10 Revelations from The Alex Jones Sandy Hook Trial — Transcript

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1. 0:00do you solemnly swear or affirm under
2. 0:02penalty of perjury that the testimony
3. 0:04you are about to give shall be the truth
4. 0:06the whole truth and nothing but the
5. 0:07truth
6. 0:08thank you come have a seat welcome to
7. 0:10watch mojo and today we're looking at 10
8. 0:13revelations from the alex jones sandy
9. 0:15hook trial case is insane and then you
10. 0:18have this thrown into it right for this
11. 0:20video we're looking at the most shocking
12. 0:22personal and eye-opening revelations
13. 0:25that have been gleaned from the alex
14. 0:26jones sandy hook trial which of these
15. 0:29revelations wowed you the most let us
16. 0:31know in the comments
17. 0:33an apology won't suffice
18. 0:35alex jones is an alt-right radio host
19. 0:38and conspiracy theorist one of the most
20. 0:40prominent claims he's made over the
21. 0:42years is that the 2012 tragedy at sandy
22. 0:44hook elementary was quote staged and
23. 0:47perpetrated by quote crisis actors to
24. 0:49help advance the argument for gun
25. 0:51control a theory that has been widely
26. 0:53discredited as a result the father of
27. 0:56one of the victims neil heslin sued
28. 0:58jones for defamation i can't even
29. 1:00describe
30. 1:03the last nine and a half years of the
31. 1:05living hell
32. 1:07that
33. 1:07i and others have had to endure
34. 1:10because of the negligence and the
35. 1:12recklessness of alex jones the
36. 1:14plaintiffs explained in court that a
37. 1:16mere apology from jones would not be
38. 1:18enough to mend the incredible damage
39. 1:20that jones false claims made jones
40. 1:23infowar and free speech systems would
41. 1:25need to be held accountable for their
42. 1:27words and actions they sought 150
43. 1:30million dollars in damages that is a
44. 1:32huge verdict to be sure
45. 1:35but it is one that will do justice to
46. 1:38the level of harm done in this case in
47. 1:40the end jones was ordered to pay just
48. 1:43under 50 million question number one
49. 1:46four million two hundred thousand
50. 1:48dollars
51. 1:51question number two
52. 1:53twenty million five hundred thousand
53. 1:54dollars
54. 1:56question number three
55. 1:58twenty million five hundred thousand
56. 2:00dollars hillary clinton's presidential
57. 2:03campaign
58. 2:04part of jones's defense involved
59. 2:05shifting the blame from himself to
60. 2:07others for example hillary clinton jones
61. 2:11asserted that those suing him had been
62. 2:12organized by clinton and that she was
63. 2:14targeting him due to his support of her
64. 2:17opponent in the 2016 presidential
65. 2:19election donald trump in the last two
66. 2:21months of the campaign i'd already been
67. 2:23a big part of the clinton campaign
68. 2:27tying me to trump this was likely
69. 2:29partially in reference to an attack ad
70. 2:31released by clinton's team during the
71. 2:33campaign that showcased the close ties
72. 2:35between jones and trump while also
73. 2:37highlighting some of jones's more
74. 2:39outlandish claims i felt it stole my
75. 2:41identity
76. 2:42and was building me into a monster as a
77. 2:44political tool
78. 2:46and i wanted my identity back and did
79. 2:49not want to be tied to the twisted
80. 2:51things that they were saying i did
81. 2:53by making me the sandy hook man after
82. 2:55trump's election jones says the
83. 2:57president-elect called him to thank him
84. 2:59for his help in securing his win hell at
85. 3:01one point i thought he was going to
86. 3:02start yelling or chanting lock her up
87. 3:06i mean when's it gonna be over with from
88. 3:09that side 300 million dollars a year or
89. 3:12not the defamation trial provided some
90. 3:14interesting and conflicting looks into
91. 3:17the finances of alex jones's company
92. 3:19free speech systems according to jones
93. 3:22being ordered to pay just two million
94. 3:24dollars would quote sink the company any
95. 3:26compensation above
96. 3:28two million dollars will
97. 3:31sink us and
98. 3:32we'll be shut down no
99. 3:34appropriate not to you
100. 3:36appropriate for what happened to them
101. 3:38jones could be hurting financially as he
102. 3:41admitted to losing millions in revenue
103. 3:43after getting de-platformed in 2018.
