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Revolver’s own Darren Beattie and Human Events editor Jack Posobiec sat down together to discuss the details of the Ray Epps sentencing, which can only be described as a slap on the wrist at best.

Just take a look at how Politico frames Epps’ probation victory. They appear to depict him as a left-wing hero for some inexplicable reason.

Politico:

A Jan. 6 rioter who was falsely accused by Donald Trump of being a government agent was sentenced Tuesday to a year of probation for his actions during the attack on the Capitol.

The sentence of Ray Epps is more lenient than the six months of prison time that prosecutors requested. And it marks the conclusion of one of the strangest Jan. 6 subplots: the saga of Epps, a former Oath Keeper from Arizona who was among the first pro-Trump rioters to breach police barricades and then became the target of far-right conspiracy theories.

Epps received death threats after Republican members of Congress and conservative media spread false claims that he was an undercover agent who helped incite the Capitol riot. Those claims were even echoed by Trump — who on Tuesday sat in the same courthouse listening to arguments in one of his own criminal cases at the same time that Epps was being sentenced.

“This is not an easy sentencing,” said Chief Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. district court in Washington. Boasberg noted that Epps knowingly joined a mob and entered a walled-off area on the day of attack — but then confessed to law enforcement, helped congressional investigators, and saw his life upended by the conspiracy theories.

James “Ray” Epps, a former Marine who ran a wedding venue in Arizona, traveled to Washington for the Jan. 6, 2021, certification of the Electoral College results. On Jan. 5, he told rowdy Trump supporters that they needed to “go to the Capitol” the next day. An attendee videotaped his comments and captured people in the crowd chanting “Fed! Fed! Fed!” at him.

As expected, all of the mainstream media is providing cover for Mr. Epps and the regime. It’s almost as if they all received a memo with instructions on how to frame their article:

Gee, do you think there might be a pattern forming here?

Regardless of the absurdity of this case, both Jack and Darren raised an important point that nobody else is really talking about and warrants repeating. It’s not about advocating for Ray Epps to receive an excessively long jail sentence for his actions on that fateful day at the Capitol. The argument isn’t centered on that. Instead, it’s about the stark contrast in how the government has treated non-violent individuals, often portraying them as domestic terrorists, for relatively minor infractions like wandering through the Capitol as tourists, even when escorted in by police. Meanwhile, Epps, who is captured on video attempting to incite a riot and using a large sign to seemingly “assault” officers, gets sentenced over a Zoom call and is handed probation. This discrepancy in treatment is called “selective prosecution” and fuels suspicions that Mr. Epps may have some form of clandestine involvement in what happened that day.

But as Darren correctly points out, when Biden and his regime counterparts speak about January 6th, they’re not actually addressing voters. What they’re really doing is reinforcing the drastic measures needed to go after President Trump.

Arguably, Mr. Epps is a man who went out of his way to add fuel to a fire, and he got what many would call a “slap on the wrist” for it. Meanwhile, grandparents who did nothing even close to what Mr. Epps did are facing jail time. That’s. unfair, and that’s what should be focused on.

Grandparents shouldn’t be going to jail for strolling around the Capitol with fanny packs and water bottles. That’s not an “insurrection.” And what Mr. Epps did, which was far worse, was clearly not an “insurrection” either, according to the courts.

This is the brilliant point that both Jack and Darren make in this compelling clip.

What is truly disheartening in all of this, and another brilliant point Darren Beattie makes, is that this unquenchable thirst to destroy President Trump has resulted in our judiciary system looking like a carnival sideshow.

You can watch the entire Human Events podcast, featuring Darren Beattie below:

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