The Columbia Bugle's Sunday Newsletter (2024)

Welcome back to the Columbia Bugle’s Sunday Newsletter! This week we take a look at questions about Ray Epps, January 6th and the Biden Administration’s “Ministry of Truth.”

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Table Of Contents

1. The New York Times Runs Cover For Ray Epps

2. Alex Stein Trolls AOC Into Questioning January 6th

3. Senator Hawley Grills DHS Official Over The Biden Administration’s Ministry Of Truth

4. Other Stories We’re Tracking

5. Interesting Reads Of The Week

6. Trump’s Truth Of The Week

The New York Times Runs Cover For Ray Epps

Who is Ray Epps? Why was he seen multiple times on both January 5th and January 6th rallying people to go INTO the Capitol? Where did he get the idea to do this? Was he working for or with the Federal Government that day? Why didn’t he go to Trump’s speech but instead positioned himself right outside the first breach site on January 6th?

Important questions like these have been mocked and dismissed by the Mainstream Media as nothing more than feeding “pro-Trump conspiracy theories.”

So why then did the New York Times, the “PAPER OF RECORD,” descend from their ivory tower to weigh into the story of Ray Epps this week?

Darren Beattie of Revolver News joined Tucker Carlson this week to address this question.

Here is Tucker Carlson’s Opening Monologue about the NYT piece.

Now we’ve asked Ray Epps on this show repeatedly to explain why he thinks he has escaped prosecution. And we'll ask him once again tonight and we will keep asking because we think it is a very obvious and important question that gets to the heart of what is this exactly?

Darren Beattie discussed some of the important questions conveniently left out of the NYT piece.

[Ray Epps] is the smoking gun of the entire fedsurrection.

Thread by Darren Beattie.

Full breakdown by Revolver News of the NYT puff piece.

If it turns out Epps was acting on behalf of some government agency on January 6, the entire official narrative collapses in one fell swoop.

The NYT seems hellbent on sweeping this question under the rug, even seeking to deter people from looking into it by stating that Ray Epps might seek defamation lawsuits against those asking questions.

To that end, Mr. Epps and his wife have been searching for a lawyer to help them file a defamation lawsuit against several of the people who have spread the false accounts. Should they end up doing so, they would join a list of other individuals and companies — most notably, the voting machine producer Dominion Voting Systems — in using the courts to push back on the rampant disinformation that emerged again and again during Mr. Trump’s efforts to overturn the election.

Revolver News responded to this threat.

Now, the New York Times is kicking off a massive damage control campaign to make any unsanctioned ideas about Epps too toxic and dangerous to print. Regime janitors like Feuer, who specialize in mopping up Fed dirty work, will go into overdrive as more embarrassing information about Ray Epps and the initial breach comes out.

We’re on to their game — it’s too late. The Times piece reports that Ray Epps just wants the truth to come out. Let it be so, and stay tuned for much more.

So how did the question of “who is Ray Epps” become such an important one in figuring out what exactly happened on January 6th?

Over a year ago, Revolver News released a bombshell piece pointing out that there were some curiously unindicted co-conspirators in January 6th cases and asked whether there were federal assets present on that day.

Tucker Carlson did a monologue on the piece and interviewed Darren Beattie about it.

Tucker and Darren’s segment went viral and Big Tech stepped in.

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The Mainstream Media also rushed to the aid of the Regime.

Glenn Greenwald analyzed why the Mainstream Media reacted this way.

But the primary reason is that their newsrooms are filled with former FBI operatives, CIA agents, and other former employees of the security state. CNN has more FBI agents and federal prosecutors working for it than anyone outside of the J. Edgar Hoover FBI headquarters in Washington. When they go to analyze any matters involving the FBI, they rely on career FBI agents and officials to tell them what to think. And you’ll never guess what these FBI operatives tell them: trust the FBI; only malicious conspiracists wonder if the FBI is lying and has been engaged in treachery; those who malign the FBI are liars.

Returning to Ray Epps, Revolver News dug deeper into this and began asking questions about him with their piece on October 25th, 2021 titled: “Meet Ray Epps: The Fed-Protected Provocateur Who Appears To Have Led The Very First 1/6 Attack On The U.S. Capitol”

Congressman Thomas Massie asked Attorney General Garland about Ray Epps on October 21st, 2021.

Here is the video Rep. Massie played.

Darren Beattie on some of the curious actions taken by the FBI after Revolver News ran their piece.

On December 18th, Revolver News published their second piece on Ray Epps.

During a debate with Senator Ted Cruz, Tucker Carlson asked the Senator about Ray Epps.

Which led to Senator Cruz questioning the FBI about Ray Epps at a Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on January 11th, 2022.

Senator Tom Cotton also asked about Ray Epps.

Conveniently, the January 6th Committee put out this tweet the very same day.

The January 6th Committee even sent their errand boy that same day to run cover for Ray Epps as well.

Tucker Carlson’s response that night.

Will the [January 6th Committee] be willing to broaden that statement & affirm in writing that Ray Epps wasn't working with any Government Agency, law enforcement or otherwise? That would be a very simple change to make. Let's see if they make it.

