Saturday, November 15, 2025

Tucker Carlson: Trump Shooter Was a Trump-Backing Radical

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.

Posted by snoofy at 05:33 PM | 13 COMMENTS | permalink

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Carlson isn't just challenging federal law enforcement; he is accusing Trump's own handpicked security leadership of helping shield the truth.

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1He 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'

Was the Secret Service tired, or did they just get lazy?

Neither motivation makes much sense. A man on a roof in these circumstances rightly alarmed and activated the civilians present. Why not the professionals?

I make note that for an "attempted assassination" to politcally benefit Trump, the assassin would have to be from the Left.

NOT what the man actually was.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-11-15 02:34 PM

More from the cited article ...

... 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" though he does cite evidence that, for reasons unknown, Crooks apparently turned against Trump.

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. ...



#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-15 02:45 PM

Whole damn thing was a circus prank.

#3 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-11-15 02:46 PM

FBI Responds to Tucker Carlson Report on Trump Shooter Thomas Crooks
www.newsweek.com

... The FBI Rapid Response account on X insisted: "This FBI has never said Thomas Crooks had no online footprint. Ever." ...

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-15 02:47 PM

So he loved Trump.

Probably had zero qualms going along with their plan since he was probably told he wouldn't be unalived.

#5 | Posted by jpw at 2025-11-15 04:09 PM

Obligatory.

static01.nyt.com

#6 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-11-15 04:11 PM

The entire event was a staged performance for a photo op.

#7 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-11-15 04:22 PM

I think the perception that the entire event was a staged performance is going to expand greatly in coming years. It was a like a made for tv event designed to glorify Trump in the eyes of maggots. They had t-shirts ready to go the next day, - as if they were preparing for the event.

#8 | Posted by moder8 at 2025-11-15 04:27 PM

It was a made for TV went as that was the only of Trump's campaign rallies to be televised.

#9 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-11-15 04:33 PM

Did they ever find the bullet that clipped the edge of the bulletproof screen and caused a shard that scratched Trump's ear.

#10 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-11-15 06:05 PM

Tucker Carlson must be desperate for attention again. Maybe the Kremlin has no more use for him.

#11 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-11-15 06:10 PM

8. There is no way he comes up from anything that he thinks might have happened to him saying, "Fight, fight, fight." That's scripted BS.

#12 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-11-15 06:20 PM

@#11 ... Tucker Carlson must be desperate for attention again. ...

That's what I've been wondering.

Similar to Rep Taylor-Greene who seems to be looking for attention to bolster her possible run for POTUS.

#13 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-15 07:32 PM

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