From The "You Can't Make This Stuff Up" Files -- Digby

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https://digbysblog.net/2026/01/06/from-the-you-cant-make-this-stuff-up-files-3/



Politico reports:

As many in Washington were easing into the new year, there was a flurry of activity last week in the prosecution of Brian Cole Jr. -- the man accused of planting pipe bombs outside the DNC and RNC headquarters the night before Jan. 6, 2021. The Justice Department obtained an indictment from a grand jury and, following a court hearing, persuaded a judge to keep Cole detained pending trial.

But there may be a serious problem on the horizon: Trump may have pardoned Cole last year as part of the sweeping clemency that he gave to Jan. 6 offenders on his first day back in office.

And they know it:

Last week, the Justice Department went out of its way during the court hearing to avoid using any phrases that might immediately connect Cole's alleged crimes to Jan. 6, but prosecutors' efforts were so obvious, that they had the effect of drawing more attention to it. The government's pre-hearing brief also appears to have been designed to skirt this issue and put the most Trump-friendly spin on Cole's motive for his alleged crimes -- though ultimately not very convincingly.

I won't be surprised to see Trump just go with this. Cole said that he was upset about the "stolen" election. That makes him someone who believed Trump and that's all that matters.