# Post ts_116457788834581503 - Post ID: `ts_116457788834581503` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2026-04-24T04:27:14.512Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116457788834581503 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116457788834581503/analysis ## Post text _No text of its own. The post is its media, below._ ## What the media says **Video transcript** (2:30), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > We knew Hillary created the dossier and now we have proof that Barack was calling the shots and the documents to prove it. Declassified documents revealing former CIA director John Brennan briefed then president Obama on Hillary Clinton's purported plan to smear then candidate Trump in 2016, adding to what the national intelligence director has already declassified on this issue and raising more questions tonight about how much more of this will come out before election day. Good evening, Mike. Brett, good evening. These are handwritten notes from former CIA director John Brennan written according to a source familiar after Brennan briefed president Obama. At one point, Brennan writes, quote, approved by Hillary Clinton, a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security service. The notes say on 28 of July in the margin Brennan writes POTUS, but that section of the notes are redacted. Then it says any evidence of collaboration between Trump campaign and Russia. The remainder of the notes are redacted, except in the margins where it says JC, Dennis, and Susan. That could be referring to former FBI director James Comey, former Obama chief of staff Dennis McDonough, and former national security advisor Susan Rice. The CIA sent a memo to former FBI director James Comey and Peter Strzok writing, quote, the following information is provided for the exclusive use of your bureau for background investigative action or lead purposes as appropriate. One example, the CIA includes, quote, an exchange redacted discussing U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's approval of a plan concerning U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections as a means of distracting the public from the her use of a private email server. At a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, Comey was pressed on what he did with information provided by the CIA. Did you open an investigation? I don't know what that refers to. As I said earlier, that does not ring any bells with me when I read that. You did not receive any investigative referral of this nature. I don't remember it. I don't, I don't remember receiving anything that's described in that letter. We knew Hillary created the dossier and now we have proof that Barack was calling the shots and the documents to prove it. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/116/457/779/621/894/359/original/429f7931daa64b74.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 10,678 - Reposts: 2,902 - Replies: 377 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-04-24T22:01:14.665Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-09T17:50:28.813Z (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 post carries **no original text from the subject** — it consists solely of a shared broadcast news video (Fox News-style segment) reporting on declassified Brennan handwritten notes allegedly showing Hillary Clinton approved a plan to "vilify" Trump via Russia-collusion claims, with Obama briefed on it. The analyzable behavior is Trump's **selection and amplification** of this clip, not any words of his own. Per instructions, no stylometric/linguistic markers are scored, and factual claims made by the broadcaster/anchor are not attributed to Trump as his own assertions. ## Level 1–3: Traits, Motives, Narrative No written text is available, so trait inferences rest entirely on content selection, at low-to-moderate confidence. The choice is consistent with rigid adherence to a long-held belief (Openness: low flexibility on the "Russia hoax" narrative) and sustained hostility toward named adversaries (Neuroticism: angry hostility facet), inferred from curation rather than composition. **Characteristic adaptations:** The dominant motive is vindication/status-restoration — amplifying material reframing the 2016–2019 Russia investigation as a fabricated plot against him, delegitimizing the scrutiny he faced. This is agentic (power/status-restoring) rather than communal. **Narrative identity:** Fits Trump's recurring persecution-to-vindication arc — cast implicitly as the framed hero now vindicated by newly surfaced evidence. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Brennan, and James Comey serve as the contrasting "other." The clip narrates a redemption sequence (persecution → truth revealed), though authored by the broadcaster, not Trump himself. ## Level 4: Clinical-Adjacent Observations **Paranoid features:** Selecting content alleging a coordinated conspiracy among Clinton, Obama, Brennan, Comey, and Rice against him is consistent with preoccupation with perceived persecution and grudge retention — a years-long pattern, reinforced rather than newly established here. Confidence: medium (behavioral pattern, well-documented longitudinally), though this specific post is thin evidence on its own. **Grandiosity (indirect):** No direct grandiose language exists here, but amplifying "we knew Hillary created the dossier... Barack was calling the shots" implicitly reinforces a narrative in which the subject was the target of an extraordinary, high-level conspiracy — a form of self-importance by proxy (the elaborateness of the alleged plot against him elevates his perceived significance). Low confidence. **Defense mechanisms:** Splitting is evident in the binary framing amplified (Clinton/Obama/deep state = wholly corrupt conspirators; subject = wholly wronged