Analysis: John Solomon unpacks a bombshell revelation about James Come...

2mo ago May 29, 2026 at 3:34 AM

John Solomon unpacks a bombshell revelation about James Comey: https://justthenews.com/podcasts/john-solomon-reports/john-solomon-unpacks-bombshell-revelation-about-james-comey

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AI Analysis

Machine-generated analysis of the post above on 2026-05-29. Not written by the author of the post.

Danger Level

None

Narcissistic State

Grandiose

Authorship

Uncertain

Intensity

20%

Authorship Analysis

Uncertain

Indicators:

Bare headline-plus-URL format with no commentary
Neutral third-person framing typical of staff link drops
No typos, no caps, no emotional drift
Part of a cluster of similar Just the News link shares same day suggesting batched staff posting
However, late-evening ET timing (~11:34 PM) is consistent with Trump's authentic posting window

Psychological Profile

▶ Traits

Big Five:

Extraversion

40%

Agreeableness

30%

Conscientiousness

50%

Neuroticism

50%

Openness

30%

Strongest facet: low agreeableness (sustained grievance toward adversary)

Agency

60%

Communion

10%

Primary drive: revenge

▶ Narrative

Role: vindicated victim · Arc: redemption · Contrasting: James Comey

▶ State

Grandiose State

Trigger: Maintenance (Routine amplification of friendly media; not reactive to acute injury)

Sentiment

-0.20

▶ Clinical

Malignant Narcissism:

Narcissistic

30%

Antisocial

20%

Paranoid

50%

Sadism

20%

Defense Mechanisms:

projectiondevaluation

Cognitive Complexity:

Complexity

30%

Parasocial Techniques:

Curated alternative-media feed maintains epistemic in-groupImplicit insider framing ('bombshell revelation')

Fact Checks (1)

"John Solomon's podcast contains a 'bombshell revelation' about James Comey."

Half True

Deep research confirms the podcast episode objectively exists on the Just the News platform and on Art19, titled exactly as the post indicates. It was published around August 22, 2025 (episode #1709) as part of John Solomon Reports. The episode's substantive content concerns declassified FBI documents that Solomon obtained, reportedly provided by FBI Director Kash Patel, alleging that former FBI Director James Comey used Columbia University law professor Daniel Richman as an intermediary to leak sensitive information to New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt during the Russiagate investigation. The newly disclosed materials reportedly include details about Richman's 'Special Government Employee' status at the FBI without compensation, his security clearance, and badge access. However, the 'bombshell revelation' framing is editorial and partisan: the core Comey-Richman leak narrative was already extensively documented in DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz's August 2019 report, which found Comey violated FBI policies by sharing his memos with Richman who then disclosed content to the New York Times. The DOJ declined to prosecute Comey at that time. Critics on both left and right (including The Conservative Treehouse's Sundance, who generally supports Trump-aligned narratives) characterize Solomon's reporting as 'repackaging' old information rather than disclosing genuinely new substance. The podcast contents do appear to incorporate some newly declassified specific details (Richman's SGE status documentation), but the characterization as a 'bombshell' is subjective editorial framing rather than a verifiable factual claim — the underlying Comey-leak storyline has been public for 6+ years. Thus: the podcast exists and contains what its host frames as a bombshell, but the 'bombshell' label overstates the novelty of the substance.

Receipts

No contradictions with other posts detected yet.

Analysis

A low-intensity link-share post amplifying a Just the News podcast episode framed as a "bombshell revelation" about James Comey. The post contains no original commentary, no first-person voice, and no emotional content — its psychological signal is almost entirely carried by the act of selection: continuing to nurse a decade-long grievance narrative against Comey as a stable contrasting-other.

Authorship is genuinely ambiguous. Structural cleanliness and clustering with two other Just the News link drops on the same day suggest aide-curated amplification. The late-evening Eastern timestamp (~11:34 PM ET) keeps Trump authorship plausible. Scored at 0.45 with low confidence.

Psychological state: routine maintenance, not reactive. Comey serves as a fixed character in Trump's persecution narrative; amplifying friendly coverage of him reinforces the in-group epistemic frame without requiring Trump to make a claim himself.

Rhetorical mechanics: source laundering — the "bombshell" framing belongs to Solomon, allowing endorsement-by-share without authorship of the claim.

Danger: none. No targets, no eliminationist language, no mobilization cues.

Cognitive markers: none observable in a headline-plus-URL format.

This post is not clinically significant in isolation but contributes to the longitudinal pattern of curated alternative-media amplification reinforcing epistemic closure around the Russia-investigation grievance narrative.

Fact Verification

Claim	Verdict	Evidence
"John Solomon's podcast contains a 'bombshell revelation' about James Comey."	Half True	Deep research confirms the podcast episode objectively exists on the Just the News platform and on Art19, titled exactly as the post indicates. It was published around August 22, 2025 (episode #1709) as part of John Solomon Reports. The episode's substantive content concerns declassified FBI documents that Solomon obtained, reportedly provided by FBI Director Kash Patel, alleging that former FBI Director James Comey used Columbia University law professor Daniel Richman as an intermediary to leak sensitive information to New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt during the Russiagate investigation. The newly disclosed materials reportedly include details about Richman's 'Special Government Employee' status at the FBI without compensation, his security clearance, and badge access. However, the 'bombshell revelation' framing is editorial and partisan: the core Comey-Richman leak narrative was already extensively documented in DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz's August 2019 report, which found Comey violated FBI policies by sharing his memos with Richman who then disclosed content to the New York Times. The DOJ declined to prosecute Comey at that time. Critics on both left and right (including The Conservative Treehouse's Sundance, who generally supports Trump-aligned narratives) characterize Solomon's reporting as 'repackaging' old information rather than disclosing genuinely new substance. The podcast contents do appear to incorporate some newly declassified specific details (Richman's SGE status documentation), but the characterization as a 'bombshell' is subjective editorial framing rather than a verifiable factual claim — the underlying Comey-leak storyline has been public for 6+ years. Thus: the podcast exists and contains what its host frames as a bombshell, but the 'bombshell' label overstates the novelty of the substance.

Overall Veracity: 50%