Alex Jones’s $1.1B Connecticut defamation ruling—undischargeable in bankruptcy—exposes his financial fraud, despite claims of persecution and "million-dollar debt," while $49M in Texas punitive damages awaits confirmation; his lavish spending ($14M+ in assets) contradicts insolvency narratives. He weaponizes martyrdom, comparing his legal battles to the Alamo and Trump’s treatment, while pivoting support to far-right figures like Argentina’s Javier Milei (accused of economic sabotage) and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni (neo-fascist ties), ignoring their controversies. The ruling traps him in debts, crippling future scams, yet his audience still frames it as a populist victory—revealing how legal collapse fuels his cult-like resilience. [Automatically generated summary]
Well, it had a thing where you're supposed to have like one millimeter gap that makes the mouth, but when you're pushing blocks together, it is very, very difficult to keep that, unless it's blocked by something.
Today we're going to do an episode that's going to be a little bit different than normal because we're not covering an episode of Alex's show, but it is still about Alex.
And that is that I assume that first and fourth means that they were dating for three years and they got married on the anniversary of their first date.
Cover a bit of news about his other situation in life.
So, that big news that happened, for everyone who didn't hear, is that the bankruptcy court made a ruling on Alex's bullshit attempt to get out of paying what he owes to the Sandy Hook families, and it did not go well for him.
In essence, what the court determined was that because his judgment is due to intentional and malicious actions on his part, the damages he owes are not dischargeable through bankruptcy.
Alex was hoping that he could declare bankruptcy and this stuff would all basically disappear, but that's not gonna happen.
This debt is gonna accompany him wherever he goes in the future.
There are two distinctions that are important to remember.
The first is that Alex has declared personal bankruptcy and also bankruptcy for his company Free Speech Systems.
The Chapter 11 Subchapter 5 reorganization scheme was for the company, and it is...
Essentially failed.
The second thing here is that there are two major cases, the Texas case and the Connecticut case.
In the ruling, Judge Lopez affirmed $1.1 billion in damages as being undischargeable in terms of the Connecticut case, but that left $323 million that was awarded that may not have been the result of willful and malicious actions.
This was court fees and attorney's fees.
But I think it could be argued that Alex's behavior in the course of the suit was absolutely willful and malicious.
He's on the hook for this and it's not going away.
Even if free speech systems collapses and goes away overnight, he owes this debt personally as well as professionally.
So while the court will never be able to take his primary home, his finances are going to be affected by this case for the rest of his life, regardless of what businesses he tries to start in the future.
So on top of all this, Alex still has two cases that are yet to be heard, which have been on hold because of the bankruptcy nonsense.
He still has the Posner case, where he is uniquely and deeply fucked, and the Marcel Fontaine case, which was the case that led Kit Daniels to cry in the deposition room about what he'd done to another human.
He was never planning to use the bankruptcy system the way it's intended to, to allow small businesses to reorganize and stay in business if they're in debt.
He was trying to dodge responsibility for his actions by exploiting what he thought was a loophole.
That loophole didn't work, so now there's no reason for him to continue this charade.
Alex can pretend that he has options to appeal, but that's not gonna work.
He's more or less out of options to stall things, and it's just a matter of time before he's forced to pay, or he begins to risk criminal cases for non-cooperation.
In the aftermath of this news breaking, Alex ran to his trusty camera and filmed a quick damage control video, which we're going to discuss here today.
His angle on this is interesting, if only because there's a couple of really shady moments that you might notice throughout this that are petty as hell.
When rigged, controlled juries that were told in Texas and Connecticut last year that I was guilty by a judge, and the judge told the juries to find me guilty, and they allowed false evidence that I have hundreds of millions of dollars into evidence, fraud, it was all over then.
That what should be happening right now is like a flood of all the people who have needed to sue Alex for such a long time, but knew that they couldn't because the money, you know, he could always out just spend them or settle or anything like that.
Alex Jones sued for defamation by every single fucker he's lied about, and it's going to happen to the next person who does that, and the next person who does that kind of thing.
I mean, but that's kind of, you know, that's the point.
You are a person instead of a victim.
