# Post ts_116584909715284014

- Post ID: `ts_116584909715284014`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-05-16T15:15:45.280Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116584909715284014
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116584909715284014/analysis

## Post text

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

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (4:36), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> I would like to hear what your justification was for supporting the dossier that was known to be false Being used as source material in the second ICA. I don't know who put you up to this. Nobody put me up to this or I'm here on my own. I don't know what role you played or who you are, but there's a bunch of bullsh*t you just passed on. I, absolutely. The emails are clear, sir. Bullsh*t. The emails are clear. Bullsh*t. The emails are clear. The second question. I think we're going to go over here. We are getting reports from Reuters that there were FBI agents who were questioning people at Langley about Brennan's assertions to me in Congress that the CIA had nothing to do with the inclusion of the Steele dossier in the Intelligence Committee assessment. What do you think are the key components of John Brennan's tenure that these agents ought to be looking into? And that would contribute to broader reforms within the CIA? Oh, I think the most important thing is this notion of weaponization. Weaponization is real. Weaponization has been used against many Americans simply because John Brennan or Barack Obama and John Brennan didn't like a person's personal politics. You and I have had this conversation, I think we both agree, that the fact that John Brennan refuses to take responsibility for his actions legally would allow for the basis of a conspiracy charge in that if the conspiracy is ongoing, if the conspiracy to cover up his actions as the Director of Central Intelligence is ongoing, that ought to reset the statute of limitations literally every single day. And so I think that there's a real conspiracy case here. I'm very happy that a grand jury is looking into it in the southern district of Florida. And I hope something positive comes out of it, positive in the respect that the American people can see that it doesn't matter how senior you are in government, it doesn't matter how important you think you are in Washington, you have to face justice just like everybody else does. There was an email that went around from General Clapper, from General Clapper, to yourself and Hayden. I'm sorry, not Hayden. That's right. You're yourself and Comey, etc. That basically said we all got to get on board with this, otherwise it isn't going to work basically. And I think that that email puts everybody in the crosshairs. I would like to hear what your justification was for supporting the dossier that was known to be false, being used as source material in the second ICA. I don't know who put you up to this. Nobody put me up to this or I'm here on my own. I don't know what role you played or who you are. But there's a bunch of bullsh*t you just passed on. Absolutely. The emails are clear, sir. Bullsh*t. The emails are clear. The emails are clear. Next. The second question. Next. I think we're going to go. Next. Next. You can. Next. Next. Look, we can talk about it. Go away. Talk about it in the reception. No, we didn't say that. No, you faxed straight. You said it was likely Russian disinformation. No, we did not. No, you did. No. Read the letter. I'm sorry. Okay. Can I just slide? I know I'm going to get uninvited. Yeah. It'll be after hours. No. No. You're done. Come on. All right. We're going to go over here. Let's go over here for a question. Thank you. Good evening. Thank you very much. Why did you have all these on the 100 right hand side? Why did you say that? Because I can't think. And you misrepresented that. We never said it was disinformation. We said it was Russian influence operations, which is what they do. There's a big difference between influence. No, you don't know that. You don't know. No, we knew. All the hallmarks. All the hallmarks. We didn't say it was Russian disinformation. We said it had all the hallmarks of Russian disinformation. Knowing full well that the media would then fire hose that around and then change that to basically say, yeah, it's Russian disinformation. And when they did that at any point, did you stand up and say, well, actually I didn't say it was Russian disinformation. I said it was all the hallmarks. Nope. You were quiet. You were complicit in the lie being spread.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/116/584/903/206/989/775/original/f892ebd1e73d9a30.mp4

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-05-16T22:01:04.719Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-09T20:39:36.702Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Post Analysis: ts_116584909715284014 (2026-05-16, media-only)

This post carries no written text from the subject. The attached clip is a third-party exchange — an unidentified intelligence-community figure being cross-examined about the Steele dossier's inclusion in the 2017 ICA, John Brennan's culpability, "weaponization" of intelligence, and an active Southern District of Florida grand jury investigation. All propositional claims (about Brennan, Clapper, Comey, the dossier, the grand jury) belong to the speakers in the clip, not to the subject, so none are entered as fact-checks attributable to him. The analyzable behavior is selection and amplification: what he chose to put before his audience.

**Level 2/3:** The clip reinforces a longstanding schema — that "deep state" officials conspired against him and are now facing overdue accountability. This mirrors the day's other posts (attacking Cassidy as disloyal, deflecting the LIRR strike onto Hochul), suggesting an active grievance/vindication frame across the day's output. Narratively this functions as a redemption-sequence artifact: years of being "framed" trending toward his accusers' legal jeopardy. He is cast as vindicated victim; Brennan/Clapper/Comey are the contrasting others.

**Level 4:** Paranoid-consistent theme (preoccupation with perceived persecutors, satisfaction at their legal exposure) is present in the amplified content, but with no first-person text this cannot be scored as his own language — it reflects curatorial choice only, at low-to-moderate confidence.

**Authorship:** No stylometric evidence exists (no original text). Post time is 15:15 UTC ≈ 11:15am EDT if in the DC/NY area — daytime, non-idiosyncratic timing, weaker evidence for the "late-night impulsive" authentic pattern than his typical posts. Given the total absence of textual markers, attribution confidence is capped at low; this reflects who selected the clip, not who wrote anything, since there is nothing written to attribute.

**Danger:** None. The clip discusses legal/grand-jury accountability, not violence; no eliminationist or dehumanizing language, no calls to mobilization.

No summary is warranted beyond noting continuity with a well-documented persecutory/vindication narrative already established in this subject's history; this post itself, being wordless, shows no marked deviation from baseline.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 50%)

### Indicators

- No original text — no stylometric evidence available
- Posting time ~11:15am EDT (daytime), weaker match to his typical late-night impulsive pattern
- Clip topic (Brennan/Steele dossier/grand jury) matches subject's long-documented personal grievance obsessions, consistent with personal selection
- Same-day post volume and combative tone (Cassidy, Hochul posts) show high personal engagement that day, though that doesn't confirm authorship of this specific media-only post

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Ongoing Brennan/Steele dossier grievance narrative, longstanding since 2017)

Sentiment: -0.20

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 20%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 30%
- Sadism: 10%

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

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

## Tags

- media-only-post (100%)
- amplification-behavior (80%)
- persecution-vindication-narrative (60%)
- brennan-grievance (60%)
- low-confidence-authorship (50%)

## That day

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

**An open casting call for a Boebert primary challenger, filed in the middle of the Beijing photo album**

Late Friday night he announced that American and Nigerian forces had killed ISIS's second-in-command, then slept a normal night and woke to a queue of friendly-news links about the FBI and James Comey. Most of Saturday was self-display: a long album of photographs from the Beijing trip with Xi Jinping, progress shots of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation, a new granite floor outside the Oval Office, and two AI posters of himself as a military commander. Two flashes of temper broke through during the morning, one at a Louisiana senator who voted to impeach him five years ago and one at New York's governor for blaming him for a railroad strike. The day closed with about an hour of anger at his own party: after a Fox News story and two Laura Loomer links, he went after Thomas Massie, Rand Paul and Lauren Boebert for campaigning together in Kentucky, then asked publicly whether anyone wanted to run against Boebert. He posted 60 times, roughly double his own record-setting May average, but the rhythm reads as a busy Saturday rather than a sleepless one.

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## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, May 16).  [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_116584909715284014
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 16 May. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116584909715284014. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, May 16, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116584909715284014.

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