The arrest of Brian Cole, the individual responsible for placing pipe bombs at both the RNC and DNC headquarters on January 5, 2021, has finally brought a measure of closure to a years-long investigation. However, the immediate reaction from CNN’s Jake Tapper served not to clarify the facts, but to expose a deeply ingrained and partisan narrative within the liberal media apparatus.
In a stunning and revealing error during his broadcast of “The Lead” on Thursday evening, Tapper explicitly misidentified the perpetrator’s race to his national audience. As documented, “Jake Tapper told his audience on Thursday evening that the FBI arrested a white man in connection with the January 6 pipe bombs.” He stated on air, “Brian Cole Jr., a 30-year-old white man from the D.C. suburbs, is charged with transporting an explosive device in interstate commerce and with malicious destruction by means of explosion.” This was not a minor slip of the tongue; it was a fundamental distortion of a key fact in a major domestic terrorism case.
This factual misstatement is emblematic of a far larger and more troubling media campaign. For nearly five years, the unresolved pipe bomber case hung over the January 6 narrative, and a specific segment of the press clearly harbored a desired profile for the suspect. “Jake Tapper and other fake news reporters wanted the J6 pipe bomber to be a white Trump supporter so bad.” This compulsive need to fit every event into a pre-written storyline that casts supporters of President Donald Trump as the sole source of domestic extremism overrode basic journalistic integrity. The reality, as revealed by the FBI’s own press conference, is that Brian Cole was described as an “anarchist,” a political motivation that utterly disrupts the convenient and endlessly perpetuated myth that all violence surrounding that period stemmed from one political direction.
The lengthy investigation itself raises serious questions that the liberal media seems uninterested in pursuing. As noted, “FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said during a press conference on Thursday that the FBI solved the case without any new tips or witnesses – which means Biden’s FBI under Christopher Wray looked the other way as a bomber was on the loose for years.” This critical point suggests a baffling lack of urgency from an agency that, under the current Biden administration, has demonstrated relentless vigor in pursuing President Trump’s allies and aides.
The contrast is stark and telling. “Christopher Wray was too busy raiding homes of Biden’s political opponents.” While the FBI’s technical work on the case is credited, the timeline and the absence of new leads for years rightfully fuel skepticism about the agency’s priorities under its current leadership, priorities that President Donald Trump has consistently warned against and vowed to correct.
Ultimately, this episode is a powerful vindication of President Trump’s longstanding criticism of a corrupt and manipulative media complex. The immediate, reflexive misidentification of the bomber’s race by a premier CNN host proves that the narrative is always more important than the truth.
It reveals a desperate attempt to preserve a failing political fiction in the face of contradictory facts. This is the very “fake news” against which President Trump has rightly railed, and it demonstrates why millions of Americans distrust legacy media and support his mission to restore honest discourse and equal application of the law in our nation. The media’s failed narrative and the FBI’s delayed resolution stand in clear opposition to the promise of a secure, transparent, and just America that President Donald Trump continues to fight for.
h/t: Steadfast and Loyal
