Canada #72

Several Statements in Ray Epps First In-Person FBI Recording From March 2021 Calls Into Question Key Issues From Epps’ Testimony

by Brian Lupo Mar. 4, 2025

Part One

Ryan Samsel, a persecuted J6er who spent several years in prison, much of it in solitairy, is in need of surgeries resulting from abuses suffered at the hands of Bureau of Prison officers. His insurance has denied full coverage of these surgeries. If you would like to read about Samsel’s story and donate, click here.

The Gateway Pundit had obtained, exclusively, a recording of the first-known interview of James “Ray” Epps after the protest at the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021.

The Gateway Pundit’s Alicia Powe has previously reported on some of the discoveries from this recording in a three-part series on The Gateway Pundit (part 1, part 2 and part 3).

The interview was conducted at the office of John Blischak, Epps’ attorney, on March 3, 2021 by Agents Alexander Simms and Rob Kalinowski (sp?). It was a voluntary interview that followed his January 8th phone call to the FBI regarding his placement on the “Most Wanted” list at #16.

"We Need More People”

The first major discrepancy in Epps’ testimony is something The Gateway Pundit published exclusively after receiving a statement from Ryan Samsel’s co-defendant, James Grant once he was clear of the Department of Justice’s wrath.

Epps, during his interview with the FBI, said that he told Samsel, “That’s not why we’re here…don’t be doing that.” Grant, and Samsel (following the J6 pardons), confirmed that Epps said “We need more people.” In fact, it is evident on the YouTube video from that day.

Ironically, according to the New York Times, Ryan Samsel told the FBI in January 2021 that when Epps whispered in his ear shortly before pushing the barricades, “his entire words were ‘Relax, the cops are just doing their job.‘”

The New York Times wrote that they obtained a recording of this interview, however, they did not publish the recording and when asked to review it, they did not respond.

Samsel did acknowledge that he had an informal interview with the FBI on January 30th, 2021, in which they provided him with coffee and a fresh can of Copenhagen Mint, his chew of choice.

During that interview, according to Samsel, the FBI was trying to convince him to confess that Epps was the “voice of reason.” When Samsel asked what charges he was facing, the agents responded that it was up to him, but he could possibly face conspiracy to murder an officer.

>>22699350 (me)

Part two

Officer Caroline Edwards

Moments after Epps had whispered in Samsel’s ear, the crowd around Epps pushed the bike rack barricades back and forth and caused US Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards to fall backwards towards the steps and hit her head.

According to Epps’ interview, he had attempted to help Edwards up off the ground before being a policeman “came over with a club” causing him to “back off.”

According to video evidence, that is not at all the case. In fact, Epps can be seen in the frame looking directly at Edwards after she’d been pushed to the ground. The camera pans to Edwards and then pans back to where Epps was standing. Poof. Gone.

Samsel, however, rushed to help Edwards and is seen lifting her up off the ground before other officers came to take Edwards away.

Epps isn’t seen in that footage anywhere near Edwards after he had whispered in Samsel’s ear and the barricade was pushed back.

The Second (Technically, Third) Breach

In the next inaccurate statement Epps made to the FBI, he claimed that after leaving the barricade where he whispered to Samsel, he approached the Capitol steps and another police barricade.

In the interview, Epps claimed that, “As looking at the Capitol, I was on the right side of that,” referring to the scaffold tower. Epps claimed that “that section fell last because of me. Because I tried to keep them from doing it.”

Again, this is not a factual statement. In fact, footage obtained from M5News of a ‘birds-eye view’ of the crowd, Epps can be seen on the left side of the scaffolding. Also contrary to Epps’ statement, the side he was on was actually breached first. And right next to where he was seen standing in the footage.

The right side where Epps claimed to be was far less populated at the time, but ultimately got through following the left-side breach.

These are three very significant misstatements from Epps during his testimony that paint a picture of him primarily de-escalating in three unique situations when, in reality, his actions were more like provocations.

Telling Samsel “we need more people,” disappearing when Officer Edwards was on the ground, and then conveniently being within feet of the breach at the scaffold tower all call into question his actions on that day.

And this doesn’t begin to take into account Epps telling a crowd on the night of January 5th that he “can’t say it because [he] might get arrested” but that “we need to go into the Capitol!” Or yelling to the crowd leaving the Ellipse rally that “the Capitol is that way” and “that’s where our problems lie.”

Epps counsel, John Blischak, is also on the FBI’s interview recording implying that he had been to “a bar or two” with Agent Simms the previous night. Simms denied the engagement immediately. Blischak then asks if he’s still recording and states, “well, I’ve got nothing to hide.”

Blischak is an Arizona-based attorney and former FBI agent (in the 1970s and early 1980s) who boasts on his firms website that his “biggest asset is his relation with prosecutors and law enforcement in ways other lawyers cannot because of his background.”

More:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/several-statements-ray-epps-first-person-fbi-recording/

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Canada #72

THE EPSTEIN CURSE: Former Top JPMorgan Executive and Barclays CEO Jes Staley Fights UK’s Financial Watchdog in Court Over Fine and Lifetime Ban for Lying About Ties to Late Pedophile

by Paul Serran Mar. 3, 2025

To be publicly named – and shamed – for having a longstanding ‘friendship’ with late pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is like a bad smell that won’t go away.

Take, for instance, top banker Jes Staley, a high-flying professional in the finance world that has had his career derailed by his long and extremely problematic relationship with Epstein.

