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Kelly McClure

Jones verdict: Nearly $1 billion owed

Alex Jones speaks to the media outside the Sandy Hook Trial in Waterbury, Connecticut (Joe Buglewicz/Getty Images)

As a Connecticut jury read their verdict on Wednesday — awarding nearly $1 billion in compensatory damages to families of Sandy Hook shooting victims negatively impacted by Alex Jones' claims that the tragedy was a hoax — statements are already being made by the Infowars camp that, somehow, the bank-busting debt is actually a win for Jones in his efforts to champion "the truth."

Infowars host Owen Shroyer aired an emergency broadcast of his "War Room" show once the total damages had been announced to pat Jones on the back for what the rest of the world views as a financially crippling loss.

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