# Post ts_117485139748807928

- Post ID: `ts_117485139748807928`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-10-22T14:56:05.406Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117485139748807928
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117485139748807928/analysis

## Post text

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

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (4:08), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> What's going to come out of this, John? What is your feeling on this one? So I've been on the same roller coaster you have, Glenn. You do lots of this great reporting. You try to help people. I've been in the White House declassifying documents. And you see this extraordinary body of evidence. And then you see the people implicated in that body of evidence walking free, thumbing their nose, going on television, making money, writing false letters that mislead Americans in elections. And you're like, is it worth even doing this? The answer, of course, it is. I have detected since the beginning of the White House task force a new sentiment in the Justice Department in the prosecutorial world. And I'll just use some examples. So our original releases at the task force were the basis for the president's July speech about China interventions in our election, including the theft of voter records, the fact that there were a lot of non-citizens on voter rolls and some appeared to have voted, and then the election vulnerabilities. Now, I can tell you from the work I've done that this has long been known in the government, but it had never gotten to the president's intention. In fact, there was an intentional effort by the intelligence world to keep two presidents and probably two congresses in the dark on this. The antiseptic of light kicked in a whole new sort of activity at the Justice Department. And I suspect it wasn't the Justice Department-- wasn't looking at it. It was probably the career people like, there's nothing going on there, nothing there, it's rare. It doesn't happen. All of a sudden, you've seen north of 100 non-citizens charged with voting. You got a major criminal investigation in New Jersey about maybe systemic non-citizens getting on the board. You've seen some new actions taken to protect our voting machines. The intelligence that we made public was six years old, but nobody ever acted on it until Donald Trump gave his speech. You heard the other day that John Brennan, in a court filing said he was told by prosecutors, he's a target. You only give someone a target notification if they're about to be indicted. I see an awful lot of activity in the grand jury talking to defense lawyers looking at activity and behavior by James Comey and his inner circle. I didn't see that activity for much of the last first 13 to 14 months of the Trump presidency, except in the FBI. The FBI was always churning. But it seems to me that the Justice Department is in a different gear. And that gear has been kicked in for different reasons. HSI takes on Ilhan Omar, separate of DOJ. They drive that case. The president's speech puts new evidence out there. I've seen more accountability, activity before grand juries and in courts in the last eight weeks. And I saw, quite frankly, in the first six years of the two Trump presidencies. So something is going on. But it only matters if you get results. And the result will be someone being charged if there is criminality, or being sued, or being charged with fraud, or having their job taken away. I think we're in a window now where we're going to finally know the answer. I don't know which one it will be. But there's enough activity that the Justice Department is probably going to give us some clarity. And certainly on election integrity, you're seeing things you've never seen before in the history of the Justice Department, not Trump. I mean, there have never been this many non-citizens prosecuted in the history of the Justice Department in one year. You've never seen a case like they're bringing in California, where the pay to play with the homeless people has blossomed into a very big scandal. And last night, while you and I were probably getting ready for bed, Glenn, the Justice Department did something really significant, something they could have done a year or two ago, but they did it. They told California, we see these many people that we think are non-citizens on the 26 voter rolls. You better get them off before election day, because if you allow them to cast the ballot, we're coming to charge you with knowingly and willfully letting a illegal alien vote or a non-citizen foreigner vote. And that's never been done before. That is a shock wave. That's activity we haven't seen in the past.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/485/137/668/149/552/original/1ce310971e4bfdce.mp4

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-10-22T15:09:23.642Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Trump posted, without comment, a talk-show segment in which a guest tied to a White House declassification task force credits "Donald Trump['s] speech" as the only thing that pushed the Justice Department to act on election interference. The guest also forecasts likely indictments of John Brennan, James Comey's circle and Ilhan Omar. The clip offers two things. One is flattery: a captured bureaucracy hid the truth until Trump exposed it. The other is retribution: named critics are cast as "walking free, thumbing their nose" until now. Most of the segment presents about a hundred noncitizen-voting prosecutions as evidence of a systemic problem. It arrives six days after his own post saying election workers who count noncitizen ballots "will all go to jail," two weeks before the midterms, and days after a record-low approval poll. The pairing moves from threat to supposed proof and gives a later loss a ready explanation as fraud. The defenses are splitting (task force against "career people") and rationalization (prosecuting opponents framed as "accountability"). No violence is invoked, and the guest hedges his own forecast. The risk lies in a president circulating expected indictments of named critics alongside election-fraud framing at the end of a campaign. Authorship of the selection is uncertain given the business-hours posting on a travel day.

