Analysis: Post from October 24, 2026

18h ago Oct 24, 2026 at 2:25 PM

Video transcript 10:21

it's so true falsehood flies okay a lie goes around the world before the truth can get its boots on you've heard that right it goes back a long long time a guy named Jonathan Swift actually oh here we go again falsehood flies and the truth comes limping after it and it has been updated you've heard this before it's true it's just I don't know what it is about a lie but it just takes off and the truth so this brings us to huge news today no one's talking about it a lot of people say oh that's nothing doesn't mean anything most people don't even know about it but the hunter Biden laptop all right then you and I know it was always real if you've been watching this show and reading the New York Post you knew it was real in October of 2020 they said it was fake the FBI was running interference for the Biden family they really were they had that damn thing in their possession they knew it was real and they lied they lied about it it's incredible what happened and it didn't make much of an impact in the 2020 election it should have if people had heard about it knew about it knew the contents were real poll after poll indicates that that election would have gone the other way even more the other way because a lot of us still have our concerns about the accuracy and fairness of that election the FBI Wow so today the United States Attorney in Washington DC announced the arrests of two former FBI agents senior FBI agents and they have been charged with lying to Congress one of them is this person Nikki Flores who at one point said she was running a shadow government and Bradley Ben Avedi's is that his name they were very aware according to documents and all the evidence we have seen of the Biden laptop and they misled Congress that's the allegation then especially the the first one that woman now we know this that according to the documents she was trying to shut down any and all concern about the 2020 election and Chinese interference although we into 2024 yeah it doesn't look like they've pushed out of her vision yet for f's sake keep going please this is a lot of internal communication the director has the original in his book this a.m. fun never end seriously we're pushing out a note today to all fo's whatever they are that all election related II RR's must come through the FITF task force headquarters right I'm basically running a shadow government across the FBI at this point if you look at those documents it really does come across at some of these FBI people think they're more important than our elected officials that Donald Trump was a threat to democracy did not deserve to be president it just comes through the arrogance it's also interesting the way they talk with their acronyms and abbreviations it's like a special language that only they understand it confuses investigators it certainly confuses members of Congress and the general public as to what's really going on but when it comes to the laptop there is evidence that shows that these two individuals definitely knew about it were involved with it and potentially misled Congress now I already know the FBI misled the American people including Mark Zuckerberg he's an American person the head of Facebook you may remember he went on the Joe Rogan show and told them this is when he kind of woke up Mark Zuckerberg he was a lefty and he was woke and then he realized wow the government lied to me the government manipulated me how about that one and not only me tens of millions even billions of Facebook users watch this there was a lot of attention on Twitter during the election because of the hunter Biden laptop story then yeah we were so yeah so you guys censored that as well so we took a different path than Twitter I mean basically the background here is the FBI I think basically came to us some folks on our team it was like hey just so you know like you should be on high alert there was the we thought that there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election we have it on notice that basically there's about to be some kind of dump of that's similar to that so just be vigilant just be vigilant the FBI acting like friends of Biden incorporated it's absolutely incredible and that this is not a bigger matter the FBI must be disbanded it really it's it's horrific what they have done now the most recent and it gets technical and it may not be the most sensational thing to read possibly on purpose but it is damning this individual Flores the one who said she was running a shadow government the question was when the information was relayed to you following the Twitter call that the first agent had said the laptop was real just to clarify you knew prior to that conversation that the laptop was real is that correct yes I did I did yes next place but you don't recall when approximately you learned I don't sorry what else here sitting here today do you know when the FBI first determined that the laptop was real I don't I know that there is some public information in the public record regarding when the FBI acquired the laptop but I don't sitting here remember that date what else here do you know who else at the task force knew that the laptop was real I don't actually I would assume both my yes I would certainly say that Brad Benitez was aware look again it gets a little bit technical and it goes on and on and on but these people I believe and I think the evidence suggests were deceiving Congress and therefore deceiving the American people they knew what they were dealing with they wanted to shut down the election of President Trump because they don't like them they don't like him now we'll see these are allegations and they'll be able to step forward and possibly say hey we have evidence that shows this is all nonsense I'd like to see it but finally now you see it's like a very small story what is that quote again falsehood flies and the truth comes limping after it here we are five six years later right it's just and it looks like these two FBI guys not only did they do damage in the 2020 election but they were doing damage all through 2024 you remember when President Trump was on the debate stage one of the talk about the hunter Biden laptop he was shut down they try to shut him down that was totally unfair but the media the deep state they were all in on it there are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what this he's accusing me of is a Russian plant they have said that this is has all the care for five former heads of the CIA both parties say what he's saying is a bunch of garbage nobody believes it except them his and his good friend Rudy Gianni you mean the laptop is now another Russia Russia Russia hoax this is where he's going I want to stay on the issue of race you're the moderator I want to talk about race we don't want to talk about the laptop we want to talk about black lives matter and race and he had cover he had cover from the deep state what did the deep state oh the vitamins by the way what a bunch of degenerates hunter Biden with his sister-in-law Haley right this was normal you know they put out a statement Joe Biden put out a statement that they were happy that hunter and Haley found each other in the wake of Beau's death right that they found each other like such a big world and they found each other they found each other at Thanksgiving for crying out loud across the table from each other it's gross but it's tolerated and not only tolerated it's kind of I don't know it's very frustrating actually the truth is getting out but it's limping it's limping when we needed the truth they were running cover and here this is what it sounded like the US authorities are seeing if those emails we just talked about are connected to an ongoing Russian disinformation effort an ongoing Russian disinformation effort part of a Russian disinformation effort hunter Biden this laptop that intelligence officials have warned her is likely Russian disinformation all of those people are still on the scene right now right these are the same people who are hysterical about the Amy Acton ad right these are the same ones who are propping up Democrats who are praying doing everything they can to help Democrats during the midterms it's it's wild and one other thing hunter Biden I mean should have been arrested right here for lying you can tell he's lying I guess you don't get arrested for just sitting there and lying but he certainly did didn't he on the CBS morning show couldn't you have at least come clean then hunter all right couldn't you have come clean then nope he could was that your laptop for real I don't know I know but you know that's I really don't know the answer is you don't know yes or no if the laptop I don't know what's the idea I've no idea so could have been yours of course certainly there could be a laptop out there that was stolen from me there could be that I was hacked it could be that that was the that it was Russian intelligence it could be that it was stolen from me and you didn't drop off a laptop to be repaired no Delaware I remember at all at all so we'll see we'll see we knew we knew all along but imagine that having the Federal Bureau of the investing of investigation in your back pocket well no longer the US Attorney Jeanine Puro made this announcement today and the FBI though it's still I'm sorry thoroughly corrupt you know we have some good guys at the top and we have some good agents somewhere in that building but maybe there's something in the water it must be changed forever how many elections are they gonna mess with and get away with it

