- Officials have identified a suspect arrested over the planting of two pipe bombs in Washington DC on the eve of the 6 January 2021 Capitol riot.
- The suspect is 30-year-old Brian Cole of Woodbridge, Virginia, says Attorney General Pam Bondi
- FBI Director Kash Patel tells the news conference the suspect will "have his day in court"
- Finding the suspect was like "finding a needle in a haystack", says US Attorney Jeanine Pirro
- The devices were discovered outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic National Committees as rioters began storming the Capitol, and were safely deactivated
- The arrest follows a nearly five-year manhunt and the offer of a $500,000 (£400,000) reward
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The January 6th pipe bomber terrorist was…
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) December 5, 2025
- a young black guy
- radical anti-Trump activist
- sued Trump & ICE & DHS
- extreme racial justice advocate
- works at his family bail bonds company that frees criminal aliens from ICE custody
Yeah, this explains exactly why the FBI… pic.twitter.com/qfA5E59atg
…why the FBI & DOJ could not “find” this guy for 4 years. The Biden FBI had mountains of evidence against Brian Cole. Receipts, cell data, license plate, photos and videos of the crime. They knew exactly who did it!
But Brian’s profile destroys their entire ‘MAGA white supremacist insurrection bomber’ narrative in one blow.
The FBI didn’t “fail” to catch him.
Leftists protected their own.
This is the biggest FBI cover-up scandal in history. What a nightmare…
| Just for the record, here is the NY Post link Abu Uluque posted yesterday in comments, which adds:. |
“He’s very antisocial. Very,” a woman who said she had lived in the neighborhood since 1991 told The Post of Cole. “He keeps to himself.”
“He has a dog that he loves,” she added. “He walks every day, twice a day, to 7-Eleven with his dog and he wears his headphones.”
“He seemed very quiet. He would never make eye contact. Almost like he just didn’t see you,” added a second neighbor, a man who noted that Cole would “wear shorts all winter long, and red Crocs.”
| I vote for negligence — it’s mostly the same people who did the work to find him,except for a change in senior management. Courtesy of Skidmark: FBI director suggests 'sheer incompetence' or 'negligence' in Biden admin handling of pipe bomb case |