For more than nine months, Delicia Cole has watched her son sit behind bars while federal prosecutors build a case accusing him of planting the two pipe bombs discovered near the Republican and Democratic national committee headquarters on January 6, 2021.

Now, the mother of Brian Cole Jr. is going on the record — and she is forcefully rejecting the government’s portrait of her son.

In a newly released interview with LindellTV’s Cara Castronuova, Cole described a quiet, routine-driven young man whose life, she said, revolved around family, his dog, YouTube, neighborhood walks and simple meals. She said politics held little interest for him.

According to The Gateway Pundit, Cole said she was “shell-shocked” when the FBI arrested her son in December 2025. She also said she has not been allowed an in-person visit during his pretrial detention and has only seen him in court.

“I haven’t touched my baby since December,” she said during the interview, describing the emotional toll on the family.

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The family’s case is straightforward: they do not believe the hooded figure captured by surveillance cameras is Brian Cole Jr., and they say the man they know does not fit the person or motive alleged by federal authorities.

That argument also surfaced in a separate interview preview released Thursday by Tucker Carlson. Carlson said both parents told him their son had been framed and declared that he believed them. Delicia Cole said the surveillance gait did not look like her son’s and insisted authorities had “the wrong person.”

The allegations remain serious, and the family’s account is sharply disputed by the government.

The U.S. Department of Justice says a federal grand jury indicted Cole, 30, of Woodbridge, Virginia, on one count of transporting explosives in interstate commerce with intent to kill, injure or intimidate and one count of attempting malicious destruction by means of fire and explosives. Those are allegations, not a conviction.

The government’s public account says both devices were planted on the evening of January 5, 2021, and discovered near the two party headquarters the following afternoon. Neither detonated, and Capitol Police rendered both safe. Prosecutors also cite purchases of components they say were consistent with the devices, a license-plate reader that recorded Cole’s car less than half a mile from where the suspect was first seen on foot, and cell-tower records that allegedly tracked his phone along the suspect’s path between 7:39 and 8:24 p.m.

Cole has pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors say he confessed, while his defense is challenging major parts of the government’s evidence and pressing alternate-suspect arguments.

Recent court proceedings have also exposed disputes over discovery, a geofence warrant used to collect phone-location data and an original video the defense says is important to an alternate-suspect theory.

The Washington Examiner reported that the court has set the trial for February 2027 and expects it to last about two weeks. Cole remains in pretrial detention.

That means the evidence will ultimately be tested in court, where prosecutors must prove every element of the charges beyond a reasonable doubt and the defense will be able to challenge the government’s witnesses, forensic claims and investigative methods.

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But Delicia Cole is making sure the public hears another side before that trial begins: the account of a mother who says federal authorities have fundamentally misidentified her son.

Her interview does not resolve the case. It does, however, raise the stakes around a prosecution that already carries enormous political and historical weight — and it puts a human face on a fight that is now headed toward a federal jury.

This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.

 

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