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Tucker Carlson: “Trump promotes the guy [who failed to protect him from an…”

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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 1:14:08

Your one job is to keep a sniper from shooting me at me and you failed. But instead of doing that, Trump promotes the guy [who failed to protect him from an assassination attempt]. I have no good answer for you as far as that goes. I mean, I'm tormented by it. Yeah. Especially considering what happened after, where Trump gets effortlessly elected and then becomes this crazed neocon. (1:14:08–1:14:11)

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Asserts that Trump promoted someone who failed to protect him during an assassination attempt.

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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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“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…”
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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 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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