# Post ts_116559294847353727 - Post ID: `ts_116559294847353727` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2026-05-12T02:41:33.416Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116559294847353727 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116559294847353727/analysis ## Post text _No text of its own. The post is its media, below._ ## What the media says **Video transcript** (1:39), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > in Russia collusion hoax, by asking foreign intelligence agencies to illegally spy on the Trump campaign? Lucas Tomlinson in Washington with more. Lucas. Good early morning, Carly and Todd. This report from Substax sizing multiple unnamed sources claims the U.S. intelligence community asked foreign spy agencies to help spy on more than two dozen associates of Donald Trump in the run-up to the 2016 election. It reads in part, "President Barack Obama's CIA director John Brennan had identified 26 Trump associates for the Five Eyes to target, a source confirmed that the IC had identified them as people to bump or make contact with or manipulate. They were targets of our own IC and law enforcement targets for collection and misinformation. The Five Eyes nations are the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Here's one of the reporters, Michael Schellenberger, who spoke to Jesse Waters last night. If this binder contains what we have been told that it contains, which may include raw intelligence, information showing that the U.S. government, the CIA and the intelligence community of the U.S. government initiated the Russia collusion hoax, that it did not occur in the way that the official story, including the Durham investigation, had portrayed it, then that's extremely serious information. The report was released at the same time House conservatives are preparing a bill that would reauthorize section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that allows the government to collect communications from foreigners abroad. And today the House Rules Committee is set to meet over that FISA reform bill, guys. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/116/559/294/579/210/651/original/3724b99b94137936.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 2,414 - Reposts: 748 - Replies: 81 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-05-19T02:01:43.960Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-09T19:08:12.064Z (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 post is media-only: a shared Fox News segment amplifying an unverified Substack report claiming Obama-era CIA Director John Brennan directed Five Eyes agencies to surveil 26 Trump campaign associates in 2016, reframing "Russiagate" as intelligence-community-manufactured. With no original text, stylometric and cognitive baseline comparison is unavailable; authorship attribution rests solely on timing (~10:41 PM Eastern, consistent with authentic late-night engagement, though a single clip repost is low-effort and could equally be staff-curated). The clip reinforces Trump's persistent narrative of being a persecuted victim of the intelligence community — a redemption-sequence selection (persecution trending toward vindication) rather than a reaction to a fresh injury. Notable features include grudge-bearing consistent with paranoid-features criteria, projection of culpability onto Obama-era officials, and black-and-white (splitting) framing of the IC as corrupt versus Trump/associates as innocent targets. No violent, dehumanizing, or mobilizing language is present; danger level is none. Because the propositional content originates entirely from broadcast journalists, no factual claims are attributed to Trump himself, though amplifying a single-sourced, uncorroborated allegation as vindicating "extremely serious information" is itself the behavior of interest — continuation of an eight-plus-year grievance narrative rather than a novel psychological event. ## Post Overview No original text; the post consists solely of a shared broadcast clip (apparent Fox News early-morning segment) reporting on a Substack article alleging that CIA Director John Brennan directed Five Eyes intelligence services to surveil 26 Trump 2016 campaign associates, reframing the Russia-collusion investigation as an intelligence-community-manufactured "hoax." A second speaker (Michael Schellenberger, on Jesse Watters' show) is also excerpted, calling the alleged binder's contents "extremely serious." Because there is no original text, stylometric and typographical evidence — the primary basis for authorship and cognitive-baseline judgments — is unavailable. The analysis below rests on selection/amplification behavior and posting timing only. ## Level 3 — Narrative Identity The clip fits Trump's long-running personal narrative: he is the wronged party, targeted since 2016 by a corrupt intelligence apparatus (Brennan/Obama-era CIA), and new "evidence" now promises vindication. This is a redemption-sequence selection — persecution (surveilled candidate) trending toward exoneration ("hoax" exposed) — reinforcing a victim-turned-vindicated protagonist role recurring since 2017. The contrasting other is the Obama-era intelligence community/Brennan, cast as the true wrongdoer, displacing culpability from Trump himself. ## Level 2 — Motives Agency-dominant: vindication, control of the historical record, and status restoration ("I was right all along") outweigh communal motives. The selection reflects grievance-maintenance rather than a fresh injury — sustaining a years-old persecution narrative rather than reacting to a new personal attack. No specific news event in the provided context (Iran strikes, tariffs ruling, redistricting) directly triggered this; it reads as opportunistic amplification of a sympathetic media segment. ## Level 4 — Clinical-Adjacent Indicators - **Paranoid features**: amplifying a claim that he personally was a target of his own government's intelligence and law-enforcement apparatus for "collection and misinformation" fits a longstanding, well-documented preoccupation with being persecuted by the "deep state." This is consistent with the paranoid-features criterion (preoccupation with unjustified attacks) but should be read against the backdrop of Russiagate being a genuinely contested