After months of research, Revolver's investigative reporting team can now reveal that Ray Epps appears to be among the primary orchestrators of the very first breach of the Capitol's police barricades at 12:50pm on January 6.
First, while left-wing and Antifa accounts had been all over Ray Epps since Week 1, Epps did not come to right-wing and pro-Trump researchers' attention until June 17, when a viral Twitter thread highlighted a series of shocking, verifiable livestream video timestamps where Epps instructed Trump supporters to go into the Capitol and then was shouted down on suspicions he was a Federal agent.
On the Trump side, Ray Epps held court, and he instructed the Trump crowd to redirect their energies away from counter-protesters, and join his plot to go inside the Capitol the next day instead. The Trump crowd immediately identified Epps's proposal to storm the Capitol as something only a Fed would propose.
Turning back to the Ray Epps - John Sullivan video clip above, it is remarkable to see Epps - a man kicked out of two group conversations by Trump supporters on accusations of being a Fed - and John Sullivan - a man kicked out of two cities by Antifa groups on accusations of being a Fed - sharing the same video frame, in the same group conversation, on the same night.
Later in the conversation, some Black Lives Matter members approach the crowd of Trump supporters, and Ray Epps makes the same pitch to the BLM supporters about their common purpose with Trump supporters, and the 1/6 protest being "About the Constitution." Epps's strange behavior, naturally, drew antagonism from some on the Trump side, who were confused as why Epps was kissing up to BLM. Indeed, Ray Epps was a man on a mission.
Described below, Epps appears to have led the "Breach team" that took down the very first police barricades of the day, overran the very first police officers, and opened the floodgates for thousands of Trump supporters to walk onto restricted Capitol grounds past the barricades.
We now come to perhaps the two most important clips of this report: the footage that appears to depict Epps directing a number of men in the very first attack on the Capitol that fateful day.
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