"The pink and green rectangles are mine. I chose to mark the things that most directly fed Trump's grand conspiracy theory, and so likely were a response to those interviews. I did that, in part, to highlight these two tweets, in which the President of the United States RTed others calling out Todd Blanche for not charging the grand conspiracy yet. (The timestamp on these is Irish time, but the RTed timestamp is the time of the post, with the YouWish account located in Central Time Zone.)"
"Both these were responses to this low-virality tweet from a fake news website that has Telegram and Rumble feeds, bearing a name mirroring US News' home company and located in Romania. (MeidasTouch also examined this Romanian post.) "Trump" had RTed that tweet just a minute earlier. The original tweet got seven QTs (all by marginal accounts), 431 RTs, and 612 likes - by Xitter standards, a nothingburner. On the President's own failing social media platform, however, it got over 3,000 RTs and 8,000 likes."
"So in the middle of a longer rant about his unbowed enemies, "Trump" RTed the Romanian propaganda, then two responses from low-follower accounts (3,511 and 1,538 followers, respectively), which were comments about DOJ's failure to charge a grand conspiracy. In response to one, the most powerful man in the world whimpered, "They are working hard!""
Back-to-back interviews with John Brennan and Jim Comey were followed by a severe Trump reaction that prompted analyses of his Truth Social activity. Trump RTed a Romanian propaganda post that mirrored a US news brand and was distributed via Telegram and Rumble. The original post had minimal engagement on X but received thousands of reposts and likes on Truth Social. During a rant about unbowed enemies, Trump RTed the Romanian content and then RTed two replies from smaller accounts discussing the DOJ’s failure to charge a “grand conspiracy.” In one reply, Trump responded with “They are working hard!” indicating continued focus on conspiracy framing and perceived prosecutorial inaction.
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