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I read his whole transcript. I want to firstly be 100 clear.
I believe he was hurt as a child.
I believe he witnessed at least 1 murder of a girl. (This story was semi consistent).
Despite my following opinions on his report, I want to clarify again, that even with errors in his story, this does not invalidate the primary crimes against him.
Now on to my other thoughts.
There are a lot of inconsistencies in his report. Now he admits that details are foggy. He was a child after all and he also says he's not 100% on what happened in what order.
He sounds like he has mental health problems like PTSD and possibly some psychosis.
Psychosis is specifically defined as a break with reality.
The reason I would say he is exhibiting some psychotic symptoms is because of some of the things about conspiracy theories that he says. (I elaborate on these below).
When we discuss his memories from childhood it's important to remember that it's incredibly easy to have false or distorted memories of childhood events. It's the norm rather than the exception.
Again this does not invalidate his claims of being trafficked. And I believe him.
However I think he is mixed up about some things and has mixed in fiction to some of his accounts.
The interviewer starts off asking if he ever met Trump and he said no. Said he heard his name but never met him.
By the end he recounts an experience with trump and says he never knew his name. Just his face. And recognized him from tv.
He also claims that the handlers (a term used for spy agent conspiracy theories) uses mk ultra brain washing to make him violent. By using images of sex and violence paired with sounds. Another time he says his eyes were forced open with some device like from the clockwork orange. (Mkultra conditioning a sleeper agent is fiction. It's not real. It doesn't work.)
I think all of these parts and the parts about trump being involved are not true stories but mostly false memories. A combination cocktail with real experiences, movie lore, TV shows, and maybe bad dreams.
He says he believes they were trying to create multiple personalities for him and said he did have these.
Again. Not uncommon in kids to remember things they heard as their own biographical memory.
Side story. A friend once told me he had this memory of when he was a kid, and as an adult he was watching some 90s movie with someone and realized his memory was actually what happened to the kid in the movie. He said this really bothered him because it always felt real but then he started questioning how much of his autobiographical memories were even his own life (Common with childhood memory but not adult, I can explain why if you are interested).
Anywho.
People get really upset when you talk about false memory (like you are calling them a liar) but there is extensive research on this topic and I'm familiar with that research.
False memory is not fabrication. It's believed to be true. It feels true. Often emotions and even "I remember what I was thinking" are present in these memories. Sometimes they feel more vivid than real memories. I could go into why that is if you are interested.
There was another incident involving someone drinking a kid's blood.
False memories have a long history of being associated with sexual assault and satanism.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_panic
Also, I will say though that it's possible the people trafficking him around intentionally created these elaborate satanic scenes so that if he reported them, he would be dismissed as inventing a crazy story.
Lastly I want to say that even if it comes out that most of his story was not possible to be true, or that he has a very serious mental health diagnosis, that this does not mean none of it was true.
This is another tactic that abusers use. If the adult victim is mentally unwell, then anything they say is dismissed, Because at least some of it was proven to not be real.
It's a way for predators to blame the victim even more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood_amnesia
That's from that lady in the 80s who worked with "recovered memories", asked a bunch of hypnotized children a bunch of leading questions and basically placed the memories in the kids' heads, right? All having to do with satanic ritual abuse.
I'm curious why this typically happens in childhood and not to adults tho.
Yeah there was a few psychologists responsible for causing kids to think they were in a cult. Dr Elizabeth Loftus was the researcher who has spent her career investigating false memory and how it's created and strengthened. She also does work with eye witnesses. How witnesses can be led to form false memory of perpetrator or even what happened.
It's honestly kind of upsetting to many people when they learn how easily memory can be manipulated and how unreliable our own memory is.
We like to think we "know" what we saw. And we would know if a memory wasn't real. But we often do not.
FWIW
I stopped reading the first time after this sentence. Which is a shame, because what you write otherwise seems well-balanced and reasonable for what you're focusing on.
Sorry, this statement seems meaningless, or even misinfo, because the term is used in credible reports.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/apr/10/deep-cover-kgb-spy-recruited-son-peter-herrmann-illegals
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/21/new-york-police-officer-china-tibetan-immigrants-spying-charges