Analysis: I have been asking Director Comey &amp, others, from the beg...

9y ago May 16, 2017 at 4:10 PM

I have been asking Director Comey &amp, others, from the beginning of my administration, to find the LEAKERS in the intelligence community.....

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AI Analysis

Machine-generated analysis of the post above on 2026-03-11. Not written by the author of the post.

Danger Level

None

Narcissistic State

Vulnerable

Authorship

Uncertain

Intensity

55%

This post demonstrates classic narcissistic deflection under acute threat. Facing simultaneous exposure from the Washington Post (classified intel shared with Russians) and NYT (Comey memo on Flynn), Trump redirects to intelligence community leakers as the real problem. The projection is striking: he accuses others of unauthorized disclosure while he himself had just shared highly classified information with Russian officials in the Oval Office. The reference to "Director Comey" — fired eight days earlier — implicitly blames Comey for failing to stop leaks, serving as retroactive justification for the firing. The paranoid preoccupation with leakers reflects a persistent schema: the world is populated by disloyal actors who must be identified and punished. The ALL CAPS "LEAKERS" marks them as enemies deserving of audience outrage. This post is part of a broader pattern where exposure triggers not self-reflection but externalization — the fault lies not in the conduct but in its revelation.

Authorship Analysis

Uncertain

Indicators:

ALL CAPS emphasis on LEAKERS
trailing ellipsis thread style
defensive/reactive content matching known Trump patterns
business hours posting
grammatically correct but emotionally charged

Psychological Profile

▶ State

Vulnerable State

Trigger: Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Washington Post/NYT reports on classified intel sharing and Comey memo)

Rage: Intensity 60% targeting Intelligence community leakers

Proportionality

30%

Sentiment

-0.50

▶ Clinical

Malignant Narcissism:

Narcissistic

50%

Antisocial

40%

Paranoid

70%

Sadism

20%

Defense Mechanisms:

projectiondisplacement

Cognitive Complexity:

Complexity

40%

Parasocial Techniques:

framing self as victim of disloyal subordinatesimplying audience should share outrage at leakers

Danger Assessment

None

Gaslighting Detected:

Reframes the scandal from his own unauthorized disclosure to others' unauthorized disclosure
Implies the real wrongdoing is leaking, not the underlying conduct

Reality Distortions:

Frames leakers as the problem while he himself shared classified intelligence with Russian officials

Fact Checks (1)

"Trump asked Comey and others to find leakers from the beginning of his administration"

Unverifiable

No public record confirms or denies private requests to find leakers at the start of the administration. Comey's contemporaneous memos document other requests but not specifically this one in the claimed timeframe.

Receipts

No contradictions with other posts detected yet.

Psychological Analysis: "Find the LEAKERS" Post (May 16, 2017)

This post is part of a multi-tweet thread responding to the explosive Washington Post report that Trump shared classified intelligence with Russian officials, and the NYT report on the Comey memo documenting Trump's request to drop the Flynn investigation. Rather than addressing the substance of either report, Trump pivots to attacking leakers — a textbook deflection.

Context & Timing

Posted at 12:10 PM EDT (Trump was in Washington, DC). This is a business-hours post but reads as authentically Trump — the ALL CAPS "LEAKERS," the trailing ellipsis indicating a thread, and the defensive pivot are characteristic. The reference to "Director Comey" is notable since Trump had fired Comey eight days earlier, suggesting either a temporal slip or deliberate framing to imply Comey failed in this duty.

Key Psychological Dynamics

The post exemplifies externalization as defense: when facing accusations of sharing classified information inappropriately, Trump reframes the problem as unauthorized disclosure by intelligence community members. The issue is not what was shared but who told the press. This is a consistent pattern — attacking the messenger rather than addressing the message.

The emphasis on "from the beginning of my administration" serves dual purposes: establishing that leaks have been a persistent problem (not triggered by current crisis) and implicitly blaming the intelligence community for disloyalty.

Paranoid Features

The preoccupation with leakers is consistent with paranoid cognitive style — a hostile world populated by disloyal actors requiring surveillance and punishment. The intelligence community is cast as an adversarial force rather than a subordinate apparatus.

Fact Verification

Claim	Verdict	Evidence
"Trump asked Comey and others to find leakers from the beginning of his administration"	Unverifiable	No public record confirms or denies private requests to find leakers at the start of the administration. Comey's contemporaneous memos document other requests but not specifically this one in the claimed timeframe.

Overall Veracity: 50%