You know a deep state cover-story operation is underway when Natasha Bertrand and Evan Perez are pushing the narrative.
The narrative is laughable, claiming the 30-year-old black North Virgina resident, working for a bail bond company that supports illegal aliens, whose father previously sued the Trump administration and claims racism against their company opposition, is a Trump supporter.
Alas, that’s the story -according to FBI people familiar with the matter- and CNN are sticking to it.
(VIA CNN) – During interviews with the FBI, the suspect arrested in the pipe bomb probe told investigators that he believed the 2020 election was stolen, providing perhaps the first indication of a possible motive for the bombs placed near the DNC and RNC headquarters, people briefed on the matter told CNN. (read more)
If you are to believe this narrative and simultaneously overlay the indictment evidence, the pipe bomber had remarkable predictive abilities in purchasing the explosive components for his devices before the 2020 election took place. Somehow, according to CNN, Brian Cole Jr knew the 2020 election would be “stolen” and was prepared for the outcome.
Ridiculous, all of it.
Meanwhile, Brian Cole Jr’s grandmother, Loretta, tells an entirely different story.
(Via Daily Mail) – […] ‘He’s not politically affiliated with anything,’ the grandmother told the Daily Mail during an interview at her home in Gainesville, Virginia. ‘He has no social media contacts. He’s never online going back and forth with politics or anything like that. He says he don’t like either party.
‘He’s borderline autistic,’ she added. ‘He’s slow. He may be 30, but he’s got the mind of a 16-year-old. That’s why we’re thinking – What the hell? What’s going on?’
[…] ‘We’re terrified,’ she said. ‘They say they’ve got all this evidence. Whatever happened, we’ve still got to fight it. We have to figure out what to do.’
She said she had no idea her grandson may have been gathering parts for months to build the bombs from area businesses, stored them in the home, then allegedly tried to carry out a terrorist attack.
Cole was charged with laying explosives outside the Democratic and Republican National Committee headquarters, which did not detonate.
She said she doesn’t believe the charges.
‘This young man is very calm and quiet,’ she said. ‘He just stays to himself. Nobody bothers him because he doesn’t bother anybody.
‘He doesn’t have a girlfriend,’ she added. ‘That’s how slow he is. He’s just off in a little world on his own. He stays downstairs and he used to be with his dog all the time.’
‘That’s why everything is so messed up with us because he’s a good kid,’ she said. ‘If you knew him, you would say that he couldn’t have done it.’
‘And if he did, it was just him trying to prove a point or whatever,’ she continued. ‘He probably doesn’t even know the magnitude of what he’s done, if he did it.’
‘He’s a data entry clerk in the office and answers the phones,’ she said. ‘He’s right in the reception area up front. We have a business, so we have to put him to work. And he understands that. He’s good with data entry.’
‘All I can tell you is I love my grandson,’ she said. ‘He’s not a bad kid and he’s not affiliated with any gangs or anything like that. He’s not a political anarchist, or whatever they’re calling him. People could pull unnamed sources out of the sky. I don’t believe that. I don’t know.’ (read more)
I personally am not ascribing operational motive (or outcome) to the intents of either Kash Patel or Dan Bongino because as I have said from the outset of their selection, neither of these two men have the intellectual or discernment skillset needed to confront the corrupt institutional intent of the FBI as an organization.
Both Dan and Kash have easily identifiable ‘attack vectors’ which can be exploited by those skilled in the dark arts of manipulation. Kash’s open weakness is his ego and lust for lifestyle, Bongino’s open emotional weakness is his need to be cherished and appreciated. Both mindsets are easily influenced by those who know how to do such things.
Was/is Brian Cole Jr a patsy or was he a secretly hiding from his family a high functioning intellectual skillset capable of strategic thinking, foresight and developing covert plans. Something just doesn’t add up.
The media’s need to ascribe a pro-Trump spin to the motives and intents is typical of their fake news status, pumping toxic fuel into the minds of those who genuinely believe some form of credibility in DC reporting still exists. When CNN pushes a narrative the domestic Intelligence Community is generally behind it.
♦ The overall FBI angle is EXTREMELY SKETCHY (noted in Fox video below) as the “new FBI” investigative unit simply used Brian Cole’s cell phone and geolocation as part of the evidence against him. This cell phone geolocation and ID are exactly what all of the J6 pipe bomb researchers have been shouting about for five years.
