The January 6th Pipe Bomber, and the Antifa Factor

We’ve often highlighted on The War Room, that one of the consistent attributes of the Truth is that it also vindicates those who stand for it, or even those falsely accused. Well, it is important to reflect on this because despite the utterly politicised narrative about the events of January 6th 2021, which have largely been framed in such  way as to accuse President Trump and and his supporters of staging an insurrection in their country, the truth is once again vindicating those who were falsely accused, through the FBI’s work in capturing the January 6th pipe bomber. Now, part of the vindication here, is that the recent developments in this case also implicate Antifa greatly, thus supporting their designation as a terrorist group, but also unravelling the politicised messaging of the Biden-Harris FBI and others.

So, on January 6th, 2021, thousands of people – including supporters of the outgoing 45th President Donald Trump, but also including activists, and opportunists – they entered the United States Capitol building while Congress was certifying the 2020 electoral vote count. This saw what began as a large rally near the White House morphed into a march to the Capitol, where barriers were breached, windows smashed, and lawmakers evacuated or sheltered in place. The disruption delayed the certification process by several hours. In the ensuing clashes between protesters and police, five people died: one protester was shot by Capitol Police, one officer suffered a fatal stroke the next day (later ruled line-of-duty), and three others died of medical emergencies amid the chaos. Hundreds more (protesters and law enforcement alike) were injured. To date, more than 1,200 individuals have been charged with federal offenses ranging from trespassing to seditious conspiracy, with hundreds already sentenced.

Well, this, day’s events have since become one of the most polarising episodes in modern American history. Supporters of the protesters often describe it as a largely peaceful demonstration that got out of hand, pointing to the fact that most of the thousands present did not engage in violence and that the building was briefly occupied rather than seized for any sustained period – which is factually accurate.

Them, on the other hand, critics, including most Democrats and even some Republicans label the January 6th events an “insurrection” or “attempted coup,” arguing that the breach was intended to prevent the peaceful transfer of power after Trump’s election loss.

But then, complicating the narrative further was a still-unsolved detail: which is that the night before, on January 5th, 2021, someone placed viable pipe bombs outside the Republican National Committee (or the RNC) and Democratic National Committee headquarters (or the DNC), just blocks from the Capitol. The devices (which were constructed from threaded galvanized pipe, kitchen timers, and explosive powder) were discovered on January 6th only after a citizen noticed the RNC device and alerted police. Both were equipped with hour-long timers that had expired without detonating. Security footage later released by the FBI shows a person in a hoodie, mask, and gloves placing the bombs between 7h30 and 8h30PM (local time) the previous evening. But, despite a $500,000 reward and years of investigation, the Biden-Harris FBI presented no suspect that had been publicly identified or charged.

Well, in light of the J6 Pipe Bomber, many observers note the timing and location of the bombs could not have been more convenient for diverting law-enforcement resources: and this is considering that Secret Service and Capitol Police details were pulled to investigate the devices precisely as the Capitol was coming under siege – and these were bobs that were placed the hours before on the evening of January 5th. Well, addressing this pipe bomb factor, and its role in diverting capitol police resources is the former Capitol police chief, who states that the bombs were deliberately designed and planted to be found, and were a setup to distract and pull security from the Capitol. 

ADDRESSING THE POLITICISED NARRATIVE OF ATTRIBUTING A JAN 6 INSERRECTION TO TRUMP

Now, in all of this, there is a concerted effort to attribute not only the events of January 6th, but specifically an insurrection to president Trump. One of the most enduring misconceptions about January 6th, is the assertion that President Donald Trump explicitly instructed his supporters to “storm the Capitol” or that he orchestrated the subsequent violence in advance. The left frequently cited isolated phrases from his speech at the Ellipse, such as (quote) “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol,” or (quote) “You have to show strength,” and repeated calls to “fight” – those on the left (and frankly some republicans) argued that these words from president Trump deliberately incited the crowd to breach the building. Some even  go further, portraying the address as the lit match thrown into a powder keg of pent-up rage.

But, in reality, the full context of president Trump’s speech tells a different story. Trump explicitly urged the massive crowd to make their voices heard (quote) “peacefully and patriotically.” And the complete sentence containing the most commonly misrepresented line reads (quote): “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.” And so, far from a coded command for violence, the speech actually repeatedly emphasised lawful protest and pressure on Congress to examine election irregularities, which are all not catalysts for insurrection – especially when we consider that president Trump also told the audience, that they have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated.

