SIZE-MISMATCH? Alleged Jan. 6 Pipe Bomber Gets 2027 Trial Date, But Rep. Massie Is Sounding The Alarm

The alleged Jan. 6 pipe bomb case finally has a trial date, and it is not coming quickly.

The accused man, Virginia resident Brian Cole, is now looking at a February 2027 trial window over devices allegedly planted near the Republican and Democratic party headquarters on January 5, 2021.

Cole has pleaded not guilty. He remains in custody while the case moves forward.

The timeline is the gut punch here. From his December arrest to the planned trial, Cole could spend well over a year behind bars before a jury hears the evidence.

July 8, 2026

The Justice Department announced Cole’s arrest on December 4, 2025, nearly five years after the devices were found, and said the initial charges included transporting an explosive device in interstate commerce with intent to kill, injure, intimidate, or damage property, plus attempted malicious destruction by fire or explosive materials. The official FBI affidavit lays out the government’s theory in more detail.

Investigators say the devices were discovered near the RNC and DNC on Jan. 6, 2021, and the bureau assessed both as improvised explosive devices containing an explosive charge, a fuzing system, and a container.

The affidavit describes surveillance of a single masked suspect moving through the area on the evening of Jan. 5. According to that account, the DNC device was placed around 7:54 p.m. and the RNC device around 8:16 p.m.

That is the official frame of the case. Cole is accused of being the man in that frame, but the government still has to prove every element in court.

NBC Washington reported that U.S. District Judge Amir Ali set the trial date during a Wednesday hearing, with the proceeding expected to take roughly two weeks, and noted that Ali recently ruled President Trump’s January 6 pardons do not apply to Cole. Gray DC/WTAP reported that the parties agreed to a February 16, 2027 trial date and that the next status conference is scheduled for September 10.

That means the case is no longer just an old unresolved January 6 mystery. It is now an active federal prosecution with a defendant in custody, a pardon fight already decided against him, and a trial date pushed deep into next year.

For a case that sat open for years, that delay is going to raise even more questions from people who never accepted the neat official narrative in the first place.

July 8, 2026

Rep. Thomas Massie went right at the pretrial detention issue, arguing that Cole could be held for more than a year before trial and warning that the arrangement creates enormous plea pressure.

Massie also gave voice to the larger suspicion around the case. If this was really one of the most important unresolved security failures tied to January 6, Americans are entitled to a clear public accounting of how it remained unsolved for so long.

That skepticism is not limited to Capitol Hill.

July 2, 2026

Tucker Carlson has also urged viewers to look carefully at the government’s story, warning that an arrest does not automatically mean the case is truly settled.

That is the right posture for a case like this. Cole is presumed innocent, the charges are only allegations, and the public still deserves to see the evidence tested in open court.

The pipe bomb case was held up for years as one of the biggest unanswered questions from Jan. 6.

Now the government says it has its man. With trial pushed to 2027, Americans may have to wait a long time to find out whether prosecutors can actually prove it.

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Alleged DC Pipe Bomber Reportedly OBSESSED With My Little Pony

BREAKING: The FBI Has Arrested Brian Cole Jr. For Suspected J6 Pipe Bombing

The FBI has just arrested a Virginia man named Brian Cole, Jr. who they suspect is the J6 pipe-bomber.

Strange that it took almost five years?

Was there new evidence or did we just need a new FBI?

Or….is this a patsy to distract from the suspect The Blaze reported a few weeks ago?

We’ll dig into all of it.

First, the arrest today:

🚨 NOW: The FBI has a MASSIVE presence outside the home of alleged DC J6 pipe bomber Brian Cole, Jr. in Woodbridge, VA

Can’t wait to hear what the FBI has on him and how they zeroed-in on him after all these years. pic.twitter.com/0GKpzVC5FL

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 4, 2025

The police presence outside the house is massive.

Local police, FBI, DHS and ATF all on site:

🚨🇺🇸#BREAKING | NEWS ⚠️ LIVE the FBI has raided the home of the J6 pipe bomber who is 30 year old Brian Cole of Woodbridge, Virginia they believe this is his father‘s home.

