According to the economics courses I've taken, you pretty much aren't a person and it's bad when you have money, so no, I would not be surprised if economic science has not yet studied your level of poor.
"Bankrupt" for rich people is a *_very_* different from "bankrupt" for poor people. I used to work at a private school. Some entitled brat was crying that her father went bankrupt, yet she still had a family chauffeur to drive her from home to school and back again.
@@Puzzles-Pins That's because they lobby Republican Senators, Corporate Democrats, and traitors like Sinema and Manchen to _enact_ laws that work for them. When this country falls, the corrupt wealthy will be primarily at fault.
if he is being repeatedly caught in fraudulent bankruptcy filings, then why are we still even talking about him paying monetary penalties? why is he not in jail for all that fraud? why does he keep getting away with things?
"Even in third world countries the judge doesn't tell the jury this person is guilty" Well, no. The judge declared him *liable*, because the preceding trial happened and this was decided via due process. The jury was there to assess damages owed; not guilt, not liability.
But the jury was wrong; very little in terms of damages occurred. Perhaps a few nutcases believed him, but not 99.99% of people in the USA. The courts, and juries, are crazy.
@@UncleKennysPlace do you live in an alternate world, where those "few" people did not continuously harass the parents of the sandy hook victims based on what Alex Jones said? One where libel and slander are maybe not a thing? If so, I'd love to live in that world, seems nice. Edit: Comment I responded to is no longer visible to me, so to put mine in context for the rest - the person claimed the judge and jury were crazy since very little in actual damages ever occurred, and that 99.99% of people did not believe Alex Jones.
For anyone wondering, the clip of Dave Bautista in reference to the 'type of person who watches infowars' isn't meant as a jab at Bautista. It's a reference to Glass Onion. Bautista plays the sort of character being referenced. That clip is from the movie.
I'm still baffled by the lack of perjury charges. I used to think perjury was a red line that just about no one would cross. But apparently it's just another "crime for poor people."
I may be completely wrong, but I don't think perjury is a thing in civil court. Although lying in court is probably why the judgement was so high. ABE: It is, but it usually isn't prosecuted as such but appears to be taken into account in the penalty phase, when financial judgements are rendered.
No way. These are sanctionable actions, especially since the files contained medical records of the Connecticut plaintiffs. Reynal got sanctioned and Pattis got a suspension for this.
@@mkits7350 You can say you like the lawyer for doing it, but what he did was literally a betrayal of attorney-client privilege. it was just as illegal as Jones lying about evidence.
This whole liability vs bankruptcy loophole thing still breaks my brain, no matter how many times it's explained to me. It seems like the laws are set up deliberately to ensure that damages never have to be paid and the defendant never suffers any consequences. The court case and the awarding of damages is purely symbolic.
It's a billion dollar fine for speaking. There is no person... Well no serious person... Who would argue a billion dollar fine is appropriate for anything other than the state trying to get revenge on a person. The people that lied about the Iraq war are currently employed in government positions or lobbying the government. 1,000,000 people died as a result.
@@InfiniteDeckhand They are making it seem like he's home enjoying himself with all that money, because they would be, but they will not make that much to start.
One of the issues is that for the families, this isn’t about money. Scarlett Lewis said in her testimony “it seems so incredible to me that we have to do this - to implore you, to punish you - to get you to stop lying.” For the families, it was far more about bringing all of his lies to light, holding him accountable for them, and limiting his ability to continue spreading them. It’s just the way the courts are designed, that the only means of punishment is paying damages, which he is doing is best to get out of while continuing to peddle his lies.
@@dieselbaby Probably due to the cost of lost wages and medical bills from the trauma of all the harassment on top losing their kids (I actually grew up near there and it affected a lot of people in the area). It's not cheap to deal with PTSD, especially here in the US
@@dieselbaby Except he never stopped talking about it, there was the apology and then he kept on doing the same thing. Would you accept it if I were to kick you in the stomach then apologise, only to continue to keep kicking you? If anything thats worse than if he had never apologised in the first place.
One of the more frustrating parts of this is the idea that it's okay for Alex Jones' records to be conspicuously messy because his time is being taken up with his talk show and family. Like... does "I can't do my taxes because I have a job" work for normal people? I'm pretty sure there are people who manage longer hours and larger families and still manage to have their shit together financially.
Someone seeeeeriously needs to close all these loopholes that allow businesses/people who have judgements against them to do this crap. It's so disgusting. 😡🤬
Unfortunately, every time a politician has the chance, they get an extremely generous donation from a very wealthy company and coincidentally decide that things should stay as they are
Well the point of the bankrupcy laws was to ensure creditors and debtors maintain a flow of capital but the point of the lawsuit was to stop alex jones access to capital to stop him from spreading dangerous lies. Its a systemic flaw, there is no way to stop alex jones because he makes money flow.
That phone data sent by mistake by incompetent lawyer moment was truly a work of art. If you saw that shit in a TV show it would probably be considered a little too much.
@@IanAlcorn I doubt that. This is a very public case, he's not only ruining his defense of Alex Jones but he's also ruining his image as a lawyer. Who else is going to hire this moron after such a ridiculous and damaging mistake?
Just further proof that if you’re rich, you have nearly endless access to a whole different level of the law that ensures you never actually suffer the consequences of your actions.
You have just as much access to those laws, my guy. Maybe not access to the lawyers who'll do the legwork (though you may be able to find one willing to work pro bono or for peanuts), but nothing Alex Jones did is somehow locked behind any legally mandated paywall, I don't think. Except maybe filing fees? Dunno. The difference is that regular people are not generally aware of what their options are, or they get shitty advice from bad sources. Also, a lot of what Jones has been doing is blatant manipulation, and courts don't actually like seeing that. Subtle manipulation and exploitation, you can get away with without people noticing. If you are technically following the rules, even more so. Announcing that you're trying to manipulate the legal system on a public platform and outlining exactly how will generally get you burned, however.
The judgement against Alex Jones was completely and entirely unlawful and anyone with even a basic sense of law knew this. The scam industry will not expose their accomplices but I will. They violated Alex Jones right to a trail by jury and his 8th amendment right, excessive fines. Will they admit this? No, because its easier for them to destroy their enemies than to admit they were not only did completely unlawfully but that these "lawyers"/prosuctures obviously know it.
I love the word "temerity" because it sounds like it should have something to do with being timid and diffident and obsequious, but it's literally the exact opposite.
Nothing could make me happier than him financially going under. Although the POS living on “only” $10,000/week is truly insulting to everyone who’s actually gone bankrupt and lost everything.
Going under? More like floating over to the deep end of the pool while wearing a life preserver. The government has essentially said "Infowars, a multi-million dollar company whose main source of revenue is selling male supplement products to gullible meatheads, can only be successful if Alex Jones has a platform to spread unrelated, harmful misinformation and conspiracy theories to them. So we will allow him to continue spreading harm, in order to pay the financial penalties that he incurred by spreading harm earlier." Disgusting.
Why would someone you don't even know's misfortune make you happier than you have ever been? That's sad actually. I hope your life starts getting better.
TBF for a moment, someone that's scammed and done that much harm and spent so much probably has no idea how live off even that fortune. It's why lottery winners usually tank.
@@Deploracle lol it’s because he’s a PEICE OF SHIT. If you can’t see it, then I feel sorry for you. Brainwashing isn’t easy to overcome. Coming from a former supporter of Alex Jones.
@@Deploracle It's not misfortune, it's just desserts, which is so very rare for those that really earn it. Also you seem to misunderstand the common figure of speech.
It's usually considered bad form to make fun of someone for their financial troubles. But when that person has broken up so many families, friendships, and led to someone's suicide due to the harassment from his free-labored goon squad, laughing at him is the least you can do.
He doesn't have financial troubles, except for owing a bunch of victims restitution now. The financial problems he states (and has stated for years to try and urge people to buy more products) are all completely made up. As for owing the victims, he dug his own hole by continuously attacking them and not by getting screwed.
@doodystainz exactly! There's a huge difference in my opinion between committing fraud or "robbing a bank" than it is to talking crap on the internet and "brainwashing" people.
My humble opinion: With all the shenanigans corporations can do to dodge responsibility, they shouldn't have the same rights as people until you can put handcuffs on a business and put it in jail.
You can't imprison a corporation, but you can execute one. A measure that should be utilised far more freely than it is in my opinion. No person is physically harmed after all, only financially harmed like from a heavy fine. Confiscate all it's assets, collect on its realisable debtors, cancel its debts. Government then pays out on its former debts based on the court's judgement of fairness and legitamacy, guided but not bound by preexisting contracts. That avoids a lot of shenanigans of people owing money to themselves. The court could just discard those types of debts as illegitimate in their judgement. The guiding principal would be that those responsible for this mess are last in line for any payments. Of course this action is damaging to legitimate companies that do business with the punished corporation in good faith, but arguably less so than regular bankruptcy. This approach only to be used when a corporation is convicted of operating in bad faith and/or engaging in fraud. Directors of such companies should also get lengthy bans from owning or running a business. Jones could continue to hawk crap, but infowarz would be gone so he would have to do it on another channel, which he neither owns nor runs. He would do so as an employee under the direction of someone else who would be held responsible for his future behaviour.
When I was a child, I thought that going bankrupt meant things went terribly for a company or an individual starting it. The more I see it now, the more I realize it's a way people at the helm use to hide some hefty sums before the ship sinks. Sucks for employees, but people at the top get away with cash. 10/10 system.
