# Post ts_117397200762855537

- Post ID: `ts_117397200762855537`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-10-07T02:12:02.968Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117397200762855537
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## Post text

> Jack Smith Spied on Trump Staffer’s Communications and 20+ Lawyers: Report: https://usajournal.news/2026/10/05/jack-smith-spied-on-susie-wiles-phone-and-emails-while-she-ran-trumps-campaign/

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-10-07T22:46:34.270Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## A headline passed along at 10 pm, between Fox rants

The post is a bare headline and link: "Jack Smith Spied on Trump Staffer's Communications and 20+ Lawyers: Report." There's no commentary, no sign-off ("President DJT" closes most of the evening's other posts), and the subject doesn't name Susie Wiles, although the URL slug does. Everything rests on what he chose to amplify and when.

The timestamp converts to about 10:12 pm Eastern on October 6. On a midterm rally week he was most likely in Washington or at a nearby stop, and either way the clock is Eastern. The posts just before this one come from the same evening and are plainly his own voice. He watches Fox in real time ("FoxNews is long form interviewing the sleazebag, Dan Osborn, right now"), complains that Martha MacCallum "never interviews me like that," and writes "Thanks you to the great Networks." Late-night bursts of copied headlines and links are a known pattern in his own sharing, so the hour favors him. The bare format is also what staff-run link posts look like, though, so authorship leans authentic at low confidence and can't be settled from the text.

## From slighted-by-Fox to surveilled-by-Smith

The thread through the evening is grievance about unequal treatment. Earlier posts say Fox gives Democrats "softball" coverage and that "The 'other side' doesn't give our people any positive exposure." They also claim, "It is a miracle that I won, the last by a landslide, three Presidential Races!", a restatement of the 2020 claim. This post moves the grievance from the media to the state. It brings back the persecution story, where the institutions arrayed against him spied on his people, at the hour when the rally posts were at their most grandiose ("MY RALLIES ARE SAVING THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, AGAIN!!!"). Within one evening he swings from expansive triumph to persecuted victim, and the second state supplies the explanation for why the first has to be shouted.

Nothing in the post looks like rage. It's maintenance of an established grievance. Jack Smith has been a fixed contrasting other since 2023, and the Arctic Frost and phone-records revelations of early 2026 gave the story new material. Sharing the item is a vindication move: if his enemies "spied" on his campaign chief, then the prosecutions were political, and his own claims of being targeted were correct.

## What the article supports, and where the headline outruns it

The linked USA Journal piece says the documents came from the White House. They describe a pen register/trap-and-trace on Wiles's phone in 2023, which captures numbers and call times but not content. They also describe FBI preservation requests to email providers, which the article itself calls metadata. Earlier reporting (Reuters, Fox, February–March 2026) already established that Smith's investigation obtained Wiles's and Kash Patel's toll records.

So the core event is documented, but two words in the headline stretch it. "Spied on... Communications" turns court-process metadata collection into surveillance of what was said. "20+ Lawyers" refers to 21 defense attorneys who show up among Wiles's phone contacts, and the headline recasts them as targets. The mechanism is selective amplification of a framing that inflates the source. It isn't fabrication, and it fits his long habit of calling lawful investigative steps "spying" (compare "Spygate," 2018).

## Rhetoric and risk

There's no dehumanizing or violent language and no call to act. The rhetorical work is in the loaded verb "Spied" and the citation "Report," which borrows outside authority while leaving the claim to others. The post names one person, a former prosecutor who has drawn calls for his prosecution and has been the target of threats, and attaches a fresh grievance to him. On its own the post stops short of implying any action, so it reads as part of the long-running retribution narrative rather than an escalation of it. Its archetype is the Victim, the leader whose camp was watched by a corrupt order, and that sets up the order-restorer role he claims in the rally posts.

No cognitive markers can be measured in a forwarded headline. The surrounding posts show his usual compressed syntax and one typo ("Thanks you"), which is within his long-standing baseline.

