# Post ts_115978020763017823

- Post ID: `ts_115978020763017823`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-01-29T10:55:54.711Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_115978020763017823
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_115978020763017823/analysis

## Post text

_No text of its own. The post is its media, below._

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (8:22), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> News alert the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, releasing a bombshell report today that shows a conspiracy by a sitting president, Barack Obama, and his intel agencies to sabotage the president-elect, Donald Trump, brainwash the electorate and undermine the legitimacy of an election. There is irrefutable evidence that detail how President Obama and his national security team directed the creation of an intelligence community assessment that they knew was false. They knew it would promote this contrived narrative that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help President Trump win, selling it to the American people as though it were true. It wasn't. Gabbard got her hands on a House intel report that's been locked away in a CIA vault for almost a decade. Investigators spent over 2,000 hours looking into how the Russia hoax was born, interviewing 20 CIA and FBI officials. And it turns out that the Obama administration doctored the intelligence to make it look like Putin and Trump stole the election. A month after Trump beat Hillary, Barack Obama wasn't satisfied with his intelligence reporting and ordered his CIA director to create a new assessment of how Russia interfered with the election. This was a highly unusual move. John Brennan handpicked five CIA analysts to write the assessment, and they were siloed. None of them knew what the other was doing, and only one analyst was in charge of drafting this report. There was nothing routine about this, and it was a rush job to publish before Trump was sworn in. Nothing was coordinated with the other intelligence agencies either. Basically, this was home cooking for Barack Obama. There were four key elements from the assessment that were repeated over and over again and formed the basis of the Russia hoax and the Robert Mueller witch hunt. One, that Vladimir Putin wanted Donald Trump to win. Two, Putin took action to help Trump win. Three, the Russians had blackmail on Trump, that was the Steele dossier, and four, that the Russians tried colluding with the Trump campaign. None of any of this was ever true. There was no reliable intelligence to support any of these allegations. Senior CIA officials repeatedly refused to traffic in these allegations, but they were repeatedly overruled by CIA Director Brennan and FBI Director Comey, who insisted that they be pushed, even without verifiable evidence. The Obama administration cherry-picked the intelligence, lied about their sources, misquoted sources, didn't corroborate their claims, suppressed intelligence that ran counter to their narratives, and even used anonymous internet postings. Rank and File CIA admitted what they were doing violated their own tradecraft standards. There was a massive pressure campaign that came right from the top. CIA analysts say they received unusual directives from political appointees, the CIA director, and Obama himself. This is how the Russia hoax was born. Donald Trump knows that the Russians helped him win in 2016. Putin hated Secretary Clinton so much that the flip side of that coin was. He had a clear preference for the person running against the person he hated so much. It was Russia in a very systematic way in trying to interfere in the election and to try to advance the prospects of Donald Trump being elected. This was such a malicious disinformation campaign perpetrated on the American people that at one point 60% of Democrats believed the Russians hacked our voting machines to help Trump win the White House. What this report actually shows is that the Russians just wanted to create chaos and undermine Americans' faith in democracy. Solid intelligence suggested that Vladimir Putin didn't care who won. He had no preference. But like most people, expected Hillary to win and had a little docket of compromising dirt on her, dirt that he never released. Now, if Putin wanted Trump to win, why didn't Putin drop the dirt? There were high-level DNC emails that detailed evidence of Hillary's "psycho-emotional problems, uncontrolled fits of anger, aggression, and cheerfulness," and that then Secretary Clinton was allegedly on a daily regimen of heavy tranquilizers. Then CIA Director Brennan and the intelligence community mischaracterized intelligence and relied on dubious substandard sources to create a contrived false narrative that Putin developed a "clear preference" for Trump. Now, if Clinton was on tranquilizers like the Russians believed, why didn't they leak it to help Trump win? How credible was the information about Hillary Clinton's power? All I have seen is what the intelligence committee have reported through their investigation. I think the underlying point there is that we understand from intelligence what Russia said that they had, and the important point here is that if they were trying to influence the election, as President Obama and James Clapper and John Brennan, everybody said they were doing in order to support Donald Trump's election, they would have released the most damning of that information. Obama and his spy chiefs knew that Putin didn't prefer Trump over Hillary, but they cooked the intelligence to make it look like he did. Obama and his intel spies knew that Putin didn't collude with Trump, and that he didn't even direct his people to help Trump win, but they put it out there anyway. In a sense, Barack Obama did exactly what Putin wanted, undermined American's faith in free and fair elections, and caused chaos in our country. Barack Obama, the CIA, and the FBI were the ones doing what our enemy wanted. Do you believe that any of this new information implicates former President Obama in criminal behavior? We have referred and will continue to refer all of these documents to the Department of Justice and the FBI to investigate the criminal implications of this. For even former President Obama? Correct. The evidence that we have found and that we have released directly point to President Obama leading the manufacturing of this intelligence assessment. There are multiple pieces of evidence and intelligence that confirm that fact. Even two years later, after the election, Barack Obama was still pushing a hoax he knew wasn't true. And he knew it wasn't true because he helped manufacture it. They're undermining our alliances, cozying up to Russia. What happened to the Republican Party? They're cozying up to the former head of the KGB. Actively blocking legislation that would defend our elections from Russian attack. What happened? Now, I don't know if it's possible to indict a former president for actions he took while in office. I'm not a lawyer, proudly. But Brennan, Comey and others may have severe liability. Trey Gowdy says we know for a fact that Brennan committed perjury when he lied to Congress. Director Brennan, do you know who commissioned the Steele dossier? I don't. You know if the bureau ever relied on the Steele dossier as part of any court filings, applications? I have no awareness. Did the CIA rely on it? No. Why not? Because we didn't. It wasn't part of the corpus of intelligence information that we had. It was not in any way used as a basis for the intelligence community assessment that was done. It was not. No, that's a lie. Whatever happens to these guys is not revenge. It's accountability. And it's time for people to pay the price.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/115/978/018/754/659/343/original/b2b43337850c6471.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 11,571
- Reposts: 3,227
- Replies: 441
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.283Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-09T02:59:24.470Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Post Overview