I mean, my family had to declare bankruptcy when I was a kid and we lived out of hotels and and a truck for two years. So at least some of the time it's definitely that bad
My brain broke when you explained that someone can go bankrupt in debt to themselves and that debt somehow takes priority over other debts. I don't think I heard anything after that point.
Because its not "Alex owes alex", it's "X, LLC owes Y, LLC". You can't say "well the same guy owns both" because thats piercing the corporate veil, just in the opposite direction it usually happens.
I imagine that it was made in good part for legitimate purposes, with problems overlooked by "the courts will figure sort out the problems". What those legit purposes are... I can't think of them... I'm just a code monkey.
I am glad you showed the tweet with the video, because I want to point out that Jones was never charged for perjury despite blatant lying. Two tiered justice system.
Yeah...perjury almost never goes to court, from what I understand. It's generally considered a pointless waste of a criminal court's time, which is usually extremely short anyway, from what I understand. Especially when the person in question is already getting slapped with massive damages. If it's discovered later that someone lied under oath in a crucial way that swayed a case, that might go to trial. But when it's obvious at the time, and the person in question is already being punished (possibly even losing the case because they were caught lying, juries tend not to like that shit), it's gilding the lily.
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I know throughout the second trial I was like, "Why aren't they bringing up what he said." and then closing arguments he brought out the 2 weeks worth of garbage from alex jones :>
Im going to predict that when this all fall's through, the Jones estate will start bringing up all the new mental health struggles that should make them exempt from all these rulings. "He doesn't know what he's saying. He legitimately thinks the jury are a bunch of goblins"
@@mikebrown3790 sir you are sorely misguided about the facts of this case the TRUTH is ALEX JONES only makes 10,000 a WEEK not month. so yeah cry more into your ill gotten bloodstained money Alex I weep not for you
Why? Nothing's going to happen to him, he can just keep moving money around, each time he does it adds another 2 years on to the litigation, as long as he out-earns court costs, hell never face a penalty
That foreshadowed bankruptcy loophole is so obvious and egregious I really hope the congresspeople who approved it are being looked into regarding their own shell companies.
Our congressmen openly and blatantly use government secrets to do insider stock trading, something incredibly highly illegal for everyone else, but "free market fair game" to them. They won't be fixing loopholes anytime soon, because they use the loopholes themselves.
I was shocked about that one too... I felt so betrayed, I had though Dave was one of the good guys. I think LegalEagle is sometimes a little _too_ snappy with the cultural references.
I was thinking the same thing! We're all either going by common law or some kind romano-germanic system where juries are quite literally not a thing. He really doesn't stick that little head of his outside his pathetic little bubble
Technically, the judges in your country wouldn’t be able to tell the jury what to think, on account of them not existing… unless the judge is also the jury
@Exceptionally Quiet I live in Norway. The reason we don't have a jury is that we see it as a hindrance to a fair trial. We now have "meddommer" (co-judge, I don't know how to translate it). They are non-professionals, but there are fewer than on a jury. This is to make sure everyone has given a good reason for the judgement. The idea was better legal security for the defendant
@@homewardboundphotos I mean, he was harassing people and so they started an investigation into his harassment. That's just sticking your finger into an electrical outlet.
Ohhh it’s even better. People think he did it on purpose because Alex Jones was pissing him off and making his life harder. The prosecutors legally had to write him and tell him about the emails and he never responded so people are fairly sure he did it on purpose.
The judgement against Alex Jones was completely and entirely unlawful and anyone with even a basic sense of law knew this. The scam industry will not expose their accomplices but I will. They violated Alex Jones right to a trail by jury and his 8th amendment right, excessive fines. Will they admit this? No, because its easier for them to destroy their enemies than to admit they were not only did completely unlawfully but that these "lawyers"/prosuctures obviously know it.
The judge told the jury Alex was guilty because that verdict was already established. This was an award judgment to determine the amount of money only.
@@oriolgonzalez9328 I think it's a Poe's Law type of deal honestly. There's no way to parody them without the people wondering if it is a joke or a genuine Alex Jones product. Which, honestly, is what I was thinking throughout this entire video until I checked and saw that that's exactly what he was doing(just saying the names). Alex Jones has successfully made the transition into self parody and I have no idea if it's a calculated persona to intentionally grift people or if he's a genuine moronic ideologue who is, I guess also grifting by selling ridiculous placebos. But I've heard people who know him say he actually believes the stuff that he says.
@@nailinthefashion LOL when I heard that that's actually when I had to look it up. The whole time I was thinking 'ok maybe he's just making up ridiculous stuff that sounds like it could be an Alex Jones supplement' until I heard the words "bone broth" and had to find out what he was basing it on only to find out that they were indeed genuine products that he was just naming
@@Andrewbert109 Even more hilariously, the supplements are so watered-down that they are basically homeopathic. His supporters are paying about twice the price per gram when every gram contains something like half the 'active ingredients' of other, arguably equally worthless, supplements.
@@sptony2718 Yes, well, that happens when those people are amoral shitbags who think they can get away with anything because they have money and think "Free Speech" means "Freedom from Responsibility"
@@LobsterMobsterBobster Filing for bankruptcy does not necessarily mean that a person's income is limited to a certain amount. The eligibility to file for bankruptcy and the amount of debt that can be discharged depends on the type of bankruptcy and the individual's financial circumstances. For example, in the case of Chapter 7 bankruptcy, there is a means test which compares the individual's income to the median income of the state they live in. If an individual's income is above the median, they may not be eligible to file for chapter 7 and may need to file chapter 13 instead. In chapter 13, the individual is allowed to keep their assets, but they must pay back some or all of their debts through a repayment plan over 3 to 5 years. The amount of debt that must be repaid is determined by their disposable income, which is the income left after living expenses have been paid. So if someone is earning $520,000 a year and have high living expenses, they may still be able to file for chapter 13 bankruptcy and keep most of their income, but they will have to pay back a portion of their debt over the course of the repayment plan. It's important to note that filing for bankruptcy should be the last resort and it's best to consult a bankruptcy attorney and get a clear understanding of the process and how it will affect your financial situation before making a decision.
if the alimony courts can get theirs first so can these families - why he isn't living on 0$ a week until he launders enough of that hidden money to pay back everyone he's hurt is beyond me - 10 000 dollars is like a billionaires idea of being poor.
What I want to know is why isn't all these shady dealings and shell companies and obvious lying to his donors considered to be outright fraud that could land him in jail?
Because the kind of people who support Jones are also the kind to not actually look into anything about him themselves. They trust him to be just like them already so why would they suspect him of anything illegal.
In Europe many countries have a 'claw back' law called Actio Pauliana. This would make it possible to void the transfer of properties by Alex Jones to his wife and other parties prior to bankruptcy. It looks like there is every reason to void most of the transactions Alex Jones has been doing with his companies in order to circumvent bankruptcies. In the US you have UVTA.
It's disappointing that someone who ruins lives and profits off of that ruining might not face any justice. But someone like us readers could have their lives ruined by a few parking tickets.
@@WhiteBoyizFresh lots of m's on that. It seems you didn't understand why that was. There are plenty of resources about it that can be found using whatever device you used to type your m's.
THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS. It's a bullsh*t argument for gold-digging wanna-be divorcee whores, and it's a bullsh*t argument for rich people having to pay the piper. If there were any justice in this world, Alex Jones would be freezing his a$$ off on a streetcorner under a blanket and a tarp, next to a shopping cart full of his sugar pills.
I had to pause the video to address this issue; the use of 'Shadyhook Elementary' should have immediately told anyone with the slightest legal knowledge that this is a slam dunk case. Their obvious disregard for the system is in itself, a tell of what was to come
If the Judge really was possessed, I would personally thank the friendliest and most humane Demon I have ever encountered (no offence). You did a great thing here. Greetings and warm hugs go out to all the Dwarf Goblins, who were involved in "accidentally leaking" Jones's phone records and for all your other help. What you may or may not have in body height, you clearly compensate with GREATNESS!
Hell's whole thing is the punishment of the wicked, if they are trying to see you suffer then personally I feel like that reflects poorly on you. Like it would be so much easier to entice naive innocent people into hell so if you're the target that says something.
@@warlordofbritannia, please, let's not get into any discussions of Hell. The mere concept of Hell makes no sense. There is no justice in the concept of Hell.
I used to wonder why his company is called "info wars" considering he doesn't provide info I now understand it is because he is at war against spreading facts
FYI: 7:57 to 8:09 is repeated at 8:15, déjà vu! But otherwise, here's a shout out to the new editor! It's a pleasure to see his? her? their? own style and humour shining through and making these videos so enjoyable and entertaining. A good team, indeed.
I've had Jones' finance practically drilled into my head becuz of how many times they've gone over it on Knowledge Fight lol. It's sort of like a nesting doll of companies Alex and his family owns but they did it in the dumbest way.
There are funny youtube videos of using the 'shook' filter on movies like Titanic & Lord of the Rings. I can't believe no one on the internet has ever 'flipped on' the shook filter at the precise moment Alex Jones realized his phone records were in the hands of the opposing attorney. For shame, internet. Shame.
I personally lowkey love the judge face when she's hearing about how the lawyer got a copy of Alex's cellphone. Like she's processing how ridiculous the whole situation was.