Sources: [USA Journal article](https://usajournal.news/2026/10/05/jack-smith-spied-on-susie-wiles-phone-and-emails-while-she-ran-trumps-campaign/); [Fox News, FBI subpoenaed Patel and Wiles phone records](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-subpoenaed-kash-patel-susie-wiles-phone-records-federal-trump-investigation.amp); [AOL/Reuters syndication](https://www.aol.com/articles/exclusive-fbi-obtained-kash-patel-213148754.html); [The Federalist, March 2026](https://thefederalist.com/2026/03/24/new-docs-jack-smiths-arctic-frost-lawfare-against-patel-gop-was-worse-than-originally-thought)

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Jack Smith spied on Trump staffer Susie Wiles's communications and 20+ lawyers" | **Half True** | The linked article cites documents released by the White House showing that Smith's investigation used a pen register on Wiles's phone in 2023 and sent preservation requests to email providers. Earlier Reuters and Fox reporting (February–March 2026) confirmed that the FBI obtained Wiles's toll records. That collection was metadata (numbers and call times), not content, and was obtained through legal process. The '20+ lawyers' are 21 defense attorneys who appear among Wiles's phone contacts, not separately targeted people. The collection happened, but 'spied on communications' and the lawyer count overstate what it was. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 60%)

### Indicators

- Posted ~10:12 pm Eastern, inside the late-evening window
- Part of a same-evening burst of clearly first-person posts reacting to live Fox coverage
- Bare headline-plus-link format matches his own late-night sharing sprees
- No sign-off, error, or authorial voice to confirm either way; the same format is used by staff-run link posts

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 50%
- Agreeableness: 15%
- Conscientiousness: 40%
- Neuroticism: 60%
- Openness: 30%

Strongest facet: Neuroticism: angry hostility, here held as a chronic grievance rather than acute anger

**Motives:**
- Agency: 70%
- Communion: 20%

Primary drive: validation

### Narrative

- **Role:** Persecuted leader whose campaign was watched by a hostile state
- **Arc:** contamination
- **Contrasting:** Jack Smith

**Identity Claims:**
- His team was surveilled by political enemies

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Conservative-outlet article on newly released FBI documents about Smith's 2023 metadata collection on Susie Wiles)

Sentiment: -0.50

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 40%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 50%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- rationalization (neurotic)
- splitting (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 20%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Shares a 'Report' as proof for followers who already hold the persecution narrative

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-10-07._

> Jack Smith spied on Trump staffer Susie Wiles's communications and 20+ lawyers

**HALF TRUE**

The linked article cites documents released by the White House showing that Smith's investigation used a pen register on Wiles's phone in 2023 and sent preservation requests to email providers. Earlier Reuters and Fox reporting (February–March 2026) confirmed that the FBI obtained Wiles's toll records. That collection was metadata (numbers and call times), not content, and was obtained through legal process. The '20+ lawyers' are 21 defense attorneys who appear among Wiles's phone contacts, not separately targeted people. The collection happened, but 'spied on communications' and the lawyer count overstate what it was.

Sources: https://usajournal.news/2026/10/05/jack-smith-spied-on-susie-wiles-phone-and-emails-while-she-ran-trumps-campaign/; https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-subpoenaed-kash-patel-susie-wiles-phone-records-federal-trump-investigation.amp; https://www.aol.com/articles/exclusive-fbi-obtained-kash-patel-213148754.html

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- Jack Smith (90%)
- Susie Wiles (70%)
- surveillance grievance (80%)
- Arctic Frost (50%)
- victim archetype (60%)

## That day

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

**Headed to Texas, Trump says Henry Cuellar, the Democrat he pardoned, belongs in a 'top level penitentiary'**

Most of the day was routine. Early in the morning a quick batch of short videos and images went up, set to music and applause. After that came links attacking a South Carolina Democrat and praising envoy Steve Witkoff, an endorsement for Wisconsin governor paired with news of federal storm aid, and a statement marking three years since the October 7 Hamas attack. Around noon he distanced himself from political operatives Chris LaCivita and James Blair, saying they are only outside consultants who are free to work for others. The sharp turn came as he headed to Texas: he said Rep. Henry Cuellar, the Democrat he pardoned last December, should be in prison for not joining his side, called the campaign against him "payback," and said it would show that disloyalty brings "loss, heartache, and grief."

Full digest for 2026-10-07: https://trump.fm/date/2026-10-07/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, October 7). Jack Smith Spied on Trump Staffer’s... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117397200762855537
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Jack Smith Spied on Trump Staffer’s Communications and 20+..." Truth Social, 7 Oct. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117397200762855537. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Jack Smith Spied on Trump Staffer’s Communications and 20+...," Truth Social, October 7, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117397200762855537.

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