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Aug. 11, 2022 - Knowledge Fight
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#714: Trial Recap, Part 1

In Knowledge Fight #714, Alex Jones’ trial testimony reveals his evasive claims—like downplaying InfoWars’ 2012 size (10M+ emails vs. "small operation") and falsely dating its nightly news to 2015, not 2011—while dodging Sandy Hook responsibility by blaming the FBI or pharmaceuticals. Judge Guerra Gamble repeatedly sustains objections for unsupported statements, yet he persists, even denying incriminating texts (e.g., Watson’s COVID-Sandy Hook comparison) despite his lawyers’ accidental disclosure. His $4.2M compensatory damages "victory" framing ignores the $150M–$3B request and pivots to victimhood, exploiting families while urging supporters to fundraise via InfoWars Store. The episode underscores his pattern of deception, legal violations, and refusal to accept consequences. [Automatically generated summary]

Participants
Main
a
alex jones
infowars 29:11
d
dan friesen
01:15:28
f
f andino reynal
05:10
j
jordan holmes
36:45
m
mark bankston
09:44
Appearances
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judge maya guerra gamble
04:39
o
owen shroyer
winn 01:33
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Speaker Time Text
unidentified
I have great respect for knowledge fight.
alex jones
Knowledge fight.
I'm sick of them posing as if they're the good guys.
Shang me are the bad guys.
Knowledge and fight.
unidentified
Dan and Jordan.
Knowledge fight.
alex jones
I need, I need money.
Andy and Pansy.
Andy and Pandy.
Andy and Pansy.
Andy in Kansas.
Andy.
unidentified
Andy.
alex jones
It's time to pray.
Andy in Kansas.
You're on the air.
Thanks for holding us.
unidentified
Hello, Alex.
I'm a fixed pin color.
I'm a huge fan.
alex jones
I love your room.
Knowledge fight.
Knowledgefight.com.
I love you.
Hey, everybody.
dan friesen
Welcome back to Knowledge Fight.
I'm Dan.
unidentified
I'm Jordan.
dan friesen
We're a couple dudes.
Like to sit around, worship at the altar of Celine, and talk a little bit about Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
Oh, indeed we are, Dan.
dan friesen
Jordan.
unidentified
Dan.
dan friesen
Jordan.
jordan holmes
Quick question for you.
What's your bright spot today?
dan friesen
My bright spot today is sneak week.
Uh-oh.
What fun.
jordan holmes
What am I doing?
dan friesen
I don't know.
jordan holmes
This is a morning show.
dan friesen
Good morning.
That is what this has become.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
A delightful week of celebration.
I don't know, celebrations.
jordan holmes
Celebrations.
dan friesen
It's not celebrations.
jordan holmes
Why not?
dan friesen
Sneaking.
jordan holmes
Yeah, you can't celebrate a sneak, can you?
dan friesen
So we have the interview with reliable sources, Brian Stelter.
jordan holmes
Stealths.
dan friesen
Monday, we have the world-exclusive interview with the lawyers, Mike Bankston and Bill Ogden.
jordan holmes
So funny that we do.
dan friesen
Then Becca Lewis on Tuesday.
But in order for Sneak Week to really be sneaky, there has to be a day where nothing happens.
jordan holmes
There has to be a day where nothing expects to surprise you.
dan friesen
Expect shows the whole thing.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
No, we sneaked, we snuck, and we didn't have something on Wednesday.
jordan holmes
And do you know what else?
When people think we zag, that's when we're going to zog, baby.
dan friesen
See, I know that that is a quote from News Radio, but I worry because Zog means Zionist-occupied government.
jordan holmes
Okay, well, yes.
dan friesen
That joke from Jimmy James has been ruined.
jordan holmes
Yes, there is a different issue.
Yeah, that's true.
dan friesen
So I have to put a embargo on that, though.
Yes, yeah.
But so Thursday, here we are today.
We're beginning a two-parter about the trial time and getting up to speed on a lot of that stuff.
And then Friday, we cap off Sneak Week with an appearance on the majority report.
jordan holmes
Oh, my God.
What are we doing?
dan friesen
With Sam Cedar.
jordan holmes
We're so silly.
dan friesen
Yeah, long time coming, I think.
Maybe.
I don't know.
I've been looking forward to that.
I am a big, have been a big fan of Sam and his work.
And so, yeah, I'm looking forward to it.
jordan holmes
I'm really excited about that.
Absolutely.
dan friesen
What a week.
jordan holmes
I'm going to sing Septipus to Sam the entire time.
dan friesen
You've already told me that you're going to have a tough time not doing home movies and home movies, oppressions.
jordan holmes
I'm even going to go into Lucy Daughter of the Devil.
I'm going to be like, holy shit, do you remember when you played the vampire Vampire guy, and you were like, ah, I forget everything you know about vampire.
You remember that?
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
It's going to be great.
See, he's going to like me.
dan friesen
I have thoughts about like various interviews he's done with academics, sure, sure.
Authors and debates he's done with libertarians.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
Times he's fucked with Steven Crowder.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
You just have voice acting.
unidentified
I have Brendan Small, and yeah, yeah, that's it.
jordan holmes
Yeah, there we go.
dan friesen
So it's your bright spot.
jordan holmes
My bright spot is: I put it up, I finished it, I compiled all of the annoying tweets that I made, and I got rid of all the insults and all of the personal texts and all of the anything that isn't at the trial because I wanted to share a disorienting experience with people.
There's going to be way better books written about it that make more sense and that will be enjoyable to read, but you won't get the real experience of being there, which was disorienting and unenjoyable.
dan friesen
I think a lot of people are going to resent the lack of insults.
I think people are going to want those insults.
Yeah, well, that's the problem.
You've cultivated this thing through the live tweeting where people are like, I know, I know, I don't like it.
jordan holmes
Here's the problem: the final draft, 50,000 words, Dan.
I don't know if you recall what I said the initial amount of total words I had written over this time period was.
dan friesen
No, 70,000.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
70 words.
20,000 cut out.
I know how to take care of things.
dan friesen
20,000 insults.
jordan holmes
It's quite a ratio.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But it's done.
You can go to my website, The Quiet Part Loud.
It's the front.
dan friesen
Did you include that whole thing where everyone was saying grape job to bomb?
jordan holmes
No, I did not.
Again, no personal attacks.
I didn't even mention that Grape Job Barnes existed.
All that it is, is you can go to my website and you can download it as PDF.
Don't pay anything for it.
Don't give anybody anything for it.
Donate money or just read it.
dan friesen
Well, what fun.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
For everyone who is wondering where are those tweets.
jordan holmes
I'm sorry.
dan friesen
They're in a PDF.
jordan holmes
I'm so sensitive.
Don't funny me for writing a Twitter book.
dan friesen
You had a good tenure at your new job as you referred to it.
jordan holmes
I say, I got a gig one time, and it is death for me.
unidentified
When I booked it, it's a funny way to describe tweeting.
jordan holmes
Yes, for a short period of time.
Yes, I get it.
unidentified
Because it also kind of sounds like someone was paying you to do it.
jordan holmes
It does.
Which is hilarious.
It does, and it is, and it's sad.
dan friesen
So, Jordan, today, like I said, we're starting part one of the trial coverage and sort of the surrounding aura in some sense.
I think the surrounding stuff will be a little bit more in the next episode.
unidentified
Gotcha.
dan friesen
But today, what we're going to be doing is going over the testimony that Alex gave at the trial, which I didn't expect we were going to cover because I thought all that stuff was like, you can't make copies of this, but then it's on law and crime.
I guess they just put it out there.
jordan holmes
So, yeah, I mean, it's ours now.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Nothing that you can do about it.
dan friesen
Hundreds of thousands of people are watching those videos.
So I'm going to go ahead and fair use now.
So we're going to cover Alex's direct questioning from Raynal.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
And then the cross-examination.
And then we're going to get into the aftermath of the compensatory damages.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
And that's where we're going to leave off.
Alex's response to the compensatory damages, waiting for the next day when he will end up in the punitive faith.
jordan holmes
Gotcha.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
So that is what part one will cover, and then part two will pick up and sprawl from there.
jordan holmes
So this one is Far From Home, and then the next one is Endgame.
I forgot how these movies are titled.
dan friesen
I haven't seen any of them.
And so yes.
jordan holmes
Good call.
dan friesen
Yeah.
100% perfectly accurate Marvel metaphor.
So before we do that though, Jordan, let's get back to something we haven't done in a while.
Say hello to some new wonks.
jordan holmes
Yay!
dan friesen
So first, objection, non-responsive.
Thank you so much.
You are now a policy wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much.
dan friesen
Thank you.
Next, Aftinomia Podcast.
You inspired me to fact check my local Bercherite weirdo in podcast form.
Thank you.
You are now a policy wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much.
dan friesen
Thank you.
Next, hearing the old technocrat drop makes me feel three years younger.
Thank you so much.
You are now a policy wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much.
dan friesen
Thank you.
Next, Justin and Tony, you're going Zimbabwe.
Thank you so much.
You are now a policy wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
I forgot that one.
How much have we forgotten?
dan friesen
I thought it was baby.
jordan holmes
You're going.
I think it was that, but I still like it.
That was good.
dan friesen
Thank you very much.
Next, it may be easier to just say it's pronounced Michaela.
My mom was a creative speller.
Thank you so much.
You are now a policy wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much, Michaela.
dan friesen
And angering Alex by being tall at the mall.
Thank you so much.
You are now a policy wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much.
dan friesen
Finally, Jordan, we have a technocrat in the mix.
And to make that other person feel three years younger, I will use the old drop.
jordan holmes
All right.
dan friesen
But my husband knows the term is policy wonk, but still calls it polywonk.
He's going to be so happy he's now a technocrat.
Thank you so much.
You are now a technocrat.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
unidentified
Four stars.
alex jones
Go home to your mother telling you, brilliant.
Someone, sodomite, sent me a bucket of poop.
Daddy Sharp.
Bomb, Jar Jar Binks has a Caribbean black accent.
unidentified
He's a loser, little, little kitty baby.
alex jones
I don't want to hate black people.
I renounce Jesus Christ.
dan friesen
Thank you so much.
jordan holmes
Yes, thank you very much.
dan friesen
So now, Jordan, we begin with Alex being sworn in.
And I do think that this isn't going to be a complete play-by-play of everything that happens.
Because there's a lot of stuff that I think, honestly, anyone who listens to our show would be like, this is boring.
This is, you know.
jordan holmes
That was a lot of the experience of us being in the room for, especially his first day of just being like, are you doing an ad read right now?
Really?
dan friesen
Well, we might include that.
jordan holmes
Oh, well, maybe.
dan friesen
But Alex is sworn in, and he tries to take a piece of paper up to the stand with him, which causes a little problem.
judge maya guerra gamble
Mr. Raynal, do you have a witness for the report?
f andino reynal
I do.
The defense would call Alex E. Jones.
judge maya guerra gamble
All right, Mr. Jones, come stand in front of me, please.
Raise your right hand.
Do you solemnly swear or affirm, under penalty of perjury, that the testimony you are about to give shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
unidentified
I do.
judge maya guerra gamble
Thank you.
Come have a seat.
In the witness chair, there is water and glasses.
You have pretty good volume.
I don't think you'll need to lean into the microphone.
I see that you have a document with you.
I don't know if you were here when I explained to a prior witness who brought documents with them that you can't look at any document for any reason while you're testifying until unless one of the lawyers or myself instructs you to do so.
So I'm going to ask you to actually just give it back to Mr. Raynal until he may think you need it, okay?
Did you understand all that?
alex jones
I did, yes.
judge maya guerra gamble
Okay.
dan friesen
One of the things that's fun about that is that, you know, Alex is so invested in this, like, we're teleprompter-free.
You know, and then he's trying to bring handwritten notes to the stand so he remembers his talking points.
jordan holmes
I mean, the fact that they were handwritten too.
Like, come on.
Really?
Yeah.
dan friesen
I mean, on some level, I get it.
I get the impulse.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
I would rather have talking points.
jordan holmes
Sure.
Sure.
No, that's fair.
dan friesen
Instead of just being adrift at sea and having to answer whatever question is asked of me.
jordan holmes
Fair.
dan friesen
But, yeah, you don't get to do that.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
I mean, we were, this wasn't day one of the trial, though.
No, you know, like we have already experienced.
dan friesen
This is day five.
jordan holmes
Yeah, we yeah, we've already experienced it was Tuesday.
Uh, no, this would have been day seven.
dan friesen
Day six.
jordan holmes
Uh, yes, day six of the trial proper.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because if you don't count jury selections, yeah, day six.
jordan holmes
Um, so but like we had seen for a week everyone come unprepared, and then they had a weekend.
dan friesen
Yeah, because what we have not discussed is up till this point, you already had Owen Shroyer, you already had Daria, you already had Becca, you already had Will's Zip, yeah, yeah, yeah, Mr. Crouch.
Uh-huh.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
And so you'd already had like a real contrast in the Infowars people and the witnesses that were being called by the plaintiffs in terms of their ability to answer basic questions.
jordan holmes
Sure.
Yeah.
dan friesen
And so Alex comes up.
Oh, I also didn't include the part where he was scolded for chewing gum and then tried to judge inside of his mouth.
jordan holmes
Oh my God.
dan friesen
There were some things that were just kind of like, what are we doing?
We have some things to talk about.
Let's not get bogged down.
jordan holmes
Yes, yeah, yeah.
We're going to be here a while.
dan friesen
So Raynal comes in with his first question.
And one of the things that I think becomes abundantly clear really fast is that Alex does not appreciate the notion of not just being able to ramble.
Right.
jordan holmes
Yes, he was not a fan.
dan friesen
It's one of the things that he has, it's the most sacred to him.
And he does not respond well to being told, you have to answer questions.
f andino reynal
Alex, would you please introduce yourself to the ladies and gentlemen of the jury?
unidentified
Hi, I'm Alex Jones.
f andino reynal
How are you feeling today, Alex?
alex jones
I actually feel good because I get a chance to, for the first time, say what's really going on instead of the corporate media and high-powered law firms manipulating what I actually do.
f andino reynal
I want to start by kind of letting the jury know a little bit about your youth and where you grew up so they can get to know you better.
Is that okay?
alex jones
Okay.
And, you know, before we do that, I just do want to say this on record as I've said it many times.
I apologize to both.
unidentified
Sustained.
judge maya guerra gamble
So, Mr. Jones, one of the instructions I just gave you is that this is not a conversation.
Question and answer.
alex jones
So she got to monologue, but not me.
I got it.
judge maya guerra gamble
And so you have to only answer questions that are asked of you.
dan friesen
So you can see here that in the first question Alex is asked, he's already off track.
He's trying to monologue and control the entirety of the conversation because he, who goes, why wouldn't he think he should be able to?
I find it hard to imagine that Raynal has had any success ever trying to keep Alex on point, like off the stand.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So why should this be any different?
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
At the end, Alex says that it's not fair that he doesn't get to talk, but she got to monologue.
This is in reference to Scarlett Lewis's testimony from just prior to him taking the stand, and there's a reason why she got to monologue, as Alex put it.
It's because Raynal knew damn well that he wasn't going to object and interrupt her.
For as much of a shithead as he seems to be, I don't think Raynal is so detached from his humanity as to deprive Miss Lewis of her chance to speak her peace to Alex after all this time and him dodging the moment of having to look her in the face and hear her words.
Truth be told, Lewis probably was a bit off-subject at a few points in her testimony.
And if Raynal had objected, there's a really good chance that the judge would have no choice but to refocus the question asked.
But he didn't do that.
And that's what Alex is mad about.
You're not mad that she got to monologue and you don't.
It's that your lawyer didn't stop it.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right, right.
Yeah.
I mean, it does seem like what is really causing Alex ire is that his lawyer did not badger Scarlett Lewis with questions.
dan friesen
Or interrupt her answers of questions that the plaintiff's attorneys say.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
You understand why we're here.
dan friesen
Yeah, I think that it would have taken a really cold, cold lawyer to be objection Talking about her son dying.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, that would have been a dark day.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So Alex does want to stress, as he was trying to with this sidebar that he was going down, that he apologized and he's sorry and all this.
So he attempts an apology here.
f andino reynal
Mr. Jones, have you been wanting to apologize to the plaintiffs in this case for a long time?
alex jones
Yes.
f andino reynal
And what would you like to say to them?
alex jones
That I never intentionally tried to hurt you.
I never even said your name until this case came to court.
I didn't even really know who you were until a couple years ago when all this started up.
The internet had a lot of questions.
I had questions.
And over that six, seven-year period before I got sued, or six-year period, it's clear you can see the whole progression of us the few times we covered it trying to actually find out what happened.
And that's really been my big frustration is that people have said that I'm personally trying to hurt them or coming after them.
And I question every big event.
And a lot of times it turns out that we've not been told the truth.
And a perfect example is today where they play a 30 or a one-minute clip.
And I had just done that this morning.
And I knew that I said, I believe that Scarlett Lewis is real.
And she's a really nice person.
And she's really a sweet person.
And then I went through and talked about her ex-husband, too.
And then I said, I believe they're being fed and manipulated.
mark bankston
Non-responsive.
unidentified
Sustained. Sustained.
judge maya guerra gamble
When you hear these things.
unidentified
Oh, my God.
dan friesen
Alex just wants to power through.
jordan holmes
Oh, my God.
dan friesen
So the clip he's talking about is something we went over on our 7-Eleven episode.
Episode 7-Eleven.
It wasn't an episode about that.
jordan holmes
It wasn't in 7-Eleven either.
dan friesen
That was the clip of Alex talking about how Heslin appeared slow and all this.
He's trying to argue that this is a, you know, they selectively edited everything.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
Whatever.
jordan holmes
Yeah, his argument was essentially, you didn't play the whole clip.
See, what happened is the first thing I said was, I'm sorry.
And then I said that Neil Bunchlin was slow and that I think he's on the spectrum.
dan friesen
So this is not an apology.
That is Alex attempting to defend himself by saying that he didn't mean to hurt anyone and he didn't actually even say things that would hurt them to begin with because, you know, people just take things he says out of context and attack him.
This is pathetic, but this is Alex's understanding of an apology.
It's not about recognizing and respecting the pain that other people experience due to your actions.
It's about pretending that you care they were hurt and that it was someone else's fault.
It's cowardly, but it's to be expected.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I mean, if you follow his words, he's essentially saying, basically, you're not smart enough to understand why what I did was actually okay.
Here are my excuses that you just don't understand.
Like, you're mad at me, but really, it's your fault.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
I didn't hurt you.
It's the media lying about the things that I said.
I don't even know who you are.
I never said your name.
jordan holmes
Yeah, a very respectful thing to say in your defamation trial is, honestly, I didn't even know who you were.