Now, our discussion on this comes at a very convenient time, because it comes after Trump sued the BBC for manipulating his January 6th speech to make him sound like he was rallying the crowd towards an insurrection, thus proving what we’ve just stated. Which is that: as far as president Trump’s speech is concerned, it was not riddled with language that lit the match into a powder keg of pent-up rage; RATHER, his speech addressed genuine concerns of election manipulation, which we’ve come to understand to be very valid, especially when we look at counting irregularities in states like Georgia.

Now, additionally, and still addressing the politicised narrative of attributing an insurrection to Trump, extensive official investigations have actually failed to produce evidence that Trump directed or planned illegal acts relating to January 6th. The House Select Committee on January 6th, despite two years of highly publicised hearings, interviews with over a thousand witnesses (including senior White House staff), and review of millions of documents – this committee NEVER uncovered a direct order from Trump to storm the Capitol or engage in violence. Transcripts and final reports contain no smoking-gun communication – via text, call, or directive – that instructed anyone to breach barriers, assault officers, or occupy the building.

Even Department of Justice prosecutions of more than 1,200 individuals involved in the Capitol events similarly reveal no chain of command traceable to president Trump. Indictments and trial evidence instead portray the violence as largely spontaneous or driven by fringe elements within the crowd, not as the execution of presidential instructions. Prosecutors also charged some defendants with seditious conspiracy, yet none of those cases implicated Trump personally in planning or inciting the specific criminal acts. Even Trump’s post-riot conduct, often cited as proof of malice, has been scrutinised and found wanting. His tweet calling rioters “very special” people and reiterating election claims came hours after the breach, but the same message also urged them to “go home now” and declared “We love you.” Now, delayed and perhaps equivocal as those statements were, they do not constitute evidence of premeditated orchestration.

Therefore, the claim that Trump explicitly ordered the storming of the Capitol or pre-planned the violence rests on manipulated quotations; doctored edits of president Trump’s speech and inference rather than concrete evidence. Even after exhaustive investigations by both Congress and the Department of Justice, no recording, document, or credible witness testimony has emerged showing president Trump to be directing illegal activity on January 6th. Now, perhaps the greater proof of this is the contradiction, and confession that Nancy Pelosi.

WHY THE BIDEN FBI & ATTORNEY GENERAL FUMBLED THE JANUARY 6TH PIPE BOMBER INVESTIGATION

Now, 2021 is a long time ago – and the fact that the Biden-Harris administration did not close this incredibly high profile case should alarm everyone. And I say this because Bipartisan Senate reports highlighted intelligence failures on January 6th. However I would argue that these intelligence failures extend WELL past January 6th itself, when we look at how the Biden-Harris administration’s FBI and Attorney General dealt with the January 6th pipe bomber investigation.

This is where we ought to bring in the Antifa factor. First, and for some brief context, Antifa is a left-wing allegedly anti-fascist and anti-racist political movement. It is a highly decentralised array of autonomous groups in the United States. Furthermore, Antifa’s modus operandi includes poster and flyer campaigns, mutual aid, speeches, protest marches, but mostly, they use tactics involving digital activism, doxing, harassment, violence, and property damage. Supporters of the movement are also said to aim to combat far-right extremists, including neo-Nazis and white supremacists. But, simultaneously, individuals involved in the movement subscribe to a range of far left-wing ideologies, and tend to hold anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist, and anti-state views, with a majority of them being anarchists, communists, and social democrats.

Now, here’s why this context matters: in early 2021, under FBI Director Chris Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland, the investigation into the January 6th Pipe Bomber intensified—offering a $500,000 reward, canvassing neighborhoods, and tracing purchases of distinctive Nike shoes and a North Face backpack. Yet by March, the investigation stalled, buried amid the push to frame January 6 as a MAGA-led “insurrection.” Additionally, FBI Director Chris Wray had publicly dismissed Antifa involvement prematurely because exposing left-wing ties would have unraveled the politicised narrative that Trump sparked an insurrection.

Well, on December 4th, 2025, the FBI arrested 30-year-old Brian Cole Jr, who is a Woodbridge, Virginia resident, charging him with planting the bombs. Affidavits detail Cole’s purchases of matching galvanized pipes, end caps, 9-volt batteries, and kitchen timers from Home Depot in 2019–2020. Cell tower data placed his phone near the sites that night, and surveillance footage aligns with his gait and attire (which included a gray hoodie, and a very specific pair of Nike sneakers). Now, post-arrest, the FBI revealed Cole continued buying bomb components into 2022, suggesting ongoing threats. As such, Antifa links emerged immediately, based on anonymous sources citing Cole’s “statements in favour of anarchist ideology”, and anarchism itself being a central tenet of Antifa.

