Investigative journalist Julie Kelly reacted to the arrest of the alleged January 6 pipe-bomber on “The Charlie Kirk Show,” saying the case still raises many unanswered questions. “So we’re still going to figure out how to piece this together, if there is a tie between this individual, the individuals who discovered it, or if those devices that were planted were really the ones that were found, because I have always contended that I thought those devices were planted right before they were found that day,” Kelly said. “So I’m keeping an open mind to see what the FBI is going to say at one o’clock. But this doesn’t solve the pipe bomb mystery, let’s put it that way. But it does add a very important puzzle piece to trying to figure out what exactly happened.”

ANDREW KOLVET, ‘CHARLIE KIRK SHOW’ CO-HOST, TURNING POINT USA: You had reported earlier, Julie, that there was at least some reporting about potential ties to Antifa. We’re seeing this individual be described as an anarchist. What do we know about Brian Cole at this point? JULIE KELLY, ‘DECLASSIFIED’ ON SUBSTACK: So nothing. Everything is kind of being pieced together, corporate news and their sources. I’m hearing from my sources as well. I think what we learn at one o’clock will be very interesting to say the least. But if this is true, and I believe he’s being reported as 30 years old, that would have made him 25, 26 on January 6th of 2021. Yes, some reporting that he’s tied to Antifa, the anti-fascist movement at the time, which you guys makes a lot of sense, right? This would make a lot of sense as to why the Chris FBI, aside from occasionally reposting this video that they had pieced together, also that had been manipulated, that, oh, gee, we don’t have the cell phone data. Oh, gee, we didn’t really investigate the people who discovered the devices on January 6th. Everything we have learned in documents since that point. But if this individual is Antifa, then it makes perfect sense why Chris Wray, who insisted early on that Antifa was not involved in the events of January 6th, why they would have buried this investigation, because it would have not only undermined the whole January 6th insurrection that was being built at the time in early 2021, but completely contradict Chris Wray’s insistence, without evidence, before he could even know who was at the Capitol, his insistence early on that Antifa did not play a role in what happened on January 6th. KOLVET: Fascinating. I had forgotten that little detail about Christopher Wray’s insistence that Antifa was not involved. Now, I’m going to play this clip, and it is, I believe, from December of 2024. And it’s the inspector general’s report that it basically confirmed that there were confidential sources embedded within the crowd. And then I’m going to link it back to some of the behavior of the FBI since. Play cut 322. FOX NEWS: There were three confidential human sources tasked by the Bureau to be in the crowd on January 6th to specifically watch what the report states is concerns over domestic terrorism. Out of those three, Sandra and John, one entered the Capitol, two others entered a restricted area. The report says the FBI did not encourage or authorize any sources to go into the building or a restricted area. In addition to the three confidential human sources, the FBI told there were 23 that were there on their own. KOLVET: So we had a total of 26 confidential sources. You have, it seems as though FBI director, former FBI director Wray, going out of his way to say that Antifa was not involved. And yet here we have what could be a connection to somebody with ties to Antifa. The question then becomes, why did they not seemingly, why did they close the door on that aspect of these ties to Antifa? But secondly, why did the Democrats not politically exploit the fact that the sitting vice president of the United States almost got blown up by a pipe bomb? KELLY: Right. So, I mean, Andrew, this is something that I’ve always found so interesting is that Kamala Harris, we don’t know why she left the Capitol shortly after 11 o’clock, 1115, on January 6th, and went to DNC headquarters. We never knew why. Why was she leaving the Capitol? She was a sitting U.S. senator at the time, recall, from California. She was going to be part of the proceedings that day. Also, the historic, you know, history-making incoming first Black female vice president. So why would she leave there where all the reporters are and everyone’s there swooning over her to go to the DNC headquarters? She never talked about why. And she certainly never talks about her near death, her near brush with death, assassination at the hands of this MAGA bomber, which is something we were also told. In her book, she only addresses the pipe bombs once in like two sentences and says how she was there calling supporters or donors, thanking them for their support, which also is odd. But you would think she would have devoted an entire chapter to her trauma in surviving this near brush with death, as I said, from this device that was sitting outside the DNC, that her detail missed, that two rounds of bomb-sniffing canine units missed as well, DC Metro police missed, Capitol Hill police missed, because if this is correct, that the device was set the night before, it would have been sitting there outside the DNC for 17 hours and no one detected it. So I do want to emphasize, even though there is this individual in custody, allegedly who planted those devices that night, we’re still going to have a lot of questions. Are there ties between him and, say, the individual, the woman who found the device outside the RNC right at 1240 on that day? She also was tied to law enforcement. What about the idea outside of the DNC that everyone, including the Secret Service, missed this device sitting outside, underneath a bush, in between two benches, right next to the driveway where police vehicles were in and out for hours before that device was discovered at about 105-107 on January 6th? So we’re still going to figure out how to piece this together, if there is a tie between this individual, the individuals who discovered it, or if those devices that were planted were really the ones that were found, because I have always contended that I thought those devices were planted right before they were found that day. So I’m keeping an open mind to see what the FBI is going to say at one o’clock. But this doesn’t solve the pipe bomb mystery, let’s put it that way. But it does add a very important puzzle piece to trying to figure out what exactly happened.

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