It doesn't matter to me whom I hurt.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
It's almost like he's M. Bison in the Street Fighter movie.
jordan holmes
It's a little bit like, wow, you are a real villain here.
dan friesen
The day that I came to your village is the most important day of your life.
But for me, it was Tuesday.
jordan holmes
Nothing.
Yeah.
It's like, Jesus, man.
That's how you're going to go with it.
Not great.
dan friesen
So Raynal wants to humanize Alex, obviously.
And so a part of this is walking through some of his earlier life.
And I didn't cut clips from all of it, but there's some stuff that just seemed like, wow, this doesn't match up at all the way that Alex usually talks.
jordan holmes
Yeah, we were in there.
dan friesen
Yeah, so here's the first of that.
f andino reynal
Can you let us know where are you from in Texas originally?
alex jones
I first was born in Dallas, then I grew up in a suburb of Dallas called Rockwell.
f andino reynal
And how old were you when you moved to Austin?
alex jones
16.
f andino reynal
And can you tell the members of the jury why your family relocated to Austin?
alex jones
My dad sold his dental practice, and there was too much crime in Dallas, and Austin was a safer city.
dan friesen
There's too much crime in Dallas.
jordan holmes
Oh, boy.
dan friesen
You lived in Rockwall.
jordan holmes
Too much crime in Dallas.
dan friesen
Wealthy suburb.
Apparently, if you watch Alex's documentary, you know, it's one of the richest suburbs in the country, and everybody's rolling around in Rolls-Royces and doing poke-off sex workers on books.
jordan holmes
His problem is there was too much wage theft going on.
So, you know, there was a lot of crime going on in that neighborhood.
dan friesen
Service employees were paid too little.
jordan holmes
Yes, that's what his main issue was, is that the people he was around were not paying their employees well.
dan friesen
You know what?
I respect that.
jordan holmes
I wish it was.
dan friesen
Yeah, I think that he knew better than to do the, I grew up in a town where Satanists were trying to recruit me to worshiping the devil because they knew that through psychic powers the devil gave them, I would be important to God's mission in the future.
And I uncovered a drug ring within the Rockwall Police Department and they threatened to murder me if I didn't leave town.
I think that maybe he knew that the jury wouldn't take kindly to that.
Or maybe it would paint him in a bad light because it's clearly ridiculous.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it would be a little bit like the jury's punitive damages at that point would have to come back with like, and he has to wear a straitjacket forever.
You know, like that, if you say that on the stand, punitive damages stop being money.
dan friesen
I think Alex is pretty lucky that this is not one of those performative judge situations.
jordan holmes
Section eight.
Yeah.
dan friesen
So Alex talks about some of his early influences.
And this was one of the points where I almost had to leave the courtroom.
f andino reynal
How old were you when you first felt that you wanted to be on the air, that you wanted to work in media?
alex jones
When I was about 17, I really liked listening to talk radio.
And I'd grown up with my dad on road trips listening to like Larry King when he was still on radio.
And I really liked Larry King on radio and then also on CNN.
And I also liked Howard Stern, thought he was funny.
And I really wanted to be a talk show host.
dan friesen
You liked CNN?
You like the Clinton News Network?
Please.
This is a strategic answer on Alex's part because he doesn't want to say to the jury that he was brought up listening to and admiring extreme far-right demagogues and Christian identity radio preachers.
He doesn't want to say to the jury that he was a devoted fan of the British Israelite preacher David J. Smith or how he was a regular listener to the Holocaust-denying preacher Texe Marrs, whose church Alex has said repeatedly that he attends.
He doesn't want to even tell the version of the story that he relayed in his documentary, Alex's War, because even that would sound bad to a jury.
Larry King and Howard Stern are largely mainstream touchstones, and they do the sort of shows that Alex wants the jury to think he does.
It's total bullshit, but it's also very clear why he's presenting his inspiration to get into media this way.
So the jury doesn't get an accurate sense of what his career has actually been about.
Also, kind of makes Alex Lee Moyer's editing choices look even more embarrassing.
The use of swelling music over Alex telling the tale of how he discovered people bringing the fight to the New World Order on public access and how that was the moment he realized he wanted to get into this field seems particularly dumb now.
Just imagine the same music that she played over Alex saying, I really like Larry King's radio show.
He wanted to host a chat program like his.
Not quite so, it doesn't have the same flair.
Maybe you got played or maybe you wanted to be played.
jordan holmes
It is so very funny to me, the idea of having made a documentary and then only days later hear your subject almost completely disavow every single thing in that documentary under oath.
dan friesen
I'm also seeing, like, I don't know, I'm getting reset Wars vibes in terms of like, I think there was a lot of ramping up to it, and it seems like it's never done.
jordan holmes
No one cares at all about that fucking documentary.
I don't know.
I mean, that is.
dan friesen
I feel almost like I'm dumb for doing as much work in advance because I kind of thought it would be a little bit more widely discussed and maybe viewed than it was.
I had a preemptive.
jordan holmes
For the pre-market.
I mean, they had some big names pre-marketing it, you know, like the interview with Greenwald.
It feels like that should move the needle somewhat, right?
dan friesen
Then there were a step.
jordan holmes
He's got two million followers.
dan friesen
There were a lot of pre-orders online, which take however you want.
jordan holmes
I guess.
I don't know.
dan friesen
Anyway, Alex's early show that he did at the beginning of his career, apparently quite different than the current one.
jordan holmes
Way different.
f andino reynal
And what was the format of your early shows on Austin Public Access TV?
alex jones
It wasn't as conspiratorial or political.
There was some of that because there were some people doing those shows, and I already knew about that information.
But it was just all over the map.
It was just really calling shows and different topics, did variety shows, like Card Pumpkins on TV on Halloween, and, you know, have a guy come in with his pet monkey in it, you know, dances around.
Just fun stuff.
Because I also liked Johnny Carson growing up.
dan friesen
Oh, okay.
That's complete bullshit.
Maybe Alex did do a bit of goofing off on his show, but it was also straight up conspiracy content.
He and his early public access co-host, Jeff Davis, made a documentary together titled, Are You Practicing Communism?
If that gives you some sense of the vibe he was working with back then.
It's really hard to get your hands on the shows from back then, but the ones I've seen are complete bullshit and conspiracy-laden nonsense.
And it's super easy to find accounts from people who worked at the station with him back then.
Right.
He was a raving conspiracy lunatic even back then.
He was an asshole and no one liked working with him.
That's why, that's a big part of why his career took the trajectory it did.
jordan holmes
Right, right.
It would have been more fun if that was like a PSA where it's like, are you practicing your piano lessons?
You know, like, are you practicing your communism?
dan friesen
Are you working on your absolutely?
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah.
Practice makes perfect.
Are you going to communist in Carnegie Hall is the question that you should be asking yourself.
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
I tried to watch that documentary.
Well, it's not a documentary.
It's like them sitting at a table complaining about communism.
jordan holmes
It's between two ferns.
dan friesen
Sort of, but there's a table.
jordan holmes
Sure, sure.
dan friesen
And no ferns.
jordan holmes
Right, well.
dan friesen
Yeah, it just was like, I can't, I'm not going to do this.
There was no flair.
Nothing.
jordan holmes
No flair.
Nothing.
dan friesen
Anti-communism.
jordan holmes
Oh, terrible.
dan friesen
But look, man, Alex loved Larry King.
jordan holmes
Of course.
f andino reynal
Tell us in those, you told us already about Larry King and about Howard Stern.
Who would you say influenced you artistically in the format and how you did your show then and became the man you are today?
alex jones
I mean, really, I listen to Larry King a lot because my dad listened to him on the radio a lot when I was so from the time I was like six, seven, I would listen to Larry King.
And then I'd watch him a lot of nights at home and junior high in high school.
So I would say more than anybody, Larry King.
dan friesen
If Alex's dad listened to Larry King, it was yelling at him.
It was like listening to Larry King and being absurd.
This fucking communist.
jordan holmes
You know what?
Honestly, I would almost believe that.
And here's why.
The Alex's need to interrupt over the TV had to have come from somewhere.
I think it's entirely possible that he did watch his dad just interrupt Larry King screaming at the TV all the time.
dan friesen
It's an interesting theory.
I think that that could just be a style he developed.
jordan holmes
Totally.
unidentified
Totally.
jordan holmes
I understand.
dan friesen
Low attention span, highly knee-jerk, reactive.
But yeah, you do what you see.
jordan holmes
I mean, I'm just saying that I'm aging and now I'm recognizing my father's actions in my own, and this is entirely about me.
I have no idea what we're talking about.
dan friesen
I can't relate to that at all as someone whose dad locked himself in a room and worked all the time.
Anyway, Alex touches on his first documentary, and this is a real fun claim.
f andino reynal
Did you also start making, in order to support InfoWars, did you also start making documentaries?
alex jones
I did start making documentaries.
In 1997, I made my first documentary, America Destroyed by Design, about the Great Reset.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah, that's right.
alex jones
And the different UN documents that were in it.
And then I made more than 25 more films after that.
dan friesen
See, this is so indicative of Alex's shit.
Like, this pretending that his first documentary was about the Great Reset, something that didn't become a hot topic in conspiracy circles until 2021.
Yeah.
Basically, like, this is so, this is what he's about.
He's about retconning.
He takes these things that he yelled about in the past and then applies modern labels and contexts to them in order to make it look like Alex Jones was always right.
Yeah, and it's just such bullshit.
Like, you weren't yelling about the Great Reset.
You were yelling about Agenda 21 and the road in Texas.
Or the road through what was it?
Just the highway.
jordan holmes
Yeah, the North Transatlantic North American Highway Corridor.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Something like that.
dan friesen
You were yelling about national parks having a sign up in them.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Get off it.
jordan holmes
It was, it is like, we talked about it with Mark and Bill just a little bit, but it is like, you can't really have a jury of Alex's peers out of anybody that's that doesn't like who, how can you say, oh, you're you can't lie under oath to that?
Like, you and I both know that that's a complete lie, you know, but who's going to say it?
dan friesen
I don't know if that's a substantive lie to the case.
jordan holmes
Totally, totally.
dan friesen
So maybe it's kind of fine for the proceedings of this that.
jordan holmes
Right, but you're under oath.
I know all that stuff.
I know it's legally all that it is, but there is a certain part of me that's like, you have to be able to know that Alex is lying even about that.
You know?
dan friesen
Sure, sure.
I agree with that.
I think that this runs into the issue of the separate realities because, you know, there's a part of Alex that probably believes that I was talking about the reality.
jordan holmes
Of course, I was talking about the Great Reset.
When I was three years old, I had a dream about the Great Reset, and the Lord spoke it to me.
dan friesen
Like, how does narcissism work in its effects on whether or not you think you're being truthful?
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
You know, like, and that's something that would be difficult to unpack.
But I would say that oath or no oath, you're a fool if you think Alex is ever going to actually give you truthful answers and direct answers.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
So we get back to talking about the time of Sandy Hook on Alex's show.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And what was his show like?
What was the environment at InfoWars?
jordan holmes
I believe I recall.
f andino reynal
Can you tell us what the sort of different segments are that would appear on a given day at InfoWars circa 2012?
alex jones
There was my four-hour radio show That in 2012 was just a webcam on me for people that wanted to watch it online.
And then it was just me at a desk with a camera in 2012.
And then, um, I mean, that was it, basically.
dan friesen
The primary goal of Alex's answer here is to downplay his own relevance and the size of his operation in 2012.
He wants the jury to think that though he's a big, famous boy now, back then he was really just a mom and pop talk show.
Unfortunately, he's lying.
He didn't just have a webcam on a desk at that point.
He had two studios, each with multiple camera angles available at any point.
He also had more than just his show being broadcast daily, since the Infowars nightly news was in existence at that point.
The nightly news started in 2011 and it contained a bunch of content that's relevant to this very lawsuit, like instances of Rob Dew covering Sandy Hook.
Alex knows all this, but the goal is to create the perception that he really wasn't that big back then.
So it couldn't have been him that was so influential in getting the Sandy Hook conspiracies rolling and causing the harm that was done to Neil and Scarlett.
It's a fraud.
And one of the telltale signs is that pretending a show he produced all the way to 2017 doesn't exist.
It's nonsense.
jordan holmes
Never heard of it before.
dan friesen
What's this?
jordan holmes
I've never heard of it before.
I was thinking about this.
I can't think of any testimony, real or fictional, I have ever seen that may be more chocked filled with absolute non-truths, you know?
And it is like you were saying, you know, like that's because in this world, I don't think we're ever dealing with a truth or a lie.
That doesn't exist.
We're dealing with both and neither simultaneously.
dan friesen
Yeah, what's convenient and useful to me is the truth.
jordan holmes
Is the truth.
And I believe it under a lie detector.
dan friesen
Yeah.
And I think that it's bizarre because, you know, narcissism for Alex works in this way of like, all right, when I need to inflate myself.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
In 2012, I had the biggest show in the world.
I had 100 million radio stations.
jordan holmes
So every world leader on the planet listens to my show.
dan friesen
Ron Paul loved me and he was the rightful president of something.
I owned the tea party.
jordan holmes
One of those did run the tea party.
He did explicitly say that.
dan friesen
And then the narcissism here is that he needs to not be very big because it's important for him to not have the grand title of the thing that is negative.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
Right, right.
What is that hallmark thing of psychopaths?
Is that the manipulating based on what they people think want to hear in any situation?
Is that one of those things?
dan friesen
Something like that.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that sounds right.
dan friesen
So this next clip is where Alex gets to talking about how talk show hosts are judged.
unidentified
And this is bizarre.
f andino reynal
At the time, 2012, how did you all source the, or how did you source the stories that you wanted to cover during that segment of your talk radio?
alex jones
95% of what we were covering was mainstream news going, look, they're saying this.
Do you believe it?
Or what do you make of this?
I mean, it's that kind of thing.
Is that we would simply do what talk radio does.
That's what talk radio does.
That's what Larry King did: stack the news articles, talk about what's going on, what people are saying, ask callers, what do you think of that?
Do you buy that?
What do you think is going to happen next?
Are there really WMDs in Iraq?
Are they lying about it?
And then the talk show hosts make their predictions about what they think.
And then the talk radio listeners basically keep note and see who's the most accurate.
And it becomes a big game to see who has made the best predictions and things like that.
And so that kind of lends itself to the very nature of a soapbox is people speculating.
That's the nature of people going to a park and standing up at Speaker's Corner in London for 600 years and giving their opinion.
That's what free speech is.
dan friesen
Okay.
jordan holmes
That is one of the most absurd descriptions of like five different things I've ever heard.
dan friesen
I mean, it got into like town criers.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
He thinks that like his audience is sitting there with a pen and a pad writing down his predictions.
jordan holmes
No, no, no, no.
It's like they have baseball scorecards.
They're like, oh, okay, Alex hit a single on this one.
Draw one line.
Holy shit.
Rush Libaugh hits one out of the park.
dan friesen
I mean, look, from the time that we've been doing this show and the predictions that we've seen from him, if anyone was doing this and talk show hosts were judged by this, he would be out of business.
jordan holmes
He would be an outlier.
Yeah.
dan friesen
On the other side.
jordan holmes
Yes, on the far side.
dan friesen
Yes.
jordan holmes
He would be an outlier.
dan friesen
That's true.
He's fortunate that no one is keeping a pen and pad.
jordan holmes
Yeah, if that is true, God damn.
dan friesen
The world would have to have been destroyed multiple times over by now in order for his predictions to have any decent track record.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
Cities in America would be constantly getting nuked.
Right.
The globalists would be starving everyone, and we would all be dead of plague of locusts years ago.
jordan holmes
Right.
And this is how Alex always kind of gets into your head.
It's like, that is so insane that you almost forget he said that free speech is really just a dude standing on a box in the corner in London screaming for 600 years.
dan friesen
But back then, your town crier that you listen to, you judge by their predictions.
jordan holmes
Yes, but then you judge their predictions by how long they stayed in the stocks.
I think that might actually be a better situation for us.
dan friesen
Man.
jordan holmes
If you have enough bad predictions, you go in the stocks for a week.
dan friesen
Yeah, I think that that is, you're right.
That is one of the tools of Alex's absurdity, isn't it?
There's constant heightening.
jordan holmes
There's so many layers of absurdity.
dan friesen
Yeah, so you're like, wait, I can't deal with part A. Part B is.
jordan holmes
Part C is hilarious.
Part D, what are you talking about?
What is happening?
dan friesen
So in a conversation about sources, Alex says this.
alex jones
Now, most of the time, though, I say, I want this person, I want that person, and I'm more in control of the guest that I have.
But in the past, we let more things driven by the internet and by 4chan and Han that in every case I've had problems has been a curse.
I'm not attacking everybody that's on there, but that's, I tell my producers, do not touch it when it's on there because it's just a kiss of death and it causes nothing but problems.
dan friesen
It's bullshit that Alex is saying there's a moratorium on this kind of sourcing, like from things on 4chan.
But if you want to take this seriously at all, then what Alex needs to do is take a real hard look in the mirror, take an inventory of the things that he said based on 4chan posts and retract all of it.
He needs to go back and look at the Soros Antifa contracts.
He needs to go back and find all of these things and really wrestle with, okay, if you now know this to be a completely unreliable source, you need to figure out what parts of your mythology, what parts of your worldview are solely informed by that and work to get those out.
Make sure that people don't still believe them because otherwise you're still using 4chan as a source, essentially.
Yeah, it's like he doesn't do that because those things that are based on 4chan nonsense are too important to him.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
Right, right.
Yeah, no, if you find out a single cop used to be a drug dealer for 10 years, every single case that that cop worked on needs to be re-evaluated and thrown out or whatever.
So it's the same thing.
It's the same fundamental principle.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's hard work.
jordan holmes
It is very hard work.
dan friesen
The only reason Alex isn't going to do it.
And the other thing is that the other reason is just the system doesn't do it.
You don't like what the result is going to be.
jordan holmes
That's not going to be good for him.
dan friesen
No, because then you have to find another way to try and prove that Soros has Antifa contracts to burn down cities, which is a real big part of your whole bullshit opposition to the Black Lives Matter protest while you're pretending.
Well, at least one of the ways that you pretended it wasn't based on any flagrant racism.
Right.
But hey, don't go ahead and do that because it's too complicated.
jordan holmes
It would take a while.
Daria didn't even like finding the things that she was asked about for two years.
dan friesen
Well, Wikipedia.
jordan holmes
Well, she did like finding that.
dan friesen
So, Alex doesn't like the news anymore.
jordan holmes
That's not surprising.
alex jones
And more and more, I don't really follow the news model of covering the news.
In the past, I did, but we still do it a lot.
