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FBI Fires Back At Claims It ‘Lied’ About Trump Assassination Attempt
After Tucker Carlson accused the FBI of lying about the Donald Trump assassination attempt, the agency responded.
Following Carlson’s comments on suspect Thomas Crooks, the FBI was compelled to address allegations regarding his digital footprint.
Tucker Carlson made controversial claims about the FBI and Thomas Crooks
Crooks is charged with trying to kill the president during a July campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
He ultimately only managed to strike the president’s ear, but the act claimed the life of 50-year-old firefighter Corey Comperatore.
A Secret Service sniper shot and killed Crooks shortly after two other men, David Dutch and James Copenhaver, were hurt.
Carlson said, “The FBI told us Thomas Crooks tried to kill Donald Trump last summer, but somehow had no online footprint. The FBI lied, and we can prove it because we have his posts. The question is why?”
In response, the FBI Rapid Response account posted, “The FBI has never said Thomas Crooks had no online footprint. Ever.”
Carlson expanded on his claims in a video
On Friday, Carlson shared a video he said the FBI – led by director Kash Patel – “has worked hard to make sure you haven’t seen”.
The video, which purportedly originated from Crooks’ Google Drive, showed him shooting drills.
Additionally, it purports to demonstrate that Crooks maintained multiple online personas and left YouTube comments.
Carlson argued that Crooks “was not some secretive lone wolf who never warned anyone that he was planning violence” based on such remarks.
He argued: “Thomas Crooks came within a quarter inch of destroying this country, and yet, a year and a half later, we still know almost nothing about him or why he did it.”
“That’s because, for some reason, the FBI, even the current FBI, doesn’t want us to know.”
He accused the bureau of ‘[having] hidden from the public what they know’ and added, “So here you have volatile, troubled, possibly mentally ill young man with a long record of espousing violence in public.”
“The FBI clearly knew he existed.”
Carlson then claimed that they “used a selective read of those comments to lie about what Thomas Crooks was thinking”.
Later, on Friday, Patel himself made documents public that subtly contradict Carlson’s assertions.
On X, he wrote, “The investigation, conducted by over 480 FBI employees, revealed Crooks had limited online and in-person interactions, planned and conducted the attack alone, and did not leak or share his intent to engage in the attack with anyone.”
The investigation – he wrote – “identified and examined over 20 online accounts, data extracted from over a dozen electronic devices, examination of numerous financial accounts, and over 1,000 interviews and 2,000 public tips”.
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