Overview
- Tucker Carlson said on June 12 that Dan Bongino told him last December that President Trump shut down the FBI probe into the July 2024 Butler shooting.
- Dan Bongino immediately denied Carlson’s account on social media and called Carlson a liar before confronting the allegation on his show.
- On June 12 Bongino released and read aloud text-message excerpts he says show he briefed the president and that Trump was "satisfied" with the answers, which Bongino says contradict Carlson’s claim.
- The FBI’s final report, issued at the end of 2025, concluded Thomas Crooks acted alone in the Butler attack and the bureau has not publicly changed that finding.
- Newly disclosed emails between Crooks and a local deputy plus questions about toxicology records have kept public doubt alive and intensified a split in conservative media coverage that could deepen distrust of official findings.