But now I mainly just talk about philosophy and the big picture and then have some guests on.
Now, the show's gotten more Christian, you know, because I'm Christian, but as things progress while things are happening in the world, I'm moving more towards doing a self-help life experience type than the political show.
Like, I've been trying to segue out of this just because I think we have to change individuals.
Kind of like Scarlett was saying earlier, more than we're going to change the world.
We can't change ourselves than we're ever going to be able to change the world.
And I've made a lot of mistakes, and I've learned a lot in that process.
And I've also learned how the corporate media is able to completely manipulate a story once you're caught in it and then manipulate other people.
And if anything, I want to teach people about how that process worked because they say I'm the mastermind that figured out how to manipulate people, and I didn't have any understanding of it coming.
And now I've seen it from the inside, the way this stuff goes on.
And again, I think only getting the individual awake and aware and not under its control is the way to beat it.
And you can't just cover a bunch of news and give somebody to understand that.
You can't be told about the Matrix.
You got to see it.
dan friesen
He's on the stand.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
This is rambly.
I mean, look, on the one hand, I guess he's just saying what you kind of could tell if you watch his show.
And that is that he's kind of pivoting into something that is less grounded in reality.
jordan holmes
Televangeli.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Stuff like that you don't have to pretend you have proof for as opposed to pretending you have proof for things.
jordan holmes
You can lie about the Bible all day and people really don't care.
dan friesen
Yeah, sure.
I think that getting into philosophy in the big picture is a generous way to say yelling about the devil.
jordan holmes
There's one way.
dan friesen
But yeah, I think this is true.
Alex is giving up the pretense of being about news and documents and all this because it never was real to begin with.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
I think what's interesting about that is that this is something that I noticed throughout Alex's testimony is that Alex was clearly the best coached because I really don't even know if Daria or Owen were given instructions on what questions Raynal was going to ask them.
Right, right.
But Raynal was clearly giving Alex prompts for these answers that they had talked about because they don't look as terrible as the real ones do, right?
Yeah.
And then Alex just can't not be Alex.
dan friesen
Yep.
jordan holmes
So he gives his prepared remarks, and then you can see him kind of scramble and then start rambling off, and all of a sudden he's like, and so that's why the Democrats are in.
You're like, no, no, no, no, you are doing so good.
dan friesen
Yeah, but that's like what Alex wants.
jordan holmes
It's what he wants.
dan friesen
To get out on the stand.
jordan holmes
He's just got to do it.
He's just got to do it.
He can't stop himself.
dan friesen
So part of the reason that he can't stop himself is because he's just overprepared.
f andino reynal
How many hours a day are you on the air?
alex jones
I'm on the air about four hours a day.
f andino reynal
And since when have you been on the air about four hours a day?
alex jones
I've been on the air four hours a day since about 1997, 98.
f andino reynal
And in order to prepare for those four hours that you're going to be on the air every day, well, let me ask you this.
How many days a week?
alex jones
I'm on the air six days a week.
f andino reynal
So in order to prepare for four hours a day, six days a week, how many hours per day do you spend on prep for your show?
alex jones
I spend about two hours at night and about two hours in the morning, and then I do some research in the afternoon.
dan friesen
This is a far cry from the 16 hours a day you're studying the globalists.
jordan holmes
It really did seem like he was overplaying his hand, and now it seems like he's downplaying it, huh?
dan friesen
Yeah, it seems like on air, it's I do literally nothing but read globalist white papers and documents, all of their dirty laundry, eat breeds.
That are filthy.
Filthy dossiers, not even dirty.
jordan holmes
I'm dreaming reading these documents.
dan friesen
Exactly.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I do about two hours in the morning, maybe two hours a night.
jordan holmes
It's busy.
dan friesen
Yeah.
I don't see.
But also, I think that this is a lie.
jordan holmes
I know.
dan friesen
I think that this is too hard.
jordan holmes
I really don't even know.
Like, I really don't even know what this is also being used for.
dan friesen
Here's why.
I can explain this.
jordan holmes
Well, go for it.
dan friesen
Like, him saying what he says on his show would be laughable.
The jury would never believe that.
It would be something like, yeah, right.
Sure.
What are you doing for 16 hours a day?
jordan holmes
Right, right, right, right.
That's fair.
dan friesen
You're high.
jordan holmes
That's fair.
dan friesen
But the two to four hours is believable.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
That is a believable amount of cooperation.
jordan holmes
You do four hours of a show.
You do an eight-hour workday.
You call it a day.
dan friesen
It's kind of what you would expect for somebody who's doing a job.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
More or less.
Right.
And you don't want him to look like, I just shoot from the hip entirely.
Sure.
Because then there's an approach that is, it's structurally irresponsible to what ended up happening.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
But at the same time, you don't want to make it look like he does nothing but do this show because, first of all, it's unbelievable.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Second of all, if so, then you should have vetted Wolfgang Halbig.
jordan holmes
You would think.
dan friesen
If you're working hours a day.
jordan holmes
You had the time.
dan friesen
You got the time.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
I mean, I meant more for like the defense's case because part of what they're arguing is clearly Alex spends so much time on air.
You know, what?
He spent like five minutes telling these people, you know, all of this stuff, that kind of thing.
dan friesen
There's one-tenth of one percent.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
But it could also be that, look, he works so hard, these things are going to fall through the cracks.
You know, he says 95% of my time is I'm not doing anything like this, that kind of thing.
But either way, the problem is he's already been found guilty of doing the thing.
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
So it can't really reduce the damages, can it?
Or is it just like, see, he's a downhome country guy?
dan friesen
I think that's a large part of it.
jordan holmes
You think that means more like humanizing him, that kind of thing.
Okay.
dan friesen
And the mom and pop aspect of it.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
Because it's just a small propaganda outlet.
That's true.
jordan holmes
That's true.
He just puts his pay on.
dan friesen
There's no nightly news at this point.
There's, you know, a limited amount of employees that he has.
And yeah, the perception is kind of making it more normal.
jordan holmes
Right, right.
dan friesen
As opposed to the absurdity that it is.
And that continues even into this next clip, which actually just made me really, really sad.
f andino reynal
When did you start bringing on other hosts that have their own programs?
alex jones
I think we started the Nightly News in like 2015.
I don't have the exact dates.
dan friesen
Alex knows damn well that the nightly news started in 2011, but that would make his operation look much more professional if he were to be aware of that.
So it's pretty important that it started well after the period of Sandy Hook.
Even worse is that Alex has completely forgotten about his original companion show, The Info Warrior, featuring Jason Burmes.
That show was on in like 2009, and really, Burmes did so much for InfoWars in those early days in that era.
This omission is insulting.
In fact, in court, I poked you and said, he forgot about Burmese.
jordan holmes
You sure did.
dan friesen
I'm really sad for it.
Again, though, it's definitely not in Alex's best interest to present the image that he was producing other shows on InfoWars at this point in his career.
Like I said, this is a mom-and-pop propaganda outlet.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
And it can't possibly have been the big boogeyman that led to so much pain.
jordan holmes
No, he wasn't the CEO of maybe what Owen would have to eventually describe as a mainstream media TV studio.
f andino reynal
No, no, no, no.
dan friesen
And, I mean, it goes all directions.
You know, we're a small thing.
No other shows.
I put in an honest nine to five day at work.
But then, of course, there was actually another question about like the working on admin stuff.
jordan holmes
Sure, sure.
dan friesen
And he's like, yeah, I do extra hours on that.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
So, of course, he does extra hours on that.
dan friesen
He doesn't need nine to five, but still, you know, folksy.
And also, you know, the money.
f andino reynal
Let's talk a little bit about where you get your funding.
When's the last time you had a corporate sponsor for InfoWars?
alex jones
Be the big one?
I had some corporate sponsors when I was against George W. Bush and the war.
jordan holmes
Sorry, what?
alex jones
We lost a lot.
You were anti-war, but we still had some big ones.
I mean, we had like car companies, clothing wise, everything.
We were making a lot of money to expand the operation.
Going back to about 2005 up to the when Obama got in.
And then being anti-war was not allowed anymore.
For whatever reason, I wasn't anti-Obama.
I was anti-war.
So I continued with being anti-war, and we lost all our sponsors.
dan friesen
I guess Alex is just forgetting about his decades-long business relationship with Midas Resources and his couple of attempts to branch out into selling his audience to multi-level marketing scams.
jordan holmes
That one was fun.
dan friesen
How he took a bunch of money from Mike Lindell and My Pillow pretty recently.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
And his affiliate links with My Patriot Supply.
unidentified
Wow.
dan friesen
Sure, these aren't respectable sponsors like a car company, but it's pretty important to pretend that Alex had no institutional support around the time of Sandy Hook.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
There was nothing.
It was just him in the wilderness.
See, this lost so much for having his principles.
jordan holmes
This is why you have to tell people you took one and you go with Diamond Gussett.
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
And you say, we took one sponsor and they couldn't even get anybody's jeans right.
Diamond Gusset jeans.
And then we were done.
Self-funded from there on out.
dan friesen
I think it would be really difficult to pretend that Diamond Gusset decided not to sponsor Alex's show because he was against Obama.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that one might be tough.
That one might be tough.
dan friesen
Or anti-NAFTA commercial.
jordan holmes
I do like his bullshit on this one.
I was too anti-war.
Like a thing that people would believe him saying.
dan friesen
Where to hide your gun?
Decided that, uh-oh, we don't want to be involved in this.
Whoa, Sure.
Anyway, Alex decides that, you know, maybe a good idea would be to try and red pill the jury.
jordan holmes
Yeah, he did do that.
dan friesen
And so this is one of a couple of instances.
alex jones
Well, take that clip earlier there there.
At the beginning of the clip, I say, I believe Scarlett Lewis is real.
I believe her sundine.
I'm very, very sorry.
And they cut that off the front.
And then they cut me saying I was sorry off the end.
And they brought a real clip, but it's synthetic to try to deceive you.
And I hope you get to see the real clip.
unidentified
And then you'll figure out everything else that's been going on.
dan friesen
You'll see all the bullshit, man.
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
It is.
That was a moment where I was like, holy shit.
This can't be allowed to stand.
jordan holmes
There were so many times where it was like he was trying to argue that, like, listen, you and I both know what this is really about to the jury.
Like, he's saying to the jury, like, hey, listen, I know you know that all this glitz in court is nonsense.
dan friesen
Watch the clips in this.
Absolutely.
You'll see that I'm right.
jordan holmes
He's trying to convince them.
Like, listen, you're going to be one of us at the end of this trial.
He believed that.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
It was crazy.
dan friesen
This is a tough way to become an info warrior.
jordan holmes
He went, trial by fire in the crucible.
unidentified
You have accidentally enlisted.
jordan holmes
Oh, boy.
Yep.
dan friesen
So another moment that I found particularly distasteful is when he started talking about his products.
f andino reynal
Do you sell vitamins?
alex jones
Yes.
f andino reynal
Are your vitamins FDA certified?
alex jones
No, they're not.
f andino reynal
Why not?
alex jones
1996 law, the FDA has no jurisdiction over any nutraceuticals, not the ones at Whole Foods, not the ones at GNC, and not ours.
And ours are private labeled top brands that are sold at Whole Foods at GNC.
We have it made by the top lab recognized in the United States.
All we use is put our label on it so we know it's triple tested, the highest quality, and that's why people love it because it is the best out there.
And I'll give it to Whole Foods and I'll give it to GNC and others.
They've got there's all sorts of crap you can buy at a gas station out there.
That's not what ours is.
I mean, we buy our PQQ and CoQ10 from the Japanese.
It is the best.
unidentified
That's five lines synthetic PQQ and CoQ10 calls.
dan friesen
Under oath, I'd like to tell you that the 4th of July special is still going.
jordan holmes
I can't believe I am so mad that I wasn't allowed to laugh the moment he was like, we buy our PQQ from the Japanese.
Like, holy, like, everybody in the courtroom is going to blow up.
What?
The Japanese.
dan friesen
Everyone, everyone knows that the Japanese do not sell their PQQ to just anybody.
What are you talking about?
jordan holmes
What is happening right now?
And the way he said it, the way he delivered it, too, like, holy shit, I'm going to blow their minds.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
God damn.
What an insane person.
Yeah.
dan friesen
Yeah.
That really threw me for a lose.
jordan holmes
Wild.
And you know that he had to have given Raynal that question to prompt him to sell.
dan friesen
Well, no, I don't think so.
I don't think in Alex's head.
I would imagine that Raynal believed that the setup of the question was to facilitate the exploring Alex's revenue sources in as much as he sells vitamins and people look down on him because of it, but they're actually good.
Oh, okay.
I bet that that is the thrust of the question in the attorney's mind.
Right.
Not that Alex is going to talk about getting PQQ from the Japanese.
jordan holmes
Right, right.
See, this is where I feel like trying to apply the rules of normal logic to what's going on is because it's clear that Raynal thinks something is true and Alex thinks something is true.
And despite the fact that they're supposed to be on the same team, it is not the same thing.
dan friesen
I think that's probably a fair assessment.
But then again, we're kind of, you know, objection speculation.
jordan holmes
We're on the outside.
We're on the outside.
I get it.
I get it.
Sustained.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So here Alex lies.
f andino reynal
Let's discuss, for example, email.
How much email does InfoWars routinely get?
alex jones
I mean, I know when we look to comply with the discovery, which we complied with, it was over 10 million that they had a search that was still in the inbox unopened.
So it was 10 million unopened and a few hundred thousand opened.
dan friesen
So Alex has said that he complied with Discovery, which is going to be a problem later.
alex jones
Oh, yeah.
dan friesen
Immediately later, because he says something else.
f andino reynal
How many employees would InfoWars have to have, in your view, if you were to actually read every message, every email, every tip that's sent in?
alex jones
It would take 10, 15, 20 people we go bankrupt, which we are now.
f andino reynal
Going back to, I want to ask you a question.
There's a term that's been thrown around during this trial of the truther community or truth people.
What does that...
mark bankston
I have a couple motions on the need to take on outside the presence of the jury.
I don't know if I'm going to do that now or what it's done with the jury.
judge maya guerra gamble
That really depends on you, Mr. Bankson, whether you think I need to hear them now or later.
mark bankston
I'm worried that he'd be hurt consciously, so I'd like to.
judge maya guerra gamble
All right.
unidentified
We're going to just sit back for a second.
judge maya guerra gamble
We're going to take a break.
dan friesen
So Mark has stood up and said that we need to make a contemporaneous motion.
alex jones
Yeah.
dan friesen
And that's because Alex cannot say that he or his company are bankrupt in this part of the trial that they're in at this stage.
That's a claim that he could make in the portion about net worth, which is separated from the compensatory damages phase of the proceedings.
But it would also probably be inappropriate at that point since it's not true.
This is why Mark asked to make these motions.
Alex has now said that he's bankrupt and that he complied with discovery in front of the jury, which are both deeply inappropriate things for him to do.
alex jones
Can't do it.
dan friesen
He raises this concern, Mark does, and that leads to Judge Gamble dismissing the jury and then saying this.
alex jones
I remember today watching part of Heslom's testimony when I was coming here and him talking about the bankruptcy.
So I thought that was totally fine.
I mean, he gets to, why do I not just do what he gets to do?
judge maya guerra gamble
Mr. Jones, stop making, just stop.
Okay.
dan friesen
Just stop.
Yep.
He is confused, flummoxed.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah.
dan friesen
And then this is the last clip from day one.
And I think that this was something that was pretty cathartic for a lot of folks.
judge maya guerra gamble
Mr. Jones, you may not say to this jury that you complied with discovery.
That is not true.
You may not say it again.
You may not tell this jury that you are bankrupt.
That is also not true.
You may have filed for bankruptcy.
I don't know that, but I've heard that.
That doesn't make a person or a company bankrupt.
You're already under oath to tell the truth.
You've already violated that oath twice today with just those two examples.
It seems absurd to instruct you again that you must tell the truth while you testify.
Yet here I am.
You must tell the truth while you testify.
This is not your show.
You need to slow down and not take what you see as opportunities to further the message you're wanting to further.
And instead, only answer the specific and exact question you have been asked.
No asides.
The comments about discovery, the comments about the larynx or whatever it was, the comments about bankruptcy.
None of those were responsive to questions.
They were just you abusing my tolerance and making asides to the jury improperly and in at least two cases, untruthfully.
Do you understand what I have said?
Yes or no?
Do you understand what I have said?
alex jones
Yes, I believe what I said is true.
So I don't.
judge maya guerra gamble
Yes, you believe everything you say is true, but it isn't.
Your beliefs do not make something true.
That is what we're doing here.
Just because you claim to think something is true does not make it true.
It does not protect you.
It is not allowed.
You are under oath.
That means things must actually be true when you say them.
Don't talk.
You understand what I have said.
unidentified
I do understand.
dan friesen
The don't talk there is so intense.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
Yeah, I mean, I believe what I said was true, and the response to that is at the crux of why debate with someone like Alex is pointless.
Yep.
There is a complete disconnect from any objectivity, any belief in a reality that exists outside of what you want to be true.
Right.
And that is hard in a courtroom setting.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
I mean, you know, we've said before that any communication begins with the definition of terms kind of thing.
But that cannot be possible if somebody is speaking bird while you're trying to speak English.
You can't be like, oh, okay, cheap, cheap means, no, it's just not going to happen.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
You can't do it.
And so.
dan friesen
I can't.
I can talk to birds, man.
jordan holmes
it is it is satisfying to hear somebody have to be like listen objective reality is real i don't know how to like she's flabbergasted by the idea that that needs to be introduced into court i am I have to introduce to you bedrock concepts of object permanence.
What is, is this a desk?
Tell me what is and is not for you so we can continue.
dan friesen
Don't speak.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
unidentified
Don't talk.
dan friesen
I think that, and I was subject to this as well.
The notion of Alex being under oath in those first, like the first deposition that came out.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
You know, there's a lot of people who are excited about the idea that Alex is finally going to not be able to lie.
jordan holmes
You can't lie.
dan friesen
Right.
And I myself was intrigued by the possibility.
jordan holmes
Maybe.
dan friesen
And I think through watching them and engaging with the trial as it proceeded, I was not expecting the same things that a lot of people might have out of this trial.
Right.
And I feel for the judge for sure.
Having to preside over this is an impossible task.
And the notion that I think a lot of people are entering this with, or the perception, is that this trial doesn't exist in the context of the case that preceded it.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
You know, like you see her being kind of annoyed, and it's because Alex has pulled this shit.
jordan holmes
Over and over and over and over again.
dan friesen
And, you know, I think in one interview that I did, I can't remember who it was with, but I made a point that, like, she looks like she's pissed off, but she's being so patient.
jordan holmes
Oh, like, sir.
dan friesen
The context of this is missing if you only watch the trial.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And if you only watch the trial, I could understand coming away from it with the perception that, like, she's not giving Alex an inch or whatever.
