Posted on 12/29/2022 9:23:43 PM PST by RandFan
WASHINGTON — An Arizona man who became the target of online conspiracy theories after he joined protesters outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, told a House committee that he wasn't secretly working for the government during the attack and that the campaign against him has torn his life apart.
Ray Epps told the Jan. 6 committee that the theory that he was working for the FBI never made much sense, given that his ’ image landed on an FBI poster immediately after the attack. He wasn't working for the CIA or the National Security Agency or the Washington Metropolitan Police Department, he said.
“The only time I’ve been involved with the government was when I was a Marine in the United States Marine Corps," Epps said.
Epps, who was a supporter of former President Donald Trump, said in the interview released Thursday that his grandchildren were being "picked on at school" because of his actions. He has gotten death threats. His business dropped. People have shown up at his house.
"We had a tour bus come by our home and our business with all these whacked out people in it," Epps said. "There are good people out there that was in Washington. Those aren't the people that's coming by our house. This attracts — when they do this sort of thing, this attracts all the crazies out there."
Epps was seen on video telling other Trump supporters the night before the attack that they needed to go into the Capitol. Epps told the committee that he was under the impression that the building, which was closed to the general public because of Covid restrictions, would be open.
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Same thought crossed what passes for MY mind.
But, hey! Let’s face it. Once our government gets involved, you can’t take ANYTHING for granted. That collection of thieving, lieing, tyrannical miscreants will do whatever their warped brains conceive as job security
He should never have urged insurrection. A life torn apart are the people still held without bail on misdemeanor charges.
Sounds like he was just another clown at the largest clown festival this country has seen.
That the media is defending him, and him alone, is all we need to know.
OK. So what about Epps? He's so free, he can admit his involvement to NBC news.
If this transcript represents the entire session with Ray Epps, at no time was he put under oath. He was free to say whatever the committee coached him to say without fear of being accused of perjury. Nice work if you can get it.
MR. He’snotinjailyet should stop whining.
He’s not in jail for a reason.
Who knows? Let’s give him a phone call.
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