This is a media-only repost (no original text) of what appears to be a news/commentary segment (structured as a "News Alert" package, likely from a friendly outlet or aggregator) reporting on DNI Tulsi Gabbard's release of a House Intelligence Committee report alleging the Obama administration manufactured the 2016 "Russia hoax" intelligence assessment. It follows two other reposts from the same session. Because there is no first-person text from the subject, this analysis focuses on **selection and amplification behavior**, not authorship of the spoken content, per framework guidance.

## Level 1-3: Traits, Motives, Narrative

The act of curation itself is diagnostic even absent original text. Selecting and broadcasting a segment that (a) casts him as the target of a "conspiracy" by a sitting president and intelligence agencies, and (b) frames a new report as "irrefutable" vindication, fits a well-established **redemption/vindication narrative arc**: persecution (2016-2019 Russia investigation) → exposure of the persecutors → moral vindication. This is a longstanding, central identity narrative for this subject (protagonist: wrongly-accused victim turned vindicated winner; contrasting others: Obama, Brennan, Comey, "the deep state").

Agency motive (dominance/status restoration) is high: the clip's thrust is not merely "the intelligence was flawed" but "Obama personally orchestrated a fraud against me." Communion motive is essentially absent from the selected content.

Schema evident in the choice: a persistent view of self as target of illegitimate elite conspiracy, and of institutional actors (CIA, FBI, prior administration) as corrupt antagonists whose exposure retroactively confirms his legitimacy.

## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

**Paranoid features**: The content amplified centers on a "conspiracy," "bombshell," and "irrefutable evidence" of a plot against him — consistent with a persistent preoccupation with being targeted, though here the claim of an actual investigative report existing is not itself paranoid ideation; the paranoid-consistent element is the eagerness to amplify maximal, absolute framing ("irrefutable," conspiracy by a sitting president) without qualification.

**Narcissistic dynamics**: Best characterized as **supply-seeking/vindication-seeking** rather than injury-reactive — this is not a defensive response to a fresh attack but proactive circulation of material that flatters a long-held grievance narrative. Narcissistic state is mixed: grandiose (implicit claim of ultimate vindication and legitimacy) layered on a residual victim/persecuted self-frame.

**Defense mechanisms**: Selection of this clip functions as **externalization** of the 2016-2019 investigative scrutiny — reframing scrutiny he was subject to as fabricated by opponents. This is consistent with **projection/rationalization** at the behavioral level (choosing content that relocates fault entirely onto Obama/Brennan/Comey) though the mechanism belongs to the curatorial act, not to language he authored.

