On Tuesday’s Mark Levin Show, the 9/11 families still lack answers from Saudi Arabia’s involvement in September 11th. Mohammed bin Salman’s claim that Osama bin Laden used Saudis to destroy U.S.-Saudi relations is crap. MBS says he wants a two state solution with Israel and Palestine but he won’t take in one Palestinian from Gaza. Later, NY Post’s Miranda Devine criticizes the FBI and Secret Service for mishandling the investigation into Thomas Crooks’ attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a 2024 Butler, Pennsylvania rally. An independent source uncovered Crooks’ 17 online accounts revealing his ideological shift from pro-Trump supporter in 2019—issuing threats against Democrats—to anti-Trump critic by 2020, with increasingly violent rhetoric advocating terrorism, assassination, and interactions with a neo-Nazi. The Crooks files need to be released. Also, Gov Mike Dunleavy calls in to discuss a new discovery at Alaska’s Graphite Creek site near Nome which has uncovered vast reserves of graphite and rare earth elements potentially dealing a major blow to China’s 90% dominance in these minerals. The project qualifies for Defense Production Act materials and plans to ship resources to an Ohio plant, maximizing value through by-product recovery. This find allows the U.S. to wean off China’s rare earth minerals. Afterward, all of the so-called Epstein files will be released. Rep Clay Higgins was the only Congressman to vote against it, but he has a good point. There are innocent victims, witnesses and people who were helping investigators that do not want there name out in the media. Finally, Dr Marc Siegel calls in to discuss his new book – The Miracles Among Us: How God’s Grace Plays a Role in Healing.
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Rough transcription of Hour 1
Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. Well, all the so-called Epstein files, whatever that means, will be released, as I understand it. Sure. Names will be redacted. Those are victims and so forth. But whatever went through their house like crap through a grouse and went even faster through the Senate. So these are the weird priorities that we live with today. And despite all the leaks and all the investigations, Donald Trump has not been implicated in anything. Zero. Take all the talk about his tax returns for years and years, and those are leaked. There’s nothing in them. Then a committee in the House on the way out the door under the Democrats, they get a copy of several years worth. They release them. Nothing in there either. And Marjorie Taylor GREENE. Been calling her that a long time. Upsets her a lot. And that’s why I do it. And at Thomas Massie, they were with some of the victims today, but I don’t know. Did they have something to do with the prosecution of Epstein and the. And bringing justice? I don’t think so. But they’re they’re big on the on the release of the Epstein files. Fine by me. I’m just worried about the future of the country. Miranda Devine has an exclusive I want to get into that about Thomas Crooks. And there’s a whole lot going on. We have a couple of great guests, Governor Mike Donnelly. They have discovered unbelievable rare earth minerals in Alaska. They can make a huge change for this country in terms of our reliance on communist China. And Dr. Marc SIEGEL has a new book out. We’ll talk to him in our three and will be ready to roll. So a lot to do. And yet I’m going to touch on something. Oh, Saudi Arabia. I feel for you. 911 families. I really do. You’ve never gotten the answers you deserve. You never have. Which cut is it, Mr. Producer? Let’s. Cohen. Uh, it’s not cut one. It’s cut to Mohamed bin Salman, the crown prince in the Oval Office today. A reporter asked about 911 and, you know, 15 out of the 19 hijackers were Saudi citizens. Now we know Qatar’s role. One of our best friends in the Middle East now with KSM. And now we have the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. What about another of our new best friends? And we’re going to sell them our most technologically advanced jet fighters, F-35s. So it’s only a matter of time till this incredible technology that you and I spend hundreds of billions of dollars on will be obviously shared and leaked with other countries because you can’t keep a cap on that stuff forever. Not with a country that really is a new friend, should I say? Oh, yeah, a new friend. And he says, yeah, we’ll do the the Abraham Accords. As long as Israel sets up a Palestinian state, that which and then I’ll continue, which could blow it off the face of the map. That’s fine. So now Saudi Arabia is dictating to Israel. But that’s okay. This guy’s being treated like I’ve never seen a world leader treated in my life. Have you ever seen a world leader treated like this, Mr. Producer? Some ceremony. We had horses. They were beautiful F-35s flying in. It. Beautiful. Beautifully organized into a V. Um, and so forth and