# Post ts_111925090489772652

- Post ID: `ts_111925090489772652`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2024-02-13T16:22:26.620Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111925090489772652
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111925090489772652/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111925090489772652.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> “THE TRUE THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY: JOE BIDEN”

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (15:00), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> to the bottom of this crazy report on this man, Joe Biden. And it's not crazy. It's incredible what was documented. Crazy stuff was documented, but it was effectively documented. And we have an obligation to understand it, to get to the bottom of it, because the fake news, they dominate. We have to push back all day long, right? They change the subject and too many on our side, conservative media, follow along, just start blowing the story off. All the talking heads, if they talk, weirdly we listen. This is a man who is sharp, who is on top of his game, who knows what's going on. The outcome of this report, he was cleared completely. While Donald Trump faces 40 federal felony charges. And this partisan hit job by somebody that is looking for a-- That's a Democrat we just played. By a better, no, I'm talking about the special counsel, who's looking for a better job in the next Trump administration, is not gonna dissuade Americans who actually see what the real world impact on their lives is of Joe Biden's administration. This is a report that went off the rails. It's a chappy work product. This is again, a result of a report that was written in a particularly shabby and shoddy way, then made gratuitous, unnecessary, and inaccurate personal remarks. And those are improper. He is sharp, intensely probing, and detail oriented, and focused. So we are all wrong. When we look and see what we see, we're all wrong. We're all imagining it. We're not. Imagine, how bold they are. They lie. So many lies right there. Let's go over some basics that we now know about Joe Biden. In this report from Robert Herr about the documents that he's scurried away at offices and houses, President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen. They will come right out and say that that is not true, but it's in black and white, and it's on page one. Next please, and everybody has to understand this, at least three times Mr. Biden read from classified entries allowed to his ghost writer, nearly verbatim, three times, three times that happened. And there's a tape. Everyone seems to be talking about, well, we want to hear the transcript of the interview. You want to hear the tape. I want to hear the tape of him giving away secrets to some guy with a tape recorder, and we just might get that. Next please. After learning of the special counsel's appointment in this matter, Mr. Biden's ghost writer deleted audio recordings he had created of his discussions with Mr. Biden during the writing of Mr. Biden's 2017 memoir. The recordings had significant evidentiary value. It's interesting, you know, they bothered President Trump's gardener, President Trump's butler. Here's a guy who's with the tape recorder who deleted the recordings once he found out that Joe Biden was under investigation. Why did he do that? They don't tell us, but we know that the FBI, given all their technology, they were actually able to recover the audio from the machine, from the tape recorder. Next please. After telling the special counsel's office what he had done, the ghost writer turned over his computer and external hard drive and consented to their search. It appears the FBI recovered all deleted files. How about that? I think we got one more. We considered whether to charge the ghost writer with obstruction of justice, but we believe the evidence would be insufficient to obtain a conviction and therefore decline to prosecute him. Not exactly saying the guy is innocent, are they? Again, the guys who cut Donald Trump's lawn have been hassled about the documents case. This guy is off scot-free, he deleted material, huh? And it's all over the house, the garage, the garage, the garage, the garage. What have we been told consistently by the left, right? There's a difference. This is somehow fine. Donald Trump, he is reckless and dangerous and a threat to national security when it comes to these documents. When the classified documents were found, it was self-reported. The president directed his team to ensure that any classified documents were returned immediately. You self-report, which is exactly what the president did. Self-reported. His lawyers, his team did the right thing. He was surprised that the records were there. And when his lawyers found out and his team found out that they were there, they turned it over to their archives. I've turned over the boxes. They've turned over the boxes to the archives. They were cooperating fully. I know they're not, absolutely not. That's all wrong. And even though they say it and their media allies pick it up. President Biden, who proactively says, I found this National Archives, I need to return this to you, and let me get it to you. Biden quickly returned the documents, fully cooperated, and even sat for five hours of