But there's a reason, and that's unfortunate that, you know, there's not a previously on before the trial.
jordan holmes
And it is such a thing where she is doing such a great job because she is giving so much preferential treatment to the defense.
And let me try and explain that better.
dan friesen
Doesn't sound like you.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
So if Alex was a normal person, the fourth time you tell them they can't lie on the stand, there has to be some consequence.
dan friesen
Oh, that's when you bring out the stocks.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
Do you know what I'm saying?
But a normal person would never let it get that far.
So we don't even know how to deal with this because if you do that, that's what he wants.
He wants you to say, oh, I have to go to jail for lying.
They're locking me up for telling the truth.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
You know, that's what he's going for.
dan friesen
Or like, hey, Alex, why don't you put that bumper sticker on your mouth for real?
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
So there's just talk.
So there's just this constant push and pull between her being like, I have to treat you like a screaming, whiny baby.
And at the same time, I have to treat this like we're in an actual courtroom.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
You have to be treated like a screaming whiny baby because that's what your behavior is.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
And at the same time, you have to be treated like an adult because you're facing adult consequences for your adult actions.
And yeah, it's a difficult position to be in.
I'm not jealous of that.
jordan holmes
There's a lot that she wouldn't have ever allowed the plaintiffs to get away with legally simply because she's like, you're adults.
I have to hold you to a standard that I'm not holding these fourth graders to.
And that she did give them that preferential treatment is both like starkly unfair and yet at the same time the only way to have this trial.
dan friesen
Well, to be totally fair, I don't know if it's appropriate to call it preferential treatment, but gave a lot of patience, a lot of wide birth.
Sure.
Like, all right, I'm not going to hold you in contempt for clearly lying under oath.
jordan holmes
For doing the thing that we hold people in contempt for.
dan friesen
Right.
Right.
There was a lot of a generous approach to punishing Alex.
Right.
And he still couldn't operate within that space.
jordan holmes
Couldn't do it.
dan friesen
So we go to the second day now because this is where they took the break for the day.
It was about five o'clock.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And so Alex returns under oath, and there's still the direct questioning.
Raynal is still giving him questions.
And unfortunately, the law and crime video of this is missing the first 10 minutes or so.
Ah.
And so the beginning of this is establishing that Alex kind of had less connection with those weirdos than maybe he actually did.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
This is the part where he's trying to say that he didn't know Steve or Wolfgang or Steve under the bus pretty hard.
Real quick.
dan friesen
I would not be happy if I was Steve.
jordan holmes
Reached out for comment, Steve, which is funny because in the first week of the trial, Steve Pieczenik was one of the names that Raynal brought up to Becca, being like, whenever he was on his array of, do you think this person's a racist?
Do you think this person's a racist?
Do you think this?
Stevie P's name came up as like a defendable name along with Stefan Molyneux.
Like it was absurd.
dan friesen
Is Stefan Molyneux racist?
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
He said so.
jordan holmes
Yeah, he said so real loud.
dan friesen
Is Steve Pieczenik a racist?
jordan holmes
I don't know.
dan friesen
He definitely hates Jews.
He definitely has weird feelings about Jewish people.
Hates them.
So, yeah, the beginning portion of this is really trying to downplay the connections and Alex's associations with the major players.
And some of them, I think, are kind of like, yeah, you could actually get away with this.
Like, I don't think that him and James Tracy had that much connection.
jordan holmes
Sure, I can see that.
dan friesen
And I think Alex should be hanging his hat far more on the fact that Paul Joseph Watson's interview with James Tracy, the initial one, was like a little bit adversarial.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Maybe not as much as an actual responsible journalist would.
Paul did push back on the idea that there were actors.
jordan holmes
Right, right, such.
In the same way, the court grades on a curve for the fifth graders, Paul has proven himself to be in seventh grade.
Strong.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So Steve does come up here, and Alex has an interesting perception on what he did.
f andino reynal
During that time, you interviewed Steve Pieczenik about the story.
Why did you pick him?
Did you reach out to him?
Did he reach out to you?
How did that?
alex jones
I reviewed the video, but it was a few weeks ago.
I mean, I believe he was on other subjects, and I believe it came up.
And then I believe, if you're talking about it, I think I argued with him about it being totally staged.
And I found it hard to believe.
dan friesen
This isn't really accurate.
Alex didn't argue with Steve, but it also wouldn't, it would be a mischaracterization to say that he gave Steve a full backing in his claims.
Alex was interested in the theories and was like, oh, we got a top expert saying it's fake.
But he didn't really commit to it in that interview.
And Steve was on for something else.
He was pretending to be Alex's on-the-scene reporter in the demilitarized zone because Alex was trying to drum up panic about how North Korea was going to start a nuclear war.
jordan holmes
God, I remember that.
He said he was in Korea.
He said he was inside.
dan friesen
Hanging out with soldiers from both sides.
jordan holmes
Country of Korea.
dan friesen
Yep.
Yep.
unidentified
From Florida, he claimed that.
dan friesen
I have no evidence.
He might have actually.
No, I think that there is a really decent chance that he was on a vacation to South Korea.
Ah.
Because I have seen some pictures that he posted of him in various sort of touristy places in South Korea.
jordan holmes
Well done.
dan friesen
I'll give you that one.
That's possible.
And then he just pretended he was at the DMZ.
jordan holmes
All right.
I'm not doing DMZ, but I'll give him vacation.
dan friesen
Yeah, I think that's possible.
alex jones
Okay.
dan friesen
So in this course of questioning, I think that Alex, the goal that he had was to present this image that his life was really in trouble around the time that Sandy Hook happened.
jordan holmes
Poor me.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
f andino reynal
Can you tell us what led you to have Wolfgang Halbig on in 2014?
alex jones
He was on a lot of shows and he had a group of bullet points and my producer set him up on the show so I had him on.
f andino reynal
At the time, what if anything else was going on in your life?
alex jones
My family was falling apart.
f andino reynal
I'm in a rejection home.
alex jones
I was in divorce.
dan friesen
This is a weird attempt to paint a picture of if you weren't getting divorced, you wouldn't have booked Wolfgang Halbig on your show.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
That's weird.
jordan holmes
This got weird.
Yeah, this whole section where he's his whole woe is me thing was, I mean, I know that they wanted it to come off as though he was like a person who was also suffering, but it really just came off more like, are you going to do this here?
dan friesen
Yeah, it was strange.
Yeah.
And he also tries to blame Steve more, which if I were Steve, I would not appreciate.
And I would probably attack Alex because you're a crazy old man and you got nothing to lose.
jordan holmes
Why not?
dan friesen
Yeah.
f andino reynal
We've had a video received in evidence of you stating your belief at that time that no one died at Sandy Hook, that the whole thing was fake.
Do you understand as you sit here today how crazy that is?
alex jones
I have said before that there have been so many lies and so many things in the past, and I was under a lot of pressure.
And I truly, when I said those statements, when I say something, I mean it that I was saying that it was totally staged at that point.
And I was basing that off of really Steve Pieczenik, who has been a very prestigious person.
f andino reynal
Do you understand now that it was absolutely irresponsible with me to do that?
alex jones
It was, especially since I met the parents.
And it's 100% real, as I said on the radio yesterday, and as I said here yesterday, it's 100% real.
And the media still ran with lies that I was saying it wasn't real on air yesterday.
It's incredible.
They won't let me take it back.
They just want to keep me in the position of being the Sandy Hook man.
My son got confronted yesterday.
unidentified
There's objection speculation as to what the media wants.
mark bankston
Mr. Jones is just being on his show.
judge maya guerra gamble
Sustained.
dan friesen
Woe is me.
Alex is the real victim here.
Although I think Steve needs to get on YouTube and cut a video about Alex and throwing him under the bus.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Yeah.
He wants to be the one the media claims is the Sandy Hook man.
Yeah.
dan friesen
Come on.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Come on, Steve.
unidentified
Wow.
dan friesen
Start a public battle.
jordan holmes
That would be great for both of them.
Yeah.
But mostly for me.
dan friesen
But then who's David Knight going to side with?
jordan holmes
Oh.
Boy, I feel like it's all old dudes against Alex.
dan friesen
Okay.
jordan holmes
Old dudes against Alex's young guards.
Shirts versus skin.
dan friesen
I would like to see David Knight and Steve Pieczenik reach detente over some kind of thing.
jordan holmes
That would be nice.
dan friesen
That's a desire to spill the tea on Alex.
jordan holmes
Final team-up of Grumpy Old Men 3.
dan friesen
Also kind of thing.
By the way, is this the first time that detente and spill the tea have been used in the same sentence?
jordan holmes
I don't know.
I don't know.
The French had a lot of things to say.
dan friesen
Correct.
What?
Accurit.
jordan holmes
No, that went.
That's going off the rails.
Bray.
This is a testimony worthy of this trial.
dan friesen
So Alex says something about his realization that Sandy Hook was real in this next clip.
And I found this deeply troubling.
f andino reynal
At the end, at the middle of 2015, in July 2015, you stopped.
InfoWar stopped covering Sandy Hook.
alex jones
Yes.
f andino reynal
Why did you stop?
alex jones
Because Halbig was saying that I was involved in Sandy Hook because I wouldn't have him on.
And I started finding out that some of the things that the anomalies they had put forward weren't true.
And I had just ended my divorce and just kind of got my head cleaned up and stopped drinking for a while and realized that it probably did happen.
And I was probably, I mean, there was a good chance I was wrong.
So I started basically trying to walk it back long before I got sued because I wasn't sure that I was right anymore.
Not everything's a false flag.
Not everything is staged.
dan friesen
So this is disturbing because there does seem to be a pattern of Alex discussing his drinking as it relates to his actions involving Sandy Hook.
We've seen it in an interview and now under oath.
And honestly, it's indicative of a very serious substance abuse problem.
Drunk or sober, Alex is an asshole and deserves the consequences of his actions.
But I want to draw sharp focus to the difference in how Alex talks about the issue depending on his surroundings.
Here in court, Alex is discussing his realization that Sandy Hook actually happened about sometime in 2015.
There's absolutely no prompt for him to bring up that he had stopped drinking for a while as an explanation for his supposed period of clarity, but he does, which leads me to believe that it means something to him.
I don't think that it's true, but I do believe that he probably was going through a lot and stopped drinking for a while around the end of 2015.
This is all being said in service of humanizing Alex and minimizing the things that he did.
He was going through a lot and was drinking a ton, but once he got sober, he realized that he was wrong and changed his behaviors.
Except in reality, he didn't.
He was still doing his show wasted years past this point, and he didn't change his behavior in any meaningful way.
He still just ran with bullshit stories from bullshit sources and defamed people regularly.
But he wants the perception to be that this was just a bad pocket in his life when all these negative influences led him to drink and his judgment was weakened.
He doesn't want the jury to know that he got right back to the heavy drinking and bullshitting with Steve Pieczenik basically the next week because that kind of cheapens whatever fake display of penitence he's trying to put on here.
But the other time Alex discussed his drinking in relation to Sandy Hook was a lot different.
In the Glenn Greenwald QA, Alex was joking about how he defamed grieving parents and caused immeasurable pain in their lives by saying that he didn't know what he was doing and drank a bottle of vodka that day.
unidentified
Yup.
dan friesen
It wasn't a person expressing this as a negative thing.
It was Alex trying to appear cool because he wanted to impress the cool kids like Greenwald, who can give him access to a new audience.
I find this dynamic deeply upsetting.
And the only conclusion I can come to is that Alex was drinking on air a lot during this stretch and that he probably has a way bigger problem than even I think and I have been chastised for begging people in his life to get him help a bunch in the past.
jordan holmes
That's true.
dan friesen
Anyway, a lot of this falls on deaf ears to me in a courtroom setting.
Like I would take him more seriously if he took the tone that he did in the QA while on the stand, but that's not going to happen because there's no cool kids to impress there.
But if he was on the stand and he's like, oh, I drank a bottle of vodka.
You know, like, I would be like, all right, this is interesting.
It's being an asshole.
How do you consistent?
jordan holmes
How do you say that in a courtroom?
How do you do that?
Because to me, what you just said is, nah, come on.
It wasn't that bad whenever I hit him.
I was drunk driving.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
Like, I don't know how you say that in a courtroom.
And in a situation that is ostensibly you also saying that you believe it's 100% real.
dan friesen
But you were only drunk driving because you were in an ugly divorce.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
But even then, you're saying that's really his ex-wife's fault.
jordan holmes
You're saying that you said that when you were drunk, and now you're saying that it's 100% real.
Are you drunk or are you sober?
And does it matter?
I mean, if that's why you're, if that's your reasoning here, then it doesn't matter.
You know, when they reported that he said it was 100% true, there's a part of me that's like, well, was he drunk?
Because that doesn't mean, yeah, right?
Then what it means the same amount either way.
dan friesen
Right.
I mean, it's just a, it's just a way for him to contextualize his actions by looking at his past self as the drunk self.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
And that's not me.
jordan holmes
That's a different.
dan friesen
And that can be definitely true for people who get help.
And like, I'm not saying that who you are when you're in your addiction is necessarily who you have to be for the rest of your life.
jordan holmes
For sure, for sure.
dan friesen
Recovery is possible and all that.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
But Alex has not done any of that stuff.
And so him trying to pretend like this past self is somebody that I own up to being, but it is not characteristic of me is a false perception.
It's an abuse of people's understanding of substance abuse problems.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
He did mushrooms with Mike Tyson on his fucking show a month ago.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Or whatever.
jordan holmes
No, I mean, part of.
Listen, you do have to own up to consequences for your behavior, regardless of whether you are an addict or not.
dan friesen
That's part of recovery.
jordan holmes
You know, that's part of what it is.
Yeah.
And he's not even owning up to his behavior in a fucking courtroom.
Right.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Because all this is ingenuine and just an attempt to feel less bad about himself.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
This is this whole situation is not about the parents for him.
It is entirely about him trying to feel good about himself.
dan friesen
Yeah, and trying to make rationalizations for things.
Yep.
So the Kraken comes up, Dan Badondi.
Alex definitely does not want to be associated with him, which makes sense.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
f andino reynal
During that time, there was a reporter working, or there's a gentleman who, at least, we've had a reporter, remember?
At some point, for InfoWars named Dan Badondi, are you familiar with that name?
unidentified
Yes.
Can you tell us who he is?
alex jones
He was a part-time reporter.
jordan holmes
We weren't supposed to say that.
alex jones
He was a really nice guy, but we were being more comedy-based part of the show then.
And so Rob's like, this guy's like a Howard Stern character.
And so we hired him to do some funny stuff, but he wanted to do serious stuff.
dan friesen
Oh, man.
He's like, you're a whack pack.
So the comedy that Dan Badandi was doing was things like going to that FOIA hearing with Wolfgang Halbig.
Hilarious.
Or like when he interrupted the Boston bombing, the press conference that the police were giving while the Zarnev brothers were still on the loose and unidentified.
jordan holmes
Right, but at least he didn't say that he was specifically harassing people.
He said he was being a hilarious jokester, right?
dan friesen
I mean, look, this is such bullshit.
Yeah.
For every reason.
jordan holmes
Oh, man.
So many reasons.
dan friesen
And Alex saying that he didn't approve of this stuff.
Go back and listen to those Boston bombing episodes where he's over the moon and just celebrating Dan Badondi interrupting this press conference and yelling Infowars.com.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
And like, yeah, you approved of all of it.
You were making a joke of serious things.
That's what you were doing with him.
And you just don't want to own up to the pain it caused.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So this whole defense has largely circled around the idea that you have to watch the full clips.
So at this point, Raynal puts on a very long video of Alex's.
Now, the things that are a problem here, some of them we're going to get into, but also the video includes Alex repeating the claims that Wolfgang Halbig said.
So this is supposed to be his big apology.
And at the same time, he's like, why did the school have no traffic online?
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
And the kids are like, okay.
You know all this isn't true.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It was wild for them to insist on playing the full clip, the full clip of which was more damning than the shorter clip.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
I would argue.
dan friesen
So outside of the just the repetition of Wolfgang's points and the conspiracies around Sandy Hook, which I don't think helped their case.
jordan holmes
Nope.
dan friesen
There were some other things that I thought would be interesting to point out.
Here's the first one.
alex jones
So let's look at these stories here.
I knew Ben Garrison cartoon, based, of course, on my original term.
Dinosaur Media.
You got ISOs working with MSM, CNN.
You got NBC.
They're down in the water hole getting their money.
And here comes Stefan Molyneux.
Here comes Paul Watson.
Here comes Cernovich.
Here comes the InfoWars.
Here comes Drudge.
Here comes White Bart.
dan friesen
Yeah, back then, Molyneux was completely totally fine to put him up as an associate that's Von.
jordan holmes
I am a white nationalist.
dan friesen
Molyneux, Paul Joseph, Watson.
You know, you had a real different climate in the time that Alex made this.
So different.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
All those players are so different.
dan friesen
Well, I mean, they didn't have to snub Molyneux because he spoke a little bit too openly.
jordan holmes
Shouldn't have spoken like a If I were Molyneux, I'd be pissed.
I know.
dan friesen
Like, all you assholes.
jordan holmes
All of you guys are open white nationalists now.
Why don't I get to be coming back?
dan friesen
Did you ever see that video of Owen Benjamin after the intellectual dark web started not liking him?
jordan holmes
Uh-uh.
dan friesen
There's a video of him drinking beer and complaining about all the intellectual dark web people who don't like him anymore because he got kicked off Twitter.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
It's just the same thing.
Like, I understand that.
Like, yes, you should be pissed off at your friends who don't like you anymore because you spoke too openly about the things that you all believe.
jordan holmes
You all believe the same shit.
Absolutely.
dan friesen
You just said some slurs and all of a sudden you're too toxic to be a part of.
I feel like Stephon Molyneux should definitely feel that way.
Like, the content that he was putting out when everybody was buddy buddy with him is just as offensive as the stuff that he puts out later.
It's just a little bit clearer.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Later.
jordan holmes
I think the way that I would describe the feeling that they must have is like they're all over the line.
Like these are all people who are Wiley Coyote who have already jumped off the edge of the cliff.
And if you say the slur, that's like you telling everybody else, oh, look, we're floating.
And then you fall.
And they're like, good thing we're not floating.
We're so we're just standing on solid ground right now.
dan friesen
I honestly was never running with that guy to begin.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I've never even seen it.
Look at how far down he is.
It's crazy how far down he is.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So Alex discusses in this clip that they're playing in court this coverage of him that is actually pretty good.
There's one person who's done a great job.
alex jones
This is an excellent article from Zero Edge.
