Sen. Ted Cruz has been peddling a conspiracy theory suggesting the FBI incited the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, starting a month ago when he...
Then Carlson – enormously influential among Trump supporters and a gatekeeper to the 2024 Republican nomination that Cruz covets – broached a pet theory that puts a man named Ray Epps at the center of the false flag scheme.“For him to appear on the FBI’s most wanted list and come off, it certainly suggests he was working for the FBI. That’s not conclusive, but that’s the obvious implication,” Cruz told Carlson.How many FBI agents or confidential informants participated in the events of Jan.
Cruz pivoted to Epps, a former Marine who owns a ranch and wedding venue called the Knotty Barn in Queen Creek, Ariz. He showed the FBI’s most wanted list from two days after the riot, with an as-yet unidentified Epps in photo #16. Then the list in early July, with Epps removed.“Ms. Sanborn, a lot of Americans are concerned that the federal government deliberately encouraged illegal and violent conduct on Jan. 6. …Did federal agents or those in service of federal agents actively encourage violent and criminal conduct on Jan.
“The reason so many people are concerned about Mr. Epps is what we saw in the video. He is urging people to commit criminal activity,” Cruz said on his podcast. “If anyone genuinely cares about the integrity of law enforcement, you ought to be troubled by law enforcement entrapping people [and] incentivizing criminal conduct.”“It may be that he’s not [a fed]. His behavior is very curious. And the fact that the FBI was unwilling to deny it raises serious questions,” Cruz said.
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