so on. Money talks. Who was it that said it? Congressman Smith from South Philly years ago in a great Democrat Party scandal in Washington, he said money talks and bull. You know what walks? And God knows the Arabs have a lot of money. Just by fate. There’s a lot that’s under the ground. And, you know, you know who discovered most of it? The British. All right. Here is Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince, about Obama, land laden using Saudis. Of course, Obama bin Laden was from a very wealthy, prominent Saudi. But is it Osama bin Laden? What did I say? Obama? Oh, sorry. Slip of the tongue. My mouth broke. Osama bin Laden. I can hear my wife yelling, It’s Osama bin Laden, like Mr. Producer. Just it. All right. We know who it was. Cut to go. You know, if you terrible about, you know, the families of 911 and America, But, you know, we have to focus on reality. Reality based on CIA documents and based on lost documents that Osama bin Laden uses to Saudi people. And that event for one main purpose is to destroy this relation, to destroy the American Saudi relation. That’s the purpose of my career. But so whatever volume that that means, they all have been bin nervous of destroying this relation, you know, the strong relation between America and Saudi Arabia. It’s bad for extremism, it’s bad for terrorism, and we have to prove him wrong and to build our relation, continue developing our tradition. It’s critical in the safety of the war. It’s a critical against extremism and terrorism. About the jurors, it’s really painful to hear, you know, anyone that’s been losing his life for, you know, No, really, the purpose of no, not in a legal way. And it’s been painful for us in Saudi Arabia. We’ve did all the right steps of investigation, etc., in Saudi Arabia, and we’ve improved our system to be sure that nothing happened like that. And it’s painful and it’s a huge mistake and we’ll do our best that this doesn’t happen again. I think in that case, is talking about Khashoggi, the latter part there where he was grabbed and murdered, cut into pieces, thrown in a vat of acid and so forth and so horrific. And he says, I didn’t know anything about it. He didn’t know anything about it. The CIA said he had to know something about it. The president today said that he didn’t know anything about it. So there you have, whether he did or not. But all that said, the 9/11 families are not happy with Saudi Arabia. This answer is bullcrap, in my view. These terrorists didn’t attack us to damage the relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia. They attacked us because they were homegrown radical Islamists out of Saudi Arabia. That attacks the West. That’s what they did in a horrendous way. And if you had told me it’s just Mark’s opinion not criticizing, I’m just giving my opinion. If you had told me. Right after 911 that we’d be selling our most. Highly advanced. Jet fighters to the Saudis, I would say you’re smoking something. Now, there are geopolitical reasons for working with the Saudis. No question about it. They hate Qatar. Hate them because Qataris use terrorism to try to overthrow that. That monarchy in the past. But I think Qatar’s our best friend, too. No, Mr. Minister. Oh, yeah. And they didn’t get F-35, but they got a. A memorandum of understanding or an executive order or something. I think an executive order that we will defend them to the last American soldier if we have to. So we’re defending Qatar and we’re selling our top jets to Saudi Arabia. And I’m wondering why. Who is? Hoo hoo hoo is Qatar’s military threat. Israel, you might say, but Israel’s not. If Israel had wanted to take out Qatar, they would have taken them out a long time ago. Who is Saudi Arabia’s great threat? It’s actually Qatar. Now that the Israelis took out Iran, they’re not given enough credit for the bombing of the nuclear sites was crucial. Absolutely crucial. And the president said he was going to take them out come hell or high water. God bless him. So important. But the Israelis defeated Iran. Just the way it is. Yes, with our equipment. But a lot of countries get our equipment and they can’t fight their way out of a paper bank. That’s the truth. We sent a lot of equipment over to Afghanistan. Now the enemy has it. And unfortunately, the Afghanis were not very effective in fighting the Taliban, which represents about 14% of the country. The Israelis whipped every surrounding country and terrorist organization. In a period of two and a half years, including Iran. So it’s not just the equipment. It’s certainly important. It’s also the nature of the warriors. Their leaders. And this is one of the reasons the anti-Semites in America hate Netanyahu so much. Because he’s such a tremendous. Leader. It’s also why they hate Trump so much. On the left, he’s a tremendous leader. I don’t necessarily agree with all this. Activity so quickly in terms of. RF 30 fives and. We will fight to the end for Qatar