Analysis: “Joe Biden has admitted he forced Shokin’s firing in late 20...

3y ago Jul 20, 2023 at 6:45 PM

“Joe Biden has admitted he forced Shokin’s firing in late 2015 and early 2016 by threatening to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees from Ukraine. The prosecutor was fired, but Biden has adamantly denied he did so to help his son’s company. The memo clearly states Burisma owner, Mykola Zlochevsky, told the informant he had been ‘coerced’ into paying the Biden’s money and estimated the price tag to be $10 million.” https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/fbi-informant-told-agents-hunter-biden-hired-burisma

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AI Analysis

Machine-generated analysis of the post above on 2026-03-20. Not written by the author of the post.

Danger Level

None

Narcissistic State

Mixed

Authorship

Aide-Written

Intensity

42%

Posted at 2:45 PM EDT during Trump's acute legal crisis period (Jan. 6 target letter from Jack Smith, hush money setback), this aide-written post is a tactically calibrated DARVO component rather than an authentic personal expression. One of three Biden-focused posts on July 20, 2023, it exploits Sen. Grassley's release of the FBI FD-1023 form to construct a reciprocal corruption narrative. The post's primary rhetorical manipulation is the word "admitted" — converting a publicly disclosed, multilaterally coordinated U.S. foreign policy action into an implied guilty confession. Secondary manipulation presents double-hearsay informant allegations as established documented fact via "the memo clearly states." Clinically, the post exemplifies projection operating at the campaign-message level: the specific charges leveled at Biden — using official leverage for family financial benefit, coercing foreign nationals — structurally mirror Trump's own simultaneous legal exposure. Authorship is almost certainly aide/Scavino (business hours, polished format, zero authentic Trump stylistic markers). Danger level: none. The post is significant longitudinally as evidence of a systematic DARVO strategy deployed across the July 2023 indictment-adjacent period: each unit of Trump's legal exposure is paired with a reciprocal Biden attack designed to establish false equivalence in the public information environment.

Authorship Analysis

Aide-Written

Indicators:

2:45 PM EDT — business hours
Clean formatted quotation block with no typos or misspellings
No ALL CAPS emotional escalation
No first-person pronoun or self-referential framing
No stream-of-consciousness syntax

Psychological Profile

▶ State

Mixed State

Trigger: Preemptive Attack — Exposure (Jan. 6 target letter from Special Counsel Jack Smith; hush money case setback)

Sentiment

-0.55

▶ Clinical

Malignant Narcissism:

Narcissistic

35%

Antisocial

20%

Paranoid

30%

Sadism

10%

Defense Mechanisms:

projectiondisplacementrationalization

Cognitive Complexity:

Complexity

45%

Parasocial Techniques:

Volume/accumulation — third Biden post of the day creates impression of overwhelming evidenceInstitutional authority borrowing — FBI document lends bureaucratic legitimacy to uncorroborated allegations

Danger Assessment

None

Gaslighting Detected:

'Admitted' frames a publicly disclosed, officially sanctioned policy action as a guilty confession — recontextualizing true facts within a false accusatory frame
'The memo clearly states' presents uncorroborated informant hearsay as established documented fact

Reality Distortions:

Framing Biden's multilaterally coordinated foreign policy action as equivalent to personal corruption for family financial benefit
Treating FD-1023 informant allegations as verified facts rather than unconfirmed claims
Omitting that Shokin's removal was supported by IMF, EU, and bipartisan U.S. consensus as anti-corruption measure

Fact Checks (3)

"Joe Biden has admitted he forced Shokin's firing by threatening to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees from Ukraine"

Mostly True

Biden did publicly describe the threat in a 2018 CFR appearance. However, framing it as an 'admission' implies guilty intent. The action was coordinated U.S./IMF/EU policy targeting Shokin as corrupt and anti-reform, not a unilateral personal decision. 'Admitted' is semantic framing distortion applied to a true underlying event.

"Biden has adamantly denied he did so to help his son's company"

True

Biden has consistently and publicly denied any connection between his official policy actions and Hunter Biden's Burisma board position.

"The memo clearly states Burisma owner Zlochevsky told the informant he had been 'coerced' into paying the Bidens $10 million"

Half True

The FBI FD-1023 form released by Grassley on July 20, 2023 does contain these allegations as reported by a confidential human source. However, an FD-1023 records informant claims — it does not constitute verified intelligence. The post presents double-hearsay allegations as established fact via 'clearly states.' FBI and DOJ noted the claims were not independently corroborated.

Receipts

No contradictions with other posts detected yet.

Analysis: ts_110747891532816354 | 2023-07-20 | Biden/Burisma Whataboutism Post

Overview

This post is one of at least three Biden-focused posts Trump published on July 20, 2023 — all coinciding with Sen. Chuck Grassley's release of the declassified FBI FD-1023 form containing informant allegations about Burisma. The timing is operationally significant: Trump had received a Jan. 6 target letter from Special Counsel Jack Smith within days of this post, making the entire cluster a textbook DARVO sequence at the macro level.

Authorship Attribution

UTC timestamp: 18:45:16 → 2:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time (Trump was almost certainly at Bedminster, NJ or Trump Tower, NYC in July 2023 — both EDT). This falls squarely in business hours. The post consists of a cleanly formatted quotation block followed by a URL, with no typos, no ALL CAPS emotional escalation, no incomplete thoughts, and no stream-of-consciousness syntax. Compare to the same-day authentic post ("Jason Aldean is a fantastic guy... Support Jason all the way. MAGA!!!") which is recognizably personal and informal. This post reads as a clip-and-paste news distribution post — almost certainly aide-written (Dan Scavino or communications staff). Confidence: high.

