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Government Corruption

'I Also Orchestrated It': Uncharged J6 Witness Ray Epps Transcript Released

2022-12-31

[ZERO] Ray Epps, the uncharged man identified as a key instigator behind the January 6, 2020 Capitol Breach for telling people to storm the Capitol, said in a text message to his nephew that he "orchestrated" things, according to newly released witness transcripts from the January 6th Committee.

Goodness. How very interesting.

"At that point, I didn't know that they were breaking into the Capitol," Epps told Congressional investigators, adding "I didn't know anybody was in the Capitol. ... I was on my way back to the hotel room."

But the night before, Epps was seen going around to various groups of Trump supporters, telling them they need to storm the capitol.

In two interviews with the FBI in 2021, Epps explained his actions on Jan. 5 and Jan. 6. He admitted he was guilty of trespassing on restricted Capitol grounds and confessed to urging protesters to go to—and into—the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Epps also told members of the Committee that he found himself playing peacekeeper between Trump supporter "Baked Alaska" and the police - who called Epps a Fed.

Whyever would the police think such a thing if, as he claims now, he was no such thing?

"I was trying to find some common ground," said Epps. "This guy was trying to turn people against me...he was calling me 'boomer,' and it's his generation's fault that we're in the position we're in."

And what position might that be, Mr. Epps?

Despite the admissions, the FBI never arrested Epps and he was not charged by the U.S. Department of Justice with any Jan. 6 crimes. The non-action has fueled a crop of theories that he might have been working for the FBI or another agency.

Epps, 61, has repeatedly denied those suggestions through his attorney.

What about the Pinkertons — do they still do that kind of work? There was Matthew Dolloff, the Antifa activist who shot a Navy veteran dead back in 2020 at a Blue Lives Matter protest while on the Pinkerton payroll guarding a television news team, but he was not encouraging misbehaviour. It was commented here that Mr. Epps was communicating directly with Nancy Pelosi’s office at the time, which suggests he had some sort of official cover.

Posted by:Besoeker

#3 A reminder that one seemingly insignificant person can affect the course of history.

Gavrilo Princip holds his nose.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-12-31 06:40

#2 From a comment posted yesterday, same Epps topic:

Organizing under the title L'Assurance des Success Dramatiques, they leased themselves and their employees to singeers and opera managers who wished to be assured of an appreciative audience response. So effective were they in stimulating genuine audience reaction with their rigged reactions that before long claques (usually consisting of a leader - chef de claque - and several individual claqueurs) had become an established and persistent tradition throughout the world of opera. As music historian Robert Sabin notes, "By 1830 the claque was a full-blown institution, collecting by day, applauding by night, all in the honest open....But it is altogether probable that neither Sauton, or his ally Porcher, had a notion of the extent to which their scheme of paid applause would be adopted and applied wherever opera was sung."

Robert B. Cialdini, PH.D., 'Influence, The Psychology of Persuasion.' page 158.

Posted by: Besoeker 2022-12-31 06:04

#1 Perhaps another reason the Jan 6 committee folded their tent.

Posted by: Besoeker 2022-12-31 01:21

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