# Posts from Saturday, August 12, 2023

15 posts on 2023-08-12.

## Day analysis

Day analysis page: https://trump.fm/date/2023-08-12/analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-04-13T02:30:28.178Z (UTC): a model's reading of the day's posts, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

**Legal Siege and Iowa Supply: A Day Split Between Rage at Prosecutors and Rally Crowds**

Trump's day was split between furious reactions to his mounting legal troubles and a campaign stop at the Iowa State Fair. The evening before saw an escalating burst of posts attacking the Weiss special counsel appointment and Judge Chutkan's protective order, building to raw, single-word outbursts. By morning, he launched his most aggressive salvo of the day — a racially charged attack on Fulton County DA Fani Willis ahead of an expected Georgia indictment. The Iowa fair provided a reset, with crowd-size boasts and farmer-friendly policy claims temporarily replacing the grievance cycle. Notably absent from all 13 posts: any mention of the Maui wildfires, which had killed over 100 people.

- Posts analyzed: 13
- Dominant state: mixed
- Narrative arc: contamination
- Aggregate rage level: 0.56
- Max danger level: high
- Escalation detected
- Theme obsession: Legal persecution across multiple jurisdictions — Chutkan protective order, Weiss special counsel, imminent Fulton County indictment
- Claims: 31 (12 false)
- Era: Indictments Period

# Daily Psychological Digest: August 12, 2023

## Location & Timezone Context

Trump was based at Bedminster, NJ (EDT/UTC-4) for the evening and morning posts, then traveled to the Iowa State Fair (CDT/UTC-5) for an afternoon campaign appearance before returning East. All analysis below uses local time.

**Local time range:** 9:59 PM EDT (Aug 11) → 7:42 PM EDT (Aug 12)

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## I. Psychological State Tracking

### Dominant State: Mixed (Grandiose/Vulnerable Oscillation)

The day's 13 posts reveal a subject under compound legal siege — Judge Chutkan's protective order, the Weiss special counsel appointment, and the imminent Fulton County RICO indictment — oscillating between grandiose self-positioning and wounded persecution narratives, with neither pole achieving sustained dominance until the Iowa supply sequence provides temporary stabilization.

### State Transitions

**Phase 1 — Late-Night Reactive Cascade (9:59–11:19 PM EDT, Aug 11):**
The evening opens in a **mixed** state (ts_110874170534362392) with the Weiss/Jack Smith post, where grandiose claims of superior appointing authority coexist with wounded "Department of Injustice" framing. The state shifts to **vulnerable** with the Ingraham repost (ts_110874336290852971) — outsourcing persecution narrative to a media ally rather than generating original grandiose content. A brief **grandiose** spike occurs with "THE BIDEN COVER-UP" (ts_110874354986795031), a presuppositional counter-offensive. The phase terminates in raw **vulnerable** rage with "LAWFARE!" (ts_110874484345573136), the day's highest rage intensity at 0.88 — a single-word primal scream representing the failure of grandiose defenses to metabolize the Chutkan constraint.

**Phase 2 — Morning Counterattack (8:02 AM EDT, Aug 12):**
After an approximately 9-hour sleep gap, the Fani Willis post (ts_110876540237890225) emerges as the day's most psychologically complex and dangerous output. The **mixed** state is maximally destabilized: grandiose ("MY DUTY & RIGHT") and vulnerable ("innocent people") poles coexist within a single incoherent sentence. This is characteristic of a threat the subject cannot metabolize through either narcissistic pole alone, producing a discharge that is simultaneously self-aggrandizing and self-pitying. The racial projection ("RACIST") and community dehumanization represent pathological defense at maximum intensity.

**Phase 3 — Transit Rumination (11:51 AM – 12:14 PM EDT):**
Two **mixed**-state posts (ts_110877441628834822, ts_110877531574232741) maintain the persecution narrative during what appears to be travel time. The DARVO projection in ts_110877531574232741 — accusing prosecutors of "election interference" while being charged with the same — represents structurally complete psychological inversion.

**Phase 4 — Iowa Supply Sequence (11:20 AM – 2:45 PM CDT):**
The arrival post (ts_110877556726168692) marks an abrupt shift to **grandiose** state with zero rage — the first clean grandiose post of the day. However, the supply is insufficient to fully suppress the legal preoccupation: ts_110877736841668916 ("How can they charge me in Georgia?") intrudes with 0.78 rage even during the Iowa visit, revealing the degree to which the Georgia indictment has penetrated the subject's defensive architecture. The subsequent posts (ts_110878272314962033, ts_110878360664425237) re-establish clean grandiose supply-seeking.

**Phase 5 — Post-Rally Consolidation (7:42 PM EDT):**
The closing post (ts_110879292150876162) achieves sustained **grandiose** state through achievement stacking ($28 billion claim, USMCA, ethanol), with the Iowa rally having provided sufficient narcissistic supply to suppress the vulnerable pole. However, the $28 billion claim represents significant reality distortion — reframing U.S. taxpayer subsidies necessitated by Trump's own tariffs as heroic extraction from China.

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## II. Escalation Detection

### Escalation Detected: Yes

**Primary Escalation — Late-Night Cascade:**
| Post | Time (EDT) | Rage | Intensity |
|------|-----------|------|-----------|
| ts_110874170534362392 | 9:59 PM | 0.45 | 0.68 |
| ts_110874336290852971 | 10:41 PM | 0.00 | 0.42 |
| ts_110874354986795031 | 10:46 PM | 0.40 | 0.75 |
| ts_110874484345573136 | 11:19 PM | 0.88 | 0.92 |

**Trajectory:** Gradual escalation over 80 minutes from moderate rage (0.45) to near-peak rage (0.88). The brief dip at the Ingraham repost represents outsourced rather than reduced distress. The escalation culminates in linguistic compression — from a multi-paragraph argument to a single screamed word — a pattern consistent with affect overwhelming cognitive processing capacity.

