Hours after 26 people were shot and killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, Alex Jones began spouting false claims that the massacre wasn’t real.
Nearly 10 years later, the far-right conspiracy theorist’s inflammatory comments have continued to haunt him as families of the shooting victims - 20 of which were young children - seek to hold him accountable in court.
The most recent development came on Wednesday, when he failed to appear for a deposition in a defamation lawsuit brought by the families.
Mr Jones had made a last-ditch attempt to delay the questioning under oath, claiming he was too sick to attend - despite appearing on his show for four hours that day.
Kevin Smith, an attorney for the Infowars host, filed a motion on Monday including a seven-sentence letter from an unnamed physician who cited unnamed “medical conditions” that mean Mr Jones “is remaining at home”.
Connecticut Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis on Tuesday turned down the claim and ordered that the deposition go ahead as planned in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday.
The judge suggested that Mr Jones’ legal team “unknowingly misled” the court with its attempts to postpone it over his mystery illness pointing out that, at the time he was allegedly sick and being seen by a doctor, he managed to host his Infowars show.
Judge Bellis raised doubts about the physician letter’s authenticity saying she has “no idea” if it is “genuine” or if the doctor is “currently licensed”.
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