# Post ts_116399897710782846 - Post ID: `ts_116399897710782846` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2026-04-13T23:04:46.066Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116399897710782846 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116399897710782846/analysis ## Post text _No text of its own. The post is its media, below._ ## What the media says **Image** (screenshot), described automatically; these are a machine's words about the picture, not the poster's: > Screenshot of a tweet/X post by Lee Zeldin (@LeeMZeldin), verified account, quote-retweeting a post from DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard, verified, "5h" timestamp). Zeldin's text calls the Russia investigation and Trump's 2019 impeachment a hoax and sham trial. Gabbard's quoted post claims newly-declassified records expose a "deep state" plot to fabricate a narrative used to impeach Trump. Below her text is an embedded graphic/infographic with a dark blue background featuring photos of Donald Trump on a phone, the White House, Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi, and the U.S. Capitol dome, alongside a circular seal reading "OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE" and bold text asserting a "DEEP STATE CONSPIRACY TO MANUFACTURE 2019 IMPEACHMENT SCAM." The graphic lists four labeled points with photos: "SECOND-HAND WHISTLEBLOWER ACCOUNT," "IC IG WEAPONIZED PROCESS," "RUSSIAGATE AUTHOR AS KEY WITNESS," and "SHAM IMPEACHMENT," each with a short explanatory caption. The post shows a timestamp of 5:24 PM · Apr 13, 2026 and 42.1K views. Text in the image: "Lee Zeldin ✓ @LeeMZeldin Just like the RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA collusion hoax, the clown show sham impeachment of President Trump in 2019 was a bull shit show trial of epic proportion to try to take out the duly elected President of the United States. DNI Tulsi Gabbard ✓ @DNIGabbard · 5h Newly-declassified records expose how deep state actors within the Intelligence Community concocted a false narrative that Congress used to usurp the will of the American people and impeach duly-elected President @realDonaldTrump in 2019. ... NEWLY DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS EXPOSE DEEP STATE CONSPIRACY TO MANUFACTURE 2019 IMPEACHMENT SCAM SECOND-HAND WHISTLEBLOWER ACCOUNT WEAPONIZED WHISTLEBLOWER PROCESS The IC IG's so-called "investigation" relied on only second-hand evidence and a self-declared Democrat Whistleblower who lied about speaking with Democrats in Congress. IC IG WEAPONIZED PROCESS RUSSIAGATE AUTHOR AS KEY WITNESS One of the key sources was a co-author of the 2017 Russia Hoax ICA, who was also a close colleague of discredited former FBI agent Peter Strzok. SHAM IMPEACHMENT The IC IG exceeded his statutory authority and ignored DOJ guidance to transmit the faulty complaint to Congress, which House Democrats peddled to drive a sham impeachment. 5:24 PM · Apr 13, 2026 · 42.1K Views" ## Media - image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/116/399/897/427/623/402/original/f3500bfe8a5c1038.png ## Engagement - Likes: 20,958 - Reposts: 6,796 - Replies: 2,755 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-04-14T22:00:47.451Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-16T12:08:04.241Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ **What was chosen, not written** This post carries no words of Trump's own — it is a screenshot of Lee Zeldin quote-tweeting DNI Tulsi Gabbard's infographic asserting a "deep state conspiracy" behind the 2019 impeachment. The behavior under analysis is the choice to amplify this specific artifact, on a day otherwise filled with his own grievance posts about The Wall Street Journal ("re-filing an updated lawsuit"), The New York Times ("FAKE NEWS," "HAVE THEY NO SHAME?"), and the Hormuz blockade. Read against that sequence, the repost extends a single day's persecution theme from present media adversaries back to a 2019 institutional grievance, using an ally's post and an intelligence agency seal to supply third-party validation he did not have to write himself. **Narrative and motive** The infographic recasts the 2019 impeachment as a "SHAM" engineered by "deep state actors" — a contamination-to-redemption move: an event once damaging is reframed as evidence of his own victimization and, implicitly, vindication. Sharing rather than authoring lets an official government seal (Office of the Director of National Intelligence) do the asserting. The protagonist role is unchanged from the day's other posts — the duly elected leader undone by unelected process — but here the "duly elected President" phrase (quoted from Zeldin's text) is imported rather than coined, still functioning as an identity claim by virtue of publication. **Defenses and mechanisms** Splitting is structural to the artifact itself: "second-hand whistleblower," "weaponized process," and "sham impeachment" cast the intelligence community's 2019 conduct as uniformly corrupt, leaving no room for a mixed account. Projection is worth naming carefully — the graphic accuses IC actors of "weaponizing" process against him, the same charge critics leveled at his own use of DOJ and IC levers in office; the post surfaces without providing a mechanism to resolve which direction the accusation actually runs. Rationalization operates at one remove: Trump doesn't argue the case, he lets Gabbard's declassification and Zeldin's framing argue it for him, which lowers his own exposure if the underlying claims don't hold up. **Rhetoric, grievance, danger** The named targets — Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi, unnamed "deep state actors" — are institutional and historical, not live targets for mobilization; there is no call to action attached, and the post arrives without commentary of his own layered on top. The rhetorical work is republishing an authority-branded hyperbole ("SCAM," "SHAM") rather than generating it. No eliminationist or dehumanizing language appears in the described content, and grievance here is backward-looking (a six-year-old impeachment) rather than aimed at a present adversary who could be acted against. **Authorship** With no text of his own, there is nothing to score for phrasing, error patterns, or syntax. The post lands at 23:04 UTC — roughly 7:04pm Eastern given his White House activity earlier that week — which is early evening, neither the late-night stretch most associated with his own unmediated posting nor a clearly staffed midday announcement window. That ambiguity, combined with the clean, caption-free repost format common to both self- and staff-driven shares, leaves the question of who selected this clip genuinely unresolved from timing alone. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 50%) ### Indicators - No original text to assess for stylometry — attribution rests on timing alone, not authorship of words - Post time ~19:04 Eastern is neither the late-night window most associated with his unmediated posting nor a typical staffed business-hours announcement - Caption-free repost format is common to both self-directed and staff-curated shares ## Psychological Profile ### State **Vulnerable State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Defeat (Gabbard/Zeldin posts offering renewed vindication for the 2019 impeachment) Sentiment: -0.30 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 30% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 40% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - splitting (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - amplifying an ally's validation rather than asserting the claim in his own voice ## Tags - impeachment-grievance (70%) - third-party-validation (60%) - deep-state-frame (50%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Within the hour of calling Pope Leo "WEAK on Crime," Trump posted a painting of himself as a haloed healer** On a Sunday night in Florida, Trump opened with a long attack on Pope Leo, then within the hour posted a painting of himself as a glowing, Christ-like healer. He deleted the image the next day after religious conservatives objected, and said he thought it showed him as a doctor. Just after midnight he announced a naval blockade of Iran's ports with a form-letter sign-off, spent the small hours sharing articles that praised the move and reopened his first impeachment, and on Monday morning warned that Iranian boats nearing the blockade would be destroyed. The afternoon turned defensive: he played down a judge's dismissal of his Wall Street Journal lawsuit and attacked the New York Times for suggesting Iran was holding its own. He ended the day with routine endorsements and one more post about the "deep state" plot behind his impeachment. Full digest for 2026-04-13: https://trump.fm/date/2026-04-13/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, April 13). [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_116399897710782846 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. 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