Mike Benz and Revolver predicted the 'black' pipe bomber 5 years ago... - Revolver News

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For years, Americans were spoon-fed a very specific Netflix-style fictional story about January 6. The villains were already cast. White Trump supporters! The conclusion was already written. Insurrection! And anyone who noticed parts of the story didn’t add up was called a terrorist and a traitor and totally dismissed.

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The pipe bomber fit perfectly into that scripted storyline. He was the faceless Trump-supporting menace constantly dangled in front of the public to keep the fear level cranked as high as humanly possible and to justify everything that followed… like how the FBI insisted they couldn’t crack the case, yet they somehow found endless time and resources to hunt down peaceful Trump supporters and ruin their lives over nothing.

However, things started to change once Trump took back the White House and new leadership took over at the FBI. Kash Patel and Dan Bongino pulled the Biden-era keystone agents off the case, brought in fresh, unbiased agents, and told them to actually follow the evidence instead of protecting a flimsy left-wing narrative.

Kash’s team didn’t uncover some new “smoking gun” evidence. And there was no bombshell tip. Everything they needed was already sitting right there. All it took was a switcheroo inside the FBI and boom, an arrest was made.

That tells you everything about Biden’s FBI, right?

HeatherHeather007:

Pam Bondi: “There were no new tips, no new leads, no information.” on J6 Pipe bomber.

NO NEW INFORMATION. Just a “far right fixation” (that solved it in less than a year).

NEW TEAM, with NEW EYES, under leadership who cares, with an actual commitment to solving a case without superfluous DEI distractions.

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Of course, this raises a very obvious question: was this case truly unsolvable, or was it sitting in the wrong hands the whole time.

The answer seems pretty straightforward.

Back in March 2021, Revolver took a hard look at that detail. The pipe bomber was allegedly some disgruntled MAGA extremist, yet he was rocking rare Nike Air Max Speed Turfs that cost hundreds of dollars and are deeply tied to sneaker culture, basketball culture, and urban street culture.

That alone didn’t prove anything. But it raised real questions.

Why would someone supposedly obsessed with avoiding identification choose flashy, expensive, highly recognizable shoes. Why did the FBI highlight those shoes over and over if they didn’t want people asking what kind of person actually wears them.

These weren’t wild leaps. It was basic common sense and cultural literacy. And at the time, it was treated like a crime to even ask.

And speaking of timing, Mike Benz took to X recently and reminded everyone about a Revolver article he wrote five-long-years ago, way before this arrest, and way before anyone was allowed to poke holes in the January 6 storyline without being shouted down.

Back in 2021, Benz raised a question that was brushed off at the time but looks downright obvious now. The FBI claimed the pipe bomber was an unsolvable mystery, yet they curiously fixated on one very specific detail while offering the public almost nothing else.

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No clear face.
No race.
No background.

Just the shoes.

What we’re about to share with you is Benz’s original Revolver piece, written years before the switcheroo at the FBI and years before the public was told the truth. Read it with fresh eyes. It’s a real jaw dropper.

Revolver:

There’s one more funny aspect of this case. Again, it may be nothing, or it may be a $300 elephant in the room. But it’s interesting.

It’s the Nike Air Max.

Remember, there’s a lot riding on this “pipe bomb” suspect being a Trump supporter. Time and again, we’ve been told these MAGA terrorists were White supremacists, or at the very least anti-government rural, exurban militias who probably also had sympathies with White Supremacists.

The FBI is asking us to believe the MAGA Mystery Unabomber was rocking Nike Air Max Speed Turfs. Specifically, black and grey with a yellow logo. It’s the one actual piece of accountable, distinctive forensic detail that the FBI seems to have totally confirmed about the case. They made a very big deal out of it, even putting Pepe Sylvia conspiracy theory meme multi-colored pointing arrows at these shoes. We know more about the suspect’s shoes – and the FBI gave us more detail on it – than we know about the suspect’s face or race.

This quite peculiar shoe has been amped up by the FBI since the initial January assessments, then passed on wholly uncritically as “key” to solving the mystery by mainstream media stenographers of FBI press releases.

We are talking about $300 top-of-the-line basketball-football shoes here. The model identified by the FBI is the Black Yellow Grey AV7895-0001 (they didn’t tell us this, we civilian researchers had to do the legwork – why does that keep happening?) . You can go to ebay right now and see what the market looks like:

How many disgruntled, lower-middle income, out-of-towner Trump supporters spend $300 on street shoes? It’s not impossible, but it’s interesting.

Then, you’ve got the fact that any student of sneakerhead culture or basketball culture or urban hip hop culture will tell you in five seconds if you live in the real world: the Nike Air Max is not exactly a typical Trump supporter shoe.

That doesn’t mean it’s impossible. It’s worth noting that the traditional “colors” of the Proud Boys are black and yellow. But is it typical (or “on brand,” so to speak) for a Proud Boy to spend $300 on urban hip hop culture street shoes? Don’t know, maybe.

The MAGA Mystery Unabomber evidently took incredible pains not to give away a single fingerprint or DNA sample on the pipe bombs, and so successfully masked every identifiable detail on video during a multi-hour walking tour through the center of Capitol Hill that Zey stumped the FBI. Would Zey throw it all away by deliberately selecting outrageously expensive, unique and ostentatious shoes for that mission in zer own “gang colors”? Don’t know, maybe.

But it’s little questions like that which are only interesting, and only crop up, because the big questions have gone so thoroughly, and seemingly deliberately, unanswered.

As a parting thought, some models of the Nike Air Max “glow in the dark.”

Isn’t that interesting.

Five years later, with the suspect now identified and his background leaking out everywhere, the theory laid out in that early Revolver piece looks like some pretty inconvenient foresight.

So, that’s the context for Benz’s recent remarks, where he openly acknowledges that Revolver was ahead of the curve, not because of insider access, but because it was willing to examine evidence without political blinders on.

Benz explains how the shoe detail alone should have shattered the official narrative years ago, and why it was quietly swept under the rug instead. Mikes theory was that if the bomber did not look like the villain the public was set up to fear, the case would be politically useless. So it stalled. Until it couldn’t anymore…

This arrest doesn’t close the book on January 6. It actually opens another chapter.

The failure was not a lack of technology or resources. It was politics and narrative management. And the consequences of that decision by the FBI ruined people’s lives.

Revolver has spent years pulling on threads that were never supposed to be yanked. The pipe bomber case is yet another example of how much damage can be done when federal power is weaponized.

And if all of these revelations and much-needed investigations are starting to feel overwhelming, that’s not accidental. A government this compromised and rotted needs exhaustion and confusion to deflect.

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