Supposed Riot Inciter Wants On-Air Apology From Fox

The New York Times reports:

A lawyer for Ray Epps, the man at the center of a prominent conspiracy theory about the Capitol riot, sent a letter on Thursday to the Fox News host Tucker Carlson demanding that he publicly retract his “false and defamatory statements” that Mr. Epps had worked as a government provocateur on Jan. 6, 2021, and helped to instigate the mob attack.

The letter to Mr. Carlson from the lawyer, Michael Teter, also demanded a “formal on-air apology for the lies” that have been “spread about Mr. Epps” by others at Fox. Letters seeking retractions and apologies are often sent when lawyers are preparing to file a defamation lawsuit.

“The fanciful notions that Mr. Carlson advances on his show regarding Mr. Epps’s involvement in the Jan. 6 insurrection are demonstrably (and already proven to be) false,” Mr. Teter wrote. “And yet Mr. Carlson persists with his assault on the truth.”

Read the full article. As you may know, Epps has long been the go-to name for cultists who claim that the Capitol riot was organized by the FBI.

The Epps letter requested that Carlson and Fox send written confirmation that they intended to comply with Epps’s demands by March 31.
It also advised Fox to preserve all communications concerning the network’s arrangement with Kevin McCarthy over videos given to Fox.

— Alan Feuer (@alanfeuer) March 23, 2023

Through a lawyer, Ray Epps demands Tucker Carlson retract “false and defamatory statements” about accusations he was a Jan 6. gov’t provacateur, and issue a “formal on-air apology for the lies” spread on Foxhttps://t.co/Ft77Qa3JhR

— Trip Gabriel (@tripgabriel) March 23, 2023