historical controversy, not treated as free-floating paranoia. - **Grudge-bearing**: nearly a decade after the original controversy, continued circulation of exculpatory material shows sustained grievance retention. - **Narcissistic state**: mixed — the underlying content is vulnerable/persecuted (surveillance target) but the implicit payoff (being proven right) is grandiose/vindicating. ## Defense Mechanisms - **Projection/externalization**: culpability for the 2016-era controversy is located entirely in the intelligence community and Obama administration. - **Splitting**: Obama-era CIA/Brennan = all-bad manipulators; Trump/his associates = all-innocent targets. No shades of gray in the amplified narrative. - Because the words are the broadcaster's, not Trump's, these are inferences about *why this clip was selected*, not about language he produced. ## Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques (of the amplified content, not attributed to Trump as author) - Reliance on an unverified single-outlet report ("Substack," "multiple unnamed sources") elevated to "extremely serious information." - Implicit appeal to institutional distrust (CIA, "the intelligence community," Durham investigation) versus alternative "citizen journalist" sourcing. - Us-vs-them framing (Trump/associates as victims; IC/Obama-era officials as perpetrators). ## Gaslighting / Reality Distortion The broadcast asserts the "official story, including the Durham investigation" may be false — this is the segment's claim, not a claim made by Trump himself in his own words. Amplifying it is notable behavior (endorsing a narrative that undermines an official investigative record) but is not logged as a factual assertion attributable to him. ## Danger Assessment No eliminationist language, dehumanization, or calls to mobilization present in the clip or in the act of posting. **Danger level: none.** ## Cognitive/Stylometric Notes Not applicable — no original text was produced. No claims about word-finding, syntactic complexity, or baseline deviation can be responsibly made from a media-only post. ## Summary This post is media-only: a shared Fox News segment amplifying an unverified Substack report claiming Obama-era CIA Director John Brennan directed Five Eyes agencies to surveil 26 Trump campaign associates in 2016, reframing "Russiagate" as intelligence-community-manufactured. With no original text, stylometric and cognitive baseline comparison is unavailable; authorship attribution rests solely on timing (~10:41 PM Eastern, consistent with authentic late-night engagement, though posting a single clip is low-effort and could as easily be staff-curated). The clip reinforces Trump's persistent, long-standing narrative of being a persecuted victim of the intelligence community — a redemption-sequence selection (persecution trending toward vindication) rather than a reaction to a fresh injury. Notable features include grudge-bearing consistent with paranoid-features criteria, projection of culpability onto Obama-era officials, and black-and-white (splitting) framing of the IC as corrupt versus Trump/associates as innocent targets. No violent, dehumanizing, or mobilizing language is present; danger level is none. Because the propositional content originates entirely from broadcast journalists, no factual claims are attributed to Trump himself, though the act of amplifying a single-sourced, uncorroborated allegation as vindicating "extremely serious information" is itself the behavior of psychological interest — a continuation of an eight-plus-year grievance narrative rather than a novel psychological event. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 55%) ### Indicators - Posted ~10:41 PM Eastern (assuming NY/DC/Mar-a-Lago timezone), within the late-night window historically associated with authentic personal engagement - No written text accompanies the post, so no stylometric, typo, or syntactic evidence exists to corroborate or refute authorship - Single-clip media repost with no commentary is a low-effort action consistent with either personal or staff posting - Content aligns tightly with Trump's long-documented personal preoccupation with Russiagate/deep-state grievance, a thematic (not stylistic) indicator ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (Ongoing personal grievance narrative regarding 2016 Russia-collusion investigation; opportunistic amplification of sympathetic media coverage rather than reaction to a specific new personal attack) Sentiment: -0.30 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 30% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 45% - Sadism: 5% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - splitting (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Amplifying friendly broadcast media (Fox News) that frames him sympathetically to reach his audience directly ## Tags - victim-vindication-redemption-sequence (70%) - paranoid-grudge-bearing (50%) - projection (50%) - splitting (40%) - media-amplification-no-original-text (80%) - russiagate-grievance (70%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **On the day he left for Beijing, Trump called reporting on Iran's military strength "virtual TREASON"** The day started in the middle of a late-night posting binge before his trip to China. In under an hour he pushed out a stream of video clips about Obama, the Russia investigation and the 2020 election, many of them reposts of his own earlier material. After a short night he went after the New York Times over its story on the Reflecting Pool, posting the same attack twice. Just before leaving he put up a batch of memes: Iranian boats being destroyed, himself on a $100 bill, Democrats sitting in sewage. Late in the afternoon came the sharpest post of the day, calling news reports that Iran was holding up militarily "virtual treason" by "American cowards." In the evening he posted a "51st State" Venezuela graphic and an Uncle Sam "I WANT YOU!", then went back to the pool one more time. Full digest for 2026-05-12: https://trump.fm/date/2026-05-12/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, May 12). [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_116559294847353727 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. 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