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Fox News is sued for defamation by January 6 protestor Ray Epps after Tucker Carlson branded him a federal agent who ‘helped stage-manage the insurrection’

A former Marine and Trump supporter is suing Fox News for defamation over claims he helped incite the January 6 riots.

Ray Epps, 61, claims in a new lawsuit that he became the subject of various conspiracy theories after comments by the network’s former host Tucker Carlson.

The suit states: ‘Just as Fox had focused on voting machine companies when falsely claiming a rigged election, Fox knew it needed a scapegoat for January 6th.

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