“So I think as a pundit, someone giving an opinion, that, you know, my opinions have been wrong; but they were never wrong consciously to hurt people.”
“I’m just saying that the trauma of the media and the corporations lying so much, then everything begins — you don’t trust anything anymore, kind of like a child whose parents lie to them over and over again, well, pretty soon they don’t know what reality is,” he said.
The Rockwall Police Department did not immediately return PEOPLE’s request for comment.
Jones is facing multiple defamation lawsuits from the families of Sandy Hook victims who claim his peddling of conspiracy theories have damaged both their reputations and inflicted mental anguish.
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In May, the families of four students and two educators who died, plus an FBI agent who responded to the shooting, also sued, accusing Jones of being “the chief amplifier for a group that has worked in concert to create and propagate loathsome, false narratives about the Sandy Hook shooting and its victims, and promote their harassment and abuse,” according toCNN.
Jones has previously described himself as a “devil’s advocate.” In a 2017 interview on NBC’s former programSunday Night with Megyn Kelly, Jones stated, “I tend to believe that children probably did die there [at Sandy Hook].”
“But,” he continued, “then you look at all the other evidence on the other side.”
Jones attempted to explain his past statements as a means of sparking debate in a20-minute segment on his radio show in November 2016.
Still, he maintained, “I’m going to be quite frank, I don’t know what really happened. I know there are real mass shootings. I know people lose children. I’m a father — it hurts my heart. So I don’t know what the truth is. All I know is the official story of Sandy Hook has more holes in it than Swiss cheese.”
source: people.com
