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Alex Jones Doesn’t Have An Audience
What he’s created is something much more difficult to stop
Among the many surprising things about Alex Jones’s recent trial (he was being sued by the parents of children slain at Sandy Hook — an event he long mislabeled as a hoax — for defamation and emotional damage) was that it didn’t stop him from broadcasting his show every day. Between his time in court, he would go back to his studio, get behind his desk and microphone and in front of the live-streaming cameras, and start talking. And he would talk about the trial.
One particularly stunning day in court was when the attorney representing Sandy Hook parents, Mark Bankston, revealed Jones’s lawyers had accidentally sent him the entire contents of Jones’s phone. Bankston said he would give the file to the House committee investigating the January 6th Capitol invasion, and he suggested it would be of interest to other “various federal agencies and law enforcement.”
There is a reason that the fists that smashed the windows of the U.S. Capitol were clutching smartphones.
On his show later, Jones downplayed the in-court revelation, as well as the possibility that anything related to January 6th would be found on his phone (the latter of which appears…
