Tucker Carlson Reveals Shocking Details About Thomas Crooks

If you didn’t see Tucker Carlson’s recent segment on Thomas Crooks, the 20-year-old man who nearly assassinated Donald Trump live on national television during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania last year, there are a few important revelations you should know about.

The first revelation — which isn’t remotely controversial — is that the FBI has clearly been hiding relevant information about Thomas Crooks from the general public. And by itself, that’s a national scandal that justifies completely gutting the FBI, from the highest levels on down. Even if you firmly believe that Thomas Crooks was a lone gunman, and even if you believe that the Secret Service was merely incompetent (as opposed to complicit) — the fact remains, our government has been withholding important details about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life, without any justification whatsoever.

We should not have to rely on Tucker Carlson, or any podcaster, to tell us that Thomas Crooks left a lengthy trail of comments on YouTube, in which he openly called for political violence for several years.

These calls were so overt, and so disturbing, that one user wrote in response to Crooks:

You’re on YouTube threatening to shoot government officials. I sure hope the FBI is monitoring social media for violent nutcases.

It’s almost too on-the-nose to be real. But that comment is still available on YouTube, to this day. Thomas Crooks’ account has been suspended, and all of his comments have been hidden. They’re only accessible using the Internet archive website. But the replies are still there. And yet, more than a year after the assassination attempt in Butler, we have to rely on Tucker Carlson to tell us about any of this. That is completely, overwhelmingly, unequivocally unacceptable. It shouldn’t fall to anyone in the media to tell us what Thomas Crooks was saying online — and how people were reacting to his comments.

We also shouldn’t have to rely on podcasters to tell us that Thomas Crooks decided, sometime during the COVID lockdowns, to completely reverse his political views, and to begin openly attacking Donald Trump and his administration on social media. And we certainly shouldn’t have to rely on podcasters to tell us that Crooks was in contact with a mysterious person — who remains unidentified, beyond the online alias “Willy Tepes” — who openly encouraged Crooks to commit acts of violence.

At one point, Willy Tepes wrote to Crooks, 

…authority obviously comes from the barrel of a gun. We have more guns than they do. There is no way we can avoid a war at this point, so you better just get used to the idea.

In common parlance, this is known as “fed posting.” Willy Tepes is almost being too obvious about it. He understands that Thomas Crooks is a radical who’s prone to violence. He sees that Crooks is posting about acts of violence against political officials — and that Crooks wrote, at one point, that even the White House could be overwhelmed if enough Americans took up arms. Willy Tepes is aware of all this. And instead of expressing concern, he encourages Crooks to go to war.

Is it possible that this is just some random internet troll? Of course it is. It’s also possible that “Willy Tepes” was working with a government agency or a terror cell — either in this country or some other country — to groom potential assassins. In fact, given how weird “Willy’s” comments were — and to be clear, he replied to Crooks multiple times — it seems very likely that he was trying to groom Thomas Crooks. So what has the FBI done to investigate Willy Tepes? What have they done to figure out his identity? Why is Tucker’s show the first time — literally, the first time — that anyone in this country has heard the name “Willy Tepes”?

That is inexcusable, for about a million different reasons. It’s not the FBI’s job to determine what information is worth sharing to the public, or what information they deem is “important.” When it comes to the near-assassination of the leading presidential candidate, no detail is irrelevant. If Thomas Crooks went bowling every week, we should know that. If Thomas Crooks loved the film “Good Will Hunting,” we should know that. And certainly, if he was in regular communication with an anonymous person who sounded a lot like a fed, we should know that, too. At the very least we should know something about this guy. But if the feds had their way, we would know nothing at all. And that’s what we knew — nothing — until this week.

And on top of that, beyond the transparency issues, it would obviously help the government’s investigation to raise awareness about these posts. Maybe someone, somewhere, knows who “Willy Tepes” is. And as long as Willy Tepes isn’t the alias for a CIA agent or something like that, then you’d think your government would want someone to come forward and identify him immediately. But that’s not possible if they bury his identity, and all information about him.

And then there’s the fact that Crooks’s PayPal account, for one reason or another, uses the name of an ex-FBI agent who worked in Pennsylvania, and who investigated the Las Vegas mass shooting — the one where no motive has ever been established. What exactly is going on there? We have no idea, because again, this is the first time anyone’s hearing about any of this. Our government — under both the Biden administration and the Trump administration — made the conscious decision to hide all of this information from us. The only reason we’re hearing about it now is that a random source got in contact with Tucker Carlson’s team, and tipped him off to Crooks’ online history. And because this information remains uncontested by the FBI, several days after Tucker Carlson’s broadcast, we can assume it’s all true.

So let’s pause for a minute here, and zoom out. Let’s really think about what’s happened here. This is the official narrative. Last summer, Thomas Crooks — supposedly an untrained 20-year-old with an angry, inconsistent social media history — managed to outwit the Secret Service and gain access to a roof 500 feet away from Donald Trump.

And he wasn’t particularly subtle about it. As you can see here, he was clearly visible, running along the rooftop as Trump spoke.

CRAZY. This video is from James Copenhaver – one of the bystanders who was shot twice and critically wounded during the assassination attempt against Trump. It CLEARLY shows Crooks’ head scurrying on the rooftop moments before the shooting.