@@WhiteBoyizFresh Why would anyone with more than half a braincell watch his show. Clips and excerpts (some of them even played in court) is more than enough
A son that any set of parents should be proud of. Can you imagine the conversation? "Mom, Dad, I need you to sign some papers. No don't worry it is nothing shady. It is just transferring some money into your name to protect it from the courts. No you can't have any of it..." Classic. Another person where there will be a whole special corner of hell waiting for him when he shakes off this mortal coil.
I mean, yeah. The first half of your sentence is spot on (and has been for pretty much the entirety of the institution’s history)-no qualifiers necessary. It’s designed to let the Alex Jones demographic get away with as much as possible; that’s a feature of the system, not a bug.
No there is not. He is guilty of using his freedom of speech. Thazzit tbh. Theres something wrong about the justice system for sure tho seeing he was charged and the claim came down and marked him guilty. And I dont like the guy. But thats what happened.
@@MrBeastboybrown yeah if only defamation wasn't a thing am I right? In a perfect world I could say a bunch of false shit about you and sick my giant, neanderthal subscriber base on you and have them ruin your life over a straight up lie.
@@MrBeastboybrown Freedom of speech is not actually the right to say whatever you want the same way freedom in general does not mean the right to do whatever you want. That would mean a lawless society because the freedom to do and say anything you wish also means that others could do the same to you. Words could be just as destructive as actions because speech is a form of action in and of itself.
His reputation is already in tatters for anyone with 2 working brain cells. Practically nothing could damage his popularity with the sort of people who bought into the Sandy Hook conspiracy in the first place, or all the others who support him. Which is why this sort of thing has to be dealt with in a more direct manner, but the rich rarely have to face consequences like that.
"They're acting demonically possessed" says the red faced apoplectic devil who sends his minions to hound grieving families, and sells unknown frothing concoctions...
Usually people like Jones are quietly funded by wealthy donors and not by subscriptions or advertisers or merchandise, I'd love to see his balance sheets and see where his income is coming from.
$42.5 million is not quite the same as $45.2 million, but I'm glad to see I'm not the only person who accidentally mixes numbers up like this. Of course, if we pretend these numbers are basically equal, I wouldn't mind taking the difference between the two and keeping it for myself.
Either way, it’s more than AJ is willing to pay as a consequence for his act, and he’s gonna cheat his debtors and lie to his fans about his ability to pay and claim it’s an attack against him to keep him from telling the “truth”.
5:50 I regularly make my own stock, and let me tell you, the idea of a chocolate flavored bone broth is nauseating, and I've mixed Martinelli's sparkling apple cider and pickle brine together and liked it! Yes, both stock and chocolate both have a rich, fatty mouthfeel, but those two mouthfeels are completely different, and indeed, clashing.
"Repeated Fraudsters won't be able to pay their fines & dues if they are not allowed to keep committing fraud." That's what it sounds like. They are arguing that he won't be able to pay his fines for misinformation if he does not continue his show where he repeatedly spreads misinformation.
Frankly, I think we should expand and simplify frayd laws. Simply say if you lie knowing in advance you will make money due to said lie, that is fraud. I.E. The guys faking animal rescues to make money from TH-cam add revenue will be committing fraud
Jones is going on a fast route to find some street justice if he keeps this up. The takeaway I've only gotten from all this is "bankruptcy means nothing if you are famous."
@@SnivyTries I gave you a thumbs up, but do not mix this up about me liking the content of this comment. Only that I agree it's true, but with great protest.
@drew23201 that's silly. First off, we're literally taking everything he's got. Second, a lot of fines are income adjusted. Third, refusal to pay equals a jail sentence. Fourth, pay your tickets you bum
God, that "perry mason moment" clip never gets old. It's like a silly Phoenix Wright plot twist that just can't happen in real life, but, well, in real life. It's just so good.
I was watching the Texas trial in real time, and I don't think I'll ever get over how surreal that moment was. I couldn't believe that shite happens in real life. Entertaining and informative as always, LE! Can you do an ep in the future on all of the sanctions his lawyers are facing? I need schadenfreude to get through 2023.
It's very, very rare to happen in real life. Usually judges are strongly opposed to lawyers springing surprise revelations in court, precisely because the opposing side doesn't have time to prepare counterarguments. It was only able to happen in this case because Jones's lawyers were stunningly incompetent.
I still won't be satisfied until ever Castle Dental is shut down. for those who don't know, despite "leaving the practice of dentistry", David Jones (Alex Jones' father) is still the VP of Castle Dental which has repeatedly committed Medicaid/CHIP fraud often subjecting children to unnecessary procedures. in a *legislative* hearing about this back in 2013, one of Castle Dental's employees complained that if they reformed what dental and orthodontic Medicaid/CHIP would cover that if the TX legislature did so that he'd have to sell 2 or more of his 5 boats. these people are awful and they should be literally bankrupted--not just on paper.
@@jaydmorales23 there’s plenty of coverage of and publicly available documents available regarding the Medicaid fraud scandal involving unnecessary dentistry in TX and I’d rather you look for it instead of demanding I search my hearing notes from 10 years ago and giving you a time stamp you likely won’t even watch as you didn’t look for it in the first place. call it “personal responsibility”.
I’m no lawyer or law student. However, what is being described of Alex Jones’s business handlings have a strong whiff of money laundering. (Cue Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “That Smell”.)
For sure. Infowars misbehaves and then shuffles their money to the supplement company. Then he just says, "The supplement company didn't misbehave, so you can't sue them."
I expect three things to happen: criminal fraud charges, jail time and asset liquidation. Basically, people can come and take items of value to pay off his creditors, and arguably his most valuable assets are his recording equipment.
I dunno I think he could start signing tin foil paper hats and get a fat chunk of money from his viewers. You see its not JUST a signature the ink actually has a trademarks combination of all his supplements ground up and mixed into it to deflect the signals the Cloud People beam into our skulls. LOOK UP IN THE SKY PEOPLE. THEY CAN MAKE CLOUD SHAPED PLANES. ITS TIME TO WAKE UP! ..................................................................... .............AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA A A A A A A A A H H H H
There should be a "this guy is full of shit" clause that, when you just put all this stuff together, takes all his stuff and throws him in jail. This amount of huxterism is insane.
Throwing him in jail might be a little extreme in Jones' case, but he definitely merits a "Shitwardly Fullsome" designation and some expedited, comprehensive stuff-taking is certainly in order.
@@rdean150 There would be nothing extreme about sending him to jail - fraud, perjury, inciting violence, intimidation, harassment... This has been a campaign of abuse against those families. The number of victims and extent of harm he has caused them is unforgivable.
My man did Dave Bautista wrong, showing his character from Glass Onion while talking about "people who listen to InfoWars". Not everyone has is going to get the reference, and some people might think that Dave is actually that kind of guy.
Up voted for those who don't know the reference. I think from Dave Bautista's public statements it's pretty obvious he's not that guy. Then again I thought it was obvious Alex Jones is a con artist way back in the early 2000's when I first heard what he was ranting about.
Thanks for clearing this up. He's probably the only actor who can portray Kratos the god of war and imagining Kratos as some gullible insecure fool who requires fake supplements and gets triggered by younger generations is not good casting to say the least.
I don’t know but I thought bankruptcy meant you couldn’t pay your debts and in cases like Alexis, he would have to liquidate assets to pay his judgements. Could be wrong though
Depends on which version of bankruptcy. Corporate bankruptcy can be a court supervised reorganization, liquidation of assets etc. Personal bankruptcy is quite another thing.
@@jamespryor5967 The problem is that they are finding that Alex attempted to hid all his personal assets under LLCs in the names of his kids, parents, etc and was transferring up to a few months before the filing.
One of the primary reasons to create a corporation is if that corporation goes bankrupt, your personal assets are protected. Otherwise every business would have a private owner and if the business tanks, they lose everything. It can also work the other way, with him saying he has no personal value despite owning several companies.. So he's trying to wiggle his way out of paying much/anything or at least delay it long enough for him to figure out how to hide the money.
You can't do worse than send opposing council a copy of your clients cellphone or tell the jury to consider the fact that the accused exercised his right to remain silent: if these clowns can do it, you probably can too!
@Phil Jermakian Yeah, “they,” lol. It’s always “them” 🤪 But you’re right about Alex. If a big 400-lb. tub of lard like that got on top of you, it’s probably game over, man!
@Phil Jermakian He's most certainly not in decent shape. He might be strong, probably is, but in a few seconds of moving round a ring he'd be fatigued and would get wailed on by fit guys half his size. You're right though, that money men love Alex Jones because his moronic theories detract attention from the real scams occurring in finance. Making everyone look at the obese blubber clown shifts attention away from the structural problems and inequities caused by fiat continuously devaluing versus assets. Greedy men chuckle at the hordes of mindless Jones fans listening to his garbage instead of learning how money flow works.
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@@Luis-Sosa are you sure?
Morally? Yes!
Alex Jones and Don the Con Trump should be rotting in a prison cell together.
maybe
Man, if $10,000 a week is broke, I am a level of poor that has yet to be discovered by economic science.
Yeah mate, I make 5K a month take home and I live a comfortable life. This guy trying to claim that 10K a week is somehow unlivable.
I WISH I was 10,000$ a week broke … I could pay for my meds w/o insurance.
Wait, I bet he has health insurance while “broke,” too.
Very true,@@webbowser8834 . “Poor guy’s eking out a living on 520,000$ gross salary,” was my first thought.
