Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 193
The Magnificent Seven
“The Virginia man arrested this month on charges of placing two pipe bombs in Washington on the night before a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has given a detailed confession,” the New York Times reports.
“Brian J. Cole Jr., felt he needed to ‘speak up’ after he began to suspect that the 2020 election, in which President Trump was defeated, had been ‘tampered with.’”
Axios: DNC, RNC pipe bomb suspect told FBI “something just snapped.”
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