Takeaway: Secret Service BLEW IT and… pic.twitter.com/1rP6083ZFH

— Justin Hart (@justin_hart) July 31, 2024

Credit: @justin_hart/X.com

But the Secret Service didn’t notice him — even though random attendees in the crowd were suspicious, and notified law enforcement. Somehow the Secret Service didn’t have anyone on the roof — because it was too “sloped” — and somehow the Secret Service counter-snipers couldn’t see any of this. They only shot Thomas Crooks after he unloaded several shots at Donald Trump, including a shot that hit Trump in the head. And coincidentally enough, the rally in Butler was the first time that the Secret Service had deployed counter-snipers to a Trump rally during the 2024 campaign season. Yes, the Secret Service snipers made their debut at the Butler rally — just in time to neutralize Thomas Crooks after he got his shots off. 

So in a very tidy fashion, Thomas Crooks was quickly erased from the picture. No one could question him. No one could put him on trial. And then a funny thing happened. No one really investigated Thomas Crooks. No one told us anything about his social media posts, or his political views — beyond the claim that he was a Trump supporter, which was false. It took more than a year for us to learn that, in fact, Thomas Crooks was openly promising to commit violence on social media — and that someone was encouraging him to do so.

But the story gets even more stranger from there.

Less than 48 hours after Tucker’s reporting, out of nowhere, the New York Post published this exclusive information.

Thomas Crooks used they/them pronouns and posted threats of political violence and violent art on his secret social media accounts before he attempted to assassinate President Trump, according to sources who shared the suspected messages with The Post. … .Crooks had two possible accounts on DeviantArt, a site that hosts fan art and has become notorious for its community of furries — people who identify as anthropomorphized animal characters and/or are sexually attracted to them. One of the DeviantArt accounts linked to Crooks shared just one post, a repost of a towering, muscular female bodybuilder and a slight man in his underwear.

Separately, the Post’s Miranda Devine reported that Crooks, “had an obsession with scantily clad cartoon characters sporting muscle-bound male bodies and female heads.”

This seems to be a clear case of yet another psychologically disturbed mass shooter — someone who had been indoctrinated into the LGBT cult — turning to violence. Which is not a particularly surprising development. As I’ve said repeatedly, the LGBT cult is the single greatest domestic terror threat this country faces. In just the past few years, trans-identifying terrorists have shot up multiple Christian churches and schools. “Non-binary” mass shooters have targeted high schools and bars. A Leftist living with a “furry” assassinated Charlie Kirk in front of thousands of people.

Put simply, trans extremism is an epidemic. And the pattern of trans and “non-binary” violence is not at all surprising, even though the media tries to cover it up. Any man who identifies as a woman or a “they/them” is mentally unstable by definition. It seems nearly certain that all of these people were on psychiatric meds and in some cases hormones. And there’s another common theme here as well, which is that all of these violent LGBT shooters all probably developed their “gender identity” from consuming hundreds of hours of porn. The gender stuff is the product of extreme nihilism and extreme perversion. A steady long term diet of pornography turns anyone into a nihilist pervert. It’s not a far leap to get from that to murderer.

That’s why it’s not exactly shocking to hear that Thomas Crooks was also a member of the “they/them” cult, who regularly consumed various degenerate forms of media. At this point, you almost expect the investigation to uncover something like this. Thomas Crooks is yet another violent LGBT-linked killer, to add to a very disturbing, and fast growing, list.

There were some concerns expressed by some commentators that perhaps this revelation was an intentional diversion. A targeted leak, intended to distract us from the investigation that Tucker Carlson just published. That does seem like something the FBI might try to do, but that’s not what happened in this case. Miranda Devine has made it clear that her source is the same as Tucker’s — the information didn’t come from the FBI. Devine also provided more information on the Willy Tepes character, who was first identified by Tucker Carlson. 

Here’s what Devine wrote.

One of the people Crooks interacted with online was ‘Willy Tepes,’ a member of Norwegian neo-Nazi group the Nordic Resistance Movement, which has since been designated a terrorist organization by the State Department. In one comment on Oct. 5, 2025, more than a year after Butler, Tepes commented to another user that he had been contacted by both Russian and American intelligence. ‘People who ask you to contact them when they just as easily could contact you, are Feds. This is how they avoid entrapment. Both American and Russian intelligence does this. I have chatted to both.’ Tepes said.

There are only two possibilities here. The first possibility is that we’re seeing a monumental, unforgivable failure by the FBI — a degree of incompetence that’s simply staggering. Maybe they missed all of these chats. Or maybe they didn’t think they were relevant, and just never got around to releasing them. So they’re left to respond with pathetic “rapid response” press releases when Tucker Carlson and Miranda Devine publish investigative reports a year later. That’s the best-case scenario. That is the absolute, best-case scenario we’re dealing with.

The worst-case scenario is almost too dark to say out loud. But I’ll try my best. The worst-case scenario is that the FBI has been hiding all of this information about Thomas Crooks for the same reason that the Secret Service — supposedly the most elite protective force in the entire world — failed to secure that slightly-sloped roof 400 feet away from Donald Trump, with a direct line-of-sight to his head. The worst-case scenario is that the leadership of our intelligence agencies want Donald Trump dead. And if that’s the case, then there’s no reason to think they’re going to stop trying to kill him.

It’s not my job, or your job, to decide between these scenarios. It’s the job of our government, out of an abundance of transparency, to absolve itself completely of any responsibility in the attempt to murder Donald Trump. They should be telling us everything they know, even if they don’t think the information is relevant. But our government has not done so. And for that reason, it’s not insane or paranoid to assume the worst, or at least to consider it a very real possibility. For one reason or another, we aren’t being told the whole story, or even an incomplete story. And it’s way past time for us to ask one question: why?