# Post ts_111101374809412360 - Post ID: `ts_111101374809412360` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-09-21T05:00:42.768Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111101374809412360 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111101374809412360/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111101374809412360.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Jesse Watters: “Joe Biden wouldn’t win the election if it was held today so it’s time for some dirty tricks. Enter James Clapper and John Brennan, the Democrats’ intel hitmen. They’re back to help Joe Biden win another election... but Big Intel’s meddling with our elections doesn’t stop there.” ## What the media says **Video transcript** (2:34), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Joe Biden wouldn't win the election if it was held today. He's losing to Trump. Bidenomics is a laughing stock and impeachment's just around the corner. So it's time for dirty tricks. Enter James Clapper and John Brennan. The two spooks behind Russia collusion and the laptop lie. The Democrats, Intel hitmen, were just dragged out of semi-retirement and guest appearances on CNN and MSNBC to lead Joe Biden's newly formed Homeland Intelligence Expert Group, otherwise known as the CIA's Stop Trump Task Force. The Homeland Intelligence Expert Group, they have been directed to protect us from domestic violent extremists, cybercriminals, and foreign nation-state adversaries with special attention paid towards confronting dangerous narratives and coordinating with private sector partners. Okay, that's like Richard Nixon saying, hey, you know the guys who broke into the Watergate Hotel? We have another assignment for them. So next year's elections are in good hands. But big Intel's meddling with our elections doesn't stop there. China interfered with the 2020 election on behalf of Joe Biden, and the CIA not only let him get away with it, but covered it up afterwards. John Ratcliffe, Trump's top Intel guy, says the Chinese launched a massive anti-Trump disinformation campaign online in 2020, much bigger than what the Russians did in 2016. When the CIA found out about Beijing's plot to hurt Trump's reelection, Langley did nothing. And that's not the only 2020 investigation, big Intel shutdown. The FBI shut down an investigation into the Biden campaign. The crime? Campaign finance charges. Hunter Biden's back taxes were paid off right before the election. $2 million, courtesy of the Sugar Brother. This benefited the Biden campaign and in any other world would be considered an illegal campaign contribution. But the FBI was told to stand down. Now remember, Donald Trump was indicted on 34 counts for paying Stormy Daniels 135,000, something he would have done anyway, paid it personally. But they wave off $2 million for the Bidens. The fix has been in for the three elections running. And the only thing that can stop it is a landslide. And that means it's up to you and all your friends and neighbors. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/101/374/734/141/058/original/72807c3f5b6c75c8.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 19,567 - Reposts: 6,828 - Replies: 1,222 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.397Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T08:42:04.950Z (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 late-night repost (1:00 AM EDT, high-confidence authentic) amplifies Jesse Watters' characterization of Clapper and Brennan as Democratic "intel hitmen" engineering electoral fraud — a frame that functions as large-scale preemptive DARVO. The psychological trigger is convergent: Jack Smith's gag order request intensifies legal exposure for Trump's own election interference conduct, while Biden's UN General Assembly appearance and the Zelensky White House visit generate status-comparison pressure. Trump's response is projection at scale — the core accusation he faces (election interference) is routed entirely onto Biden's intelligence allies, with Watters as deniable proxy voice. Defense mechanisms are predominantly immature (projection, splitting) with pathological-tier features (systemic reality distortion via the 'Big Intel meddling' frame). The dehumanizing 'hitmen' label applied to named, identifiable former officials — Clapper and Brennan — meets the definitional threshold for stochastic terrorism precursor content: specific targets, articulated grievance, criminal characterization. The epistemic closure function is clinically notable: followers who internalize this frame will interpret subsequent legal proceedings against Trump as confirmation of the conspiracy rather than evidence of wrongdoing. Danger level: elevated. No marked cognitive deviation detectable in this post (verbatim quote limits linguistic analysis). Longitudinal note: the Clapper/Brennan targeting represents recurrent perseveration on 2016-era intelligence community figures, consistent with the documented pattern of bearing grudges and preoccupation with perceived past attacks. # Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2023-09-21 ## Overview This post is a verbatim repost of Jesse Watters commentary from Fox News, in which Watters frames James Clapper and John Brennan as Democratic "intel hitmen" scheming to repeat alleged 2020 election interference on Biden's behalf. Trump adds no original text, functioning as amplifier and endorser. The psychological content is therefore shared/delegated — Trump selects and broadcasts the frame — but the selection itself is diagnostic. