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The Oath Keepers are made up of all kinds of American men, military, police, and no doubt an FBI agent or informant. Why is he being protected?
Yeah, and that "militia" group that was scheming to kidnap the governor was made up of mostly federal agents.
Also keep in mind that the leader of the Proud Boys is an FBI informant.
Which of these was FBI?
McInnes isn't. Did you mean Tarrio?
And what has Proud Boys to do with Oath Keepers?
They're the amateur contingent, the OKs are the pros. Tarrio is the informant. But you knew that.
Is the whole alt-right, then, an FBI false-flag op?
There were a dozen FBI informants on the case. They set up the kidnapping, paid for everything, provided intel. There was no crime without their efforts.
He's at his ranch from what I heard. No fbi around his ranch
Nothing like that happened in the Whitmer abduction plot.
What makes you think he is being protected?
What makes you think he is being protected?
Is Epps a Federal Agent?
There is absolutely no evidence to indicate that Epps is a federal agent or that he was working with the government. On Jan 11, 2022, the bipartisan committee investigating the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021 announced that they had interviewed Epps and that he testified that he was not “employed by, working with, or acting at the direction” of any law enforcement agency and that he has never been an FBI informant.
January 6th Committee
@January6thCmte
The Committee has interviewed Epps. Epps informed us that he was not employed by, working with, or acting at the direction of any law enforcement agency on Jan 5th or 6th or at any other time, & that he has never been an informant for the FBI or any other law enforcement agency.
The claim that Epps attended the “Stop the Steal” rally as an FBI informant is based largely on the fact that Epps was not among those arrested following the attack on the Capitol. The argument goes that Epps, who can be seen above encouraging others to go peacefully into the Capitol building, escaped prosecution because, supposedly, he is an undercover federal agent. In the above-displayed video, according to this conspiracy theory, Epps made these statements on behalf of the government to encourage Trump supporters to storm the Capitol so that they could be arrested.
There is, however, a much simpler explanation as to why Epps was not arrested.
Why Wasn’t Epps Arrested?
As of this writing in January 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice and FBI have arrested more than 725 people for their involvement in the Capitol attack. Law enforcement has largely focused on individuals who unlawfully entered the Capitol building.
The FBI is seeking the public’s assistance in identifying individuals who made unlawful entry into the U.S. Capitol building and committed various other alleged criminal violations, such as destruction of property, assaulting law enforcement personnel, targeting members of the media for assault, and other unlawful conduct, on January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C.
As of this writing, there is no indication that Epps made his way into the Capitol. When asked about his comments in the video, Epps told AZ Central: “I didn’t do anything wrong … The only thing that meant is we would go in the doors like everyone else. It was totally, totally wrong the way they went in.”
From the available footage, it appears that Epps was in attendance at the rally but that he did not go into the Capitol or engage in any violence. One video actually shows Epps as he attempts to de-escalate a fight between police and protesters.
The claim that Epps is an undercover federal agent is largely based on the fact that Epps has not been arrested. The available evidence, however, shows that Epps never entered the U.S. Capitol (the main factor driving FBI arrests) and that he attempted to quell the violence between police and protesters. It’s much more likely that the reason Epps wasn’t arrested was not because he was working with the FBI (supposedly), but because the FBI found he didn’t commit a crime.
In any case, it should be noted that the FBI’s investigation isn’t over and that additional people may still be arrested for attacking the Capitol.
Was Epps Once Listed on FBI’s Suspects List for the Capitol Attack?
In the days following the attack on the Capitol, the FBI released a series of videos and photographs and asked the general public for help identifying those who participated in the violence. A photograph appearing to show Epps was included in one of the first batches of images (#16 below):
FBI Washington Field
@FBIWFO
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Aug 17, 2021
The #FBI is still seeking information regarding people who committed violence at the U.S. Capitol on January 6. Visit https://fbi.gov/capitolviolence to see photos and videos from current cases, and if you recognize someone, submit a tip at http://tips.fbi.gov.
As of this writing, however, Epps’ photograph is no longer on the FBI’s website. While some have claimed that it’s yet more “proof” that Epps was an undercover FBI agent, this, again, is just a wild assumption.
The FBI’s “Seeking Information” posters are listed in sequential order. We searched through this database and found several additional numbers that are no longer listed. While the FBI would not provide comment on these absent photos, claiming that these missing numbers belong to FBI agents is a bit of a stretch. (Why would the FBI list undercover agents on this page to begin with?)
It’s more plausible that the FBI received the information needed for these individuals and that they decided not to press charges.
Ray Epps, the former Arizona Oath Keeper at the center of pro-Trump conspiracy theories related to Jan. 6., intends to sit for a transcribed interview Friday with the select committee investigating the attack on the Capitol, his attorney said in a phone interview.
Epps, who has become the centerpiece of an unsupported GOP claim that the FBI incited the mob that ransacked the Capitol last year, met with the Jan. 6 select committee in November and told them he had no relationship to the FBI or any other federal law enforcement agency. But the meeting was just a precursor to a more-formal transcribed interview this week, said Epps’ lawyer John Blischak.
How is the FBI not answering that?
They are refusing to answer any question about Epps as well as other plainclothes agents and CI's working on 1/6.
b-but what about Trump!?!Trump also refuses to answer any question about his involvement....so he also must be guilty.
And Meadows
And McCarthy
And.....