Alex Jones and his "whole world of trouble" - CBS Sunday Morning

[Rhiannon12866]

On Friday a jury in Texas decided to punish Alex Jones for his on-air rants claiming that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax. CBS News legal analyst Rikki Kleiman talks with correspondent Martha Teichner about Jones' continuing legal problems. - Aired on 08/07/2022.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. What I don't understand is how Jones got legal representation on this.

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I'm an attorney and I've turned down lots of clients with spacious, fallacious, and fraudulent/false claims. I'm not about to lose my license for claims of legal misrepresentation.

Did they believe the parents of Sandy Hook would settle, take the money and run?

Risking their licenses for Alex Jones and Roger Stone? Really?

[2naSalit]

2. Perhaps they have been...

Paid enough to make it not matter, to them, if they lose their licenses.



Personally, I wouldn't do it, morally wrong.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Frivolous lawsuits are real and present danger

every time an attorney accepts a client. It’s just plain toxic.

[AllyCat]

4. Maybe this is why his attorney sent the phone records to counsel

for the plaintiff. People keep saying on social media “he’ll lose his license!” Paid well enough, maybe he doesn’t care. Wanted to be able to sleep at night.

[2naSalit]

5. Could be.

[Rhiannon12866]

8. But then consider what his lawyer did, accidentally turned over his phone records to the prosecution

Incompetence or something else??

[wnylib]

9. Glad to see you bring this up

because I have also wondered about whether this was an accident.

Considering that these text messages are now being investigated by the J6 committee, I wonder if the defense attorneys wanted that to happen. I presume that these attorneys are RWers because I can't imagine anyone else taking him in as a client. Now, consider also how many Republicans are coming clean about J6 and distancing themselves from Trump. Is it possible that some people on the right want people like Jones to be fall guys for J6?

[czarjak]

6. Good Ole Greg made sure punitive damages didn't matter anymore...

AFTER he got his.

[thucythucy]

7. I was shocked, yet again, by Jones saying

he believed Sandy Hook happened "especially after I met the parents."

So he made his horrific claims and accusations without first even trying to meet or talk to the parents?

Of course he did. Because that's what right wing "journalists" do.

There's so much to detest about this man and those around him. I wish I believed in Hell, because he and his ilk would be prime candidates for admission.

[wnylib]

10. It's up to us to make sure that he experiences hell on earth.

I love that his address and phone info are being made public. It is great karma.

Wherever he goes, he should be publicly protested and shamed. I do not advocate death threats, but constant, never ending public shaming for as long as he lives is ok with me.