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‘Despicable lies’: WaPo Editorial Board admonishes Alex Jones after Sandy Hook verdict
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The Washington Post editorial board is offering a relatively critical assessment of InfoWars host Alex Jones in the wake of the unfavorable verdict he received for the lawsuit filed against him by family members of Sandy Hook Elementary School victims.
The board began with a harrowing look at what really transpired on the day of the deadly shooting. “Try to imagine the horror of your six-year-old son gunned down at school. Think about what you would feel as you sat in a local firehouse and waited for hours to learn of your child’s fate,” the board wrote. Try to envision holding the body of your son, a bullet in his head.”
The editorial board went on to offer an in-depth view of the aftermath and the added layer of suffering Jones and other conspiracy theorists may have caused with their own baseless claims about what may have transpired.
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“Then imagine what it would be like, as you are grieving, to have lies spread about your child’s murder — that the shooting never happened, that it was an elaborate hoax and you were an actor playing a role in a government plot to advance gun control,” the board wrote, adding, “And think what it would be like to be hounded, harassed and threatened by zealots pushing unhinged conspiracy theories.”
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