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Posted: 2022-01-07T15:44:55Z | Updated: 2022-01-07T15:44:55Z

For years, conspiracy theorist and disinformation peddler Alex Jones has told his supporters that the only thing keeping his media empire afloat is their financial backing.

As much begging as I do, we can barely pay the bills, Jones told a caller on Thursday during a segment on his radio show promoting the Infowars store. Im not going to stop growth and let them push us backwards. I need your help, Frank. I need your help!

Despite his pleas for money, Infowars store where Jones sells an amalgamation of dietary supplements and survival gear made $165 million in sales from September 2015 to the end of 2018, according to court filings related to a lawsuit Jones recently lost over his lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre. The records, first obtained by HuffPost, give the clearest picture to date of the financial situation of the Infowars website and Jones himself. The records also provide a window into how vast and powerful Jones reach is and may provide clues into how he funds his political activities, including his participation in the U.S. Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021. HuffPost is publishing the full financial records of the store.

The enemy wants to cut off our funding to destroy us, Jones said in a 2018 broadcast. If you dont fund us, well be shut down.

That same year, the Infowars store made more than $56 million in sales.

Lies Pushed, Sales Soar

The new financial records were first submitted by Jones legal team as part of a discovery request for a court case he recently lost against the parent of a Sandy Hook victim. For years, Jones has used his platform on Infowars to falsely claim the shooting that left 20 children and six adults dead was a false flag filled with green screen images and crisis actors.

Jones lost every case against him levied by Sandy Hook parents after two separate judges delivered default judgments against Jones over his inability to provide internal company documents and emails related to the cases. Juries will be convened in 2022 to determine how much Jones will ultimately owe the parents.

On Dec. 27, lawyers for several Sandy Hook parents filed court depositions with the Travis County district clerk in Austin, Texas, where Jones radio show is based. Tucked away among the more than 500 pages of deposition transcripts were more than 30 pages of spreadsheets detailing how much the Infowars store made every day from Sept. 18, 2015, to Dec. 31, 2018, including the number of orders made and items sold. HuffPost first obtained the documents on Tuesday.

Jones lawyer, Bradley Reeves, did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Mark Bankston, a lawyer with Farrar & Ball who represents several Sandy Hook parents suing Jones and who filed the latest motion, told HuffPost that the public filings speak for themselves and declined to comment further.

The months of September and October 2015 saw a handful of orders a day but just one year later, the Infowars store was making an average of about $110,000 a day. And some of Jones most profitable days were the ones when he pushed his Sandy Hook lies.

For instance, on Nov. 18, 2016, Jones aired a segment titled Alex Jones Final Statement on Sandy Hook in which he said he has watched a lot of soap operas, and Ive seen actors before. And I know when Im watching a movie and when Im watching something real.

The Infowars store made just over $100,000 that day.

About five months later, on April 22, 2017, Jones published a new video on Infowars titled Sandy Hook Vampires Exposed. The store made $90,000.

In a June 2017 segment for NBCs Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly, Sandy Hook parent Neil Heslin painfully described holding his 6-year-old sons body.

I lost my son. I buried my son. I held my son with a bullet hole through his head, Heslin told Kelly in a segment about the harassment he has faced from conspiracy theorists.