Alex Jones Is Screwed

We can rest assured knowing that Jones will struggle financially for the rest of his, fingers crossed, very short life.

by Bob Cesca

WASHINGTON, DC – At long last, Alex Jones might be at the end of his financial rope. Extending the rope metaphor, he deliberately hanged himself by flagrantly and cynically lying to his audience about the Sandy Hook massacre for pure ratings and profit.

This week, a jury in Connecticut awarded several families of the Sandy Hook victims nearly a billion dollars in damages, to be paid by Alex Jones presumably for the rest of his life. The number was so stratospherically high that when the clerk read the verdict out loud and the total crept higher and higher, I thought I was hearing the numbers incorrectly because, in the end, the total came to $965 million.

Let’s put that into perspective. 

The families could forgive $65 million – the equivalent of the total estimated net worth of, say, Kourtney Kardashian – and Jones would still owe the families $900 million. That’s all in addition to the damages from the Texas trial in August: nearly $50 million. I realize you can probably do the math in your head and don’t need me to type the total but, please, let me have this. Alex Jones owes the Sandy Hook families more than $1 billion.

But wait, there’s more good news.