{"id":1790092,"date":"2022-12-29T19:18:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T00:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1790092"},"modified":"2022-12-29T19:18:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T00:18:47","slug":"revealed-ray-epps-claimed-he-believed-capitol-was-open-to-public-on-january-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/revealed-ray-epps-claimed-he-believed-capitol-was-open-to-public-on-january-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed! Ray Epps Claimed That Capitol Was Open To The Public On January 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frevealed-ray-epps-claimed-he-believed-capitol-was-open-to-public-on-january-6%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1790092&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Ray Epps <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ny-times-sympathetic-profile-of-mysterious-january-6-figure-ray-epps-only-raises-more-questions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a mysterious January 6 figure<\/a> One suspect, believed to be a federal agent, claimed that he believed the U.S. Capitol had been open to the public the day of the riot.<\/p>\n<p>The statement appears in a <a href=\"https:\/\/january6th.house.gov\/sites\/democrats.january6th.house.gov\/files\/20220121_Ray%20Epps.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">long-awaited transcript<\/a> The House January 6 Committee released the following Thursday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/lawyer-harmeet-dhillon-claims-victory-as-january-6-panel-drops-trump-subpoena\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released its final report last week<\/a>. Epps, who is a self-described Trump supporter and raised concerns about 2020, was interviewed about January 5, 2021. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ikta_UQBT04\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video footage showing him<\/a> Encourage a crowd to \u201cgo into the Capitol\u201d The next day.<\/p>\n<p>Epps said \u201cyes\u201d when asked if he was under the impression that the Capitol would be open on January 6, the day lawmakers met to certify President Joe Biden\u2019s 2020 election victory. He said again \u201cyes\u201d When is the word \u201copen\u201d This case was described as \u201clike, open to visitors, like anyone could walk in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Epps was asked why he thought the Capitol would remain open. \u201cIt was a weekday.\u201d When Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) pressed Epps on how he perceived the negative reaction he received from the crowd in response to his call to enter the Capitol \u2014 people around him shouted \u201cNo!\u201d And chanted \u201cFed! Fed! Fed!\u201d \u2014 Epps contended, \u201cI don\u2019t think I thought about it at the time,\u201d He also stressed that he believed he \u201cfollowed that up with peaceably [sic].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Epps also claimed that his actions that night were geared towards stopping violence. However, he acknowledged that what he said to the crowd, which included that he might get arrested for what he said, was not a good choice of words. \u201cIt shouldn\u2019t have been said, but I said it,\u201d Epps testified.<\/p>\n<p>Republican lawmakers and prominent conservatives like Tucker Carlson have fueled speculation about Epps, an Arizonan man and former Oath Keeper. Epps claimed that the interview was with the January 6, Committee. \u201ccrazy\u201d The theories swirling about him made his life interesting \u201creally, really difficult.\u201d He flatly denied acting on behalf any government agency during his time in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only time I\u2019ve been involved with the government was when I was a Marine in the United States Marine Corps,\u201d He stated.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Part of the fascination with Epps derived from how he appeared on the FBI\u2019s Capitol Violence Most Wanted list before he was removed without explanation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/ray-epps-called-fbi-tip-line-two-days-after-capitol-riot-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">per the Washington Examiner<\/a>. Kinzinger <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamKinzinger\/status\/1481024970826338307\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted in January<\/a>, roughly 10 days before Epps\u2019 interview with the panel, that Epps \u201cdidn\u2019t enter the Capitol on Jan 6, and was removed from the most wanted list because apparently he broke no laws.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked about his client being removed from the list so quickly, Epps\u2019 attorney John Blischack clarified that he believed that Epps \u201cwas removed shortly after he contacted the FBI and\/or the FBI contacted me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recordings released earlier this year to defense lawyers representing people who were charged in connection to the Capitol riot included further details about Epps, including the revelation that two days\u00a0after the Capitol riot, Epps called an FBI tip line after seeing himself on a list of January 6 suspects, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/05\/us\/jan-6-ray-epps-evidence.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sources who heard the call said that Epps told investigators what happened in another conversation. This was captured on film on January 6, right before the violence at the U.S. Capitol began. The footage shows Epps whispering into the ears of another man outside the building. Epps claimed that he was trying calm the person and that the police were simply doing their job. Ryan Samsel, the January 6 defendant, reportedly confirmed Epps&#8217; account.<\/p>\n<p>Epps eventually denied that he had broken the law. He testified to the January 6 Committee that he attended Trump\u2019s rally at the Ellipse near the White House, where the former president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5fiT6c0MQ58\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">encouraged people to march on the Capitol<\/a> To protest the 2020 election results, Epps made his way to Capitol with other protesters. Epps explained that he was aware the Capitol was closed to the public and attempted to diffuse tensions between protesters and police when he witnessed the standoff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just looked around, and I was sick. There was a lot of tear gas, a lot of bad stuff going on,\u201d He testified.<\/p>\n<p>Epps stated that he had begun to leave and offered his assistance to anyone in need. Epps stated that he returned to the hospital afterward. \u201cI saw people crawling all over the Capitol, climbing the walls. It made me kind of ill to my stomach. I decided to go back to the \u2014 there was no point in going back. It had gone beyond to what I wanted it to be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Epps, a mysterious January 6 figure some theorized to be a federal informant, told congressional investigators he believed the U.S. Capitol was open to the public on the day of the riot. The assertion appears in a long-awaited transcript released Thursday by the House January 6 Committee, which released its final report last week. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1790095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4172,4308,6202,12469,3780,3799,8812,4688,6195],"class_list":["post-1790092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-capitol","tag-claimed","tag-daily","tag-epps","tag-january","tag-public","tag-ray","tag-revealed","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1790092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1790095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1790092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1790092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1790092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}