104. 3:45however mark bankston the attorney
105. 3:48representing the plaintiffs proved in a
106. 3:50cross-examination that on several
107. 3:51occasions in that same year the company
108. 3:54made as much as 800 000 a day some days
109. 3:58you're making eight hundred thousand
110. 4:00seven hundred and forty five thousand
111. 4:01dollars a day right
112. 4:03yeah you you guys cherry picked the best
113. 4:04numbers we ever had
114. 4:06that's why i remember this provided this
115. 4:08is a regular occurrence their annual
116. 4:10gross would be around 300 million
117. 4:12dollars that's about right gross yes
118. 4:15for his part jones claimed this was not
119. 4:17a regular occurrence and that these
120. 4:19numbers were not representative in
121. 4:21addition during the trial he also made
122. 4:23an emergency bankruptcy filing for free
123. 4:25speech systems
124. 4:27jones admits the tragedy was real for
125. 4:29years alex jones was the most powerful
126. 4:32voice behind a disturbing conspiracy
127. 4:34theory that the sandy hook shooting was
128. 4:36a massive hoax as stated earlier jones
129. 4:39has long claimed that the sandy hook
130. 4:41tragedy was a fabrication it's arguably
131. 4:44his most infamous conspiracy theory
132. 4:46which is why it was so astonishing to
133. 4:48hear him admit it actually happened it's
134. 4:51it's 100 real as i saw the radio
135. 4:53yesterday
136. 4:54and as i said here you're staying
137. 4:56it's 100 real
138. 4:58and the media still ran with
139. 5:00lies that i was saying it wasn't real on
140. 5:02air yesterday it's incredible during
141. 5:04jones testimony he finally admitted that
142. 5:07the tragedy was quote 100 real according
143. 5:10to jones himself he came to realize its
144. 5:13veracity after quote meeting the parents
145. 5:15of the victims and i truly when i said
146. 5:18those statements
147. 5:19when i say something i mean it
148. 5:22that i really could believe that it was
149. 5:24totally staged that point this was a
150. 5:26major revelation that made headlines
151. 5:28around the country and only time will
152. 5:30tell what it will do to jones character
153. 5:32company and following
154. 5:34jones regrets spouting the conspiracy
155. 5:37theory alex jones built his career and
156. 5:39reputation on conspiracy theories but he
157. 5:42admits to deeply regretting the one
158. 5:44aimed at sandy hook if you are genuinely
159. 5:46sorry and regretful about how your words
160. 5:49cause harm to grieving parents how do
161. 5:51you plan to show rather than just tell
162. 5:54that you are sorry according to jones
163. 5:56himself the conspiracy theory and its
164. 5:58resulting controversy has ruined his
165. 6:00life and if he could go back in time he
166. 6:03would choose not to lie about it at the
167. 6:05time
168. 6:07what if anything else was going on in
169. 6:08your life
170. 6:10my
171. 6:12my family was falling apart this is a
172. 6:14significant revelation especially coming
173. 6:16from someone whose public persona is
174. 6:18predicated on the dissemination of
175. 6:20baseless and provocative claims and you
176. 6:22know that's not true
177. 6:24you know that's not true
178. 6:26but when you say those things
179. 6:28there's a fringe of society that believe
180. 6:31you
181. 6:32that are actually dangerous whether
182. 6:34jones feels remorse for his actions or
183. 6:37regrets that he's now being forced to
184. 6:38pay millions to the plaintiffs is up for
185. 6:40debate but this case will serve as a
186. 6:42cautionary tale for other would-be
187. 6:44provocateurs who will need to think
188. 6:46twice before spreading lies he will
189. 6:48grovel and he will beg for more
190. 6:50donations through bitcoin and he will
191. 6:52try to sell some more supplements on
192. 6:54this but that's a lot of supplements 50
193. 6:55million dollars in supplements is a
194. 6:57tremendous amount of brain force plus
195. 6:59that alex jones is gonna have to sell to
196. 7:00make this up jones went after the judge
197. 7:03one of the more stupefying moments from
198. 7:05the trial saw jones asked about
199. 7:06disparaging comments he made against the
200. 7:08judge in the case maya guerra gamble you
201. 7:11say mr jones that you're taking these
202. 7:12court proceedings seriously you're
203. 7:14approaching them in good faith
204. 7:16but the truth of the matter is you've
205. 7:18been broadcasting repeatedly
206. 7:20a picture of our judge
207. 7:23on fire jones denied making such
208. 7:26comments but in a scene ripped straight
209. 7:28from a courtroom drama attorney mark
210. 7:30benson played a video in which jones
211. 7:32connected gamble to some horrible acts
212. 7:34against children no that's not what i'm
213. 7:36saying okay your honor at this time we
214. 7:38would like to show a clip from mr jones
215. 7:39show on thursday where those words are
216. 7:41set judge gamble simply laughed in
217. 7:43response and ultimately this would not
218. 7:46be the only time jones was caught in a
219. 7:48lie on the stand more on that in a bit i
220. 7:51was massaging the whole of my mouth with
221. 7:53my tongue okay right here i don't want
222. 7:56to see the inside
223. 8:02ptsd
224. 8:03some may paint alex jones as a troll
225. 8:06screaming about nonsense on the internet
226. 8:08but we must remember the real world
227. 8:11consequences that his so-called opinions
228. 8:13have on their respective targets and
229. 8:15society as a whole that we have to
230. 8:19implore you
231. 8:21not just implore you
232. 8:23punish you
233. 8:24to get you to stop lying