## A guest's prosecution forecast, posted without comment on Iowa travel day

The post is a video with no caption. In the transcript, a host addressed as "Glenn" (the format and the cast fit Glenn Beck's program) interviews a guest addressed as "John," who says he has "been in the White House declassifying documents" as part of a "White House task force." Nothing in the transcript is Trump speaking. What can be analyzed is that he chose to publish this segment, with nothing of his own added, at 10:56 a.m. Eastern on the day he was due to campaign in Iowa. Two weeks before the midterms, the week's record-low 33% approval poll was still in the news.

### What the clip gives him

The segment pays off for him in two ways.

**It makes his speech the cause of what followed.** The guest says the intelligence on "China interventions in our election" was "six years old, but nobody ever acted on it until Donald Trump gave his speech," and that "the antiseptic of light kicked in a whole new sort of activity at the Justice Department." He also claims "an intentional effort by the intelligence world to keep two presidents and probably two congresses in the dark." The story casts Trump as the one figure who brought hidden truth to light after a captured bureaucracy buried it. The "career people" who said "there's nothing going on there" are the foil. This is the Hero/Savior shape with a Shadow attached: the deep-state concealer carries the bad faith, and the President carries the revelation.

**It promises his opponents will be punished.** The guest names targets one after another: John Brennan "said he was told by prosecutors, he's a target... You only give someone a target notification if they're about to be indicted." He describes grand-jury activity around "James Comey and his inner circle," says "HSI takes on Ilhan Omar," and lists the possible outcomes as "someone being charged... or being sued, or being charged with fraud, or having their job taken away." Trump didn't record any of these lines, but posting them puts named critics under expected indictment in front of his audience. That is the retribution theme in his own feed carried in someone else's voice. The guest hedges ("I don't know which one it will be," "it only matters if you get results"). The repost keeps those hedges, but a feed reader takes away the list of names, and the hedges go unnoticed.

### Election-integrity framing in the last stretch before the midterms

Most of the clip treats noncitizen voting as a systemic problem: "north of 100 non-citizens charged with voting," "a major criminal investigation in New Jersey about maybe systemic non-citizens," and an overnight DOJ move telling California "we see these many people that we think are non-citizens on the... voter rolls." It comes six days after his own post saying election workers who count noncitizen ballots "will all go to jail." Read together, the two posts move from threat to evidence. His post named the crime, and this clip offers what looks like proof that the crime is happening and being prosecuted. Roughly a hundred prosecutions are being offered as proof of a systemic problem in an electorate of well over 150 million. A small number made to look widespread is the usual structure of pre-emptive delegitimization. It lets a bad midterm result be read later as fraud, not defeat. It is also the clip's statement, not his. The claims are noted here and left out of the fact-check record. Reported noncitizen-voting cases have historically numbered in the dozens to low hundreds per cycle. The New Jersey and California actions, and the Brennan target notice, are the guest's characterizations and were not checked independently here.

### Defenses and state

The splitting is clean. The task force and "Donald Trump" act, while "career people" stonewall and implicated figures go "walking free, thumbing their nose, going on television, making money." That last line gives a resentment Trump has voiced for years to an apparently independent commentator. Prosecuting critics gets reframed as "accountability," a rationalization that turns personal score-settling into institutional repair. There is no rage, and no image of violence in his own voice. The state is grandiose but quiet. He is collecting external confirmation that his speech moved the government, at a moment when the approval numbers say the public has not moved with him. The best fit for the trigger is supply-seeking, with defeat in the polls as the injury underneath. That reading rests on timing rather than on anything he wrote.

