Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., has lost patience with the members of his party who continue to push the unfounded conspiracy theory that a Trump supporter named Ray Epps encouraged demonstrators to storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan.
and brought up during hearings by Republican lawmakers like Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, and Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Matt Gaetz of Florida. It is based on the idea that Epps was working for the government in some capacity when he was captured on video urging other pro-Trump protesters to enter the Capitol.
"The narrative on Jan. 6 has been that it’s first antifa, or patriots who love their country, maybe crisis actors, def false flag operatives, or now FBI agents," Kinzinger wrote. "Take your pick. Truth is they were rioters incited by lies. And RAY is no fed. Just another misled man." You’d have to ask the committee’s staff that make these kinds of daily decisions. I think the reality is, you know, we don’t want to go out there, necessarily, and if there’s an informal interview, an informal question, to release every single person we talk to ahead of time.
The question is, and again this is for the DOJ, what is the threshold with what do you charge? Now, is it different for a president of the United States, or a leader from a pulpit, or somebody who has, in the president’s case, taken weeks or months to build a case of a stolen election narrative? Is it different than, say, somebody that maybe in the heat of the moment says, "We need to go into the Capitol." With DOJ, I don’t know all the evidence of whether [Epps] did or didn’t.
But the broader point is I’m not certain the FBI is totally competent with everything, but I’m totally certain that they would not be so incompetent as to put their own agent on the Most Wanted list.I’m sure that came up. Again, I will refer that to the committee, and I’m sure that there will be further stuff to come out, but I’d refer those questions to them.The extent of my knowledge is, we interviewed him, here’s what he said. Then it’s taking logic: The guy was on a Most Wanted list.
Then, when the segment, is over he spends the whole next segment trying to discredit you without your presence. All he does is set it up in a way that he can guarantee he discredits you after the fact. Now, would I debate, in theory, somebody like Tucker on a different show, where we were participating under the same ground rules? That’s very different than somebody who goes in with the intention of later discrediting to an audience already predisposed to believe conspiracy.
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