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A second trial to determine what conspiracy theorist Alex Jones should pay to Sandy Hook families began Tuesday in Connecticut with an attorney for the families calling what Jones said about the deadliest elementary school shooting in the nation’s history «beyond the pale.»
The attorney, Chris Mattei, told the jury Jones cooked up lies about the massacre to profit off his audience’s fear that the government would take away guns.
«The government staged it. People knew about it in advance. Parents were suspects. They were reading from a script,» Mattei recited some of what Jones said on his show during an opening statement.
The jury will decide how much in damages Jones should pay to an FBI agent who responded to the scene and eight families of victims that Jones called actors.
«None of them wanted to bring this lawsuit.
