Lawyers representing several families of victims of the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School said in court documents that Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist and host of the Infowars website, sent them child pornography, which they reported to the FBI. The families have filed a defamation suit against Jones, who has spread the false claim that the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, was an intricate hoax. On his show Friday, he forcefully denied any involvement in the material in question being sent and accused Chris Mattei, one of the lawyers representing the Sandy Hook families, of trying to frame him. “The attempt to use this as a litigation club is the worst form of special pleading and the plaintiffs’ lawyers know it,” Pattis added. Jones amplified conspiracy theories claiming that the relatives of victims were actors involved in an elaborate ruse meant to confiscate firearms from law-abiding citizens.

Source: National Post June 18, 2019 14:03 UTC