FBI Arrests Brian Cole Jr, the Suspect in January 6 Pipe Bomb Case
The evidence has been at the DOJ for years, and the Biden administration never acted on it.
***Update 1:44 PM: The FBI arrested Brian Cole Jr., 30, of Woodbridge, VA.
Attorney General Pam Bondi said the FBI had no new evidence. The evidence has been at the DOJ for years, and the Biden administration never acted on it.
BREAKING: Bondi says there was NO new tip. NO new witnesses. Just good, diligent police and prosecutorial work.
It was the TRUMP FBI that solved this CRITICAL cold case. 🚨 pic.twitter.com/p7jYCWaVQ9
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) December 4, 2025
The DOJ charged Cole with 18 U.S.C. §841 – Use of an explosive device.
The investigation is ongoing, and Cole could face more charges.
Authorities are currently executing search warrants.
🚨NOW— Bondi says the DC PIPE BOMBER Brian Cole JR has been charged with 18 U.S. c84 – Use of an explosive device.
"Today's arrest happened because the Trump Administration made this a PRIORITY.
This cold case languished for FOUR YEARS until Kash and Bongino came to the FBI." pic.twitter.com/6whfs6oVlD
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) December 4, 2025
Previous Reporting
The FBI has arrested a suspect in connection with the January 6, 2021, pipe bomb case.
A person was caught on camera placing pipe bombs outside the Democratic and Republican national committees in DC before the Capitol Hill riots.
It only took almost five years.
The FBI and others have not released more information. The suspect is expected to be in court later today.
In 2023, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) demanded answers from then-FBI Director Christopher Wray over the investigation.
Massie told Wray that FBI Assistant Director Steven D’Antuono allegedly said during an “interview some of the phone data that could have helped authorities track down who was responsible for the pipe bomb was ‘corrupted’ and ‘unusable.’”
Wray wouldn’t answer if the FBI interviewed the man who alerted authorities about the bombs:
WRAY: “Well, again, I don’t want to speculate about specific individuals. I will tell you that we have done thousands of interviews, reviewed something like 40,000 video files of which this is one, assessed 500 something tips —”
MASSIE: “Have you interviewed that person?“
WRAY: “We — we have conducted all logical investigative steps and interviewed all logical individuals at this point.“
MASSIE: “Then you need 900 days — you need to tell us what you found, because we’re finding stuff you haven’t released into the public.”
Wray evaded the questions using the age-old excuse: “cannot comment on an ongoing investigation.”
On January 2, 2025, Massie and Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) released a damning report on the bombing, including the FBI’s investigation.
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Five years? I don’t think the FBI was looking very hard for the bomber for the four years of Biden.
The investigation really got started under Trump.
And the lady that Beck’s team said was the most likely bomber might be getting a nice sized check from him.
You already have information that the suspect isn’t the former Cap cop? You certainly didn’t get it from this article.
Patel’s FBI cleared her a week or two ago. Earlier today it was said the arrest was of a male. Legal Insurrection updated the article and we now know this guy has been arrested. So…..
Brian Cole’s picture is available now but the media doesn’t want to show it.
Because,,,,
he’s,,,,
black…
Well, you don’t sent a black guy on a secret mission to Russia…
…and this mission was to DC, so…
This media does.
Exactly, I was thinking about her, her face plaster and name all
Over
Insane
They were not looking at all for the bombing suspect because acknowledging that he was a black Antifa member would have blown up the whole J6/white supremacist’s narrative. They knew all along that was a farce but were more interested in damaging Trump. It never made any sense that not only that guy planted 2 bombs without anyone seeing him but that Kamala Harris was within feet of them and no one seemed to care. IMHO Biden and the deep state would not have been heart broken if something had happened to Harris turning her into a martyr and letting the deep state run wild after Trump and anyone surrounding him.
Sorry, a white Antifa member.
Looks black to me.
Pretty amazing that shortly after somebody loudly points a finger at a Deep Stater, the Deep Staters at the FBI suddenly find a different suspect by “re-examining” evidence they’ve had for five years.
The delay was entirely due to finding a judge to issue an exhumation order for Richard Jewell.
The Biden administration was just as diligent in pursuing the pipe bomber as OJ Simpson was in pursuing the killer of Nicole, and with the same reason for doing so.
+1000 on that!
Hiding in plain sight for 5 years.
I wish I could go into the future and read an objective history book about the Biden years. I mean America has had some corrupt presidential administrations (Warren G Harding comes to mind) but Biden certainly seems to have been very corrupt, incompetent, and indifferent to to good of the nation
At first blush, this feels, oh, underwhelming for years of quite intentional questionable feet dragging surrounding an event drowning in questionable circumstances. I hope I’m wrong.
They were too busy and short handed what with their putting all resources into finding out who brought the cocain into the white house. We still have NO IDEA who that was. Puzzling.
They couldn’t find the pipe bomber in 5 years BUT they easily found Old Man Duckett from deepest South Florida from his cellphone records and charge him with sedition???
I’m unfamiliar with this case, and the Seditious 6 have poisoned current search results enough to make him unfindable. Do you have more details?
A large part of the evil that cements all this Washington villainy together is the Federal pension system. Get rid of all of it, and the concept of “keep you pension at any cost” will go away. No management structure will be able to threaten employees with termination of pension if there are no pensions.
Is there any valid reason the Feds are not on Social Security? Not that I can see. Flipping the argument around, the only reason for the Federal pension system (and medical benefits) is to prop up the current over-sized Federal workforce. Do they want equity and equality in DC? If so, then get rid of the pension system.
