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... 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. ...