Regime Desperate To Tie Up Fedsurrection Loose Ends With Latest Epps Sentencing Document

Earlier this week, the Department of Justice published a sentencing memo recommending that Ray Epps serve six months in prison on misdemeanor charges related to his behavior on January 6th.

Back in September, we reported on the bizarre situation in which Ray Epps, nearly three years after January 6th, is hit with a misdemeanor charge for which the DOJ notifies him in advance and to which he pleads guilty.

For a sense of perspective regarding the DOJ’s 6-month prison recommendation for Ray Epps, consider that Enrique Tarrio, who wasn’t even in DC on January 6th, was sentenced to 22 years in prison. Ray Epps’ fellow Oath Keeper leader, Stewart Rhodes, was convicted of seditious conspiracy and sentenced to 18 years in prison.

Epps’ sentencing recommendation is not only trivial in comparison to fellow heavyweights Stewart Rhodes and Enrique Tarrio. Prosecutors are requesting 30 months for Sandra Weyer, a 60-year-old woman with no criminal record and no record of violent behavior on January 6th.

We have written extensively about Ray Epps’ involvement in January 6 and have compiled numerous damning video clips documenting his behavior...

Interestingly, the DOJ’s sentencing document on Epps admits that Epps is guilty of “felonious conduct,” but not only do they spare him the seditious conspiracy charges given to other major Fedsurrection players, they spare him even the “obstruction of an official proceeding” felony charge (currently pending Supreme Court review) given to countless other January 6 defendants with far less egregious behavior. So why the display of mercy? One reason the DOJ gives for leniency is that Epps reached out to the FBI early and was allegedly forthcoming and cooperative with their investigation. The notion that Epps was cooperative is highly questionable; indeed, we have reported on countless discrepancies, if not lies, in his account of events recorded in interviews with law enforcement. Just to take one example, Epps at one point claimed that he thought it would be legal to go into the Capitol—a claim contradicted repeatedly by the fact that he prefaced his exhortations to storm the Capitol with “I’m probably going to go to jail for this.” Let’s assume for the sake of argument that Ray Epps did turn himself in early and was cooperative, as well as the fact that he called for a de-escalation of violence in many instances. Many January 6 defendants notified law enforcement early on of their presence in the Capitol and enjoyed no such extreme leniency.

The final extenuating circumstance the DOJ offers is by far the most bizarre. That is, the DOJ cites the fact that Ray Epps is a victim of “conspiracies” as a reason to provide leniency and to withhold felony charges for his admittedly felonious conduct...

Given Ray Epps’ background and behavior, he ordinarily would have been the perfect candidate as the poster boy for supposed “dangerous MAGA insurrectionists.” He’s the only person caught on camera repeatedly urging people, as early as January 5th, to go into the Capitol. On the 6th, he repeatedly directs the crowd to the Capitol before Trump’s speech is even over (in camo gear and a Trump hat, no less). He just happens to be pre-positioned at the first decisive breach point on the west perimeter of the capitol and famously whispers into a person’s ear seconds before the breach occurs. And to top it all off, he had previously been the head of the Arizona chapter of the OathKeepers, the most demonized and heavily prosecuted militia group associated with January 6th. It is independently remarkable that the sentencing document does not so much as make a single reference to Epps’ former leadership role with the Oath Keepers, especially because the founder of the Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes, was convicted of seditious conspiracy and sentenced to 18 years...

The fact that Epps wasn’t indicted on felony charges right away, but instead the DOJ left him alone for nearly three years before a half-hearted wrist slap misdemeanor charge, does not make any sense...

Now, with the damning facts about Epps out there in the open to the point that Epps has almost become a household name, the regime is desperately trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube. What could they possibly do to salvage the official, approved (and false) version of events? Well, they could slap a misdemeanor charge on Epps three years after January 6th and hope that the public is dumb enough to conclude, “Well, they were a little late, but they did slap a misdemeanor charge on him, so I guess there’s nothing to see here.” Sadly for the DOJ and the regime, the American public is not that stupid.