DC pipe bomb suspect Brian Cole Jr.’s possible motive revealed: ‘Something just snapped’

DC pipe-bomb suspect Brian Cole Jr. told authorities he wanted to “speak up” for people who believed the 2020 election was stolen and target the country’s political parties for being “in charge” after his arrest earlier this month, prosecutors said Sunday.

Cole, 30, told agents that “something just snapped” in him before he allegedly placed two pipe bombs by the Republican and Democratic National Committee headquarters on the eve of the Jan. 6 riots, according to a newly filed Justice Department memo.

He added that if people “feel that, you know, something as important as voting in the federal election is being tampered with, is being, you know, being — you know, relegated null and void, then, like, someone needs to speak up, right? Someone up top. You know, just to, just to at the very least calm things down,” the memo said.

Cole added that “something just snapped” in him after “watching everything, just everything getting worse,” and that he wanted to do something “to the parties” because “they were in charge.”

When asked why he placed the bombs at the RNC and DNC, Cole responded with “I really don’t like either party at this point.”

Cole was arrested at his home on Dec. 4  in Woodbridge, Virginia, after a multi-agency effort and charged with the use of an explosive device and attempted malicious destruction by means of explosive materials.

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With Post wires