# Post ts_116559327976654295

- Post ID: `ts_116559327976654295`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-05-12T02:49:58.928Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116559327976654295
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116559327976654295/analysis

## Post text

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

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (2:19), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> Tonight about what the Obama Justice Department ordered federal lawyers to do and not to do concerning the Hillary Clinton email investigation. Chief intelligence correspondent Katherine Herridge tells us in sworn testimony on Capitol Hill, one of the insiders told lawmakers what she was told. During closed door testimony last summer, former FBI lawyer Lisa Page said the Obama administration's Justice Department advised the FBI not to pursue the gross negligence statute for Hillary Clinton in the mishandling of classified information. Former U.S. Attorney and House Republican John Radcliffe led the line of questioning about the statute, known as 18 U.S.C. 793. Radcliffe, you're making it sound like it was the department that told you you're not going to charge gross negligence because we're the prosecutors. Page interrupted. That is correct. Page's testimony appears to conflict with then FBI Director James Comey's recommendation in July 2016 against criminal charges for Clinton. What I can assure the American people is that this investigation was done honestly, competently and independently. No outside influence of any kind was brought to bear. The Republican-led House oversight and Judiciary Committee investigation ended in January. With Democrats now in control, the committee's new ranking Republican made the Page transcript public. The transcript releases show an inherent two-tier system, one in which Hillary Clinton gets the treatment that she got where they were actually at first concerned that they were going to charge her and then with Loretta Lynch in charge before she recused herself, made it very clear that that was not going to happen. The tip-off came from a chart drawn up by federal investigators assigned to the Clinton case known as Mid-Year Exam. Fox News has confirmed that the chart listed possible federal statutes for prosecution. Most to gross negligence was a notation, quote, DOJ not willing to charge this. Only known cases are military, cases when accused lost the information. In response to the Page revelations, the president tweeted the transcripts, quote, make the Obama Justice Department look exactly like it was, a broken and corrupt machine. The Page transcript also confirms Fox's earlier reporting. The Page testified Russia collusion was still unproven when Special Counsel Robert Mueller was appointed. Brett?

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/116/559/324/627/144/436/original/07f7de49520e4f8c.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 4,906
- Reposts: 1,375
- Replies: 133
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-05-12T12:01:28.523Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-09T19:31:08.134Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Overview

This post carries no original text from the subject — it consists solely of a shared video clip (a Fox News segment, apparently a rebroadcast/rerun of reporting from the Lisa Page congressional testimony era, ~2018-2019, given references to "Democrats now in control" of the House oversight committee, which took effect January 2019). The analyzable behavior is the act of selection and amplification, not authorship of the spoken content. All claims made in the transcript are made by the Fox correspondent, John Ratcliffe, Lisa Page, or James Comey — none are assertions by the subject himself, so no items appear in factChecks.

## Level 2/3: Motives and Narrative

Amplifying a years-old segment revisiting the "two-tier justice system" narrative around Hillary Clinton's email investigation fits a well-established narrative identity theme for this subject: himself/his allies as victims of a corrupt, politicized DOJ, with Clinton as the perennial "contrasting other" who received favorable treatment he claims he has been denied. This is a contamination-sequence narrative (institution once trustworthy → corrupted by Obama-era officials) recurrently redeployed regardless of current news cycle relevance.

## Contextual Trigger

The post lands three days after the Court of International Trade ruled his tariffs unlawful — a legal setback. Recycling old "corrupt DOJ let Clinton off" content is consistent with a displacement/deflection pattern: redirecting attention from a current adverse legal ruling toward a stale grievance in which he is cast as vindicated. Confidence: low-medium, since no explicit textual link is present.

## Authorship Attribution

No stylometric evidence exists (no written text). Posting time converts to approximately 10:50 PM Eastern (assuming New York/DC base, EDT UTC-4), a late-night window consistent with the subject's personal engagement pattern, but this only bears on *who selected the clip to post*, not who wrote or spoke the content. Confidence is capped at low given the complete absence of stylometric markers.

## Danger Assessment

No eliminationist language, no identifiable targets for mobilization, no violent imagery. Danger level: none.

## Clinical Significance

Thin: a single content-free repost of old grievance media does not by itself indicate marked deviation from baseline. It is consistent with, but not strong independent evidence for, chronic grievance rumination and externalization of blame for perceived unfair treatment.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 50%)

### Indicators

- No written text accompanies the post, so no stylometric evidence (typos, syntax, capitalization) is available
- Posting time converts to roughly 10:50 PM Eastern, within the subject's typical late-night personal posting window
- Content is a rebroadcast of old (c. 2018-2019) Fox News reporting on the Lisa Page testimony, a recurring grievance theme the subject has amplified repeatedly over years
- Attribution here concerns who selected/chose to post this clip, not who authored the spoken content, which belongs to a Fox correspondent and testimony participants

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

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

Strongest facet: vigilance/suspiciousness (via content selection)

**Motives:**
- Agency: 60%
- Communion: 20%

Primary drive: validation

### Narrative

- **Role:** victim of institutional corruption (by proxy/association)
- **Arc:** contamination
- **Contrasting:** Hillary Clinton / Obama Justice Department

**Identity Claims:**
- Implicit: legal institutions have historically been weaponized against him and allies while sparing political opponents

### State

**Vulnerable State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Court of International Trade ruling (May 7) declaring his global tariffs unlawful)

Sentiment: -0.20

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 45%
- Sadism: 5%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- displacement (neurotic)
- rationalization (neurotic)

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Amplifying grievance content without personal commentary to let audience draw conclusions
- Recycling old media as if newly relevant to sustain in-group narrative

## Tags

- media-amplification-no-text (90%)
- clinton-email-grievance (70%)
- two-tier-justice-narrative (70%)
- deflection-from-legal-setback (40%)
- low-clinical-significance (60%)

## 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_116559327976654295
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 12 May. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116559327976654295. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, May 12, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116559327976654295.

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