Rep. Tim Burchett said the January 6 pipe bomb investigation “stunk from day one.”
The Tennessee Republican, re-elected as Democrats took the House, told The Gateway Pundit the handling of the devices was marked by a lack of normal procedure from the moment they were discovered.
“When somebody comes running up to you and says, ‘Hey, there’s something over here,’ and the police don’t get out of their car, hardly,” Burchett said. “That whole thing just stunk. That stunk from day one.”
He was more direct about Brian Cole Jr., the autistic man the FBI charged with planting the devices outside the RNC and DNC on the evening of January 5, 2021.
“It’s ridiculous. I don’t think we’re getting justice with that,” Burchett said. “I think that’s a cover up of many cover ups that occur up here.”
He added that “somebody had to be” involved besides the person who placed the alleged bombs.
