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Ray Epps’s new attorney, who is demanding on behalf of his client a public apology from Tucker Carlson under threat of a defamation lawsuit, is the director of a radical anti-Trump organization, a close associate of Media Matters Democrat attack dog David Brock and a former employee of Perkins Coie, the lawfare firm behind Russiagate and the Steele dossier.Ray Epps, right, conducting an improv interview. / IMAGE: RT via YouTube.Epps’s attorney, Michael Teter, sent a letter on Thursday to Carlson, demanding the Fox News host retract what Teter called “false and defamatory statements” that Epps was a J6 government plant."Letters...

Poor Ray Epps. Last July, the New York Times reported that life has “just been hell” for Ray Epps, who hasn’t spent a day in jail over his role in the January 6 Capitol riots. The January 6 select committee ran Epps through the wringer, with then-Rep. Adam Kinzinger explaining that Epps was “just another misled man” who got riled up by Donald Trump’s incendiary rhetoric. We’ve all seen the video of Epps inciting people to enter the Capitol, but in his second interview transcript, he claimed he thought the Capitol would be open to the public on January 6....