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Posted on 11/14/2025 7:45:09 AM PST by Miami Rebel
Tucker Carlson is now openly alleging that the Trump-era FBI — not just Biden’s — is lying about critical details of the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.
That is the core, explosive thrust of his just-released video (embedded below): that the very federal law-enforcement leadership now serving in Trump’s second term — including his newly installed FBI team led by Kash Patel and Dan Bongino — is obscuring what really happened on the rooftop where Thomas Crooks nearly killed a former president.
Carlson isn’t just challenging federal law enforcement; he is accusing Trump’s own handpicked security leadership of helping shield the truth.
The FBI saw it coming. Hours before Carlson’s video dropped, the bureau released a preemptive statement insisting there was “no evidence of advance warnings” and urging the public to “avoid speculation.” Whether that was simple bureaucratic defensiveness or genuine concern about misinformation is almost beside the point — Carlson had forced the FBI to respond to him before he even made his case public.
Before Carlson even gets to the timeline, he spends several minutes reframing who Thomas Crooks actually was — and here, his case is surprisingly strong. Drawing from Crooks’ online comments, saved posts, and archived forum activity, Carlson argues that the 20-year-old wasn’t a covert leftist or an Antifa radical, but a deeply alienated young man steeped in hard-right conspiratorial culture.
He points to Crooks’ repeated praise for fringe-right influencers, his fixation on “Deep State traitors,” and posts describing Trump as “the only one fighting for us,” a pattern Carlson says directly contradicts the early media framing that Crooks was politically “unclear.”
Whatever else remains murky about the rooftop in Butler, Carlson insists Crooks’ digital footprint shows a classic right-wing grievance spiral, not a partisan mystery. And that, in Carlson’s telling, only makes the FBI’s rush to downplay motive more suspicious. He then builds his argument chronologically.
He first focuses on the missed rooftop warnings. Multiple rallygoers reported seeing a young man on a nearby building with a backpack and rangefinder minutes before Trump took the stage. “People saw him,” Carlson says. “They told authorities. And nothing happened.” This becomes Carlson’s foundational claim: that federal officials didn’t just fail to protect Trump — they immediately began concealing how badly they’d failed.
He then highlights shifting early FBI descriptions of Crooks’ motives and background. Initial statements suggested no political motivation; later ones acknowledged searches for both Trump and Biden. Carlson reads these shifts as evidence that the FBI is reverse-engineering a narrative rather than disclosing one.
Third, he attacks the FBI’s timeline, saying it omits witnesses who reported Crooks before the shooting. “Why does the FBI timeline pretend these witnesses don’t exist?” he asks. As usual, Carlson deploys questions as weapons — interrogatives that function as accusations while allowing him to disclaim that he’s making any.
What elevates this installment beyond Carlson’s familiar institutional suspicion is who he’s accusing. Carlson directly targets Trump-appointed FBI Director Christopher Wray and two Trump-aligned national-security veterans: Kash Patel and Dan Bongino. Both have publicly defended the Secret Service and FBI’s handling of the incident — Patel saying agencies “followed proper protocol,” Bongino arguing the rooftop “may not have been a legitimate threat at the time.”
Their defenses matter politically. Both men are fixtures in conservative media and seen as institutional truth-tellers precisely because they served under Trump — which makes their endorsement of the official story particularly valuable to the FBI, and particularly troubling to Carlson. His core implication is unmistakable: if the narrative is flawed, then Trump’s own team helped build it.
This is the fulcrum of the video — Carlson turning his suspicion inward at Trump’s security apparatus. It is rare for him to suggest that Trump’s DOJ mishandled something this consequential. Here, he implies the opposite of what his audience is accustomed to hearing: the system did not break in 2021. It was already breaking.
Carlson closes with his signature rhetorical device of asking five pointed questions, presented here exactly as he asks them:
“If the Secret Service had advance warnings about a suspicious individual on a rooftop, why were those warnings ignored?” “If multiple witnesses saw Crooks before the shooting, why does the FBI timeline pretend they didn’t exist?” “If local law enforcement raised concerns, why were they overridden — and by whom?” “If the FBI is confident in its account, why has that account changed so many times?” “And most obvious of all: Who benefited from the security failure that nearly killed a former president?”
