AdvertisementCiting bank records, cell phone data, license plate scanners and surveillance video, the government has said Cole assembled the two pipe bombs from materials he purchased over the course of two years. “So they figured if they planted a bomb there that they could rush into the Capitol and go, ‘Stop the objections! AdvertisementIn their January 2025 report on the unsolved pipe bomb case, Loudermilk and Massie said the bombs served as a diversion that helped rioters breach the Capitol. “According to public reports, you were working as a government employee of the Department of Commerce on January 6, 2021, when you discovered a pipe bomb near the RNC,” Loudermilk’s letter said. Loudermilk became Republicans’ point man on their Jan. 6 counter-investigation after the original Jan. 6 committee, the one led by Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.)

Source: Huffington Post December 12, 2025 23:24 UTC