anything in my life. i ve said from the very beginning, the nature of my public service when i m done with all of this will be determined what those handful of families in sandy hook and hartford and bridgeport have lost loved ones think of the job i did. this woman says she s moving forward with her life. but she will never move on. it s really, really important distinction, i think our society does a terrible job with grief and loss and trauma and tragedy. we say it s been ten years, it must be easier. oh, you went to therapy, that must have helped so much. you re doing yoga, how wonderful. yes, although things are great to help yourself feel better. but december 14th, 2012, is every second of every minute of every single day for me.
assault rifle with a high capacity magazine. we have really hurt a generation of kids by not being able to find ways forward. and they re vowed to stop similar tragedies. it s the way i have chosen to honor to prevent other families to having to endure a life of pain due to preventable violence. sandy hook, forever remembered. it was december 14th, 2012. just over a week before christmas. that morning something happened that had never happened before. when i was walking james to the bus. i was aware of little pitter-patter s of footsteps behind me in the driveway. it was daniel. in his little yankees pajamas. said what are you doing up. and out. he said, i want to come to the
beautiful little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old. they had their entire lives had head of them, birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own. that was a scene at the white house ten years ago today. when a 20-year-old man armed with an ar 15 style semiautomatic rifle walked into an elementary school in connecticut killed 20 children and six adults. president obama reflected on moment last week. i consider december 14th, 2012, the single darkest day of my presidency. and like so many other people, i felt not just sorrow, but i felt
the material to prepare for this lawsuit but admitted she hadn t even read a couple of depositions recently given by alex jones and she responded i don t know many times during questioning but what she could do is provide a backdrop for the victim s attorney to outline the number of viewers who may have heard or read or seen alex jones lie about sandy hook and they were in the tens of millions. it goes from 49 million users sorry. 4.6 million to 6.3 million users, correct? that s what it says, yes. it goes from 24.9 million paid use to 35.7, right? that s what it says, yes. and you know that from december 14th, 2012, all the way through the end of january alex jones were repeatedly publishing claims that the shootings were a
what s most amazing to me is that this case isn t about january 6th. it s about sandy hook. for nearly a decade, alex jones had been pushing a dangerous conspiracy theory that claims that the sandy hook massacre in 2012 was a hoax. i was on the scene hours after it happened in newtown, connecticut, on december 14th, 2012. within hours of the massacre, long before many parents knew they had lost their kids, 26 people died. 20 of them were first graders. all of them were real, with real families who suffered first from that tragedy and then later from the psychological torment and literal harassment produced by the conspiracy theory that alex jones was pushing. today the jury in this case decided that jones owes two of those sandy hook parents for point $1 million four point $1 million for his actions, and that is all for the trial, from