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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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Shit-stirrers like Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson have been pushed away from some MAGA forums but have only gained in popularity with young men. And young men have become the linchpin in the electoral swing to the GOP.
Who is paying Tucker?
I think Tucker Carlson is one-off...
Tucker really needs to put down the bong.
Thsts gonna bote us in the arse I bet.
Really? A trump supporter shot at Trump.
What is Tucker smoking.
So now I’m supposed to believe kash and Dan are Israel Firsters and anti trumpers too ?
🤣
“Tucker really needs to put down the bong.”
It clearly doesn’t mix well with his meds.
“What is Tucker smoking.”
More like: “who is Tucker smoking”?
When does Tucker’s gig on MSNBC start?...............
The man’s gone crazy!
I think his cheese has slipped off his cracker.
MS NOW
So Crooks (supposedly) says: “Trump is the only one fighting for us” but then proceeds to attempt to murder Trump.
Makes perfect sense......
/s
Ummm, didn’t the Butler Shooting happen under Biden’s watch? Do we not think that Biden’s Admin would take great delight in making that known, if true? WTH has happened to Carlson?
Seems rather unlikely
Perhaps Putin was right to imply Tucker Carlson worked/works for the CIA
He seems to be running a classic disinformation / demoralization campaign against MAGA.
A few weeks ago I was shocked to see Tucker interview Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks and praise the guy. Cenk is a radical lunatic lefty Muslim who constantly allows the Nazi and fascist bullshit on his platforms.
Tucker would have to be a complete dimwit to support this guy:
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/17TSbnCboV/?mibextid=wwXIfr
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1PGmsodZPY/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Has Tucker converted to Islam?
If you listen to podcast and find truth what he’s saying. Is it wrong to ask questions? Left-Wing Mediaite hates Trump and Carson.
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