The Democrat Media Industrial Complex have sold the narrative that President Donald Trump and his lieutenants planned and incited true believers to commit an insurrection to overturn the properly elected Joe Biden on January 6, 2020. What if the Democrats smoke and mirrors melodrama is hiding the role the Federal government played in inciting the riot on January 6? They could start by talking to Ray Epps and John Sullivan aka Jayden X.

On October 24, Rolling Stone magazine published an anonymously sourced article claiming that various Republican members of Congress met with January 6 planners and offered them blanket pardons directly from the Oval Office should they be arrested. Do I believe that certain Republican members of the House believed that the November selection of Joe Biden was suspicious? Hale to the yeah. Many of us believe that and it didn’t come from Donald Trump. Should they have had meetings to coordinate January 6 activities? Again, hale to the yeah. Just like I believe the Democrats planned the protests on Capitol Hill and at the Supreme Court regarding the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh. Rolling Stone is not known for honest journalism.

Far more interesting is the article that Revolver dropped on October 25 regarding the participation of a man named Ray Epps on January 5 and 6, 2021. I commend the entire Revolver article to you.

Ahead of both the Rolling Stone and Revolver articles, Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) showed a video to AG Merrick Garland of a man exhorting people to go into the Capitol on January 6.

I just played this video for AG Merrick Garland. He refused to comment on how many agents or assets of the federal government were present in the crowd on Jan 5th and 6th and how many entered the Capitol. pic.twitter.com/lvd9n4mMHK

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) October 21, 2021

Fed much? The man, identified as Ray Epps, went from group to group, on January 5, telling them to go into the Capitol the next day. On January 6, he led the first breach. Epps is an Arizona native and rancher, a retired Marine Sergeant and is affiliated with the Oath Keepers.

From the Revolver article:

Yet Epps was insistent that everyone stay focused on a common mission: storming the Capitol. On multiple livestreams, Epps moves from group to group throughout the plaza, barging in and insisting everyone “stay focused” on “what we’re here for” — which he would then explain meant going inside the US Capitol building. When asked to give a reason for his crazy plot, Epps would continually fall back on his catch-all rationale: “It’s about the Constitution.”

In another clip, a young woman with a bullhorn addresses the Trump crowds’ grievances with various left-wing adversaries, including BLM, George Soros, and Covid tyranny. At that moment, Epps rushes in to stop and refocus her towards — you guessed it — storming the Capitol. This sequence immediately precedes the “Fed! Fed! Fed!” shout-down earlier, so while some of the action occurs off-camera in this livestream, you can see the context of how Epps was interacting with the crowd. Also below, note how Epps insisted on just “one minute” to make his pitch, but the crowd, already agitated with him, said they would only give him “30 seconds.”

A Trump loving crowd would have good reasons to mistrust the Feds. After all, the Federal government devised the Trump Russia Collusion narrative and the Governor Whitmer kidnapping plot. We all suspected something was off on January 6 because much of the video from the riot was shot by activist John Sullivan also known as Jayden X. I wrote about Jayden X last March:

Worst of all, just about every Democrat on the Judiciary Committee asked Christopher Wray if there was any evidence that BLM or Antifa were involved in the January 6 Capitol breach. Wray said there was none at all. Now, I didn’t go to Yale or the FBI Academy, but I am 100% positive that Black Lives Matter was at the Capitol Breach. John Sullivan aka Jayden X was at the riot as an “agent provocateur” and dressed in a Trump 2020 ball cap. Sullivan was arrested and released on his own recognizance. I think even Inspector Clouseau could put those clues together.

I was close but I should have done more digging. Jayden X/John Sullivan was hanging with Ray Epps on January 5. Although, to be honest, Sullivan doesn’t look thrilled to be caught with his co-provocateur:

There is so much more to this than meets the eye.

Last night, Ted Lieu and Nicolle Wallace opined about radicalized Republicans:

"We're seeing the radicalization of the Republican base before our very eyes. Radical Republicans are dangerous… if we want to have Republicans in charge of who's gonna decide the electoral college in 2024, that's a very dangerous prospect" – @tedlieu w/ @NicolleDWallace pic.twitter.com/WYPHJcahx3

— Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) October 25, 2021

Dangerous is when you set up innocent people. Dangerous is when you create a false story about a President colluding with an enemy. Read the Revolver article and prepare to be gobsmacked. As bad as you think things are, they are worse.

Please be very wary of new people. They might just be Feds trying to entrap you. Fed. Fed. Fed.

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