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Steve Baker estimates only 80 to 100 people committed any actual violence on January 6th out of hundreds of thousands present.
Baker says approximately 41,000 hours of Capitol security video exists from January 6th, more of which he has reviewed than any other journalist.
Baker estimates between 400,000 and 600,000 people were at the Capitol on January 6th, far more than the press-reported figure of 30,000.
FBI agents tasked to the investigation were told the pipe bomb devices were inert, and bomb experts said they matched standard training devices.
The FBI told a congressional committee it had 30,000 video files of the pipe bomber but released only about 30 seconds of footage publicly.
Intelligence community gait-recognition analysis produced a 94% software match and 98% human expert match between the hooded bomber and Capitol Police officer Shauni Kerkhoff.
Brick measurements in the alley where the bomber walked indicate the hooded figure wore a size 9 to 9.5 Nike Air Max; Brian Cole Jr. wears a size 12.
Baker notes that autistic individuals statistically give the highest rate of false confessions to law enforcement of any demographic group.
FBI officials including Deputy Director Dan Bongino called Baker's bosses at The Blaze five times attempting to get him fired over his pipe bomb reporting.
Five days after Baker publicly named Shauni Kirkhoff as the suspected bomber, the FBI placed a surveillance team on Brian Cole Jr.'s house for the first time in five years.
A senior HSI agent who was investigating the pipe bomb case and had briefed a team on his plan to pursue it was found dead in his condo the day before Thanksgiving, ruled a possible suicide but disbelieved by colleagues.
The HSI agent's body was cremated on December 19th, three weeks after his death and before any medical examiner's report or official cause of death was issued.
According to Baker, Shauni Kirkhoff failed a 4-hour FBI polygraph on the night before his story was published and was admonished by the examiner for giving rehearsed answers.
Of 2,000 uniformed Capitol Police officers, fewer than 250 were on duty on January 6th despite standing department policy requiring all-hands coverage on First Amendment protest days.
Baker says Capitol Police frontline officers had their helmets collected and taken away two weeks before January 6th, leaving them unprotected on the day.
Brian Cole Jr. wears a size 12 shoe; the bomber wore a 9 to 9.5. Cole walks with a distinctive duck-footed autism-associated gait; the bomber walks pigeon-toed with the circumduction pattern of a right-leg injury. He has never owned a watch. He gave his confession without an attorney present after two hours of interrogation.
The true pattern across January 6th, the Las Vegas shooting, failed foreign policy, and economic mismanagement is not partisan gridlock but secret bipartisan consensus. The leaders of both parties share the same vision, act in agreement with each other, and close ranks whenever someone starts asking inconvenient questions.
January 6th was engineered by elements of the Department of Defense, Capitol Police, and CIA to permanently destroy Trump's political career — not the FBI. Baker says a Tier 1 special operator watching his footage pointed out the same crowd-manipulation tactics used to start color revolutions overseas.
Plainclothes special operators from Task Force Orange — the most elite, non-existent unit in the US military — were embedded in the January 6th crowd on active duty orders. Newsweek confirmed this with the headline 'Secret Commandos with Shoot-to-Kill Orders at January 6th' — then the reporter later disavowed his own story.
The January 6th pipe bomb devices were inert training props — not functional weapons. FBI agents assigned to the case were told by leadership the devices were inert, bomb experts who reviewed the FBI's own forensic report confirmed they matched training devices, and one whistleblower said they 'would have been bombs if they had been bombs.'
The DOJ initially threatened to charge Baker with interstate racketeering because he licensed his J6 videos to HBO and the New York Times. After a press offensive, they went silent for 20 months before arresting him on four misdemeanors — and the judge used the sentencing hearing to attack Baker's journalism rather than anything he did at the Capitol.
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris was inside the DNC when the pipe bomb was found 10 feet away — yet it took a full year before Politico revealed she was even there. Secret Service agents sat in their SUVs finishing their sandwiches for two and a half minutes after being informed of the device, suggesting they were told it was a training exercise.
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino called Baker's bosses at The Blaze multiple times to get him fired over his pipe bomb reporting — the same Bongino who had praised Baker's J6 videos just months earlier. Baker says Bongino also promised to personally fund the defamation lawsuit against Baker and told Massie he wouldn't accept evidence Baker had gathered.
Baker investigated a backpack-sized directed energy 'agitation weapon' used by Task Force Orange that a retired 3-star SOCOM general confirmed: 'With it we can stop your heart, we can make you shit your pants.' Three people died of heart attacks within 50 yards of each other at the Capitol — something Baker says has never happened at any event in history.
The morning after Baker's story naming Kirkhoff as the suspected bomber was published, the CIA's chief public affairs officer called him from home to correct her job description — but crucially did not deny she was the bomber. She told Baker not to let the correction 'take away from the veracity of your story.'
An intelligence community expert with 30 years' experience in gait-recognition technology ran Baker's bomber footage against Shauni Kerkhoff's Capitol Police and soccer footage, returning a 94% software match and a 98% human expert match. Kerkhoff had applied to the CIA before January 6th and is now a CIA employee.
Of the hundreds of thousands present on January 6th, only 80 to 100 people committed any violence at all. The media created a false impression of mass violence by showing the same narrow battle-scene footage from different angles on repeat for five years.
After thousands of hours reviewing pipe bomber footage, Baker's team spotted a smartwatch flashing on the bomber's wrist and identified at least five instances of the bomber talking into it. Brian Cole Jr. has never owned a watch of any kind — let alone a smartwatch — making his confession physically incompatible with the evidence.
A senior 19-year HSI agent who had been briefed on Baker's pipe bomb evidence and was planning to formally investigate was found dead in his Fairfax County condo the day before Thanksgiving. His body was cremated three weeks later before any medical examiner report was issued. A new condo owner told Baker he'd been told the previous occupant 'was murdered.'
Two Capitol Police undercover counter-surveillance officers deployed to find pipe bombs went directly and exclusively to the only two locations where the hooded bomber had sat down the night before — without checking anywhere else. This is only possible if the same people who placed the devices were guiding the search.
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