Closing arguments are scheduled to begin on Wednesday afternoon in the trial in Texas in which a jury is to determine the amount of damages that the Infowars host owes to parents of children killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting massacre.Jones has said that he now believes that the 2012 horrific shootings, in which 26 people were killed, including 20 children, was “100% real.” The parents, Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, previously won a defamation judgment against him for his earlier claims that the tragedy was a hoax.Since he first took the stand on Tuesday, Jones has been repeatedly admonished by the Travis County judge in the proceedings, Maya Guerra Gamble, and he faced a rigorous cross examination from Mark Bankston, who is representing Heslin and Lewis.
Their six-year-old son Jesse was among the victims in the massacre.Bankston showed an image from an Infowars segment in which flames appear over the judge’s face.
In the five-second segment itself, a narrator claims that Gamble comes from Child Protective Services, “which has been exposed for human trafficking and working with pedophiles.”“You are telling the world, not to believe what has happened in this trial, because this judge is involved with CPS, who is working with child traffickers and pedophilia?” Bankston asked.“No, that is not what I am saying,” Jones responded.Then Bankston ran the clip, and then asked Jones, “That is what you mean when you say you are taking [the trial] seriously?”“I take this as serious as cancer,” Jones said. “You showed somebody else’s clip.
They are always a few seconds long. Why don’t you play the whole thing.”“Mr. Jones, that isn’t somebody else’s clip,” Bankston replied.“Well I didn’t direct or produce it,” Jones said.“You
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