The dude makes more money in a month than I do over the course of an entire year
According to the economics courses I've taken, you pretty much aren't a person and it's bad when you have money, so no, I would not be surprised if economic science has not yet studied your level of poor.
"Bankrupt" for rich people is a *_very_* different from "bankrupt" for poor people. I used to work at a private school. Some entitled brat was crying that her father went bankrupt, yet she still had a family chauffeur to drive her from home to school and back again.
Imagine having to face the consequences of your actions...
It's not the only thing. It's not so much that they are above the law, as that the law works very differently for them.
@@Puzzles-Pins That's because they lobby Republican Senators, Corporate Democrats, and traitors like Sinema and Manchen to _enact_ laws that work for them. When this country falls, the corrupt wealthy will be primarily at fault.
Bankruptcy for poor people is a desperate measure to try and get their life on track. Bankruptcy for rich people is a strategic financial move.
The number one rule of the elites is that you let the other elites do whatever they want.
if he is being repeatedly caught in fraudulent bankruptcy filings,
then why are we still even talking about him paying monetary penalties?
why is he not in jail for all that fraud?
why does he keep getting away with things?
Because he is rich and Republicans like him. In American this is called "The sliding scale method of justice"
He’s a rich white man, that’s why.
@@eileenconway2966 See also Donald J Trump
@JohnFx well trump is orange so that is a difference.
@@eileenconway2966 only being rich is enough,
I don't think I'm legally allowed to go into detail about what I would do for $10K a week
Same
I would waste it on Primogems /j
"Even in third world countries the judge doesn't tell the jury this person is guilty" Well, no. The judge declared him *liable*, because the preceding trial happened and this was decided via due process. The jury was there to assess damages owed; not guilt, not liability.
When has facts ever mattered to him
They do in every country. The judge can instruct the jury on a directed decision, which is what happened here due to Jones not showing up in court.
But the jury was wrong; very little in terms of damages occurred. Perhaps a few nutcases believed him, but not 99.99% of people in the USA. The courts, and juries, are crazy.
lol Jones was just lying as usual, ya know, like a liar.
@@UncleKennysPlace do you live in an alternate world, where those "few" people did not continuously harass the parents of the sandy hook victims based on what Alex Jones said? One where libel and slander are maybe not a thing? If so, I'd love to live in that world, seems nice. Edit: Comment I responded to is no longer visible to me, so to put mine in context for the rest - the person claimed the judge and jury were crazy since very little in actual damages ever occurred, and that 99.99% of people did not believe Alex Jones.
For anyone wondering, the clip of Dave Bautista in reference to the 'type of person who watches infowars' isn't meant as a jab at Bautista. It's a reference to Glass Onion. Bautista plays the sort of character being referenced. That clip is from the movie.
Relieved. Never seen the movie and was like 'wtf'
Thank you! I was totally lost on that clip.
@@Rickyc12s It's a fun flick. Bautista clearly did his research and he roasts the hell out of that type of 'alpha male' with his portrayal
I feel like this isn’t going to be clear to most viewers.
Thank you for this, haven't seen the movie yet, so the reference was lost on me. Glad to know it's a character!
I'm still baffled by the lack of perjury charges.
I used to think perjury was a red line that just about no one would cross.
But apparently it's just another "crime for poor people."
That's basically the US legal system in a nutshell.
I may be completely wrong, but I don't think perjury is a thing in civil court. Although lying in court is probably why the judgement was so high.
ABE: It is, but it usually isn't prosecuted as such but appears to be taken into account in the penalty phase, when financial judgements are rendered.
Right?! I can’t understand why this guy has had no consequence AT ALL for his behaviour.
@@r1pster05 The lack of Contempt of Court charges is also a mystery.
@@lornarettig3215 Courts arent used to punishing rich people usually it seems.
I almost lean toward the theory that Jones’ own lawyers disliked him so much that they messed up on purpose 😂
Agreed! some lawyer did that "accidental" sending of well all the data there.
@@TokinDope You didn't spell "decent human being" correctly
No way. These are sanctionable actions, especially since the files contained medical records of the Connecticut plaintiffs. Reynal got sanctioned and Pattis got a suspension for this.
@@TokinDope straight lawyer
@@mkits7350 You can say you like the lawyer for doing it, but what he did was literally a betrayal of attorney-client privilege. it was just as illegal as Jones lying about evidence.
This whole liability vs bankruptcy loophole thing still breaks my brain, no matter how many times it's explained to me. It seems like the laws are set up deliberately to ensure that damages never have to be paid and the defendant never suffers any consequences. The court case and the awarding of damages is purely symbolic.
That’s exactly my understanding too. I also can’t understand it - I despise it when rich people can avoid consequence for their behaviour.
This and things like Double-Irish-Dutch-Sandwich are known publicly. Who knows how many loopholes the rich have that go without being noticed.
When the penance for a crime is monetary, then it’s only a crime for poor people.
It's a billion dollar fine for speaking. There is no person... Well no serious person... Who would argue a billion dollar fine is appropriate for anything other than the state trying to get revenge on a person. The people that lied about the Iraq war are currently employed in government positions or lobbying the government. 1,000,000 people died as a result.
damn its almost like this whole thing is a bit of a tiered system set up by slave owners who revolted to avoid paying their taxes... almost
He's broke and lives on 10K a week? Man, I wish I was broke too.
My exact thought.
But he's not living a hedonistic lifestyle. He's working.
I'd settle for what he gets in two weeks, for an entire year.
@@allthatyoutouch3164 Haha, ''working'', sure.
@@InfiniteDeckhand They are making it seem like he's home enjoying himself with all that money, because they would be, but they will not make that much to start.
One of the issues is that for the families, this isn’t about money. Scarlett Lewis said in her testimony “it seems so incredible to me that we have to do this - to implore you, to punish you - to get you to stop lying.” For the families, it was far more about bringing all of his lies to light, holding him accountable for them, and limiting his ability to continue spreading them. It’s just the way the courts are designed, that the only means of punishment is paying damages, which he is doing is best to get out of while continuing to peddle his lies.
@@dieselbaby found the Jones shill.
@@dieselbaby How can you support someone like this?
Nevermind, you let them tell you what to think.
@@dieselbaby Probably due to the cost of lost wages and medical bills from the trauma of all the harassment on top losing their kids (I actually grew up near there and it affected a lot of people in the area). It's not cheap to deal with PTSD, especially here in the US
@@dieselbaby Except he never stopped talking about it, there was the apology and then he kept on doing the same thing. Would you accept it if I were to kick you in the stomach then apologise, only to continue to keep kicking you? If anything thats worse than if he had never apologised in the first place.
@@dieselbaby No one accepted his apology because It clearly isn't genuine. He keeps attacking these people and profiting of their suffering
One of the more frustrating parts of this is the idea that it's okay for Alex Jones' records to be conspicuously messy because his time is being taken up with his talk show and family.
Like... does "I can't do my taxes because I have a job" work for normal people?
I'm pretty sure there are people who manage longer hours and larger families and still manage to have their shit together financially.
Someone seeeeeriously needs to close all these loopholes that allow businesses/people who have judgements against them to do this crap. It's so disgusting. 😡🤬
I assure you a majority of them don't exist by accident
But then the USA would stop working, because it's all by design to allow the hyper rich 'corporare personas' get away with anything, including murder
Unfortunately, every time a politician has the chance, they get an extremely generous donation from a very wealthy company and coincidentally decide that things should stay as they are
Well the point of the bankrupcy laws was to ensure creditors and debtors maintain a flow of capital but the point of the lawsuit was to stop alex jones access to capital to stop him from spreading dangerous lies. Its a systemic flaw, there is no way to stop alex jones because he makes money flow.
Justice is a foreign concept here in America.
I still cannot get over how hard Jones got owned by his own lawyer.
Jones sank his own ship, but then, he's a loudmouthed ding-dong.
Still no practical consequences for him.
I bet his lawyer doesn’t even like him
A lawyer who was being paid half a million dollars
@@jungl3boy I think his lawyer had kids and a conscience. Jones should have hired the sewage that represents Trump.
That phone data sent by mistake by incompetent lawyer moment was truly a work of art. If you saw that shit in a TV show it would probably be considered a little too much.
Given how much Jones' lawyer didn't protest/object in that moment, makes me suspect that it was "accidentally" on purpose.
@@IanAlcorn I doubt that. This is a very public case, he's not only ruining his defense of Alex Jones but he's also ruining his image as a lawyer. Who else is going to hire this moron after such a ridiculous and damaging mistake?
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be believable."
He should sue his attorney. That is way too incompetent
This is why people say that truth is stranger that fiction. Fiction it has been quoted must have its own consistent logic.
Just further proof that if you’re rich, you have nearly endless access to a whole different level of the law that ensures you never actually suffer the consequences of your actions.
You have just as much access to those laws, my guy. Maybe not access to the lawyers who'll do the legwork (though you may be able to find one willing to work pro bono or for peanuts), but nothing Alex Jones did is somehow locked behind any legally mandated paywall, I don't think. Except maybe filing fees? Dunno. The difference is that regular people are not generally aware of what their options are, or they get shitty advice from bad sources.
Also, a lot of what Jones has been doing is blatant manipulation, and courts don't actually like seeing that. Subtle manipulation and exploitation, you can get away with without people noticing. If you are technically following the rules, even more so. Announcing that you're trying to manipulate the legal system on a public platform and outlining exactly how will generally get you burned, however.
