Ray Epps, an Arizona man whose role in the events of Jan. 6 Capitol breach has been the subject of much scrutiny and conjecture, has filed a lawsuit against Fox News for defamation.
In a complaint filed in Delaware Superior Court on July 12 (pdf), Mr. Epps accused the network of a long-running campaign of “spreading falsehoods” that he was an undercover FBI agent who egged people on to breach the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021.
“Those lies have destroyed Ray’s and Robyn’s lives,” his attorneys wrote in the filing, referring to Mr. Epps and his wife.
The lawsuit says that, as a consequence of Fox News pushing the false conspiracy theory that Mr. Epps was secretly working with federal law enforcement and incited the Capitol breach, both he and his wife have received death threats, with people driving by their farm brandishing weapons and shooting onto their property….