Disturbing New Details About Attempted Trump Assassin Thomas Crooks, Emmys Disasters, and Harry and Meghan's Rocky UK Start | Ep. 1398
September 15, 2026
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5 min readThe morning of July 13, 2024, Thomas Crooks’s father unlocked his gun safe—the combination of which he changed frequently because he noticed his son looking over his shoulder—and handed him a Panther Arms AR-15 rifle. Hours later, Crooks climbed onto a roof in Butler, Pennsylvania, and fired at Donald Trump, killing Corey Comperatore and wounding two others. The FBI documents released months later, obtained by the New York Post and Senator Chuck Grassley, paint a portrait of a young man who had been profoundly disturbed from birth. His father told investigators that Crooks did not cry when he was born and was always quiet, that he “never really had a father-son bond” with his son, that Crooks rarely expressed strong emotions and hardly ever laughed. He once dumped an entire container of fish food into his sister’s tank after an argument—effectively killing her pet. His father pushed him to the point of tears just to elicit any emotional reaction. Yet the father also told investigators that Crooks “never showed any signs indicating something was wrong.” Megyn Kelly, reading through the report on her show, was blunt: “This is a fail up and down the schedule.”
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What you'll learn
- 1 (02:51) **Emmys 2024 Recap: Fashion, Politics, and Relationship Red Flags** - Megyn recaps the Emmys ceremony, focusing on controversial fashion choices, the notable absence of political speeches, and Matthew Rhys's awkward omission of his wife during his acceptance speeches.
- 2 (25:00) **Harry and Meghan's Rocky Return to the UK** - Megyn details the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's troubled and controversial move back to Britain, including their disputes with the royal family and their public safety complaints.
- 3 (47:45) **Harry and Meghan's Children: Uprooted for a Failed PR Stunt** - Megyn analyzes the couple's decision to pull their children from a UK school after just two days, framing it as abusive and a result of their obsession with safetyism.
- 4 (54:00) **Disturbing New Details on Thomas Crooks** - Megyn dives into a New York Post report on the childhood and family life of Donald Trump's would-be assassin, based on FBI interviews with his father, Matthew Crooks.
- 5 (76:30) **The Mysterious Cremation and Unanswered Questions** - Megyn discusses the report that an anonymous donor paid for the cremation of Thomas Crooks's body, fueling conspiracy theories about the assassination attempt.
- 6 (79:56) **Hayden Panettiere's Tragic Death and Lindsey Clancy Jury Fallout** - Megyn covers two major news stories: the working theory on how Hayden Panettiere died and the harassment of the holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial.
- 7 (94:28) **US Open Finals: Boring Tennis and Race-Baiting Commentary** - Megyn wraps up the show with her thoughts on the US Open, criticizing a player's pre-serve routine and a commentator's attempt to inject race into the victory of a biracial player.
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Show Notes
Megyn Kelly discusses some of the biggest disasters from the 2026 Emmys, Matthew Rhys failing to mention his wife in his acceptance speeches both times he won, Shailene Woodley’s bizarre red carpet appearance and more of the worst looks, Mariska Hargitay’s 15-year-old daughter wearing an inappropriate dress to the Emmys, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s tumultuous move back to the UK, the backlash they are already facing from England residents, why British taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for the security of the couple, their decision to already pull their children out of their new school, disturbing new revelations about attempted Trump assassin Thomas Crooks, his lifetime of eerie silence ever since he was a newborn, Thomas Crooks’ unusual online activity before the attempted assassination of President Trump, his interest in identity-masking software and efforts to conceal his online activity, why Crooks' father should have done more to raise the alarm about his son, new information about the black male holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial, his brother speaking out and revealing what the juror is going through now, Ben Shelton’s perfect response when a reporter attempted to frame his U.S. Open victory around race, the way sports can unify us if it's not built on divisive messaging, and more.
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