Father Of Sandy Hook Shooting Victim Dies By Apparent Suicide by Tovia Smith NPR March 25, 2019 4:26 PM ET
[x] Jeremy Richman's 6-year-old daughter, Avielle, was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn., in 2012. After her death, he worked to support neuroscience research on harmful behavior. Jessica Hill/AP
The father of a Newtown, Conn., girl who was killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting has died in an apparent suicide. Newtown Police say 49-year-old Jeremy Richman was found dead early Monday morning, not far from his office.
"This is a heartbreaking event for the Richman family and the Newtown Community as a whole; the police department's prayers are with the Richman family right now, and we ask that the family be given privacy in this most difficult time," said Lt. Aaron Bahamonde.
In 2012, Richman's 6-year-old daughter, Avielle, was among the 26 children and educators killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
Just months after the death of Avielle, then their only child, Richman and his wife, Jennifer Hensel, co-founded the Avielle Foundation to support neuroscience research to shed light on "what leads someone to engage in harmful behavior" with the hope of "bridging biochemical and behavioral sciences," according to the foundation. Richman's dream was "a paradigm shift in the way society views the health of the brain." As he explained to NPR in 2017, he wanted people to see the brain as "just another organ that can be healthy or unhealthy, just like heart disease, or cancer or diabetes."
"Just like resources were poured into landing a man on the moon and exploring outer space," Richman said, "we need to invest in exploring our inner space."
A statement released by the Avielle Foundation read: "Tragically, [Richman's] death speaks to how insidious and formidable a challenge brain health can be and how critical it is for all of us to seek help for ourselves, our loved ones and anyone who we suspect may be in need."
Richman spoke openly and often about the depth of his grief. As his wife, Hensel, told NPR in 2017, "You have to pay attention to that, or it'll sneak up on you. It has to be tended to."
Richman deliberately spoke in excruciating detail about both the shooting and his pain.
"I want people to hear the reality of it," he said. "I want people to know that [the victims] were brutally blown apart with a large gun" and how the pain made him feel as though he'd "get spun right off the planet." Making people feel the scale of the horror, instead of turning away, he hoped, would motivate them to take action.
In the years since Sandy Hook, the constant news of subsequent shootings would come as body blows. At first, "we would just bawl. It would just hit us so hard," Richman said. But as the years went on, and the shootings kept happening, he said, their anger grew.
"I feel like we're letting it happen. There are things that could be done that aren't being done," he said.
The Avielle Foundation says "Jeremy's mission will be carried on by the many who love him, including many who share the heartache and trauma that he has suffered since December 14, 2012. We are crushed to pieces, but this important work will continue, because, as Jeremy would say, we have to."
Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy tweeted that Richman was a "good friend and unceasing advocate":
My god. This is awful, horrible, devastating news. Jeremy was a good friend and an unceasing advocate for better research into the brain’s violence triggers. He was with me in my office two weeks ago, excited as could be about the Avielle Foundation’s latest amazing work.https://t.co/xhy89JlXG8
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) March 25, 2019
The news of Richman's death follows two other deaths by apparent suicide of two student survivors of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla. Sydney Aiello, 19, who was a senior when a gunman killed 17 others at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, had been diagnosed with PTSD and suffered from survivor's guilt, according to her family. Police have not released the name of another student, who also died by apparent suicide over the weekend.
Correction March 25, 2019: In a previous summary of this story that appeared on the homepage, Avielle Richman's first name was incorrectly given as Arielle.
Parents of seven-year-old Sandy Hook massacre victim tell court how Alex Jones supporters urinated on their son's grave after the InfoWars host claimed the shooting was a hoax by Mail Online Reporter PUBLISHED: 13:19 EDT, 6 October 2022 | UPDATED: 13:19 EDT, 6 October 2022
The father of one of the 19 children killed inside Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 testified Tuesday against conspiracy theorist and InfoWars host Alex Jones, claiming that one of the host's followers peed on his son's grave.
Mark Barden (pictured in court), the father of seven-year-old Daniel Barden, told a courtroom that Jones and his podcast are responsible for an onslaught of hatred at vitriol aimed at his family following the deadly mass shooting. According to a reporter from The Huffington Post inside the trial, Barden said that Jones' comments prompted one of his followers to allegedly urinate on Daniel's grave, according to a letter sent to the Connecticut family.
