Zach Roberts/NurPhoto via Getty
After a decade of steady hate mail and harassment since her 6-year-old son’s murder at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Nicole Hockley says she’ll be ecstatic to see the source of that hate be left penniless.
That source, Alex Jones, was ordered on Wednesday to pay a whopping $965 million for spewing lies that the shooting was a hoax and that grieving parents, like Hockley, were paid actors hired to shill for stricter gun laws. And now, after receiving countless death threats and even claims that her son never existed, Hockley is ready to see Jones and his media company, Infowars, suffer.
“This was never about the money for us,” Nicole Hockley told The Daily Beast on Thursday. “But taking money is the only way we can hurt Alex Jones. And I think every family is happy to see him hurt, even if only financially.”