He was forced to resign as Barclays’ CEO under the weight of the Epstein scandal brought about when UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) concluded their two-year investigation on him.

In a previous report here on TGP, I wrote:

Former JPMorgan Chase top executive and Ex-Barclays CEO Jes Staley is facing a lifetime ban from senior roles in financial services, as well as a 1.8 million pound ($2.21 million) fine by UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

The ban and the fine are for allegedly misleading the FCA over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Reuters reported:

To be banned from any UK Banking activities is a hard blow for Staley. So, he is fighting it back on court.

''"The FCA has found that Mr Staley recklessly approved a letter sent by Barclays to the FCA, which contained two misleading statements, about the nature of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and the point of their last contact’, [the FCA] said’.”

To be banned from any UK Banking activities is a hard blow for Staley. So, he is fighting it back on court."''

But before he could even do that, he had to straighten his legal disputes with his former bank JPMorgan, which he did by reached a confidential settlement in September 2023, as part of an effort to resolve legal disputes tied to the bank’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

This came after the bank settled with the U.S. Virgin Islands Government for $75 million and spent another $290 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by Epstein’s sexual abuse victims.

So, today, in UK court, Staley’s lawyers have argued that he did not mislead the UK’s financial watchdog over his relationship with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

This London court case is an attempt by the former banker to ‘restore his reputation’.

Reuters reported:

“Staley appeared in court flanked by his lawyers as his appeal against the Financial Conduct Authority’s intention to ban him from working in the UK finance industry indefinitely, and fine him 1.8 million-pounds ($2.3 million), began at London’s Upper Tribunal."

"The 68-year-old will next week be cross-examined over his relationship with Epstein, whose 2019 arrest for sex trafficking minors and subsequent death in custody brought scrutiny on the late financier’s many high-profile associates.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/epstein-curse-former-top-jpmorgan-executive-barclays-ceo/

>>22699496

You forgot to post the pics of the hand-painted plywood signs in the back of your truck as supporting evidence

>>22699671

Wikipedia not the greatest, have this

The Timeline

The Protocols were written at the start of antisemitism in Russia, with thousands of Jews fleeing the country and the start of the pogroms, Jewish concentration camps. Setting the scene for antisemitism was Frederick Millingen’s The Conquest of the World by Jews and Hippolytus Lutostansky’s Jews and the Talmud. Both works claimed that the Jews wanted to divide Russia up for themselves. Jews were also blamed for the loss of the Russo-Japanese war and the revolution of 1905.

A member of the Czarist secret police, Professor Serge A Milus, is reported to have edited and initially published the protocols. The Protocols first appeared in a Russian newspaper, Znamya, in 1903. It was published originally in 1905 in a book titled The Great in the Small: The Coming of the Anti-Christ and the Rule of Satan on Earth. This was written by Serge A Nilus. Most agree that the protocols were fabricated sometime between 1897 and 1899 under Pyotr Rachovsky, head of the Russian secret police.

It is generally accepted the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion was a forgery. In 1921 the London Times produced conclusive proof that the Protocols were a forgery, describing the Protocols as a “clumsy forgery”. Most of the passages of the Protocols have been taken from a French political satire that never mentioned Jews – Maurice Joly’s Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu (1864). The phrasing between the two texts is almost identical.

The protocols would come to play a significant part in the Jewish Holocaust. They had a serious influence on Adolf Hitler who mentioned them frequently in Mein Kampf. The Nazi party published 23 editions of the Protocols before the start of World War II.

In 1935 a Swiss court declared the Protocols as “ridiculous nonsense” and “obvious forgeries”. The US Senate issued a report in 1964 that the Protocols were fabricated. However even while the Protocols were ridiculed by many, it also had quite a following. In 1974 it was published in India under the title International Conspiracy Against Indians. In 2004 the Protocols were published in Japan. In 2005 an edition of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, authorized by the Syrian Ministry of Information, claims that the Elders of Zion coordinated September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States.

It is worth noting that the Bible is only mentioned once in the Protocols and that the Old Testament is quoted in Latin. The Protocols also claim that the Jewish elites had a hand in the French revolutions. However, this is cited as evidence largely discrediting the work of the protocols. At the time of the French revolution, there were only a handful of Jews who were, by and large, the subjects of antisemitism. However, this can also be construed in the opposite light, that there was antisemitic behavior followed by unrest and upheaval, meaning that the antisemitism was proven correct.

Despite the declaration that the Protocols are a forgery, there are still many followers, described as Neo-Nazi, White Supremacists and Holocaust deniers. Books based on the Holocaust are disseminated worldwide and has a surprising following in Japan, where there are little Jews. The Arab and Islamic world actively teach the protocols to children. It is often used to justify terrorism against Israeli citizens. There is no denying that it is a forgery, however a very accurate one.

The Case for the Protocols of the Elders of Zion

“The only statement I care to make about the PROTOCOLS is that they fit in with what is going on. They are sixteen years old, and they have fitted the world situation up to this time.” – Henry Ford 1921 in an interview with the Washington Post.

Ford funded the printing of over half a million copies, and the Nazi’s used the protocols to stir up antisemitism.

More:

https://www.conspiracies.net/worlds-oldest-conspiracy-protocols-elders-zion/

>>22699340

Underwater yak hair basket weaving forum

https://x.com/amuse/status/1896570379298296315

I have an idea, let's pull all personnel and equipment for the Ramstein base in Germany and the Rota base in Spain

>>22699849

>We're gonna need to get some fabric mills going here, too,

Used to be a lot of those in North Carolina