Grieving parents and others have blasted Megyn for scheduling a primetime interview with Jones for her Sunday news show on NBC. Promotional clips show the outspoken internet personality discussing his theory that the Sandy Hook tragedy was really a government operation to stir up support for gun control. Megyn had also planned to emcee a charity event for the local organization The Sandy Hook Promise — which advocates for gun control legislation.
“Sandy Hook Promise cannot support the decision by Megyn or NBC to give any form of voice or platform to Alex Jones and have asked Megyn Kelly to step down as our Promise Champion Gala host,” said Sandy Hook Promise co-founder Nicole Hockley. “It is our hope that Megyn and NBC reconsider and not broadcast this interview.”
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Jones has gone from admitting that "some real kids" were killed as part of the "hoax" to insisting that no one was really murdered by Lanza — and that the bloody crime scene was "synthetic, completely fake, with actors." Some grieving parents have even been harassed by Jones' disciples — with strangers taunting them over their children's "fake" deaths.
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The conspiracy theorist is also arguing for Megyn's planned show to be pulled from NBC before its planned air date of June 18 — which is also Father's Day. “Megyn Kelly lied to me several weeks before she came here,” he said. “She said that the interview was not going to be about Sandy Hook and the mass shooting there, and it was not going to be about Pizzagate and these other issues that the media always obsesses on and misrepresents what I’ve said and what I’ve done.”
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