Mr. Trump, denounce Alex Jones: Sandy Hook principal's daughter
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Mr. Trump, denounce Alex Jones: Sandy Hook principal's daughter
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Erica Lafferty 6:06 a.m. EST November 25, 2016
He leads a fringe movement of 'Sandy Hook truthers' who promote hateful conspiracy
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This Thanksgiving, I sat at a dinner table with an empty seat. Its the very seat where my mother, Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung, should be. Smiling, laughing and enjoying a holiday meal with her daughters and grandchildren. Instead, my mom wasnt there because nearly four years ago, she was murdered in Newtown, Conn., along with five of her colleagues and 20 first-graders. That day, as the principal of Sandy Hook Elementary School, she died a hero trying to protect her innocent students.
My heart and my dinner table reflect the hole in my life that will never be repaired. And while Ive chosen a path of gun safety advocacy that not everyone agrees with, some opponents of gun violence prevention follow a different, darker path. A fringe movement of Sandy Hook truthers promotes hateful conspiracy theories that the shooting never took place. My Thanksgiving table tells a different story. And so does the reality of the families who had their loved ones ripped out of their arms by senseless gun violence.
The most prominent popularizer of the "Sandy Hook hoax" theory is the radio and Web personality Alex Jones. He is the kind of person youd expect to be confined to the darkest echo chambers of the Internet. Yet, Jones has been bolstered by the very man who has proclaimed hell make our country great again: President-elect Donald Trump.
A quick Google search for the phrase Sandy Hook truthers will turn up thousands of stories about how the worst day of my life was actually an elaborate conspiracy that never happened at all. Its insanity................................
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