For five years the FBI couldn’t exploit the cell phone use for identification, then suddenly they were able to exploit the cell phone use for identification. Something doesn’t add up here and is really hinky, despite Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino claiming the FBI’s investigative efforts were excellent.
LOL. So now he’s MAGA? This is so stupid.
First of all, who doesn’t think the 2020 election was stolen now? Secondly, the pipe “bombs” were there for a very specific purpose as a way to STOP the election fraud evidence from being heard at the Capitol. The pipe bombs were part… https://t.co/lAX7fn8eK5
— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) December 5, 2025
🚨 EYEWITNESS IN COURTROOM: Alleged Pipe Bomber Arraigned – Cara Castronuova Reports from D.C. 🚨
“I sat in the row in front of his family… his mother broke down sobbing when he walked in with the Marshalls. It was genuine. They believe he is innocent.”
📍 Earlier today in… pic.twitter.com/7yojxHIqXA
— LindellTV (@RealLindellTV) December 5, 2025
Is the Rot in DC beyond repair?
Yes…..😉🇺🇸
Our only solution is to shrink the size in People, Departments, and especially money. The grift is so large and so attractive that the states are disintegrating too. See CA, MN, and IL.
Without doubt….I’m convinced the gates to hell are somewhere in DC.
Undoubtedly, leading to one of the locations for an Express Lane on-ramp…
Short answer – yes. Long answer – Yeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssss!!!!!
Yes it is…and it extends to N VA and Maryland.
This MAGA story is total BS. When the Benjamin Crump/attorney/tax evasion/illegal alien/father stories start to come together, perhaps we will find out more.
I don’t think so.
As someone pointed out on Robert Gouveia’s stream today, the pipe bomb videos are from January 5, not January 6.
Implying all the J6’ers had pipe bombs in the backpacks, even ones without a backpack.
Where was his father during the pipe bomb placements?
Videos show him talking on cell phone a couple of times. To whom?
A: His FBI handler.
Total bullshit.
CNN is pathetic. They contradict themselves within a couple hours, and suggest he is a Trump supporter since he supposedly claimed the 2020 election was stolen.
How would he know it was stolen when he started buying bomb parts in 2019?
Idiots.
CNN made up the part about “he said he believed the 2020 election was stolen”. It is the wrap-up smear designed to get everyone to argue about him while the rest of DC goes on about installing the techno Communism via the TSA.
He’s a patsy. Patel and Blondi needed a victory to go on tv about.
Precisely. the DOJ and FBI would have happily left this investigation in the “unsolved” pile, but after the Capitol police officer was identified they had to pin it on someone else. If Bondi and Patel actually believe the BS they’re spewing then they aren’t running the DOJ or the FBI. They are being fed nonsense by career Deep State employees protecting the swamp.
The three stooges: Blondi, Ka$h, and BonJovi.
BTW, Trump could just downgrade the FBI’s security clearances and revoke their federal law enforcement commissions. Then reduce the number of stations with access to the databases from 10,000 to 100. No firings necessary. Throw sand in the gears and bypass Congress.
It seems pretty simple to me.
1. Steve Baker identified the correct person.
2. They needed to act quickly to stop progress on that front.
3. They were ok hastily framing an innocent person because if/when it falls apart they could remove Dan and Kash.
That’s my assessment, and I believe, the simplest.
Replace “hastily” above, with “sloppily”, because they had five years to find candidates to pin this on.
Frame an innocent person…….well at least Patel/Bongino didn’t sign off on “their” FBLie going after some white dude in rural America……./sarc
We do have Richard Jewel as a “frame an innocent man” example.
Just like Thomas Crooks, who they quickly eliminated after he did what they wanted and even the Charlie Kirk murder. They pull some gullible useful tool out to be the fall guy after the deed is done. Rinse and repeat for each attrocity
Gullible tool, yes, but his one is different in that there’s too much connection to anti-Trump professional and other activities by the father. CNN viewers might not get it, but Jr. has some explaining to do about convlict between his employment in his father’s business and his claim that he believes the election was stolen.
Did Cole Jr truly believe the election was stolen, or was he agreeing with whatever was being fed to him during an interrogation?
His family says that eye contact is uncomfortable for him. How long would he hold up in a face to face across a table in a bare room interview?
