The Dan Bongino Show - The Bongino Brief - Everybody Hates Ray

Episode Date: July 15, 2023

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I'm Dan Bongino. So the curious case of one Ray Epps gets even curi-uri-urier, sir, if we were to quote Al Sharpton, getting even weirder as of yesterday. Ray Epps is now saying, now for those of you who don't know Ray Epps, forgive me, I shouldn't assume everyone here knows,

Ray Epps was a gentleman caught on video during January 6th, during the protest and the rally and what happened afterwards at the Capitol. Ray Epps was caught on video saying a lot of damning things about going to the Capitol, going inside the Capitol. And the strange thing about Ray Epps is as of today, as far as we know, Ray Epps has not been arrested or prosecuted, despite the fact that the FBI and the DOJ have put out basically blanket threats to anyone who was there that day.

Geo fencing and all that stuff. And a lot of people find themselves in the D.C. gulag. So it's really strange that Ray Epps, who is literally on video engaged in some suspect behavior, would be suing Fox News for defamation. But as you can see from the hapless Jeremy Barr and Will Summer at the Washington Post, that is happening. Fox News sued for defamation by a man linked to January 6th conspiracy theories. So if you're scratching your melon right now, going, well, this doesn't make sense. The media has told us about the insurrection, worse than Pearl Harbor. It's like the civil war all over again. And then you got this guy on video who appears to be part of an effort to storm the Capitol, at least from the video we've seen.

You would think the media would be like, get him, prosecute him. He's part of the insurrection. But it's really strange. The media seems to be protecting Ray Epps. It's super weird. Nobody can figure out what's going on. Matter of fact, the narrative on Ray Epps is changing in the media. I tipped the Jack Posobiec for this, by the way. I'll get to that in a second. But yesterday, Congressman Nels, who I really like, he was up on Capitol Hill, he's a Republican, who I really like. He was up on Capitol Hill, he's a Republican, talking to the completely hopeless director of the FBI,

tyrant Chris Wray, a joke of a human being. Chris Wray's up there, and Nels asked him some pretty common sense questions about Ray Epps. You put a lot of people in jail for far lesser behavior than what appears to be seen on tape here. If this was an insurrection, like, what's up with ray epps by the way we won't be intimidated because you're not going to shoo us for defamation by playing videos of you i don't know how you're going to do that by the way discovery on that's going to be great discovery

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That's GenuCell.com slash Dan. Thanks, GenuCell. Here's Nels asking a fair question. Why has Epps not been arrested? Now, wait, one more thing. In his defamation lawsuit, Epps appears to indicate that he may be prosecuted. So this may change. This may change.

Here, take a look at this. We need to go into the Capitol. Into the Capitol. Into the Capitol. We are going to the Capitol where our problems are. It's that direction. We spread the word. All right.

No, David, one more thing. Yeah, so can we go up there? No. When we go in more thing. Yeah, sir, can we go up there? No? When we go in, leave this here. We don't need to get shot. We don't need to get shot. We don't need to get shot. We don't need to get shot.

We don't need to get shot. We don't need to get shot. We don't need to get shot. We don't need to get shot. We don't need to get shot. We don't need to get shot. We don't need to get shot. We don't need to get shot.

We don't need to get shot. We don't need to get shot. We don't need to get shot. We don't need to get shot. We don't need to get shot. We don't need to get shot. We don't need to get shot. We don't need to get shot. We don't need to get shot. We don't need to get shot. We don't need to get shot. There he is, breaching the line, going in at the first breach into the Capitol, into the Capitol grounds, a restricted area.

Mr. Ray, you have arrested hundreds of people related to January 6th. And there have been people arrested for breaching Capitol grounds. Cooey Griffin is an example. Rachel Genco is an example. And then we go to Mr. Brandon Strecca. Brandon was arrested for disorderly and disruptive conduct, which included yelling, I quote, go, go, go, as rioters tried to empty the Capitol. These three never went into the Capitol. They never assaulted anyone. So let's be honest with each other. There is very little difference between the actions of Ray Epps and Brandon Stricka that day, but yet Stricka was arrested and Epps wasn't.

