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Earlier this week, the Department of Justice published a sentencing memo recommending that Ray Epps serve six months in prison on misdemeanor charges related to his behavior on January 6th.

Back in September, we reported on the bizarre situation in which Ray Epps, nearly three years after January 6th, is hit with a misdemeanor charge for which the DOJ notifies him in advance and to which he pleads guilty.

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For a sense of perspective regarding the DOJ’s 6-month prison recommendation for Ray Epps, consider that Enrique Tarrio, who wasn’t even in DC on January 6th, was sentenced to 22 years in prison. Ray Epps’ fellow Oath Keeper leader, Stewart Rhodes, was convicted of seditious conspiracy and sentenced to 18 years in prison.

Epps’ sentencing recommendation is not only trivial in comparison to fellow heavyweights Stewart Rhodes and Enrique Tarrio. Prosecutors are requesting 30 months for Sandra Weyer, a 60-year-old woman with no criminal record and no record of violent behavior on January 6th.

We have written extensively about Ray Epps’ involvement in January 6 and have compiled numerous damning video clips documenting his behavior.

For a convenient refresher, we recommend the video below:

Interestingly, the DOJ’s sentencing document on Epps admits that Epps is guilty of “felonious conduct,” but not only do they spare him the seditious conspiracy charges given to other major Fedsurrection players, they spare him even the “obstruction of an official proceeding” felony charge (currently pending Supreme Court review) given to countless other January 6 defendants with far less egregious behavior. So why the display of mercy? One reason the DOJ gives for leniency is that Epps reached out to the FBI early and was allegedly forthcoming and cooperative with their investigation. The notion that Epps was cooperative is highly questionable; indeed, we have reported on countless discrepancies, if not lies, in his account of events recorded in interviews with law enforcement. Just to take one example, Epps at one point claimed that he thought it would be legal to go into the Capitol—a claim contradicted repeatedly by the fact that he prefaced his exhortations to storm the Capitol with “I’m probably going to go to jail for this.” Let’s assume for the sake of argument that Ray Epps did turn himself in early and was cooperative, as well as the fact that he called for a de-escalation of violence in many instances. Many January 6 defendants notified law enforcement early on of their presence in the Capitol and enjoyed no such extreme leniency.

The final extenuating circumstance the DOJ offers is by far the most bizarre. That is, the DOJ cites the fact that Ray Epps is a victim of “conspiracies” as a reason to provide leniency and to withhold felony charges for his admittedly felonious conduct.

U.S. vs Ray Epps:

Finally, Epps has been the target of a false and widespread conspiracy theory that he was an undercover government agent on January 6

While the DOJ is absurd to dismiss the overwhelming weight of evidence that Epps was not an authentic actor on January 6th, we applaud them for correctly crediting Revolver News for bringing this weight of evidence into and thereby shaping the national conversation on Ray Epps and January 6th—a fact of which we are deeply proud.

The DOJ’s explicit concern for the so-called “conspiracy theories” at least helps to explain the peculiar leniency and sympathy Epps enjoys not only from the DOJ but from the media, as both the New York Times and 60 Minutes did highly favorable pieces on him, as well as figures like Adam Kinzinger. In every other case, these institutions and individuals are simply out for blood when it comes to January 6 defendants. Given Ray Epps’ background and behavior, he ordinarily would have been the perfect candidate as the poster boy for supposed “dangerous MAGA insurrectionists.” He’s the only person caught on camera repeatedly urging people, as early as January 5th, to go into the Capitol. On the 6th, he repeatedly directs the crowd to the Capitol before Trump’s speech is even over (in camo gear and a Trump hat, no less). He just happens to be pre-positioned at the first decisive breach point on the west perimeter of the capitol and famously whispers into a person’s ear seconds before the breach occurs. And to top it all off, he had previously been the head of the Arizona chapter of the OathKeepers, the most demonized and heavily prosecuted militia group associated with January 6th. It is independently remarkable that the sentencing document does not so much as make a single reference to Epps’ former leadership role with the Oath Keepers, especially because the founder of the Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes, was convicted of seditious conspiracy and sentenced to 18 years. Below is a video of Epps and Rhodes together during Epps’ time as head of the Arizona chapter.

Epps’ egregious behavior wasn’t always sugarcoated by the media and DOJ. Before Epps was treated to a fully dedicated puff piece by the New York Times, he was prominently featured in the New York Times’ own “Day of Rage” documentary, which featured scenes of Epps selected from mountains of footage to illustrate the New York Times’ intended point that the events of January 6 were planned in advance. Even folks at the FBI (presumably ones who didn’t get the memo that Epps was to be protected) found Epps’ behavior so egregious that he was one of the first twenty people included on the FBI’s most wanted list for January 6th.

 

As we originally reported, Epp’s name was only quietly taken down in the middle of 2021, just one day after Revolver ran a major piece exploring the possibility of federal involvement in the events of January 6th.

All this is to say that all of Epps’ egregious behavior was known very early on. The fact that Epps wasn’t indicted on felony charges right away, but instead the DOJ left him alone for nearly three years before a half-hearted wrist slap misdemeanor charge, does not make any sense. Keep in mind the above facts on Epps’ behavior and background and the fact that the DOJ’s posture toward prosecutions was literally dubbed “shock and awe,” an ominous and perhaps unintentionally damning allusion to Bush’s shock and awe campaign in the Iraq war. It is simply inconceivable that the DOJ would decide to leave Epps alone because he called the FBI and “cooperated” by telling them he was at the Capitol.

Ray Epps was left alone for nearly three years as those whose participation in January 6th was immeasurably less egregious got slapped with serious felony charges. Then Revolver News brings to national attention just how bizarre and suspicious Epps’ case is, to the extent that the entire Fedsurrection narrative gains national currency—a disaster from the perspective of the regime that has invested so much in the narrative of January 6th as a 9/11-style domestic terror event in order to justify the weaponization of the national security state against Trump supporters.

Now, with the damning facts about Epps out there in the open to the point that Epps has almost become a household name, the regime is desperately trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube. What could they possibly do to salvage the official, approved (and false) version of events? Well, they could slap a misdemeanor charge on Epps three years after January 6th and hope that the public is dumb enough to conclude, “Well, they were a little late, but they did slap a misdemeanor charge on him, so I guess there’s nothing to see here.” Sadly for the DOJ and the regime, the American public is not that stupid. Everyone sees this Hail Mary misdemeanor as the desperate attempt that it is to tie up the loose ends of the Fedsurrection on its third anniversary.

Not only are the American people not buying it, but over the course of the next two months, things are about to get significantly worse for the Regime. We have some loose ends of our own on the Fedsurrection, and we fully intend on addressing them. Stay tuned.

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