The part about the election is to lay down ground — one more time — that MAGA and Donald Trump are not fit for America. Abusing Cole Jr in this manner falls right in with the maxim to never let a crisis go to waste.
Occam’s Razor. Bullseye.
Can we apply Occam’s Razor to this? The gross incompetence of the doj is obvious. Blondi and Pastel didn’t clean house so now…
CNN also said the bomber was a white male as images showed a black male so the foundation for any believability is tenuous for those logically inclined.
The happy news for CNN is they have groomed their audience to believe what they are told and not what they see.
A black male with Antifa connections, autism presenting issues based in VA in a family that made money on illegals also with ties to BLM.
Also heavy into gaming chat groups.
Hmm, an enterprising IC source could have had a field day.
Julie Kelly 🇺🇸
@julie_kelly2
It is very troubling that the lead prosecutor in the Proud Boys trial—who was involved in covering up exculpatory evidence in that case and worked in cahoots with Judge Tim Kelly to get convictions—is anywhere near the Cole case.
She should’ve been fired not in charge of this.
Cont…
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1997129204446412890.html
“Anyone with their fingerprints on J6 prosecutions should not be involved in this matter. At all.”
Was Dem Blanche behind this selection?
Favorite book is Catcher in the Rye.
He always has to have a copy……
They are so obvious in this but Crump will get a huge payday, lots of press and a chance to impress fellow travelers. Of course he’ll have to share some of that pay.
Before CNN said he was a Trump supporter, Jake Tapper said he was a white man.
We have entered the Twilight Zone.
Steve Baker got it right.
I guess Lee Harvey Oswald wasn’t available, so the FBI picked this guy.
If this were not so serious it would be laughable. The dudes grandma literally said he’s borderline autistic. If was angry about a stolen election, why would he plant one at the RNC? It is starting to scary if they get away with is.
“Kash’s open weakness is his ego and lust for lifestyle, Bongino’s open emotional weakness is his need to be cherished and appreciated. ”
It is so obvious, and SD articulated it best. Fbi is dancing rings around these 2 oblivious morons. It’s uncomfortable to watch.
JMO.
Sundance’s article titled:
“Wild “Coincidence” – J6 Pipe Bomb Suspect is Mentally Simple, His Father, Also Brian Cole, Worked with Civil Rights Lawyer Ben Crump, a Close Personal Friend of Pam Bondi”
December 5, 2025 | Sundance
Curious minds ask: Is it just a wild “coincidence” or in 11/25 did bondi ask her lawyer friend Benjamin Crump from Florida to manufacture a false suspect in the J6 case ……. to protect the real, biden-carryover, CIA connected, female suspect?
That is “obstruction of justice” and patel and bongio would be in on it.
MAGA / America First isn’t just our motto, it is our duty!
^^^^^THIS THIS AND THIS^^^^^
Interesting that five Capitol police officers died within days and months of the stolen 2020 election. Four of the five died by suicide. They were considered ‘died in the line of duty’ so that relatives could get benefits.
As far as I can determine, not a single Capitol police officer has died in the four years since that time. I’m betting all five of them knew that Shauni Kerkhoff was the pipe bomber.
‘ Both Dan and Kash have easily identifiable ‘attack vectors’ which can be exploited by those skilled in the dark arts of manipulation. Kash’s open weakness is his ego and lust for lifestyle, Bongino’s open emotional weakness is his need to be cherished and appreciated. Both mindsets are easily influenced by those who know how to do such things. ‘
“Those skilled in the dark arts of manipulation” have no need for such “attack vectors”, if they work in the dark recesses of a US government spy agency with complete untouchable opaque power seized on the pretext of “National Security imperative” after 9/11.
(An agency with an apparent decades-long MO including things like false flags. Such as a mass casualty event by controlled demolition with a cover of Islamic extremists flying planes into buildings. ae911truth.org)
Such an all-powerful agency could simply control anyone by “making them an offer they can’t refuse”. Including things like:
Blackmail,
Bribery,
Threat of harm/death, including to loved ones.
If such an agency exists, it is likely controlling key figures in all strategic spheres including government and corporate entities.
Such control could extend all the way to the top. As in: Controlled President.
