Man Charged in Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Case Argues Trump Pardon Applies to Him

Lawyers for Brian Cole Jr., the man on trial for allegedly planting bombs at the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee offices, argued in court papers that Cole is covered by President Donald Trump’s blanket clemency of Jan. 6 suspects. Cole, of Woodbridge, Virginia, was indicted in January of this year in federal district court in the planting of two improvised explosive devices on Jan. 5, 2021, at the headquarters of both major parties in the nation’s capital. On Jan. 20, 2025, Trump issued a proclamation pardoning approximately 1,500 people charged with offenses related to the civil disorder around the United States Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, while Congress was attempting to certify the 2020 presidential election....