# Post ts_111913612783993789 - Post ID: `ts_111913612783993789` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-02-11T15:43:30.729Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111913612783993789 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111913612783993789/analysis ## Post text > https://loomered.com/2024/02/08/exclusive-crews-biden-dhs-connections-come-to-light-as-president-noah-bookbinder-lies-about-organizations-soros-ties/ ## Engagement - Likes: 5,724 - Reposts: 1,870 - Replies: 121 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.371Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T03:51:32.773Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Analysis: Trump Truth Social Post — 2024-02-11T15:43:30Z ## Overview The post consists entirely of a single URL to **loomered.com**, the personal media outlet of far-right activist Laura Loomer. The referenced article attacks Noah Bookbinder, president of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a progressive government watchdog that has filed numerous ethics complaints and lawsuits against Trump. There is zero original text from the poster — making this one of the analytically thinnest post types, essentially a pure signal-boost. --- ## Authorship Attribution **UTC 15:43:30 → EST 10:43 AM.** Trump was in or around South Carolina on this date (multiple surrounding posts document the Coastal Carolina University rally and its aftermath). South Carolina observes EST (UTC−5), placing posting time at **10:43 AM local** — solidly within business hours. Combined indicators: - **Business-hours timing** (consistent with aide/Scavino operation) - **No original text** (authentic Trump posts almost always include at minimum a brief evaluative phrase: "Fake News!", "So true!", "Witch Hunt!") - **Clean URL** with no typos or emotional annotation - **Campaign event day** (surrounding posts are rally coverage — staff would be managing social media) **Conclusion:** High confidence this is **aide-written / Scavino-facilitated**, not authentic Trump voice. The absence of any personal commentary is the clearest single marker. Trump habitually annotates link shares; naked URL posts are a known Scavino/staff pattern. --- ## Psychological State & Triggers Despite thin original content, the *choice* of what to amplify is psychologically informative. **Trigger: Narcissistic injury via institutional threat.** CREW is a prominent filer of ethics complaints, FOIA requests, and lawsuits targeting Trump-aligned figures. Amplifying an article that portrays CREW's president as a liar and as compromised by Soros funding is a **preemptive devaluation** of a threatening institution — discrediting the watchdog before its output lands. **Defense mechanisms:** - **Devaluation** (Level 2/Immature): Positioning CREW and Bookbinder as corrupt, dishonest, and Soros-funded delegitimizes future adversarial outputs without engaging their substance. - **Projection**: The implicit claim that Bookbinder "lies" and conceals funding sources — while the poster's own financial transparency has been the subject of extensive litigation — reflects attributing one's own tendencies to opponents. - **Rationalization**: Framing institutional opposition as foreign-funded conspiracy rather than legitimate civic oversight. **Narcissistic state:** Paranoid/vulnerable register. The post is defensive rather than grandiose — protecting against attack rather than self-aggrandizing. This is consistent with the broader period, in which Trump was simultaneously consolidating the Republican primary (Nevada caucuses, SC rally) while facing ballot-exclusion litigation and criminal proceedings. --- ## Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques The rhetoric is embedded in the article headline rather than original text, but amplification constitutes endorsement: - **Ad hominem**: Attack on Bookbinder personally ("lies about") rather than the substance of CREW's work. - **Guilt by association** / **conspiracy framing**: The Biden–DHS–Soros connection implied in the headline constructs a shadowy network narrative — classic RAND Firehose model (assert connections without evidence). - **Antisemitic dog whistle**: "Soros ties" is a well-documented shorthand in far-right discourse that carries antisemitic valence beyond the literal funding question. By amplifying via Loomer — whose public statements carry explicit antisemitic history — the signal is particularly freighted. - **Source laundering**: Using a fringe outlet (loomered.com) to circulate attacks that mainstream outlets would not carry; Trump's amplification then lends the story apparent credibility. - **Delegitimization of oversight institutions**: Consistent pattern of attacking watchdog organizations (press, prosecutors, ethics bodies) as politically corrupted. --- ## Danger Indicators **Elevated** — not critical, but note: - The post **names a specific individual** (Noah Bookbinder) in the context of accusing him of dishonesty and foreign-funded corruption. This is a low-intensity but real stochastic terrorism pattern: identify target + frame as corrupt enemy → audience draws its own conclusions about appropriate response. - Loomer's audience skews toward activist harassment. Trump's amplification measurably increases exposure to that audience. - The Soros framing has repeatedly preceded harassment campaigns against named individuals. --- ## Cognitive Assessment **Insufficient data.