Steve Baker on the CIA, FBI, and the January 6 Pipe Bomb Case
A long interview arguing that January 6 was staged by parts of the government, with a deep dive into the unsolved Capitol Hill pipe bomb case — treat it as a contested claim, not settled fact.
- The core argument: January 6 was not a real insurrection but a setup by elements of the CIA, the Pentagon, and Capitol Police to end Trump's political career.
- The two "pipe bombs" outside the party headquarters were reportedly inert training devices the FBI knew were harmless from day one, and acted as a diversion to pull already-thin police away from the Capitol.
- The person who planted them seemed to know Capitol Police secrets — a hidden gate and the exact blind spots in the security cameras — pointing away from an ordinary suspect.
- The man later arrested and charged, a young autistic Black man, supposedly confessed, but details of that confession don't match the video, and autistic people give false confessions at high rates.
- These claims are unproven and now the subject of a lawsuit against Baker; the interview repeatedly stresses it is not endorsing them.
Outlook: The pipe bomb case and Baker's naming of a suspect are headed to court, so more of the disputed evidence may surface there, but no official answer is close.