This. Merged with the FBLie.
https://www.nationalcrimesyndicate.com/apalachin-meeting/
Which does this when the election recount in Georgia is gaining steam:
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/loeffler-campaign-staff-member-kemp-family-friend-dies/OLPRRAIMKNAPZPRJA2GYRIHFMU/
Which becomes this for the investigator:
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/the-gbi-agent-reportedly-assigned-to-gov-kemps-daughters-boyfriends-mysterious-fatal-accident-has-committed-suicide-in-georgia/
Just. Like. That.
Patriot1766, your reference to the mob* is interesting because the mob also has a reputation for controlling people by “making them an offer they can’t refuse”, but at the same time your post diverts attention away from the prospect of an uber-powerful government agency using that same MO with global impact.
Some might suspect this is an example of COINTEL.
(* http://www.nationalcrimesyndicate.com/apalachin-meeting/ )
Strong, grounded people cannot be easily controlled. President Trump is strong and true of purpose. No one is controlling him.
People with inherent weaknesses i.e. attack vectors, are easy to control. One plays to the weakness, such as Ka$sh Patel’s love for money travel and glitz. So Patel travels a lot in a fancy private jet and buys stuff. Bongino wears his weakling emotions on his sleeve, so he gets lots of hugs and attaboys from the Feebs and his podca$t army.
Sundance is absolutely right about both. Neither is worth a flip for actual law enforcement or investigations.
The only humans who cannot be controlled by threat to harm or kill loved ones made by an entity with absolute power to carry out such threats, are either naive/stupid or 100% sociopaths/psychopaths.
So there are three possibilities, for a human that such supra-powerful entity seeks to control:
1. Controlled because not a 100% sociopath or psychopath and not naive/stupid.
2. Killed because said entity sees risk the human is naive/stupid and may out the entity before they can kill the human despite threats to loved ones.
3. Killed because the human is a 100% sociopath or psychopath who cannot be controlled by such threats to others.
The President assassinated in 1963 was evidently either in #2 or #3 category.
If Trump is a 100% sociopath or psychopath who could not be controlled, said entity could assassinate him. (#3)
If Trump is naive/stupid, ditto. But he doesn’t seem to be naive/stupid. (#2)
That leaves #1 for Trump. If such an entity is operating like this.
To bad we can’t clone another Tom Homan or two.
Can someone please tell me how this patsy arranged for not one but two bombs to be found at the perfect time?
Moreover, once they found two bombs why did they stop looking? Wouldn’t any law enforcement organization suspect even more bombs after finding two? They stopped looking because they knew that’s all there were.
And as Mike Benz pointed out, the camera that caught the ‘suspect’ is fuzzy, slow, and the shots where he looks right at the camera and his eyes should be visible have been blurred out. Plus where are his Nikes with the yellow logo? Hiding in his closet?
Julie Kelly is making the assumption that Cole Jr is the J6 pipe bomber.
I’m sticking with the original and truer version which if the people weren’t egged on to protest, then the pipe bombs were to be discovered for the backup play so congress could claim the emergency needed to suspend the session regarding the states voting. Only to reconvene with a clean slate to cover Pence and his not having the Authority BS. These people are professionals and know exactly how to play a perfect game against all of us.
Besides, was someone going to come back the next day to set the 60 minute timer? I don’t think so. lol
Autism is a broad spectrum and many individuals fall under it nowadays. That’s one of the reasons it has skyrocketed in numbers. Mild autism does not always mean someone isn’t intelligent enough to complete a task given or not understand what they’re doing is wrong. Grandma seems sincere enough but why aren’t we hearing a peep from the dad?
CIA -> Communist Internationale America
CNN -> Communists News Network
This kid just got hit with a clown car.
And if it all gets exposed as a concocted prosecution, the three clowns driving it will be fully exposed. Again.
The FBI made up a better comedy skit than Barnum & Bailey ever could with these three.
Laugh. Laugh at the clowns. It’s better than crying.
Without even getting into if he is a patsy or not, if he was a Trump supporter upset by the 2020 election, he would have been found late January to early February 2021 at the latest. Just like the (forgive me for bringing it up) Epstein files.
And what is the probability that this is more putting embarassment on Patel/Bongino face by the errrr 99% (thanks Hannity) good rank and file of the FBLie?
Elements of the FBI/CIA/DOJ are laughing behind their beards at this hoax.
