# Post ts_109880954914396525 - Post ID: `ts_109880954914396525` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-02-17T16:11:53.025Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109880954914396525 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109880954914396525/analysis ## Post text > https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/sy-hersh-swings-big-misses-lee-smith ## Engagement - Likes: 10,671 - Reposts: 3,068 - Replies: 326 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.420Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T03:15:20.539Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Post Analysis: ts_109880954914396525 — URL Share, Tablet Magazine / Lee Smith on Sy Hersh ### Overview This post consists entirely of a bare URL with no accompanying original text. The linked article — Lee Smith, "Sy Hersh Swings Big, Misses" at *Tablet Magazine* — is a critique of Seymour Hersh's February 2023 Substack piece claiming the Biden administration ordered the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines. The fetch returned 403 Forbidden; analysis proceeds from URL metadata, Lee Smith's documented editorial posture, and contextual knowledge of the period. **Curation context:** This is the fifth link-share post in the same 24-hour window on February 17, 2023. The batch includes Newsmax on Obama/Soleimani, Just the News on border gotaways, PJ Media on the Fulton County grand jury probe, and Just the News on Trump's Jan. 6 blame narrative. The current post on Nord Stream / Hersh completes a portfolio of anti-Biden-adjacent, conservative-media-sourced content with zero original authorship on any individual post. --- ### Authorship Attribution **Timestamp:** 16:11:53 UTC. In mid-February 2023, Trump was most likely at Mar-a-Lago (Palm Beach, FL; EST = UTC−5). Local time: **11:11 AM EST** — solidly within standard business hours. This is a textbook aide-curated post: - Mid-morning business hours in local timezone - Zero original language — no capitalization flourishes, no epithets, no emotional charge - Part of a systematic five-post sequence of curated conservative-media links spanning several hours - Polished in the sense of being nothing but a clean URL (no typos possible) **Assessment:** Very high probability of aide authorship (Scavino operation or equivalent). No psychological signal attributable directly to Trump's voice. --- ### Psychological State With no original text, direct psychological inference is severely constrained. What can be inferred is from *curation choice*: **Trigger type:** Maintenance / supply-seeking. The post is part of routine audience engagement, not reactive. No identifiable narcissistic injury is driving this specific post. **Narrative logic of selection:** The choice to share a Lee Smith critique of Hersh is subtler than the other links in the batch. Lee Smith is a conservative writer at *Tablet* and *The Federalist* known for skepticism of the intelligence community and mainstream media gatekeeping. His framing — "Swings Big, Misses" — likely argues that Hersh's instinct (Biden-linked culpability for Nord Stream) is correct but his sourcing is thin or his framing is strategically counterproductive for conservatives. This is a form of **amplification through critique**: the story gets oxygen regardless of the verdict on Hersh's methodology. Sharing it serves agency motives without requiring Trump's fingerprints on the underlying claim. If Hersh is wrong in his specific framing but right in his suspicions, the Trump camp benefits from the controversy without endorsing a claim that could be factually refuted. --- ### Defense Mechanisms Not assessable from a URL-only post. The curation pattern across the day broadly reflects **displacement** (directing hostile energy toward Biden/Democrats via third-party surrogates) and possible **rationalization** (selecting articles that provide intellectual cover for conspiratorial narratives via respectable conservative outlets), but these inferences apply to the day's posting pattern collectively, not to this post in isolation. --- ### Rhetorical Techniques The rhetorical act here is *selection itself* — the post performs no independent rhetoric but borrows the credibility and framing of *Tablet Magazine*, a publication with literary prestige and Jewish-intellectual brand identity that lends gravitas. This constitutes: - **Appeal to authority** (by venue): Tablet is not a fringe outlet - **Amplification by association**: elevating the Nord Stream sabotage narrative regardless of the article's verdict on Hersh - **Plausible deniability**: sharing a *critical* piece means the poster cannot be accused of uncritically spreading Hersh's claims while still ensuring the underlying story circulates among followers --- ### Cognitive Assessment No original language to analyze. Complexity metrics cannot be computed. No indicators of word-finding difficulty, paraphasia, tangentiality, or confabulation are detectable. Baseline comparison is inapplicable. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Implied: Biden administration was responsible for Nord Stream pipeline sabotage (underlying claim of Hersh article being critiqued)" | **Unverifiable** | Hersh's February 2023 Substack report was denied by the U.S. government. Competing attribution emerged (pro-Ukraine group per NYT, March 2023). German and Swedish investigations ongoing. Not Trump's direct claim; amplified indirectly. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 10%) ### Indicators - Posted at 11:11 AM EST (Mar-a-Lago local time) — standard business hours - Zero original text — bare URL only - Fifth in a systematic sequence of curated conservative-media link shares across the day - No typos, capitalization patterns, emotional charge, or stream-of-consciousness markers - Pattern consistent with Scavino-style content curation operation ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance Sentiment: -0.15 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 10% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 10% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - displacement (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Implied: Biden administration was responsible for Nord Stream pipeline sabotage (underlying claim of Hersh article being critiqued) **UNVERIFIABLE** Hersh's February 2023 Substack report was denied by the U.S. government. Competing attribution emerged (pro-Ukraine group per NYT, March 2023). German and Swedish investigations ongoing. Not Trump's direct claim; amplified indirectly. Sources: Seymour Hersh Substack, Feb 8 2023; NYT March 2023 (pro-Ukraine group attribution); German federal investigation ongoing as of post date Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - url-only (100%) - aide-authored (90%) - nord-stream (80%) - anti-biden (70%) - media-curation (90%) - tablet-magazine (60%) - lee-smith (60%) - sy-hersh (70%) - amplification-through-critique (70%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Low-Key Day of Link Dumps and Legal Grievance, Punctuated by Grandiose Golf Course Promotion** Trump spent a quiet morning sharing political articles through what appeared to be staff-curated link dumps, covering border security, the Fulton County grand jury, and favorable polling. The afternoon turned personal when he posted a boastful tribute to his Doral golf course, then pivoted sharply into legal grievance mode — attacking the DOJ as weaponized, labeling investigations as "Witch Hunts," and casting himself as a persecuted figure whose growing popularity explains the prosecutions. The day's only real heat came in that late-afternoon window, where brief flashes of anger over the Manhattan DA and Fulton County probes broke through an otherwise low-energy day. Full digest for 2023-02-17: https://trump.fm/date/2023-02-17/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, February 17). https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/s... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109880954914396525 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/sy-hersh-sw..." Truth Social, 17 Feb. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109880954914396525. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/sy-hersh-sw...," Truth Social, February 17, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109880954914396525. ## 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_109880954914396525 - Analysis as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/analysis/ts_109880954914396525 - All citation formats: https://trump.fm/api/cite/ts_109880954914396525 - Same day: https://trump.fm/date/2023-02-17 - The record alone, without the analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109880954914396525.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`._