Alex Jones must pay $965 million in damages to numerous families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting for falsely claiming they were actors who faked the tragedy, a Connecticut jury said on Wednesday, marking the second multimillion-dollar verdict against the conspiracy theorist in just over two months.
As a gigalib who's listened to way too much Knowledge Fight, the short answer is Alex Jones is 1000% a grifter cosplaying as part of the militia psychos that produced OKC and Malheur. Basically the only thing he's ever been consistent on is 2A absolutism, otherwise he'll flip on literally anything if it helps make the audience feel besieged and sell them dick pills and dehydrated potatoes.
From some people who knew him back in the Austin access television days, Alex Jones is 100% playing a character.
I wonder how much of the original man is left after being in character for so long. Not to say he wasn't always a shitbag