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Fox News Channel and other right-wing media outlets amplified conspiracy theories that Epps, 62, was an undercover government agent who helped incite the Capitol attack to entrap Trump supporters. Epps filed a defamation lawsuit against Fox News last year, saying the network was to blame for spreading baseless claims about him.
In a memo, Jeffrey Zients, the White House chief of staff, directed Cabinet officers to evaluate their current policies for delegating authority when a secretary is incapacitated and to forward those procedures to the White House for review.
Ray Epps, the former Oath Keepers chapter president who was previously accused of instigating the Jan. 6 riots, was sentenced to 12 months of probation Tuesday.
After the U.S. Capitol insurrection, a man named Ray Epps was the subject of conspiracy theories about him being an undercover federal agent. Now he has been sentenced to one year of probation for his involvement on Jan. 6, 2021.
With Trump present in court, judges express skepticism of claims that he's immune from prosecution