Ray Epps, the man at the center of a widespread conspiracy theory about the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday accusing Fox News and its former host Tucker Carlson of defamation for promoting a “fantastical story” that Mr. Epps was an undercover government agent who instigated the violence at the Capitol as a way to disparage then-President Trump and his supporters.

The complaint was filed in Superior Court in Delaware, where Fox was recently handed a $787.5 million judgment in a separate defamation case brought against the network by Dominion Voting Systems to combat claims that the company had helped to rig the 2020 election against Mr. Trump.

“Just as Fox had focused on voting machine companies when falsely claiming a rigged election, Fox knew it needed a scapegoat for January 6th,” the complaint says. “It settled on Ray Epps and began promoting the lie that Epps was a federal agent who incited the attack on the Capitol.”

[This should be interesting to watch. Reportedly, the reason Fox took Tucker off the air was to stop his response to Epps after the 60 Minutes interview in which he accused Fox of defaming him. One interesting tidbit from the lawsuit: Epps claims that the DoJ informed him in May that he will get charged for his actions in the J6 riot. If true, that would undermine one of the reasons why people suspected him of being an informant or FBI plant. Discovery will be interesting in both directions. — Ed]