- Alex Jones stormed out of his first interview since being ordered to pay $49 million to two Sandy Hook parents.
- Jones said he's "done" apologizing for saying the shooting was a government-orchestrated hoax.
Alex Jones stormed out of his first post-Sandy Hook trial interview amid an explosive meltdown in which he said he's "done" apologizing to the victims' families.
A Texas jury recently ordered Jones to pay nearly $50 million in damages to the parents of Newtown, Connecticut, shooting victim Jesse Lewis, for falsely claiming the mass shooting was a government-orchestrated hoax.
At the time, Jones admitted in court that the Sandy Hook shooting was "100% real" and apologized for "unintentionally" hurting the feelings of the victims' families.
But in a video interview published Saturday, Jones seems to snap when journalist Andrew Callaghan asks whether Jones felt responsible for what happened to the Sandy Hook families, who have faced harassment from his legion of fans.
"Do I feel responsible that someone that played shoot 'em up video games, was on a bunch of drugs, and then the internet questioned it and I covered that? No, I don't feel responsible, and I don't apologize anymore. I'm done."
Jones gets so worked up talking about Sandy Hook with Callaghan that he eventually storms out of the interview, saying, "I don't know if I can do this interview right now."
Audio of a conversation between Jones and an Infowars employee after Jones left the set was included in the video. The unnamed Infowars employee, whose voice is manipulated to keep for anonymity, is heard calling Jones out for sarcastically yelling that he personally shot and killed the Sandy Hook victims.
"It's still not a funny thing to say," the employee is heard saying.
"Fuck it. I don't give a fuck dude," Jones replies.
Jones did eventually continue his interview with Callaghan, claiming the multi-million-dollar verdict against him was pointless because he doesn't have the money to pay it.
"I don't have $2 million in cash. I don't have stocks and bonds. I don't have all that stuff. So it's like a joke. They can have billion-dollar verdicts, it doesn't mean anything," Jones says.
Jones' company, Free Speech Systems, recently filed for bankruptcy, which some saw as a strategic play to pause the litigation against him. The Sandy Hook families suing Jones have also accused Jones of trying to hide his wealth.
In addition to the recent $49 million verdict, Jones has a Connecticut trial set to start next week involving multiple Sandy Hook parents and an FBI agent, and a third trial back in Texas involving Sandy Hook parents Leonard Pozner and Veronique de la Rosa. Jones has already been found guilty of defamation in each. Jurors will now decide how much the victims deserve in damages.
"The Sandy Hook families ... they're sitting there thinking they're about to get this big payday that doesn't exist," Jones says.
When asked what he would do if he had a time machine, Jones said he'd likely make the same decisions all over again.
"I think I'd do it all again. I think this is going to bring us to something bigger. Technically if I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't be caught in that trap, but that's not how the universe works."