Vice President Harris Was At DNC On Jan. 6 When Pipe Bomb Was Found

According to reporting by Politico, and later confirmed by ABC News, Vice President Kamala Harris was evacuated from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters in Washington on January 6, 2021, minutes after a pipe bomb was discovered nearby.

“She was there until she was evacuated,” said a White House official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter.

According to a timeline of events obtained by Politico, the Capitol Police started investigating the pipe bomb at 1:07 p.m.

Politico reported: “The timeline says that Capitol Police and the Secret Service evacuated an unnamed ‘protectee’ at approximately 1:14 p.m, seven minutes later. The four people, among them a White House official and a former law enforcement official, confirmed that Harris was the Secret Service protectee identified in the timeline, which has circulated on Capitol Hill.”

The timeline, according to Politico, states the bomb was neutralized at 4:36 p.m. A different pipe bomb found at the Republican National Committee headquarters was neutralized at 3:33 p.m.

In remarks on Thursday marking one year since the insurrection, Harris said she had been inside the Capitol that morning for a classified Senate Intelligence Committee briefing before leaving.
“On that day, I was not only vice president-elect, I was also a United States senator. And I was here at the Capitol that morning, at a classified hearing with fellow members of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Hours later, the gates of the Capitol were breached,” Harris said.

“I had left. But my thoughts immediately turned not only to my colleagues, but to my staff, who had been forced to seek refuge in our office, converting filing cabinets into barricades.”

As Politico noted, the discovery of the pipe bombs early in the afternoon of January 6 diverted significant law enforcement resources away from the unfolding chaos at the US Capitol building itself, as a mob of rioters began clashing with law enforcement on the Capitol steps before eventually breaching the building itself.

The FBI released surveillance footage of the suspect and photos of their clothing and the bombs they placed in March 2021. The Bureau is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to the identification and arrest of the suspect.

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