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.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Well, I guess that settles it./s
He was advised...
Ray Epps (Page 4, first full paragraph)
Thompson Announces Chief Investigative Counsel for Select Committee
Chairman Bennie G. Thompson today announced that Timothy J. Heaphy, University Counsel at the University of Virginia, will take a leave of absence from his position to serve as Chief Investigative Counsel for the Select Committee.
CLOWNS! The whole bunch of 'em.
Thompson & Cheney Announce Senior Investigative Counsel for the Select Committee
Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) announced that John Wood, a former United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri and senior Bush Administration official, will serve as Senior Investigative Counsel for the January 6th Select Committee and Of Counsel to the Vice Chair.
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Did Epps’ relative provide proof and to whom?
FBI are Biden’s Praetorian Guard.
How did Epps answer the question, “If you were uncomfortable with people breaking into the Capitol, why were you inciting them to break in?”
So the Democrats handle Epps with kid gloves yet throw the other Jan 6 people in a dungeon with extreme prejudice and we’re supposed to not notice the inconsistency?
And of course no one in the press pursues the obvious question — why the kid glove treatment for Epps?
The whole Epps thing smells to high heaven and cries out for an explanation.
And if he were to be affiliated with any of the intelligence agencies and/or if he was involved in the planning/participation of J6, who would hold him accountable if he lied about it? The J6 Committee? The FBI? What a joke.
Exactly. He was there, it’s on camera. He was inciting people to storm the Capital. Yet, people who just happened to be there taking selfish are rotting jail. Why isn’t he?
The Jan 6th farce commission isn’t a credible source. His “testimony” could have been prepped, convoluted or taken out of context. He could have even been pressurized to outright lie, e.g. Cassidy Hutchinson.
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.
SO THAT PROVES IT! HE SAID NO AND NO IS NO, NO? What a bunch of crap they throw our way
They are the ones with alternative facts.
Was he sworn in?
Redacted with WhiteOut?
See...it was never there...
Do they think we are that stupid?
Ah, but Ray Epps WAS TALKING and making numerous cell phone calls with democrats, the DNC, and Nancy Pelosi’s office and Nancy Pelosi’s Capitol Police Dept.
He was talking with the FBI and DOJ after Jan 5. Just not between Dec 27 and Jan 5.
Oh, now we know...what? Why wasn’t he arrested?
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