# Post ts_109837278706105061 - Post ID: `ts_109837278706105061` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-02-09T23:04:26.972Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109837278706105061 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109837278706105061/analysis ## Post text > https://thegreggjarrett.com/how-the-fbi-colluded-with-twitter-to-help-elect-biden-takes-center-stage-on-capitol-hill/ ## Engagement - Likes: 15,315 - Reposts: 4,664 - Replies: 498 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.420Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T00:46:56.773Z (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_109837278706105061 | 2023-02-09T23:04Z ## Overview This post is a structurally minimal URL drop — no original text, no appended commentary — linking to a Gregg Jarrett column asserting FBI-Twitter electoral collusion. The psychological and rhetorical content is almost entirely embedded in the article title selected for amplification rather than in any original expression. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Assessment: Aide-written (high confidence, ~0.10 authentic)** Converted to local time, the post appears at **18:04 Eastern** (Mar-a-Lago/Florida, February 2023 — Trump's typical winter location). This is firmly within business hours, a strong indicator of Scavino or communications staff operation. The post's zero-commentary URL format is consistent with a content curation role, not Trump's authentic expression style. Notably, other posts from the same day — "Washington **Compost**," "**Horseface**," "I am certainly a victim" — display unmistakable authentic Trump markers: impulsive nicknames, parenthetical interjections, run-on clauses, and affective urgency. This URL post is categorically different in register. --- ## Psychological Analysis With no original language, direct psychological inference is severely constrained. The **selection behavior** is itself diagnostic: the article reinforces Trump's core persecution schema — a unified conspiratorial apparatus (FBI + Silicon Valley + Democratic operatives) that illicitly managed electoral outcomes. This aligns with the **paranoid features** of the documented personality constellation at a sub-clinical expression level. Given aide attribution, this reflects **strategic narrative maintenance** rather than raw psychological output. **Defense mechanisms:** Projection (institutional conspiracy framing inverts the self-directed electoral manipulation accusations) and rationalization (Capitol Hill hearings provide institutional legitimacy for conspiratorial content, smuggling it into the Overton window). --- ## Narrative Identity (Level 3) The chosen article implicitly casts Trump as the **vindicated truth-teller** — the hidden facts are now "taking center stage," suggesting the cover-up is unraveling. This feeds the **redemption sequence** meta-narrative: persecution → revelation → vindication. No explicit identity claims are made, but the selection implies them structurally. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis The rhetorical load is carried entirely by the Jarrett title: - **"Colluded"** — criminal-conspiracy framing, not mere coordination - **"to help elect Biden"** — asserts intentional, partisan, directional motive - **"takes center stage on Capitol Hill"** — transfers institutional credibility (Congress) to legitimize the premise The amplification-without-commentary technique is a low-risk rhetorical strategy: Trump's Truth Social account extends reach to Jarrett's framing while generating no direct Trump-attributable claim subject to fact-check rebuttal. **RAND Firehose dimension:** This is one of five posts on 2023-02-09, reflecting the volume-saturation mode of the influence operation — not any single post, but the cumulative narrative environment constructed across the day. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "FBI colluded with Twitter to help elect Biden" | **Mostly False** | The 'Twitter Files' (released Dec 2022–Feb 2023 by Musk-era Twitter) documented FBI communications flagging accounts and content for Twitter's review. This occurred. However, 'collusion' implies coordinated criminal conspiracy, and 'to help elect Biden' asserts deliberate partisan electoral intent. The communications were primarily labeled as national security / disinfo concerns; career FBI officials communicated with Twitter legal teams in patterns predating Biden's candidacy. No evidence of directed electoral manipulation was established — only bureaucratic overcommunication and content moderation deference. The 'collusion' framing conflates process with intent. | Overall Veracity: 20% ## Gaslighting / Reality Distortion The implicit claim that 2020's outcome was engineered — rather than the documented communications being primarily national security and disinfo-flagging workflows — constitutes reality distortion through selective framing. The post reinforces epistemic closure: followers who consume this amplification chain are discouraged from engaging with countervailing evidence. --- ## Danger Assessment **None.