Can you imagine an actual mom and pop business making these demands in court? Threatening to not show up for work? The absolute temerity
To be fair, the prosecution in other cases are not likely trying to shut down their workplace as they are with Alex.
The judgement against Alex Jones was completely and entirely unlawful and anyone with even a basic sense of law knew this. The scam industry will not expose their accomplices but I will. They violated Alex Jones right to a trail by jury and his 8th amendment right, excessive fines. Will they admit this? No, because its easier for them to destroy their enemies than to admit they were not only did completely unlawfully but that these "lawyers"/prosuctures obviously know it.
@@beayn Lawyer here telling you to shut it because you've NO IDEA what you're talking about
@@blackeyedsusan727 Ah yes, because that's how Lawyers respond to things "U DONT KNOW WHAT UR TALKING ABOUT" (Paraphrasing of course).
I love the word "temerity" because it sounds like it should have something to do with being timid and diffident and obsequious, but it's literally the exact opposite.
Nothing could make me happier than him financially going under.
Although the POS living on “only” $10,000/week is truly insulting to everyone who’s actually gone bankrupt and lost everything.
Going under? More like floating over to the deep end of the pool while wearing a life preserver.
The government has essentially said "Infowars, a multi-million dollar company whose main source of revenue is selling male supplement products to gullible meatheads, can only be successful if Alex Jones has a platform to spread unrelated, harmful misinformation and conspiracy theories to them. So we will allow him to continue spreading harm, in order to pay the financial penalties that he incurred by spreading harm earlier."
Disgusting.
Why would someone you don't even know's misfortune make you happier than you have ever been? That's sad actually. I hope your life starts getting better.
TBF for a moment, someone that's scammed and done that much harm and spent so much probably has no idea how live off even that fortune. It's why lottery winners usually tank.
@@Deploracle lol it’s because he’s a PEICE OF SHIT.
If you can’t see it, then I feel sorry for you. Brainwashing isn’t easy to overcome.
Coming from a former supporter of Alex Jones.
@@Deploracle It's not misfortune, it's just desserts, which is so very rare for those that really earn it.
Also you seem to misunderstand the common figure of speech.
It's usually considered bad form to make fun of someone for their financial troubles.
But when that person has broken up so many families, friendships, and led to someone's suicide due to the harassment from his free-labored goon squad, laughing at him is the least you can do.
Like the media and politicians do every day?
When tier financial troubles mean they are on ten times the average wage for doing nothing though...
I mean, I’d hardly call a weekly allowance of $10k “financial troubles.”
He doesn't have financial troubles, except for owing a bunch of victims restitution now. The financial problems he states (and has stated for years to try and urge people to buy more products) are all completely made up.
As for owing the victims, he dug his own hole by continuously attacking them and not by getting screwed.
@@HenritheHorse Cry harder MAGAt.
It's like a bank robber saying he should not be sent to prison because it would spoil his ability to generate income.
@@TokinDope this
@@TokinDope He robbed you of your mind, apparently.
@@TokinDope the poor victims families sanity.
@doodystainz exactly! There's a huge difference in my opinion between committing fraud or "robbing a bank" than it is to talking crap on the internet and "brainwashing" people.
@@maryhadda8420 robbed of positive evaluations in the minds of some people
My humble opinion: With all the shenanigans corporations can do to dodge responsibility, they shouldn't have the same rights as people until you can put handcuffs on a business and put it in jail.
You wouldn't know a damn thing about tort law
It's Texas. Jail is too good for Jones and his companies.
@@doomsdayrabbit4398 The companies are irrelevant since he only has a handful of employees. Besides a cameraman, who works for him?
You can't imprison a corporation, but you can execute one. A measure that should be utilised far more freely than it is in my opinion. No person is physically harmed after all, only financially harmed like from a heavy fine.
Confiscate all it's assets, collect on its realisable debtors, cancel its debts. Government then pays out on its former debts based on the court's judgement of fairness and legitamacy, guided but not bound by preexisting contracts. That avoids a lot of shenanigans of people owing money to themselves. The court could just discard those types of debts as illegitimate in their judgement. The guiding principal would be that those responsible for this mess are last in line for any payments.
Of course this action is damaging to legitimate companies that do business with the punished corporation in good faith, but arguably less so than regular bankruptcy. This approach only to be used when a corporation is convicted of operating in bad faith and/or engaging in fraud. Directors of such companies should also get lengthy bans from owning or running a business.
Jones could continue to hawk crap, but infowarz would be gone so he would have to do it on another channel, which he neither owns nor runs. He would do so as an employee under the direction of someone else who would be held responsible for his future behaviour.
“Corporations are people”
Bankrupt? Aahh, it's a nice legal term for "I'm protecting my hidden finances."
he is bankcrupt and they sued him for earning money. corrupt system, they try to steel money from the poor
When I was a child, I thought that going bankrupt meant things went terribly for a company or an individual starting it.
The more I see it now, the more I realize it's a way people at the helm use to hide some hefty sums before the ship sinks. Sucks for employees, but people at the top get away with cash.
10/10 system.
Pretty much, considering how he thinks, I'm sure he's organised things just fine.
I mean, my family had to declare bankruptcy when I was a kid and we lived out of hotels and and a truck for two years. So at least some of the time it's definitely that bad
@@Gildedmuse That sucks man. Maybe bankruptcy should only be available to real people, like working class people and not rich oligarchs
My brain broke when you explained that someone can go bankrupt in debt to themselves and that debt somehow takes priority over other debts. I don't think I heard anything after that point.
Because its not "Alex owes alex", it's "X, LLC owes Y, LLC". You can't say "well the same guy owns both" because thats piercing the corporate veil, just in the opposite direction it usually happens.
Yeah someone rich must have lobbied for those obvious loopholes to exist. This doesn't exist by accident.
@@ooooneeee Maybe more than one.
What did you expect for a justice system writen by the rich?
I imagine that it was made in good part for legitimate purposes, with problems overlooked by "the courts will figure sort out the problems". What those legit purposes are... I can't think of them... I'm just a code monkey.
I am glad you showed the tweet with the video, because I want to point out that Jones was never charged for perjury despite blatant lying. Two tiered justice system.
Yeah...perjury almost never goes to court, from what I understand. It's generally considered a pointless waste of a criminal court's time, which is usually extremely short anyway, from what I understand. Especially when the person in question is already getting slapped with massive damages. If it's discovered later that someone lied under oath in a crucial way that swayed a case, that might go to trial. But when it's obvious at the time, and the person in question is already being punished (possibly even losing the case because they were caught lying, juries tend not to like that shit), it's gilding the lily.
I'm getting the impression that filming yourself doing fraud might be a risky legal strategy.
Only if you're not rich.
It should be. It's appalling that he seems to be getting away with it, despite how blatant he's being.
😆
The more interesting story is how a dwarf and a goblin got together and made a family despite the animosity between their respective peoples.
😂🤣😂
The Ruinous Powers oft twist the forms of their victims and supplicants alike into grotesque abominations against an orderly world. Witchhunter Jones recommends, nay, demands that you utilize only all natural Kislev Blue Pemmican supplements sanctified by the hands of the faithful to keep your body pure and your mind vigilant. Remember, to trust the death cultist's physick is to court the attention of the daemon. THIS IS A WAR FOR YOUR FAMILY'S SOULS!
Goblin pussy be hitting different
I thought it was elves that dwarves didn’t get along with.
ah man, truths
I love how everything he says on his show turns into evidence in his own trials.
And he is apparently the only one who doesn’t realize that. o.O
There is a reason that the main thing a lawyer tells their clients is "Just shut the hell up".
I know throughout the second trial I was like, "Why aren't they bringing up what he said." and then closing arguments he brought out the 2 weeks worth of garbage from alex jones :>
OHHH thats why he didn't say anything, they were letting him hang himself :>
Thing is, if he stops doing the show for a bit then he will look weak to his fans
Im going to predict that when this all fall's through, the Jones estate will start bringing up all the new mental health struggles that should make them exempt from all these rulings.
"He doesn't know what he's saying.
He legitimately thinks the jury are a bunch of goblins"
For him, I would actually believe it. The guy isn't stable
I'm surprised that Alex Jones and his lawyers manage to spell "good faith" correctly.
I'm shocked they said it with a straight face.
@omaemoushind3iru493Ratio.
Lying is their crack of choice. The meth is just a chaser.
@@mikebrown3790 sir you are sorely misguided about the facts of this case the TRUTH is ALEX JONES only makes 10,000 a WEEK not month. so yeah cry more into your ill gotten bloodstained money Alex I weep not for you
@omaemou Shind3iru Alex Jones ain’t gonna sleep with you. Say hi to your sister wife for me.
Mocking the Judge that essentially holds your case in their hands is such a bizarre move lmao
Not to AJ and his flock of sheep. It’s all just a play in their warped minds. All for show, and nothing is real. Unless AJ says so…
Looks like something out of a Simpsons episode.
Why? Nothing's going to happen to him, he can just keep moving money around, each time he does it adds another 2 years on to the litigation, as long as he out-earns court costs, hell never face a penalty
I'm waiting for Mr Tate to do it as well
Not just the judge, but the JURY!
