# Post ts_110425057643361085 - Post ID: `ts_110425057643361085` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-05-24T18:24:21.785Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110425057643361085 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110425057643361085/analysis ## Post text > https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/wayne-root-everyone-has-missed-real-revelation-durham/ ## Engagement - Likes: 10,991 - Reposts: 3,946 - Replies: 569 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.411Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T05:21:42.861Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Posted at 2:24 PM EDT on May 24, 2023 — the day DeSantis announced his presidential campaign and amid intensifying Jack Smith probe activity — this bare-link share to a Gateway Pundit column by Wayne Root amplifies the claim that Barack Obama is the "real criminal mastermind" behind the Russia investigation, extrapolated from Durham's final report. The post is almost certainly aide-curated (business hours, no original text, part of a coordinated link-share cluster) but reflects Trumpian content priorities. Psychologically, the post exemplifies compound-trigger dynamics: the Durham report provides rare narcissistic supply (vindication) deployed as a DARVO shield against active legal threat (Smith probe, Carroll lawsuit). Projection operates overtly — the investigated projects criminal mastermind status onto his perceived primary antagonist. Obama functions here as the supreme contrasting other: the amplified article's framing ("crime family," "mafia don," hanging imagery) represents laundered eliminationist rhetoric with a named target of international prominence. Durham's actual findings — FBI procedural failures, insufficient predication — are being distorted into confirmation of a maximalist conspiracy the report does not support. Danger level is elevated: the stochastic terrorism structure is present (named target, extreme grievance framing, implicit severity) without explicit mobilization language. No original text precludes cognitive baseline comparison. # Analysis: Truth Social Post — May 24, 2023 (ts_110425057643361085) ## Overview This post consists entirely of a bare hyperlink to The Gateway Pundit, sharing a Wayne Root opinion column arguing that Barack Obama — not Joe Biden — is the "real criminal mastermind" behind what Root characterizes as the "Russia hoax" and related Democratic corruption, extrapolated from John Durham's recently released final report. There is no original text from the poster. The absence of authored text renders direct linguistic/cognitive analysis impossible, but the *curation act itself* — selecting this specific article, on this specific day — is analytically rich. --- ## Authorship Attribution **UTC:** 18:24:21Z | **Local (EDT, Mar-a-Lago/Palm Beach):** 2:24 PM This falls squarely within business hours, consistent with aide (Scavino) posting patterns. The post is also part of a cluster of bare URL shares throughout May 24 — Breitbart, NY Sun, JustTheNews, and now Gateway Pundit — suggesting a coordinated media amplification operation rather than impulsive personal posting. No original text, no capitalization, no typos, no stream-of-consciousness: all point away from authentic Trump in the moment. However, the content selection is highly Trumpian. Wayne Root is a personal Trump ally he has praised repeatedly. The Gateway Pundit is among his most favored amplification outlets. The specific frame — Obama as supreme criminal above Biden and Hillary — aligns precisely with Trump's personal hierarchy of grievance. The aide likely had a pre-approved list or real-time direction. **Assessment:** Aide-curated, possibly with Trump direction on content theme. Confidence: medium. --- ## Contextual Significance (Day-of Events) This post lands on one of the most psychologically loaded single days in Trump's recent history: 1. **Ron DeSantis announced his 2024 presidential campaign** that afternoon via Twitter Spaces — which famously crashed for 20 minutes. Trump's team ran coordinated counter-ops (circling trucks, social media barrages). This link-share cluster is part of that zone-flooding strategy: keep the Durham/Obama narrative dominant in right-wing media space while DeSantis stumbles. 2. **Jack Smith's classified documents probe was intensifying**, with new evidence the National Archives was preparing to hand over records showing Trump's knowledge of declassification procedures. Trump was under direct legal siege. 3. **Durham's final report** had just dropped, providing Trump with the first genuine external validation artifact for his years-long "Russia hoax" persecution narrative. The psychological cocktail: acute threat (Smith probe) + rare vindication (Durham) + rival entry (DeSantis) = aggressive curation of victimhood-to-vindication narrative. --- ## Psychological Analysis ### Narcissistic Dynamics **State:** Mixed — simultaneously grandiose (vindicated by Durham, dominant enough to disrupt DeSantis launch) and vulnerable (Smith probe intensifying, E. Jean Carroll amended lawsuit). The Durham amplification represents a flight from the vulnerable state into grandiose counterattack. **Trigger:** Compound. Primary: narcissistic injury from active legal persecution (Smith classified docs, Carroll damages expansion). Secondary: supply-seeking, as Durham represents rare external validation. Tertiary: rival threat management (DeSantis entry). **Rage:** Not present in the post's surface form — the bare link is a distancing device. But the article amplified is saturated with eliminationist language about Obama, implying Trump endorses this frame. The rage is laundered through Wayne Root as a proxy. ### Defense Mechanisms **Projection (immature):** The post amplifies an article accusing Obama of running a "criminal organization" — a direct mirror of the legal apparatus closing around Trump himself. The accused becomes the accuser. The investigated investigates. **DARVO structure:** The entire Durham amplification campaign is textbook Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender. Trump (defendant in multiple proceedings) projects criminal mastermind status onto