Post from Truth Social

A filled-in endorsement form, posted as Nevada's polls were about to open

The post went up at 12:22 UTC on Election Day. Standard time resumed on November 1, so that is 7:22 a.m. Eastern if Trump was in Palm Beach. The historian notes place his closing tele-rallies at Mar-a-Lago, and he votes in Palm Beach, so his location that morning is an inference from those two facts. In Reno it was 4:22 a.m., about three hours before polls opened. The endorsement is one of a burst of same-day House endorsements (Flint, LePage, Begich, De La Cruz, Constantino). Its timing fits a scheduled get-out-the-vote push, and nothing in the text points to a broadcast or story he had just seen.

The strongest authorship evidence is in the other posts that morning. The opponent paragraph matches the De La Cruz endorsement word for word, with only the name changed. Both open "is a Radical Left Democrat who is opposed to" the same three ALL-CAPS tax slogans and close "if [he/she] and the Dumocrats ever got in, all of these things will be terminated." The list of Flippo's priorities ("Grow our Economy, Cut Taxes and Regulations... Unleash American Energy DOMINANCE, Champion MADE IN THE U.S.A., Keep our Border SECURE, Stop Migrant Crime, Safeguard our Elections") repeats the LePage post's list almost item for item. The post also includes a campaign landing-page URL and the closing signature "President DONALD J. TRUMP". Trump's voice is present only in borrowed pieces: the "Dumocrats" nickname, the random Capitalized Nouns, the ALL-CAPS slogans. Staff have used all of these as house style for years. The post never drifts off topic, has no aside about Trump himself, and has no errors beyond the template's own. "Mutilization" for "mutilation" turns up in the series' stock language, so it traces back to the template itself and says nothing about whoever posted this one.

How the two candidates are drawn

The structure is splitting in its plainest form. Flippo is pure virtue. He "knows the Wisdom and Courage required to Defend our Country," "will fight hard," and "WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!" His opponent is pure threat: "Reckless, Radical, and Dangerous!" Nothing connects the two portraits. Benitez-Thompson, a former Nevada Assembly majority leader, is defined entirely by a national culture-war list ("Open Borders, Men playing in Women's Sports, and Transgender Mutilization of your Children"). None of it is tied to anything she said or did in Nevada. That list is a fear appeal aimed at parents ("your Children"). Because the same list goes on every Democrat, the devaluation is generic, aimed at the party she belongs to. The post carries no grudge and no history with her. She stands in for the out-group, with no sign of a personal quarrel between her and Trump.

The "if she and the Dumocrats ever got in, all of these things will be terminated" clause tells a story in which things went from good to bad. Benefits Trump presents as his are threatened by an opposing party. It projects ahead the loss that the historian's forecasts made likely that day, with Democrats favored to retake the House. That makes the post defensive under its upbeat surface. Still, the template ran on the De La Cruz post too, so this cannot be read as a response to the forecasts in particular.

The self-portrait here is the kingmaker. "My Great Honor to endorse" and "my Complete and Total Endorsement" treat Trump's endorsement as the thing that decides the race. Status, in other words, comes from handing out his approval. In this post he is the king, the benevolent figure who confers legitimacy, more than the trickster. He stands for order. He promises to "Keep our Border SECURE" and "Safeguard our Elections," while disorder is assigned to the opposing party. The phrase "always under siege Second Amendment" brings in a sense of being under siege without naming who is attacking.

What the claims rest on

Flippo's biography checks out. He is a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel with 24 years of service who won the open-seat primary after Trump endorsed him. The policy claims hold up less well. The 2025 reconciliation law did not exempt Social Security benefits from tax. It added a temporary $6,000 deduction for people 65 and older. The tips and overtime deductions in the same law expire after 2028 under its own terms. So "all of these things will be terminated" describes something the Republican law already schedules, and a single House seat or a House majority could not repeal them over a presidential veto. Nothing in the record found here shows Benitez-Thompson's position on tip taxation. Nevada's Democratic senators have themselves pushed no-tax-on-tips bills, which makes the blanket attribution doubtful but not disproven.