Massive amount of Police FBI,DHS and ATF our staged outside of the home and searching inside and outside… pic.twitter.com/Fd6hWYrKDU

— Todd Paron🇺🇸🇬🇷🎧👽 (@tparon) December 4, 2025

The home has been raided and is being searched:

BREAKING: The FBI has raided the home of the reported J6 pipe-bomb suspect, Brian Cole.pic.twitter.com/ezeINsFNOm

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) December 4, 2025

While we are still waiting on confirmation, initial reports are that Brian Cole and his family could certainly be labeled anti-Trump:

So…

The J6 Pipe Bomber Brian Cole and his family are anti-Trump Leftists.

Once again that blows up the whole January 6th was a “Trump Insurrection” scam.

No wonder Chris Wray’s FBI never “found” him. pic.twitter.com/TQo1jShxEZ

— C3 (@C_3C_3) December 4, 2025

Brian Cole, the J6 pipe bomber, is from a family that runs a bail bond service for illegal immigrants.

They were represented by Ben Crump.

I'm gonna go on a limb and say he is not MAGA. pic.twitter.com/kvbojCeiwl

— Carmine Sabia (@CarmineSabia) December 4, 2025

Fox News reports the arrest is not tied to any new evidence, just a new FBI:

Authorities have not released further details about the man, but one federal law enforcement source told Fox that the FBI is carrying out “court-enforced activity” at Cole’s residence.

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Cole’s step-grandfather, Earl Donnette, told NBC News in a phone call that he spoke with the FBI about his step-grandson, but declined to comment further.

Bondi said the investigation into the attempted bombing “languished” for four years under former President Joe Biden’s administration.

“The FBI, along with U.S. Attorney Piro and all of our prosecutors, have worked tirelessly for months, sifting through evidence that had been sitting at the FBI with the Biden administration for four long years. Let me be clear there was no new tip. There was no new witness. Just good, diligent police work and prosecutorial work,” Bondi said.

FBI Director Kash Patel credited the U.S. Capitol Police, the Metropolitan Police Department and U.S. Attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro for their work on the investigation.

We will continue to monitor this story and bring you updates as we have them, but right now I can’t help but think about that report from The Blaze a few weeks ago, and how they said their computer analytics had determined a DIFFERENT suspect — a woman — based largely on the gait of the walk.

The FBI came out and debunked that report shortly after it was made, no doubt because they were already gearing up for this arrest:

FBI CLEARS Former Capitol Police Officer That The Blaze Claimed Was A 94% Match To The DNC Pipe Bomber

Still, I can’t help thinking about the report from The Blaze….

And I can’t help thinking about how the person in that video feels to me like a woman the way they walk.

But hey, I could certainly be wrong and probably am — the FBI under Kash Patel and Dan Bongino certainly know more than me.

Here were those prior reports which completely conflict with todays arrest (so we must consider them debunked at this point in time):

BOMBSHELL: J6 Pipe Bomb Suspect Identified — “She’s one of us!”

BOMBSHELL UPDATE: J6 Pipe-Bomber Identified? Name Finally REVEALED With 94-98% Certainty

A couple days ago, we brought you this viral report which claimed the J6 Pipe Bomber had finally been identified.

That work was done by Steve Baker, who works with Glenn Beck’s The Blaze.

Incredible work.

Here was our original report:

BOMBSHELL: J6 Pipe Bomb Suspect Identified — “She’s one of us!”

But until today, the actual name and identity had not been revealed.

Now it has.

Before I give that to you I want to give you a very important disclaimer….

NOTE: All individuals are innocent until proven guilty or until admitting guilt. What I am going to report to you in this article are the results of the Steve Baker / Blaze investigation and forensic matching that they claim is 94-98% accurate. I am not claiming this is the J6 Pipe Bomber, I’m simply showing you the reports that have been released today and the forensic analysis they claim to have followed.

Ok?

Ok.

Drumroll please…..

According to reports, the J6 Pipe Bomber is Shauni Kerkoff, a former Capitol Police Officer, now reportedly with the CIA:

https://x.com/RealHickory/status/1986968781437194681

https://x.com/RealAlexJones/status/1987162479219118284

Here is a portion of the BOMBSHELL report out today from BlazeMedia:

A forensic analysis of a female former U.S. Capitol Police officer’s gait is a 94%-98% match to the unique stride of the long-sought Jan. 6 pipe-bomb suspect, according to a Blaze News investigation confirmed by several intelligence sources.

A source close to a congressional investigation of Jan. 6 additionally told Blaze News evidence has emerged recently that pointed toward law enforcement possibly being involved in the planting of the pipe bombs.

