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The Tucker Carlson Show

Who Is Thomas Crooks?

The Tucker Carlson Show

Tucker Carlson Network

Daily News, Politics, News, News Commentary

4.58.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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The FBI claimed the man who shot Donald Trump was a lone actor with no online presence and no motive. It was a lie. Paid partnerships with: Dutch: Get $50 a year for vet care with Tucker50 at https://dutch.com/tucker Poncho Outdoors: Go to https://PonchoOutdoors.com/Tucker and enter your email for $10 off your first order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

These are videos the FBI has worked hard to make sure you haven't seen.

0:12.0

They're from the Google Drive account of Thomas Crooks, the man who on July 13th,

0:17.0

2024, showed up at the Butler County Pennsylvania Fairgrounds and tried to assassinate the frontrunner, Donald Trump.

0:24.6

And look what happened to our country. Probably 20 million people.

0:30.6

And you know, that's a little bit old, that chart. That chart's a couple of months old.

0:34.6

And if you want to really see something that said, take a look at what happened.

0:44.9

That day, Thomas Crooks came within a quarter inch of destroying this country.

0:54.0

And yet, a year and a half later, we still know almost nothing about him or why he did it.

1:00.0

That's because, for some reason, the FBI, even the current FBI, doesn't want us to know.

1:06.0

Watch out. Since the start of their investigation, the FBI has claimed that Thomas Crooks acted alone and that he was a virtual ghost online with no presence at all.

1:23.6

Their only substantive claim about Crooks' motive was that he was a right winger.

1:30.0

We learned that from FBI deputy director, Paula Bate, who said this to Congress just one

1:36.0

month after the attempted assassination.

1:38.6

Something just very recently uncovered that I want to share is a social media account,

1:43.1

which is believed to be associated with the shooter in about the 2019 2020 timeframe.

1:49.0

There were over 700 comments posted from this account.

1:53.0

Some of these comments, if ultimately attributable to the shooter, appear to reflect anti-Semitic and anti-immigration themes to espouse political

2:03.1

violence and are described as extreme in nature.

2:06.9

The social media account Abate was describing was Crooks' YouTube comments.

2:11.4

When the FBI made that claim, we had to take his word for it.

2:14.5

We have no way to check.

2:16.4

But now we do. In September, we obtained hundreds

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