the arrest of Infowars host Alex Jones, after he defied a court order to attend a deposition as part of a lawsuit over his calling the massacre a hoax. Jones missed both days of a scheduled deposition Wednesday and Thursday in Austin, Texas, home to Jones and Infowars. He cited a health problem that included vertigo and revealed Friday that it was a sinus infection.

After he didn't show up Wednesday on the advice of his doctors, Connecticut Judge Barbara Bellis ordered him to appear Thursday, noting he wasn't hospitalized and had appeared in-person on his show Tuesday. Bellis did not immediately rule on the new arrest request. She rejected a similar motion by the families' lawyer seeking an arrest order after Jones failed to appear Wednesday. She has set a hearing by video conference for Wednesday next week.

The families' lawyers filed a motion late Friday afternoon requesting that Jones be arrested and detained until he sits for a deposition, be fined $25,000 to $50,000 a day until he completes the questioning, be found in contempt of court and to pay their expenses for traveling to Austin this week. “The plaintiffs subjected themselves to hours and hours of painful questioning by Mr. Jones’s lawyers — and Mr. Jones plays sick when it is his turn to tell the truth under oath,” Alinor Sterling, one of the families' lawyers, wrote in the motion.

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In November, Bellis found Jones liable for damages, and his testimony is now being sought in a deposition ahead of a trial later this year to determine how much he should pay the families.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/sandy-hook-families-seek-alex-jones-arrest-2nd-83679038


This will eventually happen with the rest of the grifters (hopefully).
May their journey home EYESORE 9001 Mar 2022 #1
+++++++++++++++++++++!! 2naSalit Mar 2022 #6
Don't forget dirty restrooms and bad food. nt Tommymac Mar 2022 #10
I'd toss in a few tornadoes, too, but that might hurt some innocent bystanders. Wounded Bear Mar 2022 #25
Translation: the one-per-centers stopped paying for their diesel fuel FakeNoose Mar 2022 #2
Maybe Clarence and Djinni can catch a ride out of town. Chip in on gas costs. erronis Mar 2022 #24
So how soon do the go fund me pages start? n/t MarcA Mar 2022 #27
BINGO! (n/t) OldBaldy1701E Mar 2022 #44
Time to go get jobs, assholes. Aristus Mar 2022 #3
Don't come back to CA, we HATE you!!! BigmanPigman Mar 2022 #4
California doesn't deserve it. calimary Mar 2022 #13
Exactly, stay away from us Capperdan Mar 2022 #17
we have a serious fucking asshole problem in the world right now NewHendoLib Mar 2022 #5
The no lie! 2naSalit Mar 2022 #7
Let's give them a round of applause as they go Rustynaerduwell Mar 2022 #8
Let's re-name them Trumper truck morons. lindysalsagal Mar 2022 #9
BuhBye Asswipes. Stinky The Clown Mar 2022 #11
And they'll bitch about the price of fuel all the way home Totally Tunsie Mar 2022 #12
They accomplished spreading COVID. C Moon Mar 2022 #14
These TFG supporters are all losers LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2022 #15
Hope They Enjoy The Higher Gas Prices In Their Guzzling Trucks On The 3,000+ Mile Journey Back nt SoCalDavidS Mar 2022 #16
"experienced many freezing nights while camped out" BumRushDaShow Mar 2022 #18
Yes, freezing cold's apparently a significant factor. Back to California!, etc. Hortensis Mar 2022 #29
I posted about the Snow Squall Warnings in MD and PA today BumRushDaShow Mar 2022 #31
Wow, didn't realize it was that bad. Any truckers wondering Hortensis Mar 2022 #35
That just shows me that they are drifting and trying to find BumRushDaShow Mar 2022 #36
They had them in his day all right. That scenario supposedly happened Hortensis Mar 2022 #37
I remember during the late'80s/early '90s BumRushDaShow Mar 2022 #42
Great story. "But nowadays, they have many pocketbooks..." Too true, Hortensis Mar 2022 #43
Eventually it will come out that the ring leaders BumRushDaShow Mar 2022 #45
Jones should grow old broke and alone, and die. Hortensis Mar 2022 #46
Good. Go to hell. The whole lot of you!!! Takket Mar 2022 #19
Bye, Felicia! Deep State Witch Mar 2022 #20
One of those dimwits finally asked themselves Torchlight Mar 2022 #21
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA BlueWavePsych Mar 2022 #22
Wow, there are so many big rigs there, I can't count them! Oh wait, there are 11. FSogol Mar 2022 #23
To Be Fair... ProfessorGAC Mar 2022 #30
Without trailers? Not a convoy. That's why DC traffic was able to swallow them up. FSogol Mar 2022 #32
Well, bye... Wounded Bear Mar 2022 #26
It turns out protesting the non-existent covid restrictions Johonny Mar 2022 #28
Besides a really frozen weekend, the Speedway denied their request Hortensis Mar 2022 #33
Good, people were complaining about the piss stench! Emile Mar 2022 #34
They'll be smelling their own pissed pants all the way home IronLionZion Mar 2022 #38
Don't bother, Convoy, you're not welcome here. Initech Mar 2022 #39
dont they have jobs or r most of these indis? AllaN01Bear Mar 2022 #40
How perfectly Republican Achilleaze Mar 2022 #41
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