Tucker Carlson asked Joe Kent why the Thomas Crooks surveillance tapes havenât been released.
Kentâs answer blew him away.
He explained the government deliberately withholds information to create noise with conspiracy theories, so the âactual question never gets answered.â
TUCKER: âThe current president was the subject of a near-successful assassination attempt.â
âAnd weâre just not going to look into very obviously or divulge information that everyone knows they have.â
âFor example, the surveillance tape from the shooting range at which Thomas Crooks trained, because it would answer the question, was he training with somebody?â
âAnd if so, who? They have that footage, and they wonât release it. What could possibly be the explanation for that?â
KENT: âI know what the result is. The result is people come to their own conclusions. And this is where crazy conspiracy theories come from.â
âAnd then those conspiracy theories usually are easy to âdebunkâ or make the people saying them sound crazy. So then the actual question never gets answered.â
[Tucker laughs in awe]
TUCKER: âSorry. Can you say that for people who havenât lived in Washington?â
âI try to explain this to people all the time because this has been ongoing since at least the Kennedy assassination.â
âBut this is a very serious and recurring thing. Itâs a tactic. And you just explained it better than anyone Iâve ever heard. Can you just do that again?â
KENT: âSo basically, you give no information whatsoever on something thatâs obvious, that there should be information.â
âYou outlined thereâs potentially footage of Crooks at the shooting range. Again, police, 101, go get the tapes. Letâs figure it out.â
âIf you donât want to address that question, then you just go silent. You say, âyou canât ask that question,â which then creates people who come out of kind of nowhere, and they start drawing their own conclusions.â
âKnowing the way the internet works, half of them, if not more, are probably going to be so far off in left field... that then you can just be like, Oh, these people asking these questions about that tape at the video range. Crazy conspiracy theorists.ââ
âAnd so then youâve just diverted all attention away from the thing that youâre trying to conceal. And now everyoneâs focused on the crazies.â
TUCKER: âMan.â
KENT: âAnd then the second someone asks a legitimate question, theyâre âcrazy.ââ