Obama while positioning himself as the persecuted innocent. **Splitting (immature):** Root's article — and by extension this post — divides the world absolutely: Obama/Biden/Hillary as pure evil ("crime family," "mafia don," "treason," "nooses"), Trump's camp as pure victim. No gradation, no complexity. **Rationalization (neurotic):** Durham's report, which found significant FBI procedural failures but did not charge Obama or establish the grand conspiracy Root describes, is being post-hoc rationalized as confirmation of the maximalist persecution narrative. ### Malignant Narcissism Components - **Narcissistic features:** Grandiosity (persecution by the very president = special status), entitlement (vindication is owed and now arrived). - **Paranoid features:** The article's central frame — that a multi-year criminal conspiracy was orchestrated at the Oval Office level specifically targeting Trump — is paranoid ideation presented as fact. Trump's curation endorses this frame. - **Antisocial features:** Disregard for evidentiary standards; amplifying demonstrably speculative claims as truth. - **Ego-syntonic sadism:** Muted in this post, but the implied pleasure in seeing Obama labeled a "criminal mastermind" functions as devaluation of a longtime envied figure (Obama's approval ratings, Obama's legitimacy, the Obama presidency as foil to Trump's own). --- ## Narrative Identity (McAdams Level 3) **Protagonist role:** The Wronged Hero — persecuted by the most powerful man in the world (Obama), vindicated at last by an independent counsel. **Narrative sequence:** Contamination-to-redemption arc. The "good" Trump presidency was contaminated by the Russia hoax (Obama's doing); Durham represents the beginning of redemption/exposure. **Contrasting other:** Barack Obama is the supreme negative identity pole in this post — not Hillary (who executed the plan) or Biden (who benefited), but Obama, who represents everything Trump is defined against: Black, educated, globally respected, institutionally legitimate. **Identity claims (implicit):** *I was right all along. The greatest hoax in political history was confirmed. I am not a criminal — they are.* --- ## Rhetorical Analysis **Primary technique — Amplification by curation:** Sharing without comment allows Trump to endorse the article's maximal claims while maintaining plausible deniability. He "merely shared a link." **Third-party proxy voice:** Wayne Root serves as a rhetorical surrogate who can articulate claims Trump would face immediate fact-checking for if stated directly. **Whataboutism / tu quoque:** The structural argument is: "You prosecute me? Obama committed treason." This is not a defense against the charges; it is deflection to a more emotionally resonant counter-accusation. **Firehose of falsehood (RAND model):** This post is one of several link-shares on the same day — a volume-based approach to dominating the information environment, mixing true elements (Durham's FBI procedural findings) with speculative/false ones (Obama as criminal mastermind) to degrade the audience's epistemic capacity. **Dehumanization:** The article uses "crime family" and "mafia don" language for the Obama administration and references hanging metaphors ("we all hang from nooses") — Trump's curation implicitly endorses this framing. --- ## Reality Distortion / Gaslighting The Durham report's actual findings (FBI used insufficient predication; Crossfire Hurricane should not have been opened as a full investigation; no evidence of intentional wrongdoing by high-ranking officials) are being amplified as confirmation of a maximalist conspiracy theory the report explicitly does not support. This is reality distortion through selective amplification — using a real document as a vessel for claims it does not contain. --- ## Danger Assessment The article shared contains: - A named target (Barack Obama, former President) - A grievance framing (criminal mastermind, treason, hanging offense) - Implied severity (the words "we all hang from nooses" attributed to Clinton, implying capital crimes) The stochastic terrorism pattern is *structurally present*: a prominent figure (Trump) amplifying content that identifies a named target (Obama), articulates extreme grievances (treason, criminal conspiracy), and implies extreme severity ("hang from nooses") — without explicit call to action. The threshold for stochastic terrorism classification is not met (no mobilization language, no implied action directive), but the pattern merits flagging at **elevated** danger level. --- ## Cognitive Assessment No original text exists to assess. Complexity score and baseline deviation are not assessable from this post alone. The curation choice is cognitively consistent with established patterns. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Durham report found FBI had no basis to open Crossfire Hurricane investigation into Trump" | **Mostly True** | Durham's final report concluded the FBI 'failed to uphold its own standards' and that the investigation 'should not have been opened as a full investigation' given available predication. However Durham did not find intentional wrongdoing by senior officials. | | "Obama personally approved the Russia hoax in a White House meeting with Clinton and Biden" | **Mostly False** | Durham's report references a CIA referral regarding Clinton campaign's alleged plan to tie Trump to Russia as a distraction, and a handwritten Brennan note about briefing Obama. Durham does not conclude Obama approved or directed any criminal scheme. | | "The FBI was blocked from prosecuting Clinton for Clinton Foundation crimes involving extortion of world leaders" | **Unverifiable** | Durham's report discusses tensions between FBI and DOJ over the Clinton email investigation but does not contain findings about Clinton Foundation prosecution being blocked for political reasons at Obama's direction. | | "Obama received 'a piece of' Biden's alleged corruption scheme" | **False** | No credible evidence or legal finding supports this claim. Not contained in Durham report or any contemporaneous legal proceeding. | | "Deleted Clinton emails contained the phrase 'if that bastard wins, we all hang from nooses'" | **Unverifiable** | This