Other letters received by the Bardens promised similar actions, while one person even threatened to dig up Daniel's grave in order to prove that there was no body. 'This is so sacrosanct and hallowed a place for my family and to hear that people were desecrating it and urinating on it and threatening to dig it up, I don´t know how to articulate to you what that feels like,' Barden told the jury. 'But that's where we are.' Pictured: Daniel Barden.
Jones (pictured) is currently on trial for defamation relating to comments about the shooting, which claimed the lives of 26 people. The InfoWars host has repeatedly stated that he believes the shooting was staged, no children were killed, and that the parents are all hired actors. Jones has already lost three lawsuits connected to his comments.
Mark and his wife Jackie (pictured), Daniel's mother, are just two of the more than 15 family members who have testified against Jones during the hearings. Jackie said Tuesday that hoax believers started harassing her family just weeks after their son died. The harassment hasn't stopped in the 10 years since the massacre.
The mom said that on top of leaving one of their children dead, the shooting and the threats that came after have left their other children eternally riddled with anxiety. 'It's terrible to think that your 20-year-old daughter is afraid,' Jackie said.
Throughout this trial and other legal proceedings related to Jones' words and actions, families have stated that they have received threats and malevolence. Some parents and siblings claimed that they have gotten rape and death threats and have had in-person confrontations with theorists claiming that they are all 'crisis actors.' Pictured: Victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
At least one family member said on the record that they received photos of dead children from conspiracy theorists looking to scare and startle them. The mother of another boy killed in the shooting, Ben Wheeler, said in court that she had a scary interaction at a conference on gun violence. Pictured: Video played in court showed moments in which Alex Jones spouted baseless lies about the Sandy Hook school shooting being a hoax.
Francine Wheeler (pictured) told the jury that a woman approached her and called her a liar, claiming the whole situation was a hoax. 'It's quite another thing when people take everything about your boy, who is gone, and your surviving child and your husband and everything you ever did in your life that is on the Internet and harass you and make fun of you,' she said. In 2021, a judge found Jones liable for spreading the dangerous falsehoods among his rather large fanbase. The judge said at the time that Jones' actions caused harm against the parents and siblings who initiated the lawsuit.
Current legal proceedings pertain to just how much Jones will have to pay. The jury is hearing testimony from parents and family members of those killed to assess how much Free Speech Systems, InfoWars' parent company, will pay in damages. This trial is similar to the Texas case filed by parents of 6-year-old Sandy Hook victim Jesse Lewis. In August, a jury awarded more than $45 million in damages to Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis over the comments he made on his Austin-based show. Pictured: Parents Jackie and Mark — who say that their older daughter is riddled with anxiety after losing her brother in a shooting and facing years of harassment from conspiracy theorists.
In that trial, parents echoed the sentiments of parents in the ongoing court proceedings. A father said in court over that the summer that Jones made his life a 'living hell' with his comments regarding the shooting that claimed his child's life. The conspiracy theorist has acknowledged that the shooting in Newton, Connecticut, happened, but maintains to this day that parents and families involved are pushing an agenda against free-speech and gun rights. It's a far cry from an apology, though.
Earlier in the current trial, Jones called an attorney for one of the family's 'an ambulance chaser' and told the judge that he's 'done saying I'm sorry.' On Tuesday, Jones' lawyer said that the InfoWars host was leaving the state and had no further plans to testify again. Jones told reporters outside the Connecticut courthouse earlier in the day that he may be found in contempt of court by the judge 'not because I'm guilty, but because she said that if I tell the truth, she'll put me in the Waterbury jail for six months.'
The judge in this case has sought to limit Jones' testimony because he has already been found liable. Jones was found liable for his repeated court violations, including the fact that he ignore a court order by sharing financial documents with the plaintiffs. The attorneys for the plaintiffs are expected to wrap up their final arguments Wednesday. Pictured: Mark Barden, with son, Daniel, who died in Sandy Hook shooting.
