# Post ts_108404065010202086 - Post ID: `ts_108404065010202086` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2022-06-01T20:19:21.583Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108404065010202086 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108404065010202086/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_108404065010202086.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Kash Patel wrote the bestselling children’s book in the country, The Plot Against the King, which I recommended two weeks ago via Truth Social, telling our youth the Russiagate story. Google just banned his book's entire ad campaign. Let’s put this amazing book in every school in America. Big tech should not get to suppress the truth. Click here to buy: https://bravebooks.us/products/the-plot-against-the-king-kash-patel ## Media - image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/108/404/064/716/906/440/original/40fc8b6127e74ed2.jpg ## Engagement - Likes: 34,814 - Reposts: 18,447 - Replies: 1,864 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.441Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-23T11:21:26.957Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Maintenance-mode post combining supply-seeking through loyalist association with Kash Patel and an attempt to institutionalize Russiagate counter-narrative at the generational level. The promotion of a children's book framing the Russia investigation as a "plot against the king" is psychologically notable on two dimensions: first, Trump's implicit endorsement of the "King" identity confirms a stable grandiose self-schema in which he occupies royal/sovereign status; second, the call to place this book "in every school in America" represents the most explicit bid in the longitudinal record for intergenerational transmission of a closed epistemic framework. The self-referential aside credentialing his prior endorsement is the most authentically Trump element of the post. Big Tech persecution framing reflects consistent paranoid ideation at moderate intensity. No acute narcissistic injury is evident; affect is controlled and promotional. Cognitive markers are within normal range. Danger level is none in the acute sense, though the epistemic harm vector — seeding children with a single, closed interpretation of a contested federal investigation before they develop evaluative capacity — represents a documented sociological concern. Authorship is assessed as hybrid: Trump-dictated content formatted by an aide who added the purchase URL. ## Post Analysis: ts_108404065010202086 — June 1, 2022 ### Overview A promotional post for Kash Patel's conservative children's book *The Plot Against the King*, which reframes the Mueller/Russia investigation as a conspiratorial "plot" against Trump (the titular "King"). The post combines supply-seeking through loyalist association, Big Tech persecution framing, and a bid to institutionalize a pro-Trump counter-narrative in American schools. Intensity is moderate; this is maintenance-mode content rather than acute eruption. --- ### Authorship Attribution **UTC timestamp:** 20:19:21 → **EDT (UTC−4):** 4:19 PM. In early June 2022, Trump's primary residence was Mar-a-Lago (Florida, EDT) with occasional time at Bedminster (NJ, also EDT). Either way, 4:19 PM is solidly within business hours. **Assessment (mixed, leaning aide-assisted):** The structured product promotion—complete with purchase URL, publisher link, and a clean call to action—is characteristic of aide-authored output. However, several Trump-authentic fingerprints appear: the unsolicited self-referential aside ("which I recommended two weeks ago via Truth Social," functioning as both validation-seeking and credibility claim), the superlative "amazing book," and the rhetorical escalation to "every school in America." The most probable interpretation is a hybrid: Trump dictated the core message and the aide formatted it, added the URL, and smoothed the copy. The self-referential aside reads as spontaneous insertion—it serves no persuasive purpose from a marketing standpoint but satisfies the narcissistic need to anchor the book's success to his own prior endorsement. **Authorship score:** 0.45 (slightly toward aide-assisted, but Trump's voice is meaningfully present). --- ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) - **Extraversion (high):** Assertive promotional voice, appeal to mass institutional action ("every school in America"), direct call to purchase. - **Agreeableness (low):** Adversarial framing of Google/Big Tech, zero acknowledgment of any legitimacy to platform moderation decisions. - **Conscientiousness (low-moderate):** Hyperbolic sales claim ("bestselling children's book in the country") is likely exaggerated; no epistemic hedge. - **Neuroticism (moderate):** Persecution narrative embedded in the framing, though the affective register is controlled and promotional rather than agitated. - **Openness (very low):** The post promotes a book explicitly designed to teach children a single, closed interpretation of a contested historical event. Values rigidity is high. --- ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Dominant motive: Power/Agency.** The post is structured around control of institutional narrative—specifically, what children are taught about the Russia investigation. The call to place the book "in every school in America" is a bid for cultural-institutional dominance, not merely a sales pitch. This is agency motivation at its most explicit: shaping the epistemic environment of the next generation. **Secondary motive: Status maintenance.