This is one of the best analyses I have seen regarding the fundamental problem! Thank you!
Defined benefit vs. defined contribution. The haves (and the “owned”) vs. the have nots.
For the past 41 years, federal employees have paid into Social Security and get retirement benefits. I have known this, but decided to verify it just to be sure. It took me less than a minute. But then I’m not lazy.
There’s confusion because up until about 1986, Civil Service was covered by the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) which was a defined benefit program high enough that the contributors were not required to pay into Social Security. It was stable at the time, but destabilizing fast when replaced by the FERS, which is a much smaller and more sustainable defined benefit designed to provide ‘on top of Social Security.’ Currently, Feds pay into Social Security at normal rate, FERS as a lesser rate, and can pay into a 401K system with fairly minimal matching. It’s not bad, considering that most Feds could probably make more money in the Real World (except those at the very top of the pile).
“most Feds could probably make more money in the Real World”
I doubt that now. A lot of wages have been stagnant and if feds were go getters they wouldn’t be feds.
Yeah I believe a damned thing about this.
They are saying “Brian Cole from VA” in the news.
They are also saying that they found him by cross referencing cellular data to credit card purchases of a switch found in one of the devices, and of a particular type of nike shoes.
Yeah, and it only took a whole 5 years to do that.
Yeah.
Right.
This whole J5 bomb planting story stinks to high heaven. I do not remember where I read my information, but I read it many months (maybe over a year) ago:
Soon after J6 FBI agents used security videos to trace the activities of the bomb planter. They traced him to the train station and determined his ticket. They traced to where he got off the train. They identified the auto that picked him up. They identified the home where he returned. They staked out his home.
After a couple of days the two FBI agents wanted to interview the subject, but FBI supervisors did not allow it, and shifted the two agents off the assignment.
It’s going to take years for the FBI to regain its credibility.
So was that Cole?
Cole’s car license plate was recorded about a mile from Capitol Hill. The train story may have been a different and uninvolved person.
The FBI has been corrupt since the get-go. Read any biography of J. Edgar Hoover. His name is on their building.
It is in their DNA.
Cole was the only white person to buy that particular model of Nikes.
Voluntarily wearing a Nike logo in public should be more than enough, by itself, to constitute probable cause. Maybe even enough to support an enhanced penalty, upon conviction.
Except he wasn’t … white
Well … we’ll finally be able to get some answers to the insane aspects of these alleged “pipe bombs”.
What sort of retard places pipe bombs with simple 1 hour timers the night before? What would be the point? If it was just a diversion then why make them real (if they were)? If it were serious then what sort of moron does that – to have to come back to set them (which he never did, it appears)?
And who the hell places pipe bombs at both the RNC and DNC? Most anti-gov types would, at least, have 1 “most hated” party. But, even so, what are the odds that some “genius cop” comes up with the same exact idea, as my understanding is that after the “pipe bomb” was found by the RNC some cop mused that ‘the same perp probably put one by the DNC, too! Let’s check that out!’ after which they found the DNC bomb.
None of this makes any sense, at all, but since we have an actual person, now, we will be able to get some answers. And I want to hear the answers to these questions from the cops and secret service and others who were responding to both sites. Why have there been no interviews released of the morons in the car in front of the DNC or those who were on scene at the RNC?
I look forward to hearing some answers to these questions.
If he really is the guy, then I wouldn’t be surprised if he ends up dead before we get any answers.
Do they know the devices were real?
It used to be SOP to take any suspected bomb and prophylactically blow it up with the bomb squad’s own explosives, after which it was anybody’s guess what it used to be.
Not only that but IIRC VP-elect Kamala Harris visited the DNC that morning with the “bomb” in place and the Secret Service didn’t find it.
The FBI did squat for 4 years. They were too busy monitoring parents at PTA meetings.
Trump FBI caught the bomber in 10 months. Probably would have been a month if they hadn’t waited 4 years to even start the investigation.
“some of the phone data that could have helped authorities track down who was responsible for the pipe bomb was ‘corrupted’ and ‘unusable.’””
How’s that again? I mean, WTF? Having worked with telecommunications companies the data is collected and stored. And backed up.
The FBI (D’Antuono) claimed that it was corrupted but the phone companies later said that it wasn’t (from what I read).
I distinctly remember this.
It they found and connected thousands of Jan 6 by their phones
I call
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What do the pipe bombers Brian Cole (2024 election) and Cesar Sayoc (2018 midterm election) and the guy that took the video which is claimed to have triggered Benghazi all have in common?
I don’t believe in government coincidences or incompetence.
Innocence of Muslims was actually a very funny skit/trailer. And it was a decent production, too.. It was faithful to the koran’s account of mo.
But what do these 3 have in common?
Has Boasberg dismissed the case yet?
Bongino talked about this case for years on his show and said none of it smelled right. Now we know he was correct. It took Patel and Bongino getting their teeth into it to solve it with information they already had. The scandal now is who knew this stuff and who ordered it buried and the investigation to stop. Wray and Company better lawyer up more than they have been to this point. It’s going to get messy.
And the inevitable #Resistance Federal judge cuts him loose in 5…..4…..3……
Breaking: DC Pipe Bomb Suspect’s Family Has History of Working to Free Illegals from ICE, Sued the Trump Admin, And Used Trayvon Martin’s Lawyer to Fight So-Called Racism via @WestJournalism
… awful small world
Condolences to his friends and family on his upcoming suicide.