Comedian and podcast host Joe Rogan alleged that members of domestic intelligence agencies encouraged and provoked Americans to storm the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot.
"The intelligence agencies were involved and provoking people to go into the Capitol Building. That's a fact," Rogan told comedian Jim Gaffigan on a Friday episode of The Joe Rogan Experience.
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Gaffigan asked if Rogan believed that Ray Epps was an agent for an intelligence agency.
"I don't know," Rogan replied. "But, I do know that every other ... person who was involved in Jan. 6, who was involved in coordinating a break-in in the Capitol and instigating people breaking in, they were all arrested ... this guy wasn't."
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Furthermore, legacy media outlets like the New York Times and the Washington Post defend Epps from conservative outlets who accused him of working for the intelligence agencies, Rogan said.
"He clearly instigated. He did it on camera," he said. "I don't know if he was a fed. I know a lot of people think he was a fed. The people that were there were calling him a fed."
"What I do know is when they asked the FBI, the FBI said we can't tell you whether or not there were people there that were doing that."
Rogan then highlighted reports that there may have been hundreds of agents at the Capitol, and that that follows a tactic historically used by intelligence agencies to hijack protests in an effort to silence free speech.
"They use agent provocateurs to disrupt peaceful protests," according to Rogan. "It's a common tactic ... like the World Trade Organization, is a great example, that was in, I think, the 90s in Seattle."
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Rogan detailed how, allegedly, intelligence agents, were sent in to act as provocateurs, light things on fire, and transform a peaceful protest into a violent one so arrests could be made.
"They silenced protest, which is a par to our freedom of speech," he said. "So, this is a tactic that some government agencies use to stop peaceful protests."