Speaker 1: More bad news for Fox News.
Fox News has been hit with a brutal lawsuit from Reps.
Reps is the sort of, you know, ill advised dude who has been accused by many on the right
of being some kind of FBI operative a fomenting the January 6th riots.
The argument that many on the right have made is that it was an inside job and this guy,
Ray Epps, was there to entrap and encourage individuals to riot on January 6th.
We now have a lawsuit.
We expected this lawsuit I told you about this months ago.
Arizona man cited in conspiracy theories sues Fox News for defamation.
New York Times reports.
Ray Epps, a two time Trump voter, says Tucker Carlson reportedly repeatedly and falsely
named him as a covert government agent who incited the January six attacks.
Tucker Carlson is gone from Fox.
And one of the things I told you and Tucker Carlson was fired was that it may be, to a
degree, a preemptive measure with the expectation that Ray Epps is going to sue for defamation
and that as part of their defense, Fox News wants to be able to say, we got rid of him
already.
This complaint was filed in Superior court in Delaware.
That is the same place where Fox was recently handed that $787 million judgment against
them from Dominion voting systems.
Fox News was asked for comment about this lawsuit.
They did not give one.
This is a major, major problem for Fox News.
Here is a reminder of some of the things Tucker has said about Ray Epps.
Speaker 2: What exactly was the role of Ray Epps in the chaos of January 6th?
We asked, because Ray Epps is on video on both January 5th and January 6th encouraging
people to enter the Capitol building, which is to say to break federal law.
And as he says this in this video, you'll notice people in the crowd immediately identify
him as a, quote, Fed watch.
We need to go in to the capital and let's go and.
They're probably going to go to jail or get married.
We need to go to the Capitol.
Unidentified: And hear the gavel.
He's more.
They say very.
Speaker 1: So there's more of this type of stuff.
And Tucker Carlson egging on the idea that this is an FBI agent of some kind.
Now, there is no question that as a two time Trump voter who went to D.C. on January 5th,
2021, Ray Epps is the epitome of the dimwitted MAGA.
That that's the truth.
Okay.
However, there is no evidence whatsoever that we are dealing with an FBI agent here.
And Tucker Carlson did this on multiple occasions.
Here he was during an interview on November 1st, 2021, with Elijah Schaffer, a name you
may notice because of more recent use.
Doesn't matter here.
Listen to this.
Speaker 2: So why were they so intent on shutting down your reporting and the reporting, the
honest reporting of others?
So you were happened to be standing very close to a man called Ray Epps, who was a leader
of what we're told is a right wing extremist group.
He has not been indicted.
Based on what you saw personally, did Ray Epps seem to be encouraging people to break
the law that day?
100%.
I did not see any violence occurring.
I don't think anybody that was at the front lines went with the intent to do anything
other than to protest peacefully.
There were barriers, but there was one individual who was whispering in people's ears.
The very people that instigated the attacks, the ones who pushed the barrier, who are being
prosecuted for injuring a capital officer, a female who wasn't wearing a helmet, who
still has head injuries to this day, I found out.
All right.
Speaker 1: So the point is that it was all ray apps.
Ray UPS did the whole thing.
It turned out that none of those claims were true.
There's no evidence for any of those claims.
And this has genuinely destroyed the life of Ray Epps as he is now the target of so
many of these right wing nuts.
So he is now suing Fox News.
I'm not a defender of reps.
I think Ray Epps voted the wrong way when he voted for Trump twice.
I think Ray Epps is a MAGA tool, but there is not evidence that he's an FBI agent.
And indeed, if he can show my life was demonstrably damaged by people like Tucker Carlson going
after me and saying these things, he would be entitled under the law to damages.
Another problem for Fox News.
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