The suspect charged with planting two pipe bombs at the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee the day before the Jan. 6, 2021, riot claimed he was not trying to stop Congress from certifying the 2020 election despite his reported admission that he believed the election was stolen, prosecutors said in a new court filing seeking to keep him detained pending trial.

"When asked why he placed the devices at the RNC and DNC" during a multi-hour interview, Brian Cole of Virginia answered "'I really don’t like either party at this point'" and "'they were in charge,'" claiming said he got the idea to use pipe bombs "from his interest in history, specifically the Troubles in Ireland," ABC News reported.

He said the bombs were not intended to be warnings but to actually detonate, setting 60-minute timers on both before returning to his car, picking up food and going back to Virginia from Capitol Hill, the filing said. Cole said "he hoped there would be news about it" but called himself "'pretty relieved'" when they didn't work, adding that he placed them at night "because he did not want to kill people."

Allegedly Cole wiped his cellphone data "nearly one thousand times" in the nearly five years since the event and claimed he never told anyone about his actions and disposed of his bombmaking materials at a dump after he saw himself on the news in videos the FBI released seeking tips, prosecutors said.

He has a detention hearing Tuesday afternoon, according to ABC News.