U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro rebuffed Sen. Mark Warner’s (D-Va.) comments about the arrest of a man connected to pipe bombs planted outside the Republican and Democratic party offices in Washington in 2021, calling the lawmaker’s analysis “dumb.”
“Maybe he should talk about the fact that the Biden administration had this [investigation],” Pirro said on “The Ingraham Angle” on Fox News. “You had four years to solve it, and you didn’t. So, I don’t want to hear this nonsense from the Democrats.”
“Dumb, dumb,” Pirro later told host Laura Ingraham, who echoed her former colleague in calling the Virginia Democrat’s remarks “stupid.”
Pirro defended the Trump administration for prioritizing its probe of the pipe bomb case, knocking the Department of Justice (DOJ) under former President Biden for pushing it to the side.
“And Laura, the well-being of any society depends upon whether or not people feel safe,” she said. “And people feel safe when we do and we will make the criminal accountable, and that’s what we did.”
The attorney added, “No one else did that. So don’t allow politics to enter into this, other than if [Warner] wants to talk about Biden.”
Warner said “it’s a little rich” that the DOJ said the country was safer following the arrest of 30-year-old Brian Cole, a Virginia man charged in connection with the pipe bombs, after President Trump pardoned nearly all rioters convicted or charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. Authorities had found the pipe bombs the night before, on Jan. 5.
“How much earlier could we have caught this guy if resources hadn’t been diverted?” Warner said in an appearance on MS NOW, formerly MSNBC. “And I hope it would also remind folks that on Jan. 6 — I was here at the Capitol on Jan. 6. It was an ugly, awful day. And this administration and this president basically pardoned all the perpetrators.”
He added that the Trump administration “picking and choosing of facts” also makes him “little bit crazy.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel during a press conference Thursday said they did not receive any new tips in the case ahead of the arrest. Like Pirro, the duo said they prioritized the investigation and cast blame on the Biden administration for its lack of progress on finding the suspect.
Patel said the FBI “dove into more than 3 million lines of data to come up with this suspect,” adding that experts “reexamined every piece of evidence, sifted through all the data, something that the prior administration refused and failed to do.”
Investigators looked at forensic evidence, including various parts bought to make the pipe bombs between October 2019 and November 2020. Cell phone data showed that Cole’s device was connected to towers near the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee offices on Jan. 5, according to the criminal complaint. The explosives sat for around 25 hours before they were found and quickly disabled.
“Fortunately, these bombs did not explode, although they certainly could have. But make no mistake, the alleged pipe bomber did terrorize our community,” Darren Cox, the assistant director in charge of the Washington Field Office, said Thursday.
On Ingraham’s show, Pirro vowed that the DOJ is “going to take this case across the finish line.”
“This is solid, Laura, as solid as they get,” she added.
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