Jury decides conspiracy theorist Alex Jones should pay nearly $1 billion in damages to Sandy Hook families for his lies about the school massacre by Oliver Darc CNN Business Updated 1:02 AM EDT, Thu October 13, 2022
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Far-right talk show host Alex Jones should pay eight families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims and one first responder $965 million in compensatory damages, a Connecticut jury decided Wednesday, capping a wrenching weeks-long trial that put on display the serious harm inflicted by the conspiracy theorist’s lies.
With its punishing award, the decision could shrink or even doom Jones’ Infowars media empire, which has been at the center of major conspiracy theories dating back to former President George W. Bush’s administration and was embraced by President Donald Trump.
The plaintiffs and their attorneys were visibly emotional when the jury’s decision were read. The decision marks a key moment in the years-long process that began in 2018 when the families took legal action against Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems, the parent of the fringe media organization Infowars.
Jones baselessly said again and again after the 2012 mass shooting, in which 26 people were killed, that the incident was staged, and that the families and first responders were “crisis actors.” The plaintiffs throughout the trial described in poignant terms how the lies had prompted unrelenting harassment against them and compounded the emotional agony of losing their loved ones.
Plaintiffs in the trial included family members of eight school students and employees, in addition to one FBI agent who responded to the scene. The three cases were all condensed into the single trial.
Jones was not in the courtroom for the verdict. He was streaming live when the jury’s decision was read in court, mocked the decision on his Infowars show and used it to fundraise.
It’s unclear when or how much of the money the plaintiffs will ultimately see. Jones has said that he will appeal the decision and during his Wednesday broadcast said that there “ain’t no money” to pay the massive figure the jury awarded the plaintiffs.
Christopher Mattei, an attorney for the plaintiffs, had urged jurors to award at least a half a billion dollars for having permanently mangled the lives of his clients. The figure, he said, would represent the more than 550 million online impressions Jones’ Sandy Hook lie allegedly received online.
“You may say that is astronomical. It is,” Mattei said. “It’s exactly what Alex Jones set himself up to do. That’s what he built. He built a lie machine that could push this stuff out. You reap what you sow.”
Mattei praised the jurors after the verdict was reached.
“The jury’s verdict is a testament to that courage, in a resounding affirmation that people of goodwill, dedicated to the truth, mindful of their responsibilities to their fellow citizens can come together to protect the innocent, to reveal lies masquerading as truth, and to set right a historic wrong,” Mattei told reporters outside the courthouse.
The decision in Connecticut comes two months after a separate jury in Texas determined that Jones and his company should award two Sandy Hook parents who sued in that state nearly $50 million. Later this month, the judge in that case will consider whether to reduce the punitive damages awarded under Texas law.
While Jones initially lied about the 2012 shooting, he later acknowledged that the massacre had occurred as he faced multiple lawsuits. But he failed to comply with court orders during the discovery process of the lawsuits in Connecticut and Texas, leading the families in each state to win default judgments against him.
During the latest trial, families of the Sandy Hook victims offered emotional testimony, telling the jury in haunting terms how Jones’ lies about the shooting had permanently altered their lives and compounded the pain of losing their loved ones.
Jones, who was cross-examined by the plaintiffs’ attorneys, but chose not to testify in his own defense as was originally planned, sought to portray himself as a victim of an elaborate “deep state” conspiracy against him.
In a particularly explosive moment in the trial, Jones tangled with an attorney for the plaintiffs, accusing him of “ambulance chasing,” before descending into an unhinged rant in court about “liberals.”
The judge overseeing the case admonished Jones several times during his testimony, warning him even at one point that he could be held in contempt of court if he violated her rules moving forward.
Jones has attacked the judicial process, even acknowledging in court that he had referred to the proceedings as those of a “kangaroo court” and called the judge a “tyrant.” He has already indicated that he plans to appeal.
This story has been updated with additional details.
Alex Jones's Assets Are Frozen by Judge in Sandy Hook Case by Laurel Brubaker Calkins Bloomberg News November 10, 2022 at 10:52 AM MST
Infowars host Alex Jones was temporarily blocked from transferring any assets or spending money other than for ordinary living expenses by the judge overseeing the Sandy Hook defamation trial in Connecticut.
State court Judge Barbara Bellis, who oversaw the case in which a jury last month ordered Jones to pay nearly $1 billion for spreading lies about the 2012 elementary school massacre, issued the freezing order late Wednesday over concerns that he was “looting” his own estate and hiding assets through a series of shell companies owned by family members.
