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Jan. 6 committee seeks text messages mistakenly sent by Alex Jones’ lawyer
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:
- The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is seeking the text messages Alex Jones’ lawyer mistakenly sent to Mark Bankston.
- Bankston, a lawyer representing two parents who are suing Jones for defamation, said he received two years of Jones’ cell phone records.
- He said he plans to turn over the text messages to the Jan. 6 committee.
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is seeking two years of text messages from Alex Jones, Infowars’ broadcaster and conspiracy theorist. Mark Bankston, an attorney representing a pair of parents who are suing Jones, confirmed Thursday.
Bankston is the lawyer of Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, the parents of 6-year-old Jesse Lewis, a student who was killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. He told presiding Judge Maya Guerra Gamble that he is “under request from various federal agencies and law enforcement” to provide the records.
“Absent a ruling from you saying, ‘You cannot do that, Mr. Bankston,’ I intend to do so immediately,” Bankston said.
Bankston said he intended to give the records after receiving a request from the House panel though he has not yet received a subpoena for the records.
Jan. 6 committee member Rep. Zoe Lofgren told Sirius/XM in an interview set to air Friday that House investigators wanted to ask Jones for an interview and noted the new developments in his “communications.”
Jones’ “advocacy of violence … quite clearly played a role on the 6th,” Lofgren said. “We’d like to know more about it.”
On Wednesday, Bankston revealed in court that several weeks ago, Jones’ attorney, Andino Reynal, mistakenly sent him two years of his client’s cell phone records. The revelation prompted Reynal to file a request for a mistrial and ask Judge Gamble to order Bankston to return the documents and destroy what they kept.
Reynal said Jones’ legal team is “very concerned about the records that have been disclosed,” and specifically mentioned medical records that were included in the documents.
Bankston accused Reynal of putting a “fig leaf over his own malpractice” and “absolute breach of his duties to his own client.”
“They’re going to now,” she told Reynal. “They know about them, they know they exist, they know you have them. I think they’re going there either way.”
In 2018, Heslin and Lewis sued Jones for defamation. Jones has repeatedly claimed that the Sandy Hook massacre, which left 20 children and six adults dead, was a “giant hoax” and “false flag” devised by the “deep state” for more stringent gun laws. He has also said the families whose loved ones were killed in the massacre were government actors.
Jones on Tuesday conceded the shooting was “100% real.” The jury ordered Thursday that Jones pay Heslin and Lewis $4.1 million in compensatory damages.
Source: The New York Times
2004done
August 8, 2022 at 7:39 am
Do we see how important, necessary, vital, and ingrained the legal professions are to our system of justice? Without our Lawyers, the 5069 words Dec 15, 1791 (includes signatures, Bill of Rights, and designed to be understood by every U.S. citizen) but wouldn’t have included prohibition, its repeal, Roe vs Wade, its overturning, Dred Scott vs. Sanford, its 14th Amendment overturning. etc. I cannot help but wonder whether EVERY “accidental” exposures and EVERY “unintentional” delay, loss, miss-filing, and cover-up are ALWAYS serendipity that happen to entwine abuse of our system? Or am I just old and cynical?
Jimbo
August 8, 2022 at 2:43 pm
I’m so sick of all of this January 6th crap. The folks on this committee all need more than a bit of psycho therapy. There isn’t anywhere that they won’t go to destroy not just Trump, but anyone that supports any platform that he might represent. They would love to use Alex Jones to help put a label on us all. Some people should never be allowed to have an audience. Come on November!!!
CPO Bill
August 8, 2022 at 4:44 pm
EFF the SHIFFHEADS. FJB!
Wake up and smell coffee DUMMIES!!!!!!!
August 8, 2022 at 6:45 pm
DONE, how about BOTH + STUPID, Hey DUMBO don’t flatter yourself, the only label the January 6th committee is putting anywhere is going to be on that FAT F— CHUMP and it’s already saying COMMUNIST and if you or any other IDIOT follows him than your the put the label not LIZ AND THE GANG. I don’t think THERAPY will do any of you any good because your all just PSYCHO’S. CPO IS MY PROOF!!!!!!!!!!!!
WTFwasthat?
August 9, 2022 at 9:06 pm
Are you past 1st grade? Just wondering cause your comment may not even qualify as incoherent babble. My 6 yr old son can convey thoughts, and use grammar better… nice try though, I guess.
Tha Count
August 9, 2022 at 7:00 am
You must have some mental health issues. You comment is encrypted because I don’t understand what you are saying or on which side you are. I wander who is the dummy, looks like you qualify to be one
Don’t bother to reply, most likely I won’t figure out what you have to say
George Reed
August 19, 2022 at 5:08 am
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