# Post x_1259493483733270500 - Post ID: `x_1259493483733270500` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2020-05-10T18:40:21.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_1259493483733270500 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_1259493483733270500/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_1259493483733270500.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > The biggest political crime in American history, by far! https://t.co/m5nPdUHt4u ## Engagement - Likes: 0 - Reposts: 21,388 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:33:24.816Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-23T05:04:58.768Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary This post crystallizes Trump's 'Obamagate' campaign launched May 10, 2020, as DOJ moved to dismiss Flynn charges. The five-word superlative claim — unaccompanied by named crime, statute, or evidence — exemplifies his most effective rhetorical mode: maximum affective charge, minimum factual surface area. Psychologically, this is a DARVO operation: having been the subject of a three-year federal investigation, Trump inverts the narrative, recasting investigators as criminals and himself as victim of history's greatest political crime. The grandiose narcissistic state is dominant, fueled by Flynn dismissal as narcissistic supply. Defense mechanisms include projection (attributing criminal conduct to prosecutors while Flynn admitted criminal conduct), pathological distortion (transmuting a controversial dismissal into evidence of unprecedented Obama criminality), and rationalization. The claim is factually false: no crime was named, no charges ever filed, and Trump could not specify the offense when pressed by reporters three days later. The danger level is elevated: targeting a living former president as perpetrator of America's greatest political crime, without specifying crime or consequence, activates stochastic terrorism dynamics in attenuated form — target identified (Obama), grievance amplified (historically unprecedented), action left to audience inference. Authenticity is assessed as likely genuine despite business-hours timing, based on the perseverative 'by far!' tic and compressed reactive style consistent with his documented baseline. # Analysis: "The biggest political crime in American history, by far!" **Post ID:** x_1259493483733270500 | **Date:** 2020-05-10 | **Platform:** Twitter/X --- ## Authorship Attribution **Local Time:** UTC 18:40 → 2:40 PM EDT (Trump was at the White House, Washington D.C., on this date — Mother's Day, during the COVID period when travel was restricted) Business-hours timing (2:40 PM) superficially suggests aide involvement, but several stylistic markers strongly indicate authentic Trump authorship: - The "by far!" verbal tic is one of his most persistent, documented speech patterns — aides rarely reproduce it this precisely - The punchy, single-clause declaration without elaboration mirrors his authentic impulsive tweet style - The surrounding context (he sent over 100 tweets that day, many in this same style) corroborates authentic activity - The emotional charge aligns with the Flynn DOJ dismissal news cycle; this appears to be reactive rather than scheduled **Assessment:** Likely authentic, possibly with a retweeted or linked article attached via the t.co URL. Confidence: **medium-high**. --- ## Psychological Analysis ### Trigger The DOJ's dismissal of charges against Michael Flynn, Trump's first National Security Adviser, serves as both a vindication catalyst and a narcissistic supply opportunity. Flynn had twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about Russia contacts. The dismissal allowed Trump to reframe the entire investigation — which had implicated him and his inner circle — as itself criminal. This is a textbook DARVO sequence: the subject of an investigation retroactively declares the investigation to be the crime. ### Narcissistic Dynamics - **Trigger type:** Mixed — narcissistic supply-seeking AND response to prior narcissistic injury (the original Russia investigation, which represented a profound wound to his self-concept) - **Narcissistic state:** Grandiose. The tone is triumphant, expansive, and declarative — not wounded or defensive. Flynn's dismissal has shifted him from the vulnerable pole toward the grandiose pole. - **Rage intensity:** Moderate to high. Compressed into five words ("biggest political crime in American history"), the statement is punitive and sweeping rather than exploratory. The "by far!" intensifier is a linguistic fist-pound. ### Narrative Identity (McAdams Level 3) This is a **redemption-to-contamination reversal narrative**: Trump positions the Russia investigation as an illegal contamination sequence (good president victimized by corrupt enemies) that is now being exposed. The protagonist role is **simultaneously victim and vindicator** — he was wronged ("political crime"), and now justice is arriving. The contrasting other is explicitly or implicitly Obama, consistent with the known events confirming he tweeted "OBAMAGATE!" the same day. The phrase "in American history, by far" is a characteristic narrative escalation device — by anchoring the claim at the extreme historical maximum, Trump forecloses any proportionate response. If this is the greatest crime ever, any reaction short of outrage is itself complicity. --- ## Defense Mechanisms 1. **Projection (immature):** The entire post projects criminal intent onto investigators. Trump and his associates were the subjects of a legitimate federal investigation; he displaces "criminal" onto the investigators themselves. Evidence: accusing Obama of a "political crime" for overseeing the government apparatus that investigated Flynn's actual admitted conduct. 