and so forth and so on. This stuff off to shake out over time, I suppose. Now the crown prince says, look, we want to be part of the Abraham Accords, but only if the Israelis create a pathway to a two state solution. There is no two state solution. I want you to look at the map. And when you look at the size of Saudi Arabia, its massive, massive. It’s massive. Like Brazil. It’s massive. There it is. They won’t take one Palestinian from Gaza or anywhere else. Not one. There are plenty of land to give to the Palestinians. The Palestinians have as much claim. To the land and the Holy Land, as they do to Saudi Arabia’s land, meaning none. Zero. Historical claim. Zero. They’re real claims with Jordan. He wants nothing to do with them. The country’s already over 70% Palestinian. They tried to overthrow his father, so he wants nothing to do with that. Egypt wants nothing to do with it. But listen to this cut three ago. We want to be part of the Abraham Accords, but we want also to be sure that we secure a clear path of a two state solution. And today, we have a healthy discussion with Mr. President, Mr. President, that we’ve going to work on that to be sure that we come prepared to by situation. So he’s going to work on the president on that. Is what he’s saying, Mr. Mediation. So as he says, we’re going to work with the president on that. And he upped his investment in the United States from 600 billion to 1000000000000. And what did the president saying? Cut three go that? I think we’re you know, I don’t want to use the word commitment, but we’ve had a very good talk of the Abraham Accords. We talked about one state to state. You know, we talked about a lot of things in a short period of time. We’ll be discussing it further to. But I think you have a very good feeling towards the Abraham Accords. Give definitive, Mr. President, we want peace for the Israelis. We want peace for the Palestinians. We want them to coexist peacefully and to have peace for the Palestinians, because the Palestinians are killing each other. Don’t you get it? He gets it. Um, and I thought the president’s answer there was pretty good. Actually, I did. And I don’t want to spend all night on this because we have a lot to do. We’ll be right back.
Segment 2
Miranda Devine is on top of things today, that’s for sure, about Time’s Crooks and the great New York Post. We’re all owed a better explanation from the FBI and Secret Service about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump six months ago at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The president himself remains unsatisfied with the answers he’s been given about the circumstances leading to 20 year old Thomas Crooks climbing on a rooftop with an AR 15 style rifle and firing eight times at Trump, narrowly missing his head but hitting his ear. So he said, okay, what’s going on? There’s something very wrong with the official story, she says, that invites conspiracy theories. Well, we’ve heard that. President demand an answer. Months ago, a man was murdered. What’s going on? Then FBI director Chris Wray. I’ve told you here for years when he was FBI director is a bad dude. He’s got a bad attitude. Told Congress After July 13, 2024, attack, the Bureau had found nothing in Crooks Online history that pointed to a motive, a political ideology. A week later, Wray’s deputy Paul Abbott told Congress that comments posted on one of Crook’s social media accounts quote, a fear to appear to reflect anti-Semitic and anti-immigration themes, to espouse political violence and are described as extreme in nature. Now, thanks to an enterprising source who uncover a crook’s hidden digital footprint, we can see that Abate misled Congress by omission because he left out an entire section of crooks online interactions from January to August 2020, when he did an ideological backflip and went from rabidly pro-Trump to rabidly anti-Trump and then went dark, never seeming to post again. Among the 17 accounts uncovered by our source were ones of YouTube, Snapchat, Venmo, Zali, GroupMe Discord, Google Play, Quiz Lit Chess.com and Quora. The online interactions from when Crooks was age 15 to 17 give us a better understanding of his evolution into an assassin and invite more questions about what or who reversed his ideology. Which is crucial to know. The danger Crux posed was visible for years in public online spaces, says the source, is radicalization. Violent rhetoric and obsession with political violence were all documented under his real name. The threat was not hidden. Now we’ll get back to this. But, you know, if this is the way it goes, I mean, the FBI should read the comments on my site, don’t you think, Mr. Producer? I mean, there’d be a lot of people to round up, trust me on this. But that said, this is a very, very crucial story. And I don’t want to we have to take a break. I don’t want to take a break, but it’s a heartbreak and I want to complete it. We’ll be right back.