“With the exception of ordinary living expenses, the defendant Alex Jones is not to transfer, encumber, dispose, or move his assets out of the United States, until further order of the court,” Bellis said in the one-page order.
Jurors awarded five families and a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent who responded to the 2012 school massacre $965 million in damages last month to compensate them for the reputational harm and emotional distress caused by years of Jones pushing conspiracy theories that the shooting was faked and the grieving parents were “crisis actors.”
Bellis is also currently weighing imposing additional punitive damages on Jones.
The plaintiffs had requested Bellis freeze Jones’s assets, and she set a Dec. 2 evidentiary hearing. In court papers, Jones’s lawyer urged the judge not to grant the request before that hearing and suggested that, if she did, “in an uncanny way it would bolster Mr. Jones’s contention that the results of these proceedings were rigged and that the court appeared partial to the plaintiffs.”
It isn’t clear how Bellis’ order will interact with a related bankruptcy proceeding underway in Houston federal court, where Infowars’s parent company, Free Speech Systems LLC, filed for creditor protection back in July. In that proceeding, most claims against Jones’s company were temporarily put on hold, although the defamation trial was allowed to proceed, until the bankruptcy court sorts out assets and claims.
The families also asked Bellis to order a complete accounting of Jones’s assets, which he has steadfastly refused to provide, and that he be required to bring all movable property to Connecticut for safekeeping by the court. The judge hasn’t yet addressed those requests.
The case is Lafferty v Jones, 18-6046436, Connecticut Superior Court (Waterbury).
BOMBSHELL Texts From Alex Jones REVEALED The Young Turks Feb 2, 2023
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The contents of Alex Jones' phone, including very personal text messages, have been published. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks. Watch TYT LIVE on weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live
"Jones’ life, as revealed in the texts, is overshadowed by a sense of isolation. He appears to chat with almost no one who could be described as a friend, disentangled from his activism or Infowars work. Nearly everyone with whom he corresponds, outside of a few people in his family, connects with Jones through their relationship to Infowars, either as an employee or as another pro-Trump influencer. He sends and receives messages with more than 120 people who fit that description. Jones speaks with over 40 people who provide what could be described as personal services to him, like his personal trainer.
Hatewatch has divided our reporting on the texts into a series. This story is part one, and it focuses on what the messages reveal about Jones’ life without the cover of his performance on Infowars. Hatewatch reached out to Jones for a comment on this investigation by text and email. He did not respond, and appeared to block this Hatewatch reporter's phone number. We will update the story if he decides to provide comment after publication."
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0:00 when Alex Jones was getting sued by the 0:02 families of Sandy Hook who he had 0:04 defamed as crisis actors 0:07 his lawyers were incompetent enough to 0:10 accidentally send the entire digital 0:12 copy of his cell phone to the 0:15 attorney representing said Sandy Hook 0:19 families 0:20 well now those texts have been made 0:22 public the Southern Poverty Law Center 0:24 has reported on them and oh boy it is a 0:27 doozy now 0:30 I felt tempted to feel sorry for Alex 0:33 Jones because he's such a miserable sad 0:35 person 0:37 but if you also get that temptation to 0:39 feel bad for him just remember that he 0:41 made the lives of the parents who lost 0:44 their children in that shooting 0:46 miserable okay to the point where one 0:49 family had to move eight times to get 0:52 away from Alex Jones's audience members 0:54 who were sending them death threats 0:56 following them around stalking them one 0:58 person even got arrested for doing so so 1:00 just keep that in mind with that said 1:01 though okay I want to add one thing that 1:03 comes out in these uh in this story 1:06 he said once on air that it should be 1:10 lgbtp instead of cubicus stands for 1:13 pedophiles and then he went on to say 1:15 that gay people chop up your children 1:17 with an ax and