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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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Isn’t NBC where he originally came from?
I’m not sure since I never watch those channels................
Used to be they really did want answers on the events at Butler. Not anymore, they would rather buy that no info, no answers, hogwash ole Kash cranked out.
This Tucker investigation is bringing back what used to be something we all wanted answers to. So far, we hear nothing and get only BS from Kash to these things.
There is nothing is this that supports Trump or the right being behind this. Yet here we go, they just hate Carlson so they would rather not bother availing themselves of this excellent investigation.
I am really sick of it.
I read the patsy trained with a private sniper team hired by the county to cover the Butler rally, and how he was allowed access by security because he was known to them.....have found no follow up, however
Smelled like inside job from the beginning.
I think it was a deepstate attempt to kill Trump. The shooter was being used somehow. He maybe thought he was helping to defend Trump? Oswald quickly comes to mind. A tried and successful method.
I do not think that Canadace truly ever left her leftist roots. She just used whomever she could from a job and notoriety. I believe it is her job to split MAGA and cause ruin. Tucker has always been off. theyre just getting louder. It is mind boggling that they use the same tactics to brainwash their followers that the left has used very successfully on college campuses.
Its by design.
And these mental midgets swallow it hook line and sinker.
Look at the Kirk soap opera. Now, the little snarky bastard Shapiro got caught openly lying about Owens. He and the fat bald headed screeching banshee have dug themselves a deep hole and are threatening everyone that doesnt agree with them totally.
THAT..I have a serious problem with.
Oh, and BTW. Now i am antisemitic. Yup. Say anything that doesnt fit a Muslim or a Zionist Jewish viewpoint and your antisemitic.
So be it.
And you believed in the lies that started The Gulf of Tonkin Incident and the Vietnam War. Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Iraq War. USA and world were led into the Libyan war. Where millions were killed.
“If the Secret Service had advance warnings about a suspicious individual on a rooftop, why were those warnings ignored?”
There is no evidence the Secret Service was the security officials those early warnings were given to. Other state and local police/security services were on duty and working there also, and THEY seem to be the services who civilian observers made reported sightings to about an individual on a rooftop. Was there poor coordination between all the security services involved? Yes. That fact is different than the Carlson innuendo that the Secret Service had some advance warning of a man on a nearby roof.
What does Carlson work at doing - implying conspiracies via innuendos.
Why is he turning on the Butler incident now?
Because he’s been losing MAGA supporters who once thought he was one of them.
six of one. half a dozen of the other. the effect of demonizing fuentes and carleson was to mainstream fuentes. he now has over a million followers. mostly young men.
Do you think laura loomer has a clue as to how young male shiksa men behave?
she was the same one who knocked out elon musk’s choice for NASA administrator at first. the guy was finally chosen but not until after a lot of ill will was caused between musk and trump.
we’re talking about good judgement here. There were many who said to just ignore carelson’s interview with fuentes. that was the best policy.
But now a generation is being raised to be anti israeli.
loomer has an inkling of what she did. so now she has come out in favor of stopping foreign aid to Israel.
Trump’s oldest son has said many times that the full story of what happened that day when Trump just barely survived assasination has not been told.
There are few who believe whatever is the official story there.
Tucker may be wrong but he’s barking up the right tree.
They will keep this self destruction and cancelation of those that don’t agree with them 100% on issues some demand to be “conservative” that actually are not, and never were, in the conservative playbook up until we lose the mid terms. Then they will go back to attacking the left and blaming everyone but themselves for why we couldn’t turn out voters.
As they say, the GOP is happier when they can be the losers so they can bleat about the misery that nobody has the power to do anything about.
As the stomach turns. Same old song.
It is coming. 🥱
I think your idea is one that is more MAGA opposition created and promoted than real, and intended to make a fringe seem to be a bigger than it is divide.
But go ahead, repeat, repeat, repeat, because in politics that is how lies become truth, by constant repetition making the minor more major.
Obviously, you, a Zeeper, did not watch the video. LOL
Why, because you also hate Carlson because he doesn’t like funding that taxpayer funded proxy war over in Ukraine.
The conspiracy he is talking about is a Deep State one. You know, by the people that are all for funding that taxpayer Ukraine ripoff war.
So you’re saying that Tucker is right and anyone who questions him is as stupid as to believe other lies certain people in power said?
That is an either/or fallacy.
Forget it. In my opinion, based on facts I see them, Tucker has gone off the deep end. At least consider that he is not exclusively the truth because he says so.
Don’t be so open minded that your brain falls out.
That is 100% correct.
Cant find somebody to shoot in the foot? Well hell, lets shoot ourselves in the foot.
Not one of these naybobs have actually studied founders like George Mason. Hell...they dont even know who the hell he was.
Yet, like you say, if they did, they’d cherry pick him apart even though he was thee one responsible for the bill of rights.
I advise every single young person.
Stay clear of political factions. Because in their cult like schemes, they will rob one of their common classical liberal sensible thoughts and drag them down into the depths of depravity.
It is evidently the country of Qatar (obama’s pal who gave him a house there, and the exposure of which by a major US Navy Admiral, got the Admiral fired.) Tucker Carlson is a bow tie wearing brat son of a Seeing Eye Clown, a Clown In Action, with a large trust fund from his heiress mommy (Heir to the Swanson TeeVee dinner company).
While Fox had to keep paying Carlson his “salary” (a considerable sum) after booting him, it was not enough to prop him up in his new contrivance podcasting, or his move to escape what he said at the time was.. AntiFA outside his DC door. Sooo, in steps Qatar which paid up all of his legal bills and has a large piece of the operational funding of his “network”.
Most having followed him in the past recall his association with Proud Boys co-founder MacNess (many shows together, actually quite funny. The dude is Canadian, with a Native American wife last heard. Got into fist fights with AntiFA during the Summer of Love (Nantzi Pelosi’s creative billion dollar destruction of our country).
In reality, his politics aligns quite well with Iran and their machinations, and Qatar is the world rep for Iran, it’s banker. So there you have it.
The Fuentes little fruitcake moron was one more example of his “cutting edge” bullcrap “reporting” just as his touted please watch me “analysis” of the Butler PA attempt on DJT. He doesn’t know a g-d damned thing more than Patel and Bongino. So he stirs the shite. And constantly chews tobacco and drinks green matcha/high caffeine beverages. At this rate he will not last long.
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