All right, please explain. Please explain to me to all the reasonable, rational people out here. Rational people, welcome to the chat. Love you all being here and everything. Tell me in the chat, why would Ray Epps be not subjected to the same legal process as everyone else, including arrest and prosecution? Now, again, that may change according to Epps himself and his lawsuit. But it seems awfully strange. And it's a fair question to ask based on the media premise alone. If the media is saying, and I'm not saying I agree with the premise. If the media premise is this is the worst insurrection in modern American history and our government was at risk,

then why would you not be curious as the FBI director about a guy on video you just saw suggesting people go into the Capitol, which is believed to be one of the physical acts associated with said insurrection. Folks, I'm just asking everyone, you know, even the liberal morons out there, just use your brain. Why is this guy not being subjected to the same process as everyone else? Maybe there's a fair reason. I mean, he sat on 60 Minutes. What, he didn't go in or something? All right, I'm open to hearing anything.

Here's Christopher Wray with the answer, by by the way after some comments by nels and this is why absolutely no one who's serious up on capitol hill which eliminates most democrats nobody trusts this guy every answer is slimy it's sleazy it's cagey he bails every single one. Listen to this. Are you going to arrest Mr. Epps? Yes or no? I'm not going to engage here in a discussion about individual people who are or are not going to be prosecuted. Can I get a commitment? Yeah, just watch the video. I'm an all law dog. I understand a little bit about probable cause. He did very little. There was very little difference. What he did and Mr. Strecco, you can see him. He's encouraging. I almost think he's inciting a riot. He's encouraging people the night prior to go into the Capitol the day of go into the Capitol. And he was at the first breach and he breached the restricted area.

Again, folks, I'm not going to speculate because I don't know what's going on with this guy because I can't get in the FBI's head. However, I'm going to tell you this. Again, having actually been a federal agent myself, it is awfully suspicious that you claim to be combating an insurrection by prosecuting people involved. You have a guy on video who appears to be, again, incentivizing people to enter the Capitol and you're not curious. Now, here's what has my antenna. Ding, ding, ding, again, incentivizing people to enter the Capitol and you're not curious. Now, here's what has my antenna, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, going up big time right now.

Jack Posobiec notices, hat tip to him. Look at how the media now in these screenshots has all of a sudden, once the Epps lawsuit went down against Fox, has all of a sudden changed the narrative. Whenever they write articles about Epps, you'll see they call it one of the, Ray Epps, this is the Washington Post, attended the pro-Trump rallies. I thought it was an insurrection. Notice the dates on these pieces too, July 2023. Here's the New York Times referring to it as a demonstration. I thought it was an insurrection. Now it's a demonstration?

And all of these articles, they're talking about Epps. Here's Bloomberg. A former Marine who voted for Trump and joined the protests sued Fox. You see how all of this? Do we have the grapefruits yet? You got to get them on. The grapefruits, I need them delivered to me. Stat, stat.

Here's Rolling Stone. Again, Ray Epps talking about protests. Folks, these people are hapless goons in the media. It's so pathetic. You got Adam Kinzinger and others defending this guy. It's so strange that conservatives like me and others are like, hey, if something happened that day in violation of the law and Epps was associated with it, then Epps should be subjected to the same system of justice as everyone else.

And it's the media. Everything's on its head. The media's like, no, no, no. It's no longer an insurrection. Epps is okay. What? What the hell is going on? Now, this all makes sense if you subscribe to the anti-anti-communist theory by David Horowitz,

okay? They are for what we're against, the liberals, because we're an obstacle to their communist seeking of power, and they're against whatever we're for. So if we have questions about Ray Epps, was there some kind of relationship with some entity we don't know about with Epps? We have questions. The media stance, no matter what Epps did or didn't do, the media stance is Epps is a good guy. If we were, however, to switch the story tomorrow and start celebrating Ray Epps, do you guys disagree? The media narrative would be what? Ray Epps led an insurrection 100%. Thank you. Justin said it right. They would run the exact same video with no shame at all. We just play and be like, this guy led an insurrection. It is crazy.

How is this guy not in jail? Remember the anti-anti-communist theory. We're the anti-communists. The liberals are the anti-anti-communists. They are'd like to hear more, subscribe to The Dan Bongino Show wherever you get your podcasts.