rape them okay so that's 1:22 the kind of disgusting pig that Alex 1:24 Jones is I don't feel sorry about any of 1:27 his misery I love that he's miserable 1:29 and by the way of course it's always 1:31 self-hatred it turns out there's an 1:34 overwhelming chance that he's by at a 1:37 minimum okay I'm going to show you some 1:39 of those details in a second too 1:41 so uh he says this quite often in the 1:45 text Alex Jones described himself as 1:47 living in Hell being part of a sick joke 1:50 and sinking down into a black hole yes 1:54 yes that was repeated many times 1:56 throughout these text exchanges with 1:59 multiple people now the texts also show 2:01 that Alex Jones feels alienated or is 2:04 alienated and has few or no friends only 2:08 chats with other Pro trumpers and people 2:11 he knows through his work if you can 2:15 call it that over at Infowars now even 2:17 in text with his dad 2:19 you could tell his dad wants nothing to 2:23 do with him his dad never responds to 2:24 him 2:25 here we'll give you some examples Alex 2:27 Jones to David Jones that's his father 2:31 it's no big deal in another text message 2:33 I get notice via uh media meaning notice 2:37 about 2:38 you know the the the the trial that he's 2:41 facing uh the amount of money he has to 2:44 pay all of that so I just need to start 2:47 shutting down 2:48 I always get my legal news a few weeks 2:50 late via news and then another text I 2:54 just need to love it I don't I don't 2:56 know what that means his dad probably 2:58 didn't know what it meant either that's 2:59 why he never replied to him yeah his dad 3:01 never replied 3:02 so he was ignored uh despite that he 3:05 tries again uh continues texting his 3:08 father 3:09 I is very scary probably it is what he 3:13 meant it is very scary to never almost 3:15 never to learn about stuff from 3:17 yourselves 3:18 if that doesn't make any sense you're 3:20 going to see later there's a lot of 3:21 vodka involved in his life yes uh if 3:24 very disconcerting 3:27 um and then and nothing can stop it 3:30 then he writes uh it seems but 3:34 yes it's a misspelled whatever uh it's 3:36 like gravity a black hole and then 3:38 there's a whole Emoji apparently 3:40 so uh his father never responds to that 3:42 either the report also sheds light on uh 3:45 Jones's conversations with his uh Second 3:48 and current wife uh Erica Wolfe there 3:51 was a lot included in the Southern 3:53 Poverty Law centers reporting on this 3:56 I just felt gross to share all of it and 3:59 I'm not going to get into all of it but 4:01 let me just say it's very clear that she 4:04 wants out of that marriage she has 4:05 suggested divorce multiple times uh he 4:10 is concerned that she's cheating on him 4:12 accuses her of cheating on him has 4:15 actually deployed people to spy on her 4:18 because he suspects that she's cheating 4:19 on him they have gotten into physical 4:22 altercations which is clear based on 4:24 text exchanges that he has shared with 4:26 his father uh in one case he says that 4:29 they got into a fight it got violent and 4:32 that her jaw is in pain and that she's 4:35 looking for painkillers his father 4:37 happens to be a dentist who I assume 4:40 would have the ability to prescribe 4:42 painkillers to her but nonetheless it 4:46 seems like a very dangerous and toxic 4:47 relationship I am not reticent to go 4:51 into it so I will 4:53 um so first of all 4:54 um he watches cuckold porn 4:58 Zone all right uh and then he's obsessed 5:02 with is his wife having sex with others 5:04 and so that he hires a former black 5:06 water guy to track her throughout Town 5:08 not at all creepy uh but get a load of 5:11 this extra irony he usually uh asks the 5:15 guy to follow her while he's having an 5:18 affair so Alex Jones will go to someone 5:20 else's house and he says I want a sucky 5:23 in the text and meanwhile he's telling 5:26 the Blackwater guy hey while I go have 5:28 sex with the other woman uh see if my 5:30 wife is having sex with someone else I 5:32 don't know if it's because he's going to 5:34 be angry about it or he's going to be 5:35 turned on by it 5:37 um so we know publicly he accidentally 5:39 showed the transport that he was 5:40 watching uh in in a stream that he did 5:43 and said that oh yeah that's on 5:44 everybody's phone and then his wife 5:48 and they have a lot of sexual text back 5:50 and forth 5:51 it heavily implying that he's bisexual 5:55 at some point she sends just a picture 5:58 of a large black penis to him no women 6:00 in the picture and then