Brace yourselves, patriots—a bizarre twist in the January 6 saga has emerged with the arrest of a Virginia man tied to pipe bombs near the Capitol.
According to Breitbart, Brian Cole Jr., a 30-year-old from Northern Virginia, was nabbed by the FBI on Thursday for allegedly planting pipe bombs outside both the Republican and Democratic national headquarters on January 5, 2021, just before the infamous Capitol protest.
Cole Jr. confessed to the act, though, thankfully, the devices failed to detonate.
During questioning, Cole Jr. declared his belief that Donald Trump was the true victor of the 2020 election, aligning himself with many who questioned the results.
Yet, his social media history paints a murkier picture, with posts hinting at anarchist tendencies that leave investigators scratching their heads over his true intentions.
As one anonymous law enforcement official put it, “It’s not yet clear what the drivers were.” Well, isn’t that the understatement of the decade when progressive narratives often rush to pin motives before the ink dries?
Rewind to May 2019, long before the 2020 election drama unfolded, when court documents reveal Cole Jr. began acquiring components to construct bombs. Fast forward to January 5, 2021, when he allegedly placed those devices near key political hubs, a move that could have escalated an already tense situation.
Investigators have found no links between Cole Jr. and militant factions or other Trump supporters involved in the January 6 Capitol breach, suggesting he acted as a lone wolf in this unsettling plot.
Cole Jr. wasn’t just tinkering with explosives; he worked for his father’s bail bonds business, operating under names like StateWide Bonding, Inc., which focused on aiding unauthorized migrants facing detention.
Interestingly, StateWide filed a lawsuit in 2018 against federal agencies like the Department of Homeland Security and ICE, alleging unfair penalties when clients skipped court appearances.
Their complaint gripped, “Hundreds of Plaintiffs’ clients fail to appear because Defendants fail to (1) provide said person with a specified date, time, and location to appear in court.” Sounds like a classic case of blaming the system while ignoring personal accountability—a favorite of the left-leaning crowd.
On November 10, 2020, the D.C. appeals court ruled in favor of the Trump administration against StateWide, a bitter pill just weeks before Cole Jr.’s alleged bomb-planting stint.
The family’s legal battles didn’t end there; in November 2021, Brian Cole Sr. joined forces with left-wing attorney Ben Crump to accuse a Tennessee prosecutor of racial bias against another of his ventures, Free At Last Bail Bonding Company.
By April of this year, a Tennessee appeals court upheld sanctions against Cole Sr.’s firm for repeated misconduct, pointing out his false claims about financial stability despite past bankruptcies and tax liens—hardly the picture of a victimized minority business the progressive agenda loves to champion.