Angry White Guys Gone Wild

What A Day

Crooked Media

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4.6 • 12K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

A jury in Connecticut ordered Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay nearly $1 billion in damages to the families of eight victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting. The verdict is the largest award to date for those families, who say they've suffered for years because Jones has repeatedly claimed the massacre was a “hoax.” Members of the Oath Keepers are currently on trial for seditious conspiracy, as more information comes to light about how right-wing, white nationalist militia groups allegedly helped plan and execute the attack on January 6. And in headlines: the Biden administration released its National Security Strategy Report, Nury Martinez resigned from her seat on the Los Angeles City Council, and the U.S. authorized updated COVID booster shots for young kids.

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0:00.0	It's Thursday, October 13th. I'm Priyanka Eribindi.
0:08.3	And I'm one-eat-a-tolliver and this is what a day.
0:10.6	Encouraging everyone who got a MacArthur Genius grant to spend at least some of their money
0:15.0	on a nice, relaxing beach vacation.
0:17.8	Yeah, you know what? You need to rest that big, beautiful brain of yours. You deserve it.
0:23.5	I mean, we really can't afford to have you guys burning out on us.
0:27.1	Definitely not.
0:31.2	On today's show, Nuri Martinez has stepped down from the LA City Council.
0:35.3	Plus, Amazon workers in upstate New York begin a crucial vote over whether to unionize.
0:40.4	But first, InfoWarris conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was ordered to pay nearly $1 billion
0:46.8	in damages to the families of eight victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting for their
0:52.0	suffering after years of calling a massacre a hoax.
0:55.4	Good. Like, this isn't justice by any mean based on the trauma and loss these families'
1:00.6	experience, but good.
1:01.8	Yes.
1:02.4	All right. This sounds like a massive amount of money. How'd they get there, Priyanka?
1:06.4	Yeah. Definitely huge. It's the largest amount that's been awarded so far to these families
1:11.5	through the multiple defamation suits that have been filed against Jones because of a
1:16.0	Sandy Hook conspiracies. The reason why the amount here is so astronomically large is
1:20.5	because Jones was found liable of violating Connecticut's unfair Trade Practices Act by
1:25.2	using his lies and conspiracy theories to sell products on InfoWarris. And there is no
1:30.6	cap on damages under that law.
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