Mr. Epps can be seen on video encouraging demonstrators to march with him and enter the Capitol at one point.
But in May, the lawsuit says, the Justice Department notified Mr. Epps that it was planning to file criminal charges against him related to his role in the Capitol attack.
It is difficult to hear what Mr. Epps says in the video.
But promoters of the conspiracy theories about him have used that moment to accuse him of uttering some kind of command.
Mr. Epps has said he called the F.B.I.’s National Threat Operations Center shortly after the alert went up, and his phone records show he spoke to agents there for nearly an hour.
Persons:
Epps, “, Fox, Trump, goad Trump
Organizations:
Fox, Washington D.C, Justice Department, Capitol, Justice, Threat Operations
Locations:
Washington, “
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