NY Times Just Wants You to Know That It's 'Been Hell' for Ray Epps

Quote:Add one more question to the curious story about Ray Epps.

The NY Times just wrote a story about him, and they want us to know that it's "been hell for Epps.". Indeed, here’s the title of their story: “‘It’s Just Been Hell’: Life as the Victim of a Jan. 6 Conspiracy Theory.”

The NY Times story claims that the videos put out by people in right-wing media used selectively edited videos.

Obscure right-wing media outlets, like Revolver News, used selectively edited videos and unfounded leaps of logic to paint him as a secret federal asset in charge of a “breach team” responsible for setting off the riot at the Capitol.

But Ray Epps was on video encouraging people on Jan. 5 to go into the Capitol the next day. He was also on video encouraging people on Jan. 6 to go to the Capitol from the speech. But the NY Times referred to the guy who took the video of Epps as an “agent provocateur.”

Quote:Somehow, to the Times, that guy was a provocateur, but not Epps. This, even though the Times also acknowledged that Epps helped to organize people to go to the Capitol.

Then there’s another curious part of the Times story.

Mr. Epps said that he had acted stupidly at times when he and one of his sons took a last-minute trip to Washington for Mr. Trump’s speech about election fraud. But he said that he had managed to avoid arrest because he reached out to the F.B.I. within minutes of discovering that agents wanted to speak with him.

On Jan. 8, 2021, just two days after the Capitol was attacked, Mr. Epps learned from a family member that the F.B.I. had issued a be-on-the-lookout alert in his name. He said he immediately called the bureau’s National Threat Operations Center, and his phone records show that he spoke to agents there for nearly an hour.

The F.B.I. has repeatedly declined to comment on Mr. Epps, but his account of calling the operations center — and of sitting down for a formal discussion with federal agents in March 2021 — is backed by transcripts of those interviews reviewed by The New York Times.

The interview transcripts show that Mr. Epps told agents that he had spent much of his time at the Capitol seeking to calm down other rioters, an assertion supported by multiple video clips.

So, his conversations with the FBI are on transcripts and he reached out to them? Fascinating.

I find it rather curious that of all the people who were at the Capitol that day, the only person who seems to be treated as a “victim” by the liberal media or who is defended by Jan. 6 Committee member Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) is this guy, Ray Epps. I haven’t even seen the poor protesters who died that day being painted as “victims.” This is interesting, juxtaposed against how everyone else involved that day is painted as a threat to “democracy” by the liberal media and those on the left. Adam Kinzinger even termed “Ray” a “misled man.” Kinzinger said Epps told them he did not work for the FBI.

The NY Times reporter who spread this story got the ratio of all time for how he described Epps as the victim, with many noting that Epps wasn’t incarcerated like many others despite encouraging people to go into the Capitol. Somehow, I don’t think going to the NY Times to convince people was the best move of all time.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/07/...ps-n594473

Revolver News' Darren Beatty has a twitter thread with some great points about Epps. He says that Epps is the smoking gun and the NYT puff piece on Epps is the first step of a massive damage control operation just getting started. He asks if other Ray Epps communications will soon come out that will further clarify this sudden need to do aggressive damage control.

https://www.revolver.news/2022/07/must-r...l-con-job/

https://twitter.com/DarrenJBeattie/statu...3690577921

So bizarre. The left has literally demonized everyone that was out there except this guy. Spook confirmed.

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I'm so tired of all the crap the demokrats create for the rest of us.

The Federal Bureau of Intimidation, what's new?

Obviously, he was there and an instigator with video footage to prove it. Sounds like Ray and Tommy have something in common. Both are two faced lying hypocrites.

(07-14-2022 08:05 PM)BlueDragon Wrote:  Obviously, he was there and an instigator with video footage to prove it. Sounds like Ray and Tommy have something in common. Both are two faced lying hypocrites.

Sounds like HoodwinkedTaintedTom is going to have another few bad weeks on his hands, as its clear from this story that something is about to come out. With this, and the formal recession being announced, he'll be diarrhea posting about nonsensical stuff left and right.

I would ask people like Tom - why aren't they looking at this guy? Honest question I would love an honest answer.

These couple vids are [at least] as damming as anything else that has been testified to or shown in other vids regarding J6. The guy is clearly trying to rile people up to do exactly what happened that day?

This is not even a partisan question. I could really care less, but even I would love to know what the hell is up with this guy and why he has not been investigated.

(07-19-2022 10:41 AM)Eldonabe Wrote:  I would ask people like Tom - why aren't they looking at this guy? Honest question I would love an honest answer.

These couple vids are [at least] as damming as anything else that has been testified to or shown in other vids regarding J6. The guy is clearly trying to rile people up to do exactly what happened that day?

This is not even a partisan question. I could really care less, but even I would love to know what the hell is up with this guy and why he has not been investigated.

This ^^^^.

I have no idea what Ray Epps’ story is, and like Eldonabe I don’t really even care. But it is extremely weird that Ray Epps — and Ray Epps alone — has been granted a virtual exemption from all government scrutiny and pressure for his actions on J6. There may be a perfectly innocent/reasonable explanation for that, but if so, it has not been presented to the public.

(07-19-2022 11:09 AM)Native Georgian Wrote:  

(07-19-2022 10:41 AM)Eldonabe Wrote:  I would ask people like Tom - why aren't they looking at this guy? Honest question I would love an honest answer.

These couple vids are [at least] as damming as anything else that has been testified to or shown in other vids regarding J6. The guy is clearly trying to rile people up to do exactly what happened that day?

This is not even a partisan question. I could really care less, but even I would love to know what the hell is up with this guy and why he has not been investigated.

This ^^^^.

I have no idea what Ray Epps’ story is, and like Eldonabe I don’t really even care. But it is extremely weird that Ray Epps — and Ray Epps alone — has been granted a virtual exemption from all government scrutiny and pressure for his actions on J6. There may be a perfectly innocent/reasonable explanation for that, but if so, it has not been presented to the public.

Pretty sure the innocent/reasonable explanation went out the window the moment the FBI posted his picture wanting information, revolver news told them it was Ray Epps and that he was working with the feds, and the FBI pulled his picture down.

It is quite possibly the strangest aspect of this entire affair.

One aspect that goes unnoticed is that the video clips not only show him organizing and instigating but these so called "insurrectionists" repeatedly mocked him and resoundingly said no to his calls to go into the Capitol. That in itself goes against the narrative that all these rally goers were radicalized extremist insurrectionists.