Alex Jones implores NBC not to air interview with liar Megan Kelly.
This article, better than anyone I've seen, I'm going to post on InfoWars.com.
jordan holmes
Ugh.
alex jones
Exactly how I feel.
What's actually happened?
It's from iBankcoin.com originally.
It's from Zero Point Now is who posted this article.
I need to get this person to write for Infowars.
They absolutely get what I say in the journalist, they actually reported on what I said.
They showed my quotes going back over years, saying, I don't know what happened, but it's got more holes out of their Swiss cheese.
And, you know, I believe kids die, but it needs to be investigated.
And there's definitely a cover-up.
dan friesen
Zero Point Now is the person who wrote the article that Owen was relying on when he defamed Hesslin.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Owen is Zero Point Now's puppet.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah.
Well, iBank now.
jordan holmes
I mean, literally.
dan friesen
Zero Point Now iBank Coin, according to Under Oath.
Owen Boeing.
Under Oath.
Yeah, his puppet.
jordan holmes
He's his puppet.
dan friesen
Yeah, so it was just interesting to see this pop up here because this is also in a very close timeframe with when Owen made that video.
Because Alex is talking about how he doesn't want the Megan Kelly interview to air.
So it's after he's shot it, but before it airs, it's in that pocket.
And then Owen shoots that video pretty much closely after the Megan Kelly interview airs as a response to it.
So what you have here is Alex wanting to hire the person who wrote the article that Owen relied on to create defamatory content.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
Fun.
jordan holmes
Fun.
Yeah, it is amazing to me that, one, the defense only used the plaintiff's evidence, which is usually a bad sign.
And two, that in so doing, they have made the plaintiff's case really, really well.
dan friesen
I would think so.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So Raynal comes back and he wants to have Alex say that Sandy Hook is real and not a conspiracy.
jordan holmes
He wants that so bad.
dan friesen
So here's the first attempt.
jordan holmes
Here we go.
f andino reynal
As you sit here today, what are your beliefs around the Sandy Joke school shoot?
alex jones
Oh, I've certainly studied it now, and I should have done a better job studying it.
jordan holmes
That's an apology, right?
alex jones
There was an initial cover-up of what happened in my view because I'm sorry.
jordan holmes
Wait, are you questioning Sandy Hook on the stand?
alex jones
I've never seen what they've done, Uvalde.
Both children really died.
And they had a cover-up there.
It's admitted.
There's now state investigations of the cover-up.
The Texas Rangers are on it.
And the governor said it's an outrageous cover-up.
And it's incompetence, is what it was.
And I thought it was incompetent what happened in Florida a few years ago.
unidentified
And, well, I mean, sustained.
alex jones
Let's question.
dan friesen
Yeah, so Alex rambles, gets caught off into talking about Uvalde.
There's a because he latches onto the idea of a cover-up.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
And he feels the need to defend this cover-up idea, so he jumps to Uvalde, gets an objection.
So now here's the second attempt.
jordan holmes
Let's go for it again.
f andino reynal
My question was: as you sit here today, what is your position, your view on what happened, the murders at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012?
alex jones
A young man on psychotropic drugs, and the inserts on those say he can make you do mass shootings, mass murders, as he says they're on the insert.
mark bankston
I keep her coming really close to contempt here.
We object again, Fruiters.
alex jones
I think we sustained.
dan friesen
So Alex now says his pharmaceuticals talking point and feels the need to defend the pharmaceuticals talking point.
And so he goes down that road, hits another objection.
And so at this point, Raynal just gives up.
jordan holmes
Yeah, he's quit.
dan friesen
He said, I'm going to move on.
And then Alex, of his own volition, decides to try a third time.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
And he whiffs it again.
jordan holmes
Here we go.
f andino reynal
I'll move on.
alex jones
You're asking what I think Sandy Hook happened.
And I think it's a terrible event.
And I think we need to protect our children from mentally ill psychopaths.
And I think there was a cover-up because they had warnings.
The FBI knew about it.
They knew he was planning to attack the school.
that's been in the even the new york times and i think once that when to object again well right now there's actually no question You're just talking.
judge maya guerra gamble
And this is not a situation.
And it's not a show.
It's a question.
Answer to the question asked of you.
alex jones
Good.
judge maya guerra gamble
So that objection is sustained, and we need another question.
dan friesen
Yeah, so Alex had three tries there to say something very simple.
jordan holmes
So simple.
dan friesen
And could not help himself from creating conspiracy yarns.
So we have one last question from Raynal.
jordan holmes
I just hope in my entire life that I never hear Mark say something with the amount of smile in his voice.
I don't ever want to hear that.
That's a bad sound.
dan friesen
Getting close to contempt.
jordan holmes
That's a bad sound.
That makes me feel like some danger is around the corner.
And it should, because it was.
dan friesen
So, like I said, Raynal has one last question that we're going to look at, and it's a doozy.
f andino reynal
When you look back on your 20-plus years in the media, what are you most proud of?
alex jones
I'm most proud of early on exposing that the WMDs weren't in Iraq and that it was a fraud and it was a lie.
jordan holmes
Close.
alex jones
And I'm very, very proud of being the first to expose Jeffrey Epstein and his child trafficking ranks.
We're on record being the first to expose that a decade before anybody else by name.
And even exposing the island and the rest of it from our sources.
dan friesen
So Alex definitely wasn't the first to report on WMDs in Iraq and the questionable intelligence surrounding the story.
Even though he was correct to be skeptical of that story, his skepticism was childish and it was just a knee-jerk response.
It wasn't based on anything other than his own whim, so I guess he can brag that he got that one right, but he can't really take any credit for doing any work on the subject or even covering it competently.
As we've seen, his Iraq war coverage in 2003 is embarrassing stuff.
From the insistence that the Bath Party were being reinstalled to rule the country while debauchification was taking place, to his unsupported weeks-long assertion that Saddam's kids weren't killed and were in Belarus with their father.
They still are to his really shitty coverage of David Kelly's suicide.
The larger picture that you get from that time is of a person who's not really worth accepting as a source.
It's not worth it.
He wasn't the only person saying that WMD intelligence was sketchy, and the other people who were expressing that opinion didn't overwhelm that accurate opinion with an avalanche of embarrassing bullshit.
As for Epstein, I really want to challenge this because I don't believe this at all.
I've listened to Alex from a lot of periods of his career, and I've never heard him bring up Epstein except after larger media covered the story.
I don't believe at all that Alex was covering Epstein, let alone covering him by name 10 years before the mainstream.
I believe that Alex has convinced himself of his own bullshit, like we talked about earlier.
From as far back as I can find, Alex basically believes the satanic panic type stuff was real.
Things like the McMartin school case were actually real.
And he based a lot of that off that insane shit that Ted Gunderson apparently had told him.
I do accept that Alex has talked about his fantasies of satanic groups kidnapping and abusing children for a long time.
And I think what he's done is retroactively connect Epstein to that coverage so he can claim he was on the story all along, like how his first documentary was about the Great Reset.
jordan holmes
Right, right.
dan friesen
I'm open to anyone providing me with evidence that Alex was talking about Epstein by name, about his island and the sex crimes 10 years before everyone else.
And if they do, I will re-evaluate my position.
But I've looked and I can find no evidence that this claim that Alex is making is true at all.
I've even looked through the Alex Jones predictions section on his website, where he posts all the videos of him ostensibly being right about all these things way back in the past.
I can't find any video of him being way ahead of the curve on Epstein.
And thus, this answer Alex is giving feels accurate.
He's asked to say what he's most proud of in his career, and what he comes up with is one story that half the country got right, and the other is something that is almost certainly not true.
There's nothing in his career to be proud of.
He's spouted meaningless bullshit for two decades, and I'll definitely applaud him for dragging it out that long.
But beyond that, his career has meant nothing but other people's pain and him profiting from it.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, if that was me, I wouldn't have said nothing.
I would have been like, you know what?
I don't really want to answer this question.
dan friesen
We've launched so many media stars.
jordan holmes
Reset Wars.
Oh, no, that's not good.
What else do we got?
dan friesen
I've made a lot of money.
jordan holmes
Jakari Jackson published a children's book, I think.
That was pretty cool.
dan friesen
That was after Iver Wars.
jordan holmes
Uh-oh.
dan friesen
Anyway, cross-examination starts.
jordan holmes
Oh, boy, this is fun.
And fireworks happens.
dan friesen
A little bit down the road, yeah.
But first, Mark's initial strategy in the beginning of this is to impeach Alex as a credible witness.
And so to do that, he sets a couple traps.
mark bankston
Before I talk to you about the details of the history of this case, I want to know: you're taking this drop seriously?
You're approaching it in good faith?
alex jones
Absolutely.
unidentified
Okay.
mark bankston
The truth is, you and your company want the world to believe that this judge is reading this court proceeding to make sure that a script, a literal script, is being followed.
That's what you want the world to believe, right?
alex jones
Aren't I barred from talking about this?
mark bankston
I'm asking you the question, Mr. Jones.
judge maya guerra gamble
The way court works is you answer a question until there's an objection.
mark bankston
Let me ask you a question again, Mr. Jones.
Make sure you understand it very clearly.
You and your company want the world to believe that this judge is rigging this court proceeding so that a script, and I mean a literal script, is being followed.
That's what you want the world to believe.
That's what Infowars wants to do.
alex jones
I believe when you're given a court order that you cannot say you're innocent, that that's not America, and the court orders write their own table.
I've been told I can't say I'm innocent.
judge maya guerra gamble
So you need to answer the question that is asked.
mark bankston
I asked you this question.
Yes or no, that's what you want the world to believe.
alex jones
No, I believe the jury's real, and I believe that I and I believe that I'm innocent until proven guilty, and I believe a jury should decide my guilt.
mark bankston
Your Honor, at this time, we'd like to offer a clip from Infowars on Friday for the purposes of impeachment, in which those exact words were said.
dan friesen
Oops.
jordan holmes
Oops.
dan friesen
So that happens, and then it immediately leads into another trap.
mark bankston
One of the things you've been talking about a lot recently on your show, even within the past couple months, is your allegation that government officials are aiding in pedophilia, child trafficking, and the grooming of children.
unidentified
Right?
alex jones
You mean like what Jeffrey Epstein did with the cleanse?
mark bankston
Sure, if that's a yes, is that a yes?
alex jones
Yes.
mark bankston
Okay.
And on Thursday, you and InfoWars started connecting those allegations to our judge, didn't you?
alex jones
No.
mark bankston
In fact, Mr. Jones, you're telling the world not to believe what happens in this courtroom because the judge worked with Child Protective Services, who you say is involved with pedophilia and child trafficking, correct?
alex jones
Not all of it, but the Texas Youth Commission got caught doing it a lot.
There's been a lot of that here.
mark bankston
I'm not asking you that, Mr. Jones.
I'm asking you, you're telling the world not to believe what's happened in this trial because this judge is involved with CPS who is working with child traffickers and pedophilia, correct?
alex jones
No, that's not what I'm saying.
unidentified
Okay.
mark bankston
Your Honor, at this time, we would like to show a clip for Mr. Jones' show on Thursday where those words are said.
alex jones
Ooh!
dan friesen
Oops.
And there's, of course, a third rate.
jordan holmes
Why wouldn't there?
unidentified
Tell your jury you're taking this trial seriously.
mark bankston
But you're telling the world that someone inside Travis County government rigged the jury summons and picked these jurors specifically who don't know what planet they are on.
unidentified
Correct?
mark bankston
That's what you're telling the world.
alex jones
I'm saying that that could potentially be a danger if they don't know what's going on.
mark bankston
I think that's potentially.
That's what you're saying.
Potentially.
You didn't go on your show.
jordan holmes
Didn't say those words.
mark bankston
That's what you're going to tell me.
alex jones
Can you show me?
mark bankston
I would be happy to.
jordan holmes
This reminds me so much of the deposition where it's like, okay, how have you, we're on try number three.
How do you not realize that when he says, did you say those words, he's going to play the clip?
dan friesen
Right.
But, you know, answering yes is a chaotic option.
jordan holmes
That is true.
That is true.
But you can't be.
You have to answer me.
You have to answer, yes, it's a show.
Like, you have to answer with yes and then something.
You can't say no because he's just going to go.
dan friesen
Yeah, that is an option.
jordan holmes
Let's go to the clip.
dan friesen
That is an option.
Yeah, but no matter what, what you end up with is like, okay, we have demonstrated that Alex is an untrustworthy person.
Sure.
This is all bullshit.
It's not a witness that you should take seriously or trust.
jordan holmes
Right.
No, he's got no winning position.
No, that's true.
dan friesen
No, no, no.
So Mark tries to bring up the video that Raynal played and the whole thing about how, hey, you just repeated all the claims about the school not being real.
jordan holmes
And you realize that if you do that, then you are once again denying Sandy Hook.
dan friesen
Yeah, and I think this is a two minutes, and it is a really good encapsulation of why it is useless to try to get Alex to recognize points that he doesn't want to recognize.
unidentified
Yep.
mark bankston
Do you remember them talking about the FBI crime stats saying no one killed in Sandy Hook that you read in that 2017?
alex jones
That was the headlines, yes.
mark bankston
What headline?
alex jones
Your headline.
But that's what it said.
mark bankston
No, it didn't, Mr. Jones.
Do you admit that now?
The FBI did not have a crime stat.
alex jones
I mean, I admit we later learned that in the full report, they don't report those in that state.
They do, I think, everywhere else.
unidentified
Mr. Jones, we've heard a lot of testimony about the FBI crime stat and how that got wrong.
mark bankston
We heard that from Mr. Salazar.
Were you in the courtroom for that?
alex jones
I think I was in here for part of it.
unidentified
Okay.
mark bankston
So you probably heard Mr. Salazar how he messed that up, right?
alex jones
I mean, I think we admit we messed that up.
mark bankston
Right, but you were still saying it in 2017.
At a time where you want this jury to believe you were saying it really happened, you in 2017 were saying the FBI says nobody died.
alex jones
I said it on the video.
I thought I had one five times.
mark bankston
Yeah, just like Megan Kelly said in your interview, you want to have it all waged, don't you, Mr. Jones?
alex jones
No, I think Sandy Hook happened.
mark bankston
Yeah, but if Sandy Hook happened, then that means there's not an FBI crime stat where nobody died.
It means that there was website traffic.
It means that nobody ate their food inside the school.
All these things you're saying are false.
Right?
alex jones
I'd have to review all of it again.
mark bankston
Ten minutes ago, we saw a video of you saying no EMTs entered the building.
Do you remember that?
You remember saying that?
unidentified
Hold on.
alex jones
I mean, I'd have to see the timelines of what you're speaking about.
mark bankston
I'm asking you if when we broke from your break, when your attorney put up the video, that he really wanted this jury to see how fair you were being about Sandy Hook, you said no paramedics entered the building.
alex jones
Right?
In a certain time frame.
mark bankston
What do you mean by that?
alex jones
I'd have to see the time frame you're talking about.
mark bankston
What do you mean, time frame?
You said they never entered the building.
alex jones
Never entered it?
mark bankston
That's what you said.
And you said that for years.
alex jones
I think you're taking it out of context.
unidentified
Right?
mark bankston
Because they had to keep him out of the building because otherwise you'd have to pay off all the MTs because they'd get in the building and they'd see there's no bodies.
That's what you told your audience.
You've told them that many times.
alex jones
I don't remember what you're talking about.
dan friesen
See, this is the next stage of the you have to watch the full clip.
jordan holmes
Never going to win.
dan friesen
Because they watched the full clip and now it had some stuff that Alex probably didn't realize or had forgotten was in it.
jordan holmes
Didn't want that.
dan friesen
And so now these are questions that are coming up.
We have watched the full clip.
Oh, it's out of context.
I need to see the timeline.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Or whatever.
There's always going to be an excuse for why there isn't complete information in front of you that is exculpatory in some way for Alex, and it's bullshit.
jordan holmes
It's fascinating to me to listen to this and to realize, like, this is also confirmation bias.
They watched the clip and saw what they wanted to see, and then we're like, well, obviously, this is a great clip.
It didn't even occur to them that the other stuff inside the clip could also be used to question Alex.
dan friesen
Well, I think maybe they approach it from maybe a perspective that I had when we were going over the Sandy Hook immediate aftermath.
And that is that I had a singular focus on trying to figure out the actual literal claim of actors.
Sure.
And so when I was going over the timeframe in 2012 into 2013, there was a like, oh, Alex isn't quite there yet or whatever.
jordan holmes
Yeah, we did have that conversation.
dan friesen
And through the case and understanding a little bit more about what was going on and all that, like my perspective has changed in terms of like, oh, yeah, you said it was a false flag immediately, basically.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
And had different incarnations of what his theories were and stuff.
But I, when I was approaching it with like the most generous possible approach and reading of things, I might have heard him say something like, why didn't the paramedics arrive or whatever, and not be like, okay, this is him denying Sandy Hook.
And I think that probably when looking at the clip, there was like, he didn't say actors anymore.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right, right.
dan friesen
And I think that that might be just part of how they are oblivious of what is being said to them.
jordan holmes
I also feel like you just brought up a really, really good point in the way that you view that.
It's like when we talk about denying Sandy Hook or Alex denying Sandy Hook, I think a lot of people are talking about him saying this didn't happen.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
What it is, is an amorphous blob.
All of what he has to say is denying that Sandy Hook didn't happen in a sense like, okay, so he's saying I 100% believe it's real, but I question the official narrative.
That is just part of the amorphous blob of denying Sandy Hook.
So when he says that, what he's really doing is signaling that he's still denying Sandy Hook on whatever level he can cling to.
So there will not be a resolution where he says it's 100% real if he also says, but I don't question the, or but I question the official story.
alex jones
Right.
jordan holmes
You know what I'm saying?
dan friesen
You can't say it's 100% real and then rattle off all of Wolfgang Halbig's reasonable possible exactly.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah.
And if you, if you're even saying that there are things to question, then you're saying that you were right to question them and you are saying that there are questions, which there weren't about Sandy Hook.
dan friesen
I actually have to take issue with that because I think that, first of all, what Alex was doing wasn't questioning.
And so you're falling into the framing there.
jordan holmes
Totally.
Fair enough.
dan friesen
Because I think that it is okay to question things.
You know, like if what is a journalist doing other than asking the who, what, where, why, when, how?
jordan holmes
I meant when he was in court that day when he said, but I still, I question the official narrative.
In court, I mean that.
dan friesen
Outside of that, you know, like the official narrative is okay until you get an answer and he had answers, please.
jordan holmes
Well, I mean, yes, that is, that is what I'm saying.
In 2022, if he's saying, I had questions.
If he still says I have questions about the official narrative in 2022.
