I remember thinking, you know, for Alex Jones to become the youngest president of the United States, an awful lot will have to go wrong in society. He was always very much a figure on the show. I think early on, people didn't really realize how much info was going on about Sandy Hook. So what Alex Jones likes to say as he point out is that he hasn't spoken about this a lot. How many times and the types of things he was saying there will never be a full record, but it was quite a bit. And I've had a vote like Cheerj.
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One in five Americans believe that every high profile mass shooting is staged by the government. In this episode New York Times journalist Elizabeth Williamson joins author and filmmaker Jon Ronson to delve into the dark world of conspiracies and examine one of America’s most prominent and controversial theorists, Alex Jones. Elizabeth Williamson joins us from Connecticut where she is reporting on Alex Jones' second defamation trial this year, sued by the parents of the victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting after he repeatedly claimed the tragedy was a hoax.
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