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Ray Epps, a target of Jan. 6 conspiracy theories, gets a year of probation for his Capitol riot role
WASHINGTON — A man targeted by right-wing conspiracy theories about the U.S. Capitol riot was sentenced on Tuesday to a year of probation for joining...
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Like January 6th itself, the reporting of Ray Epps' connections with that infamous date have taken on an unreal aspect to fit the Leftist Narrative (so what else is new?). The linked report states that, "Prosecutors say Epps encouraged the mob to storm the Capitol." This is like saying, "Some observers believe that the sun rises in the East."
EVERYONE IN AMERICA SAW RAY EPPS encouraging the J5 and J6 mobs to breach the Capitol! With a fucking MEGAPHONE! This is not a prosecutor's theory. He did it, for all the world to see. And while people were being held incommunicado for YEARS just for being there, this clown was enjoying his retirement in Arizona, unaffected by any of the legal goings on in the District of Columbia.
The Late Tucker Carlson repeatedly showed the tapes of Epps actions, pointing them out and noting that the Justice Department's ignoring him was almost inexplicable for any reason other than that he was a government "plant," or possibly even a paid actor. Carlson never claimed to know that; he merely stated the obvious. If a videotape shows someone participating in a bank robbery but that person is never prosecuted, it stands to reason that the person was an informant. (Accordingly, Epps' defamation suit is going nowhere. You read it here first).
Books will be written detailing the Justice Department's misdeeds in connection with January 6th...the aggressive prosecution of innocent observers and curious onlookers, the flouting of the Constitution's speedy trial guarantee, the participation of government operatives from various agencies, and so on. Epps will warrant his own chapter. Maybe he didn't deserve to be hounded from his peaceful retirement home, but one year of unsupervised "probation" is a sick joke when compared to the severe sentences meted out to much less culpable individuals than Epps.