The man accused of planting pipe bombs in Washington, D.C. ahead of the January 6, 2021 Capitol protest reportedly confessed to the crime and told the FBI that he believed President Donald Trump was the rightful winner of the 2020 election — though his family’s company had lost a lawsuit they filed against the Trump administration just weeks before the bombs were placed.

Brian Cole Jr., 30, was arrested by FBI officials at his family home in Northern Virginia on Thursday before confessing to placing the devices, which did not explode, outside the Republican and Democrat national party headquarters near the U.S. Capitol on January 5, 2021, sources told MS NOW.

The two people familiar with Cole Jr.’s FBI interview also told the outlet that the suspect said he was a Trump suppor

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