Exactly.
dan friesen
But I think that was a, no, was that it?
No, that was in December.
That was last year.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So it was 2022.
jordan holmes
2021.
unidentified
My bad.
jordan holmes
My bad.
You know, I'm so unspecific.
That's my problem.
dan friesen
So, Mark, the big moment in the cross-examination, of course, is the revelation of these text messages.
jordan holmes
Beautiful moment.
dan friesen
We all loved it.
But I think a lot of the coverage surrounding this is missing the point of these text messages.
Obviously, there is the juicy idea of what could be in there.
unidentified
Of course.
dan friesen
I think a lot of people are setting themselves up for real disappointment.
Like, this is.
jordan holmes
Oh, Geraldo found everything in that save.
dan friesen
This isn't based on any kind of inside information that I have or anything.
So don't take this as me being like, I know X, Y, or Z.
But I see stories about the notion that Trump's raid was about Alex's text or January 6th is going to be blown wide open.
I think that there is a desire to expand things and take the what-ifs and give more credence to them.
And I think people are falling into that, whether it's through headline writing or tweets.
And I would advise caution just to like, hey, we'll see what happens.
We'll see what's there.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
But let's not write a story in advance.
jordan holmes
Right.
I mean, you get that, though.
You hear we have this, how can we not say it, tranche of text messages, and your mind immediately goes to like, oh, what could be?
Yeah.
And you can't not think to yourself, it is entirely possible, because we live in the weird world we live in, that Alex, Roger, Trump, and Mike Pompeo might have had a group text where they're like, let's overthrow the country on the sixth.
Like, you can't not think in your brain like that kind of ridiculous thing is possible.
dan friesen
The world has gone cuckoo.
jordan holmes
Right.
But then you also have to remember: no, that is not how it works.
And these are Alex's text messages.
This is not a big player in the game, you know?
dan friesen
Yeah.
And there may be pieces of information that are relevant to things and we'll know when we know.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
But for now, don't get ahead of yourself.
Because if you do, you end up cooking yourself or backing yourself into a position where you're like you've basically created a storyline.
And if reality doesn't live up to that, it's disappointing.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And I think that if we've learned anything in the past couple of attempts at impeachment, we maybe should be a little careful about setting expectations in a reasonable place.
But the reason that I, where I started with this, I think that the media is absolutely missing the concrete reality of the text messages' use in this case.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
And why they came up in the cross-examination in the way that they did.
And so Mark begins to get into this.
And this is really where the Paul text is most important.
mark bankston
Do you remember?
Were you here for Mr. Schroeder's testimony?
alex jones
Yes.
unidentified
Okay.
mark bankston
You remember what Owen said?
The company has learned from its mistakes about Sandy Hook.
You remember that?
alex jones
Oh, I didn't hear him say that.
mark bankston
You agree with that?
alex jones
Yeah, we've certainly learned from our mistakes.
got a lot better.
unidentified
Okay.
Mr. Jones, I'd like to show you what's been marked as plain as a specific one third.
mark bankston
You've got it upside down.
jordan holmes
I forgot that.
mark bankston
And they mention Sandy Hook, don't they?
alex jones
Yep.
mark bankston
Planets move 130 into evidence.
dan friesen
So the lead into this question is about Owen's testimony that they had learned from Sandy Hook and their behavior had become better.
And so that's why it's important how this is revealed.
unidentified
Right.
mark bankston
Mr. Watson has sent you a screenshot from Infowars.com, correct?
alex jones
It appears to be.
mark bankston
Yeah, and it has an article here, right?
alex jones
Yeah.
mark bankston
And it says, staged.
Video shows hospital using dummies in ER for coronavirus footage.
unidentified
That says I believe so.
mark bankston
And so the first message from Mr. Watson.
Read along with me, Mr. Jones.
He says, This is a video.
alex jones
Sorry, see what's up.
unidentified
No problem.
mark bankston
Take your time.
unidentified
Oh, wow.
alex jones
Yeah, you may not think it's a problem, but it's a real one.
unidentified
Sure.
alex jones
Just can be safe.
It's a problem for me.
unidentified
All right.
Go ahead.
mark bankston
Mr. Watson says, this is a video of a medical student training to intubate.
Makes us look ridiculous, suggesting this means COVID is fake.
Sandy Hook all over again.
I read that correctly?
unidentified
Yes.
mark bankston
Here's the next message.
What did you tell Mr. Watson?
alex jones
I get it.
mark bankston
Mr. Jones, it's true that this article is right now live on Infowars.com.
unidentified
I can pull it up, right?
alex jones
I've never seen this text message.
I guess you guys got Paul's.
My phone didn't save them.
dan friesen
So that's a sad response because Alex has already said that this is his phone and these are texts between him and Paul.
Yep.
And so the notion here is the setup of the question is you learn from Sandy Hook.
You agree with that.
That's what Owen said.
Yes.
Here is a text during COVID that Paul was telling you this is Sandy Hook all over again with you doing this bullshit about fake patients in hospitals to pretend that there's COVID patients in the hospitals.
And you said, I get it.
I understand that this is Sandy Hook all over again.
And the article is still live today as we are in this courtroom.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah.
dan friesen
This is a damning picture that is basically, no, you have not learned from Sandy Hook.
Not only have you not learned from it, when reminded this is Sandy Hook all over again, when you're in the middle of a lawsuit about this sort of behavior as it relates to Sandy Hook, you say, I understand, I get it, and I don't care.
jordan holmes
Right.
And not just that.
It is not a message from like, you know, your son or just some stranger.
dan friesen
It's not a random email.
jordan holmes
It's a message from your literal head editor for most of your career.
Yeah.
You should pay attention, right?
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And the person who, like, throughout the course of this case has had maybe the only moments of like someone having clarity.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
You know, like in his deposition.
There's a reason that Paul's not getting sued.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
Right, right.
dan friesen
Because there is documented evidence of him back then saying, cut this out.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
This is bullshit.
jordan holmes
No.
He's literally the guy who is like.
dan friesen
He's the person.
If you had listened to him, you wouldn't be in this situation.
jordan holmes
If we were in a movie that's different from the one that this trial turned into, which was astonishing, but Paul would be the guy who gets roped back in for one last job.
But in this movie, Paul's like, no, this is a terrible one last job.
I'm not going to do this one last job.
You guys go do the one last job.
And then he's watching them all die.
Like, that's what's happening.
dan friesen
He sucks, obviously, but in the lowest of low bars, he has cleared it in terms of- He has not stolen $100 million from a bank.
jordan holmes
Congratulations.
You are not being prosecuted for stealing $100 million from a bank.
dan friesen
It's wild that you have this situation where Paul is, if you'd listened to him, you wouldn't be getting sued.
You wouldn't be in this situation.
jordan holmes
Crazy.
dan friesen
And then you have this text from fairly recently of if you just, you should have listened to him and you should not have had this text exchange because it illustrates how little you give a shit.
And that doesn't play well.
jordan holmes
No, no, no, no.
I love that the, here's the movie because this is the Perry Mason moment.
The Perry Mason moment.
dan friesen
Well, the Perry Mason moment's coming up.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
But Mark dramatically revealing we have all your texts, right?
The parody is whenever he goes, you're reading it upside down.
That's where we, that's the encapsulation to me of this like moment in testimony is that combination of like high drama.
Like I have revealed fucking Tom Cruise's text messages to you right now.
And then the fucking hilarity of like, it's upside down, Alex.
dan friesen
So, anyway, Alex tries to spin this, and he's trying really hard to figure out, like, what the fuck can I do here?
alex jones
I've never seen this text message.
jordan holmes
He can choke.
alex jones
I guess you guys got Paul's.
My phone didn't save them.
So, that's fine.
mark bankston
Your phone didn't save the text message.
jordan holmes
Here we go.
alex jones
I told you guys I gave it to the lawyers who said they drained the phone.
They didn't find that stuff.
I don't know how much phones are.
mark bankston
You gave it to lawyers.
They were supposed to find it.
So that's what your testimony is?
alex jones
No, I searched as well.
I mean, so you guys have all this stuff, and you say we didn't give you anything.
mark bankston
Mr. Jones, you know how an iPhone works, right?
unidentified
You've had iPhone text messaging for several years now.
Yeah.
mark bankston
What does it mean if the messages are in blue?
Whose messages are those?
Whose phone is this taken from?
alex jones
I don't know.
I mean, I just turned the phone over and said, take the stuff off.
mark bankston
Can I have you look in the very bottom below the very bottom left corner?
Is that your phone number?
alex jones
Yes.
So you did get my text messages.
And it said you didn't.
Nice trick.
dan friesen
So this is the beginning of the Perry Mason moment.
And this is like, this is what all of the John Oliver show and all the clip shows, they run this moment.
And I understand why.
Because it is.
jordan holmes
I mean, it's made for TV.
I mean, it's literally made for TV.
dan friesen
It's evocative.
Like Bill said in our interview, it's like the biggest legal moment.
jordan holmes
It is.
Yeah.
I mean, it doesn't get bigger, does it?
dan friesen
And I understand that, but because of the way our show works and stuff, I'm so much more interested in the reasoning and the context for it.
So you have that Paul reveal, and then the reveal of the text messages and the nature of them comes.
And so that's your.
Let's all enjoy that.
jordan holmes
Okay.
alex jones
So you did get my text messages.
Said you didn't.
Nice trick.
unidentified
Yes, Mr. Jones.
mark bankston
Indeed.
You didn't give this text message to me.
You don't know where this came from.
Do you know where I got this?
alex jones
No.
mark bankston
Mr. Jones, did you know that 12 days ago, 12 days ago, your attorneys messed up and sent me an entire digital copy of your entire cell phone with every text message you've sent for the past two years.
And when informed, did not take any steps to identify it as privileged or protected in any way.
And as of two days ago, it fell free and clear into my possession.
And that is how I know you lied to me when you said you didn't have text messages about Sandy Hogan.
Did you know that?
alex jones
See, I told you the truth.
This is your Perry Mason moment.
I gave them my phone.
judge maya guerra gamble
Mr. Jones, you need to answer the question.
mark bankston
Did you know this happened?
alex jones
No, I didn't know this happened.
But I mean, I told you I gave him the phone over.
mark bankston
Just a second question.
unidentified
You said in your deposition, you searched your phone.
mark bankston
You said you pulled down the text, did the search function for Sandy Hook.
That's what you said, Mr. Jones, correct?
alex jones
And I had several different phones with this number, but I did, yeah.
Of course, I mean, that's why you got it.
unidentified
No, Mr. Jones.
mark bankston
That's not what I have.
alex jones
My lawyer sent it to you, but I'm hiding it.
unidentified
Okay.
judge maya guerra gamble
Mr. Jones?
dan friesen
That's Mr. Jones.
jordan holmes
Oh, I love it.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
I mean, like, all of these attempts to wiggle out of this, I just feel like have backfired for him and made it worse.
jordan holmes
Do you know what the craziest thing, the craziest moment?
Because whenever I went back through all of the stuff that I have written, there were so many moments that I really, that you do just lose because it's absolute non-stop insanity.
But the craziest one was on Tuesday, day two, or day one of the trial proper, you know, the day after jury selection.
dan friesen
Opening statement day.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah.
In the middle of one of the breaks, Alex is talking to the HBO documentarian on stream, and at one point he does say, they don't have my texts.
How crazy is that?
How fucking wild is that?
That was the wildest thing.
Like going back to the basement.
dan friesen
That's an irony.
jordan holmes
I was like, that can't be real.
And I checked, and it's crazy.
dan friesen
Well, again, we have to make the point that...
jordan holmes
Could have been talking about other texts.
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
No, no, no.
That your tweets may or may not depict reality.
jordan holmes
They absolutely do not.
dan friesen
So who knows if that conversation even happened or you imagined it.
jordan holmes
Fair enough.
Fair enough.
dan friesen
So Alex has now said that he searched his phones and didn't find these things.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And so Mark has to inform him that, hey, buddy, you may have just committed perjury.
jordan holmes
That's not good.
mark bankston
Mr. Jones, in discovery, you were asked, do you have Sandy Hook text messages on your phone?
And you said no, correct?
You said that under oath, Mr. Jones, didn't you?
alex jones
I mean, if I was mistaken, I was mistaken, but you got the messages right there.
mark bankston
You know what perjury is, man?
I just want to make sure you know before we go any further.
You know what it is?
alex jones
Yes, I do.
I mean, I'm not a tech guy.
I told you I gave in my testimony the phone to the lawyers before whatever, and so you've got my phone, but we didn't give it to you.
mark bankston
No, Mr. Jones, one more time.
And please remember, if you need to assert the fifth amendment, you can.
I need to know that you can do that.
But you testified under oath previously that you personally searched your phone for the phrase Sandy Hook and there were no messages.
You said that under oath.
alex jones
Yes.
mark bankston
And you lied when you said it.
alex jones
No, I did not lie.
mark bankston
Whoops.
alex jones
Ouch.
jordan holmes
When you say something that is then later found out to be not true, and you knew that it was not true.
Right.
Because it was you who said you did it.
And you didn't.
What is that called?
dan friesen
Not good.
Yeah.
And turns out also applies to his emails.
jordan holmes
Uh-oh.
alex jones
I mean, I quit opening email and using it before Sandy Hook.
mark bankston
Okay.
In other words, if somebody was to tell me, oh, I have emails from Mr. Jones that he wrote about this case in the past couple of years, that person would be lying.
You're telling the truth?
alex jones
Somebody else just got my InfoWars email because I haven't been using it all in.
mark bankston
That's not qualified, Mr. Jones.
You know, in this case, you were asked to produce your emails, any emails you had about Sandy Hook.
You know, you were asked to do that, right?
alex jones
Yeah.
mark bankston
And you said you didn't have any.
alex jones
I told my IT people, you've got all that stuff.
mark bankston
No, Mr. Jones, I'm saying in deposition, under oath, sworn to God, you said you don't have any emails for Sandy Hook because you don't use email, right?
alex jones
I mean, I think I had, I mean, I haven't been using InfoWars email, and it's got to be a decade or longer in my memory.
We're with Infowars.com email.
mark bankston
No, Mr. Jones.
unidentified
No.
mark bankston
It's not what I'm asking.
dan friesen
He keeps trying to bring it back to InfoWars emails as opposed to another email thing.
And what Mark is doing is very clearly trying to establish, like, you lied again because I have an email.
jordan holmes
Well.
dan friesen
But, like, the attempt to wiggle out of it is just the constantly bringing up InfoWars emails.
And it's just not.
It's not going to help.
jordan holmes
Earlier in the trial, Raynal had been talking to Daria as the corporate representative that he objected to and then talked to her as the corporate representative.
He had said, like, Alex doesn't have an email address, right?
And she was like, oh, when he did, he'd get 100 million thousand emails a day.
So he got rid of it as though that would be later the excuse for when now happens.
Yeah.
How did it go?
Not well.
dan friesen
Not the best.
So we go back to the text messages now.
We have already illustrated that Paul had texted with Alex and told him this is Sandy Hook all over again.
I get it, is the response.
And now there's some other texts here from Tim Fruget, who's the business manager of InfoWars.
And so here's how this goes.
mark bankston
This has been marked as Plaintiff's Exhibit 132.
Do you see that?
alex jones
Yes.
mark bankston
Those are text messages of Tim Fruget, the operations manager of InfoWars, right?
alex jones
Yes.
mark bankston
And we requested information about your revenues in this case.
unidentified
You remember that?
Yes.
mark bankston
You didn't give us this, did you?
alex jones
There's a lot of stuff.
mark bankston
I mean, yeah, you didn't even look through your text messages, Mr. Jones.
You hit them, right?
Correct?
alex jones
No.
unidentified
Okay.
alex jones
I gave it to the lawyers.
That's why you have it.
unidentified
That's not.
alex jones
I mean, this is ridiculous.
mark bankston
Plaintiff's Exhibit 132.
judge maya guerra gamble
Are you moving to admit it?
unidentified
Yes.
mark bankston
Can we?
No, yes, I'm sorry.
Can we move to admit Plaintiff's 132 at this point?
unidentified
objection plaintiffs 132 is admitted Before we put that up, Mr. Jones, I just want to make sure you understand something about these emails.
mark bankston
You understand that when your attorney sent me your whole phone, he didn't mean to do that.
unidentified
You understand?
f andino reynal
Objection, Your Honor.
mark bankston
I just want to make sure this is not discovery.
judge maya guerra gamble
Well, I do think it's important that, since we're discussing all of this, that the jury understands discovery is a process that occurs and concludes well before trial.
What the lawyers say is of evidence, so we don't know whether it was on accident or on purpose.
We don't have evidence about that.
But what we do know is that it wasn't properly turned over when it should have been.
There's no question, Mr. Jones.
dan friesen
Okay, so there is a fair objection there.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
Because you're asserting that he did this accidentally.
jordan holmes
That's true.
dan friesen
You can't prove that.
jordan holmes
You can't do that.
Well, I mean, kind of.
dan friesen
But what you have is texts about finances that are like, here's the numbers for this day, and then Alex just didn't turn those over.
jordan holmes
Right.
That's bad.
dan friesen
That's real bad.
jordan holmes
It does appear that I do think there's an argument to be made that you can say that he didn't mean to do it because Raynal did email back like, please disregard.
Yeah.
Which isn't legally.
dan friesen
But Mark hasn't introduced that.
jordan holmes
That's true.
Sorry.
So he can't do that now.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
Without doing all that.
Then Raynal would object to privilege.
Yeah, it would be a mess.
dan friesen
The court is unaware of that email response.
Right.
So one of the things that's critical about the revelation of these texts is that they illustrate financial information that was demanded and ordered from Alex that was not turned over.
But more for my purposes.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
They also reveal that Alex is full of shit.
unidentified
Mr. Fruges, Fruget, Fruges?
mark bankston
How do I say his name, Mr. Jones?
alex jones
Fruget.
mark bankston
All right, so Mr. Fruget, you would agree with me that pretty much every day he sends you an update on how much the store has sold, and sometimes he lets you know how much profit you made, right?
alex jones
Yes.
mark bankston
Okay.
And in this message, he says 110 gross sales in food equates to almost 70K pure profit.
unidentified
That's what he told you.
alex jones
That's what that says, and that's not what it does.
So I have a question about it.
dan friesen
Okay.
So look, this makes total sense.
unidentified
Yeah.
Why?
dan friesen
Like Alex has said that there's a 20 to 40% profit margin on the food.
And like you just let that go and you're like, oh, okay, I guess that makes sense.
He's not paying anything for the food.
It's not like he buys it from my Patriot supply and then sends it to people.
jordan holmes
He's not a resale.
alex jones
No.
dan friesen
He's essentially getting a cut of the business that they do.