What’s interesting is that it appears that Adam Kinzinger was a bit deceptive about the extent to which the January 6th Committee had spoken with Ray Epps. It’s unclear whether that first interview, if it happened, was even under oath.

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8:30 PM ∙ Jan 18, 2022

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The full transcript of that testimony has never been released.

Another interesting wrinkle to the NYT running cover for Epps and calling anyone who questions whether there were federal informants present on January 6th a “conspiracy theorist” is that one of their own reporters admitted that there were “a ton of federal informants” on January 6th during one of Project Veritas’ undercover videos.

And, the New York Times wrote in September of 2021 that “federal law enforcement had a far greater visibility into the assault on the Capitol, even as it was taking place, than was previously know.”

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

New Evidence of FBI's Involvement in the 1/6 ProtestAfter the new NYT article on an FBI informant at the Capitol riot, I spoke with @DarrenJBeattie, who first revealed evidence of FBI's role, about what we now know, and about left/right realignments:

rumble.comNew Evidence of FBI Involvement in the 1/6 Protest -- With Darren Beattie, Who Broke the StoryWhen former Trump speechwriter Darren Beattie reported in June that there was evidence suggesting FBI foreknowledge of the January 6 protest at the Capitol, if not active involvement, the corporate me

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The New York Times even included Epps in their own documentary on January 6th and highlighted how he called for people to storm the Capitol BEFORE Trump spoke.

Will we ever get a full answer as to who Ray Epps is? Well, the January 6th Committee has pretended to be interested, announcing that they had conducted an interview with Epps, but mysteriously never releasing the transcript of that meeting or any meeting they’ve had with Ray Epps. January 6th committee members Adam Schiff and Adam Kinzinger have either tried to downplay it or introduced amendments designed to make it more difficult to investigate these questions.

Dutifully defending Regime Narratives and humiliating oneself must be “an Adam thing.”

The questions that remain about Ray Epps and January 6th are incredibly important and deserve answers. The New Domestic War on Terror is here and it is being justified by the narrative the Mainstream Media and the January 6th committee are working to craft.

This story is too big and too important to go away and American people are lucky that journalists like Tucker Carlson, Julie Kelly and Darren Beattie aren’t giving up in their pursuit of the truth.

The American people have the right to know exactly what happened on January 6th.

Alex Stein Trolls AOC Into Questioning January 6th

Continuing with the January 6th theme, we move to an epic confrontation the Great Alex Stein had with AOC.

Alex Stein is a very funny comedian who you probably will recognize from some of his viral videos rapping about Ukraine and vaccines , confronting America Last politicians like Dan Crenshaw, trying to get Plano City Council to respect his dream of becoming a female swimmer, recruiting the Richardson City Council to sign up for World War 3 and his appearance on Tucker Carlson Tonight.

This week Alex Stein went to the Capitol to say hello to a few members of Congress like Adam Kinzinger, Jamaal Bowman and AOC.

Alex Stein #99 @alexstein99

Thank you @AOC for making me trend on twitter tonight!

3:01 AM ∙ Jul 14, 2022

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Merissa Hansen 🇺🇸 @MerissaHansen17

.@alexstein99 you are such a legend 💅

TheQuartering (Humble Bean Merchant) @TheQuartering

So @alexstein99 continues to prove he's an absolute king. https://t.co/8XjvuSppSn

1:46 AM ∙ Jul 14, 2022

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Alex Stein #99 @alexstein99

It’s literally too easy to troll these politicians…if only they had a sense of humor this wouldn’t be a viral story every time.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

1:20 PM ∙ Jul 14, 2022

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Alex Stein #99 @alexstein99

Omg @AOC got the @dcartscenter to Cancel my Comedy Show tonight! Full refund for the people that bought Tickets! If you still want to see me perform come to The Capitol tonight at 9:30pm!

9:21 PM ∙ Jul 14, 2022

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Apart from being hilarious, the encounter triggered an interesting response from AOC later that night.

Set aside the goofy “insurrectionists” rhetoric and you know what, AOC has a point. There is footage of January 6th protesters being let into the Capitol by police and to this day we have zero answers as to why this happened.

Darren Beattie and Steve Bannon reacting to AOC questioning Capitol Police actions on January 6th.

Darren Beattie:

It’s a beautiful thing to see AOC unwittingly draw attention to extremely important questions that will never be addressed by the January 6th Committee. That get to the beating heart of what really happened on January 6th.

If AOC is serious about getting to the bottom of what actually happened on January 6th, she would join the rest of us in calling for all the surveillance footage from that day to be released. Many Americans are being subjected to horrible treatment in the DC jail and footage of Capitol Police actions that day may help with their cases.

Serious questions remain about January 6th and the American people are owed full transparency and the release of all surveillance footage from January 6th.

For more of Alex Stein follow him on Twitter and YouTube. Also, check out his interviews with Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and Tucker Carlson.

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Senator Hawley Grills DHS Official Over The Biden Administration’s Ministry Of Truth