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Kent suggested that President Trump may feel particularly vulnerable given the “unanswered questions” surrounding both attacks.
“By no means am I saying, like, you know, the Israelis did this or any of that,” Kent told Tucker, before noting the unusual timing of the Trump rally shooting. The event occurred just one day after the FBI arrested Iranian national Asif Merchant in a murder-for-hire plot targeting Trump, exposing a strange convergence of events on July 12–13, 2024.
Kent pressed the point about investigative restrictions: “We’re not allowed to ask, basically, was there any linkage between what took place with Asif Merchant, who was recruited by the Iranians to come to America to recruit proxies to kill President Trump.”
He described Crooks as an “enigma” under the official narrative. “We don’t know anything about him. We can’t get into his devices. If we did get into his devices, maybe there’s nothing there. No more questions are allowed to be asked about Thomas Crooks,” Kent said. He added that even the DHS Inspector General has been blocked from investigating Butler, while public reporting shows Crooks had an online footprint, raising questions about why authorities aren’t digging deeper.
Kent also criticized the failures to address “multiple public breaches of President Trump’s security” over the past year, tying these lapses to Charlie Kirk’s assassination by Tyler Robinson. “We’re not really even allowed to look into that at all,” Kent stated.
Reflecting on his last encounter with Kirk, Kent recalled: “He said, ‘Joe, stop us from getting into a war with Iran,’ very loudly. And he walked off, and he went, I believe, into the Oval.”
Kent emphasized that Kirk’s public assassination, following his vocal opposition to a war with Iran and his advocacy for reconsidering the U.S.-Israel relationship, represents a significant “data point” that authorities are ignoring.
“We’ve been told that this individual, Robinson, is a lone gunman, and maybe he is. But the investigation that I was a part of, the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) was a part of, we were stopped from continuing to investigate,” Kent explained. He criticized the FBI for halting its probe, despite potential leads and evidence that could have linked Robinson to a broader network.
Kent highlighted public online activity suggesting that Kirk’s assassination may have been premeditated and coordinated within radical left-wing circles. “I just think, considering they knew the guy, they knew Charlie was going to be assassinated… there was enough of them that there’s something there,” Kent said.
Describing the bureaucratic barriers that hampered the NCTC investigation, Kent said, “We’ve been cut off because it’s just the way the bureaucracy works… every time we asked, we were blocked.” He expressed frustration at the lack of follow-through given Kirk’s prominence within the MAGA movement.
“I pray there is. I hope this helps. I know we know you, and I will probably take some flak for it,” Kent added.
Tucker Carlson responded: “I don’t know why, and I doubt I’ll be— at a certain but I’ve really tried not to say anything about it because I don’t, I don’t know the answers and but I want them to be found because I believe in justice and because I love Charlie, but I think everything you have said, you know, may be dismissed as crazy or evil. Tell me how. With reference to the words you’ve just spoken, I don’t see how someone could level a legitimate attack on you; it won’t stop them.”
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