Segment 3
And by the way, Iran is slaughtering all the dissidents there. And yes, I did think that we should have finished the job or at least let the Israelis finish the job. They were doing it anyway. Oh, he’s for regime change. Our job for defeating an enemy. These morons talk about these isolationist, neo fascist forever wars, kind of forever wars. Okay, well, let’s. Let’s put this one to bed now. Can’t do that. Now these isolationists neo fascist are on a. Suicide agenda. And they will drag all the rest of us with them if we don’t if we don’t push back and defeat them, that’s for sure. High number of executions in Iran. No due process whatsoever. Look, I’m not interested in turning them into a Jeffersonian democracy. That’s not the point. The point is they’re going to be back. They’re going to be back with nuclear weapons. Trump won’t be there forever and Netanyahu won’t be there forever. But hopefully we will, right? That’s the point. Let’s get back to this Miranda Devine piece, which is really how come she never gets a Pulitzer Prize? Do you wonder who gets them and who doesn’t? It’s really crazy. There’s a breaking story she’s got here. The official narrative claimed that he, meaning crooks, acted alone and without a clear motive, ideology or digital footprint. Yet the source found reams of information that shows Crooks was not simply some unknowable lone actor. And I’m quoting He left a digital trail of violent threats, extremist ideology and admiration for mass violence. Sounds like an Islamist. He spoke openly of political assassination. The radical Islamists posted under his real name. It was even flagged by other users who mentioned law enforcement in their replies. Despite this, his account remained active for more than five years and was only removed the day after the shooting. None of this online activity was referenced in the final congressional report released in December 2024, making this even more troubling. It is troubling. It’s crazy. We have all these investigative techniques, especially the FBI and the Secret Service, but especially the FBI. Would this be a basic part of the process? It is, or to look at this to dig in. And yet we have a party that does this on their own. None of this online activity was referenced, starting with Kirk’s phone number. The source used tools available to private investigators and web archives. Don’t cover the assassin’s very visible online persona. Kirk’s most prolific activity was on YouTube with 737 public comments. The account Tom Crooks 2178 Visible Other users as Tom Crooks was created on January 14, 2019, as suspended on July 14, 2020, for the day after the Butler attack for violating YouTube’s policy on violent criminal organizations. Well, that was a little late, but nonetheless. So publicly available processes that private investigators use. This is how they’re getting the information. And our government did not. Crooks trajectory from pro to anti-Trump is evident. He referred to Trump as the literal definition of patriotism. In a comment at 1:17 a.m., July 20, 2019. He also issued several targeted threats against the Democratic congressional representatives, quote, in the squad, unquote. He said. I hope a quick, painful death toll. The deplorable immigrants and anti-Trump congresswomen who don’t deserve anything this country’s given them. He wrote at 8:18 a.m. July 20, 2019. Murder the Democrats, he wrote in caps on December 12, 2019. But in early 2020, literally a month or so later, crooks online behavior flipped. Flipped 180 degrees and he became very critical of Trump. Fox News and Republican complaints about mail in voting. So he’s praising Trump. Kill the Democrats. December 12, 2019. And here, January 23, 2025 weeks later. The first time he criticized Trump when he commented on a video of law professor Jonathan Turley talking about Trump’s first impeachment. He said, Keep in mind, the only reason we may know about any of this is because of Trump’s stupidity, Crooks wrote. He started describing Trump supporters as a cult. He said, How can you people call other sheep? But you do too brainwashed to realize how dumb you are? He wrote on Feb 26, 2020. I mean, literally, you guys sound like a cult at some times. The same day you described Trump as racist. Again, this is two months after he was praising him. By April 2020, Crooks was constantly criticizing Trump’s pandemic response, saying he was too slow and everything he’s doing should have been already done. Through the summer, 2020 crooks online rhetoric became increasingly radical and violent. I’m telling you, this online stuff is crazy dangerous, is it not, Mr. Producer? Do you see what people are committing? It’s vile, it’s threatening, it’s dangerous. It’s constant. Especially if you’re targeted like I am on the on the Internet. We’re big boy here. We can handle it. But nonetheless. On August five, 2020, Cox wrote, IMO, the only way to fight the government is with terrorism style attacks. Sneak a bomb into an essential building and set it off before anyone sees you tracked down any important people, politicians, military leaders, etc. and try to assassinate them. Any sort of head to head fight is suicide, he wrote. And even ambush surprise attacks likely aren’t going to end well. A