You are not somebody who Alex Jones, the main character, you're not a henchman that he's tossed aside on his way to get to another more important person.
So I want to take a couple claims here that he made more specifically.
The first is about the finances.
Alex is a constant liar, so he's not a good source of information about anything, and he refused to turn over important financial information in the course of discovery for those trials.
In order to assess what his business appeared to be making, the plaintiffs consulted a forensic accountant who came up with the best guess of what a competently run business like Alex's would make.
If Alex wanted to clear it up and prove what he made and how much the business made, he could have corrected the record, but he didn't.
The reason he didn't is anyone's guess, but the only two explanations that make sense to me are one, there's something very damaging in his finances that, if it were publicly known, would erode his audience's faith in him, or two, he makes as much or more than the accountant assessed.
He can play games with this shit for his audience, but the court doesn't care if you say that's wrong and then refuse to prove that it's wrong with the information that you should have full and easy.
Yeah.
Grow up.
The second point I want to touch on here is the rigged and controlled juries.
The third point I want to talk about is the framing of how the trials were set up.
Alex says the juries were, quote, told I was guilty by a judge, and the judges told the juries to find me guilty.
That's a fascinating construction because it's such a complete lie about what happened.
Alex had every opportunity to a jury trial about his defamation claims.
He was clearly just desperate to not do that.
So he dragged his feet and stalled at every opportunity, refusing to cooperate with Discovery.
Various remedies were attempted until it became clear that he was not going to cooperate with this case in any form, so he lost in a default.
It was as if he hadn't shown up at all, basically, because he was that uncooperative and that non-responsive to requests.
Having lost by default, the trial was never about guilt or innocence, or in this case because it's a civil matter whether or not he was liable.
The case was about damages and how much he was going to owe.
The judge didn't instruct the jury that the matter of whether or not Alex was liable wasn't for them to decide and that that had already been resolved, which is not the judge telling them to find him guilty.
It's a judge explaining what the purpose of the trial is.
Further, Alex had every opportunity to have his shitty lawyer Norm Pattis in Connecticut And Ray Nall in Texas argue that he should owe the families a dollar or some minuscule amount that's just symbolic.
And even when he was in the trial, he was trying to insist to the jury.
He was like, listen, all of these are good blue-collar people to the point where eventually I remember him getting questions from the jury that was like...
Why do you think we're all the same type of person?
Asshole.
You know, like, he pissed off the jury.
Even if it wasn't rigged, he deliberately pissed off those people.
That would have been his best sort of strategy, and I think that there might have been some hope that that's what would have ended up happening, based on the argument that particularly Norm was making.
This was judicial tyranny against the American people.
So I laughed at the time when they were giving billions of dollars to people whose names I never talked about, never said, didn't even know who they were.
So I declared bankruptcy because Back when I declared bankruptcy, I had a few million dollars in the bank.
Since then, I'm upside down, but I'm still on the air, and that's what matters.
So the federal judge in Texas basically nixed out most of the claims in Texas, but then said the stuff in Connecticut can go forward and it's not dischargeable, and said it's up to our appeals.
Now remember, when you see these headlines, Jones refuses to pay $1.5 billion to Sandy Hook.
I have a right, you have a right to a jury trial, but we didn't get that.
The judge found me guilty in Connecticut, Texas beforehand.
And I also have a right to appeal.
So our appeals will take years.
Those are ongoing.
But I declared bankruptcy because of all the litigation, we didn't have any money.
You know, and then, but now in like real money world where people have a lot of it, you know, you're supposed to be in debt a million dollars because then you don't spend real money on, On stuff, and then you don't have to pay taxes on that.
So the debt is actually the way you avoid paying taxes for the real money that you keep and don't use.
So Alex is welcome to appeal these cases, but it's not gonna matter.
He's gonna lose those, too, and in the process, waste some more time and probably add more sanctions to the pile of money he owes the families in court.
He already lost a request for a new trial, and Norm did file an appeal back in, I believe, July, claiming that the default judgment was wrongly issued.
They will not win that appeal.
The court bent over backwards to give Alex opportunity after opportunity to cooperate, and his behavior and intentions were clear, and it's documented through the process.
