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Ray Epps Included In Trump’s Blanket J6 Pardon

President Donald Trump’s blanket pardon for more than 1,500 defendants convicted on charges related to Jan. 6 includes Ray Epps.

Epps, who was recorded encouraging others to enter the Capitol, was sentenced to a year of probation and ordered to pay $500 restitution in January 2024.

Prosecutors offered Epps a misdemeanor plea deal after he cooperated with the investigation, recommending a six month jail sentence. Other Jan. 6 defendants received harsher sentences for their actions at the Capitol.

In one of his first actions Monday, Trump commuted sentences for 14 individuals and granted “a full, complete and unconditional pardon to all other individuals convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.”


Video footage from the night before Jan. 6 shows Epps urged Trump supporters to go inside the Capitol.

“I’m going to put this out there. I’m probably going to jail for it. Tomorrow, we need to go IN to the Capitol. IN to the Capitol. Peacefully,” Epps said in the recording.

A federal judge in December dismissed Epps’ defamation lawsuit against Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson. Epps sued after Carlson suggested, based on the video footage, that Epps may have been a government agent.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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