After being reinstated to X, formerly Twitter, for the first time since being banned in 2018, right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones issued another apology for his comments about the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
The remarks from Jones came during a conversation on an X Spaces livestream co-hosted by the platform’s owner, Elon Musk, and Mario Nawfal on Sunday.
“One of the questions I really have to just get out of the way, and I, and you’re probably talking about this already, before is the whole Sandy Hook thing,” Musk asked Jones. “So what exactly did you say, and what is wrong with that situation?”
Jones told Musk that he was only trying to cover the news of the mass shooting and that in his trial, where he was ordered to pay the families of the victims $1.5 billion in a defamation suit, he fell victim to a politically motivated judge.
“And I had a very small operation and did not even understand how powerful I was. And so when that event is called, the school shooting, which I do believe happened, happened 11 years ago,” Jones said. “The Internet exploded, and it was the top story off and on for years with all these professors and former school safety people and all of them saying they believed it was a drill, and I simply covered them covering that.
“And so suddenly I would wake up, and there would be sometimes 100 articles or more a day, every major news channel saying that I was currently saying nobody died, currently sending people to their houses, currently peeing on graves.”
However, Jones told Musk and those listening to the livestream that he had apologized numerous times, saying he didn’t think it was staged and that he was only playing “devil’s advocate.”
“I apologize on every show. And I’ll say it again, I apologize that I just gave my commentary because I’m really just a guy… talk radio host. So I do that on the Internet. I just take calls and interview guests, and that I play devil’s advocate,” Jones explained. “And if that hurt people’s feelings, I apologize. But I did not send people to your houses. I did not pee on graves. I don’t know any of the stuff that went on.”
Jones promoted theories that the massacre that killed 20 children was a false flag event designed to push for stricter gun control.
Eventually, the families of the victims and survivors filed a defamation lawsuit against Jones, which he lost.
The controversial Infowars host made his return to X on Sunday after being reinstated over the weekend by Musk, who made the decision after running a poll asking his followers for their input.
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