What this post can and cannot show

The post supports conclusions about how the campaign operation works: a reused contrast template, a fixed list of issue phrases, and an Election Day volume push. It supports little about Trump's own state of mind. His only contribution is the brand vocabulary. The 80-year-old's own language production is absent, so the post adds nothing to the record on cognitive change. The attack on the opponent stays electoral. It names her and ends with "GET OUT AND VOTE," and the only action it calls for is voting.

Fact Verification

What she has said leans the other way. In The Nevada Independent's candidate questionnaire (updated Sept. 2, 2026), she criticized the Trump administration for making tax breaks for high earners permanent while giving most Americans only temporary cuts. The tips and overtime deductions are among those temporary provisions and expire after 2028. That criticism faults the cuts for being too short, not for existing. In a July 2026 KOLO interview about the reconciliation law, she attacked it over health care costs (ACA premiums, strain on the health system) and solar credits, and she did not mention tips or call for repeal. Disliking the law as a whole is different from opposing its tips provision.

Her coalition backs the policy. Nevada's Democratic senators Catherine Cortez Masto (who endorsed Benitez-Thompson) and Jacky Rosen were the first Democrats to co-sponsor Ted Cruz's No Tax on Tips Act in July 2024. Rosen got it through the Senate by unanimous consent in May 2025. Rep. Steven Horsford, another Benitez-Thompson endorser, filed the House companion. The Culinary Union, whose members are largely tipped hospitality workers, endorsed her. The only source for the claim is Trump's endorsement post, whose paragraph about the opponent repeats a template used against several Democrats that day. Because she never addressed tips directly, the claim can't be called flatly false, but the available evidence goes against it. | | "Benitez-Thompson wants massive tax increases, open borders and men playing in women's sports" | Mostly False | I checked each part against her own statements and her record.

Tax increases: The Nevada Independent asked whether Congress should raise federal tax rates. She answered "No" and wrote that "taxes shouldn't be raised for the sake of raising taxes." There is a partial basis for the attack in her Assembly record, though. She took part in, and as majority leader helped pass, state revenue measures, including the 2015 commerce tax package proposed by Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval, the 2019 payroll tax extension (SB 551, whose county-by-county funding she read out on the floor), and the 2021 gold and silver mining excise tax (AB 495), which passed the Assembly 28-14 with all Democrats and two Republicans in favor and which she called "long overdue." Trump's Oct. 21 tele-rally line that she "voted 11 times to raise your taxes" comes from that record. Voting for those state measures is not the same as wanting "massive" federal tax increases, and as a federal candidate she has rejected raising rates.

Open borders: In the same questionnaire she answered "Mostly no" to deporting all undocumented immigrants, criticized "needless deaths and chaos" from the administration's mass-deportation policy, and said both parties have gotten immigration wrong. She also called for "fair and efficient reform with humane enforcement." Calling for enforcement, even humane enforcement, contradicts an open-borders position. I found nothing in which she backs open borders.

Men in women's sports: I found no statement, vote or questionnaire answer from her on transgender athletes. The Indy guide does not address the topic, and the trans-student bill Nevada took up in 2025 (AB 423) came after she left the Legislature. The closest item is her 2015 vote against AB 375, a Republican bill that would have required students to use school bathrooms, locker rooms and showers matching their birth sex. It failed 20-22, with five Republicans joining Democrats, and she called it "the exact opposite of small government." Republicans recast that vote as "men in girls' bathrooms," but it was a facilities vote, not a sports vote.

Overall: part of the tax charge has a basis in her state record, while the open-borders charge is contradicted by her stated positions and the sports charge has no supporting evidence. The sentence is boilerplate also used against other Democratic candidates that day. |

Overall Veracity: 36%