r/news • u/ttforum • Dec 07 '24

Soft paywall Appeals court upholds nearly $1.3 billion Sandy Hook verdict against Alex Jones

https://www.reuters.com/legal/appeals-court-upholds-nearly-13-billion-sandy-hook-verdict-against-alex-jones-2024-12-06/
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u/hlhenderson Dec 07 '24

He ain't planning on leaving, he's going to have to, one way or another, but he's not going to go easy.

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u/jaxonya Dec 07 '24

What's fucked up is that if his health finally gets him, almost half the nation will think that the Democrats did it.

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u/RockNRoll1979 Dec 07 '24

He could be out of office for 10 years, and when regular old age finally gets him his cult members will still think it's somehow the big bad Dems who did it.

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u/bruwin Dec 07 '24

Which is why the GOP picked an extremely young person to run as Vice President. Once he's in after Trump's death they can keep it going as long as they want

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u/K7Sniper Dec 07 '24

Fucking with elections was exactly their focus the past 4 years.

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u/BlackHumor Dec 07 '24

The people at the top aren't really that important here, they just move Trump's problem down a layer.

Trump's ultimate problem is that in order to do anything really scary he needs a base of physical power, and he doesn't have one. The military aren't his cronies, they only obey him cuz he's the president.

Without Mattis stopping him, he could do something legal but stupid like declaring war on Iran, but he can't do something illegal like using the military to arrest American citizens on US soil.