Latest Dem Hoax Implodes Within 24 Hours
“He’s not politically affiliated with anything. He has no social media contacts. He’s never online going back and forth with politics … He says he don’t like either party.”
It seems like only yesterday I was writing about the latest hoax the Left attempted to inject into the political conversation — the claim that Brian Cole Jr., the suspect arrested Thursday in the January 6 pipe-bombing case, was a Trump supporter who questioned the legitimacy of the 2020 election. Oh … wait.
By Thursday evening, the narrative was already being test-marketed. By Friday morning, nearly every legacy media outlet had snapped to attention and begun parroting it in perfect, predictable unison. And all of these reports were based on “anonymous sources.”
There were several obvious reasons this storyline never passed the smell test. To begin with, FBI records show that Cole began purchasing components for his bomb-making materials in May 2019 — long before the 2020 election and any dispute over its outcome.
Second, Cole’s family of origin — with whom he remains unusually close — leans firmly to the left. As The Daily Wire reported, his father, Brian Cole Sr., whose bail-bond business Cole Jr. works for, hired far-Left attorney Ben Crump to represent him in a lawsuit attacking the Trump administration’s immigration policies. Crump, of course, is the same progressive activist-lawyer who represented the families of Trayvon Martin and George Floyd.
The Daily Wire also noted that just weeks before Cole Jr. allegedly planted pipe bombs outside the DNC and RNC headquarters on January 5, 2021, a court had ruled against the family’s company — hardly a detail that fits the media’s preferred narrative.
Lastly, if Cole had truly been a MAGA loyalist, the Biden Justice Department would almost certainly have vaulted this case to the top of its priority list, just as it did with its relentless pursuit of January 6 defendants.
It’s also worth noting that Cole allegedly planted bombs outside both the DNC and RNC headquarters. He did not demonstrate a preference for one party over the other. Perhaps he simply intended to sow additional chaos in Washington, D.C., on an already politically volatile day.
In any case, within 24 hours of the first media references to this story, the Daily Mail’s Friday interview with the suspect’s grandmother, Loretta, effectively knocked the air out of the manufactured drama.
[Note: The Mail does not provide Loretta’s surname; however, the article states that she is the mother of Cole Sr. She mentions in the interview that she had last seen Cole Jr. at “the office” on Wednesday, which implies that she, too, works at the Virginia location of Cole Sr.’s bail-bond business.]
According to the article, Cole “keeps to himself” and lives in his mother’s basement in Woodbridge, Virginia. Recently, “he’s been grieving the loss of his beloved pet chihuahua.”
Loretta told the Mail that Cole is “an autistic recluse and ‘computer nerd’ who has no party affiliation … and never votes.”
He’s not politically affiliated with anything. He has no social media contacts. He’s never online going back and forth with politics or anything like that. He says he don’t like either party.
He’s borderline autistic. He’s slow. He may be 30, but he’s got the mind of a 16-year-old. That’s why we’re thinking – What the hell? What’s going on?
We were told that the main thing he’s very upset about is that he disappointed us, that he got locked up. We told him we’re out here, we’re going to make sure [every]thing’s taken care of.
We’re terrified. They say they’ve got all this evidence. Whatever happened, we’ve still got to fight it. We have to figure out what to do.
Loretta said she “doesn’t believe the charges.” She explained:
This young man is very calm and quiet. He just stays to himself. Nobody bothers him because he doesn’t bother anybody.
He doesn’t have a girlfriend. That’s how slow he is. He’s just off in a little world on his own. He stays downstairs and he used to be with his dog all the time.
That’s why everything is so messed up with us because he’s a good kid. If you knew him, you would say that he couldn’t have done it.
And if he did, it was just him trying to prove a point or whatever. He probably doesn’t even know the magnitude of what he’s done, if he did it.
He’s a data entry clerk in the office and answers the phones. He’s right in the reception area up front. We have a business, so we have to put him to work. And he understands that. He’s good with data entry.
All I can tell you is I love my grandson. He’s not a bad kid and he’s not affiliated with any gangs or anything like that. He’s not a political anarchist, or whatever they’re calling him. People could pull unnamed sources out of the sky. I don’t believe that. I don’t know.
BREAKING: Family of January 6th Pipe Bomb suspect say he is not a Trump supporter, contradicting claims made by many in legacy media. pic.twitter.com/bGwCyhMaXP
— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) December 6, 2025
While her remarks do not definitively refute the media’s claims that Cole was or is a Trump supporter — and, of course, she cannot speak to what websites he visits while on the computer in his mother’s basement — it stands to reason that Loretta, who likely interacts with Cole regularly at work, would have at least some sense of it if that were the case.
