For nearly five years, Americans were told by the FBI that they had no idea who planted two pipe bombs outside the Republican and Democrat party headquarters in Washington, D.C., the night before January 6, 2021. We were fed the usual lines—”we’re investigating,” “no comment,” and the classic “we’re following every lead.” Meanwhile, they had video footage, cell phone tracking data, timestamps, purchase receipts, and even a $500,000 reward on the table. Still, not a single arrest. Until now.
Enter Brian Cole Jr., a 30-year-old bail bondsman employee from Woodbridge, Virginia, who apparently thought he could outsmart the federal government by planting homemade bombs made with pipes, end caps, wires, and kitchen timers. Not exactly James Bond material. Cole was arrested this week and charged with transporting explosives across state lines and attempting destruction with explosive materials. The kicker? The arrest didn’t come from some new hot tip—it came from old evidence, reanalyzed by a new team under new leadership.
Pam Bondi, our current Attorney General, laid it out clearly: “There was no new tip, there was no new witness, just good, diligent police work and prosecutorial work.” Translation: the Trump administration finally put competent people in charge of this mess. FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino inherited a five-year cold case that had gone nowhere under the old regime—remember, the same folks who were too busy labeling parents at school board meetings as domestic threats to follow up on actual bombings.
So what changed? Everything. Patel and Bongino re-ran every lead, retested every shred of evidence, and brought in real experts—people who actually want to solve crimes, not push political narratives. They sifted through over three million lines of data and 233,000 sales of black endcaps, eventually connecting the dots to Cole’s purchases at Home Depot and Walmart. His cell phone placed him at the scene. His car was caught on camera. His purchases matched the bomb materials. It was all hiding in plain sight.
Now, don’t forget how this story was sold to us by the old FBI brass and their media lapdogs. They made it sound like the bomber was a ghost—untraceable, unknowable, a shadow figure. Meanwhile, he was living with his mom in Virginia.
And let’s be clear: neither bomb went off. The FBI says they “could have” exploded, but back in 2023, a former FBI official admitted the kitchen timers used couldn’t actually detonate them. So were they duds? Scare tactics? A false flag? We still don’t know the full story yet, but we do know someone finally got arrested—not under Biden, not by Merrick Garland, not by Christopher Wray, but under Trump, Bondi, Patel, and Bongino.
The lesson here? When you clean house and put serious people in charge, real justice happens. The same FBI that once sat on its hands while dragging its feet on this case is now actually doing the work it was supposed to do all along. Funny how that works when you stop playing politics and start doing your job.
So here we are—finally, a real breakthrough in one of the most suspicious and under-reported parts of the January 6 saga. Not because the system worked, but because the new leadership made it work. The swamp didn’t drain itself. It had to be flushed out by people who actually believe in law and order—not in weaponizing institutions against political opponents.
Let’s keep this energy going into the midterms. Because if this is what happens when adults are back in the room, imagine what else can be fixed.