** A bare URL yields no language production data for cognitive analysis. No assessment possible or warranted. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Noah Bookbinder lies about organization's Soros ties" | **Unverifiable** | CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) has documented funding relationships with Open Society Foundations-affiliated entities, making the underlying funding claim partially grounded. Whether Bookbinder made specific false statements requires article-level evidence not available without fetching content. | | "Crews/Biden DHS connections" | **Unverifiable** | Specific claim requires article content for evaluation. Cannot assess without fetching. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Longitudinal Note This post fits a consistent pattern across the analytical corpus: on high-activity campaign days (rally day in SC), Trump's personal feed fills with rally coverage while aides intersperse institutional-attack content targeting current legal/ethics opponents. The psychologically significant element is not the post's affect (absent) but the *target selection* — CREW is an active adversary, and this is defensive maneuver, not casual sharing. No clinical summary generated — post lacks sufficient original language for clinically significant pattern documentation. ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 15%) ### Indicators - Business hours posting (10:43 AM EST) - No original text — bare URL only - Campaign rally day with active staff social media management - Absence of evaluative annotation (Trump habitually adds phrases like 'So true!' to link shares) - loomered.com is a fringe source staff would monitor, not Trump himself ## Psychological Profile ### State **Vulnerable State** **Trigger:** Preemptive Attack — Criticism (CREW / Noah Bookbinder (institutional legal/ethics threat)) Sentiment: -0.55 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 40% - Antisocial: 30% - Paranoid: 60% - Sadism: 10% **Defense Mechanisms:** - devaluation (immature) - projection (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Source laundering via fringe outlet amplification - In-group signaling through Loomer/Soros framing - Target identification for audience action ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - Named individual target (Bookbinder) framed as corrupt liar — increases harassment risk from activist audience - Loomer's audience has documented history of targeting named individuals after amplification events - Soros framing in antisemitic-coded context adds threat valence to named Jewish-associated targets ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-21._ > Noah Bookbinder lies about organization's Soros ties **UNVERIFIABLE** CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) has documented funding relationships with Open Society Foundations-affiliated entities, making the underlying funding claim partially grounded. Whether Bookbinder made specific false statements requires article-level evidence not available without fetching content. Sources: Article content not fetched per tool-use policy > Crews/Biden DHS connections **UNVERIFIABLE** Specific claim requires article content for evaluation. Cannot assess without fetching. Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - aide-authored (90%) - institutional-attack (80%) - soros-framing (70%) - CREW-targeting (80%) - loomer-amplification (70%) - preemptive-devaluation (70%) - bare-url-share (100%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Super Bowl Sunday Serves as Backdrop for Property Preening, Legal Grievance, and a Preemptive Strike on Taylor Swift** Trump spent Super Bowl Sunday in Las Vegas mostly in self-congratulatory mode, cycling through property promotions, favorable poll links, and rally recaps. The one notable flare-up was an early-morning attack on the attorney general prosecuting him, calling her a "Lunatic" and framing the case as Biden-orchestrated election interference. The day's most culturally significant move was a preemptive post aimed at Taylor Swift -- claiming credit for her financial success and framing any future Biden endorsement as personal disloyalty -- timed precisely to the Super Bowl broadcast her boyfriend was winning. Full digest for 2024-02-11: https://trump.fm/date/2024-02-11/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, February 11). https://loomered.com/2024/02/08/exclusive-crews-bi... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111913612783993789 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://loomered.com/2024/02/08/exclusive-crews-biden-dhs-co..." Truth Social, 11 Feb. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111913612783993789. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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