Tuesday 13 September 2022 11:32 PM Infowars' Alex Jones made $232K off hoax Sandy Hook claims in revenue in just 1 ... trends now

Deep-pocketed conspiracy theorist Alex Jones reaped nearly a quarter of a million dollars in just one day off of the bogus claim that the horrific Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre was a hoax, the lawyer for the families suing the InfoWars host said Tuesday.

The trial will determine how much money the Texas media mogul will have to pay to the families of the victims of the mass murder at the Newtown, Connecticut school. He was found liable for damages last November in a default judgment. 

The civil case, the second of three, is a consolidation of lawsuits by 15 family members and an FBI agent against the shock jock. It could potentially be far more financially devastating than the $50 million Texas verdict against Jones last month in a civil case by the parents of 6-year-old Jesse Lewis, who died in the shooting on December 14, 2012. 

Attorney Chris Mattei, who is representing 15 people suing the Texas media mogul, said that Jones made $232,000 in a single day when the InfoWars website published the story that the FBI said that there were no deaths reported.

'$232,000 in a day, just on that one platform,' Mattei said, according to the News Times. 'What you see there is the relationship between the lie, the audience, and the money tree.'

The lawyer said that the case is not just about the money, though.

'Unless you stop a bully, a bully will never stop himself,' he said.

In February, 2020, Jones sent an email about another single day take, this time the number had grown dramatically.

'We ended up about $810K yesterday,' he wrote.

'One day. Do the math,' Mattei told the jury. 

Jones, who is expected to testify, didn't show on the first day of the trial, prompting Watertown, Connecticut, Judge Barbara Bellis to sanction the millionaire podcaster.

'This stunningly cavalier attitude toward their discovery obligations is what lead to the default judgement in the first place,' a clearly annoyed Bellis said. 'The defendants have consistently engaged in dilatory and obstructive discovery practices from the inception of these cases right through to the trial.'

She also admonished his lawyer, Norman Pattis, that they may not argue that he did not profit off his coverage of the brutal slaughter of adolescent children.

'The court hereby sanctions the defendants by precluding them from presenting evidence or argument that they did not profit from the Sandy Hook coverage,' she said from the bench.

Jones testified in the Texas trial, admitting that he was wrong to deny the massacre, which took the lives of 20 children and six adults.

'Especially since I've met the parents. It's 100 percent real,' the right-wing media mogul admitted on the stand.

Starting today a jury of six will hear evidence to consider how much Jones should pay. The trial is expected to last six weeks. 

The podcast host's lawyer said that the goal of the families is to stop Alex Jones, but he questioned what the greater harm would be.

'Our suggestion is that if you stop Alex Jones you do a greater harm upon the public,' Pattis said during his opening arguments. 'They hate him because he says outrageous things and the haters want him silenced.'

Pattis pointed out that one of the flashpoints of the current culture wars is gun control and that the motivation for going after his client is not just because of the lies that he spun. 

'It is our contention that the plaintiffs in this case exaggerated the harm that he caused them and they exaggerated it for political reasons,' he said. 

Jones may have admitted that he spread lies about Sandy Hook, but he's still unrepentant about the harm the families say he caused. 

Jones continues to argue that his coverage was protected by

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