quote has circulated in right-wing media for years. Its origin is contested and it does not appear in any official document or verified disclosure. Cannot be confirmed or denied from available evidence. | Overall Veracity: 40% ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 30%) ### Indicators - 2:24 PM EDT — business hours, consistent with aide posting - Bare URL with no original text — no typos, capitalization, or stream-of-consciousness - Part of coordinated same-day link-share cluster (Breitbart, NY Sun, JustTheNews, Gateway Pundit) - Gateway Pundit and Wayne Root are Trump-favored sources suggesting possible content direction from Trump - No emotional reactivity markers present in post itself ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Jack Smith classified documents probe intensifying; E. Jean Carroll amended lawsuit; DeSantis rival entry) **Rage:** Intensity 55% targeting Barack Obama - Proportionality: 20% Sentiment: -0.75 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 75% - Antisocial: 55% - Paranoid: 80% - Sadism: 45% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) - splitting (immature) - denial (pathological) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Third-party proxy validation — Root articulates what Trump endorses but does not directly state - Amplification without comment as implicit endorsement with deniability - Persecution narrative reinforcement for base audience - Vindicatation signaling ('I told you so' without saying it) ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - Named high-profile target (Barack Obama, former President) identified as 'criminal mastermind' and 'treasonous' - Hanging imagery present in amplified content ('we all hang from nooses') framing alleged crimes as capital offenses - Mob/crime family framing creates dehumanizing frame for a named individual - Stochastic terrorism structure present: prominent amplifier + named target + extreme grievance + implied severity, without explicit call to action - Amplification reach multiplies audience exposure to eliminationist framing of Obama ### Gaslighting - Durham report's actual findings (procedural failures, insufficient predication) presented as confirming a grand criminal conspiracy the report explicitly does not establish - DARVO operation: ongoing Trump legal jeopardy reframed as proof of enemy criminality rather than addressed on its merits - Repeated amplification across day's posts creates impression of overwhelming evidence consensus where actual Durham findings are narrower **Dehumanizing Language Present** **Violent Imagery Present** ## Fact Checks (5) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Durham report found FBI had no basis to open Crossfire Hurricane investigation into Trump **MOSTLY TRUE** Durham's final report concluded the FBI 'failed to uphold its own standards' and that the investigation 'should not have been opened as a full investigation' given available predication. However Durham did not find intentional wrongdoing by senior officials. Sources: Durham Special Counsel Final Report, May 2023 > Obama personally approved the Russia hoax in a White House meeting with Clinton and Biden **MOSTLY FALSE** Durham's report references a CIA referral regarding Clinton campaign's alleged plan to tie Trump to Russia as a distraction, and a handwritten Brennan note about briefing Obama. Durham does not conclude Obama approved or directed any criminal scheme. Sources: Durham Special Counsel Final Report, May 2023 > The FBI was blocked from prosecuting Clinton for Clinton Foundation crimes involving extortion of world leaders **UNVERIFIABLE** Durham's report discusses tensions between FBI and DOJ over the Clinton email investigation but does not contain findings about Clinton Foundation prosecution being blocked for political reasons at Obama's direction. > Obama received 'a piece of' Biden's alleged corruption scheme **FALSE** No credible evidence or legal finding supports this claim. Not contained in Durham report or any contemporaneous legal proceeding. > Deleted Clinton emails contained the phrase 'if that bastard wins, we all hang from nooses' **UNVERIFIABLE** This quote has circulated in right-wing media for years. Its origin is contested and it does not appear in any official document or verified disclosure. Cannot be confirmed or denied from available evidence. Overall Veracity: 40% ## Tags - durham-report (90%) - obama-scapegoating (85%) - darvo (85%) - projection (80%) - persecution-narrative (85%) - gateway-pundit-amplification (75%) - desantis-counter-operation (70%) - zone-flooding (75%) - aide-posted (70%) - hanging-imagery (65%) - stochastic-terrorism-adjacent (55%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Trump Unleashes All-Day Barrage as DeSantis's Glitch-Plagued Campaign Launch Becomes His Best Day in Months** Trump spent the entire day locked onto one target: Ron DeSantis, who officially launched his presidential campaign via a Twitter Spaces event that crashed repeatedly. The morning opened with a rapid-fire volley of personal attacks framing DeSantis as a disloyal creation who owes his career to Trump. A brief flash of anger about E. Jean Carroll surfaced mid-morning, but DeSantis dominated the rest of the day. When the Twitter Spaces event collapsed under technical failures, Trump's mood shifted from defensive aggression to gleeful mockery — recycling his old nuclear-button taunt, nitpicking DeSantis's collar, and ranking rival launches like a pageant judge. The overall tone was more triumphant than threatened, though the sheer volume of the response told a different story than the breezy contempt Trump was projecting. Full digest for 2023-05-24: https://trump.fm/date/2023-05-24/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, May 24). https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/wayne-roo... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110425057643361085 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/wayne-root-everyone..." Truth Social, 24 May. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110425057643361085. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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