{"id":1790934,"date":"2022-12-30T18:48:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T23:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1790934"},"modified":"2022-12-30T18:48:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T23:48:19","slug":"ray-epps-told-nephew-he-orchestrated-january-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ray-epps-told-nephew-he-orchestrated-january-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Epps Told Nephew That He \u2018Orchestrated\u2019 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\">18<\/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%2Fray-epps-told-nephew-he-orchestrated-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=1790934&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> Some believed he was a federal informant. He told his nephew that he \u201corchestrated\u201d What happened that day in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>In the following, this bombastic statement was made <a href=\"https:\/\/january6th.house.gov\/sites\/democrats.january6th.house.gov\/files\/20220121_Ray%20Epps.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a lightly redacted transcript released Thursday<\/a> The January 6th Committee of the House. Epps claimed that he spoke poorly to his nephew and insisted to congressional investigators that his actions did not incite the Capitol riot. On the contrary, he was trying stop the violence from escalating. Epps can be seen encouraging people march to the Capitol in video clips. However, he flatly denied that he was acting on behalf any government agency while in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n<p>On January 6, 2008, his nephew, Dalin, a 28-year old, sent an SMS to Epps, saying, \u201cYou and Jim be safe.\u201d Jim is Epps\u2019 son, who was also in the nation\u2019s capital. Epps responded hours later at 2:22 p.m. as violence at the Capitol was getting under way, with a brag. \u201cI was in the front with a few others. I also orchestrated it,\u201d He stated.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators asked Epps for clarification.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just meant that I got \u2014 you have to understand our relationship, uncle-nephew. We hunt together. We fun with each other [sic]. We do that kind of stuff,\u201d He stated. \u201cWhat I meant by \u2018orchestrate,\u2019 I helped get people there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Epps said that he also believed in the idea of a &#8220;single&#8221; person. \u201ctook credit for it, but I didn\u2019t know what I was taking credit for,\u201d Later, he claimed that he had used the wrong word. \u201cI won\u2019t know what the right word is, but \u2018orchestrating\u2019 \u2014 my wife has told me over and over, you shouldn\u2019t say things you don\u2019t \u2014 you know, I shouldn\u2019t have used that word,\u201d He stated.<\/p>\n<p>Epps would say that he was really looking for a job. \u201cpeaceful demonstration\u201d About the election, he lamented about how party-like it was \u201chijacked\u201d Troublemakers<\/p>\n<p>The interview with the House committee on January 21st, this year, was dominated by the theme of family.<\/p>\n<p>Epps, an Arizona native and former Oath Keeper, claimed that he went to Washington, D.C. to spend time with son. He said he was there at the behest of his wife who was concerned about their son\u2019s safety amid reports of unrest in various cities.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this motivation, Epps described multiple occasions in which he was separated from his son and his son\u2019s friend. That includes when Epps left Trump\u2019s rally on the Ellipse near the White House on January 6 \u2014 right when the former president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/01\/05\/1069977469\/a-timeline-of-how-the-jan-6-attack-unfolded-including-who-said-what-and-when\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">started to speak around noon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Epps stated that he saw a group leaving for the Capitol and decided he would follow them because he wanted. \u201cbe in the front.\u201d Epps claimed that he had seen people carry items such as \u201csticks or bars\u201d I warned them to put their feet down and to be quiet. \u201cYou could get shot.\u201d He also said he wasn\u2019t walking with anybody in particular.<\/p>\n<p>Epps claimed he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/revealed-ray-epps-claimed-he-believed-capitol-was-open-to-public-on-january-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">believed the Capitol was open<\/a> to the public \u2014 on a day when lawmakers were meeting to certify President Joe Biden\u2019s 2020 election victory \u2014 until he saw the barricades outside the building. Epps claimed that he tried to deescalate the ongoing clashes between demonstrators and law enforcement but was unsuccessful. He returned to the hotel after a while.<\/p>\n<p>Epps also sent a text message to his nephew. \u201cI think a few got sucked into the heat of the moment,\u201d According to the transcript. Epps was asked to clarify his meaning. \u201call kinds of stuff\u201d The preceding year was marked by the onset COVID, and businesses closing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe people went there for answers. People wanted to know what\u2019s next. And I believe they were emotionally charged. A lot of people were emotionally charged and could have got sucked in,\u201d Epps said. \u201cSo, when these guys tried to hijack it, I think some innocent people, people that meant well, probably were emotionally charged and did some things they normally wouldn\u2019t do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Epps, a mysterious January 6 figure some theorized to be a federal informant, told his nephew that he \u201corchestrated\u201d what transpired that day in 2021. The bombastic assertion was revealed in a lightly redacted transcript released Thursday by the House January 6 Committee. Claiming he made a poor choice of words to his nephew, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1558474,"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":[12594,6202,12469,3780,12593,8812,3737,6195],"class_list":["post-1790934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-orchestrated","tag-daily","tag-epps","tag-january","tag-nephew","tag-ray","tag-told","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\/1790934","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=1790934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1558474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1790934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1790934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1790934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}