Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones claims to have been beset by a mysterious medical condition days before he was scheduled for a deposition in a lawsuit over his false claims about the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre.
But lawyers for the victims’ families suing Jones are suspicious about his claim that he’s now too sick to sit for the deposition, pointing out that Jones managed to host his InfoWars show for hours while he was supposedly receiving emergency care from a doctor.
On this week’s episode of The Daily Beast’s Fever Dreams podcast, hosts Asawin Suebsaeng and Will Sommer discussed the InfoWars boss’s sudden new illness.
“This is the kind of surprise tactic that he might use to avoid the deposition,” Sommer said.
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Jones’ mystery illness first made an appearance in a Monday motion by his lawyers, who sought to delay the deposition after learning that Jones was “under the care of a physician for medical conditions that require immediate, and possibly, emergency testing.” A lawyer for Jones claimed in a motion that Jones hadn’t given him permission to reveal the medical condition.
That hasn’t convinced lawyers for the Sandy Hook families. In a court filing on Tuesday, they called Jones’ mystery illness an “obvious gambit” meant to prevent Jones from answering questions under oath.
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