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by dragonwriter 1647 days ago
Coffman's truck was, and the DNC and RNC where the bombs were placed are, all near the Capitol.
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Ok. But no confirmed bombs on the capital grounds or in the capital and no confirmed connection between those bombs and the protesters?
How so? Coffman was one of the "protesters."

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/alabama-man-pleads-guilty-fir...

Coffman admitted in the plea agreement that he exited the pickup truck at 9:20 a.m. and walked in the direction of the U.S. Capitol Building, and towards a rally near the National Mall. Inside the pickup truck were several loaded firearms within arms-reach of the driver’s seat, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, large-capacity ammunition feeding devices, a crossbow with bolts, machetes, camouflage smoke devices, a stun gun and a cooler containing 11 mason jars filled with ignitable ingredients for Molotov cocktail incendiary weapons. Coffman also carried a loaded handgun and a loaded revolver as he walked around the area that day. A search of Coffman’s residence in Alabama later that month led to the discovery of 12 additional mason jars containing ignitable substances, each constituting the component parts of Molotov cocktails.

> in his truck

Nothing confirmed from Coffman at the protest on Capitol grounds though?

Not sure what you're asking or why.

He was one of the rest of the pro-Trump crowd that you have been calling "protesters." He heeded the call of Trump.

You sound to me a bit like Matt Gaetz saying it was Antifa storming the capitol.

Its very different story if there were bombs brought into the capitol. That would start looking more like an insurrection instead of a protest.

However there were none.

It's really not important to the story either way.

The mob stormed Congress.

Their evident motive was to stop the electoral certification of the president-elect and keep in power an unelected president.

The way you're moving goalposts in this thread, I’m sure if actual bombs were found to have been brought into the Capitol, you would retreat to the “statistically insignificant number” argument you've already used to dismiss them.