Alex Jones has argued that he should not be arrested for twice skipping a deposition in a lawsuit over his false claims about the Sandy Hook massacre because such action would cause him “significant stress” as he claims to be suffering from undisclosed ailments.
Lawyers for the far-right conspiracy theorist made their case for why Mr Jones should not be held in contempt of court in a filing on Monday.
Mr Jones was scheduled to testify under oath last week on 23 and 24 March as part of settlement proceedings in lawsuits he lost against the families of victims killed in the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. He was found guilty of defamation in multiple cases last year after he falsely said the massacre that claimed 26 innocent lives was “a giant hoax” and that the six and seven-year-old children murdered were “actors”.
Mr Jones failed to show up for the depositions both days, after his attorneys filed multiple motions asking for a delay, claiming that he was too sick to leave the house.
The judge turned down the requests, in part because the conspiracy theorist was seemingly well enough to continue broadcasting his hours-long show - leaving his home on at least one occasion to travel to his studio to film it.
It later emerged that the doctor who advised him that he was too unwell to attend the deposition was the same doctor who appeared on his show on Monday to attack the Covid-19 vaccines as “poison” and call the US’s top doctor Dr Anthony Fauci “the...
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