Posted on 10/21/2022 7:05:04 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
Lawyers for Sandy Hook families, who were recently awarded a billion dollar compensatory judgment against radio host Alex Jones, are now seeking the “highest possible“ amount in punitive damages totaling $2.75 trillion in hopes to take Jones off the air forever.
The cartoonishly large amount, which supposedly factors in 550 million “social media exposures” that Infowars would have generated on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook in the three years following the mass shooting and multiplies it by $5,000, was reported by Bloomberg News Friday.
Sandy Hook families asked a Connecticut judge to order Alex Jones to pay $2.75 trillion in damages in addition to the almost $1 billion a jury awarded for defamation, claiming only “the highest possible punitive damages,” will stop the Infowars host from continuing to harm them.
The families said they’re entitled to the amount because Jones broke a state law barring the sale of products using false statements. They reached the sum by multiplying the state law’s $5,000 per-violation fine by the 550 million social media exposures Jones’s audience received on his Facebook, YouTube and Twitter accounts in the three years following a school shooting that claimed the lives of 20 first graders and six educators in 2012.
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“Alex Jones perpetrates this attack for one reason: greed,” the families’ lawyers said in the filing Friday. “Alex Jones will never treat them like real people, because they are too valuable to him as targets…”
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Not much different than Saint George Floyd's fam...
Obscene greed.
Did he even hurt their feelings? He has an odd, maybe crazy conspiracy theory about how and why the massacre occurred. He did not insult the victims or the families of the victims. He did not implicate them of anything. They simply don’t like his ideas and want compensation for disagreeing with their politics. And a little blood money doesn’t hurt either. Leftists are known for caring less about their own children than their politics and their greed.
“Did he even hurt their feelings?”
I don’t know if you saw the live video when Alex’s verdict was read. The camera guy already had the camera trained on a close-up of one of the (alleged) fathers. Almost as if it had been planned ahead of time ... ahem.
Then the (alleged) father went into full drama queen hysterics. Almost as if it had been planned ahead of time ... ahem.
Jon Lovitz as the Master Thespian was more low-key.
Nope, didn’t see it. It sounds like he used the Amber Heard technique to garner jury sympathy. Only this time it worked. I bet he wasn’t crying when he saw his bank statement.
What retardedness.
Good grief, enough. This is ridiculous.
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