A former Fox News host suspects the FBI is leaking info to the New York Post as cover for Tucker Carlson’s documentary hinting at the Butler, Penn. Trump wannabe assassin’s potential connection to a foreign extremist group.
On Monday during an interview with journalist Glenn Greenwald, Megyn Kelly suggested the FBI may have leaked salacious details to New York Post columnist Miranda Devine about Thomas Crooks’ alleged bizarre sexual proclivities—such as interests in furry fandom and transgender themes—in a deliberate attempt to distract from a bombshell revelation in Tucker Carlson’s investigative exposé on the Trump rally shooter.
“This almost seems like a head-fake,” Kelly notes. “Like a ‘look over here’ instead of at what Tucker did, because it’s just too coincidental that we’ve had nothing on this guy,” she continued. “Nothing. And now suddenly two big information dumps drop at once: Tucker’s, he’s being about exactly where he got it, then comes this stuff about ‘he’s a furry?’ You tell me why would the government wouldn’t have shared that?”
Kelly argues that the distraction appears deliberate and well-orchestrated, crafted to shift focus away from Carlson’s central thesis: that the would-be Trump assassin, Thomas Crooks, may have been recruited by an individual—potentially connected to foreign terrorists—whom Carlson highlights in the documentary.
Carlson suggests that Crooks went radio silent online shortly after his interactions with an anonymous user named Willy_Tepes. Although Tepes’ identity remains unverified in the film itself, the username has been publicly linked (by an ANTIFA group) to Bjørn Leif Hjelmerud—a Norwegian man associated with the neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement, a U.S. State Department-designated foreign terrorist organization.
This also isn’t the first time the “furry” card has been played—with large conservative X accounts like Libs of TikTok highlighting that both Tyler Robinson, the individual accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk, and Wess Roley, the suspect in the Idaho firefighter ambush killings, had documented online ties to furry subculture or related interests.
Several questions remain unanswered regarding Thomas Crooks’ background and motives for attempting to assassinate Donald Trump just months before Election Day. What is clear, however, is that the FBI’s ongoing lack of transparency and its refusal to cooperate with independent journalists is only intensifying public suspicion and fueling further speculation.