** No dehumanizing language, no eliminationist rhetoric, no stochastic terrorism indicators. Standard partisan media amplification within normal — if misleading — political discourse parameters. --- ## Longitudinal Note Taken alongside the same-day authentic posts, this URL drop reflects the **two-mode posting architecture** observable across Trump's Truth Social presence: (1) raw, impulsive authentic expression (Stormy, Washington Compost, prosecutorial misconduct) and (2) aide-curated content aggregation reinforcing the persecution narrative ecosystem. The aide posts serve as infrastructure; the authentic posts are the emotional signal. This distinction is analytically important and merits consistent tracking. ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 10%) ### Indicators - Bare URL with zero personal commentary — a hallmark of aide curation, not authentic Trump expression - Post time 23:04 UTC = 18:04 Eastern (6:04 PM EST, standard business hours for Mar-a-Lago/Florida in February 2023) - No typos, no ALL CAPS, no emotional punctuation - Pattern consistent with Scavino-style content aggregation alongside other same-day posts that show clearly authentic Trump voice ('Horseface,' 'Washington Compost') ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (Conservative media ecosystem curation) Sentiment: -0.35 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 20% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 40% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 10% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Epistemic supply chain: curates 'approved truth' sources for followers - Validation by association: sharing without comment implies endorsement while maintaining deniability ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - Amplifies 'colluded to elect Biden' framing — assertion that 2020 election outcome was engineered by institutional conspiracy, contradicting documented reality - Implicitly attacks audience's trust in federal law enforcement and social media as neutral actors without providing direct argumentation that could be rebutted ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-24._ > FBI colluded with Twitter to help elect Biden **MOSTLY FALSE** The 'Twitter Files' (released Dec 2022–Feb 2023 by Musk-era Twitter) documented FBI communications flagging accounts and content for Twitter's review. This occurred. However, 'collusion' implies coordinated criminal conspiracy, and 'to help elect Biden' asserts deliberate partisan electoral intent. The communications were primarily labeled as national security / disinfo concerns; career FBI officials communicated with Twitter legal teams in patterns predating Biden's candidacy. No evidence of directed electoral manipulation was established — only bureaucratic overcommunication and content moderation deference. The 'collusion' framing conflates process with intent. Sources: Twitter Files releases Dec 2022 - Feb 2023; House Judiciary Committee hearings on FBI-Twitter communications Overall Veracity: 20% ## Tags - aide-authored (90%) - url-only (100%) - twitter-files (90%) - fbi-collusion-narrative (90%) - election-fraud-ecosystem (80%) - content-curation (80%) - persecution-schema (60%) - epistemic-closure (70%) - gregg-jarrett (70%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Biden's SOTU Triggers Afternoon Spiral Through Election Denial, Koch Rejection, and Legal Threat** Trump spent a quiet late evening on February 8th sharing grateful retweets before going silent for sixteen hours. The afternoon kicked off around 2:30 PM with poll numbers and a Biden ratings comparison, then steadily darkened as he worked through grievances about the Koch Network dropping him, a former prosecutor's tell-all book, and a contemptuous personal attack likely aimed at Beyoncé. The stolen-election claim kept surfacing even in unrelated posts about media subscriptions and donor politics, functioning almost like a verbal tic. He wound down the evening with a rapid-fire dump of conservative news links, shifting from combative to curatorial mode. Full digest for 2023-02-09: https://trump.fm/date/2023-02-09/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, February 9). https://thegreggjarrett.com/how-the-fbi-colluded-w... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109837278706105061 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://thegreggjarrett.com/how-the-fbi-colluded-with-twitte..." Truth Social, 9 Feb. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109837278706105061. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "https://thegreggjarrett.com/how-the-fbi-colluded-with-twitte...," Truth Social, February 9, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109837278706105061. ## For agents - Site overview: https://trump.fm/llms.txt - API specification: https://trump.fm/openapi.json - MCP server: https://trump.fm/mcp (search and fetch tools, no auth) - This post as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/posts/ts_109837278706105061 - Analysis as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/analysis/ts_109837278706105061 - All citation formats: https://trump.fm/api/cite/ts_109837278706105061 - Same day: https://trump.fm/date/2023-02-09 - The record alone, without the analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109837278706105061.md?analysis=false _Markdown view of a trump.fm page. Post, analysis, date, feed, contradictions, search and about pages answer in markdown at their URL with `.md` appended (`/index.md` for the home page), or when sent `Accept: text/markdown`._