Judgment for Alex Jones, protest of Proud Boys founder and a big new Jan. 6 hearing
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Conspiracy theorist and huckster Alex Jones has been ordered by a Connecticut court to pay almost a billion dollars to people who suffered from his lies. Meanwhile, another notorious conspiracy theorist, the founder of the extremist gang the Proud Boys will appear at an event at Penn State University later this month. And there was a pretty explosive Jan. 6 committee hearing, too.
It’s the week in extremism.
Curtains for Alex Jones?
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It was a bad week for Jones, who has made a living by lying to his audience and feeding Americans a steady stream of conspiracy theories and propaganda via his platform “Infowars.” In the second civil case he has faced this year, Jones was ordered to pay almost $1 billion to victims who suffered from his lies about the Sandy Hook massacre.
Next: Jones still faces a third trial in Texas.
Gavin McInnes, the right-wing provocateur who founded the extremist street gang the Proud Boys, is set to appear at an event at Penn State University later this month. Students at the university are not impressed and have launched a petition to have the event canceled.
More: They joined the Wisconsin Proud Boys looking for brotherhood. They found racism, bullying and antisemitism.
Leader? McInnes has recently shown signs he is taking a more active role in the Proud Boys again, posting on Telegram about the group.
Bombshell Jan. 6 committee meeting
Thursday’s meeting of the house select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection was a wild one. The headline is that the committee voted to subpoena former President Donald Trump for questioning. But plenty of other revelations came out of the meeting, including:
What now? It was the last scheduled meeting of the committee. Trump will almost certainly fight the subpoena in court.
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This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Judgment for Alex Jones, protest of Proud Boys founder and a big new Jan. 6 hearing