Alex Jones

What the FUCK

BANKSTON: Did you know 12 days ago your attorney’s messed up and sent me an entire digital copy of your entire cell phone with every text message you’ve sent for the past 2 years? And when informed did not take any steps to identify it as privilege?

— Sebastian Murdock (@SebastianMurdoc) August 3, 2022

Sandy Hook parents' lawyer is now asking Jones about the times he has emailed about Sandy Hook over the last several years, despite testifying under oath he couldn't find any emails about Sandy Hook. There are apparently a lot of them. One is on a screen right now.

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) August 3, 2022

Hahah oh boy I am loving this.

Yeah whoops

Boom: Sandy Hook lawyer reveals that Alex Jones's lawyers accidentally gave him a copy of Jones's entire phone, which he now plans to use as proof that Jones lied under oath about not having relevant text messages: "Do you know what perjury is?"

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) August 3, 2022

This is a big deal because Jones previously testified under oath that he gave all his SH texts up to the plaintiffs. He didn't. This is from 2020.

— Sebastian Murdock (@SebastianMurdoc) August 3, 2022

what would a default judgment mean?

Holy shit. I wonder if maybe, say, the 1/6 committee might also be interested in all of his texts for the last two years. Just spitballin' here of course.

xpost Basically he didn't show up the charge so he's already legally guilty. This, and the other two juries, are going to determine appropriate penalties.

xpost This...is a good point.

This is like a car crash that never ends. You can’t look away, you can’t stop gasping

are going to determine appropriate penalties.

oh yeah? is Edgar Allen Poe on the jury? Clive Barker? if not then the penalty probably won't be appropriate, will it?

there's been some criticism about the competence of Jones' lawyer, but I think that Luke* Wilson is doing fine

*in an earlier version of this joke I mixed up Luke and Owen

What are the odds that this will eventually result in a tax fraud investigation, too?

When you know you're toast

Reynal does re-examination. Asks Jones if he thinks his lawyers have done a good job. Jones says yes. No further questions, and we're done with the circus.

— dan solomon (@dansolomon) August 3, 2022

Quick note that the jury gets to ask questions, though not all will be admitted. So this'll be fun.

i like this "juries can ask questions" thing, more courts shd encourage it

question #1: what the fuck is wrong with you alex jones

this is a hilarious turn of events

The best part of the livestream is that we get to hear all the questions, not just the ones the judge allows to be asked/answered.

Also, I get the sense that the plaintiffs lawyers are performing a bit for the livestream whenever they're on break.

The jury questions are hysterical, clearly some offended jurors giving him the business about calling them blue collar people from another planet or whatever the line was

Lawyer here 👋 Here's why sending all your clients text messages to the other team's lawyers is actually a bad idea (1/58) 🧵

— Rajat Suresh (@rajat_suresh) August 3, 2022

most of my beloved law-pod shitposters weren't paying attention when the story dropped -- like the issues raised in the trial weren't subtle or goofy enough? -- so watching them gradually catching up over the last hour or so has been a niche joy

pic.twitter.com/ATkBLCmhyj

— Richie Deals (@allahliker) August 3, 2022

And here's where the phone thing gets reeeeal interesting.

Also here is what happened with Alex Jones’s cell phone, according to Mark Bankston: the phone’s contents were put in a Dropbox folder the two parties had been to using to exchange materials roughly ten days ago

— dan solomon (@dansolomon) August 3, 2022

Specifically

Bankston used some of the material on the phone in his cross examination. Could only begin going through it last night. Will be looking through it for information that is newsworthy or relevant to law enforcement, and offering that to media/LE as they determine appropriate

— dan solomon (@dansolomon) August 3, 2022

Can't wait for the Alex Jones 1/6 texts to drop

loving this

How does like 12 levels of motions practice upon the revelation of inadvertent production happen, and a demands for rulings on same and privilege and discussions in camera, and…wtf are these ppl

The J6 committee has already said they’re gonna be requesting that phone data. Gonna be loads of fun when a Congressional committee starts itemizing all the ways the ohone messages differ from hus statements in his deposition.

We're gonna find out who the aliens really are

“Life comes at you fast”

This, and the other two juries, are going to determine appropriate penalties.

these will be financial penalties rather than carceral penalties, right?

Dude's totally pulling a bawling Jim Bakker routine before the day's over. These charlatans always come crashing down the same way.

I don't think so. More money to be made from his fans (and they're STILL out there) continuing the persecuted martyr routine.

the laffs keep coming

Alex Jones' ex-wife here, and I'm going to subpoena this data! Won a jury, lost my kids for blowing the whistle on infowars. Subpoena request will go out t o d a y.https://t.co/uu90cvQuOl

— Kelly Jones (@RealKellyJones) August 3, 2022

Okay I expected a few laughs over this, but this is the gift that keeps on giving.

Seriously, if we could harness all of the schadenfreude as an energy resource, we’d be off fossil fuels by December

and we have yahtzee folks

Child porn found in documents Alex Jones sent to lawyers of Sandy Hook families, court filing says https://t.co/FUgYzZ11Ln

— Andrew C Laufer, Esq (@lauferlaw) August 3, 2022

maybe the luke wilson lawyer is actually a whistleblower

Really starting to get the feeling that there was nothing unintentional about his lawyer's moves here.

The Simulation is finally letting us have a little fun

the good news is that the world's leading expert in uncovering conspiracies and asking questions, alex jones, is ideally suited to lead the investigation into the questions about how his own lawyer handed over the contents of his entire phone to the Sandy Hook lawyers, and then didn't assert privilege afterward.

the child porn story is three years old (and a difft courtcase i assume)

Okay, yeah, just saw the date on that article. That Laufler tweet is misleading as fuck.

ah yes

I mean, it's not wrong, but tweeting that link out now is a little disingenuous.

it's definitely worded in a confusing way. otoh, I fully expect more heinous shit to turn up at any second

EIGHT FULLY GROWN ELEPHANTS!

I just

Unbelievable.

Alex Jones' lawyer just closed his argument in the Sandy Hook defamation case with German pastor Martin Niemöller's "First they came for the socialists... Then they came for the Jews..." prose poem.

Again, this was Alex Jones' lawyer.

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) August 3, 2022

Are they done for the day, or is this picking up again soon?

... then they came for the insane, ranting conspiracy theorists who monetized others/ grief and pain, and I did not speak out - because I thought "good riddance."

i really do want to know more about the luke wilson lawyer, after this is over. hopefully someone looks into him, just as a human interest story if nothing else. i can't help but think that alex jones' case was horrible that his legal representation knew that it would be reputation-ruining to stand up for him, so they sacrificed luke wilson to do it? but i'm thinking wilson also knew that it would be a bloodbath, so he decided to demand extra compensation and turn the antics up to 11 for what he knew would be his final bow as a performance comedy lawyer? i'm just asking questions about all this and it's only my opinion