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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LOL, you win.
OK, let’s go after all the Deep State kooks who have hounded President Trump to the ends of the earth these past seven years. If 80 million people were deprived a fair election and all of us were awarded $1 million, then that’s only $80 billion.
That’s too low. Let’s award every Trump voter $1 billion. We have to sue for $80 trillion. That should “take them off the air” for a while.
I was thinking more like 230 trillion.
Typical low-IQ libtard response: “Don’t worry, insurance companies are rich. They can pay it.”
Nine billion trillion, and two bits.
Sandy hook lawyers have crossed over the line to ridiculous frivolous lawsuits. Judge needs to throw it out and sanction the ambulance chasers for wasting the courts time.
How many Democrats can I sue for pain and suffering for calling me a white racist and some democrats called me a nazi.
That’s just stupid and pointless. The families are losing their dignity.
This makes me more suspicious
Who do the Sandy Hook families think they are? Ukraine?
This is stupid, asinine, and a complete disrespect of these money grubbing parents on behalf of their children they claim to care about.
Of the $2.75 trillion, how much does I R-ass get?.
Even 1 billion was ridiculous, they deserve nothing.
It’s called free speech and the idiot Jones has every right to believe any stupid conspiracy he wishes.
This should teach him to question the official narrative.
In the most recent trial that awarded the plaintiffs nearly a Billion dollars the prosecution found exactly 25 minutes of Alex Jones’ air time devoted to the subject. He didn’t come up with the subject, he was covering it, and he never told anyone to harass these people.
Just sayin’
They should go for one hundred and eleventy billion
Darn ‘Rats won’t even call me a taxi [Uber?].
This is an embarrassment to the American Justice System. The plaintiffs look worse then Jones ever have. The Judge should be removed from the bench and disbarred.
Not when his opinion is a lie that actually damages people. It’s defamation.
If he had said “I think Sandy Hook was a hoax” he would have been fine. When he said Robbie Parker (one of the victims fathers) was acting when he was crying at a press conference, then Robbie Parker can sue.
I think Jones is one of those people who seeks fame at any price. He will say whatever gets him a large following.
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