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Local time:** UTC 05:00 → EDT (UTC−4) = **01:00 AM**. Trump was likely at Bedminster, NJ (site of his NBC Meet the Press interview that week) or in New York. Either way, this is firmly in his documented late-night posting window. The framing is consistent with Trump's habitual pattern of consuming Fox News at night and reposting grievance-validating clips. No polished event-announcement structure, no business-hours cadence. **High confidence: authentic Trump.** --- ## Psychological State & Triggers **Trigger type: Narcissistic injury + preemptive attack.** The operative context is significant: the same week, Jack Smith filed for a gag order on Trump in the federal election interference case. Biden was receiving global attention at the UN General Assembly; Zelensky's White House visit amplified Biden's statesman optics. These are objective status comparisons that represent a dual threat: legal pressure compressing Trump's room for maneuver, and a rival commanding the world stage. Trump's response is textbook *preemptive reality inversion*: if the dominant narrative in the coming weeks will be "Trump interfered with elections," the counter-narrative must be established first — "Biden's side uses intelligence agencies to steal elections." By surfacing Clapper and Brennan now, Trump anchors the "Big Intel meddling" frame before further legal developments can occupy the discourse. **Narcissistic state: Grandiose-Victimized hybrid.** The post simultaneously expresses grandiosity ("Biden can't beat me without cheating") and victimization ("they're coming for me/us again"). This oscillation is characteristic of the vulnerable-grandiose axis: the grandiosity defends against the underlying wound of facing multiple criminal indictments. --- ## Defense Mechanisms **1. Projection (immature, Level 2):** This is the dominant mechanism. Trump, facing federal charges specifically for election interference, attributes election-interference motivation to Biden's intelligence community allies. The mechanism is structurally pure: the disowned accusation (election interferer) is relocated wholesale onto opponents. **2. DARVO:** Deny the election interference charges' legitimacy → Attack Clapper/Brennan as the real criminals → Reverse Victim and Offender (Trump = victim of Big Intel; Biden = perpetrator of election fraud). The Watters clip is an efficient vehicle for all three moves. **3. Splitting (immature, Level 2):** Binary framing — "our elections" (authentic, pure) vs. "intel hitmen" (corrupt, conspiratorial). No complexity, no nuance. The world divides into defenders and meddlers. **4. Rationalization (neurotic, Level 3):** The language "it's time for dirty tricks" implies rational, anticipatory analysis of opponent strategy — lending an air of strategic insight to what is fundamentally a persecution narrative. --- ## Personality Framework (McAdams & Pals) ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits - **Neuroticism (angry hostility):** Elevated — hostility toward named individuals, threat perception - **Agreeableness:** Very low — devaluation language ("hitmen"), zero trust attribution - **Conscientiousness:** Low in deliberation — impulsive clip-share rather than argued position - **Extraversion:** Moderate — performative outreach to audience ("our elections") - **Openness:** Low — rigid conspiratorial schema, closed epistemic frame ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations - **Agency motive dominant:** Power and status defense. The post is not about policy; it is about who controls the narrative of electoral legitimacy. - **Schema:** World = arena of conspiring enemies requiring constant counter-mobilization. Self = target of coordinated intelligence apparatus. Followers = "us" under siege. ### Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** Warrior/Victim hybrid — the embattled fighter who sees the enemy's next move before it arrives - **Contamination sequence:** Elections that should be free and fair are being poisoned by Deep State actors; 2020 was corrupted, 2024 will be attempted again - **Identity claims:** Implicit — "I am the candidate so threatening that the entire intelligence establishment must be mobilized against me" - **Contrasting other:** Clapper and Brennan as corrupt institutional insiders; Biden as their dependent who cannot win on merit --- ## Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques **Dehumanizing language:** "Intel hitmen" — a specifically violent framing. "Hitmen" connotes criminal contract killing. Applied to former Directors of National Intelligence and CIA, this labels government officials as criminal murderers-for-hire. This is a significant escalation in dehumanization relative to merely calling them "partisan" or "corrupt." **Appeal to conspiracy schema:** "Big Intel's meddling" invokes a monolithic, sinister institutional force — structurally parallel to "Big Tech," "Big Pharma," appealing to populist anti-establishment affect. **False cause/preemptive narrative:** By surfacing the "dirty tricks" frame now, Trump primes followers to interpret any future adverse intelligence finding or legal development as confirmation of the predicted conspiracy. **Straw man by proxy:** Watters' framing implies Clapper and Brennan are currently actively working to influence the 2024 election — this specific claim is asserted without evidence in the clip. **Amplification by endorsement:** Trump's repost without commentary constitutes full endorsement. The silence is not neutrality; the selection is the message. --- ## Danger Assessment **Level: Elevated.