BREAKING NEWS: Fox News is sued for defamation by January 6 protestor Ray Epps after Tucker Carlson branded him a federal agent who ‘helped stage-manage the insurrection’
A Trump supporter who was present for the January 6 riots is suing Fox News for defamation.
Ray Epps claims in a new lawsuit that he became the subject and victim of various conspiracy theories.
The suit states: ‘Just as Fox had focused on voting machine companies when falsely claiming a rigged election, Fox knew it needed a scapegoat for January 6th.
‘It settled on Ray Epps and began promoting the lie that Epps was a federal agent who incited the attack on the Capitol.’
The legal bid comes after recently-sacked Tucker Carlson called Epps a ‘federal agent who helped stage-manage the insurrection’.
Tucker made the comments on his late-night show, Tucker Carlson Tonight, after a video showed him urging others to join him in entering the Capitol.
During the segment in July last year Carlson said: ‘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.’
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
