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It's Just Been Hell:' Life as the Victim of a Jan. 6 Conspiracy Theory
NY Times ^

Posted on 07/13/2022 6:00:15 PM PDT by MNDude

Ray Epps has suffered enormously in the past 10 months as right-wing media figures and Republican politicians have baselessly described him as a covert government agent who helped to instigate the attack on the Capitol last year.

have assailed him as a coward and a traitor and have menacingly cautioned him to sleep with one eye open. He was forced to sell his business and his home in Arizona. Fearing for his safety and uncertain of his future, he and his wife moved into a mobile home in the foothills of the Rockies, with all of their belongings crammed into shipping containers in a high-desert meadow, a mile or two away.

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“And for what — lies?” Epps asked the other day with a look of pained exhaustion. “All of this, it’s just been hell.”

Almost from the moment that a violent mob stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, allies of former President Donald Trump have sought to shift the blame for the attack away from the people who were in the pro-Trump crowd that day to any number of scapegoats.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: deminsurgency; demonicrat; epps; j6fiasco; jan6; johnblischak; lies; lol; news; pelosiscoup; propaganda; rayepps
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To: MNDude

I bet Mussolini wished he had friends at the NY Times.


41 posted on 07/13/2022 9:00:13 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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Cry me a river, shameless Fed.


42 posted on 07/13/2022 9:07:23 PM PDT by steelyourfaith (Election Theft Has Consequences)
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To: MNDude

Technicality. Not currently a fed, but a paid operative of the democrat party and the criminal enterprise behind them.


43 posted on 07/13/2022 9:47:15 PM PDT by StolarStorm
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To: BereanBrain

If someone could answer that simple question , the conspiracy theory would be solved right? Since they say he is not a paid actor.


44 posted on 07/14/2022 3:16:31 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: olezip

Of course they have. Anyone else in his shoes would be railed by the likes of the NYT. But when the right zigs , they leftists have to zag. So when we wonder why this man is not locked up, the NYT will happily cover for him.


45 posted on 07/14/2022 3:19:31 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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