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Family of Pipe Bomb Suspect Brian Cole Breaks Silence — Issues FIRST Statement After Explosive Arrest

Federal agents on Thursday arrested 30-year-old Florida man Brian Cole Jr., charging him with transporting an explosive device and attempted malicious destruction using explosive materials.

The arrest comes nearly five years after pipe bombs were discovered outside the RNC and DNC headquarters, a case that inexplicably stalled under the Biden administration.

At a press conference Thursday afternoon, Bondi credited investigators for “sifting through evidence that had been sitting at the FBI,” making clear that no new tips led to Cole’s identification.

“This investigation is ongoing,” Bondi said. “As we speak, search warrants are being executed, and there could be more charges to come.”

FBI Co-Deputy Director Dan Bongino delivered a blistering rebuke of Biden-era leadership, openly criticizing officials for “focusing on other things” instead of solving one of the most consequential domestic terror cases in modern political history.

“You’re not going to walk into our capital city, put down two explosive devices, and walk off into the sunset,” Bongino said.
“Not going to happen — we were going to track this person to the end of the Earth. There was no way he was getting away.”

Bongino confirmed that he assembled a multiagency investigative team that re-examined old evidence — evidence he strongly suggested was ignored or overlooked by prior leadership.

According to the criminal complaint, Cole allegedly bought:

  • Six 1” x 8” galvanized pipes — the exact size used in both IEDs
  • Black and galvanized endcaps matching the bomb components
  • White Walmart kitchen timers identical to those recovered from the devices
  • 9-volt batteries and connectors from Micro Center
  • Red and black 14-gauge electrical wire
  • Steel wool, used as part of the igniting mechanism

All of these items were purchased across northern Virginia between 2019 and 2020, and again—shockingly—after January 6th, when Cole allegedly continued purchasing timers, pipes, and batteries.

Cole’s cellphone had seven data transactions between 7:39 p.m. and 8:24 p.m. on Jan. 5, 2021.

These transactions occurred on cell tower sectors covering the exact path the bomber walked as captured on surveillance footage.

Surveillance shows the suspect placing the DNC device at 7:54 p.m. and the RNC device at 8:16 p.m.—perfectly mirroring the tower hits recorded on Cole’s phone.

Following the bombshell announcement, members of Cole’s family spoke briefly to reporters.

Men’s Journal reported:

The suspect’s grandmother, Loretta, told The New York Post: “He’s almost autistic-like because he doesn’t understand a lot of stuff. I hope he is not talking.” She also alleged: “He’s very naive…He would not hurt a fly. He’s just not that kind of person. I don’t believe this at all. He’s not a terrorist.”

The grandmother told The Post that Cole works for the family’s bail bondsman company, “Brian Cole Bail Bonds.” She added that he also worked for DoorDash for a time. “He doesn’t have any ties to DC,” she added. “I don’t even know how they included him in this.”

The suspect’s step-grandfather, Earl Donnette, “said in a brief phone call to NBC News that he spoke with the FBI about his step-grandson,” the network reported. However, Donnette declined to make additional comment, NBC News reported, and Brian Cole Sr., Cole’s dad, declined to make any comment at all, NBC News reported. According to NBC, investigators could be seen “on aerial footage blocking off the entrance to the suspect’s father’s business with police tape.”

“He’s very antisocial. Very,” a neighbor told The New York Post of Brian Cole Jr. “He keeps to himself.”

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AG Bondi: Evidence Leading to J6 Pipe Bomber Arrest ‘Collecting Dust’ at Biden’s FBI for 4 Years

Evidence leading to the arrest of a suspect for planting pipe bombs at the DNC and RNC was “sitting there collecting dust” at the FBI during the four years of the Biden administration, Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed Thursday.

In a press conference Thursday afternoon, Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro and others praised the herculean months-long work to arrest a suspect after years of inactivity during Joe Biden’s administration.

Brian Cole Jr. was  arrested and charged with placing the pipe bombs at the RNC and the DNC on January 5, 2021. He was also charged with transporting an explosive device in interstate commerce and the attempted malicious destruction by means of explosive materials, with more charges likely to result from the ongoing investigation.

The arrest raises questions about the lack of progress made by the Biden administration under FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland.

Bondi said the Trump administration prioritized the investigation after a “total lack of movement on this case in our nation’s capital,” which “undermined the public trust of our enforcement agencies.”

“This cold case languished for four years until Director Patel and Deputy Director Bongino came to the FBI,” Bondi explained. “The FBI along with U.S. Attorney Piero and all of our prosecutors have worked tirelessly for months sifting through evidence that had been sitting at the FBI with the Biden administration for four long years.”

The damning evidence was in the FBI’s position before Trump took office, Bondi emphasized. “There was no new tip, there was no new witness, just good, diligent police work and prosecutorial work,” she explained.

Patel reiterated that the FBI “did not discover any new information,” adding that the FBI brought in a new team that “reexamined every piece of evidence, sifted through all the data, something that the prior administration refused and failed to do.”

Bongino suggested the prior regime deliberately deprioritized the pipe bomber investigation, even as Biden and Democrats across the county campaigned on their narrative of the pipe bomber.

