The Antifa involvement Jan. 6 question is now unavoidable after Julie Kelly told Steve Bannon that a newly identified pipe bomb suspect may have ties to Antifa. This possibility directly challenges the political storyline pushed since 2021 and could shift how the entire Jan. 6 event is understood.
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This clip aired on WarRoom’s morning show on December 4, 2025. Transcript begins below (lightly edited for clarity; may contain minor errors).
JULIE KELLY: We Know That ANTIFA Was on The Ground on Jan. 6. That’s A Fact.
STEVE BANNON (HOST): Julie Kelly joins us by phone for a quick hit. Julie, you have bird dogged the pipe bomber for five years. You have been good guidance about what not to chase, what to focus on. Press conference today at 1 o’clock, Kash and Dan Bongino. Your thoughts, ma’am.
JULIE KELLY (GUEST): This is a huge development that, of course, your audience and all of us have been waiting for. This was an investigation that was very aggressively pursued early on under Chris Wray’s FBI. And then we are told towards February, March of 2021, it just went away. And maybe we will find out exactly why, despite troves of evidence, interviews, pursuit of what this individual on January 5th was wearing, trying to track down where those items were purchased. Then all of a sudden it just went stone cold.
As you know, Kash and Dan made this a priority. They have devoted new resources, new investigative tools to this cold case. And it appears a man from Virginia, NBC News is reporting his name as Brian Cole, could be tied to Antifa. Another media outlet is reporting. I cannot confirm that independently. However, this appears to be the individual who is seen on that surveillance video from the evening of January 5th, 2021 between 7.30 and 8.30 on Capitol Hill, allegedly planting these really what they were dummy devices outside the headquarters of both the Republican National Committee and the Democrats.
STEVE BANNON (HOST): Julie, Julie, Julie, hang on. Hang on. Julie, the whole narrative that we have been fed, the whole reason Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon went to prison was that Antifa and these people had nothing to do with J6. This was all, this was all Donald Trump, Donald Trump’s people. What are you telling me, there may be a, the guy may be an anarchist, it might be, though you have not confirmed, it might be associated with Antifa, ma’am.
JULIE KELLY (GUEST): I mean, look, we know that Antifa was there. I have been told for years by J6ers who were on the ground that they saw Antifa. We can see video of people dressed in that black bloc garb who were tied to Antifa. We know that there were confrontations between Antifa and the Proud Boys a few days before, the evening before. Also, we have on film, on recording, undercover, plain clothes D.C. police officers specifically saying that they were there to look for Antifa.
So if this individual, and again, I cannot confirm this with my sources independently, that this is an Antifa type or certainly not a MAGA supporter. This blows a huge hole in the early narrative that someone aligned with Donald Trump and the MAGA movement tried to blow up the headquarters of the RNC and DNC where Kamala Harris was, do not forget, beginning around 11.30 a.m. on January 6th of 2021. So this is, you know, as you can tell, a story.
STEVE BANNON (HOST): Julie, Julie. Dan Bongino, Dan Bongino turned and Kash overturned the team, put a new team in there six weeks ago. Voila. We have now a suspect in custody after what, five years. Do you believe that the FBI people that were working on this were just that incompetent, or was this an act of commission to basically shut down this investigation knowing that it was not a MAGA supporter and someone that was a Donald Trump true blood, ma’am.
JULIE KELLY (GUEST): Well, certainly that is going to be the suspicion. It is that the Wray FBI quickly found out that this individual seen on the evening of January 5th was not a MAGA supporter, was tied to a leftist movement such as Antifa, and therefore, in the early stages, right, so the spring of 2021, as they are impeaching Donald Trump over the so called insurrection, as they are solidifying their narrative and preventing people from expressing any skepticism about what happened that day. Just imagine if they had arrested an Antifa tied individual in March or April of 2021 for planting these pipe bombs. Huge. It would have destroyed the narrative early on.
Now, again, I cannot confirm that. Hopefully, when we talk later this evening after this press conference, we see the indictment. We will have more details. However, that would be the political motive of the FBI and by DOJ to bury this and prevent the American people from learning the truth and the president from exonerating himself.
STEVE BANNON (HOST): By the way, great job on this. One o’clock press conference. Julie Kelly will be back at 5 o’clock tonight. One last thing. Comer in the House saw your and Mike Davis’s recommendation about Boasberg to start the process. Boasberg sent a letter back last night and said, appreciate Julie Kelly’s input. Screw you. I am not doing anything. Your thoughts, ma’am.
JULIE KELLY (GUEST): I mean, it is pretty stunning that Judge Boasberg, right now, tomorrow, has a deadline for the Trump administration and DOJ to submit to him written statements by top officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, detailing their thought process in refusing to return those two planes carrying illegal Venezuelans the night of March 15th per his so called oral order. But he will not even respond on his own to requests from Senator Grassley, Senator Johnson, Chairman Jim Jordan. He will not even bother responding in his own hand to requests for information about some of his decisions that he has made, most notably placing these what appears to be now unlawful nondisclosure orders on subpoenas seeking cell phone information and data from sitting U.S. Republican senators.
So he actually uses the excuse that he is only protecting the separation of powers. We have got a minute. Your response, ma’am.
JULIE KELLY (GUEST): Well, that is what I joked last night. People can check this out on X. Julie underscore Kelly 2. He just gave the Trump DOJ exactly what they should respond in writing to him as he pursues this contempt investigation. But I want to talk about this later, Steve, because if what was said in this letter, that they did not review the subpoenas before attaching the NDOs, that is against the law. It breaks the Stored Communications Act law that protects customers in these big tech companies from being unfairly investigated. So if that is true, that is a huge tell. And Jed Boasberg, Beryl Howell, anyone who signed those NDOs without seeing the underlying evidence broke that law.
Read more at Declassified with Julie Kelly | Substack.
