🧩 BND Motif Index · M542
Trojan horse
An enemy is said to be hidden inside, disguised as a friend or a gift: infiltrators who pretend to belong, a faction inside an institution serving another cause.
🕵️ Theories🗂️ Hidden Power & Cover-ups🗂️ Betrayal and Loyalty
- 8claims filed under it
- 5right shows it came up on
- 3claims retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
⤵️ under it: 🧩 Entryism 🧩 Long march through the institutions 🧩 Controlled opposition
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Institutions sell their soul 🧩 Pact with the devil 🧩 The backdoor
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 0
🦗 none of our left shows, so far
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-27 “The right wing has seeded its stooges into the BBC to control its output and skew the nation's conversation.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-24 “The Democratic Party is ushering in enemies within to gain power.”
🎙️ The Mark Levin Show 🎙️ The Jesse Kelly Show - 2026-10-22 “Islamists and communists are infiltrating American institutions like Harvard and UCLA.”
🎙️ Bannon's War Room - 2026-10-21 “Russia is waging hybrid war on the West, using a network of holiday homes in the Baltic region as 'Trojan horses'.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-16 “Communists are destroyers who infiltrate existing institutions to turn them into tools for revolution.”
🎙️ The Jesse Kelly Show - 2026-10-09 “Leftists infiltrate groups by pretending to belong, and radical leftists end at their own guillotine.”
🎙️ The Dan Bongino Show - 2026-10-07 “Zack Polanski's leadership of the Green Party has led to its corruption and alienation of core supporters, particularly Jewish members, and his political career is effectively over.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-06 “A Supreme Court justice was the person responsible for leaking the Dobbs decision.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton
M542 · first seen 2026-10-07 · last 2026-10-24 · what this is · how the index works