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2022-12-30 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Ray Epps denied working for the FBI during Capitol Riot - telling Jan 6 committee that bizarre right-wing conspiracies about him being an 'informant' forced his wife to move out, and destroyed his business
[Daily Mail, where America get its news]
  • Fringe far-right media and lawmakers claim Ray Epps was working with the FBI

  • Said he instigated the Capitol riot on January 6 to make Trump look bad

  • Epps denies that he was working or even in communication with the FBI

  • Claims the conspiracy has led to death threats and forced his wife to move out
Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-30 08:11|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top

#1 With the dozens of fotos and video of Ray Epps activities that day, he's not on any of these lists? Very lucky man that Ray Epps.

[sarc off]

  • More than 290 defendants have been charged with corruptly obstructing, influencing, or impeding an official proceeding, or attempting to do so.

  • Approximately 50 defendants have been charged with conspiracy, either: (a) conspiracy to obstruct a congressional proceeding, (b) conspiracy to obstruct law enforcement during a civil disorder, (c) conspiracy to injure an officer, or (d) some combination of the three.

    US DA, District of Columbia Link
    • Posted by Besoeker 2022-12-30 09:07||   2022-12-30 09:07|| Front Page Top

    #2 Not working for the FBI? So he was freelancing? working for NSA? or some other group? Or is this just a lie?
    Posted by ruprecht 2022-12-30 09:12||   2022-12-30 09:12|| Front Page Top

    #3 Association of his name with the FBI "ruined his life."

    How sad...
    Posted by M. Murcek 2022-12-30 09:27||   2022-12-30 09:27|| Front Page Top

    #4 they ALWAYS throw each other under the bus
    Posted by 746 2022-12-30 10:12||   2022-12-30 10:12|| Front Page Top

    #5 He was working directly for the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. There are a number of direct calls from his cell phone to the Speaker's Office.

    He may not of been working directly for the FBI - but he *was* working under Nancy Pelosi.

    Take all the Jan 6th Committee accusations and replace 'Donald Trump' with 'Nancy Pelosi' and you would be closer to the truth.
    Posted by CrazyFool 2022-12-30 11:49||   2022-12-30 11:49|| Front Page Top

    #6 People just naturally attempt to find ways to explain bizarre behavior so if they come up with bizarre conspiracy theories then Epps shouldn't be surprised.

    Some of those videos sure look to my untrained eye like Epps was inciting a riot. Or maybe he was just urging others to break the law which could perhaps be classified as a conspiracy in itself.

    But then the FBI never charged him...all the while charging all kinds of other people...which is truly bizarre.
    Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-12-30 12:30||   2022-12-30 12:30|| Front Page Top

    #7 I can't really say that I'm all that sympathetic about his wife and his business. If he never goes to jail he should at least be in the same class with Monica Lewinski.
    Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-12-30 12:33||   2022-12-30 12:33|| Front Page Top

    #8 He lives in a 6 foot diameter magic globe where free speech rights and the right to assembly are sacrosanct. Everybody that listened to him, not so much.
    Posted by Super Hose 2022-12-30 12:38||   2022-12-30 12:38|| Front Page Top

    #9 If his business is ‘stooge enticement and entrapment INC’ then I am fine with him going out of business. One of the Jan 6ers might get out of jail someday and may want to talk with Ray
    Posted by Airandee 2022-12-30 15:06||   2022-12-30 15:06|| Front Page Top

    #10 Late in the day, just thought I'd throw this in as I finished reading it. The application, going beyond the opera, or modern canned teevee laughter. You decide:

    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 2022-12-30 17:36||   2022-12-30 17:36|| Front Page Top

    #11 Maybe Epps just knew what to do - no instructions needed to get maximum effect.
    Posted by KBK 2022-12-30 23:02||   2022-12-30 23:02|| Front Page Top

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