by Belle Carter, Natural News:
One of the political prisoners of the Jan. 6, 2021 incident claimed in an interview with Gateway Pundit that alleged agent provocateur James Ray Epps lied several times during a call with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
A video shared on X by GP‘s Alicia Powe detailed how Epps lied during the call. The crime of making a false statement to a federal agent is a federal offense governed by 18 U.S.C. § 1001, a crime punishable by five years in prison but could be extended to up to eight years if the misstatement relates to any act of international or domestic terrorism.
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The suspected government plant called the agency on Jan. 8, 2021, because he claimed that he was informed by his brother-in-law that he was included in the Most Wanted list. He asked the agent to take down his photo. It was granted a little later by the FBI.
Powe and J6 political prisoner Ryan Samsel slammed Epps and his wife Robyn for claiming that the only reason why he went up to the Capitol was because someone called him the night before and asked if he could come and try to “calm everyone down.”
Samsel argued that Epps didn’t even try to calm people down. Instead, he urged people to “enter the Capitol because it is where their problems lie.”
Epps also claimed he went to the rally to see his son, but didn’t seem to be looking for him because he was busy urging people to enter the building after President Donald Trump was done with his speech. He was also using the pronoun “we” during the FBI call but all footage gathered showed he was alone.
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Moreover, Epps was filmed whispering something into Samsel’s ear during the J6 debacle. According to Samsel, Epps told him to push a police barrier against Capitol officers and said he had more people coming to assist in the melee. He also alleged that Epps lied to the FBI about his role in the events that day.
For example, Epps claimed he helped a female officer stand up after falling. But in reality, he just walked past the officer after seeing her fall. During the call with the FBI, Epps pleaded guilty only to heading to the Capitol that day and trespassing. He was pictured outside Congress but did not go inside the building. (Related: Fake news defends Jan. 6 provocateur Ray Epps even after he admits he helped ‘orchestrate the riot.)
On Jan. 9, Epps was sentenced to a year of probation and 100 hours of community service.
Joe Rogan: Epps was an FBI undercover agent
In a recent episode of the “Joe Rogan Experience,” the host alleged that Epps was an undercover agent for the FBI who purposely incited MAGA supporters to storm the Capitol to damage Trump.
“The Jan. 6 thing is bad, but also, the intelligence agencies were involved in provoking people into the Capitol Building. That’s a fact,” Rogan declared before invoking theories about Epps’ supposed involvement in ginning up violence. “I don’t know, but I do know that every other, I think that every other person who was involved in Jan. 6, who was involved in coordinating a break-in into the Capitol and then instigating people, they were all arrested.”
He asserted that Epps was not arrested, adding that mainstream media outlets like the New York Times and the Washington Post were defending him.
“All these different things saying Fox News has unjustly accused him of instigating when he instigated, he did it on camera. I don’t know if he was fed. I know a lot of people think he was a fed,” Rogan added.
Epps’ attorney Michael Teter blasted Rogan for his statement. “Joe Rogan’s recent comments show the staying power and consequences of Fox‘s and Tucker Carlson’s lies about Ray Epps,” Teter said. “For years, Fox targeted Ray and spread falsehoods about him and its viewers used the lies as a basis to harass and threaten Ray.”
Last month, Epps filed a defamation suit against Fox, claiming that the conservative cable giant and its former star anchor Tucker Carlson “commenced a years-long campaign spreading falsehoods about” him and “destroyed” his life by making him a “scapegoat” for the Jan. 6 attack. Carlson, in particular, regularly insinuated on his primetime show that Epps was an informant for the feds who “helped stage-manage the insurrection.”