All Alex can do is maliciously stall, and he's run out of more options for ways to do that.
This appeal will fizzle, and then he's really got nothing stopping the families from collecting.
Of course, it's easy to say that he's only got time on his side and he can only run out the clock for so long, while one of the plaintiffs, Erica Lafferty, is struggling with cancer and can't afford chemotherapy drugs while Alex owes her millions of dollars.
For someone like her, it's not so trivial a matter that Alex can stall things and delay the inevitable payments that he's going to have to make.
But it's, you know, it's unfortunately easy for people in our situation to be like, well, you know, he's going to run out of options eventually.
But there's a clock for some people where there is a huge clock.
I imagine that there's some kind of situation where if you make that kind of carve-out, then it opens up the door to so many different people being able to, you know, I don't know.
I'm not exactly sure what the specific situations would be, but I can imagine circumstances where that could be abused.
And I can see why a court wouldn't allow those kinds of carve-outs for, like, let's jump the process in order to, you know, get this money where it should be.
We're going to take your money away doesn't exist because the money doesn't exist.
It's all political.
It's all a message to you that if you stand up against corruption, if you stand up against open borders and human smuggling and World War III and the pedophilia and the transgenderism, we're going to get you.
Their attack on me is a message to you to shut up and roll over and be bullied and be intimidated.
So, just a nice little reminder that trans people existing is included in that list of his great evils, so...
He's very accepting and very open-minded.
So there's plenty of people that have shows that have the same kind of bigoted content that Alex does and target the same vulnerable populations he does, and yet those people aren't being sued like Alex is.
And that's because this case isn't political.
It's the result of his actions in defaming the Sandy Hook families.
Alex absolutely understands that, but it's really hard to fundraise by saying, this is my fault, I made a huge mistake, and now I need you all to support me so I can avoid losing my status as a rich person because of it.
We talk about fear a lot, but this is an interesting vibe, because what Alex is doing is taking something bad for him and making the audience scared for themselves about it.
You, the listener, should fear for your safety when you see bad things happening to me.
That's an abusive fucking tone that Alex takes.
And also, Alex has way more money than that.
At very least, a recent filing showed personal assets of over $14 million.
And he's got tons of money in various trusts and fake companies all around free speech systems.
You can't operate a business of the size of Infowars with that many employees, that much infrastructure, that much overhead, the products.
Even if you're just private labeling other people's products and drop shipping, you still need to have tons of money coming in and moving through.
It's just not possible.
Simultaneously, you can't be someone like Alex who spends money the way he does, who owns the kind of property and luxury.
That he does without having a lot of money.
If you can spend $93,000 in a month, you aren't making $100,000 in a month.
Well, that's, I mean, I think what you come to is that there is a difference between the emotion and the feelings of justice, and the, you know, that kind of thing, and the mechanical operation of justice.
So my lawyers predicted, and I predicted, that the Texas case would get limited because it was so outrageous, and the Connecticut case would go forward.
But it doesn't matter because the money doesn't exist.
And I always have a right to be on air and communicate.
And because of their persecution, We are hotter than ever, more requested, more demanded on shows all over the place.
InfoWars is exploding.
So, Alex Jones, personally, is being crucified.
And they're coming after assets that don't exist.
I don't care about that.
I'm not into money.
I'm wearing like a 10-year-old shirt right now and some old blue jeans and some $20 shoes.
So, it's all like the Wizard of Oz with Toto.
The Wizard of Oz saying, I am the great and powerful Oz, but then Toto pulls the curtain back.
He says, if Oz is the court saying that Alex has a lot of money, and then Alex is Toto pulling the curtain back to reveal Oz, is that what it's supposed to be?
In this metaphor, Alex needs to be Oz, saying that he's not rich, and then the globalists need to be Toto, except they pull the curtain back to reveal that Oz is telling the truth.
So Alex also seems to not be dealing with the thrust of this ruling, which is that he can't discharge this debt through bankruptcy, which has been his entire plan for like six months at least.
He's been constantly telling the audience on air that the bankruptcy is going well, and that the court is looking into his finances, and they're saying, the money isn't there, it's all a fraud.
He's saying that all these people from the, all the people were made to work with him through the process.