2. **Distortion (pathological):** The claim that this represents the biggest political crime in American history grossly reshapes reality. The DOJ's Flynn dismissal — itself controversial and opposed by career prosecutors who resigned in protest — is transmuted into evidence of Obama-era criminality. No crime is named, no statute cited. 3. **DARVO pattern (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender):** Classic reversal: the legitimate investigation into his campaign is recast as criminal persecution. He is now not the target of law enforcement but the victim of law enforcement weaponized as crime. 4. **Rationalization (neurotic):** The Flynn dismissal provides a logical-sounding hook — if Flynn was wrongly prosecuted, then those who initiated the investigation must have acted criminally — which papers over the absence of any actual identified crime. --- ## Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques - **Superlative escalation:** "The biggest... in American history" — the RAND Firehose technique of volume/intensity; makes any proportionate rebuttal seem like it's minimizing a massive crime - **"By far!" intensifier:** A verbal tic functioning as emphatic punctuation, closing the claim before factual scrutiny can attach - **Vague accusation:** No crime is named, no statute cited, no specific actor identified beyond implicit Obama reference — this is deliberate. Vagueness maximizes affective impact while minimizing factual accountability. (Consistent with the May 13 press conference where Trump could not specify what crime Obama committed when directly asked.) - **Implied urgency via brevity:** The compression of the claim into a single sentence, combined with the linked URL, creates the impression of a breaking revelation - **Epistemic manipulation:** Framing the claim as established fact ("The biggest") rather than allegation --- ## Gaslighting Indicators - Presents as settled fact what is entirely contested and unsubstantiated - Inverts prosecutorial accountability: Flynn admitted lying to the FBI; the post implies his prosecutors were the criminals - Rapid revisionism: The Russia investigation and Flynn prosecution had been public record for years; this post rewrites their meaning in a single sentence --- ## Cognitive Status Insufficient sample for robust cognitive assessment — this post is five substantive words. What can be noted: - "By far!" is a perseverative verbal tic consistent with his documented speech patterns across multiple years - No word-finding difficulty, paraphasia, or temporal confusion observable - Consistent with baseline at this age and period - **Baseline deviation:** None observable --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "The biggest political crime in American history, by far" | **False** | No criminal conduct by Obama has been charged, established, or even specifically articulated. Trump could not name the crime when pressed by reporters on May 13, 2020. Even accepting prosecutorial overreach in the Flynn case (itself disputed — career prosecutors resigned in protest of the dismissal, and Judge Sullivan appointed amicus curiae to oppose it), this would not constitute a 'political crime' nor rank as the largest in American history given documented cases like Watergate, COINTELPRO, and MK-Ultra. | Overall Veracity: 0% ## Danger Assessment **Level: Elevated** The post targets a living former president (Obama, implicitly but unmistakably) with an accusation of perpetrating the greatest crime in American history. This activates stochastic terrorism dynamics in attenuated form: - **Target identified:** Obama (and by extension, Obama-era officials) - **Grievance articulated:** Criminal conspiracy, historically unprecedented in severity - **Action unspecified but implied:** Something must be done about the greatest political crime in American history The vagueness is not protective — it functions as rhetorical activation of the audience's own interpretive violence. Followers are invited to fill in what response such a crime warrants. The escalating "Obamagate" campaign, of which this post is one instance among over 100 that day, follows the pattern of target + grievance amplification + implied consequence that characterizes stochastic terrorism infrastructure. No explicit violent imagery or eliminationist language is present, which keeps this at **elevated** rather than high. --- ## Archetypal Analysis **Primary archetypes activated:** - **Warrior/Victim hybrid:** The post positions Trump as simultaneously fighting back (Warrior) and having been grievously wronged (Victim/Martyr) — the combination maximizes both righteous anger and sympathetic identification in the audience - **Shadow projection:** The "political crime" accusation projects onto Obama precisely what Trump himself was being investigated for — using political office to obstruct and corrupt legal processes. This is shadow-work in the Jungian sense: disowning the unacceptable impulse by locating it entirely in the enemy **Order/Chaos positioning:** Order Attacker — the post frames the existing legal/investigative establishment (DOJ under Obama) as having been a corrupt, criminal order that Trump is exposing and dismantling. He is simultaneously chaos agent (disrupting norms) and order restorer (promising legitimate justice against the corrupt prior order). --- ## Summary This post is a compressed crystallization of Trump's "Obamagate" campaign, launched on Mother's Day 2020 as the DOJ moved to dismiss Flynn charges. The five-word superlative claim — unaccompanied by named crime, statute, or evidence — exemplifies his most effective rhetorical mode: maximum affective charge, minimum factual surface area. The "by far!" intensifier functions as a verbal signature confirming