FUBHOLE's NEWS SOURCE: InfoWars' Alex Jones claims a 'psychosis' caused him to question Sandy Hook massacre
Jones, who faces eight lawsuits over his comments on the Newtown shooting, made the psychosis claim in a deposition.
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Alex Jones, the right-wing conspiracy theorist, walks the corridors of Capitol Hill after listening to Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee on 'Foreign Influence Operations and Their Use of Social Media Platforms' on Capitol Hill on Sept. 5, 2018.Jose Luis Magana / AP file
March 29, 2019, 5:24 PM MST
By Doha Madani
InfoWars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones said his false statements after tragic mass shootings were caused by a "psychosis."
Jones made the claim during a sworn deposition in the defamation case brought against him by family members of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims.
The three-hour deposition was posted online Friday by the Texas law firm representing some of the Sandy Hook families, Kaster Lynch Farrar & Ball, LLP.
Jones, who is facing eight lawsuits regarding his comments on the Newtown, Connecticut shooting, is accused of perpetuating conspiracy theories that the tragedy was a staged event and that parents lied about their children's deaths.
The lawsuits "seek to hold Mr. Jones accountable for his vile assertions that the Sandy Hook parents were lying about what happened to their children," according to the firm's website.
In the three-hour disposition, Jones said that "the public doesn’t believe what they’re told anymore" because of corruption in the government and the "mainstream media."
"And I, myself, have almost had like a form of psychosis back in the past where I basically thought everything was staged, even though I’m now learning a lot of times things aren’t staged," Jones said.
He did not follow up his assertion with information on where he may have been evaluated or diagnosed with a psychosis.
Jones also said that the "trauma" of the media "lying so much" caused him to distrust everything. |