‘They were f**king in on it.’

A software algorithm that analyzes walking parameters including flexion (knee bend), hip extension, speed, step length, cadence, and variance rated Shauni Rae Kerkhoff, 31, of Alexandria, Va., as a 94% match to the bomb suspect shown on video from Jan. 5, 2021. The veteran analyst who ran the analysis for Blaze News said that based on visual observations the program can struggle with, he personally pegged the match at closer to 98%.

Kerkhoff, who was a Capitol Police officer for four and a half years, left the department in mid-2021 for a security detail at the Central Intelligence Agency, sources told Blaze News.

In that job, she reportedly serves on dignitary protection teams for officials including CIA Director John Ratcliffe and others, sources told Blaze News.

Kerkhoff’s residence in Alexandria, Va., appeared to be under the watch of law enforcement officers on Friday night. Blaze News editor in chief Christopher Bedford was pulled over by local police after stopping to observe the home. He was then allowed to leave.

Close to bomb suspect

The FBI, which failed to solve the case in nearly five years of investigation but indicated that it was closing in after Blaze News brought its investigation to intelligence sources, was feet from the Falls Church address of the pipe bomb suspect days after Jan. 6, according to the Blaze News investigation.

Former FBI Special Agent Kyle Seraphin realized Friday that he was doing surveillance next door to the woman now suspected of being the Jan. 6 pipe bomber.

“The FBI put us one door away from the pipe bomber within days of January 6, and we were deliberately pulled away for no logical or logically investigative reason,” Seraphin told Blaze News Friday. “And everything about that tells me that they were involved in a cover-up and have been since day one.

Former Capitol Police Officer Shauni Kerkhoff (above) playing soccer in Columbus, Ohio. The pipe bomb suspect approaches the Democratic National Committee building on Jan. 5, 2025. Columbus Eagles FC, U.S. Capitol Police

“They were f**king in on it,” Seraphin said.

Seraphin proposed doing a “knock and talk” at the door of an Air Force civilian employee whose address was tied to a vehicle that picked up the bomb suspect in Falls Church, Va., on Jan. 5, 2021.

Seraphin’s team spent two days watching the man, but Seraphin’s request to go face-to-face with the person of interest was denied. The team was pulled off the case the same night, he said.

Seraphin said he has given the same details publicly since 2021.

“There’s a personal reaction to it, which is the complete vindication that the things I’ve been saying and my recollection of being briefed on this stuff has been accurate for years and I’ve never changed my tune,” he said.

The FBI tied a DC Metrorail SmarTrip card allegedly used by the pipe-bomb suspect to an Air Force civilian employee but determined that while the man purchased the card, he did not use it. The suspect allegedly used the card to travel from D.C. to a stop in Falls Church after planting the pipe bombs. The Air Force civilian employee had purchased the SmarTrip card a year earlier.

Gait analysis

The forensic study, arranged by Blaze News, revealed that Kerkhoff is up to a 98% match to the gait of the pipe-bomb suspect. The findings were confirmed by several current intelligence sources who viewed the study results.

The source who did the comparison said the software rated the match at 94%. He put the figure at closer to a 96%-98% match, including a combination of human intelligence and the software analysis.

Samples of Kerkhoff’s gait were taken from Jan. 6 Capitol Police CCTV security video and compared to unedited video of the hoodie-wearing suspect walking through an alley near C Street to place an alleged pipe bomb behind the Capitol Hill Club about 8:16 p.m. on Jan. 5.

Two other sources familiar with gait analysis who viewed the video comparison and the software analysis told Blaze News they concurred that the video samples matched the gait of the gray-hoodie-wearing suspect.

An expert in gait analysis used a computer algorithm to compare the gait of the pipe-bomb suspect (left) to that of Officer Shauni Rae Kerkhoff and obtained a 94% match. FBI/U.S. Capitol Police

The mystery of the pipe bombs has hung over Jan. 6 for nearly five years. The FBI said an unknown subject placed pipe bombs under a park bench at the DNC and the Capitol Hill Club near the Republican National Committee building between 7:54 and 8:16 p.m. the night before the riot.

Discovery of the devices between 12:40 and 1:05 p.m. respectively on Jan. 6 drew already depleted police resources away from the Capitol just as a huge crowd breached the grounds at 12:53 p.m. A joint session of Congress convened at 1 p.m. to take up challenges to the certification of the Electoral College vote from the 2020 presidential election.

