The lawsuit was brought by citizens he defamed, people,who had lost their children to a crazy mass shooter.
The lawsuit was brought by shyster ambulance chasing lawyers looking for a quick payday through a court with a corrupt judge who doesn’t believe in the Constitution.
Even if Jones did claim that the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax and that the parents were crisis actors, how were the survivors adversely affected? Remember that Sandy Hook is located in Fairfield County, one of the most affluent counties in the country. It has voted Democrat in Presidential elections since 1996, with Biden carrying the county by 27 percentage points in 2020. Republicans in the Nutmeg State are by and large quite liberal, e.g. Lowell Weicker. in 2012, the audience for InfoWars in Fairfield County was likely negligible. The judgment of $1.5 billion was extremely out of proportion to any harm done by a broadcaster who had little influence in the area where the survivors lived.
What happened to Jones is an example of the lawfare later used against Michael Flynn, Roger Stone, other Trump associates, and Trump himself. The bottom line is that the Democrats are basically communists and that they are using their power in Washington and blue states like Connecticut and New York to destroy their opposition.