Trump administration plays up pipe bomb suspect’s arrest. Jan. 6 violence goes unmentioned

The Associated Press ^ | December 6, 2025 | BY ALANNA DURKIN RICHER AND ERIC TUCKER

[Oldeconomybuyer]

WASHINGTON (AP) — After the arrest of a man charged with placing two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties on Jan. 5, 2021, the warning from the Trump administration was clear: If you come to the nation’s capital to attack citizens and institutions of democracy, you will be held accountable.

Yet Justice Department leaders who announced the arrest were silent about the violence that had taken place when supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol and clashed with police one day after those bombs were discovered.

It was the latest example of the Trump’s administration’s to rewrite the history of the riot, through pardons and the firings of lawyers who prosecuted the participants of the siege, and of the disconnect for a government that prides itself for cracking down on violent crime and supporting law enforcement but has papered over the brutality of the Jan. 6 attacks on police officers.

“The administration has ignored and attempted to whitewash the violence committed by rioters on Jan. 6 because they were the president’s supporters. They were trying to install him a second time against the will of the voters in 2020,” said Michael Romano, who prosecuted the rioters before leaving the Justice Department this year. “And it feels like the effort to ignore that is purely transactional.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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[Jim W N]

Looks like ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, ERIC TUCKER and The Associated Press believe their own lies...

But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

2 Tim. 3:13.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

I’m sure the President thinks that the violence triggered by law enforcement at the Capitol on 01/06 has been adequately documented!

[FoxInSocks]

Because we’ve all heard about the January 6th trespassing and vandalism nonstop over the last five years.

But all those hyping the “rioters” never once asked why the FIB refused to track down this one guy over those same five years.

[falcon99]

These two “writers” are nothing but butt-hurt propagandists from the equally butt-hurt AP. The AP does’t like when someone calls them out for their propaganda and takes away their access to everything the President does. The AP has become a worthless propaganda machine for the Left.

[Midwesterner53]

I do blame the Trump admin for not prosecuting the capitol cop who murdered Ashli Babbitt.

[virgil]

Don’t be hasty AP. Somehow, I don’t think Trump is done with examining Jan 6. There’s going to be more revealed, more shoes to drop.

[roving]

This guy would confess to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

[roving]

Or the woman that was beat to death by the policewoman in the tunnel.

[Bullish]

Hey AP, you’re talking about the J6 violence caused and carried out by FBI plants which you refuse to acknowedge, you fake news frauds.

[MrRelevant]

Lets talk….There was no violence until the Capitol Police started launching tear gas behind the crowds. Even then the most heinous offender was a Capitol Police officer who murdered an innocent bystander.

[Not A Snowbird]

Jan 6th has been mentioned ad nauseam.

[so_real]

"The administration has ignored and attempted to whitewash the violence committed by rioters on Jan. 6 because they were the president’s supporters."

I look forward to the truth being revealed regarding this lie. I pray Bondi's DOJ gets on it quickly. Only a month left before the January 6 Committee that withheld exculpatory evidence gets away with their crimes because the statute of limitations runs out. Are you watching, Trump? Don't let this slip past the goalie.

[MileHi]

Ass Press hatchet job. What else is new.

[Dan in Wichita]

The AP has become a worthless propaganda machine for the Left.

Worthless? Not hardly. In fact, the AP is one of the most valuable propaganda machines for the Left because they feed 'news' to hundreds, if not thousands of local news outlets.

In my community, local news stations and the largest newspaper get feeds from the AP for national/international news and are repeated verbatim. Anything political definitely has a leftwing bias, easily spotted by FReepers, but swallowed up as fact by everyone else, including the precious Indies.

[BenLurkin]

Probably because one event was this week, and the other was five years ago.

[Kid Shelleen]

what about the guys that built the gallows on Jan 6? Have they been identified?

[avital2]

oh we’ll get to Jan 6 AP - don’t you worry. butyou’d better
buckle up.

[PalominoGuy]

....you do know that that was a miniature stick gallows and the photo was staged to make it look human sized ... right?

[clearcarbon]

"....you do know that that was a miniature stick gallows and the photo was staged to make it look human sized ... right?"

Was there a second gallows other than the one with the soda can wrapped in the noose coil? I'd guess the can was there to demonstrate the gallows was just a prop.