These are framed as neutral inquiries, but the allegation is clear: the federal government — under Trump and Biden — concealed or distorted critical facts about how a 20-year-old gunman got within firing distance of Donald Trump.
Carlson has now done something unusual. He has turned his fire on Trump’s own DOJ, suggesting the rot he sees did not begin in 2021 and did not end when Trump left office. Whether this represents ideological consistency or simply another mechanism to keep his audience in a state of permanent distrust is the open question — but the implication is unmistakable.
In Carlson’s telling, no administration can be trusted. Not even Trump’s.
Watch the full video below:
Who is Thomas Crooks? pic.twitter.com/WwjvPGGRwS
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) November 14, 2025
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“Was”. He was 13 years old when Trump was first elected. Even if he had been a Trump supporter then, he had almost 8 years of high school and college indoctrination along with hitting the age when many mental illnesses develop.
Reminds me a little of Coulter going bonkers on us.
Long-forms videos -- this one is over a half-hour -- is the latest rage, but it's essentially a TV show, and as news moves quickly, it will be "day old bread" in no time, then forgotten.
The Crooks "event" is sordid to begin with, and the rapid cremation suggests clarity will be difficult. One only need think of the JFK assassination, still debated. The bureaucrats at the FBI are bureaucrats, and dumb decisions are often defended based on not wanting "dumb" to be a view to the agency. Given the likes of Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, the FBI is not a "saintly" entity. But then again, neither is Carlson.
“If you listen to podcast and find truth what he’s saying.”
You forgot the < / s >
His eggs are slipping off the plate.
The effect of demonizing carlson for interviewing fuentes was to mainstream fuentes. The enemy was actually laura loomer and ben shapiro. loomer just has bad judgement. shapiro’s followers are now a tiny fraction of of those of fuentes. israeli support is declining in the younger demographic.
People, Tucker just wants to stand out from the rest of the media crowd. He has no “positions” other than his own ego polishing.
I don't disagree with that.
that’s a very weird way of phrasing it. But why would a Trump supporter tried to shoot him? And why would Biden’s FBI cover it up?
“Is it wrong to ask questions?”
“When did you stop molesting children, Mr. Navysealdad?!”
So, yes, as shown above by the completely absurd question, if the questions are in bad faith and meant to smear, distract, and create doubt and confusion when there is no predicate to ask the question, it is wrong to ask the question.
Tucker is doing just that.
Uhhh.....what? This story is very dishonest. Tucker shows through his own posts that Crooks STARTED OUT being a Trump supporter - although an unhinged one who posted violent rhetoric repeatedly (ie talk of murdering people) - AND THEN BECAME a hardcore anti Trump leftist prior to his assassination attempt.
What Tucker showed, pretty conclusively is that the FBI acted rather strangely about the investigation afterwards and was awfully quick to dispose of the body, not divulge information to Congress, put out false narratives (like claiming he was “Right Wing” when had in fact shifted and become a Left Wing radical, etc etc.
I guess you don’t remember that Tucker Carlson was on MSNBC for 4 or 5 years in the 2000s?
The Neocon Establishment sure does have it in for Tucker and sure is spreading a lot of BS trying to smear him at every turn. Sorry guys, nobody supports your constant foreign wars. No, not even on the Right anymore. We’ve all seen the constant loss of life and expenditure of vast amounts of money that would be much better spent at home taking care of our people.
That is because young men are, by and large, still protected by their parents and able to contrarians without cost. They don’t have families and bills to pay...
And, if you had bothered watching Carlson's video, you would have seen that Carlson noted the Crooks started out as a racist Trump supporter and then, within a matter of months, become vehemently anti-Trump, promoting death threats against him.
At least watch what you're attacking and not believe everything the media feeds you.
The whole point of the expose was that the truth about Crooks has been covered up, which is something Eric Trump has been very vocal about.
I think you got it backwards. Putin ordered him to say this.
Who is paying Tucker?
It appears Fox News is still paying him on his old contract...
Lol. a few weeks before that interview Nick Fuente said that Tucker Carlson was two anti-semitic for him. that doesn’t figure into your theory.
Never watched it, but that sure explains a lot...................
I think we all know the answer to these questions. It was an inside job. The FBI aided by the Secret Service. Biden put out the hit. Or rather whoever was running the Biden clown show.
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