# Post ts_116045171347553218

- Post ID: `ts_116045171347553218`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-02-10T07:33:11.351Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116045171347553218/analysis
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## Post text

> Ex-FBI agent says Bondi has 'slam dunk' conspiracy case against Obama's feds for election meddling: https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/slam-dunk-ex-fbi-agent-says-bondi-has-clear-weaponization/

## Engagement

- Likes: 13,956
- Reposts: 4,494
- Replies: 1,585
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-10T23:45:38.339Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T07:30:06.748Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Psychological Analysis: Post ts_116045171347553218

### Overview
Trump shares a Just The News article at 2:33 AM EST claiming AG Bondi has a "slam dunk" conspiracy case against "Obama's feds" for election meddling. This is a late-night link-share with no original commentary beyond the headline, fitting a pattern of nocturnal validation-seeking through curated right-wing media.

### Authorship Attribution
The 2:33 AM local time strongly suggests authentic Trump. The post is a simple article share—minimal text, no polish—consistent with late-night browsing and impulsive sharing of content that validates existing grievances.

### Psychological Analysis
This post continues the Obama-focused grievance thread visible in recent posts (the Canada bridge post referencing "President Barack Hussein Obama"). The framing of "Obama's feds" personalizes institutional action as enemy conspiracy, consistent with paranoid features. The "slam dunk" language from an external authority figure provides narcissistic supply—external validation of his persecution narrative.

### Context
This post occurs during a period when Trump posted a racist AI-generated video depicting the Obamas as apes, suggesting heightened Obama-focused hostility. The weaponization-of-government narrative serves as rationalization for retaliatory action against political opponents.

### Rhetorical Techniques
- Appeal to authority (ex-FBI agent)
- Persecution narrative framing
- Outsourcing the claim to maintain deniability while amplifying it

### Danger Assessment
The post signals continued pursuit of political retribution through legal apparatus, framing opponents as criminals deserving prosecution. The "slam dunk" framing normalizes political prosecution.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Ex-FBI agent says Bondi has 'slam dunk' conspiracy case against Obama's feds for election meddling" | **Half True** | The narrow factual claim is accurate: an ex-FBI agent named Jonathan Gilliam did make this statement on the Just the News, No Noise television show (published December 20, 2025, by John Solomon). Gilliam is a verified former FBI Special Agent (New York office, 2005-2013) and Navy SEAL veteran (SEAL Team 4, BUD/S Class 218). His exact quote was: 'If this was a mafia case, and we had this clear-cut of an example of a group of people committing two or more crimes for the furtherance of their political group or their enterprise, this would be a slam dunk case for any US Attorney.'

However, the claim is rated half true rather than true because of significant misleading context:

1. Gilliam's role is misrepresented by omission. He is not a neutral legal authority or active prosecutor. He is a conservative political commentator who regularly appears on right-wing media outlets (Fox News, Newsmax, Sirius XM), authored a book with a foreword by Sean Hannity, and left the FBI in 2013. Presenting him simply as an 'ex-FBI agent' implies disinterested expertise.

2. The 'slam dunk' characterization is contradicted by extensive prior investigations. Special Counsel John Durham, appointed by Trump himself during his first term, spent nearly four years and found no criminal conspiracy among Obama administration officials to fabricate intelligence about Russia. Durham's two prosecutions (of a Clinton campaign lawyer and a dossier source) both ended in acquittals. A bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee review also found no such conspiracy.

3. Multiple legal experts directly dispute the viability of any case. Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Elie Honig stated he studied the allegations 'really carefully' but cannot identify 'where the criminal theory comes in at all,' adding: 'We've heard terms like seditious conspiracy and treason. I'm not seeing anything close to that.' A former senior DOJ official called it 'a dangerous political stunt.' Another former national security official said: 'There's no logical, rational basis for this.'

4. The source has credibility issues. Just The News, founded by John Solomon, is rated 'Questionable Source' by Media Bias/Fact Check with a 'Far Right' bias rating (8.1) and 'Mixed' factual reporting (6.3). Solomon's reporting has been criticized by Columbia Journalism Review, PolitiFact, and others for promoting conspiracy theories and omitting important context.

5. The underlying investigation itself is real but exploratory. AG Bondi did direct prosecutors to investigate Obama-era officials, and a grand jury was convened in Fort Pierce, Florida. However, Bondi's letter provided no specific charges, targets, or timeline, suggesting an open-ended exploratory investigation rather than a case ready for prosecution.

