Obvious FBI informant of Oath keepers and was in the marines (Damn I knew he was in the military)
Epps has been photographed wearing a Marines cap, and a Marines spokeswoman said a service record exists for him.
In 2011,Epps was listed as president of the Arizona chapter of the Oath Keepers. The Oath Keepers, founded in 2009, is described by the Anti-Defamation League as “a large but loosely organized collection of anti-government extremists who are part of the broader anti-government ‘Patriot’ movement.” Epps was the primary media contact for the group, granting interviews at the time.
In that same year,he appears in a photo with Stewart Rhodes, the national group’s founder and leader, when Rhodes spoke at a dinner hosted by the chapter.
Rhodes was recently indicted on charges of seditious conspiracy related to Jan. 6. The Arizona chapter was believed to be the largest Oath Keepers organization, but a dissident faction in Arizona has since broken off relations with the national group and partially rebranded itself as the Yavapai County Preparedness Team.
Epps does not appear to have any recent association with the Oath Keepers. The digital trail runs cold after 2012 and James Arroyo, the head of the Yavapai chapter, said he had never heard of Epps until the Jan. 6 event. “He was only state chapter president approximately a year and a half, according to my source within the organization who did know of him,” Arroyo told The Fact Checker. “We do not know why he left that position, but we can assume he left the organization somewhere in 2011 or 2012, since very few members we have ever met or even know who he is.”
Epps on Jan. 5 and Jan. 6
A few days after the Jan. 6 insurrection, Anne Ryman of the Arizona Republic identified Epps as appearing in a Jan. 5 video that had circulated widely on Twitter. “In fact, tomorrow, I don’t even want to say it because I will probably be arrested. Tomorrow, we need to go into the Capitol,” Epps says in the video, wearing a red Trump cap.
When Ryman read Epps the transcript of his comments, he replied: “The only thing that meant is we would go in the doors like everyone else. It was totally, totally wrong the way they went in.”
In that same year, he appears in a photo with Stewart Rhodes, the national group’s founder and leader, when Rhodes spoke at a dinner hosted by the chapter.
Rhodes was recently indicted on charges of seditious conspiracy related to Jan. 6. The Arizona chapter was believed to be the largest Oath Keepers organization, but a dissident faction in Arizona has since broken off relations with the national group and partially rebranded itself as the Yavapai County Preparedness Team.
Epps does not appear to have any recent association with the Oath Keepers. The digital trail runs cold after 2012 and James Arroyo, the head of the Yavapai chapter, said he had never heard of Epps until the Jan. 6 event. “He was only state chapter president approximately a year and a half, according to my source within the organization who did know of him,” Arroyo told The Fact Checker. “We do not know why he left that position, but we can assume he left the organization somewhere in 2011 or 2012, since very few members we have ever met or even know who he is.”
Epps on Jan. 5 and Jan. 6
A few days after the Jan. 6 insurrection,Anne Ryman of the Arizona Republicidentified Epps as appearing in a Jan. 5 video that had circulated widely on Twitter. “In fact, tomorrow, I don’t even want to say it because I will probably be arrested. Tomorrow, we need to go into the Capitol,” Epps says in the video, wearing a red Trump cap.
When Ryman read Epps the transcript of his comments, he replied: “The only thing that meant is we would go in the doors like everyone else. It was totally, totally wrong the way they went in.”
“Other video taken the next day shows a man who resembles Epps outside the U.S. Capitol, wearing desert camouflage and an identical red Trump hat,” Ryman wrote. “One video shows people in the crowd smashing police barricades and pushing past officers. The man resembling Epps stands among them, but does not appear to shove the barricades.”
Ryman noted that an image of Epps appeared to be listed on an FBI website seeking the public’s help in identifying people who may have entered the Capitol but that Epps declined to comment on whether he was the man in the photo.
The issue of Epps’s involvement was dormant for months until a right-wing Twitter user (since suspended) on June 17 began a Twitter thread: “On Jan 5th, the night before the infamous Jan 6th Capital [sic] event, this Fed was caught on camera encouraging the crowd to raid the capital the next day. The crowd yells NO!…
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