Statements from administration officials weren’t enough to keep Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett from suspecting CIA involvement in motivating one of President Donald Trump’s would-be assassins.
Nearly 10 months into the president’s second administration, supporters have found themselves voicing frustration that the public hasn’t been brought any closer to understanding how the nation was almost irrevocably changed in Butler, Pennsylvania. Now, after Tucker Carlson had spurred the FBI to respond to a report about Thomas Crooks’ online activity, the Republican congressman voiced his suspicion that the CIA was behind grooming the would-be assassin via something like MK-Ultra.
Appearing on “The Benny Johnson” show on Friday, Burchett did not discredit statements from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, FBI Director Kash Patel, and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino regarding the investigation. Rather, he suggested deeper corruption at play, keeping them from seeing the whole picture.
“You got a kid who’s got access to guns or has some simple knowledge of a firearm. He was programmed. You’re exactly right,” the congressman told Johnson. “They programmed this kid and Kristi Noem, and Kash, and Bongino and the rest are reporting the fact as they know them. The facts have been buried or burned or whoever knew is either sittin’ on a beach somewhere and, uh, enjoying a fruity drink or they’re dead.”
“I would suggest they’re probably dead,” added Burchett.
Rep. Tim Burchett says Trump assassin Thomas Crooks was groomed by CIA and MKUltra style mind control programs and dark intelligence ops for the sole purpose of taking out President Trump in Butler, PA.
“They programmed this kid. You got a kid who’s got access to guns or has… pic.twitter.com/Kzkcf39FyP
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 14, 2025
The Tennessee lawmaker went on to address how wild the claim was and justified it by stating, “You can call me a lunatic, but when the CIA says … ‘We don’t have this thing,’ and then their a**es are brought into a court of law and they say, ‘Well, we have it, but we don’t use it anymore.’ Apparently, somebody’s using it.”
During the exchange, Burchett had specifically pointed to the report from Tucker Carlson that detailed Crooks’ alleged online activity, what the commentator described as a “detailed digital trail of violent threats, including calls for assassination and political violence.”
In response to the argument that the public still knows next to nothing about Crooks, suggesting “for some reason, the FBI, even the current FBI, doesn’t want us to know,” Patel had detailed the extent of the investigation into Crooks that led the bureau to determine “Crooks had limited online and in person interactions, planned and conducted the attack alone, and did not leak or share his intent to engage in the attack with anyone.”
After thanking Carlson for lending his “credibility” to public concern about the lack of information on the failed assassination attempt of Trump that led to the severe injury of two others and the death of firefighter Corey Comperatore, Burchett went on to fault limited civic participation for allegedly allowing the Deep State to have its way.
“Look at the history. Look at where we’re at in this country. Look at the Deep State, the sewer as it is. It’s disgusting. And this is what happens, dude, when 12% of the population goes to the polls,” he said.
“Trump’s right. They’re not after, they’re not after him,” added the lawmaker. “They’re after us. He’s just standing in the way.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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