But, the Biden-Harris administration’s FBI led by CW and the AG Office led by Merrick Garland were more willing to peddle the false narrative that January 6th was purely caused by Trump, as opposed to doing the requisite investigative work of finding the real culprits, including the January 6th pipe bomber. It took the new Trump FBI led by Kash Patel and Dan Bongino to find the Jan 6th pipe bomber 4 years after the crime. ANd what is even more infuriating is that the arrest stemmed NOT from fresh tips but revisiting old leads that even the previous FBI had access to; which implies that this case was always solvable. The Biden-Harris administration just did not like that the truth would vindicate Trump.

THE PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT AGENCIES DO NOT SHARE THE SAME MANDATE AS TRUMP

Now, there is something to be learned from how the Biden-Harris FBI and AG fumbled the January 6th Pipe bomber investigation, which is that the people in government agencies do not share the mandate that Trump received from voters, which is why we see so many from these agencies try to frustrate the MAGA mandate, in agencies like the CDC or departments like the US Department of HHS.

Therefore, it seems it would be a mistake to allow the same people who were part of an administration that wanted to pin January 6th on Trump, to be the ones to help unravel the hoax. For instance, let’s talk about Jocelyn Ballantyne. She played a controversial role in the prosecution of Enrique Tarrio, who is the former leader of the Proud Boys. From Tarrio’s own accounts, Ballantyne allegedly pressured him to sign a false confession linking President Donald Trump to the Proud Boys through Roger Stone. This was a blatant attempt to coerce Tarrio into framing Trump in exchange for his freedom—presented just before his trial. This exemplifies the kind of unethical tactics now tainting the pipe bomber probe.

AND YET, Jocelyn Ballantyne is directly involved in interviewing the alleged pipe bomber, securing what she calls a “four-hour quote-unquote confession.” Alarmingly, there was reportedly no attorney present during this session, amplifying concerns over coercion.

Generally, around the world we fight relentlessly for the truth about events like the attempted assassination of Donald Trump by Thomas Crooks or the January 6 pipe bomber because these are not isolated incidents: often, they are symptoms of a deliberate rot at the heart of the Republic. When government institutions conceal, obfuscate, and punish inquiry, they are not merely being incompetent; they are dismantling the foundation on which every free society rests: which is the consent of the governed, earned through honesty. And the process is insidious but predictable. 

First, the institutions created to protect and serve the public are captured by an elite class that comes to view itself as permanently entitled to power. These are not public servants; they are clearly convinced of their own moral and intellectual superiority. They believe rules, transparency, and accountability are for the little people. In their minds, they do not answer to voters, to Congress, or even to the Constitution—they answer only to history’s “right side,” as they define it.

When these custodians of power begin hiding facts—altering timelines, deleting text messages, classifying body-camera footage, slow-walking FOIA requests, or labeling legitimate questions “disinformation”—they sever the single most important bond between citizen and state: trust. Once that trust is gone, no proclamation, no press conference, no blue-ribbon commission can restore it. The public learns that official statements are not information but propaganda, that “investigations” are not searches for truth but exercises in narrative management.

With trust shattered, civic cohesion frays. People stop believing they share a common reality with their neighbors, let alone their government. Families argue over basic facts. Communities retreat into tribal enclaves of information. National identity dissolves into competing camps, each with its own set of “truths” curated by algorithms and activists. The shared public square—the place where citizens once debated policy on agreed-upon facts—becomes a battlefield of mutually exclusive realities. 

In that vacuum, manipulation becomes the primary tool of governance. Crises are amplified or invented. Laws are enforced selectively—harshly against political opponents, indulgently toward allies. Borders are left porous not out of compassion but because demographic destabilization weakens the historic nation and creates dependent voting blocs. Division is stoked deliberately: race, class, gender, region—every fracture is widened because a divided people cannot resist consolidated power.

Eventually the center cannot hold. Economic malaise, social distrust, and institutional illegitimacy compound until the country is no longer a self-governing republic but a managed territory ruled by an unaccountable administrative state and its corporate partners. The collapse may be gradual or it may come suddenly in a crisis no one believes the government is telling the truth about. Either way, the result is the same: a once-great nation reduced to just another failed state where force, not consent, determines who rules. And so, the subsequent consideration from the pipe bomber investigation progress, is what happens to political leaders and civil society members who curated this or were actually part of this? Similarly, Nancy Pelosi admitted her culpability on camera: in fact, even now-FBI Director conceded to her concerning conduct.

This is why we refuse to let these stories die. A nation can endure war, depression, natural disaster, even grave policy mistakes—so long as its people believe their government is fundamentally honest with them. But no nation, no matter how wealthy or powerful, can survive a government that systematically lies to its own citizens and punishes those who notice.

Written By Lindokuhle Mabaso