{"id":5109,"date":"2026-07-07T04:36:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T04:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=5109"},"modified":"2026-07-07T04:36:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T04:36:04","slug":"federal-judge-says-trumps-broad-jan-6-pardon-doesnt-apply-to-dc-pipe-bomb-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=5109","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge says Trump\u2019s broad Jan. 6 pardon doesn\u2019t apply to DC pipe bomb suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>\n            A federal judge ruled Monday that President Donald Trump\u2019s expansive pardon of January 6 rioters does not apply to a Virginia man accused of planting two pipe bombs in Washington, DC, the night before the 2021 US Capitol insurrection.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=5107\">Trump mused about cutting troops in Europe by a third to send a message to NATO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            Prosecutors say Brian Cole Jr. placed bombs near the Republican and Democratic national committees\u2019 headquarters on the night of January 5, 2021. His attorneys argued in March that Cole should be covered by Trump\u2019s pardon because the alleged conduct is \u201cis so inextricably and demonstrably tethered to\u201d the events at the Capitol on January 6.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            On his first day back in office last year, Trump issued a pardon to nearly every person who was convicted of attacking the US Capitol, marking the end of a sweeping four-year Justice Department probe.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            In a three-page order, US District Judge Amir H. Ali, an appointee of President Joe Biden, rejected Cole\u2019s argument that he should be included in that pardon.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cEven assuming that the conduct Cole is charged with is \u2018related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021,\u2019 the pardon is expressly limited to people who had been \u2018convicted of offenses\u2019 related to those events,\u201d Ali wrote. \u201cCole had not been convicted of the conduct at issue when the President issued the pardon; indeed, he was not charged until many months after the President\u2019s proclamation.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Cole is due back in court Wednesday for a status hearing.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            When Cole\u2019s lawyers asked the court in March to dismiss the case against him, a White House official disputed the defense team\u2019s argument.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=5099\">Graham Platner says he is reflecting on \u2018best path forward\u2019 as pressure mounts to exit Maine Senate race<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cThe pipe bombs were placed on Jan 5. The pardon pertained to events at or near capitol on January 6 and clearly does not cover this scenario,\u201d the official said in a statement to CNN at the time.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The FBI arrested Cole in December at his home, where he lived with his parents. He pleaded not guilty in January to federal charges of transporting and attempting to use explosives.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The FBI alleges that Cole compiled bomb-making supplies for months before leaving the viable explosive devices outside of the political offices.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            During interviews with the FBI, Cole told investigators that he believed the 2020 election was stolen, CNN previously reported. Investigators also said they linked Cole\u2019s phone data to cell towers around Washington, DC\u2019s Capitol Hill neighborhood. The calls and texts he made matched security footage time stamps that show how the bomber moved the evening he planted the devices, they said.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n<em>CNN\u2019s Evan Perez, Hannah Rabinowitz, Holmes Lybrand and Dugald McConnell contributed to this report.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=5097\">Artemis II astronaut Jeremy Hansen announces space agency retirement weeks after historic moon mission<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge ruled Monday that President Donald Trump\u2019s expansive pardon of January 6 rioters does not apply to a Virginia man accused of planting two pipe bombs in Washington, DC, the night before the 2021 US Capitol insurrection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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