Alex Jones slams Sandy Hook parent during defamation trial — Transcript

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1. 0:00alex jones took the stand in his own
2. 0:02defense today in his defamation case but
3. 0:04just hours before he did he went on his
4. 0:08talk show that airs on the infowars
5. 0:10website and said this about the father
6. 0:13of a sandy hook massacre victim let's
7. 0:16just say he's he's he's he's a nice man
8. 0:19and
9. 0:20it's not an act
10. 0:22he is
11. 0:23um
12. 0:24being manipulated by some very bad
13. 0:25people
14. 0:26i mean i'll just say because i got to be
15. 0:27honest he's slow okay
16. 0:30and
17. 0:32his ex-wife is not and i don't think
18. 0:33he's stupid i'm just saying he's he's
19. 0:37i've got family members that are really
20. 0:38smart in a lot of ways but they're just
21. 0:40real kind of quiet and have this way
22. 0:42about them and and and they they they
23. 0:45move at a different pace like they're
24. 0:47fast in some ways and slow in others and
25. 0:49he's
26. 0:52i mean i think heslin acts like somebody
27. 0:54on the spectrum
28. 0:56heslin is neil heslin the father of a
29. 0:59six-year-old boy murdered at sandy hook
30. 1:0110 years ago
31. 1:02prosecutors quickly turned that around
32. 1:04on jones and played the clip for the
33. 1:06jury today a court already found him
34. 1:09guilty of defaming the parents now a
35. 1:11jury has to decide how much he must pay
36. 1:14because of the damage he caused
37. 1:16as for heslin he took the stand today he
38. 1:19testified that he lives in fear because
39. 1:21of alex jones propaganda
40. 1:24i can't even describe
41. 1:27the last nine and a half years of the
42. 1:29living hell
43. 1:31that i and others have had to endure
44. 1:34because of the negligence and the
45. 1:36recklessness of alex jones
46. 1:39alex jones spread a conspiracy theory
47. 1:41that the sandy hook shooting was a hoax
48. 1:44and that the dead children were crisis
49. 1:46actors
50. 1:47heslin's son is this boy jesse among the
51. 1:5020 children and six school staff
52. 1:53murdered in the shooting his photo
53. 1:55displayed as you see in the courtroom
54. 1:56today his father broke down in tears
55. 1:59saying his son's death was not fake
56. 2:02he didn't live
57. 2:04i was blessed with six and a half years
58. 2:11he's been going one and a half times
59. 2:18and uh
60. 2:24but i cherish those days
61. 2:29those years
62. 2:33with jesse
63. 2:40jesse's mother testified as well today
64. 2:42scarlett lewis spoke directly to alex
65. 2:44jones in the courtroom and demanded
66. 2:47accountability
67. 2:49it seems
68. 2:50so
69. 2:52incredible to me
70. 2:54that we have to do this
71. 3:00that we have to
72. 3:02implore you
73. 3:05not just implore you
74. 3:06punish you
75. 3:08to get you to stop lying
76. 3:12saying it's a hoax it happened it's like
77. 3:15surreal what's going on in here
78. 3:17been going on for years
79. 3:19both parents said they faced death
80. 3:21threats and harassment because of the
81. 3:23conspiracy theory they said they do not
82. 3:25feel safe because so many people have
83. 3:27believed alex jones lies
84. 3:29of course jones has now apologized and
85. 3:31has now walked back the claims that the
86. 3:34shooting was a hoax