# Post x_1012312287280074754

- Post ID: `x_1012312287280074754`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2018-06-28T12:30:31.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_1012312287280074754
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_1012312287280074754/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_1012312287280074754.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Peter Strzok worked as the leader of the Rigged Witch Hunt for a long period of time - he got it started and was only fired because the gig was up. But remember, he took his orders from Comey and McCabe and they took their orders from you know who. Mueller/Comey best friends!

## Engagement

- Likes: 80,110
- Reposts: 20,769
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.400Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-15T05:04:43.374Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

A fifth same-morning post in a Strzok testimony reaction cluster, triggered by narcissistic injury from the ongoing investigation. The post constructs a telescoping conspiracy: Strzok (instrument) → Comey/McCabe (middle layer) → unnamed patron ("you know who," implying Obama). This structure is rhetorically sophisticated — conspiratorial wink maintains plausible deniability while activating audience priors and producing parasocial bonding. Paranoid features dominate (0.82): preoccupation with coordinated attack, upward conspiracy narrative, grudge maintenance across named individuals. Defense mechanisms include pathological denial ("Rigged Witch Hunt"), projection, and rationalization ("gig was up" inverts the factual basis for Strzok's dismissal). Authorship is high-confidence authentic Trump (8:30 AM EDT, colloquial register, stream-of-consciousness implication style). Cognitive indicators are within established baseline — "you know who" is rhetorical, not a word-finding failure. Danger level is elevated: five named individuals publicly accused of criminal conspiracy to millions of followers, in a cluster that separately invoked "LAW AND ORDER" against "radical" opponents. No explicit mobilization language in this post, but the naming + accusation + patron-chain pattern constitutes stochastic terrorism preconditions. Four of six verifiable factual claims rate mostly_false or false.

## Psychological Analysis: x_1012312287280074754

**Context and Trigger**

This post is the fifth in a same-morning cluster (June 28, 2018) responding to Peter Strzok's closed-door congressional testimony. The trigger is narcissistic injury: an ongoing investigation — experienced as existential threat — produced fresh testimony that could not be controlled. The response is counterattack-by-narrative, consistent with Kohut's narcissistic rage framework, though the intensity here is controlled rather than explosive.

**Authorship**

High confidence authentic Trump. Posted at ~8:30 AM EDT, consistent with his established pre-rally composition window. The colloquial dismissal ("the gig was up"), conspiratorial wink ("you know who"), and abrupt exclamatory close are unambiguous stylistic fingerprints. The surrounding Fox-watching posts confirm real-time reactive composition.

**Personality Framework (McAdams)**

*Level 1 — Traits:* High neuroticism (angry hostility, suspicious vigilance), low agreeableness (named antagonism, no empathy attribution), low conscientiousness (impulsive, reactive). *Level 2 — Motives:* Dominant power/revenge motive; agency overwhelms communion entirely. *Level 3 — Narrative:* Protagonist as the besieged truth-revealer; contrasting other is the "deep state" network with a shadowy unnamed patron. Contamination sequence: legitimate presidency → organized conspiracy against it.

**Clinical Indicators**

Paranoid features are most prominent (0.82): upward conspiracy construction, preoccupation with coordinated attack, persistent grudge maintenance, rapid counterattack. Narcissistic features (0.72) present through grandiose knowledge claims ("But remember"). Antisocial features (0.55) in public false-claim dissemination about named individuals. The "you know who" construction shows projective dynamic: attributes conspiratorial coordination to others while engaging in coordinated narrative orchestration.

**Defense Mechanisms**

Primary: pathological denial (investigation rebranded as crime), projection (his obstruction projected as their conspiracy), splitting (total corruption vs. total victimhood). Secondary: rationalization ("gig was up" inverts the factual basis for Strzok's removal).

**Danger Assessment**

Elevated. Named individuals (Strzok, Comey, McCabe) are publicly accused of criminal conspiracy to a mass audience. Prior post in cluster explicitly invokes "LAW AND ORDER" against "radical" opponents. The pattern — identify agents, articulate their crimes, imply patronage chain to ultimate enemy — maps onto stochastic terrorism preconditions without explicit call to action. Danger level does not reach "high" because no mobilization language is present in this specific post.

**Fact-Check Summary**

Four of six extractable claims rate mostly_false or false (see structured data). The most significant distortion is characterizing Strzok's removal as investigative self-exposure when it resulted from IG discovery of documented text messages — inverting cause and effect.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Peter Strzok worked as the leader of the Rigged Witch Hunt" | **Mostly False** | Strzok was a senior FBI counterintelligence agent assigned to Mueller's team but was removed in July 2017. Robert Mueller is the Special Counsel leading the investigation. Strzok held no leadership role in the Mueller probe. |
| "he got it started" | **Mostly True** | Strzok was the FBI agent who opened the Crossfire Hurricane counterintelligence investigation in July 2016, which preceded and fed into the Mueller investigation. He did play a significant initiating role. |
| "fired because the gig was up" | **False** | Strzok was removed from Mueller's team in July 2017 after DOJ Inspector General discovered anti-Trump text messages exchanged with FBI attorney Lisa Page. He was not removed because the investigation was exposed as fraudulent. |
| "he took his orders from Comey and McCabe" | **Half True** | Strzok reported through normal FBI chain of command that included McCabe (Deputy Director) and Comey (Director) in his role opening Crossfire Hurricane. However, 'took his orders' implies personal direction toward corrupt ends, which is contested and unsubstantiated. |
| "they took their orders from you know who" | **Unverifiable** | Conspiratorial implication (widely understood as referencing Obama) presented without evidence. No documented evidence that Obama directed FBI investigative decisions on Crossfire Hurricane or the Mueller probe. |
| "Mueller/Comey best friends!" | **Mostly False** | Mueller and Comey have a documented professional relationship — both served as FBI Director — and have expressed mutual respect publicly. No evidence of a personal friendship that would compromise the special counsel's independence. |

