"But it’s becoming increasingly hard not to think that the alleged pipe bomber’s affinities — for Trump and the 2020 Big Lie — may be playing a part in the Trump administration acting very much out of character by being … subdued about the case."

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"some touted by people who became top FBI officials in the Trump II presidency. So it was more than a little awkward when the Trump Justice Department finally announced an arrest in the case.

That may explain in part why after initially hailing the arrest, things have been rather muted from the White House and Justice Department."

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"It’s been a reasonable inference for more than five years now that whoever planted the pipe bombs at both national party headquarters on the eve of Congress’ certification of the 2020 presidential election was probably not someone who was excited that Joe Biden had won.

As the case languished, however, it bizarrely became the subject of a host of right-wing cover-up conspiracies —"

~ David Kurtz

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morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.…

The Dog That Hasn’t Barked in the D.C. Pipe Bomber Case

INSIDE: Tina Peters ... James Boasberg ... Rob Reiner

^{David Kurtz (Morning Memo)}

"The suspect was not a shadowy deep-state Democratic operative. He was not a saboteur planted inside MAGA. He was a man radicalized by the very Trumpian lies that too many people in the public sphere have trafficked with glee and no accountability."

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Dan Shuster comments on the … interesting … media silence after it turns out that the person planting pipe bombs in DC on Jan. 6 was a MAGA believer in the lie that the 2020 election had been stolen:

"If the suspect had been anything other than a believer in 'Stop the Steal,' every cable news outlet, every Sunday talk show, and every social media feed would have exploded in breathless coverage."

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A Tale of Two Bombs And A Thousand MAGA Lies

The January 5 pipe bomb case shatters MAGA conspiracies and raises urgent questions about trust, accountability, and Dan Bongino’s role at the FBI.

^{David Shuster (Blue Amp Media)}