Can't come up with the word.
Damn it.
The people who are working with the bankruptcy court that are like in his shit.
He's saying that they're looking through all the finances and they're like, you're right, Alex.
That's what he's been telling people.
He's been feeding them that line that the bankruptcy court is going to swoop in and undo all the damages.
And now it's clear that's not going to happen.
There's no correcting.
There's no him being like, there's no I was wrong.
Only me and my lawyers saw this coming.
If they saw this coming, then Alex has been lying to his audience constantly to keep them donating money.
Well, it's because he is exploiting that emotional connection of my consequences are a threat to you.
And so because that emotional stake is there...
You're not paying attention to these things that he's saying and what they imply about his past actions or the lies that he's told to get to this point.
Also, when Alex was talking about how he's not into money and how he's wearing all these old clothes, there's a moment where it looks like he's trying to make sure he didn't accidentally wear one of his $20,000 watches.
Which is smart to take that off before you do the I'm not into money speech.
The real victory here is the Connecticut lawyers and Senator Blumenthal, who runs this, their victory in cutting Texas out of this massive $1.5 billion verdict that doesn't matter because I don't have a million dollars.
I'm over a million dollars in the hole right now, personally.
I'm preparing to sell my car and all the rest of the stuff.
I don't care.
What matters is the free speech.
And Christ said, if you're for me, the world will be against you.
So this is a very interesting construction because Alex is trying to pit the Connecticut plaintiffs and the Texas plaintiffs against each other as if they're operating opposing camps vying for Alex's money.
Obviously, they'd all like to get a chunk of what's owed to them, but I know from interacting with both sides of the situation that they don't view it as a zero-sum game.
Like, it's just ridiculous.
Alex is only out for himself and sees the world in competitive binaries, so the only way that he can understand this case is in that context, and he thinks that they're competing forces.
Plus, this allows him to portray the plaintiffs as shitty, money-hungry people willing to turn on each other for a buck, which is far from reality.
Also, Alex needs to adjust his talking points, because he's relying on old ones.
This inflation thing was a COVID talking point, and it was definitely true in 2021 and 2022, which saw inflation rates of 7 and...
6.5% respectively.
But that number is way down in 2023.
Particularly since April, we've seen major dips in inflation rates, and the most recent available data is for September at 3.7%, compared to 8.2% in September of last year.
These trends are going in the right direction, and though the numbers are higher than pre-pandemic numbers, it's headed back towards the previous normal.
Alex knows that it's a buzzword that he's built up in the audience's mind, so you can just hit that button and evoke all the feelings of the globalists trying to ruin you financially through it.
But I do know from everything I have experienced and everybody that I've talked to, there's a tremendous amount of solidarity between the plaintiffs in both cases and beyond.
And so I think that this reveals more about Alex than it does about anybody else.
So if you listen to Alex enough, you start to realize that when he was young, he must have just spent some time memorizing a couple quotes, which he now just repeats constantly.
That Twain one about the Patriots, that's definitely one of his favorites, but it just kind of gets annoying how he shoehorns these quotes in all the time.
There were rumors that he had died or he was very sick.
This was based on one of his cousins falling severely ill and then communications not being very advanced back in those days.
He was contacted by a journalist from the New York Journal to comment on the rumors of his death, and Twain explained the situation with his cousin and said, quote, The report of my illness grew out of his illness.
The report of my death was an exaggeration.
It's not quite as fun or dishy in its original context.
Nah.
What Alex has done is he's wrote a story about it in his head, about why Twain would say this.
Obviously, people have been constantly assuming he was dead, as opposed to it being the result of a specific misunderstanding.
Because Alex is the master of assuming things and making up stories in his head and then repeating them to his audience as established fact, which is a fancy way of saying a lion.
Earlier in the section, he has this series of wordings for a potential new zinger.
Quote, none but the dead have free speech.
None but the dead are permitted to speak the truth.
In America, as elsewhere, free speech is confined to the dead.
This is a comedian's notebook, man.
He was working out bits, trying to move words around and see if he can come up with something that he wants to bring to the stage.
The fact that that Patriot quote is in this section, it's the only place it appears in Twain's published catalog, it kind of makes you think that it wasn't fully cooked.
