In a television segment that peeled back the layers of one of the most bizarre and suspicious cases in recent memory, Rep. Matt Gaetz and Gateway Pundit founder Jim Hoft dissected the arrest of the alleged January 6 pipe bomber, Brian Cole. The conversation revealed not just the strange profile of the suspect, but exposed the glaring, politically motivated failures of federal law enforcement under the previous administration.
The Arrest of a Basement-Dwelling “Brony”
As reported, Brian Cole was finally arrested last Thursday—a full five years after pipe bombs were discovered at the RNC and DNC headquarters on January 5, 2021. Cole was charged with use of an explosive device and attempted malicious destruction by means of explosive materials. According to reports, he admitted to investigators that he planted the devices.
The portrait of the suspect that has emerged is peculiar, to say the least. His family describes him as a man who “lives in the basement, is autistic, and had nothing to do with the crimes.” Even more bizarrely, a New York Post investigation found that Cole “had a secret online obsession with My Little Pony.” The report detailed that he “created art of plastic pony dolls, wrote remixes of songs about the little pony toys, and wrote fan fiction dedicated to them.” As Jim Hoft summarized during the OAN interview, “this gentleman, Brian Cole, was interested in the My Pony movement… He particularly liked the pink and purple ponies.” Hoft noted the oddity of “older men who are into this My Little Pony movement,” a subculture of adult fans known as “bronies.”
Gaetz’s Scathing Indictment of FBI Priorities
Rep. Matt Gaetz opened the segment with a pointed and powerful critique that framed the entire five-year delay as a scandal of intentional neglect. He expressed incredulity that the suspect was “Some socially withdrawn 30-year-old suburbanite who worked for a bail bondsman?” and asked the crucial question: “That’s who evaded the FBI during the entire Biden administration?”
Gaetz argued this wasn’t about competence, but about a corrupt set of priorities. “This isn’t about politics, it’s about priorities,” he stated. He contrasted the languishing pipe bomber case with the aggressive, resource-heavy pursuit of Trump supporters and January 6 protesters. “While everyday Americans saw bank accounts frozen, homes raided, and livelihoods destroyed, there were sentences that were… I mean, they would make cartel leaders blush. But the pipe bomber case was just gathering dust.” His conclusion was damning: “The people who trusted the system least turned out to be the ones who understood it best.”
In other words, while the FBI’s Washington field office was consumed with constructing the narrative of an “insurrection” and hunting down every person who entered the Capitol, a genuine domestic terrorist who placed actual explosive devices at the heart of American political institutions was ignored. The case didn’t fit the preferred narrative that all violence and threat originated from one side of the political spectrum.
The Emerging Pattern and Unanswered Questions
Jim Hoft connected Cole’s profile to a disturbing pattern seen in other recent political violence cases. He noted that Rep. Tim Burchett had gone further, suggesting on another program that “this guy was groomed just like the other killers we’ve seen recently – Brooks and Robinson out who killed Charlie Kirk.” This raises serious questions about whether isolated, mentally unstable individuals are being radicalized or manipulated by unseen actors, online or otherwise, to commit acts that serve a larger political destabilization agenda.
The family’s description of an autistic man living in a basement, combined with the niche fetishistic interest, paints a picture of a highly suggestible and socially isolated individual. This profile makes the five-year failure to identify him even more inexplicable—unless the will to solve the case was not truly present. A suspect of this description should not have been a mastermind evading the most sophisticated surveillance apparatus in the world.
The “Two-Tiered” Justice System in Stark Relief
This case sits at the intersection of every critique of the “deep state” and the weaponized Department of Justice. For five years, the pipe bomber was the FBI’s most wanted domestic terrorist—in theory. In practice, the agency’s leadership and the Biden-era DOJ showed no urgency. The case was an inconvenience because solving it might have complicated the simple, partisan story they were selling to the American people about January 6.
The contrast is the whole story. Under the same FBI leadership that aggressively pursued thousands of J6 trespassers, a man who planted bombs at two national party headquarters the night before was allowed to remain free. This is the very definition of a two-tiered justice system: relentless, punitive enforcement against one group, and inexplicable, negligent delay in investigating a potentially deadly crime that didn’t serve a political narrative.
Now, under the restored leadership of President Donald Trump and his Attorney General, the machinery of justice is finally moving. The arrest, though delayed, signals a return to a fundamental principle: all crimes, especially those of terrorism, must be pursued with equal vigor, regardless of the political identity of the perpetrator or the narrative it disrupts. The long-overdue apprehension of Brian Cole is a small step in dismantling the corrupt, two-tiered system that the previous administration entrenched.
h/t: Steadfast and Loyal
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