All available cops would be sent to the bomb reports, the count would stop, Kamala Harris, the nation's first woman of color who ascended to the nation's second most powerful position and could have been killed by a "viable" pipe bomb, would be feted as a woke heroine and survivor. Joe Biden would be officially declared the winner. Game over.
But they didn't need a diversion. The people who brought you the information and active measures campaigns in "color revolutions" around the world had succeeded in starting a riot at the Capitol Complex.
The January 6 Committee mentioned the pipe bomb only five times — in its index, not even in the body of the report.
The Chairman of the January 6 Committee, Bennie Thompson, admitted he wasn't "privy" to much information about the pipe bomb. He had never seen the video of the person "planting it" and chatting on his cell phone the night before, nor had he seen the lackadaisical way in which the Secret Service treated the "discovery" of the pipe bomb the next day, as Harris sat inside the building.