There is no overhead.
jordan holmes
Nope.
dan friesen
It is all pure profit.
Yep.
So that also illustrates that the thing that Alex testified to earlier, which is that the 20 to 40% profit margin is a load of shit.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
He makes 100%.
dan friesen
He has no risk, no exposure on the food.
Maybe things are different with the private labeling.
Maybe with his supplements and stuff, he has to buy a bunch and then resell it.
jordan holmes
Possible.
dan friesen
But yeah, for the food, that's not the case at all.
I mean, they even did drop shipping from the My Patriot supply facilities.
jordan holmes
God damn it.
So only 110 units is $70,000 in pure profit.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
I think I think that that probably is an unreliable statistic to universalize.
jordan holmes
Oh, no, I wouldn't say that.
dan friesen
They have different sized buckets and things that they sell.
So it's not a uniform commission.
I understand.
jordan holmes
Sure, sure, sure.
dan friesen
But yeah, even if it's probably a percentage of the total.
That still is pretty sweet.
jordan holmes
Not a bad gig.
dan friesen
Pretty sweet money.
jordan holmes
All you have to do is say stuff and then they give you money.
dan friesen
All you have to do is convince everyone that they won't get food tomorrow and they need to buy a food bucket.
jordan holmes
They're going to die.
Anyways, buy these food buckets.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So here is Mark's dismount.
mark bankston
And then I think we saw your revenues from 20.
So we saw a few months of 2015 on the beginning of that document, right?
Do you remember that document you relied on and testified about?
Planners exhibit the power?
alex jones
I mean, I saw it, yes.
unidentified
Okay.
And I had a couple of months from 2015 on it, but not a whole lot of sales on that, right?
alex jones
Probably so.
mark bankston
So we're mainly just talking about 2016, 2018, right?
You remember that?
$165 million.
You remember testifying this?
unidentified
Yes.
Okay.
mark bankston
And I know you testified about your profit margins, but I think we've seen that now, that you were saying that that's gross.
So that maybe doesn't, you have to calculate what your profit is.
unidentified
But after seeing a yes or no, but after seeing all of that, all of those millions and millions, millions, hundreds of millions.
mark bankston
Are you aware that your attorney has argued that this is what you should pay for the damages that your company admits under oath through your corporate representative at cost?
Were you aware of that, Abdella?
unidentified
Are you aware?
alex jones
Yes, I know that we were.
mark bankston
Do you agree with it?
alex jones
Do I agree with it?
unidentified
A dollar.
Is that we done?
mark bankston
I'll pay it for you.
Are we done?
alex jones
What does the New York Times do for lying about WMDs?
mark bankston
I don't think there's any point in asking you any more questions, Mr. John.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
Slamming the door.
alex jones
Yep.
dan friesen
I don't think there's any reason to ask you any more questions.
jordan holmes
What a great way to just call it.
Yeah.
Oh, so good.
dan friesen
So yeah, you know, this, again, a little theatrical in as much as you pull out a dollar and be like, is this it?
Is this what we're doing?
jordan holmes
Come on, give the man his moments.
dan friesen
No, I'm fine with it in this context.
But yeah, Alex can't answer that question.
Absolutely not.
And then Raynal has one question on redirect.
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Very funny.
This is so funny.
f andino reynal
Mr. Jones, you've trusted your lawyers to produce the relevant documents?
alex jones
Yes.
f andino reynal
You've cooperated with us in every way.
alex jones
Yes.
f andino reynal
And you trusted us to do a good job in turnover what we needed to turn over.
alex jones
Yes, when we're supposed to turn it over.
unidentified
Yes. No further questions.
dan friesen
Yep.
And this is the end.
jordan holmes
That is one situation where Alex did not realize that his lawyer was no longer working for him.
His lawyer was working for Raynal.
alex jones
Yeah.
dan friesen
Cover your ass.
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Alex should have said no to all of those questions.
Yeah.
dan friesen
So this testimony took place over the course of Tuesday and Wednesday.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
Tuesday afternoon, Wednesday morning.
And there's closing statements, and then we get the revelation on Thursday that Alex is hit with the compensatory damages of $4.1 million.
And as this news breaks, it is past the point that Alex is on air.
And so Owen is hosting the war room at this point, complaining about, I don't know, the Chinese.
Sure.
jordan holmes
That sounds right.
dan friesen
And so here's him discussing that the judgment has come in.
owen shroyer
A lot of people are tuned in right now because the news has broke about the first verdict in the Sandy Hook case, and they got a $4 million judgment.
Never had a trial by jury.
unidentified
Judge just decided guilt.
owen shroyer
And now they got a $4 million verdict, which is, I mean, they were shooting for $150 million, you know, because they got to line their pockets, I guess.
Whoever's getting that money, I don't know where that money goes.
jordan holmes
Chair.
owen shroyer
That would absolve any emotional distress, but okay.
So there might be a statement from Alex Jones soon.
He might go live.
He might pop in.
I don't know.
We're on a Titanic right now playing the violin, okay?
jordan holmes
And that's good news.
owen shroyer
I've got all the news to cover, and that's what's so sad about it is nobody else is going to cover this news.
It's only InfoWars is going to cover it, and now we won't even be able to cover it.
So just stay tuned.
There will be a statement from Alex shortly.
dan friesen
Can't cover the news.
Too busy playing violins.
jordan holmes
That is such a funny, whiny way of just saying.
Oh, look.
Now I can't even cover the news.
See?
Now who's the victim?
dan friesen
Look what the Sandy Hook parents have done.
They've made me unable to cover the news.
jordan holmes
Isn't that what he's saying?
It kind of says what he's saying.
You know, like, look at what these people have done to me.
dan friesen
And who knows where that money is going?
jordan holmes
What an act.
dan friesen
Really trying to make suspicious the idea of a lawsuit.
And so he's right.
Alex does pop in later.
Sure.
So that's one thing Owen's right about.
jordan holmes
He's got winning in the talk show prediction race.
dan friesen
Second thing he's right about, Alex was filming a statement before he came on.
And so here is that.
We're going to go to that right away.
alex jones
The Democratic Party, the entire corporate media, lined up against Infowars and the American people's free speech.
The judge, more than 20 times in the last week and a half in Austin, Texas, told the jury while I was there in the courtroom, and it was on national TV, that Alex Jones is guilty.
The lawyers for the plaintiffs asked for between $150 million and $3 billion.
jordan holmes
When?
alex jones
The jury came in this evening with $4.2 million.
I admitted I was wrong.
I admitted I made a mistake.
I admitted that I followed this information, but not on purpose.
I apologized to the families.
And the jury understood that.
What I did to those families was wrong, but I didn't do it on purpose.
I didn't lie about WMDs in Iraq.
I got millions of people on purpose.
I questioned a public event because I saw anomalies and others saw anomalies.
And the jury understood that and awarded $4.2 million.
Now, that's more money than my company and I personally have, but we are going to work on trying to make restitution there.
dan friesen
Oh, what a great guy.
jordan holmes
Wow.
dan friesen
So I think the $3 billion number is meant to make the judgment look even smaller.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
I was trying to figure out where that came from, and I think it's the sales figures that Mark showed from the text messages that Fruget was sending over.
jordan holmes
Oh, okay.
dan friesen
During CPAC, they were like, it was like, what, $800,000 a day?
jordan holmes
A day, yeah.
dan friesen
And so this extrapolated out to like $300 million in a year over 20 years.
Over 10 years.
jordan holmes
Over 10 years.
dan friesen
Sandy hooked.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
I think that that's what Alex, like they, I don't even remember if Mark made any statement of $3 billion.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
But it's like, okay, you made $300 million a year 10 years since.
You've made, in theory, $3 billion since then.
I think that's where Alex may be taking that number from, but I never heard that as like what he should be penalizing.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I really, really, really, really wish that the way that that amount of money was reported was based on why it was chosen.
Yeah.
dan friesen
Like, I understand that.
jordan holmes
The 24% of Americans is 75 million Americans.
So the idea is $1 for each American.
dan friesen
Right.
There's a symbolism.
jordan holmes
Yeah, but it kept going back to like, oh, they want money.
Oh, they want money.
Or it was about how huge the sum was.
If they had really just like, listen, the Sandy Hook families believe that because of Alex, Alex owes them $1 per person that believes that they're a liar.
You know, that makes sense to me.
And it also makes it feel like the judgment isn't that high.
Because if you had said that they owe $10 per person, I wouldn't think that that's a huge judgment.
And that's $1.5 billion.
True.
So there's that.
dan friesen
And the other aspect of it, too, is like, you know, you don't start a negotiation low.
jordan holmes
Oh, of course not.
Absolutely not.
dan friesen
You know, it's a number that you don't necessarily expect you're going to get.
Sure.
And then the misunderstanding of the symbolism, I agree with you.
That could have been.
jordan holmes
The symbolism was what was really important about the money and not the money.
Yeah.
And that's what was so frustrating.
Yeah.
dan friesen
Yeah.
And so Alex's statement goes on.
alex jones
Now, here's the next phase of this.
When the judge realized that when I was on the stand, I woke that jury up and laid out the facts.
She ruled today.
jordan holmes
Of course, he did.
alex jones
The punitive damage phase that starts tomorrow, I cannot testify and my lawyer cannot put on evidence.
So she already found me guilty and told the jury I was guilty.
And now she's saying we can't defend ourselves in the punitive damages phase.
I trust in God.
I trust in the truth coming out.
dan friesen
So this just isn't true.
Raynal gave a defense in the punitive phase of the trial, just as Wes did for the plaintiffs.
The defense wasn't able to call any witnesses because the purpose of that phase of the trial was to determine net worth of both Alex and free speech systems.
And after repeatedly failing to provide ordered documents and repeatedly sending in incompetent corporate representatives, the judge sanctioned Alex's defense by disallowing him from being able to participate in the net worth discussion at this point.
Essentially, this is not a silencing or an instance of Alex being jammed up.
It's just another case of him not doing the bare minimum he was required to do in the discovery phase of the case.
And now it's too late for him to pretend he wants to be involved.
Plus, Alex violated the rules on multiple occasions the prior day, including lying to the jury by saying he was bankrupt.
So on that count alone, he should not be able to be a witness in this part of the case.
jordan holmes
He lied under oath!
dan friesen
Nothing that he said can really be accepted as credible.
So his evidentiary value is zero unless he were to have produced the documents backing up what he says.
Which brings us to the next problem.
One of the primary things that was brought up as it relates to his text being disclosed was the messages from Tim Fruget, which discussed detailed breakdowns of sales numbers.
These numbers did not match the revenue numbers that Alex has claimed.
And even more importantly, the existence of these texts, which were not turned over in Discovery, reveal an attempt to hide information relevant to the determination of net worth and the company's value.
There are three major reasons that Alex is not being allowed to be a part of this phase of the trial, and it has nothing to do with the Democratic Party or conspiracy against him.
It's the simple consequences of his stupid actions.
You can probably get the basic tone of this announcement already.
It's Alex taking this $4 million judgment quite in stride because it's much lower than he was probably fearing.
His tone is essentially no different than when he's gotten other bad news in the past where he's using it as an opportunity to fundraise off of it, more or less trying to get the audience to flip the bill for him so he can remain insulated from the consequences of his actions.
It's pathetic, but it's what you'd expect because he's always been able to do this before.
Whether it's his dad paying for the medical bills that kid he almost killed or his dad buying advertising on his show so a radio station would air him early on or the audience donating to his suspiciously timed money bombs or this suspiciously timed $8 million Bitcoin donation.
Alex has always had people to bail him out of the trouble of his stupid actions.
And he probably thinks based on this $4 million figure, there's just going to be another in that series.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And there's very little reason for him not to think that.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I mean, if it were me in Alex's shoes, I would have received that judgment as a massive victory.
But that's only because if it's me in Alex's shoes, I, much like Alex, have forgotten that there are more trials coming.
I have completely forgotten that that means more judgments are coming as well.
True.
So I'm overjoyed.
I am announcing my victory over the Democratic Party.
dan friesen
It's a thrill because it could have been worse.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it could have been worse, yes.
Yeah.
dan friesen
So yeah, the plaintiff's lawyers, though, they were not happy about this.
They don't like that Alex won.
alex jones
At the end of the day, I don't have all these millions of dollars they claim I have, so I'm at peace.
But this is still a major victory for truth.
And the plaintiff's lawyers got upset in the courtroom, and according to multiple witnesses, were screaming and yelling at my lawyers, Joe and Andino, when they were in the hall.
They thought they would get hundreds of millions of dollars we don't have.
They thought they would shut us down.
But that jury understood the truth and resisted the propaganda.
dan friesen
This does not at all match my experience with the plaintiff's lawyers.
I mean, I don't know who these two sources Alex has, but I think they're lieutenant colonels, probably.
jordan holmes
It is this exact video that should be played further in the other trials, just because this was after the judgment.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
If you think that damages are going to make him stop and he can still be in business, that is not how this works.
He's in there and he is doing his shit or he's out.
There is no getting him to moderate.
dan friesen
Yeah, but I think that's difficult to, I mean, I think you and I can say that.
Sure.
jordan holmes
Saying that in a legal setting, I think is presupposes that you know 100% the future, which you can't do in a courtroom, I assume.
dan friesen
Right, but it also presupposes that it is appropriate to be like, I want to bankrupt him as a punishment.
And I don't know if that is necessarily healthy.
jordan holmes
It is, but it's not like, I mean, I feel like this is so important.
It is not that.
But it is not when you're bankrupt.
Well, I understand bankruptcy.
I mean this way.
If the point of the trial, if the point of the damages is to punish someone to get them to stop their behavior, right?
And this is what they do after that judgment, then it's not about money at that point.
It has to be, how do we make this behavior stop?
So I don't care if the judgment is $10 gajillion or it's literally just a guy going like, hey, listen, you got to turn the lights off.
That's just what's got to happen.
It's not about the money kind of thing.
You know what I'm saying?
dan friesen
I just think it's difficult to translate that from what I think you're saying that makes total sense in this conversation to a courtroom.
I think that's a challenge.
jordan holmes
Impossible.
dan friesen
And it's also incredibly difficult because, you know, when you have something like this happens, it's just an opportunity for Alex to trick his audience into being like a bad person.
jordan holmes
Listen, asshole.
alex jones
We're going to keep the crew employed.
We are fighting hard for your First Amendment, your Second Amendment, your Tenth Amendment, your sovereignty.
dan friesen
Not your force.
alex jones
You want to keep us in the fight.
We have a plan to stay on air through this bankruptcy.
We have a reorganization plan.
But if you don't fund us, if you don't buy products at InfowarsStore.com, we will shut down.
It's your decision, just like that jury had a decision right now on whether InfoWars is going to stay on the air.
We are so broke that I'm not even worried about that $4.2 million.
I'm worried about our bankruptcy to emergency stabilize InfoWars, and we have a plan.
But to do that, we need support.
So get a t-shirt, get a book, get a film.
dan friesen
Or get some of my supplements that under oath have been proven to be great.
unidentified
Wild.
jordan holmes
Just wild shit.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
I mean, but what do you expect?
It's exactly what you'd expect.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
Now, what I didn't expect is for this announcement that Alex makes to go the direction it does.
Because when there's a direction to go from there?
Yes.
jordan holmes
Oh, God.
dan friesen
He starts talking about Neil and Scarlett.
jordan holmes
No, what?
alex jones
No.
dan friesen
No, no, Mike down, Mike down.
jordan holmes
Oh, my God.
alex jones
Get them all at InfowarStore.com and keep us on the air.
That is so critical because they use these families as pawns.
The families come over and shook my hand and hugged me and really woke up to the fact that they'd been manipulated and their own lawyers went like they were dogs.
Get over here and stop talking to him on video.
I was wrong.
Sandy Cook happened.
I admit it happened.
I'm proud to admit it happened because when I'm wrong, I admit it.
I don't make mistakes on purpose.
We're tomorrow's news day.
We're 95% accurate.
But these people tried to misrepresent what I said to these families.
They showed them edited videos.
They showed the jury edited videos.
And it backfired in their face big time.
dan friesen
Yeah, so he's creating this perception that Neil and Scarlett are info warriors now.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
They woke up to the fact that their lawyers were manipulating them into doing this case.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I realized that my comments about the previous clips had come too soon, and I would like to reiterate them about that clip, but like twice as much.
Yeah.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's bad.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's fucked up.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's bad.
And it's even...
jordan holmes
No, it can't get worse.
dan friesen
It does.
jordan holmes
Oh, God.
alex jones
I told, and my lawyer told that jury, I said, listen, we want to pay for their psychological stuff.
We want to take care of problems.
We didn't cause all of it, but we want to step up and prove that and do that.
And Scarlett Lewis has a beautiful organization called Choose Love that isn't about gun control, isn't about liberal conservative.
It's about teaching children love and compassion so they're not hateful, so they're not satanic, so they don't kill people.
And I have invited Scarlett Lewis on my show.
We're going to email the organization.
If I see her tomorrow, during the punitive face, I'm going to shake her hand and give her my number.
And I am going to gladly have her on my show next week, and I'm going to raise money for her organization on top of the big judgment because she's a real lady.
She lost her child, and I'm not going to let these people misrepresent what I said and did anymore and claim that I'm the Sandy Hook man.
This is a beautiful time.
It's a great time.
And the trial lawyers, the ambulance chasers lost, America and the First Amendment won.
And the poor parents that went through so much, Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, they have won as well.
So this is a big victory, an answer to prayer.
Thank you so much to viewers and listeners.
We're going to continue on as long as you support us.
We were so close to being shut down.
So please support us so we can have Scarlett Lewis and Neil Heslin on.
I'm going to take them out to dinner.
Their lawyers are going to try to stop them.
I mean, I literally yesterday saw them.
Neil tried to follow me out.
He shook my hand.
He goes, hey, buddy, I want to talk to you.
I said, yes, sir.
Please come out.
Their lawyer said, get over here to him.
I'll never talk to them like a dog.
I'll see you tomorrow on the Friday show.
dan friesen
So it's strange to hear Alex say that he and his lawyers said they wanted to pay Neil and Scarlett's medical expenses and such because I was in the courtroom during Raynal's opening statement where he asked the jury to return a judgment of $1 in damages.
jordan holmes
I do recall he asked the jury, he held a dollar up in the middle of the market.
unidentified
Which is what Mark was referencing at the end of the day.
jordan holmes
He was a callback.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
In our closing statement in the cross-examination of Alex.
Alex is such a disgusting liar.
And this is just an attempt on his part to exploit his audience's obvious lack of awareness of what's actually happening in the trial.
Scarlett wanted to hug Alex and realized she was being used by the lawyers.
He told the jury he wanted to pay their expenses.
All this is complete shit.
