Merrick Garland Shoots Himself in the Foot With Sloppy Ray Epps Plea Deal: It’s Worse Than You Think

Revolver ^ | September 22, 2023 (9 hours ago) | Staff

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Earlier this week the DOJ charged infamous Fedsurrection provocateur Ray Epps with a single misdemeanor account of “disorderly conduct. Despite what the increasingly desperate regime media would have us think, it is simply ridiculous to think that such a weak misdemeanor charge, issued nearly three years after January 6th, could possibly quell suspicions regarding the true nature of Epps’ involvement in the January 6th Fedsurrection.

As demonstrated extensively in a recent Revolver piece, this recent move only makes the regime look clumsy and utterly desperate to salvage the crumbling narrative regarding Epps and January 6th. The great January 6 journalist Julie Kelly has additionally speculated that the timing of the misdemeanor charge suggests that it could have been specifically intended to allow Epps (and potentially the feds) to avoid the potential disaster of having Epps testify as a witness in the case of another January 6th defendant with whom he interacted. This is precisely what happened in the case of Steve Robeson, one of the many informants who participated in the disgraced Michigan “Fednapping” entrapment plot, who was conveniently slapped with a bogus gun charge just in time to prevent him from testifying in the trials of the other alleged “plotters.”

Yesterday, the government released its meager 14-page “Statement of Offense” for James Ray Epps Sr. (Ray Epps’ full legal name) to accompany Epps’ guilty plea. After reading this document, it is still clearer that the DOJ’s decision to charge Ray Epps is just as disingenuous as Ray Epps’ participation in the events of January 6th. As an exercise, we will go through the statement of offense’s description of Epps’ behavior and compare it to what is already in the public record.

The Statement of Offense begins with an ever-so-scant description of Ray Epps’ behavior on January 5th. Readers will recall that Ray Epps was out and about on BLM Plaza in Washington, D.C., on the evening of the 5th, famously urging crowds to go into the Capitol the next day. This was the scene featured in the now iconic viral videos of Epps (clips one and two of the below compilation of Epps’ “greatest hits”, as it were):

Here is the Statement of Offense’s description of Epps’ behavior on the evening of the 5th:

This brief, almost perfunctory description completely fails to capture the scope, focus, and dedication Epps exhibited in proselytizing his mission to the crowd to go into the Capitol the next day. For some context, it is important to remember that that evening was a scene of conflict between BLM and Antifa and Trump supporters. Indeed, there were cases of Antifa attacking Trump supporters, including women, thereby agitating the crowds of Trump supporters to the threat and social menace that was BLM and Antifa. One curious feature of Ray Epps’ behavior was his incredible persistence in injecting himself into various crowds and reminding them to stay focused on the mission, that is, the mission to go into the Capitol the next day. Epps’ persistently urging the crowd to “stay focused” and efforts to redirect the crowd from focusing on BLM and other matters provide context for the most iconic Ray Epps clip from that evening.

Clip 1:

In the following clip, from slightly earlier in the evening, Epps gives the same exact spiel, almost as if his lines were practiced and rehearsed. Note how Epps deploys the same preface of “I probably shouldn’t say this because I’ll probably get arrested” before making his same Capitol invasion pitch and delivers the same theatrical pause after “in” when he tells them: “We need to go in to the Capitol.”

Of course, this completely puts the lie to Ray Epps’ testimony to authorities that he simply thought the Capitol would be open on the 6th and it would be perfectly legal to walk in.

For additional context and perspective for the first exhortation to go “into the Capitol”, the following footage is quite helpful. Note that it features a woman with a bullhorn addressing the crowd with various grievances pertaining to COVID, BLM, and George Soros, among other things. Ray Epps injects himself into the interaction to keep the crowd focused. “We are here to do something. It is not to mess with Antifa; it is not to mess with Black Lives Matter… but listen, we’re here to make a difference with the morons making decisions.” He then went on to clarify exactly what that would mean, exhorting the crowd to go into the Capitol (at the 2:25 mark, he can be heard in the background giving the exhortation presented more clearly in Clip 1 above).

Here’s a fun supercut we put together in a previous piece of Epps telling other protesters “We need to go inside the Capitol”—and that everything besides that singular objective was “losing focus,” “a distraction”, “doesn’t matter,” and “not what we’re here for.”

At one point, when forced to think on his feet, Epps clumsily blurted out that the Capitol was the enemy—as if to express some deeply rooted vendetta against neoclassical architecture!

Although we can’t fully confirm it due to poor audio, this little discussed clip certainly seems to depict Epps coming straight out and saying that “we’re here to storm the Capitol.” For this particular clip, we’ll let the readers judge for themselves.

[Ann Archy]

Hes like a shaky old woman...he would pee his pants at the sight of a gun!
TOTALLY EVIL AND CORRUPT!

[17th Miss Regt]

"No reasonable prosecutor would prefer charges against Trump-appointed Mr. Epps."

I'll bet you he will try that next time he is hauled before Congress.

[LS]

Ray “Fedboy” Epps to you.