interview. Joe Biden said, take whatever you need, look at whatever you want. I'm a totally open book on this. It shows that Joe Biden went over and beyond to provide transparency in as much as he cooperated with the investigations. No, they were not fully cooperating, actually. And they weren't fully cooperating, at least for four years, because the special counsel makes clear that Joe Biden was encountering, most likely, this confidential stuff all over his house, basically every week, at least, for four years. Then it suddenly makes the news under Trump, and then they get nervous. Ooh, we want to turn it over, but they don't turn it over right away. It's kind of interesting, and very few people know this. When did they find that secret stuff in the Penn Biden Center? November 2nd of 2022. Okay, now when did they get around to making phone calls about it and doing more searches? Seven weeks later, seven weeks later, they searched the house of Joe Biden in the garage, and they're still not done. It takes them another three weeks to go into Biden's den and find even more stuff, and then they're still not done. On the 20th of January, they still are looking around the house. Now, what's happened in the meantime? How many times has Joe Biden been there? You know, he goes every weekend. That's not exactly right away, is it? No, it's not. And how about this, Joe says, "Ooh, we helped, we said anything you want, please." Not true. No matter how... Joe says it probably means it's not true, and here it's not true. I made, voluntarily, no one's had to threaten to do anything. Voluntarily, I went to every single aperture I have with the house, offices, everything, to come and look and spend hours searching my home, inviting them. Not quite, actually. One of those guys searching their home found something, and Joe didn't want to give it to him, and there was a two-day delay before the FBI got it. And I know this from the report. Exhibit X, if you don't mind. On the evening of January 11th, 2023, counsel traveled to the house in Delaware to search areas other than the garage. Okay. The FBI sent agents to the house that evening to recover the classified material. Now Bauer, who is Joe's lawyer, informed a guy named Lausch, who works at the Justice Department, that at that time, Bauer did not have Mr. Biden's consent for the FBI agents to search and seize his notebook that contained the marked classified documents. Do you see that? His lawyer says that he doesn't have the consent. The FBI agents, they can't take this stuff. Lausch is the guy from the DOJ, the FBI works for him. What happens next? Well, thus, on Bauer's instructions, Richard Sauber, some guy named Richard Sauber of the White House Counsel's Office, met the agents at the house and escorted them to the marked classified material found in the notebook in the basement cabinet. Remember, this is classified stuff. Next, please. Agents observed Sauber pick up the notebook and leaf through it. Sauber and the agents eventually found two documents with classified markings. After discussions with Lausch, the guy from the Department of Justice, Sauber provided the foreign policy notebook number two to FBI agents two days later. Two days later, a White House lawyer had this stuff for two days. Joe had it for two days. What was up with those two days? The FBI wanted that right then and there. That did not happen. They are lying about it and the lies come to these people very, very easily, don't they? Next. Best of my knowledge, the kinds of things they picked up are things that from 1974 and stray papers. There may be something else I don't know. That is a skilled, trained politician who's lying. There may be something else I don't know. You see how he gives himself an out? Stray papers from 1974. Try top secret material related to Iraq and Afghanistan. Not the 1970s, but 2009, 2010, 2011. Sensitive stuff that poses, if disclosed, a grave risk to national security. That's what top secret means. It's a grave risk if it becomes public. Here's something else that nobody knows and the media won't tell us because they're both covering for Joe and they're too lazy to read the report. In later written answers, Mr. Biden wrote that, "Like presidents and vice presidents before me, I understand that these notes to be my personal property." Now, there is a case to be made for that statement but he didn't come clean with them and everybody else. This is in October, almost a year after these documents were found and he didn't answer all of their questions. Did he take the fifth? Take a look at this. He declined to answer several questions about whether he believed his notes contained classified information. He declined to answer. Why didn't he answer? I was told he cooperated fully. Open book, every aperture. He said, aperture is open. I'll tell you anything you want. He didn't and he wouldn't. And it wasn't just this question. It was a lot of questions. And he declined whether he took steps to avoid writing classified information in his notebooks. Joe, we were told all along by your friends in the media, by your friends in Democrat politics that you were so cooperative, you weren't. And of course, like a lot of politicians, you blame everybody else. - One of the things that happened is that what was not done well is as they packed up my offices to move them, they didn't do