# Post ts_109778350012262969

- Post ID: `ts_109778350012262969`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-01-30T13:18:06.471Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/Kash/statuses/109773008147532629 Remember in Helsinki when a 3rd rate reporter asked me, essentially, who I trusted more, President Putin of Russia, or our “Intelligence” lowlifes. My instinct at the time was that we had really bad people in the form of James Comey, McCabe (whose wife was being helped out by Crooked Hillary while Crooked was under investigation!), Brennan, Peter Strzok (whose wife is at the SEC) & his lover, Lisa Page. Now add McGonigal & other slime to the list. Who would you choose, Putin or these Misfits?

## Engagement

- Likes: 9,198
- Reposts: 3,290
- Replies: 714
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.422Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T02:00:14.355Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

This post reveals a perseverative narcissistic wound from the 2018 Helsinki summit — one of Trump's most criticized moments — being actively relitigated through the lens of McGonigal's arrest. The central psychological operation is retroactive vindication: reframing a widely condemned moment as prophetic insight. The false dichotomy ("Putin or these Misfits?") is psychologically significant — it openly advocates preferring a foreign adversary over domestic institutions, normalizing institutional delegitimization. Defense mechanisms include rationalization (individual corruption justifies blanket distrust), splitting (all named officials are uniformly evil), and devaluation through dehumanizing language ("lowlifes," "slime," "Misfits"). The perseverative quality — recycling the same grievances and parenthetical details about officials' spouses for 5+ years — is consistent with narcissistic grudge maintenance. The post functions as both supply-seeking (audience validation of his "instinct") and preemptive institutional attack. Elevated concern due to systematic delegitimization of law enforcement and intelligence institutions combined with dehumanization of named individuals.

## Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post ts_109778350012262969

### Context
Trump retweets/shares a post from Kash Patel, then adds his own commentary revisiting the 2018 Helsinki summit where he appeared to side with Putin over US intelligence agencies. The trigger appears to be the recent arrest of Charles McGonigal, a former FBI counterintelligence chief, on charges related to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska — which Trump uses as retroactive vindication.

### Authorship
Posted at 8:18 AM ET (Trump likely at Mar-a-Lago). The style — stream-of-consciousness parentheticals, ampersands, nicknames, rhetorical question — is strongly characteristic of authentic Trump. The emotional charge and self-vindication pattern confirm this.

### Psychological Dynamics
This is a textbook retroactive vindication post. The Helsinki moment was one of Trump's most criticized public appearances. The McGonigal arrest provides narcissistic supply by seemingly confirming his position. The post reframes what was widely seen as a diplomatic humiliation into prophetic wisdom.

The parenthetical asides (McCabe's wife, Strzok's wife) reflect perseverative grudge-holding — these details have been repeated across years of posts. The dehumanizing language ("lowlifes," "slime," "Misfits") serves dominance display.

### The Core Question
The rhetorical question "Who would you choose, Putin or these Misfits?" is remarkable — it openly reframes choosing a foreign adversary over US institutions as reasonable. This is not merely defensive; it's an active argument that trusting Putin was correct.

### Defense Mechanisms
- **Rationalization**: Bad actors in FBI retroactively justify siding with Putin
- **Splitting**: Intelligence community = all bad ("lowlifes," "slime")
- **Projection**: Attributes untrustworthiness entirely to domestic officials

### Danger Assessment
The post normalizes preference for a foreign adversary over domestic institutions, which constitutes institutional delegitimization rather than direct violence incitement.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "McCabe's wife was being helped out by Crooked Hillary while Crooked was under investigation" | **Half True** | Jill McCabe received $675K from a PAC linked to Terry McAuliffe (Clinton ally) for her 2015 Virginia state senate run. Funds came from McAuliffe's PAC, not directly from Clinton, and before McCabe had a role in the Clinton investigation. |
| "Peter Strzok's wife is at the SEC" | **True** | Melissa Hodgman, Strzok's wife, was promoted to associate director at the SEC in 2016. |
| "McGonigal was corrupt" | **True** | Charles McGonigal, former head of FBI NY counterintelligence, was arrested in January 2023 on charges of working with sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. |

Overall Veracity: 83%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 90%)

### Indicators

- Stream-of-consciousness parentheticals
- Ampersands instead of 'and'
- Emotional reactivity and grudge recitation
- Characteristic nicknames ('Crooked Hillary')
- Early morning but not pre-dawn posting

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Criticism (McGonigal arrest providing retroactive vindication for Helsinki)

**Rage:** Intensity 60% targeting FBI/intelligence community officials
- Proportionality: 30%

Sentiment: -0.60

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 70%
- Antisocial: 50%
- Paranoid: 70%
- Sadism: 40%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- rationalization (neurotic)
- splitting (immature)
- devaluation (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 50%

Cognitive Markers:
- tangentiality
- perseveration

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct audience engagement via rhetorical question
- Inviting followers to share his conclusion
- Creating in-group consensus against named enemies

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Normalizes trusting foreign adversary over US intelligence
- Systematic delegitimization of law enforcement institutions
- Dehumanizing language toward named individuals

### Gaslighting

- Reframes Helsinki incident from diplomatic embarrassment to prophetic wisdom
- Implies intelligence community is uniformly corrupt based on select individuals
- Revisionist framing of widely criticized moment

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> McCabe's wife was being helped out by Crooked Hillary while Crooked was under investigation

**HALF TRUE**

Jill McCabe received $675K from a PAC linked to Terry McAuliffe (Clinton ally) for her 2015 Virginia state senate run. Funds came from McAuliffe's PAC, not directly from Clinton, and before McCabe had a role in the Clinton investigation.

Sources: Public campaign finance records; DOJ IG report

> Peter Strzok's wife is at the SEC

**TRUE**

Melissa Hodgman, Strzok's wife, was promoted to associate director at the SEC in 2016.

Sources: SEC personnel records

> McGonigal was corrupt

**TRUE**

Charles McGonigal, former head of FBI NY counterintelligence, was arrested in January 2023 on charges of working with sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.

Sources: DOJ indictment January 2023

Overall Veracity: 83%

## Tags

- institutional-delegitimization (90%)
- retroactive-vindication (90%)
- helsinki-relitigated (80%)
- intelligence-community (80%)
- perseverative-grudge (70%)
- false-dichotomy (80%)

## That day

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

**"You Come After Us, We Come After You": Legal Pressure and Rival Attacks Fuel a Day of Escalating Threats**

Trump spent the day on offense against Republican rivals and defense against mounting legal pressure. The morning featured an escalating multi-post assault on Club for Growth and an implicit broadside against DeSantis, culminating in an explicit retaliatory threat. The Manhattan grand jury investigation loomed large, prompting combative posts comparing his legal situation to Al Capone's and attacking the prosecutor by name. The day closed with a rapid burst of link-sharing — ten posts in five minutes — amplifying favorable polls and supportive media coverage, a clear effort to reassert control of the narrative after a day spent feeling besieged.

Full digest for 2023-01-30: https://trump.fm/date/2023-01-30/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, January 30). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/Kash/statuses/10... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109778350012262969
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/Kash/statuses/109773008147..." Truth Social, 30 Jan. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109778350012262969. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/Kash/statuses/109773008147...," Truth Social, January 30, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109778350012262969.

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