A normal thinking person would first try to verify the accuracy of the claims being made.
Instead, in order to avoid taking responsibility for what happened, the far right is latching on to anything they can to shift the blame and in the process, you are ruining peoples lives, the same way did election poll workers you falsely accused of crimes. (I’m using “you in a general sense).
Ray Epps is just an ordinary guy.
Far-right members of Congress have suggested that the Trump supporter was actually a federal plant. Epps said the attack made him "ill."
www.nbcnews.com
WASHINGTON — An Arizona man who became the target of online conspiracy theories after he joined protesters outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, told a House committee that he wasn't secretly working for the government during the attack and that the campaign against him has torn his life apart.
Epps told the Jan. 6 committee that the wasn't working for the CIA or the National Security Agency or the Washington Metropolitan Police Department.
“The only time I’ve been involved with the government was when I was a Marine in the United States Marine Corps," Epps said.
The theory that Epps was working for the FBI never made much sense, given that his image landed on an FBI poster immediately after the attack.
Epps, who was a supporter of former President Donald Trump, said in the interview released Thursday that his grandchildren were being "picked on at school" because of his actions. He has gotten death threats. His business dropped. People have shown up at his house.
"We had a tour bus come by our home and our business with all these whacked out people in it," Epps said. "There are good people out there that was in Washington. Those aren't the people that's coming by our house. This attracts — when they do this sort of thing, this attracts all the crazies out there."
The problem with conspiracy theories like these is innocent people get hurt and someday, someone will get killed. As it is, people’s lives are being destroyed and there is no accountability
Ms. Moss is likely to describe the personal costs of her ordeal, which included death threats and unending harassment by phone and text message.
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A thinking person would ask:
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