DC Pipe bomber from Jan 6 arrested. FBI. Brian Cole Jr. of Woodbridge, VA

[applegrove]

CNN

Bombs were viable and could have hurt many people but they didn't go off.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/politics/arrest-pipe-bomb-investigation

[newdeal2]

1. Bets on when to expect a pardon? nt

[GoCubsGo]

15. Considering who currently heads the FBI,

perhaps we should be taking bets on whether or not this person is the actual bomber. I wouldn't put it past them to railroad someone just to give Kashyap and Cankles a scalp.

[Emile]

2. Developing story

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/politics/arrest-pipe-bomb-investigation

[applegrove]

3. Thanks. I will add it to my OP.

[DeeDeeNY]

4. What are the odds that he will be pardoned? NT

[Emile]

5. Depends on how much money he can give Trump. Last I heard

a Trump pardon cost is around a half a million dollars.

[yaesu]

6. The Russian agent orange will probably award them the medal of freedumb. Nr

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. Who else is worried that trump will pardon this person?

First thought: This is an extraordinary breakthrough for federal law enforcement in one of nation’s most important unsolved cases.

Second thought: I really hope Trump doesn’t pardon the suspect. www.ms.now/news/fbi-arr...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-12-04T13:34:36.775Z

[Emile]

11. It's hard to tell for certain, but that picture looks like a female.

[Johonny]

8. If Im this mans lawyer, Im claiming hes pardoned

By Trump because the act was part of January 6th . . . And win or lose, Trump pardons me before February

[allegorical oracle]

9. Well, my guess was that the bomber was a female, not a male. MSNOW did say this

a.m. that forensics folks likewise thought the gait of the person was female. Perhaps that led investigators off track for some time.

Love it when mysteries are solved -- if this is truly the person. (Don't have much faith in Patel and Bongino.)

[applegrove]

10. I hope it is the right person. What a relief that they are caught.

[rollin74]

13. suspect is a man according to ABC News

described as having a “severe gait”

[2naSalit]

12. Oh boy...

What if this person is female and it is whom we've suspected for years? What if it is her and this is the threat/punishment for not playing along with the charade anymore and suddenly the person disappears from her day job?

[EnergizedLib]

14. Every J6er should've gotten the needle or chair

Including and especially the felon.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

16. MaddowBlog-Following arrest in pipe-bombs case, White House rejects questions about Jan. 6 pardons

With a suspect in custody, Team Trump was reluctant to talk about the president’s pardons for others convicted for violent Jan. 6 crimes.
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/following-arrest-in-pipe-bombs-case-white-house-rejects-questions-about-jan-6-pardons

Hours before the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, someone placed pipe bombs outside Republican and Democratic headquarters in Washington, D.C. In the nearly five years that followed, an investigation failed to identify a suspect.....

What about Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 pardons?

At a press conference at the Justice Department, Attorney General Pam Bondi was asked about the obvious tension between Cole’s arrest and the president’s decision to pardon every other person convicted for crimes on Jan. 6, including felons, many of whom violently clashed with police officers.

Bondi dodged the question.

The line of inquiry, however, is entirely legitimate. Trump, just hours into his second term, came to the assistance of Jan. 6 criminals, insisting at the time that it would be a “grave national injustice” to hold them accountable.

When NBC News posed the question to the White House, spokesperson Abigail Jackson responded with this statement:

It’s alarming and insulting that Fake News NBC would compare an individual who placed live bombs throughout DC to the countless individuals who were over-prosecuted and targeted by a weaponized Biden DOJ. This false equivalence is one of the many reasons why trust in the media is at an all-time low.

Let’s unpack this a bit.

First, NBC News isn’t “fake.” Second, Jan. 6 felons were, if anything, under-prosecuted. Third, if Republicans have any evidence of the Biden-era Justice Department having been “weaponized,” the party has kept its proof well hidden.

Fourth, if placing “live bombs” is qualitatively different from other Jan. 6 crimes, why did the Trump administration dismiss charges against Daniel Ball — who set off an explosive device in a Capitol tunnel during a fierce battle between pro-Trump rioters and law enforcement officers?

This whole disingenuous mess is among the many reasons why trust in Trump and his team is at an all-time low.....

Fourth, if placing “live bombs” is qualitatively different from other Jan. 6 crimes, why did the Trump administration dismiss charges against Daniel Ball — who set off an explosive device in a Capitol tunnel during a fierce battle between pro-Trump rioters and law enforcement officers?

This whole disingenuous mess is among the many reasons why trust in Trump and his team is at an all-time low.