she says you be 6:04 bi okay uh now look maybe his wife is 6:08 wrong and he's not bisexual maybe he 6:09 looked at that picture and was like I 6:11 don't know why you sent this to me it's 6:13 possible okay I'm just giving you the 6:14 facts but 6:16 it appears there is massive 6:19 self-loathing in that black hole that he 6:21 describes yeah and look I I don't know I 6:23 don't know why I felt uncomfortable 6:24 sharing that part of it but 6:28 consider the fact that he very likely 6:31 might be bi and says some of the worst 6:34 things publicly about the LGBT community 6:37 yes that's why it's self-hatred yeah 6:40 okay uh so you you mentioned the porn 6:42 stuff I think that's relevant too 6:44 because of course publicly he has this 6:47 Persona as someone who's just almost 6:49 puritanical when it comes to his views 6:52 on pornography but behind the scenes 6:55 he's like sending PornHub links to his 6:57 employees 6:59 okay so uh like it's it's just crazy to 7:03 me like I can't imagine anyone at work 7:05 sending me porn links but that's what 7:06 he's been doing so uh Joan shares links 7:08 to pornographic videos in texts uh that 7:11 hate watch reviewed uh the videos he 7:13 shares have titles that indicate they 7:15 likely contain the same hardcore content 7:18 he derides many of the videos uh which 7:21 include in their titles words like 7:22 cuckolding and hot slaves along with a 7:25 variety of explicit sex acts future a 7:28 woman having sex with multiple men now 7:30 that part is relevant because on his 7:32 show he condemned anyone who watches 7:35 pornography and he specifically talked 7:37 about that kind of porn that he happened 7:40 to be watching himself and sharing with 7:42 other employees I mean it's so it's such 7:45 classic projection on the air he's like 7:47 they're degrading these poor women 20 7:49 guys at once it's a plot and by the way 7:52 you'll never guess who he thinks uh the 7:54 plot was hatched by the plot of 7:56 pornography 7:57 juice okay so he's blaming Jewish 8:01 Americans for porn that he himself is 8:04 watching and that's why he's obsessed 8:06 with and then on air he's like oh yeah 8:08 I'll tell you what the universe was 8:10 globalists Etc they're doing the porn 8:11 meanwhile he goes back home he's like I 8:13 love that porn where is it 20 guys at 8:16 once all the genitalia okay and looking 8:20 up the cuckolding Etc so it's a 8:22 catastrophe uh and normally I would feel 8:26 any other human being I'd feel terrible 8:28 about it and you don't look very private 8:30 you know sex life is their own Etc but 8:33 you talking about gay people chopping up 8:34 people's kids on air you sick 8:38 after you know who you are okay take 8:41 your own stupid personal problems and go 8:44 to a Goddamn therapist instead of 8:47 weaponizing your lunatic audience to go 8:50 harm people I mean he needs to get 8:54 substance abuse treatment because he's 8:56 also dealing with a pretty severe issue 8:59 with alcoholism so 9:01 uh one of the employees that has turned 9:05 on him has been speaking out against him 9:07 is this guy named Zach Drucker he worked 9:10 at infowar Wars on and off for about six 9:13 years and so Drucker disclosed that Alex 9:16 Jones would engage in substance abuse at 9:19 work he would be drinking at work uh in 9:22 fact Drucker is the one who leaked 9:24 footage of Alex drinking during the day 9:27 while working at Infowars when he was 9:29 asked why he did it he said that he did 9:31 it to show his co-workers that they're 9:33 dealing with an unstable person Drucker 9:36 also told hate watch that Jones would 9:37 walk around the office carrying a white 9:40 Dixie cup and nine out of ten times 9:42 there would be vodka in it and you'll 9:45 notice that vodka seems to be his liquor 9:47 of choice in some text exchanges he had 9:49 employees pick up vodka and deliver it 9:52 to him to the office okay and I want to 9:56 give you one example of a text exchange 9:58 that he had on February 6th of 2012 20. 