Judge Tosses Epps Defamation Suit Against Fox News

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Capitol Hill rioter Ray Epps lost his defamation suit against Donald Trump. The judge tossed it. U.S. District Court Judge Jennifer L. Hall granted Fox News’ motion to dismiss the suit filed last year by Ray Epps.

Ruling from the bench in Federal District Court in Wilmington, Del., the judge, Jennifer L. Hall, dismissed the defamation claims by the man, Ray Epps. He and his lawyers had failed to prove that Mr. Carlson had acted with “actual malice,” the judge said.

Mr. Epps had accused Mr. Carlson last summer of promoting a “fantastical story” that he was an undercover agent who had helped foment the riot at the Capitol to disparage President Donald J. Trump and his followers.

Epps said Tucker Carlson and others falsely accused him of being a government agent who instigated the violence at the Capitol.

Fox News welcomed the judge’s decision, which is the third consecutive defamation case to be decided in favor of the network following the record $787 million settlement it paid to Dominion Voting Systems in April 2024.

In a secret sentencing hearing Ray Epps was given one year of probation, $500 in restitution, and 100 hours of community service. Epps never spent an hour in jail and was allowed to attend the hearing from home.

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Popeye the Project Boy
5 months ago

He was exposed guilty on several videos.

Canadian Friend
5 months ago

Of the thousands of people present on Jan6, the one about whom we have the most evidence of inciting a riot is Ray Epps.

There is no one else who is on video encouraging people – repeatedly- to go inside the Capitol as much as Ray Epps.

Of all the supposed evidence of a supposed insurrection, the most damning is that of Ray Epps.

Yet the Jan6 committee ignored that he even exists,

and some Democrats, such as Raskin, even defended Epps; how can anyone explain that Democrats who wanted thousands of supposed insurrectionsists thrown in prison were fiercely defending the one that looked the most guilty?

The only explanation is that Ray Epps was connected to the FBI and to the Democrats who planned this entrapment operation.

That is why even the New York Times defended Epps.

Epps was trained and paid by the FBI/Democrats

There is no other explanation.

86 the globalists
5 months ago

Amen!

Popeye the Project Boy
5 months ago

Right on!

86 the globalists
5 months ago

If any one person should have been arrested and jailed for what they did on January 6th Ray Epps should be that person. He started the injustice department’s entrapment of over a thousand innocent patriots. And Nancy Pelosi should be in the prison cell right beside him.

Sua Sponte
5 months ago

Huh, he’s taking this “no, seriously, I’m not a fed” to the limit.. You don’t have to be a full fledged “government agent” to be a fed….