Attorney Mark Bankston, who has represented Sandy Hook families, didn’t mince words when discussing Rodgers’ alleged false and conspiratorial beliefs.
Following a report claiming that New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers spread lies about the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, one lawyer representing families affected by the tragedy asked Rodgers to exercise more discretion when he spoke ― although the language he used was a little more colorful.
In a CNN story Wednesday, reporter Pamela Brown described an interaction she had with Rodgers in 2013, in which he falsely claimed that the Sandy Hook attack ― which left 20 children and six adults dead ― was orchestrated by the government.
Another source, not identified by name in the CNN piece, claimed that Rodgers had also said “Sandy Hook never happened,” and that “all those children never existed. They were all actors.”
Dangerous conspiracies like these were at the center of several lawsuits that Sandy Hook families filed against Infowars host Alex Jones, who spent years falsely claiming that various parents who lost their children to gun violence were “actors.”
Seriously people, we need to encourage Rodgers (and Kennedy) to run. The only voters that would be attracted to this ticket from the Conspirator Party would have been not voting or voting for Trump. And a vote not for Trump is a vote for sanity.