A lawyer for the man at the centre of a right-wing conspiracy theory surrounding the January 6 attack on the US Capitol has demanded that Fox News personality Tucker Carlson retract his “false and defamatory” statements about him and deliver a “formal on-air apology” for the “lies” he promoted.
Far-right conspiracy theorists have accused Ray Epps of working with the federal government to instigate a riot and provoke violence in the halls of Congress, “fanciful notions” about the events of 6 January, 2021 that are “demonstrably (and already proven to be) false,” his attorney Michael Teter wrote in a cease-and-desist letter on 23 March.
