Marjorie Taylor Greene says it's unfair to ruin Alex Jones for smearing Sandy Hook parents, says Infowars is right 'most of the time'

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene came to the defense of Infowars’ Alex Jones over the weekend.
She claimed Jones was being “persecuted.”
Jones was ordered to pay $45 million to Sandy Hook parents he defamed last week.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene defended Alex Jones after he was ordered to pay $45 million to the parents of children killed in the Sandy Hook mass shooting he defamed.

Alex Jones speaks to the media during a lunch break during the trail at the Travis County Courthouse in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday, July 26, 2022.Briana Sanchez/Austin American-Statesman via AP, Pool

Alex Jones speaks to the media during a lunch break during the trial at the Travis County Courthouse in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday, July 26, 2022. — Alex Jones speaks to the media during a lunch break during the trail at the Travis County Courthouse in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday, July 26, 2022.Briana Sanchez/Austin American-Statesman via AP, Pool

Greene made the remarks during an interview with Mike Lindell, a Donald Trump ally and promoter of far-right disinformation, on the sidelines of CPAC this weekend.

Greene accused the families suing him of seeking to “ruin” him and argued that Infowars should not be judged solely on its statement — which Jones recanted at trial — that the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax.

“He didn’t build his InfoWars on that (claim). He built it on a lot of other information. And Alex Jones was right most of the time,” Greene noted of Jones.

Marge Greene claims Alex Jones is being unfairly persecuted by Sandy Hook families: “To ruin Alex Jones? He didn’t build his InfoWars on that. He built it on a lot of other information. And Alex Jones was right most of the time.” pic.twitter.com/1vMKnPiUJj

– Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) August 7, 2022

“Alex Jones was right most of the time, except of course on Sandy Hook.”

In another interview at the conference Friday she claimed Jones was being “persecuted”, despite praising him on Twitter for his remarks about child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein during his trial.

A jury ruled last week that Jones must pay large sums in damages to the parents of the children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting, after hearings in a Texas court. For years, Jones had baselessly claimed on his Infowars website that the parents were part of a government conspiracy to stage the mass shooting.

Jones has built a lucrative empire promoting baseless and outlandish conspiracy theories on Infowars, with an expert witness at last week’s trial testifying that he could be worth as much as $240 million.

Infowars has promoted “false flag” conspiracy theories about events such as the 9/11 attacks and a series of mass shootings, claimed the U.S. government secretly controls the weather and has long pushed anti-vax misinformation.

He has also used his platform to promote the careers of politicians who have echoed his embrace of conspiracy theories, including Donald Trump early in his political career and Greene when she launched her bid for Congress in 2020.

Like Jones, Greene has promoted conspiracy theories about mass shootings. She has harassed David Hogg, a survivor of the 2018 Parkland, Florida shooting.

Jones filed for bankruptcy following last week’s ruling, delaying another defamation case brought against him by the Sandy Hook families in Connecticut, Reuters reported.

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