That foreshadowed bankruptcy loophole is so obvious and egregious I really hope the congresspeople who approved it are being looked into regarding their own shell companies.
they're not
Our congressmen openly and blatantly use government secrets to do insider stock trading, something incredibly highly illegal for everyone else, but "free market fair game" to them. They won't be fixing loopholes anytime soon, because they use the loopholes themselves.
The system was built this way
Your support ticket has been closed with "works as intended".
@@57thorns your comment could help explain what "triggering" means to white collar workers who don't understand "kids these days". Well crafted.
Just for clarification: That wasn't actually Dave Bautista as himself, he was playing a character in Glass Onion.
oh thank god, I was so shocked xD
I was shocked about that one too... I felt so betrayed, I had though Dave was one of the good guys. I think LegalEagle is sometimes a little _too_ snappy with the cultural references.
I was going to say, why is Dave catching a stray here?
THANK GOD. I was looking for a comment because I CANNOT BELIVE he would watch or believe in this drivel Jones is peddling.
I live in a country that doesn't have a jury, so it was hilarious when he said a judge nowhere in the world can tell a jury what to think.
I was thinking the same thing! We're all either going by common law or some kind romano-germanic system where juries are quite literally not a thing. He really doesn't stick that little head of his outside his pathetic little bubble
Technically, the judges in your country wouldn’t be able to tell the jury what to think, on account of them not existing… unless the judge is also the jury
Exactly what I was thinking. Doesn't surprise me, but Alex don't know how good he's got it.
@@justinrockholt7055but are they also executioner? Maybe the OP lives in Mega City One? 😜
@Exceptionally Quiet I live in Norway. The reason we don't have a jury is that we see it as a hindrance to a fair trial. We now have "meddommer" (co-judge, I don't know how to translate it). They are non-professionals, but there are fewer than on a jury. This is to make sure everyone has given a good reason for the judgement. The idea was better legal security for the defendant
Imagine almost getting away with it only to insult the plaintiffs and judges to where they reopen the investigation.
Foot perpetually in mouth syndrome.
I can . Can you imagine working for Jones and not wanting to throw him to the pit of alligators?
so, he would have gotten off but didn't because he talked shit about the judge? sounds like malicious prosecution to me.
@@homewardboundphotos Alex Jones did 9/11..!!!!
@@homewardboundphotos I mean, he was harassing people and so they started an investigation into his harassment. That's just sticking your finger into an electrical outlet.
2:34: The plaintiffs attorney explaining how badly Jones’s attorneys messed up will never get old.
The dude is getting free drinks for the rest of his life just for the way he delivered those lines. He went full "A Few Good Men" on Jones.
Ohhh it’s even better. People think he did it on purpose because Alex Jones was pissing him off and making his life harder. The prosecutors legally had to write him and tell him about the emails and he never responded so people are fairly sure he did it on purpose.
The ''See I told you the truth'', just not for the reason one would imagine, afterwards makes it even more funnier lmao
The judgement against Alex Jones was completely and entirely unlawful and anyone with even a basic sense of law knew this. The scam industry will not expose their accomplices but I will. They violated Alex Jones right to a trail by jury and his 8th amendment right, excessive fines. Will they admit this? No, because its easier for them to destroy their enemies than to admit they were not only did completely unlawfully but that these "lawyers"/prosuctures obviously know it.
@@lukesutton4135 ^^^
The judge told the jury Alex was guilty because that verdict was already established. This was an award judgment to determine the amount of money only.
I like how the best way to mock his products is to just....say their names.
They're so exaggerated that trying to parody them wouldn't be as effective
@@oriolgonzalez9328 I think it's a Poe's Law type of deal honestly. There's no way to parody them without the people wondering if it is a joke or a genuine Alex Jones product. Which, honestly, is what I was thinking throughout this entire video until I checked and saw that that's exactly what he was doing(just saying the names). Alex Jones has successfully made the transition into self parody and I have no idea if it's a calculated persona to intentionally grift people or if he's a genuine moronic ideologue who is, I guess also grifting by selling ridiculous placebos. But I've heard people who know him say he actually believes the stuff that he says.
I still refuse to believe the chocolate bone broth is real, it's an excerpt from an alternate reality
@@nailinthefashion LOL when I heard that that's actually when I had to look it up. The whole time I was thinking 'ok maybe he's just making up ridiculous stuff that sounds like it could be an Alex Jones supplement' until I heard the words "bone broth" and had to find out what he was basing it on only to find out that they were indeed genuine products that he was just naming
@@Andrewbert109 Even more hilariously, the supplements are so watered-down that they are basically homeopathic. His supporters are paying about twice the price per gram when every gram contains something like half the 'active ingredients' of other, arguably equally worthless, supplements.
I swear LegalEagle gets more sarcastic with every video and I am here for it.
Or is it the fact that you can't talk about certain people and matters without descending into sarcasm?
@@sptony2718 Yes, well, that happens when those people are amoral shitbags who think they can get away with anything because they have money and think "Free Speech" means "Freedom from Responsibility"
I read the title as only “morally”.
First time dyslexia wasn’t wrong.
I just wanna say that at 2:08 the lawyer’s “mwahaha yes Mr. Jones” will forever be my favorite thing haha
"Ha, ha, ha. Yes, Mr Jones. Indeed"
That and:
AJ: "I got a torn larynx. I know you don't think it's a problem, but it's real."
MB: "Sure."
That was the greatest thing I have ever seen happen in any court case.
10,000 dollars a week? Let's all take a moment of silence for the poor dude.
520,000 dollars a year?
Gotta love how “bankruptcy” for the wealthy still means half a million per year
@@LobsterMobsterBobster Filing for bankruptcy does not necessarily mean that a person's income is limited to a certain amount. The eligibility to file for bankruptcy and the amount of debt that can be discharged depends on the type of bankruptcy and the individual's financial circumstances.
For example, in the case of Chapter 7 bankruptcy, there is a means test which compares the individual's income to the median income of the state they live in. If an individual's income is above the median, they may not be eligible to file for chapter 7 and may need to file chapter 13 instead.
In chapter 13, the individual is allowed to keep their assets, but they must pay back some or all of their debts through a repayment plan over 3 to 5 years. The amount of debt that must be repaid is determined by their disposable income, which is the income left after living expenses have been paid. So if someone is earning $520,000 a year and have high living expenses, they may still be able to file for chapter 13 bankruptcy and keep most of their income, but they will have to pay back a portion of their debt over the course of the repayment plan.
It's important to note that filing for bankruptcy should be the last resort and it's best to consult a bankruptcy attorney and get a clear understanding of the process and how it will affect your financial situation before making a decision.
Can I just win the Publisher's Clearing House's $5000 a week? I won't even cause any stupid trouble!
if the alimony courts can get theirs first so can these families - why he isn't living on 0$ a week until he launders enough of that hidden money to pay back everyone he's hurt is beyond me - 10 000 dollars is like a billionaires idea of being poor.
What I want to know is why isn't all these shady dealings and shell companies and obvious lying to his donors considered to be outright fraud that could land him in jail?
The claims he makes on his
"products" should have already landed him in jail on fraud.
Because this is America. All these laws are made by politicians (on both sides) being paid to make these loopholes so they can screw us.
As long as you don't make specific health claims you can get away with a lot for supplements in the US.
Because the kind of people who support Jones are also the kind to not actually look into anything about him themselves. They trust him to be just like them already so why would they suspect him of anything illegal.
For what he’s done this monster deserves life in jail
In Europe many countries have a 'claw back' law called Actio Pauliana. This would make it possible to void the transfer of properties by Alex Jones to his wife and other parties prior to bankruptcy. It looks like there is every reason to void most of the transactions Alex Jones has been doing with his companies in order to circumvent bankruptcies. In the US you have UVTA.
Section 548 of the US bankruptcy code also allows for clawback of these “fraudulent transfers”
It's disappointing that someone who ruins lives and profits off of that ruining might not face any justice. But someone like us readers could have their lives ruined by a few parking tickets.
Do you know they asked more $ from Alex Jones than the actual shooter of the kids hmmmmm. For a 20 second clip he said on air.
@@WhiteBoyizFresh lots of m's on that. It seems you didn't understand why that was. There are plenty of resources about it that can be found using whatever device you used to type your m's.
I agree, the prosecutor should be in jail for this.
Alex Jones: "Boo Hoo, I can't even eat on 10,000 dollars a week"
Every disabled person living on 20k a year: *looks directly at the camera*
20k? I get like 12k
Meanwhile... how much money do the ex-wives of Gates and Bezos have to subsist on?
THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS.
It's a bullsh*t argument for gold-digging wanna-be divorcee whores, and it's a bullsh*t argument for rich people having to pay the piper.
If there were any justice in this world, Alex Jones would be freezing his a$$ off on a streetcorner under a blanket and a tarp, next to a shopping cart full of his sugar pills.
5k.
Gotta love that unequal distribution of support eh? Go capitalism! /s
He's like a caricature of what would have happened if they hadn't stopped putting lead in paint...
A few years back his supplements were found to be tainted with lead.
The whole "these are extremely blue collar people. They don't know what planet they are on." shows just what he thinks of blue collar people.
I had to pause the video to address this issue; the use of 'Shadyhook Elementary' should have immediately told anyone with the slightest legal knowledge that this is a slam dunk case. Their obvious disregard for the system is in itself, a tell of what was to come
Agreeded
If the Judge really was possessed, I would personally thank the friendliest and most humane Demon I have ever encountered (no offence). You did a great thing here. Greetings and warm hugs go out to all the Dwarf Goblins, who were involved in "accidentally leaking" Jones's phone records and for all your other help. What you may or may not have in body height, you clearly compensate with GREATNESS!