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AI Analysis

Machine-generated analysis of the post above on 2026-10-24. Not written by the author of the post.

Danger Level

Elevated

Narcissistic State

Mixed

Authorship

Uncertain

Intensity

45%

Trump posted, without comment, a cable segment celebrating his Justice Department's arrest of two former FBI officials, transcribed as Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides, on charges of lying to Congress. The host uses the charges to say the Hunter Biden laptop was suppressed and that 'that election would have gone the other way.' The clip went up among routine early-voting notices ten days before the midterms. It reopens the 2020 legitimacy question in a broadcaster's voice, so Trump never states the claim himself. The selection follows a contamination-to-redemption arc: the 2020 'lie,' then today's arrests. A personal grievance becomes a federal case, and the case is then advertised as proof of the grievance. The defenses the clip carries are externalization of the 2020 loss and splitting between an arrogant 'shadow government' and the audience who 'knew it was real.' A hypothetical poll is offered as evidence of a changed outcome. The concern is a president publicly treating untried defendants from an agency he has long attacked as proven liars. That bears on their proceedings, though the clip calls for no action.

Authorship Analysis

Uncertain

Indicators:

Posted 10:25 a.m. Eastern, inside business hours
Media-only repost of a cable segment, a format staff often queue
Content matches his most persistent personal grievance (2020 election, FBI, laptop)
Sits among staff-style early-voting notices posted the same morning

Psychological Profile

▶ Traits

Big Five:

Extraversion

60%

Agreeableness

15%

Conscientiousness

40%

Neuroticism

60%

Openness

25%

Strongest facet: Angry hostility, expressed as long-held grievance toward the FBI

Agency

80%

Communion

25%

Primary drive: validation

▶ Narrative

Role: Wronged candidate vindicated by prosecutions · Arc: redemption · Contrasting: FBI officials portrayed as a self-appointed 'shadow government'

The 2020 laptop story proved true, and he was rightThe FBI saw him as undeserving of office

▶ State

Mixed State

Trigger: Maintenance (DOJ announcement of charges against two former FBI officials, used to revisit the 2020 grievance)

Sentiment

-0.45

▶ Clinical

Malignant Narcissism:

Narcissistic

50%

Antisocial

20%

Paranoid

55%

Sadism

15%

Defense Mechanisms:

rationalizationdistortionsplittingprojection

Cognitive Complexity:

Complexity

Parasocial Techniques:

Insider framing borrowed from the host: 'you and I know it was always real'Vindication offered to the audience as shared victory

Danger Assessment

Elevated

Indicators:

Sitting president amplifies a segment treating two named, untried defendants as proven liars
Defendants charged by his own Justice Department in a matter tied to his personal grievance
'Shadow government' framing of FBI officials

Gaslighting Detected:

Amplified claim that the 2020 election 'would have gone the other way'
Amplified 'concerns about the accuracy and fairness' of the 2020 election, presented as shared understanding

Reality Distortions:

Hypothetical voter survey presented as evidence the 2020 outcome would have changed
Allegations against the two officials presented as established fact

Receipts

No contradictions with other posts detected yet.

