If it hadn’t been so excruciatingly unhappy, Alex Jones’s defamation trial might need been cathartic.
Mr. Jones, the supplement-slinging conspiracy theorist, was ordered to pay greater than $45 million in damages to Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, the mother and father of a 6-year-old who was murdered within the 2012 mass capturing at Sandy Hook Elementary Faculty in Newtown, Conn. The jury’s verdict got here after Mr. Jones was discovered answerable for defaming Mr. Heslin and Ms. Lewis, whom for years he falsely accused of being disaster actors in a “false flag” operation plotted by the federal government.
To the victims of Mr. Jones’s harassment campaigns, and to those that have adopted his profession for years, the decision…