** "Which I recommended two weeks ago via Truth Social" functions as a kingmaker claim—Trump implicitly takes partial credit for the book's commercial performance, asserting continued cultural influence despite being out of office. **Schema of self:** The "King" metaphor is load-bearing. By promoting a book in which Trump is the allegorical King, he endorses a self-schema in which he occupies royal status—a figure of legitimate sovereign authority against whom a treasonous plot was executed. **Schema of others:** Binary. Big Tech (Google) = censors of truth. Patriots/parents = potential agents of institutional correction. The deep state/Russia hoaxers = the plotters, now appropriately cast as villains in a children's story. --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** Kingmaker and truth-teller. Trump is not the subject of this post in the first person, but the narrative positions him as the authority who validated the book, identified the suppression, and is now mobilizing parents. He is the off-page hero enabling the on-page hero (Patel). **Contamination sequence (implicit):** A true and important story (Russiagate as hoax) is being suppressed by Big Tech—good truth → censored. The post is presented as a countermove. **Redemption sequence (aspirational):** If the book reaches every school, the contaminated narrative will be reversed. Children will know "the truth." **Identity claims:** Implicitly: I am the one who surfaces truth. I am the recommender whose endorsements move markets. I fight Big Tech suppression. **Contrasting other:** Google/Big Tech as the censoring antagonist. Russiagate investigators (offstage) as the original plotters. --- ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Narcissistic features (moderate):** The self-referential kingmaker aside and the "King" identification via the book title reveal ongoing grandiose self-schema. The post does not show wounded narcissism but rather stable grandiosity in maintenance mode. **Paranoid features (moderate):** Google banning the ad campaign is framed not as routine content moderation but as ideologically motivated suppression of truth—consistent with the persecutory ideation pattern visible across longitudinal posts. The broader Russiagate-as-plot narrative is itself a paranoid reframe of the Russia investigation. **Antisocial features (low):** Not prominently displayed in this post. **Ego-syntonic sadism (absent):** No derogatory or humiliating content directed at individuals. **Defense mechanisms:** 1. **Rationalization (neurotic):** The Russia investigation is retroactively rationalized as a "plot" rather than a legitimate legal process—providing logical-seeming justification for the persecution narrative. 2. **Splitting (immature):** Big Tech = bad/suppressive; the book/Patel/Trump = truth-bearers. Clean all-good/all-bad bifurcation. 3. **Projection (immature):** The book title itself—*The Plot Against the King*—is projective. It attributes conspiratorial, anti-democratic motives to investigators while positioning Trump's own political machinations as legitimate sovereign authority. --- ### Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques - **Hyperbole:** "Bestselling children's book in the country"—almost certainly inaccurate by any mainstream metric; likely based on a conservative-category list. - **Appeal to children/education:** Calling for the book in "every school in America" activates parental protective instincts and frames the intervention as educational rather than political. - **False dichotomy:** Big Tech suppresses truth vs. patriots spread it. No middle ground. - **RAND Firehose (partial):** Contributes to the high-volume, reality-distorting information environment around Russiagate by propagating counter-narrative to children. - **Epistemic closure mechanism:** Framing the Russia investigation as "the Russiagate story" in a children's book teaches closure before children can develop independent evaluative capacity. - **Stochastic terrorism:** Absent. No violent imagery or eliminationist language. --- ### Gaslighting & Reality Distortion The most significant reality distortion here is structural rather than explicit: promoting a children's book that reframes a documented federal investigation as a treasonous conspiracy against a king. This is intergenerational gaslighting—seeding the next generation with a closed epistemic framework before they encounter the primary record. The post itself doesn't gaslight in the DARVO sense, but it promotes content designed to do so at scale. --- ### Shared Psychosis / Epistemic Closure **Epistemic closure: present.** The post explicitly positions the book as truth ("telling our youth the Russiagate story," "Big tech should not get to suppress the truth"). There is no acknowledgment that the Russia investigation produced indictments, guilty pleas, and convictions. The "truth" on offer is the closed in-group version. Promoting this framework to children represents an attempt to extend the epistemic closure across generations. --- ### Cognitive Status No cognitive markers of concern. Sentences are clear, sequential, and coherent. Vocabulary is simple but appropriate to promotional content. No word-finding gaps, paraphasia, perseveration, or temporal confusion detected. Baseline deviation: none. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Kash Patel wrote the bestselling children's book in the country" | **Mostly False** | The Plot Against the King was published by Brave Books, a small conservative publisher. It likely reached #1 in a narrow Amazon category or conservative-specific list. No credible national children's bestseller list (NYT, Publishers Weekly) confirms this claim. | | "Google just banned his book's entire ad campaign" | **Unverifiable** | Google has restricted political and elections-adjacent advertising under its policies, which could plausibly have affected this book. Cannot confirm or deny the specific claim without additional sourcing not available in provided context. | | "The book tells youth 'the Russiagate story' (implying it was a fabricated plot)" | **Mostly False** | The Russia investigation (Special Counsel Mueller investigation) resulted in 34 individuals and 3 entities charged, 8 guilty pleas, and multiple convictions including Trump's campaign chairman Paul Manafort, national security advisor Michael Flynn, and campaign aide George Papadopoulos. Characterizing it as a fabricated 'plot' contradicts the documented legal record. | Overall Veracity: 30% ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 45%) ### Indicators - Post timestamp converts to 4:19 PM EDT — business hours, consistent with aide involvement - Structured product promotion with purchase URL suggests aide formatting - Self-referential aside ('which I recommended two weeks ago') is a Trump-authentic insertion serving narcissistic rather than persuasive function - Superlative 'amazing book' is stylistically Trump - Clean grammar and complete sentences lean aide-written ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Kash Patel / Russiagate counter-narrative) Sentiment: +0.30 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 55% - Antisocial: 15% - Paranoid: 45% - Sadism: 5% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) - splitting (immature) - projection (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 45% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Mobilization framing ('Let's put this book in every school') creates shared mission identity - Loyalty signal — purchasing/promoting the book becomes marker of in-group membership - King metaphor invites followers to see themselves as subjects of a legitimate sovereign ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - Frames the Russia investigation (which produced 34 indictments and 8 guilty pleas) as 'the Russiagate story' — implying fabrication without evidence - Promotes children's book as conveying 'the truth' about a contested historical/legal record, foreclosing evaluation - Big Tech ban framed as ideological suppression rather than routine content moderation, attacking audiences' ability to assess the situation independently ## Fact Checks (3) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-23._ > Kash Patel wrote the bestselling children's book in the country **MOSTLY FALSE** The Plot Against the King was published by Brave Books, a small conservative publisher. It likely reached #1 in a narrow Amazon category or conservative-specific list. No credible national children's bestseller list (NYT, Publishers Weekly) confirms this claim. Sources: General knowledge of conservative publisher ecosystem; No mainstream bestseller list confirmation available > Google just banned his book's entire ad campaign **UNVERIFIABLE** Google has restricted political and elections-adjacent advertising under its policies, which could plausibly have affected this book. Cannot confirm or deny the specific claim without additional sourcing not available in provided context. > The book tells youth 'the Russiagate story' (implying it was a fabricated plot) **MOSTLY FALSE** The Russia investigation (Special Counsel Mueller investigation) resulted in 34 individuals and 3 entities charged, 8 guilty pleas, and multiple convictions including Trump's campaign chairman Paul Manafort, national security advisor Michael Flynn, and campaign aide George Papadopoulos. Characterizing it as a fabricated 'plot' contradicts the documented legal record. Sources: Mueller Report public findings; DOJ conviction records Overall Veracity: 30% ## Tags - russiagate_counter_narrative (90%) - big_tech_persecution (60%) - loyalist_promotion (70%) - intergenerational_indoctrination (80%) - king_archetype_self_identification (70%) - supply_seeking (65%) - educational_institutional_targeting (70%) - aide_hybrid_authorship (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Routine Maintenance Day: Legal Counterattack, Media Punishment, and Loyalty Rewards** A quiet afternoon of posting — just four items spread across about two and a half hours — with Trump cycling through his standard playbook. He opened by attacking New York Attorney General Letitia James as "racist and corrupt," then took a victory lap over Piers Morgan's declining ratings, thanked allies pushing to expunge his impeachments, and promoted a children's book that casts the Russia investigation as a fairy-tale plot against a king. The mood was controlled and promotional, with only brief flashes of aggression toward James and Morgan. Nothing broke pattern; this was a low-energy day by his standards. Full digest for 2022-06-01: https://trump.fm/date/2022-06-01/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, June 1). Kash Patel wrote the bestselling children’s book... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_108404065010202086 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Kash Patel wrote the bestselling children’s book in the..." Truth Social, 1 Jun. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108404065010202086. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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