It's just stray thoughts that Mark Twain had, and some of them are kind of a bummer, like this one.
Quote, we are all inconsistent.
We are offended and resented when people do not respect us, and yet no man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.
And not for nothing, also, Mark Twain really doesn't like the idea of patriotism much.
Elsewhere in the notebook he says this, quote, talking of patriotism, what humbug it is.
It's a word which always commemorates a robbery.
There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting of a long line.
of successive, quote, owners who each in turn as patriots with proud swelling hearts defended against the next gang of robbers who come in to steal it and did and become the selling, become the swelling hearted patriots in their turn.
There's another point where he says, quote, I don't know.
I guess what I'm saying is that Twain is a guy who's always boiled down to these pithy statements, but reality is often more complex than can be captured in an aphorism.
The important thing to remember is that Alex absolutely never read this notebook of Twain's and only knows this quote from some right-wing ass meme he saw or some white nationalist-leaning publication that his dad got in the mail, which used Twain's quote to justify why their ranks are so small.
Why aren't there as many racists as we think there should be?
I think it's debatable, but that's probably just based on how it's phrased in the text.
But I think you could assume that there might be an instance that he's describing where someone is a good person from the start, and he's hated and scorned for it, but as people come to agree with his conclusion, their cowardice goes away.
And so to me, as long as their mind control, as long as their Jedi mind trick doesn't work on me, I continue and I win.
It's not working on me.
Don't let it work on you.
Your support of Infowars.com, your support of Bandai Video, your buying of the products, your spreading the word, your sharing the links is scaring the establishment to its core.
Now, it gets into complex issues, but free speech is separate from me.
Free speech is still on air, operating going forward.
Yeah, so I mean, it is really just the, like, what you boiled down this entire video to is essentially my consequences are a threat to you.
And if he can instill that into the audience's mind, which I think he's done a fairly good job of doing over the years, then no bad news or negative thing about him really affects the true audience believer's mind.
They're always going to see whatever terrible thing comes out about Alex as an attack on them.
I want Alex to be gone for long enough for them to stop caring, and then for Alex to ask and them to go, oh, we don't care about you anymore, and that's what I want.
We realize that you were manipulating us by pretending that you could fill an emotional need that we have for safety and security, and it turns out you can't, and we resent you for it.
And then the other thing, too, that you have to, you know, that's obviously entangled with this very heavily, is the...
Notion that Alex has of consequences equaling virtue that he's instilled in the audience where all these negative things are happening to me because I'm so right and so dangerous to the globalists.
And as long as those two ideas, those pillars are in people's minds, it's very difficult for any negative information about him to stick.
So, yeah, this notion is very bizarre, and again, it seems like Alex had a couple of points in his mind of like, alright, these are the things that I'm gonna do in order to deflect from this news.
There's going to be the turning the cases against each other in the audience's mind out of nowhere.
Alex knows literally nothing about this guy, but because that's his branding, Alex is fully supporting him.
That said, if Alex did learn anything about him, including even just knowing his name, he would support this guy.
Malay is a fucking lunatic who's proposing more or less to demolish the Argentinian government from within.
One of the things he's proposing is doing a massive overhaul of the monetary system, and in his campaign, he's really been disparaging the peso, going so far as to call it excrement, and suggesting full dollarization, or adopting the US dollar as the illegal tender currency in the country.
The fact that he's a major political figure now, and he won the primary, led to a collapse in the value of the peso, along with looting and hoarding of goods.
The peso was at about $600, equaling $1 before the primary, which jumped to over $1,000 after.
That's why earlier this month, a prosecutor filed a case against Malay, accusing him of, quote, deliberately causing a drop in the Argentine currency.
There's no indication of whether or not a judge will sign off on the case and it may ultimately go nowhere.
You could say that his entire campaign is based on exploiting the fears that people have around the economy, so acting in ways that are designed to worsen the economy could be a very manipulative tactic meant to bolster your campaign.
However, just saying that this could be a possible motivation someone has doesn't prove that that's what they actually did or meant to do.
I suspect that this case that's filed against Millay will not move forward, unless there's some pretty damning evidence somewhere that hasn't been presented.