large portion of the war will also be propaganda information wars. Both sides want people to join them in big deciding factors. Wars is often which side is more popular support for them. Among the 17 accounts he had uncovered by Miranda Soares, only one on paper was operated under an alias. Rod Swanson. Rod Swanson is a former senior FBI agent who was the chief of investigations for the state of Nevada during the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting. He also previously served on FBI Director Robert Mueller’s protective detail as a firearms instructor in Pennsylvania. Contacted by phone over the weekend, Swanson said he was surprised his name was connected to Crooks. I don’t know anything about that kid or his family said. I don’t even use paper. I don’t even know how to set up a PayPal account. Sounds like me. He said he retired from the FBI in Vegas in 2016, went to work for the Nevada attorney general from September 2015 to March 2020. He now works in the oil gas business in Houston. By the way, I want to thank. All the people who are finally now reporting on the massacres, the genocide against Christians in Nigeria, in the Sudan and other parts of the world. We’ve only been talking about that behind this microphone for years, posting about it on the Internet. And I actually did a show Sunday on Life, Liberty and Levin with Congressman Chris Smith, who’s really been a leader in this regard. This past Sunday on FOX. And now I’m just glad that everybody else is finally talking about it. Christians are being slaughtered all over the world. Back to this. When told of Crooks Online threats, he said there was no way the FBI would not be aware of the teenager. Now, this is a former FBI guy. He says no matter how ridiculous the allegation, no matter if it’s covert or not, somebody is going to knock on somebody’s door. They investigated that kid. There’s a record of it. And there’s an assessment that some leader made that this was not a threat where it rose to a level and they did something else. He also said that the FBI had the information about his name on the PayPal account. I can’t even imagine. They would not have reached out to me right away, he said. Well, they didn’t, did they? Give me a crux pattern of tracking in high profile mass shootings and violent events. The source believes it is plausible that he adopted sponsor’s name as a private joke like alleged Charlie Kirk. Assassin Tyler Robinson. Crooks appears to have been interested in Ferris. What the hell is that all about, Rick? What are Ferris? They were costumes. Like cats. He described himself with the pronouns they them on the platform. Deviant Art, which is one of the biggest online hubs for Faerie art and Faerie Community of Faerie, is someone who has an interest in anthropomorphized animal characters, often asexual fetish. Oh, okay. Two accounts linked to primary email were found on DeviantArt and are usernames. Epic microwave and the epic microwave. They can’t suggest he had an obsession with scantily clad cartoon characters sporting muscle bound male bodies and female heads. Now, one of the people Crookes interacted with online was Willy Taps, a member of Norwegian neo-Nazi group the Nordic Resistance Movement, which has since been designed designated rather, a terrorist organization by the State Department. TAPS encouraged violence and crooks extremism, using a Maoist phrase, quote, Political power comes from the barrel of the end of a gun, which crooks repeated several times in one comment on October five, 2020. More than a year after Butler Taps commented to another user that he’d been contacted by both Russian and American intelligence. Quote, People who ask you to contact them, were they just as easily could contact you? Our feds. This is how they avoid entrapment. Both American and Russian intelligence do this. I’ve chatted to both. He claimed shortly after his interactions with tips, crooks disappeared offline. It is brushed with the Norwegian in his own violent rhetoric. Win him a visit from the FBI or the Secret Service. And Miranda asks, If not, why not? If so, why has it not been disclosed? The FBI refused to comment when asked on Sunday whether Crooks was ever investigated, visited or in some way brought to the attention of the agency before he tried to assassinate Trump or whether there was a file FBI file on crooks before Butler. The FBI also refused to comment on why it has been not been forthcoming on congressional oversight requests. Former director told Congress on July 24, 2024, 11 days after the shooting, the bureau did not have any prior information about the shooter, that he was not in our holdings before the shooting. Said the FBI ran a search for crooks through its databases and he was not found. Susan Crabtree, an investigative reporter for Real Clear Politics, who has broken multiple stories about the salaries of Butler, says her key Secret Service source from the 2020 time period told me that Crooks was not a person of record at the U.S. Secret Service in 2020 and wasn’t known to the service until Butler. Something doesn’t add up, says Miranda. Now there’s a little bit more. A couple more paragraphs is very, very, very important. So we’ll take a little break now and then we’ll be right back.
