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Tucker Carlson: “The footage of crooks training on a. On a local firing range…”

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

Published June 8, 2026 | Video Starts at 18:09

But that's just one of, like, the thousands and thousands of records that the FBI has refused to disclose, including the. The footage of crooks training on a. On a local firing range that might give us insight into how this kid was able to get off the shots that he did. Yeah, Clairton Sports Club, we went there 43 times in the span of maybe 10 months. (18:09–18:19)

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Asserts that there is footage of Crooks training at a local firing range, which could provide insight into his shooting ability.

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“Right, but I mean, he, the FBI sniper waited long enough that crooks fired eight times before he was taken out.”
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“But we do know he made bombs.”
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“Information about the Iranian plot against Trump came in part from Israel.”
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“So, I mean, presumably, considering that Trump launched a war against Iran in February of this year, if there was evidence that Iran was…”
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“Trump shut down the investigation into the shooting.”
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“He [Trump] spent his campaign in the 2024 race arguing against regime change.”
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“He [Trump] launched it [a regime change war], and not just launched it, but became this kind of enthusiastic tool of the government of…”
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“The FBI has a lot of this information we should say and has not released it for reasons maybe we can speculate about in a minute. But it's…”
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“Out of 75,000.”
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“Right. That belongs to the American people. These documents belong to the American people. The FBI belongs to the American people.”
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“And of course, no individual, even president, owns the US justice system. Justice is affected on behalf of the entire country.”
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“He was at one point like in contact with security at the event. Correct. He. He got a range finder through.”
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“603 is when he was first spotted.”
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“So we know Crooks is on the roof at 6:03.”
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“Crooks is on the roof, aims his rifle at [a local cop], then pivots and starts firing within 30 seconds at over 100 yards and hits Trump's…”
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“So four people are hit by bullets, including Trump.”
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“So, okay, I think that the evidence suggests it was entirely real. Someone was trying to kill Trump.”
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“Okay. Shortly after, there was widely publicized claims that Iran had something to do with this.”
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“But he still works there.”
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“Was anyone fired?”
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“The government [claims the case] is open and closed: Lone gunman, crazy person killed by heroic Secret Service sniper, no accomplices.”
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“Joe Kent said [the case] is directly related to, he believes directly related to our war in Iran.”
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“Trump shut down the investigation into Butler, so he shut down the investigation into his own attempted murder.”
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“Is there proof that Crooks constructed bombs or a bomb?”
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“But we have no idea why he made these bombs or what he planned to do with them.”
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“The government of Iran.”
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“He's not Iranian, by the way, just to restate. He's Pakistani.”
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“No relationship to Butler that we know of.”
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“So it's not a real trial.”
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“It's not uncommon to see defendants in cases like this represented by lawyers who are acting against their interests.”
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“Trump becomes not just a neocon, but like the leading neocon in the world.”
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“Trump appoints the people who effectively allowed this [the assassination attempt] to happen by their incompetence at best to positions of…”
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“Trump promotes the guy [who failed to protect him from an assassination attempt].”
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“Trump gets effortlessly elected and then becomes this crazed neocon.”
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“You can't make the argument that Trump was in favor of a regime change war with Iran since he was explicitly against a regime change war…”
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“So can you recruit foreign fighters in Ukraine without the knowledge and participation of US Government authorities?”
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“If you've got an extensive criminal record for violent crimes and you wind up in Poland trying to join the Ukrainian Foreign Legion and then…”
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“In September of 2024, Trump was telling me and everybody else that I'm going to end this war between Russia and Ukraine and I can do it. I…”
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“Fast forward now almost two years and Trump has done nothing to end the war and in fact has kept it going with American tax dollars.”
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“The guy who is in an Azoff Battalion commercial tries to kill Trump with an SKS rifle. And then lo and behold, all of a sudden, Trump is for…”
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“Now why would a multiple convicted felon construction worker who tries to murder the Republican nominee have classified national security…”
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“He is a dual citizen.”
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“He's the medical examiner who did at best an incomplete job with the autopsy or of the report, anyway. Of Crooks.”
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“He is not the medical examiner that victims, dead people in Butler Township, Pennsylvania would normally go to.”
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“The facilities that cremated allowed him to be cremated with the fragments still in him and didn't list the testing of his hair.”
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“The COVID up or the secrecy or the studied lack of curiosity doesn't sort of end at the Justice Department. It extends into the media.”
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