Kerkhoff was a Capitol Police officer from 2018 until mid-2021. She was a member of the department’s Civil Disturbance Unit and a training officer on the use of “less-lethal” crowd-control weapons that were extensively used on the Jan. 6 crowds.

Here is Alex Jones with more:

Global Exclusive: The January 6th Pipe Bomber’s Identity Has Been Discovered, and She is a Female Federal Capitol Police Officer Caught Red-Handed as Part of a Larger Deep State False Flag Operation to Frame President Trump and His Constituents

Top FBI whistleblower Kyle… pic.twitter.com/VP3rBysPer

— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) November 8, 2025

Here was our original report in case you missed it:

BOMBSHELL: J6 Pipe Bomb Suspect Identified — “She’s one of us!”

One of the biggest mysteries surrounding January 6th, 2021 may have just been solved….and I’m speaking of the very strange pipe-bomb incident that almost no one ever talks about.

In case you haven’t been following this story, allow me to bring you up to speed so you can fully appreciate the news that is breaking today:

BASIC TIMELINE

On January 5, 2021, the night before the Capitol breach, two explosive devices were placed:

One near the RNC headquarters

One near the DNC headquarters

The bombs were said to be fully functional, equipped with:

Kitchen timer triggering mechanisms

Metal pipe casings

Powder fillings (originally claimed to be “non-lethal,” later quietly re-classified as capable of detonation)

The FBI said the suspect placed both bombs between 7:30 PM and 8:40 PM.

The unknown individual was seen in video wearing:

A blue hoodie

Grey backpack

Face mask

Using a casual, relaxed walking gait

The suspect has never been identified despite:

Washington D.C. being one of the most heavily surveilled cities on Earth

Multiple cameras watching those exact routes

Clear shoe tread, gait pattern, and unique behavior cues

The tech to identify individuals through gait alone (known to be used by other federal agencies)

THE CRITICAL DETAIL PEOPLE FOCUS ON

The DNC bomb sat just feet from the Secret Service—because Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris was inside the DNC at the time.

This was not revealed publicly for over a year.

Right-leaning analysts argue:

If this were an actual assassination attempt against a future VP, the government would have treated it as Act of War level seriousness.

But there was no lockdown, no elevation of national terror alert, and no compelling push to identify or capture the bomber.

This has led to the widely-discussed conclusion:

The government didn’t react like this was an enemy threat because they already knew who placed the bombs.

THE MOST EXPLOSIVE ALLEGATION

Glenn Beck, independent researchers, and whistleblowers have argued:

The pipe bombs may have been staged.

They were positioned as a narrative trigger — ready to be used if public messaging needed to shift.

The bombs were timed to be discovered at the exact moment Congress was debating certification.

However — and this is where the allegation sharpens:

They were discovered too early.
A civilian noticed one near the RNC and called police before the media moment was supposed to happen.

This destroyed the intended timing.

So instead of being used to frame the narrative, the bombs were quietly sidelined in favor of focusing exclusively on the Capitol breach.

Ok, now that you understand all of that, here’s the big Bombshell breaking right now….

Glenn Beck and Steve Baker just announced live on the air that they believe the mysterious J6 pipe-bomb suspect has been identified with 94% certainty, and an FBI official reportedly blurted out “Holy F– she’s one of us!”

'She's one of us!' Steve Baker stuns Glenn Beck with bombshell revelation about J6 pipe-bomb suspect https://t.co/Wrbv2cE5uz pic.twitter.com/IjQq4oNlgF

— TheBlaze (@theblaze) November 5, 2025

The Blaze had this summary — and then scroll down to watch the video:

Beck indicated that the suspect will be named as soon as the relevant agencies have ‘battened down the hatches.’

Blaze News investigative reporters Steve Baker and Joseph Hanneman have spent years working to identify the masked individual who placed pipe bombs near the headquarters of the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 5, 2021.

Baker, whom the Biden FBI arrested over his January 6 reporting, revealed to Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck on Wednesday that they have finally locked in on a suspect. What’s more, Baker hinted that the suspect’s imminent identification will implicate and shame at least one federal agency.

‘It is monstrous.’

Baker told Beck, “When I pulled this thread, I was so shocked by what I saw, I immediately took it to a source in one of the most important, highest-level investigative federal agencies in the country. I immediately took it to our sources there, and I said, ‘You have to see this.'”