234. 8:28saying it's a hoax it happened it's like
235. 8:31surreal what's going on in here for
236. 8:34example neil heslin and scarlett lewis
237. 8:36the parents of the late jesse lewis have
238. 8:38been bombarded by both digital and
239. 8:40physical harassment by jones's followers
240. 8:43this combined with the shock of losing
241. 8:45their young son in the tragedy has
242. 8:47reportedly given them post-traumatic
243. 8:49stress disorder but i cherish those days
244. 8:55those years
245. 9:01something a forensic psychiatrist
246. 9:03testified to in court the doctor says
247. 9:05neil heslin and scarlett lewis parents
248. 9:07of jesse lewis who was killed as sandy
249. 9:09hook have been traumatized does neil
250. 9:11have ptsd yes
251. 9:13discard yes lying under oath alex jones
252. 9:17has made millions of dollars over the
253. 9:19years peddling disinformation but during
254. 9:21this trial he was caught in lie after
255. 9:24lie the person on the left of this image
256. 9:26is our judge correct
257. 9:28yes the person on the right is another
258. 9:30judge you don't like right yes
259. 9:33there was the aforementioned lie
260. 9:34concerning his comments about the judge
261. 9:36which was quickly disproven by video
262. 9:38evidence jones also claimed that he was
263. 9:41bankrupt and that he lawfully
264. 9:43participated in the pre-trial process by
265. 9:45providing the necessary evidence that is
266. 9:48also not true
267. 9:51you may have filed for bankruptcy
268. 9:54i don't know that but i've heard that it
269. 9:56doesn't put that doesn't make a person
270. 9:59or a company bankrupt neither of these
271. 10:02were found to be true and judge gamble
272. 10:04personally admonished jones in court for
273. 10:06his persistent lying telling him that
274. 10:08this wasn't his show it seems
275. 10:12absurd to instruct you again that you
276. 10:16must tell the truth while you testify
277. 10:18yet here i am you must tell the truth
278. 10:22while you testify
279. 10:23this is not your show jones's text
280. 10:26messages one of the things that you were
281. 10:28ordered to do in this lawsuit
282. 10:31you're ordered to turn over any text
283. 10:34messages made jean sandy hook right yes
284. 10:36and you didn't have any
285. 10:38right
286. 10:40not that we could find one of the
287. 10:41biggest and most head-scratching
288. 10:43revelations of the trial involved alex
289. 10:45jones's text messages you've got it
290. 10:47upside down
291. 10:49that's text messages between you and
292. 10:51paul watson isn't it
293. 10:53yes and they mention sandy hook don't
294. 10:54they
295. 10:56yeah let us move 130 into evidence
296. 10:58during the deposition jones claimed that
297. 11:01none of his texts directly named or
298. 11:03referenced sandy hook but during the
299. 11:05trial mark bankston dropped a bombshell
300. 11:08and revealed that he was in possession
301. 11:09of a copy of jones's entire cell phone
302. 11:12including two years worth of texts it
303. 11:14had been sent to him by jones's own
304. 11:16lawyer by accident and when jones legal
305. 11:19team was informed of their mistake they
306. 11:21did nothing to rectify the situation as
307. 11:24a result bankston was able to prove that
308. 11:26jones's phone did contain text messages
309. 11:28directly relating to sandy hook your
310. 11:30attorneys messed up and sent me an
311. 11:33entire digital copy of your entire cell
312. 11:36phone with every text message you've
313. 11:39sent for the past two years and when
314. 11:41informed did not take any steps to
315. 11:44identify it as privileged or protected
316. 11:46in any way and that jones had committed
317. 11:48perjury by lying under oath is that
318. 11:51perjury on its face criminal charges
319. 11:52inevitable
320. 11:54i would say that criminal charges are
321. 11:55certainly possible maybe even likely but
322. 11:58not necessarily inevitable the january
323. 12:016th committee i've been i've been asked
324. 12:03by the january 6th committee determined
325. 12:05i mean i don't know that you get to stop
326. 12:07that anyway well if they subpoenaed them
327. 12:10i certainly it would be a very different
328. 12:11story they're going to now they know
329. 12:14about them they know they exist they
330. 12:15know you have them i think they're going
331. 12:17there either way alex jones was directly
332. 12:19involved in the events at the capitol
333. 12:21building in washington dc on january 6
334. 12:242021 for one jones company helped fund a
335. 12:28pro-trump rally that day in exchange for
336. 12:30a quote top speaking slot of his choice
337. 12:33jones was also vocal in undermining the
338. 12:36validity of president joe biden's
339. 12:37election calling him quote a communist
340. 12:40chinese agent and inciting the crowd
341. 12:42that day with prompts to quote start
342. 12:44marching
343. 12:52go to the other side of the capitol
344. 12:54that's where trump's gonna be shortly
345. 12:56after it was revealed that attorney mark
346. 12:58bankston had two years of jones text
347. 13:00messages the committee investigating the
348. 13:02january 6th attack asked for a copy of
349. 13:05the phone's contents while jones said on
350. 13:07his show that there's nothing in his
351. 13:09texts pertaining to the capital attack
352. 13:11and that he said more inflammatory
353. 13:13things on air this could prove to be an
354. 13:16integral piece of evidence for the
355. 13:17committee what's most amazing to me is
356. 13:19this case isn't about january 6th it's
357. 13:22about sandy hook
358. 13:42you