likely authentic authorship despite business-hours timing. Psychologically, this is a DARVO operation of considerable sophistication: having been the subject of a three-year federal investigation, Trump inverts the entire narrative, recasting investigators as criminals and himself as the victim of history's greatest political crime. This reflects the paranoid and projection features of malignant narcissism — the grandiose state is prominent (triumphant, not wounded), fueled by the Flynn dismissal as narcissistic supply and vindication. The claim is factually false: no crime has been named, no charges filed against Obama or associates, and Trump himself could not specify what crime was committed when pressed by reporters three days later. The danger level is elevated: targeting a living former president as the perpetrator of America's greatest political crime, without specifying the crime or consequence, activates stochastic dynamics even in this compressed form. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 80%) ### Indicators - 'By far!' verbal tic is one of Trump's most documented perseverative phrases, rarely reproduced by aides - Single punchy declarative clause matches authentic impulsive tweet style - Surrounded by over 100 tweets that day in similar style, consistent with authentic reactive posting - Business hours timing (2:40 PM EDT) is the main counter-indicator - Emotional charge aligns with real-time Flynn DOJ dismissal news cycle ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Russia investigation / Flynn prosecution — prior multi-year narcissistic wound; DOJ Flynn dismissal serves as vindication catalyst and supply opportunity) **Rage:** Intensity 70% targeting Obama / Obama-era officials / investigators - Proportionality: 10% Sentiment: -0.60 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 85% - Antisocial: 60% - Paranoid: 80% - Sadism: 40% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - distortion (pathological) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 20% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Invites followers into shared outrage by declaring magnitude of crime ('biggest...in history') - Vague accusation maximizes affective activation while minimizing factual accountability - Brevity + link creates impression of breaking revelation - Superlative escalation forecloses proportionate response — any reaction short of outrage implies complicity ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - Identifies living former president as perpetrator of 'biggest political crime in American history' - Extreme grievance framing without named crime invites audience to fill in implied consequences - Part of coordinated same-day campaign of 100+ tweets — volume amplifies mobilization risk - Historical pattern: this rhetoric preceded January 6 by 8 months, establishing precedent for labeling political opponents as criminals deserving of consequence ### Gaslighting - Presents contested, unsubstantiated accusation as established historical fact - Inverts prosecutorial accountability — Flynn admitted lying to FBI; post implies his prosecutors were the criminals - Rewrites three years of public record in a single sentence - Frames legitimate federal investigation as criminal conspiracy ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-23._ > The biggest political crime in American history, by far **FALSE** No criminal conduct by Obama has been charged, established, or even specifically articulated. Trump could not name the crime when pressed by reporters on May 13, 2020. Even accepting prosecutorial overreach in the Flynn case (itself disputed — career prosecutors resigned in protest of the dismissal, and Judge Sullivan appointed amicus curiae to oppose it), this would not constitute a 'political crime' nor rank as the largest in American history given documented cases like Watergate, COINTELPRO, and MK-Ultra. Sources: DOJ career prosecutor resignations following Flynn dismissal, May 2020; Judge Sullivan amicus appointment in Flynn case; Trump May 13 press conference: unable to specify Obama crime when asked by reporters Overall Veracity: 0% ## Tags - obamagate (95%) - darvo (90%) - flynn_vindication (85%) - superlative_escalation (85%) - projection (80%) - vague_accusation (80%) - grandiose_state (75%) - paranoid_features (75%) - stochastic_terrorism_attenuated (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Mother's Day Obamagate Blitz: 100+ Tweets Fuel All-Day Persecution-to-Vindication Spiral** Trump spent Mother's Day in a sustained posting frenzy, firing off well over 100 tweets almost entirely devoted to attacking Obama over the Russia investigation. The campaign began with a cluster of compulsive retweets around 4 AM and escalated throughout the day, culminating in the single all-caps battle cry "OBAMAGATE!" in the evening. Along the way, he briefly celebrated state reopenings, demanded Pulitzer Prizes be returned, and attacked several media figures — but the throughline was unmistakable: an obsessive, hours-long effort to brand Obama as a criminal without ever naming the crime. A one-line "HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!" was the only nod to the holiday. Full digest for 2020-05-10: https://trump.fm/date/2020-05-10/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2020, May 10). The biggest political crime in American history,... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_1259493483733270500 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "The biggest political crime in American history, by far!..." X (Twitter), 10 May. 2020. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1259493483733270500. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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