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The Tucker Carlson Show

The Attempts on Trump’s Life, Why He Shut Down the Investigations & How It Altered History Forever

The Tucker Carlson Show

Tucker Carlson Network

Politics, News Commentary, Daily News, News

4.115.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2026

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

The attempts on Donald Trump’s life, why he shut down the investigations and how it altered history forever. Ken Silva with bizarre details from the shooting that changed world history.  (00:00) The Assassination Attempt on Trump in Butler, PA (05:04) Who Was Thomas Crooks? (13:14) The Missing Details of That Day (25:45) The Strange Crooks Sightings (37:06) How Was Crooks Such a Good Marksman? (59:11) Did Iran Have Anything to Do With This? (1:22:34) Ryan Routh Recruiting Foreign Fighters for Ukraine Ken Silva is the editor of HeadlineUSA.com, a contributor to the Libertarian Institute, and the author of "The Trump Assassination Plots: What the Investigations Missed, and Why it Matters (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H1GVFW3Y/r)." He has more than 15 years of experience as an investigative reporter, with bylines in the Associated Press, the Economist Intelligence Unit, Reason, and numerous other publications. Follow him on Twitter/X: @JD_Cashless. Paid partnerships with: Ethos: Protect your family with life insurance from Ethos. Get up to $3 million in coverage in as little as 10 minutes at https://ethos.com/TUCKER Joi + Blokes: Use code TUCKER for 65% off your labs and 20% off all supplements at https://joiandblokes.com/tucker American Financing: NMLS 182334, nmlsconsumeraccess.org. APR for rates in the 5s start at 6.327% for well qualified borrowers. Call 800-685-5696 for details about credit costs and terms. Visit http://www.AmericanFinancing.net/Tucker. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Ken Silva, thank you very much for doing this.

0:05.0

You've written a book on the Trump assassination plots, the two from the summer of

0:13.0

2024, about which there are more unanswered questions than answered questions, and they're

0:20.0

so transparently ridiculous, the stories that we have been told, that it, my first question is, where are all

0:27.3

the other books on this topic? Why did this fall to you? That was my question, too, and you're

0:32.5

actually probably one of the only major media figures that's still keeping the story alive,

0:37.0

so it's a pleasure to talk to you.

0:38.8

But yeah, there were a couple books published in the wake, like Selena Zito, is a Washington

0:45.2

examiner reporter, wrote a book called Butler, but it goes more into the cultural aspects of

0:51.8

like the Butler community and the the political effects the political fallout

0:56.3

of the event it's not really like a forensic investigation this is the the first of that kind

1:01.0

does zito's book have a conclusion does it reach does it reach a conclusion about what that was

1:07.3

or does she affirm the official story which is this was a crazed left wing lone

1:12.9

gunman yeah it's more or less an affirmation of the official story and again just like the political

1:18.7

fallout that's that's more of the book she was there that day so there is like a bi autobiographical

1:25.7

account of what happened you know from when she got there.

1:29.1

But it doesn't go into like the details about what happened over on the H.E.R. building or the

1:33.8

security failures or who Thomas Crooks was.

1:37.9

So I'm going to state what I think is the official account of what happened in Butler that day.

1:43.5

And then I would like you to just take us through what you know about what happened in Butler that day. And then I would like you to

1:44.8

just take us through what you know about what happened in Butler that day. So the official account

1:49.3

is there's this weird kid, local kid who really hates Trump and he's been radicalized

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