Gavin Newsom raised a pertinent question about the arrest of the man authorities say placed pipe bombs near the Capitol on the eve of the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The California Democrat, pointing to Donald Trump’s mass pardons and commutations of Jan. 6 rioters’ sentences, wondered if the suspect, 30-year-old Brian Cole Jr. of Woodbridge, Virginia, would be able to successfully claim that his prosecution is moot.

“Anyone want to tell KA$H about this?” Newsom’s press office wrote Thursday on X, linking to the president’s January executive order after Patel proudly talked about the pipe bombing suspect’s arrest and the seriousness of attacking the Capitol.

“When you attack American citizens, when you attack our institutions of legislation, when you attack our nation’s Capitol, you attack th

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