Viva, as always, you’re a fucking idiot. The government asked for independent counsel to explain the conflict to Cole so he can actually understand it and decide whether to waive it, not to remove his attorneys. If he waives the conflict after speaking to independent counsel, they will get to stay on and completely wreck Cole's life with this ridiculous defense. What’s especially telling is that the defense wanted two lawyers already on their own defense team to give him that “independent” advice. The court said no and directed the Federal Public Defender’s office to appoint fully independent counsel. Even the court pointed out how questionable this was. The defense had already told the court that Cole “is prepared to waive today” any conflict, in a filing signed by the entire defense team. So you’ve already announced that he’s ready to waive it, but now you want your own lawyers to supposedly give him independent advice about whether he should? What happened to your caring about a poor little autistic black manchild being coerced into something??? While you’re doing this whole investigation, are you going to bring up the bombshell obvious possibility that Steve Baker doesn’t want to get hit with a massive defamation judgment for accusing a lady of being a domestic fucking terrorist? Three of Cole’s lawyers also represent Baker being sued for defamation on this. These lawyers may be telling Cole to pursue this ridiculous defense because it helps Baker win the defamation case, which apparently even the court can see, and which will result in Cole being found guilty and receiving a life sentence. Who is funding the defense, is it perhaps Baker?

Within hours of Brian Cole Jr.'s arrest on December 4, 2025, the counter-story started running online. Just like it did in the Tyler Robinson case and just like Robinson, Cole was not started as an organic grassroots campaign. It was kicked off by some of the largest accounts on the right. The afternoon of the arrest of Cole, Alex Jones posted the DOJ press conference under the header "I Don't Buy This At All!" That evening, former FBI agent Kyle Seraphin described Cole as autistic and suggested any confession was unreliable. The "autistic" framing traces back one remark made by his grandmother to the New York Post: "almost autistic-like." Notice she never actually said he was autistic. By the next evening, Jones had introduced the word that would define the campaign: "patsy." The official diagnosis didn’t come until weeks later and to date has not been released for review to the prosecutors. About seven figures supply nearly every claim: Steve Baker, Seraphin, Jones and Infowars, Candace Owens, Viva Frei, Owen Shroyer and Steve Friend. A middle tier of accounts turns those claims into slogans, and a few hundred smaller accounts repost and reply in bulk. That’s the pattern. I have no proof of coordination. I can only trace how claims and information spreads. Over ten months the central claim hurled against the FBI has shifted many times. It started as "autistic," to "patsy," to phone pings that supposedly placed him outside the area, to a Capitol Police officer as the "real" bomber, to a law-enforcement phone "within 3 meters" of both bomb sites. Then came CCTV footage allegedly showing a blurry picture of some guy that was supposedly Cole "a mile away," a grey Subaru, a claim that he voted for Trump twice, and finally a revived theory that the bomber was a woman. According to the court filings, which anyone can read, the government alleges Cole's phone made several data connections consistent with being near the RNC and DNC that night. The Subaru appears in public discovery filings as one lead among many but they don’t mention that. In fact they take an ordinary investigation fact and make its presence evidence of a cover up. The woman was exonerated and is suing for defamation. But this has slowly moved from a steady slow drip of claims, none of which disprove the confession or the additional evidence collected in this case into what is now a pressure campaign in the court of public opinion to release him. I am not saying Cole is guilty. He has not had a trial yet. I am saying there is more than enough information to hold him for trial. The newest phase is pressure. A "Bongino Block Party," campaign launched by Shroyer, celebrating getting blocked by former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, and about 60 accounts flooded him with "Why did you frame Brian Cole Jr.?" Other posts urged FBI Washington Field Office agents to become whistleblowers, and one publicly named the lead case agent. Most troubling for me are the autism allegations and how they spread before there was ever an official diagnosis. And still ceded as fact when the government has filed a motion to get access to the diagnosis which almost a year later it still doesn’t have. The defense psychologist says he evaluated Cole on December 16 and 19, while the government says the court order allowing the evaluations wasn't requested until December 17. Meanwhile, Tucker Carlson's September episode stated definitively that Cole "has autism." Marjorie Taylor Greene called him "an innocent autistic black man." Former FBI agent Steve Friend accused Dan Bongino of having "knowingly jammed up an innocent autistic man." A relative's hedge became the exact defense in this case but only after a network of influencers confidently injected it into the public opinion. I don’t know about everyone else but the only thing I keep trying to figure out is why?