10:02 so Alex Jones to Patrick Riley I am sick 10:06 Patrick Riley uh Alex Jones and Patrick 10:09 Riley no slay I guess they would work 10:11 out together so that's what he was 10:12 referring to uh Patrick Riley responds 10:14 sorry to hear uh hear that hope you feel 10:16 better and that he responds tell Derek 10:19 to get me vodka that is you see that 10:22 over and over and over again get me 10:24 vodka get me vodka right now I need the 10:26 Vodka right now okay so all right look 10:29 he's got an alcohol problem again go to 10:32 a therapist deal with it instead of 10:34 dealing with it on air and encouraging 10:35 uh your audience to do Insane things I 10:38 want to quickly go back to what he how 10:42 he treats his wife and how he is um 10:44 having people essentially spy on his 10:46 wife so hate watch found two instances 10:49 where Jones contacts his Security 10:51 employee former Austin Police Department 10:53 Officer and Blackwater mercenary Tim 10:56 Enloe to apparently monitor his wife I 10:59 want to be specific about how he had 11:02 people spy on his wife the other thing I 11:04 wanted to share was just one text 11:06 exchange between Alex Jones and his wife 11:08 so Jones to Erica Wolfe he says you hate 11:13 us 11:14 she never responds to him okay then he 11:17 says I see it in your eyes you won't 11:19 even talk to me pick up now you won't 11:21 even break away for one minute to talk 11:24 to me there have been examples of text 11:26 exchanges that you can read in this 11:28 reporting where he's just texting her 11:30 endlessly over and over again she's not 11:32 responding and then she puts like an 11:34 away message an automatic away message 11:37 uh so as he's texting her the only 11:40 response he gets is like this automatic 11:42 I'm away from my phone right now I'll 11:45 get back to you once I return like that 11:46 kind of thing and he was Furious about 11:48 it well you know what's really romantic 11:50 hiring a black water mercenary to track 11:53 your wife across all across town while 11:55 you're cheating on her and yeah and I 11:58 mean with the by the way his 12:01 um mistress also right wing lunatics 12:05 sending him you know all these messages 12:07 from white supremacist websites about 12:09 the Jews and everybody else of course 12:11 and uh but they but with her she's he's 12:14 a little bit more romantic he's he wants 12:17 her to run a bath for him and he's got 12:19 all these things and when then while 12:21 he's yelling at his wife he's with the 12:23 mistress like where are you what's going 12:25 on with you and someone else okay come 12:27 on it's time for my bath right so look I 12:29 think that the way Infowars is going to 12:31 end is they're going to have like one 12:32 like some sort of convention or 12:33 something and all the crazy guys in the 12:35 audience are going to have sex with each 12:36 other and they're going to be satiated 12:37 and then we're all going to be done with 12:39 this now as long as we don't have to 12:40 hear the details about that that would 12:41 be great 12:43 um now one final thing I'll say okay 12:46 the message that I feel like most 12:48 Americans hear from like the moment 12:50 they're born to the moment they die is 12:52 that the only thing that will make them 12:53 happy is material stuff right Alex Jones 12:56 I mean literally selling weirdo 13:00 supplements brought in hundreds of 13:03 millions of dollars this was fabulously 13:05 wealthy obviously these lawsuits and the 13:07 uh damages he has to pay 13:09 kind of destroyed that but nonetheless 13:13 when all you care about is obtaining 13:16 money and you don't care about who 13:18 you're gonna hurt in your quest for that 13:21 power and money 13:22 you know who you end up like I'll show 13:25 you you end up like this guy this poor 13:27 poor guy no yeah 13:29 precious he fell into a black hole too 13:33 and never got out um think about it so 13:36 that that's Alex Jones in a couple of 13:38 years 13:39 um so 13:41 look 13:42 yeah I I take some joy in Alex Jones 13:45 being 13:46 deeply miserable uh in his private life 13:49 uh this is not a normal debate oh I 13:52 don't like his views on regulation or 13:54 free trade no the guy's a monster it 13:57 encourages his audience to do Terrible 13:59 Things against people who are 14:02 defenseless so our job is to fight back 14:04 against bullies and knowing that those 14:06 bullies might be rich and might have all 14:09 these things but at the end of the day 14:12 they're deeply miserable makes me happy 14:15 and should make you happy the next time 14:18 you get angry about Alex Jones think 14:19 well at least I'll never be as miserable 14:21 as he is here at tyt we work to cut 14:24 through all the establishment media's 14:25 biases and bring you the news from a 14:27 factual and Progressive Viewpoint now 14:29 allow me to introduce you to ground news 14:31 a new tool that you can use to stay 14:33 informed on what's really going on 14:35 around the world ground news doesn't 14:37 just bring you 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