On Sunday’s live broadcast of The Alex Jones Show in appreciation of his listeners, the conservative radio presenter and conspiracy theorist threatened to amputate his finger.
“All that has been provided to us is success and victory.” It has been amazing.
Jones said while broadcasting on the website of his InfoWars empire, “And you, the watchers and listeners, you did this.”
Because of this, he continued, “When I salute you, I just truly want to take this dagger and just chop a finger off right on live to show you how much I admire you and what you’ve done. I’m not into self-harm.”
Giving up a finger to beat these people is nothing, Jones yelled as he seized a knife off the table and drew it close to his finger.
Then, while maintaining that his audience was accountable for the success of his presentation, he held the knife away from his finger.
“You have reshaped the globe!” You have resisted the wicked. I salute you because you have turned the tide.
And I appreciate it. From the bottom of my heart, I give you that. You have my complete dedication because you need to know that there are actual individuals in the universe.
You need to be aware that there are others in the cosmos who aren’t bad or Satanists, said Jones.
That is why they keep saying I’m an actress all day. Say I’m a fake all day long.
Because they are aware that I don’t take advantage of them, they accuse me of being a phony nonstop.
They are aware that you didn’t betray them.
Since he was found liable for damages in many cases in 2021 for falsely saying the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting in Connecticut that killed 28 dead was a hoax, the combative radio presenter has been at the focus of numerous disputes.
In 2018, the families of the victims sued Jones for defamation, charging that he had benefited financially from spreading false information about the mass shooting that had claimed the lives of their loved ones.
Since then, Jones has resurfaced and is now adamant that the incident actually took place.
He denied the allegations but did not provide any supporting documentation or bank records.
In a 2019 deposition, Jones said that when he claimed that the mass massacre was orchestrated, he was purportedly experiencing a sort of “psychosis.”
Because of the “trauma of the media and the businesses lying so often,” he claimed that he was in a place where he believed that every news event was staged.
Judges in Texas, where his show is recorded, and Connecticut found against Jones’ lawyers, who had argued that the actions were attempts to stifle his exercise of his First Amendment right to free expression.
Jones reopened the case for negotiation in late March. He proposed paying $120,000 to each of the 13 plaintiffs in order to resolve the slander action.
The so-called offer is a transparent and desperate attempt by Alex Jones to avoid a public reckoning under oath with his dishonest, profit-driven campaign against the plaintiffs and the memory of their loved ones lost at Sandy Hook, according to court documents from each plaintiff who rejected the settlement offer.
In October 2021, Jones had to pay damages. On March 23 and 23, he was scheduled for a deposition in Austin, Texas, but he did not appear.
Jones’ justification for his absence, which he said was due to medical problems including vertigo, was rejected by Judge Barbara Bellis in Connecticut.
His health difficulties raised the possibility of a cardiac condition, according to doctors.
Jones claimed that his condition was only a sinus infection. Jones wasn’t too ill, in Bellis’ opinion, to take the deposition.
Records reveal that Jones taped roughly four-hour-long episodes of his show on the days before his scheduled deposition. He had to pay $75,000 in fines.
On April 5 and 6, Jones showed up for a rescheduled deposition. Judge Bellis ruled that Jones must pay back the $75,000 in full.
After Jones was found responsible in the lawsuits, his firm, InfoWars, voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas a few weeks later.
All civil legal cases are put on hold by Chapter 11 bankruptcy procedures, which also allow businesses to continue operating while turnaround plans are being developed.
According to the bankruptcy court documents, InfoWars listed its estimated assets as being between $0 and $50,000 and its estimated liabilities as being between $1 million and $10 million.
As a result, several of the families of the Sandy Hook victims filed a new lawsuit against Jones in April.
They claimed that Jones had hidden assets in family-run shell firms to make them appear insolvent.