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华盛顿——根据周三公开的补充起诉书，被指控在1月6日国会山骚乱前夕在共和党和民主党全国委员会总部外放置管状炸弹的男子，目前面临两项额外的重罪指控。
小布莱恩·科尔已于去年12月被捕并被控在民主党全国委员会和共和党全国委员会总部运送并放置两枚简易爆炸装置。新的起诉书新增了两项指控：试图使用大规模杀伤性武器，以及持械实施恐怖主义行为。
这些炸弹并未引爆，但联邦调查局表示它们具备实际杀伤力。该案曾搁置多年，特朗普政府官员曾将侦破此案列为最高优先级任务。
科尔对最初的指控拒不认罪，但尚未就新的起诉书接受传讯。今年1月，科尔被下令在刑事审判前继续收押。
在去年提交的法庭文件中，美国司法部表示，科尔告诉调查人员，他认为2020年大选存在舞弊，并且“总有人需要站出来发声”。调查人员称，在长达90分钟的讯问中，科尔“详细向讯问人员讲述了他制作、运输和放置管状炸弹的全过程”。
根据检察官提交的法庭文件，科尔告诉调查人员，他的目标并非2021年1月6日的国会联席会议。当时特朗普总统的支持者冲击国会大厦，中断了选举人票的计票过程，推迟了2020年选举结果的正式认证。特朗普曾 falsely声称自己赢得了2020年大选。
科尔据称告诉调查人员，他厌恶两党，并不认为自己是“政治人士”。但在2020年大选后，“当最初似乎出现了不对劲的情况”且“各类事件接连发生”时，他开始在YouTube和Reddit上密切关注相关议题，并感到“困惑不解”，法庭文件显示。
检察官指控科尔称，他在2018年至2020年间购买了制造炸弹的材料。
上个月，科尔的律师辩称，对他的指控与1月6日的事件“密不可分且显而易见地相关”。他们请求法官驳回对科尔的刑事指控，理由是他受到特朗普对1月6日骚乱参与者的全面赦免的保护。
美国司法部对此予以反驳，辩称科尔的行为不在赦免范围之内。
检察官指出，总统的赦免公告明确将救济范围限定在“因1月6日国会大厦内或附近事件被定罪”或“面临相关指控”的个人。
“2025年1月20日，被告不属于上述任何一类，因此该公告与本案无关，”司法部写道。
司法部补充称，特朗普在就职日2025年1月20日发布赦免令时，“执法部门尚未确认被告身份，更未对其提出指控或定罪，管状炸弹调查仍在正常推进”。
美国地区法官阿米尔·阿里尚未安排听证会审议科尔的动议，但一场案件情况听证会已定于4月21日举行。
司法部谈被控放置华盛顿特区炸弹的男子
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司法部称被控放置华盛顿特区管状炸弹的男子承认2021年密谋
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Brian Cole Jr., D.C. pipe bomb suspect, hit with 2 new charges
April 15, 2026 11:39 AM EDT / CBS News
Washington— The man accused of planting pipe bombs outside of the Republican and Democratic National Committee headquarters on the eve of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot now faces two additional felony charges, according to a superseding indictment made public Wednesday.
Brian Cole Jr. was arrested and charged in December with transporting and planting the two IEDs at the DNC and RNC headquarters. The new indictment adds charges of attempting to use weapons of mass destruction and committing an act of terrorism while armed.
The bombs did not detonate, but the FBI has said they were viable. The case had gone cold for years, and Trump administration officials described solving it as a top priority.
Cole pleaded not guilty to the initial charges against him but has not been arraigned on the new indictment. In January, Cole was ordered to be detained in jail in the run-up to his criminal trial.
In court filings last year, the Justice Department said that Cole told investigators that he believed that the 2020 election had been tampered with and that “someone needs to speak up.” Over the course of a 90-minute interview, investigators said, he “walked the interviewing agents in detail through his construction, transportation, and planting of the pipe bombs.”
According to the court documents from prosecutors, Cole told investigators that he wasn’t targeting the joint session of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021. Supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol and interrupted the counting of the electoral votes, delaying the official validation of the 2020 election results. Mr. Trump has falsely claimed that he won the 2020 election.
Cole allegedly told investigators that he disliked both political parties and didn’t consider himself a “political person.” But after the 2020 election, “when it first seemed like something was wrong” and “stuff started happening,” he began following the issue closely on YouTube and Reddit and felt “bewildered,” the court documents said.
Prosecutors alleged Cole told them that he bought the bomb-making materials between 2018 and 2020.
Last month, Cole’s lawyers argued that the charges against him are “inextricably and demonstrably tethered” to the events of Jan. 6. They asked a judge to dismiss the criminal charges against him on the grounds that he is covered by Mr. Trump’s sweeping pardons of Jan. 6 rioters.
The Justice Department pushed back on the claims, arguing that Cole’s actions were not covered by the pardons.
Prosecutors wrote that the president’s proclamation expressly limited relief to individuals who had been “convicted of” or had a “pending indictment” for offenses related to the events at or near the Capitol on Jan. 6.
“On January 20, 2025, the defendant belonged to neither category, and so the proclamation has no bearing on this case,” the Justice Department wrote.
The Justice Department added that when Mr. Trump issued the pardons on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, 2025, “law enforcement had not identified the defendant, much less charged or convicted him, and the pipe bombs investigation proceeded unabated.”
U.S. District Judge Amir Ali has not scheduled a hearing to hear Cole’s motion, but a status hearing is scheduled for April 21.
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