Something is suspicious about this in the presentation, the timing and even the wording.
Ray Epps was a guy who attended the events in/around Washington DC on January 5th and January 6th, 2021. There is a lot of video footage of Ray Epps instructing people to go to the Capitol building. Despite a rather voluminous amount of evidence, Ray Epps was never charged with any conduct related to the events of January 6th.
According to a lawsuit Epps filed against Tucker Carlson and Fox News claiming the outlet targeted and defamed him, Ray Epps states, “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.” [lawsuit citation – pg 41]
First, since when does the DOJ inform a suspect in advance they are seeking to charge him? Second, timing. It is now mid-July; where’s the indictment? Third, the wording is suspicious – the DOJ would “seek to charge him criminally.” Meaning, the Dept of Justice told Epps they were going to make efforts to arrest him?
Considering the lawsuit itself if dependent on a very specific narrative; and considering the lawsuit itself if dependent on a sympathy construct within that narrative; and considering the media narrative has been about wrongly targeted Epps by right-wing disinformation white nationalists, something is not passing the sniff test.
Suspicious Cat remains, well, suspicious.
The Epps lawsuit citation is an insightful admission that the DOJ relies on media reports (regardless of their veracity) to make criminal charges.
They are the same group of traitors working together so of course they rely on each others lies to back up their lies and the lies of their fellow liars.
In short the truth is not in them.
Knowing that you can asses that there is no limit to their evil depravity and that lying is so ingrained they lie even when there is no reason to, because it’s so ingrained it’s second nature and they never even realize the extent of their personal damages and insanities.
It truly is the madmen running the asylum.
Isn’t this just their usual smokescreen so that they can hide behind “an ongoing investigation” during the inevitable future congressional hearings?
Yup, another fraudulent Congress’ admitting they are traitors, but we citizens they work for aren’t allowed to do anything because “They” are investigating themselves.
‘”When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.” – Thomas Jefferson
So the only remedy, as prior knowledge clearly shows, is a complete removal of the corruption to restore the Constitution which is the foundation of the USA.
‘I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have … The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.’ – Thomas Jefferson
Th Founding Fathers knew this. They just finished fighting a revolution against tyranny and made sure to leave US the means to once more remove the evil of Socialism.
“The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown. These ideas are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government unconstitutional.” – Samuel Adams
Stop the ABUSE! End the Battered Citizen Syndrome of being used and abused by fraudulent government people that need to get their own jobs and lives and stop living of the thefts of the fellow citizens they rob in treason as they commit the worst crimes imaginable, TREASON, which only has one punishment for all it’s irredeemable vileness..
This needs to be repeated again and again, far and wide!!!!!
Ray sues Fox
Ray gets discovery and all of Fox internal docs
Fox pays Ray
Ray walks with big cash and cache of internal docs
Ray is under legal “investigation” blocking all other investigations like House
its the Dominion playbook
Tucker gets Lawfared
I can’t answer this because of the ongoing investigation.
Nice way to block Discovery Depositions by Tucker/Faux News,…. that only end up yielding no useful or insightful info on Epps or Big Brutha..
Tucker Carlson and Fox News pointed out Ray Epps criminal behavior and he gets to sue them? What happened to crime stoppers? Should maybe getting a reward? Oh wait, he has an attorney from Perkins Coie.
NPR this morning stated that there is “no evidence” that Epps tried to induce protestors to enter the Capitol building.
Huh?
It is NPR’s version of the Jedi mind trick.
“This isn’t the conspirator that you’re looking for.”
We all know that NPR never lies. Even after watching a video showing Epps enticing protesters to enter the Capital. LOL
And we are supporting NPR! Shut them down!
The whole lawsuit is dependent on him being a regular Joe who should’ve been charged, as opposed to being a fed cut out.
IMHO There’s several things at play here:
1. The 4th Branch, by way of Epps, can punish Tucker for what little video he did show. Remember, the process is the punishment.
2. The FBI can claim even handedness, removing a central point in a recent lawsuit brought on behalf of multiple J6 political prisoners. (Can’t find the link at the moment).
3. Most importantly, it throws an “under investigation” bag over Epps’ possible FBI relationship, which prevents both Congress and Trumps defense team from accessing him or any documents related to him.
My .02
The two-edged sword of Epp’s law suit is that suing for defamation makes the truth of Fox’s statements discoverable, which makes Epp’s activities discoverable. However, if the Feds indict him then the court could issue a pre-trial gag order against him, which would thwart Fox’s efforts at discovery.
The “Barbra Streisand privacy” scenario.
It appeared like Fox had the worst lawyers on the planet when they lost the Dominion lawsuit, and now this stunt is designed to try and bankrupt Tucker. I would not be shocked if a Judge has already been found who will side with Epps despite the facts on J6 or the ridiculousness of this lawsuit.