And more importantly, Alex knows fully well that he's just lying to his audience, so they keep giving him money.
And then also, like, Scarlett has a great organization.
His corporate representative, Daria, under oath, testified that she suspects that it's a front.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
Also, this is Alex's attempt to portray himself as the good guy, which is all based in bullshit.
Further, he's putting Neil and Scarlett into a trap where he's casting them as characters in his personal image rehabilitation.
As far as the audience is concerned, they either get to play along and act how Alex is setting them up to, which they aren't going to do, or they'll be seen suspiciously by the audience all over again.
Why aren't they speaking out in support of Alex after they realize that they were being used by the lawyers to attack the First Amendment?
Maybe the evil lawyers won't let them.
Or maybe they just said that to Alex to pacify him during the trial, and they actually are in league with the deep state Democrat lawyers after all.
Come to think of it, that would mean that they would have to put on a pretty good performance to trick Alex of all people.
What if these people are actors after all?
Maybe that's not the direction it would necessarily go, but Alex is forcing Neil and Scarlett to exist in terms of his bullshit show into the future because creating these fictitious pictures of them is helpful in terms of making Alex feel better about himself.
What he really should be doing is leaving them the fuck alone, which they've wanted all along.
But Alex is kind of like a child who's broken something and then is trying to clean it up, but he doesn't know how to clean, so in the process he ends up breaking more stuff.
You just want them to stop trying to help because they're not helping and they're just making things worse, but they're a dumb kid and they don't get that.
He's kind of like that kid, except he broke that original thing on purpose.
He claims that he didn't, and then he's breaking other stuff to distract from the mess he initially made.
It's like a sociopathic version of that kid who broke something.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
He's a fucking asshole.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's so fucked.
But that's another part of the amorphous blob of denying Sandy Hook.
That's it.
Now, I get it.
I say Sandy Hook is 100% real because I've changed the goalpost to now the lawyers are manipulating these people.
That is just the same thing.
It's all one big thing.
It's not that he denied Sandy Hook to happen.
It's that Sandy Hook is part of whatever it is he wants.
dan friesen
You understand that that is exactly the model.
You have to play the full clip.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
You play the full clip.
Oh, I need a timeline.
Give him a timeline.
There's going to be another excuse.
And even think about it in terms of world events.
You have this lead up to the 2016 election.
It's like we need to get Trump in because if you have a Democrat in, oh, it's so bad.
Trump gets in.
Oh, no, there's enemies within.
The deep state is.
jordan holmes
That's why everything sucks.
dan friesen
It's always something else.
The conspiracy in the narrative has to shift because that is where the money is.
That is where the ability to keep his audience interested is.
Without that, like, oh, we won, or oh, I was actually wrong.
Let's move on.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Doesn't play.
There isn't an angle.
jordan holmes
He's just a coward.
dan friesen
Well, yeah, that too.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So he does have the balls to show up on the info on the war room.
jordan holmes
Oh, boy.
Hard-hitting interview with Owen Trump.
It's time he had an adversarial conversation with the press.
dan friesen
He might have an adversarial conversation with Owen once the paychecks stop clearing.
jordan holmes
But that would be a good time to start.
dan friesen
For now, it's friendly.
So Alex has recorded this announcement and statement, and he comes on with Owen.
And a lot of it is kind of rehashing some of the same stuff.
But he has some other things that he says that I think are really shitty.
unidentified
Well, I might be going down with a blue guy Shanning, but I get the first exclusive interview with Alex Jones.
dan friesen
Play that violin, baby.
unidentified
No, not because he's best of news about COVID being made in the lab.
owen shroyer
No, not because he covered Jeffrey Epstein while everyone else was covering it up.
No, not because he told you about the globalist corporate world government with carbon taxes, but no, because they think they've destroyed him now.
And the lies get to permeate on Twitter.
unidentified
But Alex, you're not allowed on there to defend yourself.
alex jones
That's right.
And here we are.
The jury came in on the big verdict: tens of millions spent by the Democratic Party law firms.
And the jury came in at 4.2 million when they asked for $150 million two days ago, $3 billion yesterday.
I don't have $2 million in the bank or anywhere.
dan friesen
Seems like a bland version of triumph for him.
You know, like he's there's a victory to it, but it's also black.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Also, they didn't spend tens of millions on that case.
So I guess, but you need to think that because then you win.
They're down 10 million.
I'm down 4 million, sure, but they're down so much more trying to get me.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And yeah, that's the perception that Alex wants.
And I don't think that has any bearing on reality.
jordan holmes
Yeah, Alex can't be like, listen, the law firm that there specifically went through, the lead plaintiff's attorney said that he only eats what he kills.
So obviously they spent, yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
So it's a low verdict, according to Alex on War Room.
alex jones
The good news is it's a very low verdict for what they're asking for.
The bad news is we don't have the money to pay for it.
We can get a bond and appeal it.
We're going to move forward.
That's why I explained to listeners: if you want to see the war room, or you want to see Alex Schones, or you want to see Harrison Smith, or you want to see just everybody.
Everybody else, if you want to see what we're doing here, we need your support at InfowarStore.com.
And I was going to testify tomorrow, which under Texas law, impunitive damages, you're supposed to have the person under attack testify.
The judge ruled after the ruling today when they got that low ruling.
Sounds like a lot for the average person.
It is a lot.
But for what they were asking for, it's small.
That I cannot speak to Mara and my lawyer cannot put on evidence because we're defaulted.
So she gets more and more desperate as she rigged this whole thing.
dan friesen
Oh, so it's rigged.
But no matter what the judgment was, he would not be allowed to participate.
It has no bearing on any of that.
jordan holmes
I mean, you just can't commit perjury one day and then still come back the next day.
dan friesen
Particularly about financial stuff.
But even so, like the sanctions in terms of the default judgment, like he, a big part of it is not cooperating with this stuff.
There was a time to provide that evidence.
Yeah.
And he very much didn't and was given multiple opportunities to clear that up and fix that.
And he didn't.
You don't just get to like swoop in and be like, aha.
Now I will reveal everything.
That's not how this works.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it's that example of you're never going to win.
With Alex?
Yeah, he lives in a reality where he always wins.
So you're never going to get him to be like, oh, you're right.
I fucked up in a way that means anything.
dan friesen
It's too threatening.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
So he just switches into a different world.
And if he's guilty in this world, he's going to switch into a different one.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
It's crazy.
dan friesen
Yeah.
It's the MCU, but it's bullshit.
Yeah.
So obviously, this is all just trying to get money.
And Alex thought he'd be making more money, honestly, and he's a little disappointed.
alex jones
But I'll tell you, I don't say this mainly to the crew.
We're in bankruptcy right now.
And I thought in bankruptcy, we could bring in the money we needed.
Right now, we're not.
So it's a pyrrhic victory if you don't fund Infowarstore.com.
unidentified
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dan friesen
It is once again big boy pants time.
jordan holmes
It's big boy pants time.
dan friesen
I regret to inform you, it is big boy pants time.
jordan holmes
I wish it was Burger Boy Pants time.
dan friesen
Nick Weiger?
Yeah.
Sure.
Oh, boy.
That meme someone made.
I struggled with that a little bit.
jordan holmes
It's a little unfair.
It's a little unfair.
dan friesen
But then also think about it.
Like, you know, you're the Nick in the Doughboys comparison.
Show of our picture of us on reliable sources.
jordan holmes
Right, right.
dan friesen
You're married.
Nick's married.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
I am Mitch.
I have a cat.
Mitch has cats.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Squinty eyes.
Both of us have squinty eyes.
I grew up in Boston for a while.
He's from Quincy.
jordan holmes
I did not know there were this many similarities.
dan friesen
There are more than I'm comfortable with that I didn't realize.
jordan holmes
I did not even, none of this even occurred to me.
dan friesen
Do you like hot salad?
jordan holmes
I've never, honestly, I have no Doughboys references whatsoever.
I didn't know whenever people, whenever that meet thing came out, I was like, I really don't know who Nick and Mitch are.
I was like, wait, is that.
dan friesen
I love Doughboys.
I would honestly, if they want me to come on, I'm available.
But yeah, the only thing that, you know, obviously there's some nuances here and there, but I do not think that cakes are pies.
jordan holmes
Ah, I was like, I don't have, I haven't shaved in a while.
That was my reaction to that picture.
dan friesen
I'm sorry.
Cupcakes.
Cupcakes are pies.
jordan holmes
That is not a pie.
No.
Until the day I die, that is not a pie.
No.
dan friesen
So, yeah, that threw me for one.
Anyway, big boy pants time.
Big boy pants.
So in this interview that Alex is doing on the war room, he frames why people are mad about him about Sandy Hook in a particular way.
owen shroyer
Let's correct the record on a couple things here, Alex.
The media today says Alex Jones concedes Sandy Hook happened.
I believe he did that six years ago.
alex jones
We barely covered Sandy Hook less than one-tenth of 1% more time.
But when Hillary ran against Trump, she dredged up things they could question, and there was some anomalies, but it turned out it probably, I mean, I believe it did happen.
dan friesen
So the whole thing about why people are mad about Sandy Hook is just because Hillary needed to attack Trump about something, and Alex was easy.
You may remember this as the entire framing device of how Sandy Hook is covered in Alex's War, this shitty documentary made by Alex Lee Moyer.
And I think that you see how patently absurd this is and how easily tricked she was as a filmmaker.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I mean, that's a moment where you either got to go, I'm going to be 100% complicit in this, Averbron, or you have to go, I might be shitty at my job.
dan friesen
Whoops.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
So let's not dwell too much on this because we already did that episode and I was blocked and then unblocked by their Twitter without doing anything.
I didn't respond to them at all.
jordan holmes
I have no idea what happened.
dan friesen
Anyway, there's something really terrible about the way Alex proceeds to the end of this episode.
In that special report announcement thing he did, there's a characterization of Scarlett and Neil, and it's unfair.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
It's inappropriate.
But what Alex does now is worse.
alex jones
I am very thankful to God, very thankful to listeners, and I want to invite Scarlett Lewis, who doesn't have a gun control group.
She has a group about children learning love and empathy and helping children that are beat up and helping people that are being bullied so they don't become this.
I totally support her group.
She was love.
She came over, shook my hand, gave me a hug repeatedly, and I told her, regardless of this ruling, I want her on air.
So tomorrow I'm barred from speaking at the trial.
But I'm going to go with a letter that I'm going to write tonight.
And I'm going to hand it to her and to Neil Heslin, who are very sweet people.
I didn't question them on purpose.
I didn't try to hurt them.
Once I met them, I saw, God, these are totally real people.
I was brought into stuff.
It's good to question things.
owen shroyer
You never even said their name.
I said Heslin's name one time covering the Megan Kelly interview, but that was it.
alex jones
But still, I do believe that they had some pains.
dan friesen
This is harassment, like that Alex is planning out on air.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yes.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
This is like Dan Badanti.
dan friesen
Their lawyers don't want me to talk to them.
So I'm going to write a letter and slip it to them so I can invade their space.
jordan holmes
I'm going to go to their house when their lawyers aren't there and I'm going to slide this letter underneath their doorstep, you know, like a sane person who's not harassing people would do.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
Wow.
dan friesen
So anyway, Scarlett.
In particular, Alex seems to be wanting to paint as his new best friend.
And this is just awful.
alex jones
Tuesday, I did the morning show for an hour.
You came in and took over, and I said, I believe she's a real person.
I believe he's real.
I believe they're manipulating him.
And I'm sorry.
It was a 10-minute rant.
They cut it down to a minute with me saying it didn't happen.
That's why the video was so blurry.
You couldn't understand.
It was all blurry.
You couldn't even see me, really.
It was just audio.
jordan holmes
Oh, my God.
alex jones
And I got on stand and I said, Scarlett, go to the fourth segment.
Go to 33 After in my show today on stand.
I said, Watch it.
I said, You're real.
I said, Your son's real.
Whoever gave that to you is a liar.
She got up and left, came back an hour later crying and was like, oh, and she goes, You're right.
So we broke through that they're being handled and manipulated.
unidentified
This was.
owen shroyer
So is that the lawyers then giving them edited video?
alex jones
She said, on stand, I was given it by my supporters.
So the point is they gave her a minute-edited video.
Imagine the sickos.
I'm on everything.
I believe you're real.
I believe your son died.
I'm so sorry.
I want to work with you.
And I believe that your ex-husband son died.
And he's a great guy.
I think they manipulated him.
I think he's kind of simple, not dumb, smart, but very trusting.
He's like a, I know he's a rodeo guy.
He's a cowboy, which are not dumb.
They're just really trusting, nice people.
I have family like that.
dan friesen
So she apparently went and watched the full video that Alex was referring her to.
She wept and then told Alex that she gets it and she's being used by these lawyers.
This is fucked up.
jordan holmes
I genuinely, genuinely think she should sue for defamation.
I mean, I don't know what else to say about that.
That is defaming.
I would take that as defaming a character.
I really would.
I really would take the idea of you claiming that she, a person who I fucking don't deserve to be anywhere near her.
She's so strong and powerful and amazing.
To claim that she is your friend, Alex Jones, is so fucked up.
Yeah, so fucked up.
dan friesen
I think that one of the central things about what makes this so, like, the experience so painful is that you're being, like, as the parents of this child who was killed, you're being deprived of your ability to experience your life on your own terms.
Someone else is creating a caricature of you, and it's deeply painful.
And Alex is doing it again.
unidentified
Yep.
jordan holmes
So here's what happened.
Alex created a diorama and then dropped it around them and trapped it in there for years, for years.
And they finally fucking got out of it.
So Alex is just building a different diorama that he's trying to trap them with.
alex jones
Yep.
dan friesen
And here's our last clip for our episode for today.
And I don't know.
This is like, I have no words for this.
This is so unacceptable.
alex jones
I mean, they are desperate.
And then a later break, Heslin said, hey, buddy, I appreciate you.
Thanks for admitting my son down.
I said, yes, sir.
I tried to reach out and his lawyer went, get over here.
owen shroyer
Here's the clip right here.
alex jones
Talk to him like, that's one of the clips.
Talk to him like a dog.
So we're reaching out to them.
We're going to Connecticut.
We're meeting with them.
We're supporting what they did.
We're not going to be kept away from these families and we're not going to be caught in the CIA New World Order propaganda operation.
It's not Sandy Hook, but it's the media control.
Owen, great job.
owen shroyer
And we're going to stop school shootings too with the Second Amendment.
alex jones
That's right.
God bless you.
dan friesen
So obviously, when he says we're going to Connecticut, that's about his other trial.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
The Lafferty case.
Yeah.
I think that saying we won't be kept from these families is something that is so wrong.
There is obviously the way he's trying to portray it is like me and the families are on the same side and these evil lawyers are trying to keep us apart because of the power that we could have together in this unity and love and all this, which is nonsense.
The real world, the place where the real world intersects with this bullshit is exactly the same kind of harassing behaviors, encouraging those from the audience.
Because, you know, let's say that Scarlett or Neil or some of these other families don't behave in the way that you would expect based on Alex's rhetoric.
Well, you should go talk to them.
Why aren't they?
And if you're not allowed to, well, these lawyers are keeping them from you.
You got to.
No, it lends itself towards encouraging harassment.
And I, you know, beyond anything that, you know, we talk about in terms of the lawsuit, this response is, I mean, I agree with you as someone who has no legal background at all.
I think this should be a cause for another action.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Honestly.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
I don't.
jordan holmes
I think this should be cause for God creating a mountain so big he couldn't move it, writing leave them the fuck alone on it and then dropping it on Alex's head.
dan friesen
Yeah, I think you just, I mean, look, I don't want to use the kids' terms, but you got to take the L on this one, Alex.
jordan holmes
I got it.
dan friesen
You got to just walk away.
jordan holmes
Just leave them alone.
Yes.
Just leave them alone.
dan friesen
I don't know what kind of bullshit game he's doing to try and save face or create the enemy as these lawyers and not the families, and now I'm best friends with them.
But like, this is exploitative.
I mean, it's abusive.
jordan holmes
It's disgusting.
dan friesen
And it's the kind of behavior that lends itself towards his audience not behaving in ways that you'd want.
jordan holmes
I just, I just, I believe exactly that what he did was what he did.
I believe it wholeheartedly.
You knew it was going to happen.
That's exactly how it was going to go.
It wasn't going to be a, hey, listen, I'm sorry we're never going to talk about Sandy Hook again.
It wouldn't even have been just a quick one.
Like, hey, listen, judgment turns out it was better than we hoped for.
Frankly, I was fucking up.
Let's not talk about Sandy Hook ever again.
Honestly, honestly, I'm putting the words on the board.
They're boating.
dan friesen
Now I am going to actually instead.
That's a great idea.
But instead, what I'm going to do.
jordan holmes
What are you going to do?
dan friesen
I am going to go for the challenge mode of life.
And I'm going to try and pill the family.
jordan holmes
That is for experienced players only.
dan friesen
I've been doing this 28 years, baby.
jordan holmes
All right.
I guess if you want to go with the challenging mode, I don't know.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
I haven't played Dark Souls in a long time, but it's pretty hard.
dan friesen
Yeah, I found this deeply upsetting and offensive.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And that is why this is where we break for this episode.
Because I don't know.
I don't know how else to really put a button and stress.
That is what Alex did after the compensatory damages were right after.
And it sucks.
He'll never learn any lessons.
unidentified
Nope.
dan friesen
He's a piece of shit.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
We'll be back.
jordan holmes
Indeed, we will.
dan friesen
Tomorrow with another episode.
jordan holmes
Part two.
dan friesen
Wrapping this baby up.
And also tomorrow you can find us on the majority report.
Oh, that's true.
jordan holmes
That'll be noon central, 1 p.m. Eastern.
dan friesen
Yes.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I don't.
Yeah.
I can't do time math.
Yes.
I can.
I don't know why I said I couldn't.
jordan holmes
Anyway, what are you, Doctor?
unidentified
Who?
dan friesen
I'm tired.
jordan holmes
Come on, man.
dan friesen
I'm tired.
So we'll be back.
But until then, we have a website.
jordan holmes
We do.
It's KnowledgeFight.com.
dan friesen
And we're on Twitter.
jordan holmes
We are on Twitter.
It's at KnowledgeUnderscore Fight.
dan friesen
We'll be back, Jordan.
unidentified
But until then, I'm Neo.
dan friesen
I'm Leo.
I'm DZX Clark.
Dreamy, Creamy Summer is happening, man.
Eat some ice cream.
jordan holmes
And now here comes the sex robot.
alex jones
Andy in Kansas, you're on the air.
Thanks for holding.
jordan holmes
Hello, Alex.
unidentified
I'm a first Tim Color.
I'm a huge fan.
jordan holmes
I love your work.
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