Less than two hours after the FBI created a new “rapid response” account on X to respond to “bad-faith attacks” against the bureau, it was already feuding with MAGA provocateur Tucker Carlson.

The FBI Rapid Response account was launched in response to “an avalanche of lies, smears, and falsehoods from the fake news and others seeking to undermine our work in national security,” the account’s managers wrote in an introductory post.

That was at about 3 p.m. in Washington on Thursday.

At 4:36 p.m., the account slapped podcaster Carlson over a post teasing a story about Thomas Crooks, the suspect accused of trying to assassinate then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in July 2024 at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

“The FBI told us Thomas Crooks tried to kill Donald Trump las

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