trumptards NEWS SOURCE: Alex Jones blames ‘psychosis’ for his Sandy Hook conspiracy theory
By Ben Feuerherd
March 30, 2019 | 12:13am
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Conspiracy theorist and radio host Alex Jones blamed a personal “psychosis” for spreading the theory that the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax, he said in a court deposition.
Jones made the remarks in his response to a lawsuit filed against him by the family of a 6-year-old who was among the 20 children slain in the Sandy Hook attack, the Austin American-Statesman reported.
The suit was filed in Travis County, Texas, where Jones’ media company is based.
Jones claimed his psychosis was brought on by his deep distrust of the media.
“I basically thought everything was staged, even though I’m now learning a lot of times things aren’t staged,” his deposition reads.
“The trauma of the media and the corporations lying so much, then everything begins — you don’t trust anything anymore.
“Kind of like a child whose parents lie to them over and over again, well, pretty soon they don’t know what reality is.”
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The defamation suit is one of two filed against him by relatives of victims of the Newtown, Connecticut shooting. In Connecticut, several families have said in a suit that Jones’s rhetoric has subjected them to torment and mental anguish.
But in his deposition, Jones continued to posit conspiracy theories about the mass shooting.
“I still think that there was a man in the woods in [camoflauge]… and just a lot of experts I’ve talked to, including retired FBI agents and other people and people high up in the Central Intelligence Agency, have told me that there is a cover-up in Sandy Hook,” he said.
Jones’s lawyers have said his speech is “rhetorical hyperbole.” |