“This is what it’s like when you work for a President who tells you to go get the bad guys and stop focusing on other extraneous things not related to law enforcement,” Bongino said of President Donald Trump, also praising Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.

Patel would not elaborate on the potential motivations of the suspect, although reports Thursday revealed Cole had begun planning his attack months before the November 2020 election – a stark contrast to Democrats’ framing that the bomber was a Trump supporter motivated by Biden’s win and Trump’s questioning of the results.

Although the Biden FBI possessed the necessary evidence, the rejuvenated investigation under Trump remained daunting.

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Pipe Bomber Unmasked: Affidavit Reveals How FBI Identified Brian Cole

After nearly five years, the January 6 pipe bomber was arrested by the FBI on Thursday.

Brian Cole, 30, of Woodbridge, Virginia, was taken into custody and charged with use of an explosive device and attempted malicious destruction by means of explosive materials.

Cole planted pipe bombs at the RNC and DNC headquarters on January 5, the night before the Capitol riot.

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said during a press conference on Thursday that the FBI solved the case without any new tips or witnesses.

The FBI identified Cole based on his phone pings and transaction history on his credit cards, according to an affidavit:

The FBI has identified one bank checking account and six credit cards (the “Accounts”) used by COLE. The FBI obtained records for the checking account and three credit cards for the time period January 2018 to January 2021. Three additional credit cards were obtained for the time period of January 2018 to November 2025. The FBI reviewed the transaction history for all of these Accounts.

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Is Chuck Schumer Pulling a Jussie Smollett? It Sure Looks Like It.

Chuck Schumer took to the Senate floor Monday to announce that multiple bomb threats had been directed at three of his New York offices, claiming law enforcement informed him about emails with “MAGA” in the subject line and messages alleging the 2020 election was rigged. If this story sounds familiar, that’s because it plays like a bad rerun of the Jussie Smollett hate crime hoax, where the actor claimed two men in red caps attacked him while shouting, “This is MAGA country.” The parallels are almost too perfect to ignore.

“Mr. President, this morning, I was informed by New York law enforcement of multiple bomb threats made against my offices in Rochester, Binghamton, and Long Island. The bomb threats against my offices came with the email subject line ‘MAGA’ and from an email address alleging the 2020 election was rigged.”

Yes, because Trump supporters are still griping about 2020 when Trump is in office in 2025. Give me a break.

“Local and federal law enforcement responded immediately and are conducting full security sweeps, and investigations are ongoing,” Schumer continued. “Everyone, thank God, is safe, and I’m grateful for the quick and professional response of federal and local law enforcement to ensure that these offices remain safe and secure for all New Yorkers.”

Something tells me they never were unsafe.

Schumer concluded, “As I’ve said many times, these kinds of violent threats have absolutely no place, no place in our political system.”

Yeah, we’ve been saying that on the right for a long time now. Where were you, Chuck?

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Here’s an Update on the J6 Pipe Bomb Suspect. It’s Not Good.

There’s a reason why we emphasized the if regarding the January 6 pipe bomb suspect that was named in an article from The Blaze in early November. The publication stressed that several intelligence sources confirmed its information. They cited gait analysis to identify the person involved, who was reportedly a former Capitol Police officer. It was a significant ‘whoa’ moment, but only if true. If The Blaze hit the bullseye, it would’ve blown this story wide open. As it happens, it’s becoming clear they shanked the field goal. This individual provided an alibi, and now litigation concerns are brewing (via CBS News).

A federal security officer linked to a thwarted Jan. 6 pipe bomb attack cleared her name by providing an alibi: video of her playing with her puppies at the time the devices were placed, sources told CBS News. The FBI has now ruled her out as a suspect in the 2021 plot, according to three sources — but only after her name circulated on social platforms and a conservative news site. 

How an innocent woman’s name came to be publicly linked to the unexploded pipe bombs is a question that has raised concerns among some senior officials in the Trump administration. 

CBS News is not naming the security officer or her workplace. The federal agency she protects declined to comment.

Multiple sources said that a unit overseen by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard drafted a memo identifying the woman and describing allegations that she had placed the explosive devices outside Democratic and Republican party offices. The memo was written after ODNI was made aware of allegations from an outside source, an ODNI spokesperson said. 

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Afghan national from Operation Allies Welcome arrested, charged for threatening to bomb Texas city

An Afghan national was arrested this week after he claimed he was building a bomb and intended to target a building in Fort Worth, Texas, authorities said.

Mohammad Dawood Alokozay was apprehended Tuesday by the Department of Homeland Security after posting a video to his TikTok profile with the alleged threat. He is being charged at the state level.

He was arrested a day before Rahmandullah Lakanwal, 29, also an Afghan national who came to the US as part of Biden administration’s Operation Allies Welcome, shot two National Guard troops in Washington, DC, on Nov. 26.

A Homeland official could not confirm any connection between the two Afghan men, and it was not immediately known how Alokozay got his immigration status through the Biden era program.