Psychological State and Triggers

Trigger: Compound narcissistic defense. The Jan. 6 target letter creates an acute narcissistic injury (criminal exposure, impending defeat). The Grassley document release provides simultaneous supply-seeking opportunity — a weaponizable "both sides" counter-narrative. Both dynamics are operating.

Narcissistic State: Mixed — the post itself is neither grandiose nor overtly vulnerable. This is the suppressed, instrumentalized mode: aggression outsourced to the legal/political process rather than expressed personally. The emotional temperature is deliberately cooled by the aide-written format, suggesting intentional restraint for tactical purposes.

Defense Mechanisms:

Projection (immature): Trump facing criminal corruption charges redirects the corruption narrative onto Biden. The specific charge structure — powerful figure coerces payments through leverage, benefiting family — mirrors allegations Trump himself faces in multiple jurisdictions.
Displacement (neurotic): Anger at personal legal threat is redirected toward the Biden family.
Rationalization (neurotic): The FBI document provides legitimizing bureaucratic authority, allowing the post to claim empirical grounding for what is functionally a deflection operation.

Level 1: Big Five Trait Expression

Extraversion: Moderate. Assertive claims but channeled through quoted text rather than direct self-expression. No personal voice visible.

Agreeableness: Low. Accusatory framing; hostile toward the target (Biden family). The word "coerced" is foregrounded for maximum impact.

Conscientiousness: Moderate-high in presentation (sourced, attributed), but the selective citation omits critical context (bipartisan/IMF support for Shokin's removal), suggesting deliberate rather than thorough information curation.

Neuroticism: Low surface expression — notably controlled for this subject. Consistent with aide-written authorship.

Openness: Low. Operates within a closed interpretive frame where the FBI document is treated as conclusive rather than as one unverified data point.

Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

Agency motives dominant. The post asserts power-over (exposing an enemy's corruption), status restoration (equivalence framing against his own legal exposure), and control (shaping the information environment). No communion motives visible.

Self-schema: Absent from this post — the aide format removes the self-referential frame almost entirely. This is unusual for Trump's authentic voice and reinforces the authorship assessment.

World-schema: Corrupt elites preying on those beneath them; institutions (FBI) suppressing truth when politically convenient but providing usable ammunition when released.

Level 3: Narrative Identity

Protagonist role: Absent-by-design. The post casts Biden as villain and leaves Trump's role implicit — the investigator/exposer by proxy. This is structurally different from Trump's authentic voice, which typically centers his own protagonist role explicitly.

Contamination sequence for Biden: Good public servant → revealed as corrupt coercer of foreign oligarchs. This is a classic opposition contamination narrative.

Contrasting other: Joe Biden (corrupt, lying) vs. implicit Trump (transparent, legally blameless).

Identity claims: None explicit, consistent with aide authorship.

Level 4: Clinical Indicators

Malignant Narcissism subcomponents visible (inferred from context rather than this post alone):

Narcissistic features: moderate expression (deflection, entitlement to reciprocal scrutiny)
Antisocial features: low direct expression in this post
Paranoid features: moderate (FBI document framed as revealing suppressed truth)
Ego-syntonic sadism: low in this post

DARVO macro-structure: At the series level (same day), this post is component 2 of a DARVO sequence: Trump Deny (legal charges are election interference) → Attack (Biden committed worse crimes) → Reverse Victim and Offender (Biden the real criminal; Trump the real victim). The sequence spans multiple posts.

Cognitive Status

Not assessable from this post. The aide-written format removes personal speech entirely. No cognitive markers (positive or negative) are visible. Longitudinal cognitive tracking requires authentic-voice posts.

Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques

Appeal to authority (institutional): FBI document lends bureaucratic legitimacy to what are uncorroborated informant allegations.
Strategic quotation / selective framing: The word "admitted" in the opening sentence is the most significant manipulation — Biden publicly discussed the loan guarantee threat as a matter of U.S. policy, not as a confession of corrupt conduct. Framing it as an "admission" imports a guilty-conscience connotation absent from the original context.
False equivalence (implicit): Biden's policy action (withholding foreign aid per U.S. and IMF policy to remove a corrupt prosecutor) is rhetorically equated with personal corruption for family financial benefit.
Whataboutism: The macro function of this cluster — deployed against the backdrop of Trump's own criminal exposure.
Repetition/volume (Firehose model): This is the third Biden post of the day. Volume creates an impression of overwhelming evidence through accumulation rather than quality.
Euphemistic escalation: "Coerced" is foregrounded; the $10 million figure is precise and memorable — both are rhetorical anchors designed to be cited and repeated.

Fact Verification

Claim	Verdict	Evidence
"Joe Biden has admitted he forced Shokin's firing by threatening to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees from Ukraine"	Mostly True	Biden did publicly describe the threat in a 2018 CFR appearance. However, framing it as an 'admission' implies guilty intent. The action was coordinated U.S./IMF/EU policy targeting Shokin as corrupt and anti-reform, not a unilateral personal decision. 'Admitted' is semantic framing distortion applied to a true underlying event.
"Biden has adamantly denied he did so to help his son's company"	True	Biden has consistently and publicly denied any connection between his official policy actions and Hunter Biden's Burisma board position.
"The memo clearly states Burisma owner Zlochevsky told the informant he had been 'coerced' into paying the Bidens $10 million"	Half True	The FBI FD-1023 form released by Grassley on July 20, 2023 does contain these allegations as reported by a confidential human source. However, an FD-1023 records informant claims — it does not constitute verified intelligence. The post presents double-hearsay allegations as established fact via 'clearly states.' FBI and DOJ noted the claims were not independently corroborated.

Overall Veracity: 77%