Ann Coulter Blasts Tucker Carlson for Promoting ‘Whack-Job’ Ray Epps Conspiracy Theory
Conservative commentator Ann Coulter criticized other right-wingers for falling for the Ray Epps January 6 conspiracy theory during a recent interview with the New York Times‘ Jeremy Peters, specifically calling out former Fox News personality Tucker Carlson for his role in propagating it.
A number of Coulter’s peers, including Carlson, have speculated that Epps — who attended the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot — was an undercover federal law enforcement agent tasked with goading other Trump supporters into committing illegal acts.
“I wanted to specifically talk about the Ray Epps case because, I mean, even people I like and I think are usually pretty sensible right-wingers. They are all down with the Ray Epps conspiracy theory,” began Coulter. “And look, Democrats do a lot of really bad things, I’ve spent my life covering them. I hate bureaucrats, I hate Christopher Wray, the head of the FBI. But the New York Times — sorry, I often hate the New York Times too — had a full and complete description of why Ray Epps was there, how he was defamed and had to sell his business, he was a true Trump supporter, he was going around with his nephew.”
Please stop buying into every whack-job conspiracy theory, right-wingers.
The truth about Ray Epps in less than 2 minutes. pic.twitter.com/fPNTeFWgma
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) December 3, 2023
“The clip that Tucker kept playing of him saying ‘And then we’re going to go into the Capitol’ or something like that, that was the night before! The day of, he and the person he was whispering to both told the FBI separately ‘No, he was telling us don’t go in, don’t go in, don’t go in.'” continued Coulter.
“He [Epps] literally had to sell this going business he had in Arizona with his wife, it was a wedding venue. Now they’re in hiding. I mean, there’s a lot of- the way the New York Times lies is by omission. They don’t tell you things that are really sort of a relevant part of the story. Sorry, Jeremy, cover your ears at this part. But they don’t just say things that are outright false, or at least very rarely and then they make a correction,” she concluded.
In July, Epps — who was eventually charged with a misdemeanor by the Department of Justice — announced that he was suing Fox News for alleged instances of defamation on Carlson’s old show.
“Now we’ve asked Ray Epps on this show repeatedly to explain why he thinks he’s escaped prosecution, and we’ll ask him once again tonight, and we’ll keep asking because we think it is a very obvious and important question,” declared Carlson in one instance. In another, he accused Epps of having “stage-managed the insurrection.”