The perspective of stopping the objections to the vote certifications on J6 is unique to CTH and a few others thanks to regitiger
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/01/06/fedsurrection-anniversary-day/#more-267894
That perspective eliminates positively any lone actor planting those bombs…..if we consider this then we know there is no coincidence to explain a lone person handing Pelosi a diversion at the exact moment she wanted one
Let’s start asking the right questions please.
Questions asked of the FBI Asst Director of DC field office
https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/republicans-release-new-information-january-6-pipe-bomb-investigation
The FBI admitted that one provider (cell service) had corrupted data and that “geo-fencing” on that area of DC was not complete.
Answers:
They always had it; they didn’t need it until someone id’ed the Capitol Police officer planting the devices. After that revelation an alternate story was necessary ti cover up the matter.Because they already know who the ‘perps’ were – no need to interview people whose story you actually wrote.The whole thing was a false flag intended to suspend congressional action on the contested electors – which succeeded. The FBI was the primary “flagger” involved.We should not. Bongino and Patel are both knotheads; if brains were dynamite neither of them would have enough to blow his hat off. What amazes me is that they’re so stupid as to think any sentient individual would believe their bullshit.
But Jake Tapper reported the alleged (now admitted) bomber was a white guy. So now those Trump racists are trying to pin it on a “little slow” black man. Wow.
Question. Is there anyone else in the entire known universe (and even beyond) who would just so happen have juicy links to Blondie, and by association, all parts of DOJ, so when this falls apart with embarassment there is more ease in deep state clearing house?
It seems incompetence abounds at “our” DOJ…….again, so they dont fear that. It’s probably just to embarass Trump.
Absolutely no one should be the least bit surprised that CNNs Jake Tapper misidentified the alleged J6 pipe bomber as a “white man.” 😆
Tapper was confused by his flashback to Eddie Murphy’s “White Like Me” SNL skit.
Jke must have been fooled because the kid’s name is “Brian.”.
If it would have been d’Quando, Jakweisi, or Hakeem, or any of these other pseudo-African names he could not have made his case so easily.
Why now?
Why a “look squirrel” right now? A diversion indirectly tied to elections and election fraud and right when more evidence of election fraud and Venezuela involvement is coming out?
All part of the ongoing color revolution? de-legitimizing more key players in the Trump administration just like they’re attempting with Hegseth and Gabbard?
Events seem to be building to a crescendo just before or during the holiday season when everyone will be paying attention.
Why you ask?
If the money from NGOs is gone and the election fraud capability is taken away one wing of the Uniparty buzzard is taken away and the clown act can no longer fly in DC. The 2026 elections would be very surprising if actually free and fair and years of theater will be revealed. The entire DC con game would be blown up like the joke of the 60 minute timers on those pipe bombs.
Remember down ballot inconsistencies of swing states electing dim Senators but going for president Trump? This FBI shell game makes less logical sense than that.
Has the flow of NGO money actually stopped or slowed?
https://open.substack.com/pub/elizabethnickson/p/absurdistan-is-resting?r=wq1fx&utm_medium=ios
Elizabeth Nickson reports the link between Venezuela and the stolen elections.
This is why the Democommies have their panties in a wad over 47 going after Venezuela…..this could be the big thread that pulls this house of cards down
Thank you for that link 5 Oclock.
He looks like a younger Eddie Murphy with glasses.
Cole has been involved in many sketchy social media sites. Travis dug them up here; https://x.com/talk2trav/status/1996716378066505847 Cole would be an easy target for a nefarious plot.
Another clown show evolving. When our institutions are always caught lying to the American public by what logic must we believe them now?
What he was capable of was having CP on his computer. This makes anyone who does this a target of the G. “Go along with this or we will expose you to the world” What would you rather go to prison for, CP or fake bombs? Also, keep your eye on the female Capital Police member who was doxed. Will she sue for defamation? I think not.
Supermarket Tabloids publish sensational and intriguing fiction. All sorts of stories about monsters, cults, demons, curses, ghosts, aliens, UFOs
Main & Justice just publish lies. Just lies.
White and Right. Dynomite!
They’ve been telling us for almost a century now that blacks are all demo-commie-pinkos and that republicans hate them……so……NOW we are to believe that a black man thought the election 2020 was stolen (who didn’t at this point??) and he’s MAGA? There is no media….it’s all propaganda.
I ain’t buying any of it.
I think Cole’s grandma is the smartest person in that interview…..I believe her.