Hell's whole thing is the punishment of the wicked, if they are trying to see you suffer then personally I feel like that reflects poorly on you. Like it would be so much easier to entice naive innocent people into hell so if you're the target that says something.
The world needs more demon goblins possessing people
@@kempolar9768
Hell is pretty just, if harsh. I’ve never heard of someone going there on false pretenses.
@@warlordofbritannia, please, let's not get into any discussions of Hell. The mere concept of Hell makes no sense. There is no justice in the concept of Hell.
@@johndemeritt3460
Thou art cozen with Satan
If he can't live on 10k/week without complaining, then he doesn't deserve to have even $1/week.
To be fair. He does live in Austin.
@@John_Fx you don’t need $520,000 to live in Austin
@@John_Fx 40k a month more than most teachers get in a year?
@@John_Fx
Ah, but he doesn’t need to live in Austin
@@user-du7if7xq3k But, but... that's only enough to buy an _average_ home in Austin per year...
I used to wonder why his company is called "info wars" considering he doesn't provide info I now understand it is because he is at war against spreading facts
Spoiler alert: information won.
Excellent point! 😅
okay? who cares. "Facts" don't exist anyway. read Zizek or Foucault
@@charlesc3734 facts don't exist so I'm assuming what you said isn't correct
He's warring against truth and facts
Love the defense attorney just scratching his chin and thinking: I hated you enough to say ‘Yes opposition lawyer, you can keep those those texts’.
The judge executed the law
You declared yourself guilty by dodging the whole discovery phase
That is what the legal brain trust on the Internet said ... but the truth is Jones submitted more in discovery than was expected of a defendant.
FYI: 7:57 to 8:09 is repeated at 8:15, déjà vu! But otherwise, here's a shout out to the new editor! It's a pleasure to see his? her? their? own style and humour shining through and making these videos so enjoyable and entertaining. A good team, indeed.
I've had Jones' finance practically drilled into my head becuz of how many times they've gone over it on Knowledge Fight lol. It's sort of like a nesting doll of companies Alex and his family owns but they did it in the dumbest way.
for a man who calls everyone a goblin, he's the most goblinesque being I've ever witnessed.
l0l tell me how he ruined your life. Enjoy your vaccines fluoride gmos.
How
@@donkeyparadise9276 Greedy, unpleasant, mean-spirited, overly aggressive while being too ignorant to understand his actions
I’ll never not love the look of terror on Jones’ face when they drop the evidence on him
Priceless 😅
There are funny youtube videos of using the 'shook' filter on movies like Titanic & Lord of the Rings.
I can't believe no one on the internet has ever 'flipped on' the shook filter at the precise moment Alex Jones realized his phone records were in the hands of the opposing attorney.
For shame, internet. Shame.
Yeah ... Jones is one of the most heinous mass murderers in history ... of wait ... that's right, he's just a radio host. You had me going there.
I personally lowkey love the judge face when she's hearing about how the lawyer got a copy of Alex's cellphone. Like she's processing how ridiculous the whole situation was.
Imagine describing anything Alex Jones does as "in good faith"
@Jackerson boggart racism. Some of them are actually very friendly little slime bags
Alex jones is about as right as he is wrong. Infact the "alex jones was right" jar might be past half full
@@XMooseManX 😐 ok
At least you can say this without being sued!
@@jerryholbrook13 out of all the defences of Alex Jones, this is one of them
Gosh, I don't know how I'd live on $10,000 a week
...
Lavishly, I imagine
Right? I'd feel for him, but I can't reach that high on the tax bracket. 🙄
I've got my plan for if I ever win the $1000 A Week For Life lottery. I can't even imagine what I'd do with 10x that money.
this is what is really going on. Jealous rationalizes all sort of anger and iniquity
@@antonyduhamel1166 You buy Twitter, obviously.
@@antonyduhamel1166 Wait. Hold up. Those are still a thing?
It's shocking to me that someone can be so deeply wicked.
He sows the wind. May he reap the whirlwind.
this was more like the eye on jupiter
Have you ever watch his show or just what media tells you.
@@WhiteBoyizFresh Why would anyone with more than half a braincell watch his show. Clips and excerpts (some of them even played in court) is more than enough
A son that any set of parents should be proud of. Can you imagine the conversation? "Mom, Dad, I need you to sign some papers. No don't worry it is nothing shady. It is just transferring some money into your name to protect it from the courts. No you can't have any of it..." Classic. Another person where there will be a whole special corner of hell waiting for him when he shakes off this mortal coil.
Hell isn't real, that's why we need justice.
I'm sure his parents are just as bad as he is. He learned his behavior somewhere
Assuming his parents aren't fully in on it.
@@NoirTheSable Oh they very much are. David Jones literally worked for Infowars for several years as HR manager.
This kind of stuff is pretty common actually among the politicians, judges, lawyers, and wealthy businessmen/women.
$10,000 a week?! The things I'd do for that paycheck are questionable on the best of days.
There's something seriously wrong with the justice system if he manages to get away with all this.
I mean, yeah. The first half of your sentence is spot on (and has been for pretty much the entirety of the institution’s history)-no qualifiers necessary. It’s designed to let the Alex Jones demographic get away with as much as possible; that’s a feature of the system, not a bug.
Yeah god forbid he be allowed to have free speech and be able to question an obviously corrupt government that lies every time it moves it's lips.
No there is not. He is guilty of using his freedom of speech. Thazzit tbh. Theres something wrong about the justice system for sure tho seeing he was charged and the claim came down and marked him guilty. And I dont like the guy. But thats what happened.
@@MrBeastboybrown yeah if only defamation wasn't a thing am I right? In a perfect world I could say a bunch of false shit about you and sick my giant, neanderthal subscriber base on you and have them ruin your life over a straight up lie.
@@MrBeastboybrown Freedom of speech is not actually the right to say whatever you want the same way freedom in general does not mean the right to do whatever you want. That would mean a lawless society because the freedom to do and say anything you wish also means that others could do the same to you. Words could be just as destructive as actions because speech is a form of action in and of itself.
PSA: The Dave Bautista clip, for anyone worried, is from the movie "Glass Onion" where he plays an Alex Jones-esque TH-cam grifter.
Alex Jones is like a real-life Ace Attorney villain.
Fake, his name isn't a pun (jokes)
I love the sandy hook family's lawyers giggle before he asks alex jones about the texts, just "Mhmhmhhmh yes mr jones."
Cause he knows that was the moment he got Jones right where he wanted him, and the best part? Jones' lawyers did nothing to save him 😂
"Indeed."
I read the title to this video as, "Alex Jones is now a personality disorder."
I was like, "Yeah. That makes a lot of sense."
Yeah. His mind is in total disorder.
"Acting in good faith" is a phrase that has never been applicable to Jones in his entire adult life.
I feel like destroying his public persona would probably be fine to the parents he called liars for saying *their children were murdered*
His reputation is already in tatters for anyone with 2 working brain cells. Practically nothing could damage his popularity with the sort of people who bought into the Sandy Hook conspiracy in the first place, or all the others who support him.
Which is why this sort of thing has to be dealt with in a more direct manner, but the rich rarely have to face consequences like that.
You can't destroy a far right's public persona. Unless you get them to support trans rights, abortions, and gun control.
Bro its impossible for Alex Jones's persona to be ruined. He has a solid base of ignorant Americans following him.
On a bit of a tangent, was surprised to find out Alex Jones is only 48 years old. Thought he was at least mid 60s. Guess hate ages you.
"They're acting demonically possessed" says the red faced apoplectic devil who sends his minions to hound grieving families, and sells unknown frothing concoctions...
Better if he got Ip banned for hate words like that
Haha 😂 the way the prosecuting attorney said “indeed, Mr Jones” with a cartoonish amount of poorly repressed glee is hilarious every time
Usually people like Jones are quietly funded by wealthy donors and not by subscriptions or advertisers or merchandise, I'd love to see his balance sheets and see where his income is coming from.
Donald Trump Jr.
"Wealthy donors?" You mean rich chumps. All you need is a conspiritard with rich parents in order to get equity funding for trash like Jones.
@@jakehyams8659 shut up
@@samsonsoturian6013 u gae
@@jakehyams8659 shut up
$42.5 million is not quite the same as $45.2 million, but I'm glad to see I'm not the only person who accidentally mixes numbers up like this. Of course, if we pretend these numbers are basically equal, I wouldn't mind taking the difference between the two and keeping it for myself.
Chuck McGill made that mistake too..
I came here to make the same comment
„More than 40 million“
Fixed it. =D
Either way, it’s more than AJ is willing to pay as a consequence for his act, and he’s gonna cheat his debtors and lie to his fans about his ability to pay and claim it’s an attack against him to keep him from telling the “truth”.
I had to read it twice! Lol I switched em too
Working in legal tech, I'm so glad to get your takes on things
5:50 I regularly make my own stock, and let me tell you, the idea of a chocolate flavored bone broth is nauseating, and I've mixed Martinelli's sparkling apple cider and pickle brine together and liked it! Yes, both stock and chocolate both have a rich, fatty mouthfeel, but those two mouthfeels are completely different, and indeed, clashing.