Alokozay (inset) came to the US in the wake of the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan as part of the Biden policy, according to DHS. He was made a lawful permanent US resident on Sept. 7, 2022, Fox News reported.

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California man who went by ‘Billy Badass’ busted for synagogue bomb threats, feds say

A California man who went by “Billy Badass” on social media allegedly threatened to bomb every synagogue within a 20-mile radius — then doubled down with more antisemitic rants even after cops threw him in a psychiatric hold.

Elijah Alexander King, 36, of San Luis Obispo, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to federal charges stemming from his August rampage of hate that has him staring down a decade behind bars.

King used his “Billy Badass” X account to spew the hate messages on Aug. 28. “I’m gonna blow up every synagogue in a 20-mile radius,” King threatened according to federal prosecutors.

“This is a real threat send the police and report me for terrorism,” said a second messaged ten minutes later. King then searched for synagogues nearby on his cellphone, prosecutors said.

Police found King and had him check into a psychiatric hospital for monitoring where he continued to spew hate from the “Billy Badass” handle, states. 

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The Pipe Bomber’s Actions Were Necessary to Enable Speaker Pelosi to Certify the 2020 Election for Joe Biden

It turns out that the pipe bomber on Jan 6 was not a man, as had been assumed for more than four years.  Reports over the past 48 hours claim that the pipe bomber was a Capitol policewoman by the name of Shauni Rae Kerkhoff.  This comes after more than four years of not knowing who the pipe bomber was.

It appears that the FBI and Capitol Police were not interested in identifying the person who planted pipe bombs on the evening of January 5th near the RNC and DNC buildings in DC. Is this because the pipe bomber was one of them, and if it were found out that the Capitol Police were involved with the pipe bombs found on Jan 6, Americans would be outraged with the news?

Perhaps an even bigger reason to cover up the identity of the pipe bomber is that the planting of pipe bombs at the Capitol on the eve of Jan 6 was necessary to ensure the certification of the 2020 election for Joe Biden. 

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Ed Martin Sends Heads Spinning After Posting Then Deleting Cryptic “P-I-P-E” Tweet Thread Amid BOMBSHELL J6 Pipe Bomber Suspect Reveal

Associate Deputy Attorney General Ed Martin appeared to break his silence on the January 6 pipebomber with mysterious social media posts on Friday as news broke that the January 6 pipebomb suspect was potentially identified. 

On January 5, 2021, a suspect allegedly planted pipe bombs near the RNC and DNC headquarters in Washington, DC, the night before the January 6, 2021, protests.

After the feds found the bombs on January 6– supposedly the day after they were planted–the US Capitol was shut down along with the counting of electoral votes by the US Congress. The bombs were safely detonated by a bomb squad on January 6, but the FBI never described the unexploded bombs that were planted the night before with a 60-minute kitchen timer as “viable,” fueling speculation that they were fake bombs and potentially planted by the feds.

Additionally, last year, TGP reported on a new video from January 6 showing a man exiting a DC Metro police vehicle carrying a bag toward the location of the DNC ‘pipe bomb’ at 12:51 pm on Jan. 6– just 15 minutes before the ‘explosive device’ was discovered by another officer. The witness who discovered the RNC pipe bomb said the 60-minute kitchen timer attached to it only had 20 minutes left, leaving more questions as to how the bomb could have been planted the night before.

The suspects were caught on video, but somehow American intelligence and the FBI never caught the person. They would have us believe that somebody left two pipebombs in the capital and mysteriously walked out of perhaps the most heavily surveilled city in America undetected.

But now, it seems a suspect has been identified as Capitol Police Officer turned CIA security employee, Shauni Kerkhoff, in the likely hoax by the feds.

Before the bombshell news broke, Ed Martin posted a cryptic message on his personal X account, writing in a thread, “P-I-P-E.”

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Capitol Police Officer Shauni Kerkhoff Identified as J6 Bomber Based on Forensic Match — Testified to Firing Pepper Balls at J6 Crowd, Then Months Later Took a Security Job at the CIA

On January 5, 2021, a suspect planted pipe bombs near the Washington, D.C., RNC and DNC headquarters the night before the January 6, 2021, protests.

The culprit was caught on video but never caught by the FBI – the greatest intelligence service in the world.

The US Capitol was shut down on January 6 after the feds found the bombs near the Republican and Democrat Party headquarters.

As previously reported — A mysterious suspect planted two pipe bombs at the RNC and DNC DC Headquarters that were safely detonated by a bomb squad on January 6.

As The Gateway Pundit reported at the time and several times since Jan. 6 – Federal authorities shut down the counting of electoral votes by the US Congress when news broke that the “bombs” were found at the RNC and DNC headquarters.

It was NOT the J6 protesters storming the building that shut down the counting. It was news of the pipe bombs!

This is significant now that we can confirm that the bombs were planted by a female US Capitol Police Officer who later went to work security at the CIA headquarters.

Shauni Kerkoff went to work for the CIA headquarters after the January 6 riots. She later testified against J6 defendant Guy Reffitt, who was set up by the FBI, who wired his son in his own home.

Shauni reportedly scrubbed her social media accounts after joining the FBI.

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