Did Federal Agents Provocateurs Incite J6 Violence?
On January 5, the day before the giant Stop the Steal rally on the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., a tall, middle-aged man dressed in tan military-style clothing and sporting a backpack and red MAGA cap was circulating among the pro-Trump patriots assembling for the event. His military bearing and authoritative manner might have given the impression that he was one of the event’s organizers. However, his militancy and constant insistence to rallygoers that the next day, on January 6, they must “go into the Capitol! Go into the Capitol!” caused suspicion in many who heard and observed his agitating calls to action. He caused so much concern that some of the attendees around him believed he must be a federal agent provocateur. As can be seen on videos that have gone viral, people began pointing at him and chanting “Fed! Fed! Fed!” to warn fellow patriots not to follow his advice.
He was identified as one Ray Epps of Arizona, a former U.S. Marine and state leader of the Oath Keepers organization. Epps can be seen on video taken January 6 yelling, “OK, folks, spread the word! As soon as the president is done speaking, we go to the Capitol. The Capitol is this direction.” Other video footage shows him apparently taking a leadership role in breaching the Capitol Police perimeter and directing other protesters to surge into the Capitol, where the congressional count of state electoral votes was being conducted. But after the four-hour siege/riot (commonly referred to as an “insurrection”) ended, a strange thing happened: Ray Epps, the most conspicuously visible and prominent agitator among the “insurrectionists,” was given a pass by federal authorities, while FBI SWAT units descended on the homes of grannies, physicians, and businessmen across the country, arresting hundreds of people, many of whom had not even gone into the Capitol.
The privileged treatment accorded to Ray Epps confirmed to many observers that he was indeed an agent provocateur on January 6 (hereafter noted as J6). However, he was not alone. Far from it. Indeed, contrary to the insistence of the media lie machine and their “fact checkers,” there is abundant evidence that it was federal agents, undercover assets, and leftist Antifa activists who orchestrated and led the assault on the Capitol. We will return to Ray Epps and his confederates in a moment, along with the damning evidence that is steadily mounting, but first we should ask and answer the question that immediately comes to mind: Why would federal authorities (DOJ, FBI, DHS, and other three-letter agencies) do such a thing? The answer is obvious: They wanted to sabotage the proceedings of the electoral vote count in order to discredit and vilify President Trump and his supporters, thus providing a pretext for fully rolling out the totalitarian war on “domestic extremism” that the Biden administration has unveiled.
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