Segment 4
As applies to Trump. The Epstein thing is just another another attempt to destroy him. And you can see all the reprobates in Congress that are involved in this. They’re not interested in getting to the bottom of anything. Nothing. Let’s see here. What did I do with this? Oh, my goodness. What did I do with the. With the report here. Bear with me, folks. I’m going to go back and dig it up because they want to finish it for you. All right. Let’s see. There it is. So let’s continue the last couple of paragraphs from Miranda Devine’s outstanding piece in the New York Post. She’s something else. She really is. Deserves a Pulitzer. It’s a long piece. We talked about the crooks interacting with Nazis and neo-Nazis from overseas are very dangerous people. Very, very dangerous people. Ray had been heavily criticized after the Parkland school shooting because the FBI failed to act after being repeatedly warned about the shooter, Nikolas Cruz, that he had guns, had threatened people, exhibited erratic behavior, and might carry out a school shooting. Was Ray trying to avoid being blamed for another atrocity on his watch. So why he downplayed Trump’s injury when he testified to Congress a week after week after Butler and falsely suggested that our president had not been struck by a bullet but by shrapnel from his podium. If the Secret Service had become aware of Cook’s anti-Trump rhetoric in 2020 during Trump’s presidency, protocol is that it would have determined if he was a threat and offloaded to the FBI to take over the investigation. We don’t know what happened because the Secret Service after action report is classified. I don’t hear Congress demanding that that be declassified. The only bodies that could look at it are the intelligence committees in Congress, which so far have shown little curiosity. Yeah. A criminal investigation of a presidential assassination and attempted assassination falls under the jurisdiction of the FBI. Therefore, any comments on the subject would come from the bureau. Request for information from the FBI by Senator Johnson have been rebuffed. Uh, although I must say I saw Johnson in interview was very supportive of Cash Patel and Dan Bongino. Charges that issue a subpoena in July on the first anniversary of the Butler attack and complained that he had he’d been snowballed. I think you mean smoke. Stonewalled, rather, by the FBI and Secret Service in its efforts to request security camera footage, forensic reports, other documents related to the crooks case. Trump and those close to him were skeptical about the official story and questioned how the impoverished parents of crooks who had to ask for money from neighbors to pay for their son’s funeral. Could afford to hire a white shoe law firm. Quinn Logue at a Pittsburgh. It’s hard to believe the FBI and Secret Service missed crooks. The question is. What did they do about him? Well, this certainly opens up a. A massive. Need for a massive inquiry. To find out what the hell is going on here. And why do we have to go through these cover ups? And then we have these kooks with these conspiracy theories. The one that it’s Israel and the. And the message. Right. Mr.. You hear that one? Mr.. It is. So is Israel in the Mossad, you know. And so you got to hear that crap. But there’s something going on here. There’s clearly a cover up, in my view. And, you know, folks, I don’t talk about cover ups very easily. I don’t think this is a. A conspiracy theory that Miranda is promoting here. I think it’s a. Really outstanding piece of investigative journalism. She has sources and so forth who have come to her. Others do as well, telling her and them. That this thing was botched. There’s a cover up. And so I’ll be waiting for Thomas Massie and Marjorie Trader GREENE, and I’ll be waiting for all the Democrats in the House and the Senate, as well as the Republicans, to demand the release of the crooks file from the FBI and the Secret Service, the release of the crooks files. Let’s see how fast that cuts through the House and the Senate. Like crap through a goose, huh? We’ll be right back.