** The specific naming of Clapper and Brennan as "hitmen" — individual, identifiable, living public figures — combined with the "meddling" and "dirty tricks" framing constitutes a mild stochastic terrorism pattern element: named target + articulated grievance (election theft) + implied criminality. The term "hitmen" is particularly concerning as violent occupational metaphor applied to real individuals. While not an explicit call to action, such posts have historically correlated with harassment and threat campaigns against named officials. The pattern is insufficient for "high" rating but warrants flagging. --- ## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion **DARVO present.** The most significant reality distortion: Trump, who in this same week was subject to a federal gag order request specifically for threatening witnesses and court personnel in an *election interference* case, is broadcasting material characterizing *his opponents* as the election interferers. This is not ambiguous framing — it is direct inversion of the documented legal reality. **Epistemic closure mechanism:** The post does not engage with the election interference charges against Trump; it does not acknowledge them. Instead it imports a competing reality frame (Big Intel steals elections for Democrats) which, if accepted, renders the legal proceedings against Trump reinterpretable as further evidence of the conspiracy. Followers who accept this frame have their epistemic closure reinforced. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Biden wouldn't win the election if it was held today" | **Half True** | September 2023 polling showed Trump leading Biden in several swing-state head-to-head polls and some national surveys, though results were mixed across pollsters. The claim has partial empirical support but is stated as certainty rather than polling-dependent opinion. | | "Clapper and Brennan are helping Joe Biden win another election as Democratic 'intel hitmen'" | **Mostly False** | Clapper and Brennan have publicly criticized Trump and expressed support for Biden in media commentary and op-eds. However, characterizing their public political commentary as covert 'election meddling' equivalent to intelligence operations, and labeling them 'hitmen,' vastly misrepresents the nature and scope of their activities. No evidence of coordinated covert electoral interference. | | "Big Intel's meddling with our elections doesn't stop there (implying systemic ongoing interference)" | **False** | No credible evidence supports the claim of systematic, ongoing intelligence community electoral interference on behalf of Democratic candidates. Courts, inspectors general, and bipartisan election officials have repeatedly found no evidence of the systemic fraud this frame implies. | Overall Veracity: 23% ## Cognitive Status The post is a verbatim quote — insufficient original language production to assess cognitive markers in this instance. The act of selection and amplification is behaviorally informative (threat vigilance, preemptive counter-narrative construction) but provides no new linguistic data for baseline comparison. No cognitive markers flagged from this post alone. --- ## Archetypal Analysis **Primary archetype: Warrior + Trickster.** The Warrior manifests in the enemy-identification and "they're coming again" mobilization frame. The Trickster element is present in the meta-move: using a media surrogate to voice accusations that, if stated directly by Trump, would be legally riskier and more easily fact-checked. The indirection is strategically deniable ("I'm just sharing what Jesse said"). **Shadow projection:** Trump's own election interference conduct is projected onto the intelligence community. The Shadow — the election-manipulating figure — is entirely externalized. **Mythological narrative:** The Eternal Return of the Deep State Conspiracy — a cyclical myth in which every election cycle brings the same villainous institutional forces, requiring the same hero-warrior to sound the alarm. --- ## Summary This late-night repost (1:00 AM EDT) is assessed as authentic Trump, amplifying Jesse Watters' framing of Clapper and Brennan as Democratic "intel hitmen" engineering electoral fraud. Psychologically, the post functions as a preemptive reality inversion: with Jack Smith's gag order request intensifying legal pressure on Trump for *his own* election interference conduct, the post deploys DARVO at scale — attributing the core accusation (election interference) entirely to Biden's intelligence allies. Defense mechanisms are primarily projection and splitting. The dehumanizing "hitmen" label applied to named, identifiable former officials — Clapper and Brennan — crosses into stochastic terrorism's definitional threshold of target identification plus grievance articulation. Rhetorical technique is delegation-by-amplification: Trump endorses without authoring, maintaining deniability while signaling full alignment. The epistemic closure function is significant: followers who internalize the "Big Intel meddling" frame will interpret subsequent legal proceedings against Trump as confirmation of the conspiracy rather than evidence of wrongdoing. Danger level is elevated, not from this post alone but from the cumulative naming + vilification pattern targeting intelligence officials. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 82%) ### Indicators - 1:00 AM EDT local time — consistent with documented late-night Fox News consumption and posting pattern - Verbatim quote-share of Fox News segment — classic authentic Trump amplification behavior - No polished event-announcement structure; no scheduling language - Consistent with simultaneous multi-post session on same date (Chris Christie post, NationalPulse link, Greg Kelly thank-you — all same-day) ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Preemptive Attack — Exposure (Jack Smith gag order request; Biden UN/Zelensky statesman optics) Sentiment: -0.62 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 75% - Antisocial: 55% - Paranoid: 72% - Sadism: 30% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - splitting (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) - delusional projection (pathological) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 30% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Inclusive pronoun 'our elections' — follower community ownership - Watters as proxy voice — vicarious identification with Trump's enemies - Threat-warning framing creates parasocial alert bond with audience ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** **Stochastic Terrorism Pattern Detected** ### Indicators - 'Hitmen' — violent occupational dehumanization applied to named, living, identifiable former officials (Clapper, Brennan) - Named target + articulated criminal grievance (election interference/meddling) structure consistent with stochastic terrorism precursor pattern - Systemic 'Big Intel' framing characterizes an entire institutional apparatus as criminal enemy, potentially mobilizing hostility toward intelligence community personnel broadly - Recurrent targeting: Clapper and Brennan have been named Trump targets since 2018; cumulative vilification increases incitement risk ### Gaslighting - Systematic inversion of documented legal reality: Trump faces federal election interference charges while broadcasting material characterizing opponents as the election interferers - DARVO structure: attributes the core accusation against Trump (election interference) entirely to Biden's intelligence allies - Attacks on institutional perception ('Big Intel's meddling') — pre-emptively delegitimizes any intelligence assessment unfavorable to Trump as politically motivated - Epistemic closure reinforcement: followers who accept this frame will interpret adverse legal developments as confirmation of the conspiracy **Dehumanizing Language Present** **Violent Imagery Present** ## Fact Checks (3) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Biden wouldn't win the election if it was held today **HALF TRUE** September 2023 polling showed Trump leading Biden in several swing-state head-to-head polls and some national surveys, though results were mixed across pollsters. The claim has partial empirical support but is stated as certainty rather than polling-dependent opinion. Sources: General knowledge: September 2023 polling landscape > Clapper and Brennan are helping Joe Biden win another election as Democratic 'intel hitmen' **MOSTLY FALSE** Clapper and Brennan have publicly criticized Trump and expressed support for Biden in media commentary and op-eds. However, characterizing their public political commentary as covert 'election meddling' equivalent to intelligence operations, and labeling them 'hitmen,' vastly misrepresents the nature and scope of their activities. No evidence of coordinated covert electoral interference. Sources: General knowledge: public activities of Clapper and Brennan post-government service > Big Intel's meddling with our elections doesn't stop there (implying systemic ongoing interference) **FALSE** No credible evidence supports the claim of systematic, ongoing intelligence community electoral interference on behalf of Democratic candidates. Courts, inspectors general, and bipartisan election officials have repeatedly found no evidence of the systemic fraud this frame implies. Sources: General knowledge: post-2020 election litigation outcomes, intelligence community review findings Overall Veracity: 23% ## Tags - election_integrity_narrative (90%) - intelligence_community_targeting (88%) - DARVO (92%) - projection (90%) - stochastic_terrorism_precursor (72%) - dehumanizing_language (80%) - epistemic_closure (85%) - late_night_authentic (82%) - media_amplification (75%) - deep_state_conspiracy (88%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Post-Rally Grievance Cascade: Iowa Triumph Dissolves Into Five-Hour Attack Session Targeting Koch, Christie, Fox, and Federal Prosecutors** Trump rode a wave of post-rally energy from Dubuque, Iowa into a five-hour evening posting blitz that mixed self-congratulatory polling links with sharp attacks on Charles Koch, Chris Christie, Mitch McConnell, and Fox News. The mood was mostly triumphant but carried a persistent undercurrent of grievance, particularly around his criminal prosecutions -- he demanded Congressional Republicans use the looming government shutdown to defund the cases against him. A direct threat aimed at Koch ("Watch what happens!") and repeated labeling of opponents and institutions as "fascist monsters" and "enemies of the state" marked the day's most concerning moments. By morning, the energy had largely dissipated, with only a brief flare demanding Fox air a favorable poll before a quiet afternoon. Full digest for 2023-09-21: https://trump.fm/date/2023-09-21/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, September 21). Jesse Watters: “Joe Biden wouldn’t win the... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111101374809412360 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Jesse Watters: “Joe Biden wouldn’t win the election if it..." Truth Social, 21 Sep. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111101374809412360. 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