"Repeated Fraudsters won't be able to pay their fines & dues if they are not allowed to keep committing fraud." That's what it sounds like.
They are arguing that he won't be able to pay his fines for misinformation if he does not continue his show where he repeatedly spreads misinformation.
Frankly, I think we should expand and simplify frayd laws. Simply say if you lie knowing in advance you will make money due to said lie, that is fraud. I.E. The guys faking animal rescues to make money from TH-cam add revenue will be committing fraud
Jones is going on a fast route to find some street justice if he keeps this up.
The takeaway I've only gotten from all this is "bankruptcy means nothing if you are famous."
"Illegal and punishable by fine" = "Legal for the rich"
@@SnivyTries I gave you a thumbs up, but do not mix this up about me liking the content of this comment. Only that I agree it's true, but with great protest.
I am frankly amazed one of his victims have not just shot him and claimed self defense.
@drew23201 that's silly. First off, we're literally taking everything he's got. Second, a lot of fines are income adjusted. Third, refusal to pay equals a jail sentence. Fourth, pay your tickets you bum
Being famous just means you can easily find celebrities jobs.
God, that "perry mason moment" clip never gets old. It's like a silly Phoenix Wright plot twist that just can't happen in real life, but, well, in real life. It's just so good.
The gall to claim earning 10k weekly is "not enough to survive." For us living paycheck to paycheck, that is an insult.
I was watching the Texas trial in real time, and I don't think I'll ever get over how surreal that moment was. I couldn't believe that shite happens in real life.
Entertaining and informative as always, LE! Can you do an ep in the future on all of the sanctions his lawyers are facing? I need schadenfreude to get through 2023.
It's very, very rare to happen in real life. Usually judges are strongly opposed to lawyers springing surprise revelations in court, precisely because the opposing side doesn't have time to prepare counterarguments. It was only able to happen in this case because Jones's lawyers were stunningly incompetent.
God that moment of the trial where jones was called out about his phone is amazing.
I watch it when I’m in a bad mood, then I get happy again!
Not a trail ask any lawyer things that happened in that court room never have.
One had to wonder if his lawyers did it by accident or just hated him as much as everyone else did.
His lawyers are awful, too. Particularly Pattis.
I think it’s a case of he’s such a bad client to work with that only desperate lawyers are willing to take his case.
@@J-manli And probably why they haven't been disbarred...yet.
I like to believe they also hate him, but I'm pretty sure they are just simply terrible lawyers.
@@MrDmadness That would be a fit for such a terrible person of a client.
His attorney was trying very hard not to smile.
I still won't be satisfied until ever Castle Dental is shut down. for those who don't know, despite "leaving the practice of dentistry", David Jones (Alex Jones' father) is still the VP of Castle Dental which has repeatedly committed Medicaid/CHIP fraud often subjecting children to unnecessary procedures. in a *legislative* hearing about this back in 2013, one of Castle Dental's employees complained that if they reformed what dental and orthodontic Medicaid/CHIP would cover that if the TX legislature did so that he'd have to sell 2 or more of his 5 boats. these people are awful and they should be literally bankrupted--not just on paper.
The a-hole doesn't far fall from the tree!
Do you have a source for these
@@jaydmorales23 there’s plenty of coverage of and publicly available documents available regarding the Medicaid fraud scandal involving unnecessary dentistry in TX and I’d rather you look for it instead of demanding I search my hearing notes from 10 years ago and giving you a time stamp you likely won’t even watch as you didn’t look for it in the first place. call it “personal responsibility”.
@@PanikaMCD ok. I didn’t find anything so you’re just some random on TH-cam saying whatever
@@jaydmorales23 then, as Beckett recommends, fail better in the future.
The comical "epic manly bass noise" with every drug named was gold. I see you editors you're slaying it
I’m no lawyer or law student. However, what is being described of Alex Jones’s business handlings have a strong whiff of money laundering. (Cue Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “That Smell”.)
For sure. Infowars misbehaves and then shuffles their money to the supplement company. Then he just says, "The supplement company didn't misbehave, so you can't sue them."
Jones's words of attack against the judge and jury apply so well to himself.
I expect three things to happen: criminal fraud charges, jail time and asset liquidation. Basically, people can come and take items of value to pay off his creditors, and arguably his most valuable assets are his recording equipment.
I dunno I think he could start signing tin foil paper hats and get a fat chunk of money from his viewers. You see its not JUST a signature the ink actually has a trademarks combination of all his supplements ground up and mixed into it to deflect the signals the Cloud People beam into our skulls. LOOK UP IN THE SKY PEOPLE. THEY CAN MAKE CLOUD SHAPED PLANES. ITS TIME TO WAKE UP!
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His multiple luxury homes are worth more than the recording equipment.
There should be a "this guy is full of shit" clause that, when you just put all this stuff together, takes all his stuff and throws him in jail. This amount of huxterism is insane.
Or just chain him down on an ant hill in some desert and leave him surrounded by bouncing bettys...
Throwing him in jail might be a little extreme in Jones' case, but he definitely merits a "Shitwardly Fullsome" designation and some expedited, comprehensive stuff-taking is certainly in order.
@@rdean150 Would it? People would just give him money. He deserves to rot.
@@rdean150 There would be nothing extreme about sending him to jail - fraud, perjury, inciting violence, intimidation, harassment... This has been a campaign of abuse against those families. The number of victims and extent of harm he has caused them is unforgivable.
My man did Dave Bautista wrong, showing his character from Glass Onion while talking about "people who listen to InfoWars". Not everyone has is going to get the reference, and some people might think that Dave is actually that kind of guy.
Up voted for those who don't know the reference. I think from Dave Bautista's public statements it's pretty obvious he's not that guy. Then again I thought it was obvious Alex Jones is a con artist way back in the early 2000's when I first heard what he was ranting about.
I haven’t seen the movie yet so when he show him I was like “wait, why’s Dave catching strays?! He ain’t about that life.” Thanks for clarifying. 👍
Thanks for the comment, I was also highly confused
Yeah I was like WTF? Dave! No!
Thanks for pointing out it the joke is about a character as I haven’t seen the movie yet.
Thanks for clearing this up. He's probably the only actor who can portray Kratos the god of war and imagining Kratos as some gullible insecure fool who requires fake supplements and gets triggered by younger generations is not good casting to say the least.
"Hmm hmm hmm. Yes Mr. Jones. Indeed." That never fails to make me smile. 😆
I don’t know but I thought bankruptcy meant you couldn’t pay your debts and in cases like Alexis, he would have to liquidate assets to pay his judgements. Could be wrong though
Depends on which version of bankruptcy. Corporate bankruptcy can be a court supervised reorganization, liquidation of assets etc. Personal bankruptcy is quite another thing.
You get to keep a home, no matter how lavish, and a means of transport, along with a few other things.
@@jamespryor5967 I like the idea of keeping a home and a transport. I only want to add that maybe a cap should be put on the value of these assets
@@jamespryor5967 The problem is that they are finding that Alex attempted to hid all his personal assets under LLCs in the names of his kids, parents, etc and was transferring up to a few months before the filing.
One of the primary reasons to create a corporation is if that corporation goes bankrupt, your personal assets are protected. Otherwise every business would have a private owner and if the business tanks, they lose everything. It can also work the other way, with him saying he has no personal value despite owning several companies.. So he's trying to wiggle his way out of paying much/anything or at least delay it long enough for him to figure out how to hide the money.
He was already morally bankrupt, so at least he’s consistent.
You beat me to it, well done.
yawn, you are making fun of a man persecuted for his free speech...and you claim HE is the morally bankrupt person here.
@@markmakallister4653 Free speech lets me say the sky is orange. Sure I can say it, doesn't mean its right.
@@markmakallister4653 ok
@markmakallister4653 he found out the consequences of his actions and it is amazing.
Wish me luck legal eagles.
My wife finally convinced me to join law school.
And I have my introductory stuff next week!
Good luck with law school bud - you got this! 👍🏻✨
Good luck!
good luck bob
Good luck person I dont know !
You can't do worse than send opposing council a copy of your clients cellphone or tell the jury to consider the fact that the accused exercised his right to remain silent: if these clowns can do it, you probably can too!
I think the biggest surprise in this is the fact people were actually BUYING health supplements by a man who looks like that
@Phil Jermakian dude sounds like he’s gonna drop dead from lung cancer any minute now
@Phil Jermakian Yeah, “they,” lol. It’s always “them” 🤪
But you’re right about Alex. If a big 400-lb. tub of lard like that got on top of you, it’s probably game over, man!
@Phil Jermakian
He's a big man, but from what I've seen his not in great shape at all.
@@gregbors8364 sounds fatphobic.
@Phil Jermakian He's most certainly not in decent shape. He might be strong, probably is, but in a few seconds of moving round a ring he'd be fatigued and would get wailed on by fit guys half his size.
You're right though, that money men love Alex Jones because his moronic theories detract attention from the real scams occurring in finance. Making everyone look at the obese blubber clown shifts attention away from the structural problems and inequities caused by fiat continuously devaluing versus assets.
Greedy men chuckle at the hordes of mindless Jones fans listening to his garbage instead of learning how money flow works.
Couldnt have happened to a nicer guy
Cue worlds smallest violin
He earned, that's for sure!
LOL
Yep.
What? 10k a week?
Alex Jones is like if rectal cancer was a person.
Alex must be FUMING that a MERE WOMAN had authority over him in the courtroom!