After Alex Jones’ lawyers accidentally leak years of emails Infowars — Transcript

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1. 0:01lawyers for alex jones appeared to have
2. 0:03accidentally sent over the entire
3. 0:05contents of the infowars founder's phone
4. 0:08to the lawyers for the plaintiffs in his
5. 0:10defamation trial according to court
6. 0:12proceedings wednesday
7. 0:17mark bankston a lawyer for the parents
8. 0:19of one of the children killed in the
9. 0:212012 sandy hook elementary school
10. 0:23massacre and who are now suing jones
11. 0:26said during the proceedings that 12 days
12. 0:28ago his jones's attorneys messed up and
13. 0:32sent me a digital copy of every text and
14. 0:34email from jones phone
15. 0:39after bankston told jones that the sandy
16. 0:41hook parents legal team had access to
17. 0:43years of his texts and emails he asked
18. 0:46jones do you know what perjury is
19. 0:52bankston did not respond to a request
20. 0:54for comment an inquiry to infowars was
21. 0:57not immediately returned
22. 0:59nbc news has not independently acquired
23. 1:02or verified the authenticity of the
24. 1:04messages discussed by bankston during
25. 1:06wednesday's proceedings
26. 1:11parents of sandy hook victims are suing
27. 1:13jones for 150 million dollars in damages
28. 1:17after jones claimed the shooting was
29. 1:19synthetic a false flag and that the
30. 1:21families of those who were killed were
31. 1:23crisis actors
32. 1:28jones has since apologized claiming that
33. 1:30he has not personally published nor
34. 1:33signed off on sandy hook conspiracy
35. 1:35theories for years
36. 1:39new texts revealed by bankston on
37. 1:41wednesday appeared to show jones signing
38. 1:43off on more sandy hook conspiracy
39. 1:46theories five years after the tragedy
40. 1:48the phone documents also appeared to
41. 1:50reveal info wars long hidden finances
42. 1:56bankston outlined several days in 2018
43. 1:59in which infowars made over
44. 2:02800.00 per day
45. 2:04jones did not dispute the veracity of
46. 2:06the emails or the dollar figures but
47. 2:09claimed some of their higher profit days
48. 2:11came during the week of cpac the
49. 2:13conservative conference
50. 2:18earlier in the trial jones said the
51. 2:20highest figure his company made was
52. 2:23200.00 per day
53. 2:25minutes later taking questions from the
54. 2:28jury jones claimed a 2 million judgment
55. 2:31in the case will sink us
56. 2:36free speech systems the parent company
57. 2:38of infowars filed for bankruptcy in late
58. 2:42july
59. 2:46jones also had previously claimed that
60. 2:48being the platform or permanently
61. 2:50suspended from services like twitter and
62. 2:53facebook had negatively affected the
63. 2:55company's bottom line likening the
64. 2:57situation to jail
65. 3:01bankston said the newly revealed
66. 3:03financial documents show that the
67. 3:04opposite is true the company made more
68. 3:07money than ever after it was banned from
69. 3:09platforms like facebook and youtube in
70. 3:122018. well after your de platforming
71. 3:15your numbers keep getting better
72. 3:17bankston said
73. 3:21infowars is a private company and is not
74. 3:23required to disclose financial records
75. 3:26the company largely makes money by
76. 3:28selling emergency survival food and
77. 3:30goods and rebranded supplements like
78. 3:33infowars brain force plus
79. 3:36[Music]