Alex Jones ripped by Colbert, Kimmel over $965M Sandy Hook verdict: ‘good guys won the Infowars’

To say late-night talk show hosts Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel were pleased with the verdict in Alex Jones’ Connecticut Sandy Hook defamation damages trial would be quite the understatement.

On “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” the host was so thrilled with the news he offered a monologue in silence.

“A lot of other stories to talk about here tonight,” he said, with wide-armed shrug. “But I’d be just as happy to stand here and grin.” 

Just hours before Colbert taped his show, a jury in Waterbury awarded eight families of Sandy Hook victims and one former FBI agent $965 million in defamation damages for spreading the lie that the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012 was a hoax and the families were actors. Attorneys argued Jones has spent nearly a decade amassing millions of dollars from those lies. The decision follows a Texas award of $49 million to the parents of a slain Sandy Hook boy. In the eyes of civil court, the lies Jones spread on his Infowars show have cost him more than $1 billion, with another damages trial set for December in Texas. 

The trial wasn’t even part of Colbert’s monologue. He came out with  “a spring in my step, a song in my heart, emotionally and spiritually refreshed,” he said, discussing Jones before going into a pre-written monologue.

“You know how, as humans, we have to accept the fact that sometimes bad things happen to good people,” Colbert said. “Well, by the grace of God, sometimes, bad things happen to Alex Jones. And that’s a good thing.”

Colbert gave a hearty “woo” as the audience cheered when he told them of the nearly $1 billion verdict.

“You heard that right,” he said. “Billion with a capital B, for bye. That’s it. That’s that story.”

He said he felt like he was peaking early, before finishing the show’s opening bit.

Kimmel, from his West Coast studio, had more time to work Jones into his show. Moving from legal issues faced by Donald Trump and the embattled candidacy of Georgia Republican Herschel Walker, Kimmel, too, pulled no punches when dissing Jones.

“It was a rough day for the despicable and ridiculous Alex Jones today,” Kimmel said. “Alex Jones was ordered by a jury in Connecticut to pay $965 million in damages to eight families of victims of the Sandy Hook massacre, which he repeatedly called a hoax. He tormented these families, he accused them of faking their children’s deaths.” 

He then added: “I guess the good guys just won the Infowars, is what happened there” before showing clips of Jones livestreaming the verdict during his own broadcast. 

Jones has used the trial to raise money frequently as it progressed. He used clips to sell books, supplements and commemorative coins. In one instance, he created an ad for a cryptocurrency donation page that goes directly to his personal account using clips of his own heated testimony. He continued that trend as he watched the verdict being read, promising parents wouldn’t see any of it and it would go to save Infowars.

Kimmel was quick to point out that it would not work that way and the donations Jones asked viewers to “flood” in would go to the parents. And he encouraged it.

“Now go get that money for those parents, you disgusting pig, garbage person.”