They had no intention of winning, it was their excuse to finally get rid of Tucker, like Botox Baier, and Paul Ryan, Cavuto have been begging for. FOX just like CNN now. Firing their juggernaut ratings star just to make the evil rinos happy. They also fired the great Lou Dobbs, he has practically disappeared from the public eye. Why is he hiding???It will never end well for FOX, when they intentionally inflict injury on their brand. FOX will go down as only allowing clowns to do their shows, one with the clapping seal audience, and the others cracking jokes and laughing for the entire last half hour of their horrid shows.
YOU PEOPLE do not pay attention.
Rupert Murdoch had NO intention of appearing on the witness stand, hence, the settlement. THIS from other sources …
Being that the indictment of Ray Epps would be a slam dunk since he is on video and audio urging people to enter the Capitol illegally to protest, one would think Epps was under FBI scrutiny. Originally, Epps was one of the FBI’s “MOST WANTED” of 1/6 suspects. Epps was taken off that list despite his overt actions to incite others to violate the law. The reason for the FBI taking Epps off the “Most Wanted” list has never been announced to the public.
Since Epps was on the “Most Wanted” list early in the “investigation” of the 1/6 riot, I do not think he worked for the FBI. There are many other federal law enforcement/intel agencies for whom Epps could have worked, along with various left-leaning NGOs (Southern Poverty Law Center) and Democratic Party fronts like Bob Creamer’s outfit that spent the 2016 campaign “birddogging” Old Man Sanders’ and Donald Trump’s campaign rallies.
You raise a good point about Epps being placed on the Most Wanted list, then removed. It’s possible that list is generated without necessity of top brass approval. Maybe it was generated in the normal course and “corrected” by someone inside the J6 operation. Could also be the work of a sister agency.
Likely the silo effect Sundance writes about where one agency has no clue what another is doing. RE was put on the list but when that other agency found out and alerted the list makers, he was promptly removed. It fits what we know.
He was put on the list until the top scum told them to remove his name. The ONLY man inciting violence into the capitol and they have no even had him in the courtroom. So because of this allowed abomination, Epps is now incredibly suing Tucker for posting non-doctored videos of Epps doing exactly what he was accused of. We are constantly forced to believe and take what the leftist/rinos say are the facts. Just like pre-Nazi Germany. The entire GOP should be run out of town on a rail, because it will be ALL their fault for doing nothing for stupidly thinking it will never affect them, when it gets even worse. It is like they are all under this spell, and they have no shame.
Faux News has become a piggy bank for Leftist co-conspirators under assault. Entities like Dominion, Epps, Paul Ryan and of course Geraldo.
FOX threw out Geraldo. Too much bs for even Geraldo to swallow
Not only was Epps on the FBI’s most wanted “Jan 6” list, he was mysteriously removed from that list without explanation. It’s obvious that Epps was part of, and a leader of, the “Fedsurrection” which was infiltrated by many federal law enforcement agencies and their contractors, as well as Antifa. However, based upon past practices, expect Fox News to settle the lawsuit as they did with Dominion. Fox News/Murdochs must keep the Jan 6th narrative in place for the next election, in their ongoing effort to defeat President Trump/MAGA.
It sounds like suspicious cat’s litter box is being filled by the DOJ. Crazy times.
It’s the DOJ trying to cover its ass but can’t go through with it because it will sink his FBI agency and their case because Epps was a plant. This government really does think Americans are stupid, which makes this government dangerous and in need of removal!
#94–this affirms the contention that the DOJ is politicized, else why would they file “criminal charges” based on media lies?
#95 is even weirder, stating that criminal charges against Epps prove Carson’s accusations are “false”. How does THAT work? I’m guessing the lawyer that wrote this up is a product of affirmative action.
Nice that they lawsuit mentions the DoJ notification of intent to charge him. So DoJ was communicating with him in May? How about before May or since? Do they communicate often? Who does this communicating? The Defense can demand a copy of ALL correspondence and communications between the feds with Epps. Was any part of the threat not mentioned in the suit, such as “if you breathe one word of this, we will prosecute you and jail you for life Epstein-style”?
Let me just say now, Ray Epps didn’t kill himself.
He’s not afraid of anything, they won’t touch him.
The video shows him clearly going past the barrier that those around him took down shortly after he whispered instructions in some lackeys ear. There are others that were charged and convicted for simply going past the barriers.
FAUX news will likely not use this to defend themselves because Ray needs money and this is an easy way to launder some money from government to FOX to Ray Epps. No trial. It is simply a way to pay off someone they want to keep quiet, while hiding the real source.
It’s almost like it’s somehow phrased that way to try and be able to limit discovery …?
BTW, when will the footage be released that has been given to select networks to dribble out in short piecemeal fashion? It was my understanding that when the first outlet cancelled the televising that a second would release. All I saw was more anchors talking and the same footage.
More smelly fish found in the DC Cesspool!
Could be that Ray Epps asked the DOJ to notify him that they were seeking to charge him with criminal conduct. or, more likely, the other way around,. The DOJ is trying to cover its own rump by pretending to be investigating Epps, Maybe they are trying to provdie Epps with cover, but probably they are just trying to insulate themselves.
If so, they will probably assign their trusted prosecutor, John ‘Rip Van Winkle’ Durham to Investigate him,…. forever. Why not? He’s already got the long beard started!