Tucker Carlson Uncovers Deleted YouTube Comments Linking Trump Shooter to Years of Violent Threats

Tucker Carlson has unveiled a trove of previously hidden YouTube comments from Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024, revealing a years-long trail of violent threats that contradict FBI assertions of no prior ideological indicators.

Carlson released a 34-minute documentary Friday, sourced from an anonymous tipster who accessed Crooks’ deactivated accounts via a phone number published in America First Legal documents.

The number linked to a Gmail, YouTube channel, Snapchat, and other profiles—all wiped post-shooting but recoverable through archived data, including 737 comments from 2019 to 2020 when Crooks was 15 to 17.

Early posts show Crooks as a Trump supporter issuing graphic calls for violence.

On July 19, 2019, at 11:35 p.m., under an MSNBC video, he wrote: "Illhan Omar and others are invaders and should honestly be killed and their dead bodies sent back."

At 2:40 a.m. the next day on another MSNBC clip: "Ive noticed a lot of liers talking about the truth in this post. Well let me tell you some truth. Everyone of the Trump hating democrats deserve to have their heads chopped of and put on steaks for the world to see what happens when you fuck with America."

By late 2019, threats escalated.

On September 26 at 3:03 p.m. on Bloomberg Television: "With the way this country has been going I think we need the dictator to at least get rid of the progressives. And than maybe put these hispanics back in their place."

That day at 6:12 p.m. on a related video: "If the losing republicans have dont like it they hold all the fire power. 50 million americans with ar 15s will make quick work of any blockades the gov. can put to protect the white house."

Crooks quoted Mao Zedong on September 30, 2019, at 7:42 p.m. on a Washington Post video: "The only real political power comes from the barrel of a gun."

In a civil-war thread the same day: "cops cant arrest me if they are all dead."

He added: "You think adam lanza or any school shooter trained. Nope."

By early 2020, amid COVID-19 lockdowns, Crooks pivoted left.

On April 2020 Fox News footage of a WHO warning, he wrote: "It seems that you people don't understand that sometimes Public safety comes before your Personnel rights. If someone in your family has Covid-19 why wouldn't you want them quarentined? Are you really going to get in the way of trying to stop this pandemic on account of your phobia of government? Seriously what is wrong with you guys."

In August 2020, on a video about California legislation, he speculated on insurgency: "IMO they only way to fight the gov is with terrorism style attacks, sneak a bomb into an essential building a set it off before anyone sees you, track down any important people/politicians/military leaders etc and try to assasinate them."

WATCH:

Comments ceased after exchanges with user@Willy_Tepes, linked to the U.S.-designated terrorist Nordic Resistance Movement.

On August 4, 2020, Tepes wrote: "If a gun and a badge is all that is needed, then 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 just better get used to the idea."

The account included a bedroom video of Crooks dry-firing a handgun, tied via Google Drive.

It was suspended July 14, 2024—one day after the attack.

Carlson charges the FBI framed Crooks as right-wing despite knowing of the posts through tech-surveillance contracts.

Deputy Director Paul Abbate told Congress July 30, 2024, the bureau found far-right, antisemitic content—with no mention of the leftward shift.

Photos show an FBI Technical Hazards Response Unit agent hosing the rooftop where Crooks died, a departure from standard third-party cleanup, sources told Carlson.

The feds buried a radicalized teen’s digital bombshell, scrubbed the scene, and peddled a half-truth narrative while local cops and classmates beg for answers—classic Deep State sleight-of-hand to protect the regime and demonize the right.