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Alex Jones blames form of ‘psychosis’ for Sandy Hook conspiracy theories

His deposition video was posted on YouTube.

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Alex Jones Deposition

A deposition of Alex Jones, the head of InfoWars, was released on Friday as part of a lawsuit brought against him by a parent of one of the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting.

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HuffPost published a transcript of the deposition that took place earlier this month. The law firm representing the parent of the victim, Kaster Lynch Farrar & Ball LLP, published the deposition on YouTube.

Jones is being sued by a number of parents of victims, including Scarlett Lewis, whose lawsuit led to the deposition released on Friday.

In the deposition, Jones looks uncomfortable at times as a lawyer presses him about his views about Sandy Hook, including how Jones at times called it a “false flag” operation. A number of clips were shown to the InfoWars host where he made comments about the shooting on the show, including calling it “staged.”

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During it, Jones also says he “almost had like a form of psychosis back in the past where I basically thought everything was staged, even though I’m now learning a lot of times things aren’t staged” as a way to justify his Sandy Hook conspiracy mongering.  

He added that his opinions may have “been wrong; but they were never wrong consciously to hurt people.” 

You can read all of the HuffPost report here.

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