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Posted on 10/21/2022 7:05:04 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
Lawyers for Sandy Hook families, who were recently awarded a billion dollar compensatory judgment against radio host Alex Jones, are now seeking the “highest possible“ amount in punitive damages totaling $2.75 trillion in hopes to take Jones off the air forever.
The cartoonishly large amount, which supposedly factors in 550 million “social media exposures” that Infowars would have generated on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook in the three years following the mass shooting and multiplies it by $5,000, was reported by Bloomberg News Friday.
Sandy Hook families asked a Connecticut judge to order Alex Jones to pay $2.75 trillion in damages in addition to the almost $1 billion a jury awarded for defamation, claiming only “the highest possible punitive damages,” will stop the Infowars host from continuing to harm them.
The families said they’re entitled to the amount because Jones broke a state law barring the sale of products using false statements. They reached the sum by multiplying the state law’s $5,000 per-violation fine by the 550 million social media exposures Jones’s audience received on his Facebook, YouTube and Twitter accounts in the three years following a school shooting that claimed the lives of 20 first graders and six educators in 2012.
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“Alex Jones perpetrates this attack for one reason: greed,” the families’ lawyers said in the filing Friday. “Alex Jones will never treat them like real people, because they are too valuable to him as targets…”
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The United States Jesters System is beclowning itself.
Make $5 Trillion. Wait, $10 trillion.
Not a fan of Alex Jones, but this is ridiculous.
$80 quadrillion
Ditto. He’s the canary in the coal mine.
Sue conservatives into oblivion in left friendly forums for what they deem as obnoxious speech. Kanye was sued for $250m.
Step outside the party line and get sued.
It’s a dangerous path and leads to the end of the First amendment. “Hate speech is non speech.”
Yeah, good luck with that.
Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk combined couldn’t pay that.
I didn’t used to be a fan of his, but started seeing him some on Steve Bannon’s War Room and he makes a lot of sense. I got his “The Great Reset” book and it’s very good showing the history of globalism and how we got to the WEF, and what their plans are now. It’s become a cliche that Alex Jones has been prescient about a lot of threats that many have only recently started to appreciate.
Why not eleventy bajillion dollars?
Hold on, now. Looks like we will need some official Guard Rails on what the ceiling can be to sue for in such cases as child death by murder such as these here.
We cannot rely on your typical jury to set any such limits.
People get carried away with wanting to make the surviving family feel better. To even propose such an astronomic amount shows that the mining for money as an end in itself is now out of control.
1 Googol. No, 1 Googolplex.
I don’t see how these Lieyahs have standing.
Plus the kangaroo Judges have stripped Jones of any defenses.
It’s all a yuge legal joke and I pretty much view Jones with prejudice, in general.
He has no right to share his opinion?
Play stupid games..... win stupid prizes. ummmm where do they think the money is coming from?.... BLM...?
We have no justice system. Just a commie clown show.
>>“Alex Jones perpetrates this attack for one reason: greed,” the families’ lawyers said in the filing Friday.
“That’s why we’re asking for slightly less than the ENTIRE GDP OF CALIFORNIA in damages.”
Presumably they expect him to sell a lot of supplements and ads for stuff on his show.
He needs to go on the public airwaves, grab his crotch, and say “I’ve got your trillions, right here!”
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