He has told her he doesn’t like either party, which may be the simplest explanation for why he allegedly planted explosives outside both headquarters.
At any rate, I can’t recall a Democratic narrative unraveling quite this quickly. It makes you wonder if, in their desperation to “get Trump,” they’re grabbing at anything that comes along instead of sticking to stories that might actually hold up under scrutiny.
When will Americans grasp that the Democratic Party has evolved into an organized group of thugs masquerading as a political party?
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Comments
“Latest Dem Hoax Implodes Within 24 Hours”
Of COURSE it did. They always do.
However, a lie travels halfway around the world before the truth puts on its boots.
There are millions of Dem Koolaid drinkers who heard all they needed to hear when MSLSD described Cole as MAGA.
At least something had a volatile reaction because his failed bombs sure as heck didn’t.
No, sometimes they take longer.
Yeah, sometimes it takes a whole two days before they implode.
But they always do in the end.
Sometimes Dem hoaxes take decades to implode, or explode, or whatever the appropriate verb is. For instance the idea that McCarthy went after innocent people.
” For instance the idea that McCarthy went after innocent people.”
That was HUAC’s job.
That McCarthy smear is still the dominant wisdom in the nation, as you know. Hasn’t imploded yet despite the overwhelming evidence that McCarthy (my Senator at the time) was right all along.
McCarthy’s miscalculation was to allow Welch to testify and spout off his “have no decency” one liner. And he compounded his error by not have an adequate comeback. A cautionary story but one many Congressman fail to learn from.
The Fine People Hoax lasted at least 8 years, and many still believe it.
The J6 Insurrection Hoax is still believed by nearly half the population.
That’s those “millions of Dem Koolaid drinkers” I was referring to. They cannot be reached, as they are TWANLOC.
The actual stereotype of living in his mom’s basement. You can’t make this stuff up.
And his parent’s political affiliation have no bearing in this case despite the fact that he lives with one of them? Yeah ok.
Just from personal experience I’m not going to assume anyone’s politcs from that of their parents. Even if they live together.
My mother and I have diametrically opposed political alignments, but I still lived in her house when unemployed and searching.
I don’t disagree but I think it still influences one’s upbringing and worldview….especially if you live with them as a dependent.
The left implodes almost every single day. Just a few days ago they were protesting ICE in Charlotte: “Get ICE thugs out of here”. The minute ICE left one of the illegals that ICE came for stabbed someone—imploding the left’s argument once again—revealing who the thugs really are.
“He doesn’t have a girlfriend. That’s how slow he is.”
Considering the kind of women he likely has contact with through his work and what is likely a Leftist social environment, this may actual reflect a reasonable level of circumspection on his part.
Actually his profile perfectly describes the average Democrat! Slow, not very social, lives in his mom’s bacement, has few to no friends, it just about describes the Democrat Senators. The House is another group that is ADD and manic with hyperinflated egos and self aggrandizement!
Ben Crump – leading Dem Racial Legal Hack. Future SCOTUS?
If we have another
blackBlack president, you can count on it as much as I just split an infinitive.Huh? You lost me there.
Crump heading for the Supreme Court.
No, I got that part. But which infinitive did you split? I don’t see any.
Milhouse, I thought I did.
Aw, man, we just got done with all the identifying as pronouns, now we have to do infinitives?
Forever, man. It’s right in their name.
We need to boldly go where no Grizzly has gone before.
Who even cares if he was a Trump supporter. He set bombs at both NCs. He was an equal opportunity bomber.
With each passing day I hate the press and democrats more and more. I thought I hit peak hatred years ago. Now I wonder if there is such a thing.
Peak hatred is when you start making your own pipe bombs… except they’re for CNN and MSNOW, and you leave them INSIDE.
When I heard the same guy allegedly placed bombs at both the DNC and RNC I thought that this is truly bizzare. Virtually no-one hates BOTH parties THAT much. My theory is that he did that just to confuse the cops and that one of those bombs (probably the one at the DNC) was deliberately crafted NOT to explode.
“When will Americans grasp that the Democratic Party has evolved into an organized group of thugs masquerading as a political party?”
Never because it suits their purpose which is the accumulation and preservation of their power.
Decade in and decade out, it always seems to be the Democrats at the bottom of everything bad for America.
Autism is the operative word in this story.
Autism of some variety along a very long spectrum of mental dysfunction seems to be the all-purpose trashcan excuse for evading responsibility for whatever heinous crimes have been committed.
The world seems to constantly analyze the mental activity of homicidal negroes.