Posted on 12/29/2022 6:51:30 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
This week, Fox News host Tucker Carlson had a critique of the January 6 report: there was no mention of the supposed federal provocateur that the right held responsible for the whole event!
Carlson was referring to Ray Epps, a former Oath Keeper who was caught on video on Jan. 5 urging the MAGA faithful to march on the Capitol, before wisely choosing not to enter on Jan. 6 itself.
Epps has become the center of a right-wing conspiracy theory which casts him as Exhibit #1 supporting the idea that Jan. 6 was a “fedsurrection,” as some call it — a government-instigated attempt at discrediting the Trump movement.......
Now, thanks to the latest batch of transcripts from the January 6 Committee, we know.
The panel on Thursday released a transcript of its interview with Epps, alongside many other as-yet-unreleased key interviews, including testimony from Donald Trump Jr., White House advisor Stephen Miller and two Georgia election workers targeted by a Rudy Giuliani-boosted smear campaign. Epps was unique among the bunch, however, in that right-wingers have accused him for more than a year of being a federal agent inserted into the riot to instigate violence. Or, as Carlson put it, “if it’s not some sort of op, okay, then what is it?”
When asked repeatedly during his interview with the committee about whether he had ever worked with the FBI or whether any of his activities at the Capitol occurred at the direction or consultation of federal law enforcement, the transcript shows Epps continually said “no, sir.”
The panel also asked Epps if he was affiliated with any of the following agencies: the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, and D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department. He answered no to them all.
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Gee ... like I would trust him?
The FBI would never lie.
Well, I guess that settles it. He said it wasn’t him. (/sarcasm)
Russia, Russia, Russia!
Wrong question. He wasn’t a fed. He worked as a dem operative.
Again?
Working girl Mandy Rice-Davies was caught up in a sex scandal in the UK in the early 1960s (The Profumo Case). She claimed to know several men including John Profumo and Lord William Astor.
Whilst being cross-examined at trial, Rice-Davies made a riposte which has since become famous. When James Burge, the defence counsel, pointed out that Lord Astor denied an affair or even having met her, she dismissed this, giggling “Well he would, wouldn’t he?”
So ... were we to expect Epps to make a full confession? I expected him to deny everything. I mean, he would, wouldn’t he?
You’re a loathsome idiot, Josh
Well, actually no. What I, as "right winger", wanted to know was why his actions did not result in his arrest, detainment and charges filed.
“When asked repeatedly during his interview with the committee about whether he had ever worked with the FBI or whether any of his activities at the Capitol occurred at the direction or consultation of federal law enforcement, the transcript shows Epps continually said “no, sir.”
Then why isn’t he rotting away with the 725 Jan. 6th American Political Prisoners?
blah blah blah
Oh, he answered no.
Okey dokey, then. I guess that’s that!
Was Epps asked why he wanted people to protest in a restricted area?
There is clear evidence of Epps inciting entrance into the Capitol. There is clear evidence he was dropped from any investigation whatsoever. Does not take a “conspiracy” to see that. Nor does it take a “conspiracy” to know the FBI can incite action and lie about it without consequence.
Uh, did they ask him why he shows up in videos as about the ONLY person encouraging people to penetrate the Capitol and create chaos?
If there’s any one individual who could be convincingly accused of inciting a riot, this is him. What a joke,
“I expected him to deny everything. I mean, he would, wouldn’t he?”
Following the Bill Clinton credo “ Deny, deny, deny”.
If so, he would be in jail. He’s not and that says it all.
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