Overall Veracity: 37%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 85%)

### Indicators

- 8:30 AM EDT (UTC-4) — early morning, consistent with Trump's habitual pre-Fox-and-Friends posting window
- Colloquial dismissal ('the gig was up') is characteristic vernacular
- Conspiratorial wink ('you know who') without elaboration — stream-of-consciousness implication style
- Abrupt exclamatory close ('Mueller/Comey best friends!') is unpolished and impulsive
- No professional formatting, no event announcement structure

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Peter Strzok's closed-door congressional testimony (referenced in prior post cluster))

**Rage:** Intensity 65% targeting Strzok, Comey, McCabe, and implied Obama
- Proportionality: 20%

Sentiment: -0.72

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 72%
- Antisocial: 55%
- Paranoid: 82%
- Sadism: 42%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 42%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct address to followers ('But remember...') creates conspiratorial intimacy
- Deliberate withholding of Obama's name ('you know who') invites audience to complete the thought — shared secret dynamic reinforces in-group bonding
- Exclamatory friendship claim ('Mueller/Comey best friends!') deploys mock-casual revelation style

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Named individuals (Strzok, Comey, McCabe) publicly accused of criminal conspiracy to mass audience
- Upward conspiracy chain implying unnamed high-level patron — escalates perceived threat and assigns blame
- Cluster context: immediately preceded by 'LAW AND ORDER' post targeting 'radical protesters' — aggregate rhetoric elevates ambient threat level
- Stochastic terrorism preconditions: target identification + grievance articulation + implied criminal accountability, without explicit call to action

### Gaslighting

- 'Rigged Witch Hunt' — sustained attack on legitimacy of documented legal process
- 'the gig was up' — reframes documented cause of Strzok's removal (anti-Trump texts discovered by IG) as investigative self-exposure, inverting documented causality
- Implication that Strzok 'got it started' casts the entire investigation as his personal project rather than institutionally authorized counterintelligence operation

## Fact Checks (6)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-15._

> Peter Strzok worked as the leader of the Rigged Witch Hunt

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Strzok was a senior FBI counterintelligence agent assigned to Mueller's team but was removed in July 2017. Robert Mueller is the Special Counsel leading the investigation. Strzok held no leadership role in the Mueller probe.

Sources: DOJ Inspector General Report June 2018; Public record of Mueller investigation structure

> he got it started

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Strzok was the FBI agent who opened the Crossfire Hurricane counterintelligence investigation in July 2016, which preceded and fed into the Mueller investigation. He did play a significant initiating role.

Sources: DOJ IG Report June 2018

> fired because the gig was up

**FALSE**

Strzok was removed from Mueller's team in July 2017 after DOJ Inspector General discovered anti-Trump text messages exchanged with FBI attorney Lisa Page. He was not removed because the investigation was exposed as fraudulent.

Sources: DOJ IG Report; Congressional testimony record

> he took his orders from Comey and McCabe

**HALF TRUE**

Strzok reported through normal FBI chain of command that included McCabe (Deputy Director) and Comey (Director) in his role opening Crossfire Hurricane. However, 'took his orders' implies personal direction toward corrupt ends, which is contested and unsubstantiated.

Sources: FBI organizational structure; DOJ IG Report

> they took their orders from you know who

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Conspiratorial implication (widely understood as referencing Obama) presented without evidence. No documented evidence that Obama directed FBI investigative decisions on Crossfire Hurricane or the Mueller probe.

> Mueller/Comey best friends!

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Mueller and Comey have a documented professional relationship — both served as FBI Director — and have expressed mutual respect publicly. No evidence of a personal friendship that would compromise the special counsel's independence.

Sources: Public statements of both individuals

Overall Veracity: 37%

## Tags

- witch-hunt-narrative (95%)
- deep-state (88%)
- strzok (90%)
- comey (85%)
- mccabe (80%)
- mueller-investigation (90%)
- obama-implication (75%)
- projection (80%)
- paranoid-ideation (78%)
- morning-cluster (70%)

## That day

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

**Morning Rage Spiral Targets Mueller Probe as Capital Gazette Shooting Gets Delayed, Formulaic Response**

Trump spent the bulk of his morning firing off a rapid cluster of attacks on the Mueller investigation and FBI officials, triggered by Peter Strzok's closed-door testimony the day before. The tone was angry and conspiratorial, with repeated accusations of a "rigged witch hunt" and named targets including Strzok, Comey, McCabe, and Mueller himself. Brief pauses to praise Fox News guests offered fleeting calm before the attacks resumed. In the afternoon, he shifted to celebratory mode at the Foxconn groundbreaking in Wisconsin, and hours after the deadliest attack on journalists in U.S. history — the Capital Gazette newsroom shooting — he issued a brief, clearly staff-written statement of thoughts and prayers.

Full digest for 2018-06-28: https://trump.fm/date/2018-06-28/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2018, June 28). Peter Strzok worked as the leader of the Rigged... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_1012312287280074754
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Peter Strzok worked as the leader of the Rigged Witch Hunt..." X (Twitter), 28 Jun. 2018. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1012312287280074754. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Peter Strzok worked as the leader of the Rigged Witch Hunt...," X (Twitter), June 28, 2018, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1012312287280074754.

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