“After they looked at it for about two hours, the response that I got back was, ‘Holy F,'” continued Baker. “And then the follow-up response was, ‘She’s one of us!'”

When pressed by Beck about his confidence level in the suspect ID, Baker said, “I will tell you that from gait analysis — that’s the analysis of the hoodied bomber … compared to the gait analysis of this individual in private life and at work — that the actual software hit at a 94% accuracy.”

“Human analysis from the experts in intelligence is much higher,” continued Baker. “They looked at it and went, ‘My God, that’s it. We got it.'”

Forensic gait analysis — the scientific study of patterns in an individual’s style of movement in walking or running — is regarded as one of the most sophisticated approaches to identifying an individual from CCTV footage or video recordings and as especially valuable in the absence of other biometric identifiers.

The American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Magazine noted in 2023 that gait analysis, which has been used to help secure criminal convictions throughout the Anglosphere for decades, “can be compelling, corroborating evidence,” especially since “criminals cannot hide their gait.”

Baker indicated that he left some “breadcrumbs” in recent reports.

Hanneman and Baker reported last week, for instance, that the 8.5-minute video about the Jan. 6 pipe bombs released by the FBI in October contained footage edited to exclude showing a U.S. Capitol Police SUV pull up directly across the street from where the suspect stood at 8:15 p.m. on January 5, 2021.

In addition to raising suspicion about the selective edit, the investigative duo claimed that the FBI also deliberately chose not to publicly acknowledge the theory that the pipe bombs were part of a poorly timed training exercise.

Baker told Beck on Wednesday that while the FBI and the Metropolitan Police Department are offering a $500,000 reward for evidence that leads to an arrest in the case, he didn’t take the new evidence implicating the yet-to-be named suspect to the agencies “because we believe that they were actively engaged in the cover-up.”

Watch the full report here:

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FULL TRANSCRIPT:

Glenn:
There is a breaking news story that hopefully is coming out tomorrow. You’ll understand once you hear the story. This is one of the biggest stories.
I think it is the biggest scandal of my lifetime, maybe in the last 100 years. It is monstrous, what Steve Baker is going to report on. And we’re gonna give you a little bit of background.

I can tell you this: there is a major development in the January 6th pipe bomber investigation. Blaze News has the exclusive, because it is Steve’s reporting that has brought this to attention. And unfortunately, the lead suspect is at the highest levels of government. It is a massive, massive scandal.

And Steve joins me now.

Steve:
Hello, Glenn.

Glenn:
Hey, Steve. Good morning. So, the reason why we’re not breaking it today is because—well, first, how long have you been working on this story?

Steve:
I’ve been pulling the threads on this for exactly 4 years. But I finally pulled the correct thread exactly 2 weeks ago today.

Glenn:
I have to tell you, if anybody ever wondered why they made such a big deal out of arresting you, this is why. Because you were pulling at these threads the whole time and you were relentless. And you were working on another story, right? And just dots started to appear and you were like—how did this come to you?

Steve:
Well, the genesis of this goes back to much of my work examining the various players at Capitol Police. Capitol Police seem to have a much, much oversized participation in how January 6th developed.

And when I say that, I’m not talking about the frontline officers. Many of those frontline officers have become some of our most trusted sources. And by the way—they love The Blaze. They love our coverage.

Just this past January 6th, I was there covering the certification of the election. Think about the irony of that. I was in the Capitol. I had three different officers, two plainclothes and one uniformed, stop me in the hallways to whisper, “We love your work.”

Glenn:
Because you’re rooting out the bad guys. Not all the officers are bad. There’s a few. And your story that came out yesterday about the tear gas and the devices that were shot into the faces and heads of protesters—those guys knew exactly what they were doing. They’re on tape. That helps the average officer because you can now say, “It was them.”

Steve:
That’s right. Look, we’ve examined this particular story for years. We’ve done updates. But finally, Joe Hanneman and myself started drilling down into identifying who these officers were once we knew they were taking deliberately, criminally negligent shots.

These are training officers. Training officers in use of less-than-lethal munitions. And what we discovered by going straight to the manufacturers and the people who certify the training officers is that they are told—it’s printed on the sides of these weapons—you cannot aim them at people’s heads, faces, necks, groins, kidneys. These can be deadly.