Let's talk about the Jan 6 suspect's alleged motives....
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Beau of The Fifth Column
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🗓️ 31 December 2025
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Let's talk about the Jan 6 suspect's alleged motives....
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| 0:00.0 | Well, howdy there, internet people it spell again. |
| 0:05.0 | So today, we're going to talk about the January 6's suspect's alleged motive. |
| 0:13.0 | I guess with everything that happened on the 6th, that doesn't really narrow it down, does it? |
| 0:19.0 | We're talking about Brian J. Cole, Jr., who is the 30-year-old man from |
| 0:24.3 | Virginia, who was picked up last month. Until now, the Department of Justice had avoided detailing |
| 0:30.9 | what they believe the suspect's motive was. But now in a filing, we get a pretty good |
| 0:36.8 | glimpse, mostly through statements he allegedly gave to DOJ. |
| 0:42.6 | While the filing says he admitted to leaving the devices at the RNC and DNC, it also said he, quote, |
| 0:51.4 | Denied that his actions were directed toward Congress or related to the proceedings scheduled to take place on January 6th. |
| 0:59.0 | The filing also states, quote, |
| 1:02.0 | He claimed that when he learned that the devices did not detonate, he was pretty relieved, |
| 1:08.0 | and asserted that he placed the devices at night because he did not |
| 1:12.2 | want to kill people. |
| 1:15.2 | Ever since this happened, there was speculation about the motive and political affiliation |
| 1:20.3 | of the suspect. |
| 1:22.2 | The filing from Trump's DOJ shed quite a bit of light on that when it said, quote, the defendant has never really been |
| 1:30.9 | an openly political person and does not discuss politics often with his family to avoid conflict. |
| 1:38.6 | According to the defendant, no one knows his political views, including his family. |
| 1:45.3 | The defendant stated that he does not align politically with his family members |
| 1:49.3 | and did not tell them that he was going to a protest in support of then-President Trump. |
| 1:56.2 | Later in the interview, the defendant explained that after the 2020 election, when it first seemed like |
| 2:02.9 | something was wrong, and stuff started happening, he began following the issue closely on |
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