Because Trump dupes keep repeating debunked lies. He supported Trump.muddybrazos said:If you're debonking Ray Epps then why was he never arrested? Seems to me he did a lot more to stir up trouble than any of the others that just walked into the capitol. He was on video recruiting people to go into the capitol. Where are his charges?Sam Lowry said:I haven't seen evidence of that. Just stuff like the Ray Epps conspiracy theory, which gets debunked and recycled over and over again.4th and Inches said:The FBI had people planted in several of these groups stirring it up, they have people on social media stirring it up, they were working with social media to stir it up and you're unhappy that people are upset with the FBI?! They literally are creating crimes to investigate and punish peopleC. Jordan said:It certainly is.Canada2017 said:
The FBI is the new KGB...the muscle for the controlling Party .
Anyone who still can't accept this is ....
1. Blind
or
2. Approves of what's happening .
Our country is in deep trouble .
When people openly approve of insurrection and violence against Congress, and then get upset when the FBI/DOJ goes after those who engaged in the insurrection and violence, we are indeed in trouble.
A Trump Backer's Downfall as the Target of a Jan. 6 Conspiracy Theory
Ray Epps became the unwitting face of an attempt by pro-Trump forces to promote the baseless idea that the F.B.I. was behind the attack on the Capitol.
Ray Epps and his wife, Robyn Epps. Mr. Epps became the face of a conspiracy theory that rocked their lives as it spread into the mainstream.Credit...Alan Feuer/The New York Times
IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS Up a winding country road, in a trailer park a half-mile from a cattle ranch, lives a man whose life has been ruined by a Jan. 6 conspiracy theory.
Ray Epps has suffered enormously in the past 10 months as right-wing media figures and Republican politicians have baselessly described him as a covert government agent who helped to instigate the attack on the Capitol last year.
Strangers have assailed him as a coward and a traitor and have menacingly cautioned him to sleep with one eye open. He was forced to sell his business and his home in Arizona. Fearing for his safety and uncertain of his future, he and his wife moved into a mobile home in the foothills of the Rockies, with all of their belongings crammed into shipping containers in a high-desert meadow, a mile or two away.
"And for what lies?" Mr. Epps asked the other day with a look of pained exhaustion. "All of this, it's just been hell."
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
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The stories about Mr. Epps were quickly seized on by the Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who gave them a wider audience. They were also echoed by Republican members of Congress like Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Senator Ted Cruz of Texas.