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Ray Epps says NOW he’s about to be charged for Jan. 6, blames ‘relentless attacks by Fox’

July 13, 2023 | | Print Article

More than 2 1/2 years after the infamous Jan. 6 events in Washington, D.C., Ray Epps, who was caught on video urging protestors to “go into the Capitol,” revealed in a defamation lawsuit against Fox News that he is about to be charged for his actions — a move the Department of Justice would not have made were it not for that pesky Tucker Carlson, according to the complaint.

Epps has been suspected by many, including Carlson, to be a federal agent.


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“In the aftermath of the events of January 6th, Fox News searched for a scapegoat to blame other than Donald Trump or the Republican Party,” the lawsuit contends. “Eventually, they turned on one of their own, telling a fantastical story in which Ray Epps — who was a Trump supporter that participated in the protests on January 6th – was an undercover FBI agent and was responsible for the mob that violently broke into the Capitol and interfered with the peaceful transition of power for the first time in this country’s history.”

As BizPac Review previously reported, in March, Epps demanded that Carlson issue a “formal on-air apology” and retract “false and defamatory statements” the now-fired Fox News host repeatedly made about his possible work as a government provocateur on that fateful day.

“Finally, in May 2023, the Department of Justice notified Epps that it would seek to charge him criminally for events on January 6, 2021—two-and-a-half years later,” Epps’s attorney, Michael Teter, writes in the complaint. “The relentless attacks by Fox and Mr. Carlson and the resulting political pressure likely resulted in the criminal charges.”

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“Fox News and in particular Tucker Carlson spent a good part of two years lying about Mr. Epps’s involvement in January 6th, creating a fictitious story and narrative about him that is wholly untrue,” Teter told NPR. “And because of that he has faced harassment and threats from Fox viewers and others that have ruined his life.”

Epps, from Arizona, claims he and his wife had to sell their home, abandon their wedding business, and move to a mobile home in Utah, according to Teter.

“He believed in Donald Trump and he believed the lies that Fox told,” the lawyer said. “The fact that then Fox would take one of their viewers and turn him into the villain of one of their conspiracy theories demonstrates what we’ve known for a while, which is Fox News does not care [about its viewers].”

Online, news of Epps’ alleged impending indictment is raising more questions than answers.

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Given how other Jan. 6 prisoners have been treated, many wonder, if Epps’s claim is true, why has he still not been arrested?

Others have noted how the mainstream media has, with news of the alleged charge against Epps, suddenly softened its descriptions of what we were assured by the Democrat-led Jan. 6 Committee was the worst thing to happen in America since the Civil War.

The Washington Post now refers to events of Jan. 6 as “pro-Trump rallies,” while The New York Times now calls what it previously said was a violent insurrection mere “demonstrations.” And Rolling Stone has now “downgraded” its characterization of Jan. 6 to “protests.”


On Twitter, many believe the Fed’s charge against Epps is “all for show.”

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“The FBI is looking to cover its ass and act like he’s not a fed and act like they’re doing something,” stated one user.

 

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