J6 Bomber Family: He's Not MAGA. He's a Basement-Dwelling Loner With A Grudge.
Ed Morrissey
11:00 AM | December 06, 2025
When news broke that the FBI had finally arrested a suspect who placed pipe bombs at RNC and DNC headquarters in January 2021, I offered this prediction: "this will turn out to be unrelated to the J6 riot or law enforcement and intelligence agencies, but will be a rando nutcase anarchist." I could have also predicted that the Protection Racket Media would attempt to make the perp into a right-wing MAGA nutcase who voted for Donald Trump. I didn't have "pretend he's a white guy" on my Bingo card, but you can't win 'em all.
Otherwise, my predictions have held up pretty well. Despite attempts in the media to link Brian Cole to Trump and MAGA, no evidence corroborating that has emerged. Instead, his family explained late yesterday that Cole has no political affiliations, never supported Donald Trump, and mainly lived as a loner in his mother's basement. His grandmother explained Cole's life to the Daily Mail:
But Loretta, his grandmother, said Cole has no party affiliation and never votes.
Rather, he keeps to himself, living in his mother’s basement in Woodbridge, Virginia, where he’s been grieving the loss of his beloved pet chihuahua, while working a data entry job for his family’s bail bonds business.
‘He’s not politically affiliated with anything,’ the grandmother told the Daily Mail during an interview at her home in Gainesville, Virginia. 'He has no social media contacts. He’s never online going back and forth with politics or anything like that. He says he don’t like either party.
'He’s borderline autistic,’ she added. 'He’s slow. He may be 30, but he’s got the mind of a 16-year-old. That’s why we’re thinking - What the hell? What’s going on?’more
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/12/06/j6-bomber-family-hes-not-maga-hes-a-basement-dwelling-loner-n3809608
