# Post ts_108619613325152004

- Post ID: `ts_108619613325152004`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2022-07-09T21:56:07.778Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108619613325152004
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108619613325152004/analysis

## Post text

> https://www.westernjournal.com/bidens-caught-joe-sold-950000-barrels-us-oil-chinese-company-hunter-big-tie/

## Engagement

- Likes: 14,026
- Reposts: 5,673
- Replies: 878
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.439Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T21:18:28.161Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

# Analysis: ts_108619613325152004 — Bare URL Share, July 9, 2022

## Overview

This post consists solely of a hyperlink to a Western Journal article alleging that the Biden administration sold 950,000 barrels of Strategic Petroleum Reserve oil to a Chinese company with Hunter Biden financial ties. There is no accompanying text, commentary, or emotional annotation from the poster.

## Authorship Attribution

**Location context:** Per the known events, Trump held a rally at the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage, Alaska on July 9, 2022. Alaska observes AKDT (UTC−8) in summer, placing the post time at approximately **1:56 PM local time** — well within standard business hours. Combined with the complete absence of personal text, emotional reactivity, typos, ALL CAPS, or any Trumpian voice, this post bears all hallmarks of a **staff/aide-curated link drop**, not an authentic Trump post.

Comparison with the prior "Elon" post from the same day (which contains first-person voice, personal anecdote, emotional grievance, and characteristic syntax) reinforces this assessment. That post is almost certainly authentic; this one is almost certainly not.

## Psychological Reading (Staff-Mediated Content)

Even without Trump's direct voice, the content selection reveals strategic intent consistent with observed supply patterns:

- **Trigger mechanism:** The SPR-to-China-Hunter framing is designed to activate multiple simultaneous grievances: energy prices (salient in summer 2022 with gas averaging ~$4.60/gallon nationally), Biden corruption narratives, and anti-China sentiment — a trifecta of reliable base-activation content.
- **Supply-seeking function:** This is *vicarious* supply — Trump's team curates outrage-generating content that generates engagement, affirming Trump's identity as the corruption-exposer even in his absence from the text.
- **Narrative identity reinforcement:** The selection operationalizes the ongoing "Biden Crime Family" contamination narrative central to Trump's post-2020 rhetorical architecture. It positions Biden as corrupt and venal, implicitly elevating Trump by contrast.

## Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques

The rhetorical work is done entirely by the source selection and URL slug ("bidens-caught" — framing the story as exposure of wrongdoing before a reader even clicks). Techniques embedded in the article title:

- **Implication of guilt via passive framing:** "caught" presupposes guilt
- **Hunter Biden tie** as guilt-by-association
- **Whataboutism infrastructure:** Redirects from any Trump-adjacent controversy toward Biden corruption
- **False dichotomy setup:** Selling SPR oil = betrayal of Americans for Chinese gain

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Biden sold 950,000 barrels of US oil to a Chinese company" | **Mostly True** | The Biden administration did release ~180M barrels from the SPR in 2022; some were sold to international buyers including Unipec (Sinopec subsidiary, Chinese state energy). The 950,000 barrel figure for one specific sale was widely reported as accurate. |
| "Hunter Biden has a tie to the Chinese company" | **Half True** | Hunter Biden held equity in BHR Partners, a fund with Sinopec (parent of Unipec) connections. He reportedly divested this stake in 2021, prior to the SPR sales. The 'tie' is real but attenuated, historical, and no direct causal or financial link to the SPR transaction has been demonstrated. |

Overall Veracity: 65%

## Cognitive & Clinical Indicators

No direct linguistic signal is available for cognitive assessment. The post cannot contribute to longitudinal cognitive tracking.

## Danger Assessment

**None.** Content is political attack framing with no eliminationist language, dehumanization, or mobilization cues.

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 12%)

### Indicators

- Post time 13:56 AKDT — standard business hours during Alaska rally day
- Zero accompanying text or personal commentary
- No typos, emotional markers, ALL CAPS, or stream-of-consciousness
- Bare URL drop — consistent with aide curation queue
- Contrast with same-day authentic Elon Musk post which has clear first-person Trumpian voice

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Staff-curated Biden corruption content)

Sentiment: -0.55

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 20%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 15%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- projection (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 0%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Curated grievance amplification — staff selects content to maintain follower outrage and Trump's identity as corruption-exposer

## Fact Checks (2)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-19._

> Biden sold 950,000 barrels of US oil to a Chinese company

**MOSTLY TRUE**

The Biden administration did release ~180M barrels from the SPR in 2022; some were sold to international buyers including Unipec (Sinopec subsidiary, Chinese state energy). The 950,000 barrel figure for one specific sale was widely reported as accurate.

Sources: Reuters SPR release reporting, 2022; Energy Information Administration data

> Hunter Biden has a tie to the Chinese company

**HALF TRUE**

Hunter Biden held equity in BHR Partners, a fund with Sinopec (parent of Unipec) connections. He reportedly divested this stake in 2021, prior to the SPR sales. The 'tie' is real but attenuated, historical, and no direct causal or financial link to the SPR transaction has been demonstrated.

Sources: Biden family financial disclosures; Congressional testimony records

Overall Veracity: 65%

## Tags

- aide-authored (90%)
- Biden-corruption-narrative (85%)
- Hunter-Biden (80%)
- SPR-energy-grievance (75%)
- China-threat-framing (70%)
- maintenance-posting (80%)
- bare-URL (100%)

## That day

_From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._

**Power Broker at 30,000 Feet: Endorsement Denials, Election Demands, and Musk Retaliation on the Way to Alaska**

Trump spent the day in campaign mode, traveling from Las Vegas to Anchorage for a rally while firing off posts between stops. The Wisconsin Supreme Court's ruling against ballot drop boxes consumed most of his attention, fueling a four-post escalation that demanded state legislators overturn the 2020 election results and branded the situation an "atrocity." He also took public shots at Elon Musk over the collapsed Twitter deal, denied endorsement to a Missouri Senate candidate in deliberately humiliating fashion, and shared a brief tribute to the assassinated Shinzo Abe. The overall mood was assertive and grandiose — a power broker dispensing favor and punishment from the campaign trail.

Full digest for 2022-07-09: https://trump.fm/date/2022-07-09/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, July 9). https://www.westernjournal.com/bidens-caught-joe-s... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_108619613325152004
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://www.westernjournal.com/bidens-caught-joe-sold-950000..." Truth Social, 9 Jul. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108619613325152004. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "https://www.westernjournal.com/bidens-caught-joe-sold-950000...," Truth Social, July 9, 2022, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108619613325152004.

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