Ray Epps demands Fox apologize and retract claims he was a federal agent

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A lawyer for Ray Epps, the man at the center of a prominent conspiracy theory about the Capitol riot, sent a letter on Thursday to the Fox News host Tucker Carlson demanding that he publicly retract his “false and defamatory statements” that Mr. Epps had worked as a government provocateur on Jan. 6, 2021, and helped to instigate the mob attack.

The letter to Mr. Carlson from the lawyer, Michael Teter, also demanded a “formal on-air apology for the lies” that have been “spread about Mr. Epps” by others at Fox.

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Letters seeking retractions and apologies are often sent when lawyers are preparing to file a defamation lawsuit.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/23/us/politics/ray-epps-jan-6-fox-tucker-carlson.html

Fox just keeps on getting called out on their lies.

Will they apologize and pay Epps? Or are they looking for another legal fight?
 
Ray Epps isn't an FBI agent. He is a FBI confidential informant. I HOPE Epps sues Fox. Discovery would be FUN.:laugh:
 
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Mr. Carlson featured Mr. Epps on his show on Fox again this month in a segment based on tens of thousands of hours of Capitol surveillance video footage, to which Speaker Kevin McCarthy granted him exclusive access. Mr. Epps appeared only briefly on the show, which broadly sought to play down the events of Jan. 6 and falsely paint the Capitol attack as a largely peaceful gathering of “sightseers.”

Mr. Teter mocked Mr. Carlson in his letter, suggesting that the TV host was trying to have it both ways.

“Oddly, Mr. Carlson now also espouses the view that those rioters were akin to peaceful tourists,” Mr. Teter wrote. “This leads to the obvious question: Is Mr. Carlson now accusing Mr. Epps of provoking peaceful protests?”
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I found that part of the letter sent by Mr Teter, Ray Epps' lawyer, to be rather humorous.
 
The letter also noted the costs that Mr. Epps and his wife had faced by being the target of a conspiracy theory. After the false stories started gaining traction, the couple sold their house and business in Arizona and went into hiding in a mobile home in the Rocky Mountains.

“Mr. and Mrs. Epps have been subjected to threats, intimidation and harassment, resulting in significant economic and emotional damages,” Mr. Teter wrote. “Each time Mr. Carlson and Fox News spreads more misinformation about Mr. Epps, the harm redoubles.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/03/23/perry-mason-dialogue-authenticity/
 
Poor Richard Saunders said:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/23/us/politics/ray-epps-jan-6-fox-tucker-carlson.html

Fox just keeps on getting called out on their lies.

Will they apologize and pay Epps? Or are they looking for another legal fight?
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They'll cave and pay him off. He's not looking for the Dominion level of money. It'd be cheaper for Fox to apologize in a news release and toss him $15M-20M to STFU.

Most of the Trumpers on JPP want him dead because they think he's a Fed. If Fox doesn't settle fast and Epps gets shot by a RWNJ, then they'll be owing the widow 3-4 times more.
 
BidenPresident said:
The letter also noted the costs that Mr. Epps and his wife had faced by being the target of a conspiracy theory. After the false stories started gaining traction, the couple sold their house and business in Arizona and went into hiding in a mobile home in the Rocky Mountains.

“Mr. and Mrs. Epps have been subjected to threats, intimidation and harassment, resulting in significant economic and emotional damages,” Mr. Teter wrote. “Each time Mr. Carlson and Fox News spreads more misinformation about Mr. Epps, the harm redoubles.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/03/23/perry-mason-dialogue-authenticity/
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Yeah this letter is going to help Epps fade away.
 
floridafan said:
I would guess that there were many people who got away without being arrested.
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IIRC, about 500-700 but that was last year. Since most of these idiots had mental and financial issues, not to mention anger management problems, it's only a matter of time before people close to them turn them in. The same anger and violence that pushed them to attack the Capitol is still with them at home.
 
Poor Richard Saunders said:
As much fun as discovery in the Dominion trial.

We will learn that Fox has no respect for their audience.
We will learn that Fox lies to their audience repeatedly.
We will learn that Fox is not a news station.
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Dominion isn't on video telling people to go into the Capitol and yet has never been arrested.
 
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