# Post ts_109534843416216067

- Post ID: `ts_109534843416216067`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2022-12-18T13:11:10.682Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109534843416216067
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109534843416216067/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_109534843416216067.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> DON’T FORGET, THESE THUGS SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN!!!

## Engagement

- Likes: 31,863
- Reposts: 7,105
- Replies: 994
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.425Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T01:05:37.579Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

# Analysis: "DON'T FORGET, THESE THUGS SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN!!!"

## Authorship
High confidence authentic Trump. ALL CAPS, brief emotional outburst, imperative tone, triple exclamation marks. Posted ~8:11 AM ET from likely Mar-a-Lago location—early morning but within his typical posting window.

## Psychological Framework
A maintenance-level grievance post that recycles the 2016 campaign surveillance narrative. This post sits within a cluster of same-day posts focused on persecution themes (FBI/Twitter, rigged elections, media opposition), suggesting a sustained vulnerable-narcissistic state on this date.

The imperative "DON'T FORGET" functions as both parasocial leadership (directing collective memory) and supply-seeking (reinforcing shared victimhood narrative). The word "THUGS" is notable—applying street-criminal framing to federal law enforcement, a persistent pattern of institutional delegitimization.

## Defense Mechanisms
**Distortion** (pathological): Court-authorized FISA surveillance becomes criminal "spying." **Projection** (immature): Lawful investigators are recast as "thugs"—projecting criminality onto those who investigated potential crimes.

## Narrative Identity
Classic Level 3 contamination sequence: good (campaign) → bad (violated by state surveillance). Protagonist role is the persecuted leader whose righteous campaign was targeted by corrupt forces.

## Danger Assessment
Elevated. While brief and routine, the dehumanization of law enforcement ("THUGS") contributes to ongoing delegitimization of federal institutions. In the context of same-day posts about FBI "dominance" and "rigged" elections, this reinforces an epistemically closed worldview where institutional oversight equals persecution.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "They spied on my campaign" | **Mostly False** | The FBI obtained FISA warrants (approved by federal judges) to surveil Carter Page, a campaign adviser, as part of the Crossfire Hurricane counterintelligence investigation. The DOJ IG found serious errors in the FISA applications but confirmed the investigation was properly predicated. 'Spied' implies illegal activity; the surveillance was court-authorized, though flawed in execution. |

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 85%)

### Indicators

- ALL CAPS throughout
- Exclamation marks
- Short emotional outburst
- Weekend morning timing

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Vulnerable State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance

**Rage:** Intensity 50% targeting FBI/intelligence community
- Proportionality: 40%

Sentiment: -0.70

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 40%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 60%
- Sadism: 10%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 15%

Cognitive Markers:
- perseveration

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct address ('DON'T FORGET')
- Shared grievance maintenance
- In-group memory enforcement

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Dehumanizing label ('THUGS') applied to federal law enforcement
- Pattern of delegitimizing investigative institutions

### Gaslighting

- Reframes lawful counterintelligence investigation as criminal 'spying'
- Commands audience memory: 'DON'T FORGET'

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._

> They spied on my campaign

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The FBI obtained FISA warrants (approved by federal judges) to surveil Carter Page, a campaign adviser, as part of the Crossfire Hurricane counterintelligence investigation. The DOJ IG found serious errors in the FISA applications but confirmed the investigation was properly predicated. 'Spied' implies illegal activity; the surveillance was court-authorized, though flawed in execution.

Sources: DOJ Inspector General Horowitz Report (Dec 2019); FISA Court proceedings

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Tags

- grievance-recycling (80%)
- law-enforcement-delegitimization (70%)
- campaign-surveillance (90%)

## That day

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

**On Eve of Criminal Referrals, a Daylong Defensive Siege Reveals Deep Narcissistic Injury**

Trump spent the day in a sustained defensive posture as the January 6th Committee prepared to vote on criminal referrals against him. The evening before began with a long, layered attack on the committee, followed by a rapid-fire morning burst of nine posts in under three hours -- nearly all focused on delegitimizing the investigation, the FBI, and the DOJ. The mood swung between defiant grandiosity and wounded victimhood, with repeated returns to the 2020 election fraud narrative now 25 months old. Several posts contained outright false claims, including that the committee had no Republican members and that the FBI shut down his Twitter account.

Full digest for 2022-12-18: https://trump.fm/date/2022-12-18/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, December 18). DON’T FORGET, THESE THUGS SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN!!! [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109534843416216067
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "DON’T FORGET, THESE THUGS SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN!!!" Truth Social, 18 Dec. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109534843416216067. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "DON’T FORGET, THESE THUGS SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN!!!," Truth Social, December 18, 2022, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109534843416216067.

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