How the fuck did Alex Jones lose the defamation lawsuit in Magastan?? (lemmy.nz)

submitted 4 days ago by luthis@lemmy.nz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm quite surprised. From the outside, how the US appears, I would have expected Trump to do some BS or the courts threw it out because free speech for psychopaths etc. But somehow that didn't happen?

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[-] HappyCatLuvs_U@lemmy.world 49 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Let us not forget that the lawyer for Alex Jones sent a full copy of all Alex Jones' text messages for the past two years to the opposing counsel and did not claw them back or make any attempt or give any notice until the window passed. Meaning the opposing counsel got to sit there and call Jones out for lying on the stand, using his own words from his own private texts. It really hurt his credibility with the jury, I imagine.

p.s. Sorry you can't read whole source without a work around.

[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 15 points 4 days ago

That is an astonishing fuckup

[-] AMoralNihilist@feddit.uk 11 points 4 days ago

It's very difficult for these asshats to get decent lawyers because most lawyers care about win rates and their public perception to gain clients

[-] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 days ago

Not really that astonishing though...

[-] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 8 points 4 days ago

So good. Fuck the info-lectual!

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 days ago

Alex Jones had credibility to lose?

[-] galaxy_nova@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Are the text messages not evidence that would have had to be turned over to the opposing counsel anyway? Don’t really know how the whole lawyering thing works

[-] HappyCatLuvs_U@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

To that point, as far as I know, he had denied having any relevant messages and not turned them over, despite being required to.

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