The Hidden Agenda Behind the New York Times’ Desperate Puff Piece on Ray Epps

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The New York Times just released a puff piece on Ray Epps that is hugely important.

 
Ray Epps, the only person caught on camera repeatedly directing people into the Capitol, is the only January 6 rioter for whom the New York Times has written a highly sympathetic puff piece:
 

 
To get acquainted with Epps, watch the following video compilation:
 


 

Again, this is the one Jan. 6 rioter the New York Times has managed to write a puff piece for.

 

From NYT:

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.”

Let’s skip straight to the buried lede.
 

Here we see a reference to a text message Epps sent to his nephew describing how he “orchestrated movements of people” to the Capitol after Trump’s speech:

Mr. Epps also said he regretted sending a text to his nephew, well after the violence had erupted, in which he discussed how he helped to orchestrate the movements of people who were leaving Mr. Trump’s speech near the White House by pointing them in the direction of the Capitol.

Will this text message soon become a matter of public record? What exactly is Epps’ phrasing? Will other Ray Epps communications soon come out that will further clarify this sudden need for aggressive damage control?
 

For clarification, this is a video compilation of Epps “orchestrating movements” to the Capitol. We wonder how precisely Epps described his decision to do so:

 


 

And here:

 


 
Getting back to the Times piece, it’s also important to note that the piece contains no explicit denial by Epps of association with military intelligence, DHS, JTTF, or any cutouts or intermediaries. We have references to “lies” and Epps’ wish that “the truth come out,” in addition to denial of association with law enforcement.
 
I wonder if the author of the New York Times piece, Alan Feuer, could clarify for the record: did he ask Epps if he had any association with any intelligence agencies or cutouts of such agencies? If so, what did he say? If not, why not?
 

Feuer’s NYT piece describes Epps as a Trump supporter. He says “Trump traveled to Washington to back Mr. Trump”… and that he “took a last-minute trip to Washington for Trump’s speech about election fraud:

Mr. Epps said that he had acted stupidly at times when he and one of his sons took a last-minute trip to Washington for Mr. Trump’s speech about election fraud.

The only problem is that Ray Epps didn’t go to Trump’s speech. That’s right, this alleged Trump supporter travelled all the way from Arizona to DC, and didn’t even attend Trump’s speech. Instead, he spent the evening of January 5th and the morning of the 6th telling people to go into the Capitol.

 
Did Alan Feuer, the obscure NYT reporter who penned the puff piece, think to ask “Trump supporter” Epps why he travelled all the way to DC and skipped Trump’s speech?
 
For that matter, did Feuer ask where Epps got the idea to urge people to go into the Capitol in the first place? Did it occur to Epps out of the blue? Did someone else give Epps the idea? If so, who?
 
The whole purpose of the January 6 Committee is to figure out what caused the events of the 6th. Epps was calling for people to go into the Capitol the evening before. Wouldn’t it be newsworthy to know where Epps got the idea, and why he was so doggedly fixated on that particular mission?
 
The very fact that these questions weren’t asked indicates that this is one of the sloppiest and most transparent cover-up jobs in New York Times history—a total Feuer job!
 

The Times piece attempts to wave off Epps’ January 6 participation as negligible—similar to those who committed minor offenses and weren’t charged:

While Mr. Epps was a participant in some of the events that unfolded on Jan. 6, the claim that he inspired the Capitol riot in a “false flag” plot is solely based on the fact that he has never been arrested and therefore must be under the protection of the government.
 
But scores, if not hundreds, of people who appear to have committed minor crimes that day were investigated by the F.B.I. but have not been charged or taken into custody.

Yet Epps is the key person caught on video with an advance plan to go into the Capitol. He’s there the morning of the 6th directing people to the Capitol, and he’s right up at the barricade during the initial breach, after which he rushes into the restricted zone. Note that many others, including Jeremy Brown, Owen Shroyer, Mark Ibrahim, Couy Griffin, have been hit with trespassing charges for this.
 

But Epps isn’t open to just a trespassing charge. Not enough has been said about the significance of the following video. Note Epps message “WHEN we go in, leave this here.” Epps says this just minutes before the initial breach of the Capitol grounds:

 


 
How is this not a basis for a conspiracy charge?
 

For some perspective, January 6 defendant George Tanios faces serious conspiracy charges for saying “Hold on, hold on, not yet, not yet… it’s still early” when his alleged co-conspirator asked for bear spray:

 

 
Ray Epps’ participation in the Jan 6 riot was sufficiently egregious as to make him one of the early targets of the left-wing online investigative group Sedition Hunters, and earn him a spot as one of the first 20 of FBI’s most wanted for January 6:
 

 

Amazingly, Ray-Epps is referenced as a pre-planner of the Capitol siege in the NYT’s own video documentary on January 6, “Day of Rage: How Trump Supporters Took the US Capitol”:

 


 
The very same NYT that now dismisses “conspiracies” about Ray Epps refers to Epps in its own definitive video documentary as a rioters for whom “storming the capitol was part of the plot all along.”
 