victim). Projection may be present at a thematic level — the clip accuses opponents of exactly the campaign-interference behavior Trump himself was investigated for — though this is the broadcaster's framing, and attributing it as Trump's own defense mechanism requires inference about his motive in selecting it (medium-low confidence). **DARVO/reality-distortion pattern:** The amplified narrative constitutes a victim-offender reversal at the level of content selection: positioning Trump as the victim of a fabricated smear campaign rather than as the subject of documented (if contested) investigative findings (Mueller Report documented extensive Trump campaign contacts with Russian nationals, though did not establish a criminal conspiracy). Amplifying this framing without qualification is consistent with reinforcing an in-group truth claim that requires acceptance to remain within Trump's epistemic community — a mild form of epistemic closure, though this is one data point, not evidence of an active "loyalty test" in this specific post. **Trigger assessment:** Contextually, this post arrives amid a rough news cycle — Trump's approval dropped to 35% with record-low economic approval, and his own officials were reportedly warning that his voluminous Iran-related Truth Social posts were undermining ceasefire diplomacy (per the historian-provided events). Reviving a five-plus-year-old vindication narrative at this moment plausibly functions as **distraction/self-soothing** amid contemporaneous political pressure, alongside routine **maintenance** of a standing grievance narrative for his base. This is inferential (medium-low confidence) since the post contains no explicit link between the clip and current events. **Narcissistic state:** Better characterized as latent grandiose-defensive (implicitly self-vindicating) rather than acutely vulnerable or acutely grandiose — the post is calm/informational in tone (a shared broadcast clip), not an emotionally charged personal statement. ## Rhetorical & Danger Assessment The clip itself (broadcaster's language) uses standard cable-news framing, not overtly propagandistic devices from Trump. As selected/amplified content, it functions as an appeal to (retrospective) vindication and implicit whataboutism regarding the origins of the Russia investigation. No dehumanizing language, no violent imagery, no eliminationist rhetoric, and no identifiable target for mobilization. Danger level: **none**. ## Authorship Attribution With no written text, there is no stylometric evidence (no typos, syntax, or phrasing to analyze). Attribution rests solely on posting time. Assuming an Eastern time zone (New York or Mar-a-Lago, most likely given no travel event noted), 2026-04-24T04:27:14Z converts to approximately 12:27 AM EDT — within the late-night/early-morning window associated with personal, unstaffed posting in this subject's documented pattern. However, this signals only *when* the clip was posted, not *who* selected it or why; a late-night solo scroll-and-repost of a cable segment is plausible for the subject directly, but aides also monitor and forward favorable segments at any hour. Confidence is capped at low, and the score reflects a slight lean toward personal authorship based on timing alone — this assessment concerns who selected the clip for posting, not who wrote any of the words in it (all of which belong to the broadcast, not the subject). ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 55%) ### Indicators - Posted ~12:27 AM Eastern time, within late-night window associated with personal posting - No written text/caption accompanies the video, consistent with a quick personal share rather than a staffed announcement - No stylometric evidence available since there is no original text — timing is the only signal ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Unknown (Contemporaneous approval collapse and internal criticism of his Iran-related posting (per historian-provided events); the clip's newly declassified material may also be a genuine external prompt) Sentiment: -0.20 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 30% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 40% - Sadism: 5% **Defense Mechanisms:** - splitting (immature) - displacement (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% ## Tags - persecution-vindication (70%) - hillary-clinton (50%) - barack-obama (50%) - media-only-no-text (100%) - russiagate (80%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **He narrated the Reflecting Pool as "more than 2000 feet" on video, then wrote it up five hours later at 2,500** Trump was up past midnight and posted a dozen times in under half an hour, almost all of it forwarding other people's material accusing Obama and Hillary Clinton of treason and demanding arrests. The Southern Poverty Law Center, newly facing a fraud charge, carried him through the small hours and into the morning — at one point he argued the charge meant the 2020 election should be wiped from the books. The afternoon brought a Supreme Court tariff ruling forcing a roughly $159 billion refund, which he called ridiculous and blamed on one missing half-sentence. He spent the evening on the opposite note, claiming credit for the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation and the Lafayette Park fountains, then reposting his own Reflecting Pool boast twice more within the hour. He also turned on Candace Owens, calling her low-IQ for attacking France's first lady, and used the exact same insult on Hakeem Jeffries seven minutes later. Full digest for 2026-04-24: https://trump.fm/date/2026-04-24/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, April 24). [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_116457788834581503 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. 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