Testify or Pay Up, Judge Tells Alex Jones in Sandy Hook Suit

The Home committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol has subpoenaed Mr. Jones, who echoed Mr. Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was stolen, and is scrutinizing his position in organizing “Cease the Steal” occasions.

Late Tuesday, Mr. Jones’s legal professionals filed an “provide of compromise” in Connecticut, proposing to pay the Sandy Hook plaintiffs a settlement of $120,000 every. “Mr. Jones extends his heartfelt apology for any misery his remarks brought about,” they mentioned.

The households swiftly rejected the proposal. “The so-called provide is a clear and determined try by Alex Jones to flee a public reckoning underneath oath along with his deceitful, profit-driven marketing campaign in opposition to the plaintiffs and the reminiscence of their family members misplaced at Sandy Hook,” they mentioned in an announcement.

The households within the Texas circumstances, by which Mr. Jones has been deposed, additionally say they’re keen for his or her day in courtroom.

“I’m wanting ahead to staring him down in a courtroom, to remind him of how he threw salt in my wound,” Lenny Pozner, whose son Noah died at Sandy Hook, mentioned in an interview. Mr. Pozner and his nonprofit, the HONR Community, have led efforts to carry Mr. Jones to account for his falsehoods concerning the taking pictures. “He’s been hung by his personal actions,” Mr. Pozner added.

Chris Mattei, a lawyer on the households’ authorized staff in Connecticut, would depose Mr. Jones. Mr. Mattei mentioned the legal professionals additionally plan to depose Rob Dew, a prime Jones lieutenant, and end questioning a number of Infowars representatives. Mr. Jones’s father, David Jones, who bankrolled his son’s enterprise at its founding and is deeply concerned in its product gross sales, has to date evaded a subpoena looking for his deposition, Mr. Mattei mentioned.

Of Mr. Jones’s many maneuvers within the run-up to trial, Mr. Mattei mentioned probably the most egregious was “his fabrication and concealment of economic data” and failure to supply complete knowledge on site visitors to the Infowars web site.