Ray Epps, a central figure in right-wing conspiracies about the FBI's involvement in January 6, denied having ever worked for the agency while under oath.
Epps, they said, was a government plant that sowed the seeds of insurrection well before a crowd rushed the perimeter around the Capitol steps. Video taken by protesters the night before the riot showed Epps on the streets of Washington, D.C. encouraging physical intervention to stop the electoral count, a crowd blaring chants of"Fed! Fed! Fed!" as he spoke.
Another video showed him apparently telling attendees at Trump's speech on The Ellipse to make their way to the U.S. Capitol after Trump himself urged the crowd to march and, later, at the front lines working to push through the blockade., and even the former president himself suspected Epps as a potential tool of a sort of"deep state" conspiracy seeking to discredit Trump's movement.
Arizona man Ray Epps is pictured above against the backdrop of rioters at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. Epps admitted under oath he was never employed by the FBI as part of a plot to incite violence at the U.S. Capitol, dealing a blow to a conservative-led conspiracy theory he was involved in a secret plot to undermine Trump.scrutinized the January 6th Select Committee's decision to adjourn for the year without fulfilling its promise to release Epps' transcript.
Trump, earlier in the year, appeared to endorse conspiracy theories on Truth Social involving Epps and his wife while suggesting Epps was at the heart of a left-wing plot to stoke the flames of violence. Others aired their suspicions outright in the halls of Congress to the people best-equipped to answer the question.
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