Wendy Rogers sees Alex Jones as a victim of the parents of murdered children he lied about

I can’t think of a more vile human being than someone like Alex Jones, who used his public platform to lie about the slaughter of children in order to make money.

Except ... maybe ... someone who actually defends such a lying scavenger. Someone who portrays a sick, self-centered vulture like Jones, gnawing at the bones of innocents, as a victim.

Someone like … Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers.

Last week, a jury in Texas awarded the parents of a child killed in the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., more than $49 million in compensatory and punitive damages after they sued Inforwars founder and host Alex Jones for defamation.

I was hoping they’d get ALL of Jones’ money.

Alex Jones faces more defamation trials

But it was a good start. There are other defamation trials against Jones on the horizon.

If there is any justice in the world, he will wind up with nothing.

Zero.

Jones on his radio and online shows said that the murder of 20 first graders and six teachers had been staged by the federal government. That it was fake. He used his media platform to lie about the slaughter of 6-year-olds and essentially unleashed his audience of gullible birdbrains upon the grieving families. All to make a buck.

“Sandy Hook is synthetic, completely fake with actors, in my view, manufactured,” he said.

This is a man who also claimed that the 9/11 attacks were staged by the U.S. government; a man who said the government is using chemicals to “create” gay people.

Parents of the dead children at Sandy Hook sued him. And won.

Because … truth.

No, Wendy Rogers, this is not censorship

No one with a heart or a brain would disagree with that verdict.

Which left Wendy Rogers.

She wrote online:

“It’s wrong what they did to Alex Jones. He should be able to criticize the official story any time he wants. I hope he appeals the verdicts because the kangaroo courts already made him guilty before the trials started. Americans should help cover his bills. Sick of censorship!”

The rest of us should be sick of Rogers’ ignorance.

Jones wasn’t criticizing an official story. He was lying about the murder of children.

He was not censored. Each of us is free to say whatever we want. But there can be legal ramifications to lies.

None of Rogers’ crudeness or idiocy is surprising.

The hateful rhetoric of a 'sweet grandma'

She is a hate- and conspiracy-spreading Oath Keeper and friend of white nationalist Nick Fuentes. This is the woman who called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “a globalist puppet for Soros and the Clintons” and claimed that “half of the combat footage” taken in the city of Kyiv was “a video game.”

A woman who suggested that people she proclaimed to be “traitors” should be publicly hanged. A woman who threatened to “personally destroy the career of any Republican who partakes in the gaslighting of me.”

She is also a woman who once tweeted, “I am just a sweet grandma who loves Jesus and America.”

A sweet grandma who defends a man who profited off and magnified the pain and suffering of the parents of murdered children.

I wonder what Jesus would say about that?

Reach Montini at ed.montini@arizonarepublic.com.

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