Arriving for the day’s proceedings in his trial on Tuesday, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones referred to the proceedings as a “travesty” and a “weaponization of the judiciary,” and claimed that “the whole thing is a fraud from end to end.” Jones is on trial to determine how much he owes families of victims who died in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting, which he falsely claimed was a hoax.
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