I don't know about.
But he's just a shitty right-wing-ass populist candidate who's Trumpian in nature.
Things are already bad, so how much worse can this guy make it?
Seems to be a prevailing attitude.
We're recording this episode on the 22nd, which is the day of the Argentine election, so I'm not sure as we speak what the result is, but no matter what, you can expect that Millet will contest the results.
He's already been making the standard Trump-style claims of voter fraud during the primary, even though he won, laying the groundwork for a fraud claim that he can make if he loses the general.
Italy's Prime Minister, Giorgia Maloney, joined a neo-fascist Italian social movement when she was 15 and was the national leader of the student wing of the rebranded party, the National Alliance, which called itself, quote, post-fascist.
This party was part of Berlusconi's coalition government, and this rose her to profile in politics to a high level where she then started her own party in 2012, the Brothers of Italy, which used iconography that was meant to be reminiscent of those fascist parties of the past.
You may say that Maloney herself isn't necessarily a fascist, but her party has a lot of members who are sympathetic to that ideology, and her actions, like her choice of logo, they're meant to appeal to this faction in society.
She uses the language of the extreme right wing, stuff like demonizing immigrants or using pro-family to mean anti-LGBTQ, to appeal to a broader base, but she is the head of a party that welcomes within its ranks folks who would prefer to revert to fascist rule.
She's a very troubling figure, and Alex knows nothing about her, including her name.
The only thing he knows is that people lump her in with Trump and Bolsonaro, so that means she's cool in his book.
You remember all the times that Alex says that he just does the opposite of what he thinks the globalist wants?
He means that literally.
It's very reflexive.
So in Sweden, Alex doesn't really know what he's talking about, but essentially, an extreme right-wing party called Sweden Democrats Party, they got over 20% of the vote in the last election, which shifted the makeup of the government and led to the resignation of the former coalition and the formation of a right-leaning government.
The issue is that Sweden Democrats is a party that grew out of post-World War II Nazis wanting to assert power.
In the years after the war, groups like Nordic Realm Party and Keep Sweden Swedish formed and receded.
However, I'll read to you here from an article in the Boston Review.
Quote, in 1988, leading figures from these groups came together to form the Sweden Democrats.
During the party's most radical years in the 1990s, it was led by a convicted former Nazi activist, Anders Klarsholm, who was infamous for skinhead street violence.
Just ahead of the recent election, the party published a white paper establishing that one of its founders had been a Vaffen-SS volunteer during World War II.
They are a party that doesn't really shy away too much from their Nazi origins, and their entire political project is to, quote, recreate the demographic homogeneity of Sweden by any means necessary.
That's what Alex considers to be his side winning.
As far as Canadian provinces go, I have no idea what he's talking about.
This month, there was just an election in Manitoba, but a center-left party won that.
In May, there were elections in Alberta where the Conservative Party retained control of the Legislative Assembly, but also lost 11 seats compared to the left-leaning party that gained 15. In April, there was an election in Prince Edward Island, but the status quo remained mostly the same with the center-right party retaining the majority.
Alex can't be talking about Ontario's 2022 election because Doug Ford won that, and I know that Alex hates him.
Maybe he's talking about Quebec, where the coalition Avenir Quebec, which is a nationalist center-right party, retained their majority, but they also won that majority in 2018 before this.
It's fascinating insofar as he thinks he's mythologically following the mythological Colonel Travis when in reality he's following the real Colonel Travis.
I feel like if we are holding Alex next to the Alamo, we can break through into a fantasy world that becomes real because the barrier between false and real is gone.
There's no reason for him to bring money into it that is just going to be churned through this bankruptcy system when, in theory, he could start another business and have it not be.
Right.
He could start a new thing that he could use as his piggy bank.
And when you have this debt, that is basically a ball and...
It's never going to go.
It limits your movement.
It limits your ability to run a new scam, run various other scams.
One of the reasons that Alex has been able to set up the situation that he has with free speech systems and all these shell companies and trusts and stuff is because no one was paying attention.
No one was looking.
Now he tries to do this kind of stuff.
He's never going to be able to get away with this.