### Risk

Nothing in the clip calls for action outside legal process, and nobody is dehumanized. The concern comes from three things at once: a sitting president circulating a forecast of indictments against named critics, one of them a sitting member of Congress; a narrative of noncitizen voting fraud two weeks before an election; and his own recent threat to jail election workers. Each is ordinary for this account. Together they push toward prosecuting opponents and pre-loading doubt about the vote count, which supports an elevated rating rather than a higher one.

### Authorship and cognition

With no written text there is nothing stylometric to read. The late-morning Eastern posting time, on a travel day and among a run of same-day posts, fits staff-curated media reposting at least as well as his own selection. The attribution concerns who picked the clip, and it is uncertain. The transcript's garbles ("not Trump," "the board" for what is probably "the rolls") are speech-to-text and speaker artifacts and say nothing about his cognition.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 40%)

### Indicators

- Media-only post with no written text; no stylometric evidence available
- Posted 10:56 a.m. Eastern, business hours, on a scheduled Iowa travel day
- Part of a cluster of same-day posts, consistent with batch media reposting
- Content (credit for his speech, prosecutions of named critics) closely matches his personal preoccupations

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 50%
- Agreeableness: 15%
- Conscientiousness: 40%
- Neuroticism: 55%
- Openness: 25%

Strongest facet: Low agreeableness (antagonism toward named critics via amplified prosecution forecast)

**Motives:**
- Agency: 85%
- Communion: 15%

Primary drive: revenge

### Narrative

- **Role:** Truth-revealer whose speech forced a buried scandal into the open
- **Arc:** redemption
- **Contrasting:** Intelligence officials and career DOJ staff; Brennan, Comey, Omar

**Identity Claims:**
- The one president who acted on long-hidden election-interference intelligence

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Defeat (Record-low approval poll and midterm pressure; desire for validation of July election-interference speech)

Sentiment: +0.10

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 55%
- Antisocial: 20%
- Paranoid: 50%
- Sadism: 25%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- splitting (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)
- projection (immature)
- distortion (pathological)

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Third-party validation from a friendly media figure
- Insider testimony framing ('I've been in the White House declassifying documents')

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Amplifies expected indictments of named political critics (Brennan, Comey circle, Rep. Ilhan Omar)
- Noncitizen-voting fraud narrative two weeks before midterms, following his own threat to jail election workers
- Frames career officials as having intentionally concealed intelligence

## Tags

- election-integrity (90%)
- retribution (80%)
- deep-state (60%)
- John Brennan (50%)
- James Comey (50%)
- Ilhan Omar (40%)
- media-repost (70%)

## That day

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

**Trump cheers the Ohio ad in which Amy Acton's estranged mother calls her a liar, wishing 'the mothers of my opponents would be so brave'**

Nearly two-thirds of the day's posts were campaign machinery. The same early-voting notice and endorsement list went out for state after state, usually reposted from his own account a minute or two later, in a morning burst and a much bigger one in the early evening as he headed to a rally in Iowa. The morning also filled with videos and screenshots of other people praising him, including a supporter calling him a 'genius' playing '4D chess' and a Ted Nugent speech about eliminating the Democratic Party. The few posts that sounded like him ran on grievance: a second Dan Sullivan on Alaska's ballot was a Democratic 'SCAM,' Iran was faking attacks to push oil prices up before the election, and LeBron James owed fallen soldiers an apology over the anthem. The sharpest came in the early afternoon, when he praised an Ohio ad in which Democrat Amy Acton's estranged mother calls her a liar, wished his own opponents' mothers were as 'brave,' and called Ohio's Republican governor 'disloyal' for objecting.

Full digest for 2026-10-22: https://trump.fm/date/2026-10-22/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, October 22).  [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117485139748807928
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 22 Oct. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117485139748807928. Accessed 23 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, October 22, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117485139748807928.

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