the kind of job that should have been done to go thoroughly through every single piece of literature that's there. - They didn't go through the job they should have to look at the literature. There's evidence that suggests Joe Biden is lying, that he was personally involved in packing this material. I alluded to some of it on Friday. I'm gonna revisit it in a moment. Now we have to hear from his personal attorney, a guy named Robert Bauer, whose wife, by the way, has a senior position in the Biden White House. That's pretty cozy. Listen to this guy, talk about denial. - Do you favor releasing them? - Well, it's really a decision that has to take place within the government. It's a classified document. - The President's counsel. - I'm the President's personal counsel. - Right, would you recommend that these be made public if they indeed back up your personal recollection? - Again, there's a process underway. I'm not a specialist in that process. And so I really have to defer to those who have to work through those issues. - Okay, but 'cause just this past week alone, the President, in public remarks, mixed up the leaders of France, Germany, and he referred to Egypt as Mexico. Does the President have any memory problems? - He does not. - We don't see what we see? It's amazing, they say, some of the commentators, "Well, if you're not a neurologist or a medical doctor, "you have no business making any observation "about Joe Biden's memory." No, we can do that. We have common sense. We're people and we're citizens. And check out this one from the personal lawyer. - He was saying staff was clearly involved, responsible for the packing. We don't see presidents and vice presidents during transitions packing boxes. But he recognizes now when he looks back on it, maybe more involvement on his part was necessary because it didn't go the way he thought it should have gone. - So we don't see vice presidents or presidents packing boxes. Well, you certainly wouldn't see President Trump packing boxes. We know that did not happen. And when he showed up in Mar-a-Lago, he was still President of the United States. He had access to every little spread of paperwork in the American government. But Joe Biden was observed packing boxes. Not only that, loading a moving truck. It's right in the report. All right, stay with me on this. On January 7, 2017, the Biden's moved furniture and personal belongings out of the Naval Observatory and into the Virginia home using a private moving company. Next, the Biden's paid for the move themselves and packed their own belongings. Wow, Mr. Biden was personally involved in the move. Wow, one military aide recalled seeing him packing by himself and just him moving his stuff one at a time into the truck. Now, why would he do that? Next, please, Secret Service agents saw Mr. Biden moving boxes at the Virginia house during the weekend of his move into that house. Mr. Biden stored papers in several places at the Naval Observatory, including desks, safes, briefcases. Mr. Biden stored classified materials at the Naval Observatory while Vice President. Mr. Biden's staff did not go into his desk at the Naval Observatory, and it appears staff retrieved documents from his briefcase, only rarely if ever. So we were unable to determine if those locations contain any documents at the end of the administration. We were unable to determine whether any of Mr. Biden's papers, classified or not, were in the boxes moved out of the Naval Observatory and to Virginia. No one involved recall packing or moving papers or files below.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/925/089/877/574/791/original/392f52551a4ced16.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 6,085
- Reposts: 1,990
- Replies: 236
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.371Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T03:56:14.515Z (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 aide-produced campaign post (11:22 AM local, produced video asset, zero affect markers) performs a textbook DARVO maneuver against a richly ironic backdrop: Trump's own NATO-Russia comments and classified document prosecution had generated genuine national security controversy in the same week. By labeling Biden "THE TRUE THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY," the post deploys projection as the dominant defense — reattributing Trump's own contested national security footprint wholesale to his opponent. The seven-word all-caps structure functions as eliminationist framing: categorizing a sitting president as a national security threat implies removal or neutralization beyond electoral defeat, which is meaningfully more dangerous than standard political attack language. The Hur report's criticism of Biden's memory provided the immediate trigger and political cover, but the post's deeper function is deflection from Trump's own vulnerabilities. The contrast with same-day authentic posts ("Birdbrain," "crazed lunatic") illustrates the dual-channel communication architecture — raw id-posting alongside coordinated campaign messaging — both under one account. Danger level is elevated: the delegitimization of an incumbent president using security threat language historically precedes radicalized audience action, even absent explicit calls to mobilization. No cognitive indicators assessable from this brevity.

