commentator who came out of the obscurity of public access tv here in america to become this man who really indulges in these conspiracy theories. and one of the theories that he has been promoting for a long, long time is to do with the sandy hook elementary school shooting that happened back in 2012. it is the worst mass school shooting in american history. 26 people were killed, mainly kids. and he wrongfully claimed that this was all a government set up, that this was a hoax and that this was designed to try and curtail american people s rights to own guns and that the families of the victims were crisis actors and therefore, he just denied the existence of these children. and the families said that what he did, his behaviour led to years of harassment and death threats by conspiracy theorists. they took him to court to sue him, they won. and so, now, he is meant to give the money but he has
in the us, the conspiracy theorist alex jones has filed for bankruptcy. it comes less than two months after courts ordered the far right podcast host to pay close to $1.5 billion in damages to the families whose children died in a school mass shooting. our correspondent nomia iqbal is in washington. yes, this is a man who has made a career out of promoting really paranoid allegations against the us government. he is very right wing media commentator who came out of the obscurity of public access tv here in america to become this man who really indulges in these conspiracy theories. one of the theories that he has been promoting for a long, long time is to do with the sandy hook elementary school shooting that happened back in 2012, it is the worst mass school shooting in american history. 26 people were killed, mainly kids. he wrongfully claimed that it was all a government set up, this was a hoax and that this was designed to try and curtail american people s rights to own guns
commentator who came out of the obscurity of public access tv here in america to become this man who really indulges in these conspiracy theories. one of the theories that he has been promoting for a long, long time is to do with the sandy hook elementary school shooting that happened back in 2012, it is the worst mass school shooting in american history. 26 people were killed, mainly kids. he wrongfully claimed that it was all a government set up, this was a hoax and that this was designed to try and curtail american people s rights to own guns and that the families of the victims were actors and therefore he just denied the existence of these children. and the families said that what he did, his behaviour led to years of harassment and death threats by conspiracy theorists, they took him to court to sue him and they won. now he is meant to give the money but he has filed for bankruptcy in which he has
that it was all a government set up, this was a hoax and that this was designed to try and curtail american people s rights to own guns and that the families of the victims were actors and therefore he just denied the existence of these children. and the families said that what he did, his behaviour led to years of harassment and death threats by conspiracy theorists, they took him to court to sue him and they won. now he is meant to give the money but he has filed for bankruptcy in which he has basically said that his debt completely outdoes the actual assets that he has so he can t pay them. however, it is worth adding that before the trials happen this summer alexjones had in a deposition sad, yes the shootings did happen but he had also been filing for bankruptcy beforehand. so what has happened today has not been a complete shock to the families but of course it is another blow for them. switzerland have become
claimed the debts was all a government set up, this was a hoax and that this was designed to try and that this was designed to try and curtail american people s rights to own guns and that the families of the victims were actors and therefore he just denied the existence of these children. and the family said that what he did, his behaviour led to years of harassment and death threats by conspiracy theorists, they took him to court to sue him and they won. now he is meant to give the money but he has filed for bankruptcy in which he has basically said that his debt completely outdoes the actual asset that he has said he can t pay them. however, it is worth adding that before the trials happen this summer alex jones had before the trials happen this summer alexjones had in a deposition sad, yes the shootings did happen but he had also been filing for bankruptcy beforehand. so what has happened today has not been a complete shock today has not been a complete shock to the families but of