Alex Jones is ‘effectively suing himself’ in order to stall an upcoming defamation damages suit brought after comments he made about the Sandy Hook school massacre.
The far-right InfoWars host has filed court documents against his own media company in Connecticut ahead of long-delayed proceedings in the state.
Jones is also currently on trial in Texas to assess the damages in that state, with Connecticut slated to start in early September after a jury selection next month.
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So, Jones has sued Free Speech Systems, according to the documents that were filed on Friday, 29 July.
In those documents, it states: “Alex Emric Jones, a defendant in this action, is employed by the co-defendant Free Speech Systems,
“Free Speech Systems has promised and guaranteed to indemnify and hold harmless Alex Emric Jones from any damages or other costs which may be assessed or entered against him in this litigation.”
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Then, there’s a load of other legal stipulations including injunctions for the company to attend jury selection and the trial of the action, compensatory damages for failure to attend or to indemnify and hold Jones harmless, as well as treble damages should any of the stipulations are not complied with.
That’s a very legal way of saying that he’s done something pretty unusual here.
The move has been quickly criticised by the Sandy Hook plaintiffs, and have made an ‘emergency motion to strike’ his action.
They said: “Alex Jones will do anything to delay trial in this case, including effectively suing himself.
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“Mr. Jones’s five-days-before-jury-selection-starts cross claim against his alter ego company Free Speech Systems, LLC is yet another bad faith tactic meant to obfuscate, to delay, and to create a false issue in this record in preparation for a new abusive bankruptcy filing.
“The cross claim alleges the fiction that this wholly controlled subsidiary promised to hold Jones harmless for damages in this case, inviting this proceeding to enter Mr. Jones’s conspiracist world where found facts and sworn testimony mean nothing at all."
The statement continued: “To ensure that Jones does not benefit from this latest ploy, the cross claim should be stricken immediately as untimely and made in bad faith.
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“It must also be stricken immediately because it is pure fiction.
“It takes two parties to make a contract, and here there is only one: Jones completely controls FSS.
“Jones knows this and nonetheless filed it, in bad faith.”
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Tom Wood