In summary: an ex-FBI agent did say this, and the investigation exists, but calling it a 'slam dunk' is a politically motivated opinion from a conservative commentator that contradicts the findings of multiple prior investigations and the assessments of numerous legal experts. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 80%)

### Indicators

- 2:33 AM EST posting time
- Simple link share with no original commentary
- Late-night browsing pattern
- No grammatical polish or formatting

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Just The News article validating weaponization narrative)

Sentiment: -0.30

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 50%
- Antisocial: 40%
- Paranoid: 60%
- Sadism: 20%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 15%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- appeal to authority
- shared grievance validation

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Normalizing prosecution of political opponents as routine legal accountability
- Using DOJ apparatus for political retribution framed as justice

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-22; a recheck of the unverifiable ones last ran 2026-03-29._

> Ex-FBI agent says Bondi has 'slam dunk' conspiracy case against Obama's feds for election meddling

**HALF TRUE**

The narrow factual claim is accurate: an ex-FBI agent named Jonathan Gilliam did make this statement on the Just the News, No Noise television show (published December 20, 2025, by John Solomon). Gilliam is a verified former FBI Special Agent (New York office, 2005-2013) and Navy SEAL veteran (SEAL Team 4, BUD/S Class 218). His exact quote was: 'If this was a mafia case, and we had this clear-cut of an example of a group of people committing two or more crimes for the furtherance of their political group or their enterprise, this would be a slam dunk case for any US Attorney.'

However, the claim is rated half true rather than true because of significant misleading context:

1. Gilliam's role is misrepresented by omission. He is not a neutral legal authority or active prosecutor. He is a conservative political commentator who regularly appears on right-wing media outlets (Fox News, Newsmax, Sirius XM), authored a book with a foreword by Sean Hannity, and left the FBI in 2013. Presenting him simply as an 'ex-FBI agent' implies disinterested expertise.

2. The 'slam dunk' characterization is contradicted by extensive prior investigations. Special Counsel John Durham, appointed by Trump himself during his first term, spent nearly four years and found no criminal conspiracy among Obama administration officials to fabricate intelligence about Russia. Durham's two prosecutions (of a Clinton campaign lawyer and a dossier source) both ended in acquittals. A bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee review also found no such conspiracy.

3. Multiple legal experts directly dispute the viability of any case. Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Elie Honig stated he studied the allegations 'really carefully' but cannot identify 'where the criminal theory comes in at all,' adding: 'We've heard terms like seditious conspiracy and treason. I'm not seeing anything close to that.' A former senior DOJ official called it 'a dangerous political stunt.' Another former national security official said: 'There's no logical, rational basis for this.'

4. The source has credibility issues. Just The News, founded by John Solomon, is rated 'Questionable Source' by Media Bias/Fact Check with a 'Far Right' bias rating (8.1) and 'Mixed' factual reporting (6.3). Solomon's reporting has been criticized by Columbia Journalism Review, PolitiFact, and others for promoting conspiracy theories and omitting important context.

5. The underlying investigation itself is real but exploratory. AG Bondi did direct prosecutors to investigate Obama-era officials, and a grand jury was convened in Fort Pierce, Florida. However, Bondi's letter provided no specific charges, targets, or timeline, suggesting an open-ended exploratory investigation rather than a case ready for prosecution.

In summary: an ex-FBI agent did say this, and the investigation exists, but calling it a 'slam dunk' is a politically motivated opinion from a conservative commentator that contradicts the findings of multiple prior investigations and the assessments of numerous legal experts.

Sources: https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/slam-dunk-ex-fbi-agent-says-bondi-has-clear-weaponization; https://www.jonathantgilliam.com/bio; https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/pam-bondi-orders-grand-jury-probe-obama-admin-review-2016-election-rcna223016; https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/former-prosecutor-questions-legitimacy-of-bondis-russia-probe; https://www.salon.com/2025/08/05/legal-expert-dismisses-pam-bondis-obama-grand-jury-im-not-seeing-anything/; https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/politics/bondi-durham-obama-russia-election; https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/just-the-news/; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durham_special_counsel_investigation; https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/4379287/pam-bondi-signals-obama-biden-era-conspiracy-case-2026/; https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/attorney-general-pam-bondi-conspiracy-investigation-trump-enemies/

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- weaponization_narrative (90%)
- obama_grievance (80%)
- supply_seeking (70%)
- late_night_post (80%)

## That day

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

**A 2:30 a.m. start, an eight-minute burst of five-year-old grievances, and total silence on the day's actual news**

Trump posted 23 times, opening with a few news links just after 2:30 in the morning and closing before 7 p.m. with a rapid-fire block of seven near-identical endorsements of Florida Republicans. The middle of the day was an eight-minute burst of eleven old clips and images reposted from his own account — recycled 2020 election-fraud footage, a Hunter Biden laptop segment, and a complaint about Japan and Kuwait ripping off America that dates back decades. His one clearly personal moment came in the early afternoon, showing off renderings of the White House ballroom he's building and calling it on budget, ahead of schedule, and the finest ever built anywhere. There was no anger anywhere in the day, and no reaction at all to the two legal stories breaking around him: a grand jury refusing to indict six Democratic lawmakers, and Ghislaine Maxwell taking the Fifth while her lawyer floated a clemency deal. The mood was self-satisfied and low-key — but with under four hours of overnight quiet, and the day's grievances all pulled from the archive rather than the present.

Full digest for 2026-02-10: https://trump.fm/date/2026-02-10/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, February 10). Ex-FBI agent says Bondi has 'slam dunk'... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_116045171347553218
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Ex-FBI agent says Bondi has 'slam dunk' conspiracy case..." Truth Social, 10 Feb. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116045171347553218. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Ex-FBI agent says Bondi has 'slam dunk' conspiracy case...," Truth Social, February 10, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116045171347553218.

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