House J6 Subcommittee: ‘Did Biden’s FBI Identify Brian Cole Jr. in April 2021?’
“It sure looks like it might have when you compare our pipe bomb report to Cole’s affidavit.”
As we know, the FBI arrested Brian Cole, Jr. last Thursday for allegedly planting pipe bombs outside both RNC and DNC headquarters the night of Jan. 5, 2021. Cole was charged with “transportation of an explosive device via interstate commerce, and attempted malicious destruction by means of an explosive device.” The arrest came nearly five years after the bombs were discovered.
FBI investigators solved the case solely on the evidence the Biden FBI had in its possession by April 2021.
On Monday, the Select Subcommittee on January 6, chaired by Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), posted a page from their Jan. 2, 2025, report to the FBI’s affidavit from Cole’s arrest on X and asked the logical question: “Did Biden’s FBI identify Brian Cole Jr. in April 2021? It sure looks like it might have when you compare our pipe bomb report to Cole’s affidavit.”
The committee highlighted the following paragraph from their January 2 report:
As the FBI continued analyzing large datasets from the carriers, certain devices exhibited behavior consistent with the suspect.357 For example, in April 2021, the case team identified a user who was in the area of the DNC at the time the suspect can be seen on video footage using their phone.358 The FBI requested and received the “historical cell tower data” for the user, and as of April 2021, the case team was attempting to “further analyze” the user’s movements.359 It is ultimately unclear what happened with respect to this lead.
And the following paragraph from the affidavit filed on December 3:
Provider records show that the COLE CELLPHONE connected with Provider cell phone towers consistent with the COLE CELLPHONE being in the area of the RNC and DNC on January 5, 2021. The COLE CELLPHONE engaged in approximately seven data session transactions with Provider towers between 7:39 p.m. and 8:24 p.m. Provider’s historical cell site data shows the specific tower for each of the transactions along with the sector of the tower that engaged in the transaction with the COLE CELLPHONE.
Did Biden’s FBI identify Brian Cole Jr. in April 2021? It sure looks like it might have when you compare our pipe bomb report to Cole’s affidavit. pic.twitter.com/LdmAolYygh
— Select Subcommittee on January 6th (@J6Select) December 6, 2025
Former FBI Director Christopher Wray and former Attorney General Merrick Garland must appear before the January 6 Subcommittee and be asked, under oath, why federal investigators, who had solid evidence that placed Cole at the right location at the right time in April 2021 — in fact the same evidence that current FBI investigators used to solve the case — suddenly dropped the investigation?
Although I am speculating, the most logical explanation is that the arrest of the son of a progressive bail bondsman who had sued the Trump administration over its immigration policies — and lost — just weeks before the Capitol riot, wouldn’t have fit their narrative.
We know that in April 2021, the Justice Department and the FBI were focused on another, more urgent matter. They were ramping up their relentless pursuit of the protesters who breached the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, which the Democrats were characterizing as an “insurrection.”
During a July 2022 briefing on the DOJ’s progress in apprehending individuals who were present at the Capitol on that fateful day, Garland called it “the most important investigation that the Justice Department has ever entered into.” (as per PBS):
This is the most wide ranging investigation, and the most important investigation that the Justice Department has ever entered into. And we have done so because this effort to upend a legitimate election, transferring power from one administration to another cuts at the fundamental [core] of American democracy. We have to get this right.
According to PBS, Garland “insisted … that no one is above the law.” He emphasized, “We have to hold accountable every person who is criminally responsible for trying to overturn a legitimate election. And we must do it in a way filled with integrity and professionalism.”
The Biden administration had a narrative to advance. Simply put, had Cole been a right-winger, he likely would have been charged at the time.
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This sort of thing is exactly what needs to not only have light of day shown on it, but the people in charge need to be prosecuted and do time.
If that doesn’t happen, we will never regain the trust necessary for a free republic.
Maybe the weirdo’s parents are more connected than we’ve heard?
These reprobates are card-carrying, black “progressives”/Trump-haters/Dhimmi-crats — they have all the connections that they need.
I doubt anyone senior knew any details. They just let it be known that only one type of suspect was allowed to be found in regards to J6, and the drones working for them handled the rest.
You don’t mean… (cue dramatic theater organ chord here), the dreaded married white Christian male with 3 kids, a dog, a white picket fence, and a wife with a mini-van, do you?!?
2.5 kids.
The really suspicious white males have 4 or more children. You know the kind I mean.
We should post a list of all the political hacks on the J6 committee, especially the ones who destroyed all the evidence, so that we can give it to Customs officers to have their passports flagged as flight risks.
Slightly off-topic. One thing bothering me about this is that Cole’s grandmother keeps insisting he only has the mental capacity of a 16-year old. How then was Cole able to construct the bombs with timers? Is the grandmother fibbing or did he have help?
Plenty of 16-year-olds could do it. Plenty of 10-year-olds could do it.
I certainly don’t know how to put a bomb together, especially one with a timer. Do you?
I did, children who are really into science and technology could do this. High intellectual capacity can come far ahead of common sense. I submit that smarter kids are often behind in social development. I was, though having adult mentors did help with that a great deal.
And the bombs didn’t work, which means he never tested the design.
The real question is why would it matter that he had the capacity of a 16 year old? 16 year olds know bombing people is wrong. My 8 year old knows it.
Alternatively, he didn’t fit their profile, so they concluded that it “couldn’t” be him. Remember what happened with the DC Beltway snipers. They were stopped, but because they didn’t fit the profile they were let go.
I highly doubt that.
Given their almost religious zeal to GET anyone white AND old prosecuted its more likely this black guy was overlooked because he belongs to two very important groups, black AND Democrat.
Yes. That’s what ‘didn’t fit the profile’ means.
It was an attempt to overthrow the Government they screech!
But you know whats stood out about this insurrection from day 1. Given there are HUNDREDS of millions of firearms on the street that not one of those insurrectionists thought to bring their firearms to over throw the Government.
Things that make you go hmmmmm…..
During the same time period the FBI was kicking down doors of people who had been to DC, but not at the Capitol. They had scooped up credit card records and cell phone data for the region. I suspect they identified Cole and possibly a very few others as potential suspects, but since none fit the preconceived profile, they were discounted. When questioned later, officials perjured themselves with the “corrupted data” lie.
The DOJ had several favorite “tools” to use during their prosecutions of the J6 rioters in court. There was the felony Enron-era paperwork charge (later thrown out by the SC) ‘insurrection’ (which nobody was actually charged with) and diluting acts of violence so even shielding a fallen woman from a baton-beatdown was somehow inflicting violence on the beater, and the ever favorite mentioning of the bomber who nobody had found yet but the defendant was part of the larger scheme so they should get enhancements on their sentencing of years. To actually *arrest* a minority 25-year old from a family with deep Leftist roots would upset that narrative severely, so the DOJ grew protective blinders and continued on with their inquisition.
The Biden regime was more concerned with narrative than anything else. That, and they probably transferred all the agents to the other side of the J6 investigation.