If Cole did it…..he was MKUltra’d……IF he did it…
Think about this….they can randomly pick anyone up for any reason and charge them with a crime…anyone…for any reason…..just to fill a narrative or to show they’re “Top Men”……kinda like rounding up the grandparents and blue-collar workers for the J6 “insurrection”…..
This stinks to high heaven….the IC is rotten to the core….you can fire all of them and it won’t do a damn thing because the string pullers are well covered and virtually unknown.
I think this kid is a patsy.
What do I know, but I felt that Pirro was incorruptible. My ethics would have compelled me to immediately resign and have no association with this charade. No way in the world could I be attached to this outrage.
As a secondary result, surely the constructors of this bogus effort know that trust in the “new FBI” is approaching zero to anyone with any discernment.
Jeanine Pirro is an actress and Fox News pundit. This stint as a US Atty. is merely a script she plays in, along with her buddy Pam. She will parrot exactly what the thoroughly corrupt FBI tells her took place. Nothing more.
Nobody believes this story. I think the poor guy is another patsy. I’m ashamed of what our government has become. Go after the Tax stealing POLITICIANS in MINNESOTA.
They lie by omission. Sure Brian Cole Jr thought the election was stolen, but they left out the part where Cole’s handlers convinced him that President Trump won the election.
Stormy, I mean no disrespect, but given that a relative refers to him as “borderline autistic”, you lost me at “Brian Cole Jr thought”. It’s sad, I know, that the Deep State so often uses Black citizens to do their craven deeds. Willis, James, just to name a very few.
“Autistm” is a spectrum and not interchangeable with low IQ.
Sounds more like a scapegoat than a suspect.
We’ve seen this before with Ashley Babbit scapegoat Michael Byrd.
I don’t believe any of this story, this guy is a patsy.
And we’re supposed to eat it. Still think Trump is our savior?
You have about 3 years to prepare for the worst, get ready.
Tell the family not to be too upset. He won’t be in jail long and as for going back, it will be only to visit if he makes a friend or two.
Yep,
After checking in with the bomber’s family, this guy ticks off all of the boxes for your typical leftist, Marxist.
Autistic- Check
Built bombs that didn’t go off- Check- He reminds me of Boris Badinoff of Rocky & Bullwinkle fame
The media in this case remind me of the circus with those people (or poople) assigned to walk behind the elephants & clean up after them.
In this case the #2 is clearly more overwhelming than the poople assigned to perform the cleanup.
I can conceive a scenario where Jr. liked to tinker in his spare time and purchased materials before the plot was conceived, where it was later that he or someone else came up with the idea of using his bomb creation and placing it where he did when the “need” and opportunity presented.
If not then and there, it would remain an option for another day once conceived. However it developed isn’t really important because there’s nothing that can legitimize any of the rest of the unbelievable story the public is being asked to accept.
Whenever and however the “bomb” was conceived, which I heard described emphatically and dramatically yesterday by Bondi as “deadly!,” is just as likely to be used to isolate Jr.’s activities from questions about any possible role he played in a broader conspiratorial plot with Sr. and others.
Yeah Grandma…he’s a good boy. Bought bomb making materials well before the election, planted them at night, to do what with?
I watched the entire trial. She was in no way a credible witness. It smelled of a set-up.
This is embarrassing on so many levels. Trump deserves blame for appointing these useless deep staters and they are making him look foolish for doing so. We are being gaslit again. Very F-up. Burn the whole F-ing thing down.
The FBI and DOJ need new leadership, pronto!
I have a serious question…why can’t 47 fire the 3 dunces???
Blondi, Ka$h, and BonJovi?
..hint…..they are same ppl who can not be over run even with all effort VSGPDJT Co…… for example Ukraine…….they got Ka$h and Bonjovi…..by bal*s…. and bonjovi undirectly in interview said it…….
I’d love to see 47 “resign” them.
However, the Dems would loudly celebrate the appearance of being effective enough to take three scalps. PDJT does not like to admit making mistakes (if he ever has made such an admission).
To replace Bondi and Patel with other than persons in “acting” capacities would require the senate confirmation process. That would give the Dems another opportunity to try to gain advantage for their persons and policies. Just the act of slowing things down would gain attaboys for participating in The Resistance.
None of this is how responsible adults behave in the interest of the nation.