## Rhetorical & Reality-Distortion Notes (content of amplified clip, not his own words)

The clip itself deploys DARVO structure (reversing "Trump colluded" into "Obama conspired against Trump"), superlative/absolutist language ("irrefutable," "bombshell"), and us-vs-them framing (Obama/CIA/FBI elite vs. Trump/the people). Notably, the clip's substantive claim — that Russia did not seek to help Trump in 2016 — contradicts the bipartisan (GOP-led) Senate Intelligence Committee's multi-year, multi-volume investigation, which affirmed Russian interference aimed at helping Trump and documented Trump campaign contacts with Russian intelligence-linked individuals. This is the video narrator's claim, not one asserted by the subject in his own words, so it is not entered as a fact-check against him — but the choice to amplify it without caveat is itself notable evidence of confirmation-seeking curation.

## Authorship Attribution

No stylometric evidence is available (no original text). Timing is the only signal: 10:55:54 UTC on 2026-01-29 converts to approximately 5:55-6:55 AM in Eastern time (exact zone depends on his location, plausibly New York/DC/Mar-a-Lago given the prior day's Iowa and Nicki Minaj events suggest a return east); this falls in an early-morning window sometimes associated with his personal engagement with overnight/morning cable coverage, but the post is a bare repost with zero added commentary, format, or editorializing that would normally distinguish personal vs. staff posting. Given the total absence of textual markers, this determination reflects only *who selected the clip for posting*, not who created any accompanying language (there is none). Confidence is capped at low as instructed.

## Danger Assessment

No eliminationist language, dehumanization, or calls to mobilization are present in the selected content. Danger level: none.

## Summary

Not clinically significant enough to warrant a full summary beyond the above — this is a routine amplification of a favorable political narrative consistent with a long-standing vindication/persecution schema, without novel escalation, threat content, or marked deviation from established patterns.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 40%)

### Indicators

- No original text attached; the post is a bare media repost with zero authorial language, so no stylometric markers (typos, syntax, punctuation) are available
- Posting time (~10:56 UTC) converts to roughly 5:55-6:55 AM Eastern, a window sometimes associated with the subject's personal early-morning engagement with cable/online news, but this alone is weak evidence
- Bare repost format (no added caption or commentary) is consistent with either personal quick-share behavior or routine staff/aide amplification of favorable coverage
- This score reflects only who likely selected/chose to publish the clip, not who authored any words, since none exist in this post

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 50%
- Agreeableness: 25%
- Conscientiousness: 30%
- Neuroticism: 50%
- Openness: 25%

Strongest facet: vigilance toward perceived persecution, expressed via curation rather than direct assertion

**Motives:**
- Agency: 60%
- Communion: 10%

Primary drive: validation

### Narrative

- **Role:** wrongly-accused victim vindicated by new evidence
- **Arc:** redemption
- **Contrasting:** Barack Obama, John Brennan, James Comey, the intelligence community establishment

**Identity Claims:**
- Implicitly: I was the target of an elite conspiracy, and this report proves I was right all along

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Release of a Tulsi Gabbard-publicized House Intelligence report alleging Obama-era fabrication of 2016 Russia-interference intelligence)

Sentiment: +0.20

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 45%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 50%
- Sadism: 5%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- projection (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 0%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Amplifying third-party 'vindication' media without commentary, inviting followers to draw conclusions he does not have to state outright

## Tags

- media-only-repost (100%)
- vindication-narrative (80%)
- russia-hoax-amplification (90%)
- paranoid-features (40%)
- low-confidence-authorship (50%)

## That day

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

**Fifty-four posts, forty-four of them wordless: a day spent defending Minneapolis through other people's voices, punctuated by three flashes of his own.**

Trump posted 54 times, but almost all of it was other people's work — 44 of those posts contained no words of his own, mostly videos fired off in two rapid bursts, one late the night before and one just before 6 AM. The through-line was Minneapolis: rather than address the immigration raids or the nurse killed by federal agents, he circulated clip after clip arguing the protests were secretly funded, naming two private citizens along the way. He broke his own silence three times — to call the Fed chair a moron for not cutting rates, to report a friendly call with Mexico's president, and, at the end of the day, to threaten Canada's entire aircraft industry over a certification dispute. He slept a normal night and posted nothing after 6:30 PM, so despite the volume this reads as heavy amplification rather than a manic stretch. The oddest note: eighteen minutes after posting that the economy was setting records in every way, he was threatening a 50% tariff on an ally.

Full digest for 2026-01-29: https://trump.fm/date/2026-01-29/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, January 29).  [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_115978020763017823
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 29 Jan. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_115978020763017823. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, January 29, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_115978020763017823.

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