## Analysis: "THE TRUE THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY: JOE BIDEN" — February 13, 2024

### Context & Timing

Post was published at 16:22 UTC on February 13, 2024, which converts to **11:22 AM EST** at Mar-a-Lago, Florida — standard business hours. Trump had been at Mar-a-Lago for much of this period; the Super Bowl was two days prior. The timing falls squarely within the aide-written window and the polished campaign-format content strongly supports non-authentic authorship.

### Authorship Attribution

This is almost certainly **aide/campaign-produced content** serving as a caption or title card for the attached video (mp4). Indicators: business hours local posting (11:22 AM), zero typos, a single declarative sentence structured as a political slogan, and the presence of a produced video asset — consistent with a coordinated campaign communications drop rather than an impulsive solo post. Compare with the same-day authentic posts ("Watched Birdbrain do an interview yesterday, and she has become a crazed lunatic") which exhibit stream-of-consciousness rambling, ad hominem nicknames, and no media assets. The contrast in register is stark.

### Psychological State & Trigger

The post arrives in a richly charged news environment. The Special Counsel Robert Hur report on Biden's classified documents (released this week) described Biden as an "elderly man with poor memory" — creating political opportunity. Simultaneously, Trump's own NATO-Russia remarks ("I told them I would encourage Russia to do whatever the hell they want") generated international condemnation on national security grounds. The failed Senate border security bill had just been defeated — with Trump's explicit pressure — before it could become law.

The psychological function of this post is **projective defense**. Trump has been in the news cycle as the one accused of creating national security risk (classified documents prosecution, NATO destabilization). Rather than addressing these attacks, the post performs a **DARVO maneuver** (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender) — reframing Biden as the *real* threat. The framing is pure displacement and projection: Trump's own documented behaviors (encouraging Russian aggression, hoarding classified materials) are being attributed wholesale to his opponent.

The narcissistic state appears **grandiose** — Trump is implicitly positioning himself as the guarantor of security against Biden's threat — consistent with his savior/protector narrative identity. The trigger is dual: narcissistic injury from ongoing legal scrutiny plus opportunistic supply-seeking in response to the Hur report's negative coverage of Biden.

### Defense Mechanisms

1. **Projection (Immature/Level 2)**: The accusation that Biden is a national security threat directly mirrors the charges leveled at Trump. Projecting one's own disowned danger onto the outgroup object is the dominant mechanism here.
2. **Distortion (Pathological/Level 1)**: Condensing a complex political situation into a seven-word verdict distorts reality into a binary, emotionally potent frame.
3. **Denial (Pathological/Level 1)**: The framing implicitly denies Trump's own documented national security liabilities by redirecting the category entirely.

### Narrative Identity (McAdams Level 3)

- **Protagonist role**: Protector/Savior — the one who names the true threat, implicitly the one who can neutralize it.
- **Narrative sequence**: Contamination frame (America endangered by corrupt incumbent).
- **Contrasting other**: Biden cast as existential menace; Trump as lucid identifier of danger.
- **Identity claim**: "I alone see and name what others won't."

This is consistent with the Warrior and Hero/Savior archetypes. The Warrior archetype is particularly active — enemies are everywhere and must be named and fought. The "True" in "THE TRUE THREAT" performs the Trickster function: inverting established media narratives, claiming access to forbidden knowledge the mainstream refuses to acknowledge.

### Rhetorical Techniques

The post is minimalist propaganda in its most concentrated form: seven words, all caps, colon as verdict-gavel. Key techniques:
- **Eliminationist framing**: Labeling a sitting president a "national security threat" implies he must be removed or neutralized, not merely defeated at the ballot box. This is a step beyond political opposition.
- **False equivalence/Whataboutism**: Implicitly answers Trump's own national security criticisms by substituting Biden as defendant.
- **Appeal to fear**: National security invocation is primal threat activation.
- **Superlative framing**: "THE TRUE" implies all other named threats are false/distractions, centering only this one.
- **Staccato authority**: Short sentences in all caps mimic authoritative proclamation — legal verdict, military order.

The video attachment almost certainly extends the rhetorical work with produced imagery — typical campaign opposition research format.

### Danger Assessment

Labeling the sitting president of the United States "THE TRUE THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY" with an accompanying video in a political campaign context meets **elevated** danger criteria. The framing delegitimizes Biden not as a policy failure but as an existential threat — language historically associated with pre-violence political rhetoric. It does not contain explicit calls to action or explicit dehumanization, but the eliminationist implication (if Biden is a national security threat, what should be done with national security threats?) is a meaningful step toward audience radicalization. Stochastic terrorism criteria: target is identified (Biden), grievance is articulated (national security), implied action remains implicit rather than explicit — elevated but not critical.

### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Joe Biden is THE TRUE THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY" | **Mostly False** | No credible national security assessment designates Biden a security threat. The Hur report found Biden retained classified documents but recommended no charges; meanwhile Trump faces active classified document prosecution and his public NATO-Russia comments generated bipartisan national security concern in the same week. The framing inverts the documented record. |

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 10%)

### Indicators

- Posted at 11:22 AM local EST — standard business hours, strongly aide-written window
- Zero typos or grammatical errors
- Single polished declarative sentence structured as a political slogan
- Accompanied by produced mp4 video asset — coordinated campaign communications format
- Stark contrast in register with same-day authentic posts ('Birdbrain', 'crazed lunatic') which are rambling and unpolished

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Preemptive Attack — Criticism (Special Counsel Hur report creating opening; Trump's own NATO/classified document controversies requiring deflection)

Sentiment: -0.85

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 70%
- Antisocial: 50%
- Paranoid: 50%
- Sadism: 20%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- projection (immature)
- distortion (pathological)
- denial (pathological)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 10%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Shared enemy identification — uniting audience against a common threat
- Validation through naming what followers are told the media suppresses
- Authority projection — declarative verdict format mimics trusted institutional voice

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Eliminationist framing: labeling a sitting president a 'national security threat' implies removal/neutralization beyond electoral defeat
- Delegitimization of incumbent president using security category historically associated with pre-violence rhetoric
- Potential to activate radicalized followers who interpret 'national security threat' as requiring extra-legal response
- Pattern of escalating delegitimization of democratic opponents across posting history

### Gaslighting

- DARVO maneuver: Trump — facing genuine national security controversy over NATO comments and classified documents — reframes Biden as the 'true' threat, reversing victim and offender
- Reality substitution: 'THE TRUE' framing implies media coverage of Trump's national security controversies is itself a false narrative
- Rapid revisionism: within days of Trump publicly encouraging Russian aggression against NATO allies, the post reattributes the 'national security threat' category entirely to his opponent

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-21._

> Joe Biden is THE TRUE THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY

**MOSTLY FALSE**

No credible national security assessment designates Biden a security threat. The Hur report found Biden retained classified documents but recommended no charges; meanwhile Trump faces active classified document prosecution and his public NATO-Russia comments generated bipartisan national security concern in the same week. The framing inverts the documented record.

Sources: Special Counsel Robert Hur report, February 2024; Trump NATO rally remarks, South Carolina, February 2024; Trump classified documents indictment, June 2023

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Tags

- projection (95%)
- DARVO (90%)
- eliminationist_framing (80%)
- aide_written (92%)
- campaign_content (90%)
- national_security_rhetoric (95%)
- whataboutism (85%)
- grandiose_state (70%)
- fear_appeal (80%)
- biden_attack (100%)

## That day

_From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._

**Late-Night Haley Obsession Reveals Disproportionate Threat Response as Primary Rival Refuses to Exit**

Trump's day split into two distinct halves: a late-night rage session targeting Nikki Haley and the Lincoln Project, followed by an afternoon of routine campaign maintenance and link-sharing. The most striking feature was the intensity directed at Haley -- including a cruel taunt about her husband's military deployment overseas -- despite her distant second-place standing in the primary. One post about the Lincoln Project closed with an implied threat, and a false claim that Haley trails Biden by 15 points inverted the actual polling data. The afternoon was calm and largely aide-produced, suggesting the overnight fury had burned itself out.

Full digest for 2024-02-13: https://trump.fm/date/2024-02-13/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, February 13). “THE TRUE THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY: JOE BIDEN” [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111925090489772652
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“THE TRUE THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY: JOE BIDEN”" Truth Social, 13 Feb. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111925090489772652. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "“THE TRUE THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY: JOE BIDEN”," Truth Social, February 13, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111925090489772652.

## 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_111925090489772652
- Analysis as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/analysis/ts_111925090489772652
- All citation formats: https://trump.fm/api/cite/ts_111925090489772652
- Same day: https://trump.fm/date/2024-02-13
- The record alone, without the analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111925090489772652.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`._