Shocker: Jan. 5 pipe bomber believed 2020 presidential election was stolen

Trump administration officials hyped the arrest of a Northern Virginia man in the Jan. 5, 2021, DC pipe bombs case on Thursday, while also shading Team Biden for supposedly sitting on the evidence that led to the breakthrough.

They don’t have much of anything to say today about the news that Brian Cole, 30, of Woodbridge, has told the FBI that he was motivated by his thinking that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

CNN broke that one, as Cole is set to be arraigned on Friday on charges that he planted pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee hours before the MAGA ransacking of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

All we got Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino from their Thursday presser and later appearances on Fox News were streams of invective aimed at Team Biden, which “sat on the evidence for four years,” according to Patel, that “no one did anything to solve this,” per Bondi.

Bongino did confirm in his Fox News hit that Cole had spoken with the FBI, but didn’t go into detail – and we now know why.

The Trumpers were trying to leave us with the impression that Cole, an African-American, was being protected by Team Biden because he’s “one of them” – sources leaked to MAGA-friendly news outlets that Cole is supposedly an “anarchist,” clearly trying to confuse people into thinking that he’s antifa.

Consider, for instance, this quote from Patel on the arrest:

“When you attack American citizens, when you attack our institutions of legislation, when you attack our nation’s Capitol, you attack the very being of our way of life. And this FBI and this Department of Justice stand here to tell you that we will always refute it and combat it. We will provide the safest country the nation has ever seen under President Trump’s leadership here.”

The revelation that Cole is one of the other them brings to the mind the obvious thought that we may end up seeing him pardoned by Trump.

I dunno, though – I mean, Brian Cole has the inconvenient problem of being Black.