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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Wasn't his name removed from a list of people the FBI had named as conspirators, or at least parties of interest? Was anyone else scrubbed from that same list, or was Epps the only one? If so, then you'd think that the FBI would have been smart enough to simply arrest the guy to make it look like he hadn't been a part of their scam. As it is, by removing his name from the list without explanation, they actually fingered him as one of their assets.
He’s the only person on tape cheering for the crowd to rush the capital. And over two days, not just at the moment of activity. If he’s not a fed he should have been the first to be arrested. Therefore there is only one possible outcome.
Did Epps have a cutout handler?
did Epps’ handler work for a different agency than the FBI?
was Epps sworn in prior to testifying?
Uh, NO it doesn’t.
he certainly wouldnt be prosecuted for perjury
now would he?
Check Epp’s bank accounts/financial dealings, in excruciating detail.
Well, there you go. Epps wouldn’t lie, of course./s
Well he said it’s so, so it must be so, that could only mean one thing.. Russia Russia Russia
Notice when he talked his lips were moving ... telltale sign of a government agent lying.
Yep, the Man lies all the time. It’s a fix and we’re all victims.
Then he won’t mind testifying.
Co-Conspirators.
Epps, FBI, Capitol Police, Pelosi’s handpicked kangaroo Kourt....
Of course they would clear Epps (and themselves).
Indeed. The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. This will all be sorted out in the new Administration.
No cross examination, this is hardly proof.
If he’s not an fbi agent how come he was never charged with a crime he is on camera telling people to go into the capitol there are lil old ladies in jail right now for taking selfies yet this guy tells people to go into the capitol and it’s all good come on dude is a fed
Well if he wasn’t a fed- then why aren’t they charging him with inciting a riot? What he did was far worse than what many of the peaceful protestors who were charged and thrown in prison had done- yet the fbi and the bogus jan 6 panel seem to not care about him at all- why is that? The left have gone to insane lengths to try to convict Trump on charges of incitement- why no charge for epps who actually did incite others?
FBI probly has him sweating federal felony charges on money fraud or some white collar crime. Any way you look at it Epps is a stooge.
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