Again the NYT video documentary features Epps as one of the key orchestrators of the Capitol siege:

 


 

The Times piece ominously suggests Epps will sue news outlets (possibly Revolver News and/or Tucker Carlson) for defamation… should Epps sue the Times itself then for suggesting that Epps pre-planned the Capitol attack in its own ostensibly definitive video documentary of that “Day of Rage?”

To that end, Mr. Epps and his wife have been searching for a lawyer to help them file a defamation lawsuit against several of the people who have spread the false accounts. Should they end up doing so, they would join a list of other individuals and companies — most notably, the voting machine producer Dominion Voting Systems — in using the courts to push back on the rampant disinformation that emerged again and again during Mr. Trump’s efforts to overturn the election.

The Times piece also specifically blames the “obscure” Revolver News for bringing the bizarre case of Ray Epps to the public’s attention.

 
The bottom line here is that Ray Epps is the smoking gun of the Fedsurrection narrative, as studiously documented in Revolver News’ now classic two part series on Epps. If it turns out Epps was acting on behalf of some government agency on January 6, the entire official narrative collapses in one fell swoop.

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The gutter dwellers who work for the New York Slimes(Times)noting that his liberal rag has been covering up the truth since 1932 when the Notorious Walter Duranty ws Stalin’s Propagandists in America

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The right and their mob leader Trump have crucified Epps and his family to protect their crack-brained conspiracy theory. They’d cheerfully nail him to a cross and put it up along side the Indiana doctor that provided an abortion to a 10-year-old-child.

Seriously, this sort of stuff is the rot at the heart of the GOP. You need to cut it out while the party can still be saved. If they take control of America in this condition, they’ll destroy everything the nation stands for.

Trump Allies Call Report of Ray Epps Losing Business, Family ‘Propaganda’

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The right and their mob leader Trump have crucified Epps and his family to protect their crack-brained conspiracy theory. 

So, how, exactly, has Epps been “crucified”? Are you not curious about the guy that was imploring those around him, on January 5th and 6th, to go to the Capital, ENTER the Capital and create chaos? You have openly celebrated people that just walked in and walked around having their homes invaded, being arrested, thrown into solitary confinement under un-American conditions, abused, threatened and in many cases, forced to confess to crimes simply to get bail… why are you so incurious of the guy the instigated the riot? You keep saying Trump incited the riot (with “peacefully go and make your voices heard”) but you have on animosity against the guy that COMMANDED the incursion?

That’s just weird. Unless, of course, we factor in your leftist bias, prejudice and support for left wing violence, fascism, totalitarianism and hatred for the Constitution.

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Read the linked article. Epps has lost his business, been forced to move, and been disowned by members of his own family.

So, how, exactly, has Epps been “crucified”?

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Epps has lost his business, been forced to move, and been disowned by members of his own family.

The left does this to conservatives that commit such heinous crimes as not worshiping at the altar of LGBTQ every day. What’s so special about Epps, in your mind? Have you not seen the videos of him imploring people to do the thing you pretend to believe is worse than the Civil War, Pearl Harbor and 911 all rolled into one riot? Why are you showing so much sympathy for this guy? Isn’t he your very definition of an insurrectionist?

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Democrats and the FBI staged a false flag to solidify a rigged election.

Biden and the Federal Government only sits at the leisure of the American people as sort out how to remove this illegal government.

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Regime Propaganda, Ray Epps, and the New York Times 

Is the New York Times playing four-dimensional chess?

Or is it only tic-tac-toe with a three-year-old?

I ask because I cannot quite fathom the Times’ latest intervention into the January 6 miniseries, its aromatic aria bewailing the fate of Ray Epps.

Who is Ray Epps? 

We don’t really know—not yet. 

In the immediate aftermath of the January 6 jamboree, he was on the Stasi’s—er, the FBI’s—list of most wanted “domestic extremists,” “insurrectionists,” etc. 

He was also a star of several videos, a right-out-of-central-casting, MAGA-hat-wearing Trump nut telling anyone who would listen on the evening of January 5 that the next day they had to go “into the Capitol, into the Capitol.”

Into the Capitol, not “to” the Capitol. You see the difference.

Back in January 2021, the entire regime propaganda machine was indiscriminately fanning the line that “Trump sparked an insurrection, an attempted coup, an effort to overturn the 2020 election.” Glenn Greenwald, no friend of Trump’s, was an early skeptic about that overblown hysteria. “Condemning that riot,” Greenwald noted, “does not allow, let alone require, echoing false claims in order to render the event more menacing and serious than it actually was.” 

But that is precisely what the regime media did: twist, exaggerate, lie, and manufacture out of whole cloth a narrative whose sole purpose was to destroy Donald Trump and the populist movement he gave voice to. 

