Tucker Carlson isn't afraid to ask the questions everyone else won't touch.
The FBI thought they could bury this story forever.
But Tucker Carlson just exposed one ugly truth about Trump shooter that has FBI in full panic mode.
Tucker's investigators uncovered what FBI tried to hide
Thomas Matthew Crooks tried to assassinate President Donald Trump at a Butler, Pennsylvania rally in July 2024, coming within millimeters of ending Trump's life before a Secret Service counter-sniper took him out.
The FBI immediately swept in and told the American people Crooks had "no definitive ideology" driving his actions.
That was a lie.
Tucker Carlson's investigative team just blew the FBI's cover story to pieces on the Tucker Carlson Network.
A source with access to private investigator tools tracked down Crooks' primary email and deactivated YouTube accounts that the FBI claimed didn't exist.
What they found should terrify every American who values truth over government propaganda.
In July 2019, Crooks was posting on YouTube that Trump represented the "literal definition of Patriotism."¹
He called for the deaths of anti-Trump congresswomen and wanted "Trump-hating Democrats" to have their heads chopped off.¹
Then something happened.
By January 2020, Crooks had completely flipped.
He started mocking Trump supporters as "brainwashed" cult members who sound "dumb" and "racist."¹
The timeline FBI doesn't want you to see
The transformation happened fast — suspiciously fast.
Within six months, Crooks went from die-hard MAGA to passionately anti-Trump.
In one January 2020 comment, Crooks wrote: "How can you people call other sheep, but you are [too] brainwashed to realize how dumb you are."¹
He mocked concerns about the "deep state" and accused Trump supporters of being gullible enough to believe Chinese people descended from aliens if Trump told them so.¹
By May 2020, Crooks was attacking voter fraud concerns as "ignorant" and warning that Trump could still win again in 2024.¹
Then came the really disturbing part.
In August 2020, Crooks laid out a detailed plan for conducting "terrorism-style attacks" against the government.¹
He wrote that the only way to fight the government was to "sneak a bomb into an essential building [and] set it off before anyone sees you" or "track down important people/politicians/military leaders etc and try to assassinate them."¹
Tucker's team also found that in mid-2019, Crooks searched Trump's name online more than 700 times.¹
He looked up the best places for mass shootings, how to shoot an AR-15 as fast as possible, "fertilizer bomb," and "Trump civil war."¹
The FBI knew all of this.
They had access to the same accounts Tucker's investigators found.
But they told Congress and the American people that Crooks had no online footprint and no clear ideology.
FBI caught red-handed in another cover-up
When Tucker released his findings, the FBI's Rapid Response account scrambled to do damage control on X.
"This FBI has never said Thomas Crooks had no online footprint. Ever," they posted.²
That's classic Washington word games.
Sure, maybe they didn't use those exact words in that exact order.
But they absolutely told investigators and the public that Crooks left no digital trail explaining his motivations.
They said he had "no definitive ideology" in their August 2024 statement.²
How do you go from "no definitive ideology" to a guy who posted hundreds of political comments and detailed plans for political assassinations?
You don't — unless you're deliberately hiding evidence.
Tucker's investigation also uncovered something else the FBI conveniently ignored.
A YouTube user with the name Willy_Tepes allegedly encouraged Crooks to commit violence.¹
Who was this person? What was their connection to Crooks? Did they help radicalize him during those crucial months in early 2020?
The FBI isn't saying.
They're too busy trying to memory-hole the entire investigation now that Trump won a landslide victory and is back in the White House with a mandate to clean house.
Director Kash Patel has made it clear the days of FBI cover-ups are over.
The Bureau's panicked response to Tucker's reporting shows they know the jig is up.
For months they stonewalled Congress and the American people about what really motivated Crooks.
Now we know why — because the truth destroys their narrative that political violence just springs up randomly from disturbed individuals.
Crooks didn't wake up one day and decide to kill Trump on a whim.
He was radicalized online, possibly with outside encouragement, and the FBI covered it up.
The question isn't whether the FBI lied anymore.
Tucker proved they did.
The question now is what else are they hiding about the assassination attempt that nearly changed history.
¹ Tucker Carlson, "Who is Thomas Crooks?" Tucker Carlson Network, November 14, 2025.
² FBI Rapid Response, X post, November 13, 2025.
