The Attempts on Trump’s Life, Why He Shut Down the Investigations & How It Altered History Forever
6/8/20261 hr 46 min
The attempts on Donald Trump’s life, why he shut down the investigations and how it altered history forever. Ken Silva with bizarre details from the shooting that changed world history. (00:00) The Assassination Attempt on Trump in Butler, PA (05:04) Who Was Thomas Crooks? (13:14) The Missing Details of That Day (25:45) The Strange Crooks Sightings (37:06) How Was Crooks Such a Good Marksman? (59:11) Did Iran Have Anything to Do With This? Ryan Routh Recruiting Foreign Fighters for Ukraine Ken Silva is the editor of HeadlineUSA.com, a contributor to the Libertarian Institute, and the author of "The Trump Assassination Plots: What the Investigations Missed, and Why it Matters (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H1GVFW3Y/r)." He has more than 15 years of experience as an investigative reporter, with bylines in the Associated Press, the Economist Intelligence Unit, Reason, and numerous other publications. Follow him on Twitter/X: @JD_Cashless. Paid partnerships with: Ethos: Protect your family with life insurance from Ethos. Get up to $3 million in coverage in as little as 10 minutes at https://ethos.com/TUCKER Joi + Blokes: Use code TUCKER for 65% off your labs and 20% off all supplements at https://joiandblokes.com/tucker American Financing: NMLS 182334, nmlsconsumeraccess.org. APR for rates in the 5s start at 6.327% for well qualified borrowers. Call 800-685-5696 for details about credit costs and terms. Visit http://www.AmericanFinancing.net/Tucker. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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First 90 secondsTucker Carlson· Host0:00
[instrumental music] Ken Silva, thank you very much for doing this. So you've written a book on the Trump assassination plots, uh, the two from the summer of 2024, uh, about which there are more unanswered questions than answered questions, and they're so transparently ridiculous, the stories that we have been told, um, that it... My first question is, what, w-where are all the other books on this topic? Why did this fall to you?
Ken Silva· Guest0:29
Uh, that was my question too. [laughs] And you're actually probably one of the only major media figures that's still keeping this story alive, so it's a pleasure to talk to you. But, uh, yeah, there were a couple books published, um, in the wake, like Salena Zito, who's a Washington Examiner reporter, wrote a book called Butler, but it goes more into the cultural aspects of, like, the Butler community and the political effects, the political fallout of the event. It's not really, like, a forensic investigation. This is the f- the first of that kind.
Tucker Carlson· Host1:01
Does Zito's book have a conclusion? Uh, does it reach, does it reach a conclusion about what that was? D- or does she affirm the official story, which is this was a lo- a crazed left-wing lone gunman?
Ken Silva· Guest1:13
Yeah, it's more or less an affirmation of the official story, and again, just, like, the political fallout. That's, that's more of the book. Uh, she was there that day, so there is, like, a bi- uh, a autobiographical account of what happened- Yeah ... you know, from when she got there. But, uh, it