A cable segment on two FBI arrests, posted between get-out-the-vote notices

The post is an untitled video. Judging by the transcript, it is a cable-news host monologue; "if you've been watching this show and reading the New York Post" fits a Fox or Fox-adjacent opinion slot. Trump adds no words. The segment opens with the Swift line ("falsehood flies and the truth comes limping after it") and then turns to what the host calls "huge news today no one's talking about." The United States Attorney in Washington had announced the arrests of two former senior FBI officials on charges of lying to Congress. The transcript renders them as "Nikki Flores" and "Bradley Ben Avedi's," most likely Nikki Floris, who ran Foreign Influence Task Force work, and Bradley Benavides. The host ties the charges to the Hunter Biden laptop. He reads aloud internal messages, including "I'm basically running a shadow government across the FBI at this point." He closes with Mark Zuckerberg's 2022 Joe Rogan account of FBI warnings before the 2020 election.

On the same morning Trump's feed carried state-by-state early-voting notices (Florida, Michigan, New Jersey), a Georgia rally announcement, and a denial that he planned to replace the press room with the old swimming pool. Against that routine campaign traffic, this clip is the one item that goes back to 2020.

What the clip claims on his behalf

The segment hands him three things he cannot easily say himself in a midterm-turnout week.

First, it says the 2020 result was tainted. The host goes past "the laptop was real" to "poll after poll indicates that that election would have gone the other way," then adds "a lot of us still have our concerns about the accuracy and fairness of that election." The "poll after poll" line most likely rests on a 2022 survey of Biden voters run for an advocacy group. Respondents were asked a hypothetical, and that cannot show a changed outcome. Through the host, the post carries an election-legitimacy claim while Trump never puts it in his own words.

Second, it turns the FBI into a hostile elite. "Some of these FBI people think they're more important than our elected officials," "that Donald Trump was a threat to democracy did not deserve to be president," and the remark on "a special language that only they understand" set up an in-group/out-group split. Officials are cast as a self-appointed caste working against him by name. Whether these two officials lied to Congress is the question their case will decide. The host hedges at one point ("potentially misled Congress," "that's the allegation") and then drops the hedge.

Third, it gives him vindication through prosecution. His own Justice Department brought these charges. Posting a segment that celebrates them closes a loop that recurs in his record: a personal grievance (the 2020 loss, the 2020 FBI) becomes a federal case, and then he advertises the case to his audience as proof of the grievance. The named defendants are already public through the U.S. Attorney's announcement, so the post adds no new identification. It does add presidential endorsement of their guilt before trial.

Grievance, vindication and the defenses the selection implies

The narrative shape is contamination followed by redemption. The contamination is the 2020 sequence: "they said it was fake," "the FBI was running interference for the Biden family," "they lied." The redemption is "today... announced the arrests." He appears as the wronged protagonist whose account has finally been confirmed, which makes this a mixed narcissistic state. The wound is old and still open, and the posture is triumphant.

The most visible defense is externalization of the 2020 loss, a rationalization the clip supplies ready-made: the result is put down to an FBI cover-up and not to the electorate. It shades into distortion when "would have gone the other way" is offered as established fact. The segment also splits cleanly. FBI officials are arrogant, deceptive, a "shadow government." The audience is the people who "knew it was real." Even Zuckerberg moves to the good side once he "woke up" and realized "the government manipulated me." Trump's own unsupported claims about 2020 stay outside the frame, while officials are charged with misleading Congress. That reads as projection by proxy, though the clip does the work and his part is only to post it.

The trigger looks like maintenance and supply-seeking more than acute injury. The clip appeared during routine campaign posting, with no sign it answered a fresh criticism. The background context includes a 33% approval reading the week before and an approaching midterm. Posting material that reopens 2020 fits a habit of retreating to the grievance that most reliably binds his base when present standing is weak. That link is an inference from timing, not something the post shows.

Authorship and timing

The upload landed at 14:25 UTC, 10:25 a.m. Eastern. Trump was most likely in Washington or leaving for that day's Georgia rally. That is mid-morning business hours, and video reposts like this one are routinely queued by staff. Trump also personally shares cable segments that flatter him, and this one matches his longest-running grievance, so either path is plausible. With no written text there is nothing stylometric to weigh. The attribution concerns who chose the clip.

Rhetoric and risk

Within the clip the devices are appeal to authority (Swift, the U.S. Attorney, internal documents), us-versus-them framing ("you and I know it was always real"), selective quotation of informal internal messages ("for f's sake," "fun never end"), and insinuation about 2020 voiced as personal "concerns" rather than an outright claim. The clip calls for no action and does not dehumanize. The risk lies in a sitting president publicly treating two named, not-yet-tried defendants from an agency he has long attacked as proven liars and members of a "shadow government." That bears on the fairness of their proceedings and on how his followers view the people involved. It falls short of mobilization.

The speaker is not Trump, so the clip offers no evidence about his cognition. The factual claims in it belong to the host and are discussed above rather than graded as Trump's.