This is the moment Alex Jones was told his attorneys attorneys “messed up” and sent to his legal adversaries “every text message” he had written in the past two years. The messages contradicted Jones' claims that he had nothing on his phone pertaining to the deadly Sandy Hook school shooting, which he long maintained was a hoax. The stunning revelation took place at his defamation trial on Wednesday, and surfaced during an exchange between Jones and Mark Bankston, a lawyer representing the parents of a six-year-old boy killed in the 2012 attack. Bankston provided to the Infowars host a copy of a text message he received that criticized his platform’s coverage in 2020 of the coronavirus and likened it to his false theory that the Sandy Hook killings were fake. This was deeply unfavorable to Jones because he had provided sworn testimony at a deposition that he had no text messages on his phone that referenced the Sandy Hook massacre. “You did get my text messages?” Jones asked Bankston, while on the witness stand. Chuckling sarcastically, Jones added: “You said you didn’t. Nice trick.” Bankston replied: “Do you know where I got this? Your attorneys messed up and sent me a digital copy of your entire cellphone, with every text message you’ve sent for the past two years.” Bankston said he told Jones’s lawyers about the mistake, but they did not take “any steps” to label the texts as privileged, and thereby keep them out of court. “That is how I know you lied when you said you didn’t have text messages about Sandy Hook,” said Bankston, whose clients are Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, the father and mother of Jesse Lewis, who died in the shooting. Jones tried to parry by saying he would not have turned his phone over to the attorneys who then inadvertently forwarded the texts to Bankston if he was trying to hide anything. “If I was mistaken, I was mistaken,” Jones said. “But you’ve got the messages right there.” Jones was speaking a day after Heslin and Lewis testified about the mental suffering, death threats and harassment they had endured after Jones, a conspiracy theorist, trumpeted on Infowars and his other media platforms.