The New York Times, of course, was Johnny-on-the-spot. It was the Times that early on circulated the made-up story that Brian Sicknick, a Capitol Police officer, had been bludgeoned to death by a crazed Trump supporter wielding a fire extinguisher. That was shouted from the rooftops for a few days by the same sort of people who screamed that Nick Sandmann, the so-called “Covington kid,” was guilty of taunting a noble Native American when he was doing nothing of the kind. 

Sicknick, as it happens, died of a stroke at home the day after January 6. The Times eventually admitted its error, sotto voce, but only after the damage had been done.

Then, just a few days ago, the Times published another piece in which Ray Epps features prominently. The column, written by Alan Feuer, is titled “A Trump Backer’s Downfall as the Target of a Jan. 6 Conspiracy Theory.” It is the sort of column the Times fabricates when it enters damage-control mode and wants to salvage someone’s reputation in order to score political points. Back in January 2021, Epps was an enemy, a public face of a supposed “insurrection” that was going to overturn the 2020 election and install Donald Trump as dictator for life. 

But in the succeeding months, the Narrative had changed. The preposterous show trials of the “select” January 6 committee, Loopy Liz Cheney presiding, is not getting the traction it was supposed to get. People who work for CNN, MSNBC, or kindred outlets are all behind Cheney in her mad vendetta against Trump. But the mass of people across the country do not care one whit about the “findings” of the committee. Most people can recognize a partisan witch hunt when they see one, and this Star Chamber performance has done more to engender disgust at Congress than it has to turn people against Trump.

Moreover, with every passing week, evidence that the entire January 6 protest was planned and abetted not by Donald Trump and his nefarious agents but rather by elements of the anti-Trump regime has been piling up. Julie Kelly here at American Greatness and Darren Beattie at Revolver News have been at the forefront of the effort to uncover the truth behind the Wizard-of-Oz-like spectacle of January 6. Now the regime seems to be panicking.

Hence the Times is willing to transform Ray Epps from perpetrator into victim in order to influence the Narrative. Their proximate goal is signaled in the subtitle to their maudlin valentine: “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.”

Ah. The “baseless” idea, you see. 

Yes, even in that video taken on January 5, 2021, when Epps tells the crowd that the next day they must go “into the Capitol, into the Capitol,” members of the crowd start chanting “Fed, Fed, Fed.” They knew.

Granted, there is no evidence—not yet, anyway—that Epps was working for the FBI. But that agency is only one of the dozens of deep state, anti-Trump agencies in Washington, D.C. Eventually, I’d wager, it will emerge that Epps was in the employ of one or another anti-Trump government organization. How else can we explain that he went from being on the FBI’s most wanted list to victim-of-the-week for the New York Times? More to the point, how else can we explain why he has not been indicted and tossed into jail with the hundreds upon hundreds of poor slobs who had the misfortune to find themselves in or around the Capitol that fateful day?

Darren Beattie speculates that the “hidden agenda” behind the Times’ earlobe-licking puff piece on Epps is an effort to “make any unsanctioned ideas about Epps too toxic and dangerous to print.” He may be right. In the course of Feuer’s piece, the idea that Epps might sue Revolver News, Tucker Carlson, and others is floated. Epps’ family is “searching for a lawyer to help them file a defamation lawsuit,” the Times reports. “Regime janitors like Feuer,” Beattie writes, “specialize in mopping up Fed dirty work.” They will now “go into overdrive as more embarrassing information about Ray Epps and the initial breach comes out.”

Unfortunately for those foot soldiers for Leviathan, it is too late. There are too many people onto their game. 

Feuer’s embarrassing piece in the Times at first seemed inexplicable. Why would the Times seek to exonerate, or at least to drum up sympathy for, someone who was caught on video urging the crowd to break into the Capitol? The whole thing seemed like a higher-order hermeneutical conundrum. Until, that is, one recognizes that Epps might just be a sort of double agent, an agent provocateur, laboring not on behalf of Trump’s supporters but his enemies. Then it all begins to make sense. 

To understand what the Times is up to, one needs to approach its stories as one would approach those emitted by the Soviet Union or other totalitarian regimes. One needs to engage in what Powerline’s Scott Johnson, taking a page from Matt Taibbi, calls a “Kremlinological reading” of the story. Feuer and other Times apparatchiks like Adam Goldman, Johnson suggests, are really part of the “public relations arm of the national security establishment.” Indeed. 

The Kremlinological reading is breathtaking. Anyone standing behind such a reading will surely be dismissed as a “conspiracy theorist” or worse. To all such accusations, however, I adduce both Delmore Schwartz, who pointed out that even paranoids have enemies, and William of Occam, whose famous tip for epistemological tidiness comes in handy on occasions such as this. Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem, Occam wrote, which we might translate as “If it smells like a rat, looks like a rat, and behaves like a rat, it is overwhelmingly likely that it is a rat.”

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The M.S. Media must wonder whu Americans no longer trusts them it seems they have brought it down upon themselves and have not learned anything

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