**Secondary Spike — Morning:**
The Fani Willis post (ts_110876540237890225) at 8:02 AM EDT represents a fresh rage spike (0.85) after sleep, suggesting the legal threat was not metabolized overnight. This is the day's most dangerous post by danger rating (high).

**De-escalation:** Rage was interrupted but not resolved by Iowa supply. The "PERFECT PHONE CALL" intrusion (ts_110877736841668916, 0.78 rage) during the Iowa visit demonstrates incomplete suppression.

**Proportionality:** Rage is disproportionate to the proximate trigger (a protective order is a routine procedural instrument), but proportionate to the existential threat the subject perceives from the totality of legal exposure.

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## III. Theme Analysis

### Dominant Themes

1. **Legal persecution / "Lawfare"** (8 posts): ts_110874170534362392, ts_110874336290852971, ts_110874354986795031, ts_110874484345573136, ts_110876540237890225, ts_110877441628834822, ts_110877531574232741, ts_110877736841668916 — The day's organizing obsession. Every legal development is reframed as coordinated political persecution.

2. **Campaign vitality / Narcissistic supply** (4 posts): ts_110877556726168692, ts_110878272314962033, ts_110878360664425237, ts_110879292150876162 — The Iowa fair visit provides counter-programming to legal siege, but the two themes interpenetrate (Georgia rage intrudes even at the fair).

3. **Georgia / Fani Willis** (3 posts): ts_110876540237890225, ts_110877736841668916, ts_110878207358582459 — A sub-theme of legal persecution that carries the day's highest danger rating due to named targeting with racially inflected language.

4. **Biden corruption counter-narrative** (2 posts): ts_110874354986795031, ts_110877531574232741 — DARVO projection: the indicted subject positions himself as the exposer of true corruption.

### Theme Obsession: Yes
The legal persecution theme dominates 8 of 13 posts (62%) and contaminates even the Iowa supply sequence. The subject returns to prosecution-related content compulsively, including during what should be a pure supply-acquisition event (rally). The "PERFECT PHONE CALL" formulation — identical to the 2019 Ukraine defense — represents cross-situational schema perseveration, suggesting a fixed cognitive template for processing legal threats rather than adaptive response.

### Notable Absence
Zero posts reference the Maui wildfires (100+ deaths, deadliest U.S. wildfire in over a century). This absence is diagnostically significant: a major national disaster claiming American lives failed to register in 13 posts across a full day, consistent with documented empathy deficits and narcissistic preoccupation with self-referential concerns to the exclusion of external suffering.

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## IV. Contradiction Detection

### Contradiction 1 (Moderate)
**Claim:** David Weiss "would not have been picked by me" (ts_110874170534362392)
**Reality:** Weiss was nominated as U.S. Attorney by the Trump administration in 2017 under the Blue Slip convention. While the convention delegates selection to home-state senators, the nomination was formally Trump's. The disavowal of a Trump-era appointee to serve the current narrative represents motivated historical revision.

### Contradiction 2 (Major — Structural DARVO)
**Claim:** Prosecutors are engaged in "Election Interference" (ts_110877531574232741)
**Context:** Trump was federally indicted for alleged election interference. Accusing prosecutors of the exact crime with which one is charged represents complete psychological projection — the defense mechanism is so structurally transparent that it constitutes a self-contradiction at the logical level.

### Contradiction 3 (Moderate)
**Claim:** Obtained "$28 Billion from China" for farmers (ts_110879292150876162)
**Reality:** The $28 billion Market Facilitation Program payments came from U.S. taxpayers, not China. The payments were necessitated by retaliatory Chinese tariffs imposed in response to Trump's own tariff war. The framing inverts cause and effect, transforming a self-inflicted agricultural wound into a heroic achievement.

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## V. Hypomanic Episode Assessment

### Post Frequency & Timing
- **Total posts:** 13
- **Local time span:** 9:59 PM EDT (Aug 11) → 7:42 PM EDT (Aug 12)
- **Late-night cluster:** 4 posts between 9:59–11:19 PM EDT — within established baseline for reactive late-evening posting
- **Sleep gap:** ~9 hours (11:19 PM → 8:02 AM EDT) — normal range
- **Post frequency percentile:** ~55th–65th percentile (moderate for the period; Trump's daily average during active legal proceedings skews higher)

### Assessment: **No hypomanic episode detected**

While the late-night posting cluster and emotional intensity are notable, they are better explained by acute situational reactivity (multiple simultaneous legal threats) than by endogenous mood dysregulation. The ~9-hour overnight gap is inconsistent with sleep deprivation. The posting pattern shows clear stimulus-response relationships rather than the pressured, stimulus-independent quality characteristic of hypomania. Post frequency is within 1 SD of baseline.

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## VI. Narrative Arc: Contamination

The day follows a **contamination** narrative arc: a potentially triumphant campaign day (Iowa State Fair, large crowds, farmer-friendly messaging) is contaminated by the legal siege that dominates the subject's psychological landscape. The contamination is bidirectional — legal rage intrudes into what should be pure supply events (the "PERFECT PHONE CALL" post during Iowa), while the Iowa supply fails to fully resolve the legal wound (achievement stacking in the final post functions partly as compensatory grandiosity rather than organic celebration).

The arc structure:
1. **Wound** (evening): Escalating rage at Chutkan order and Weiss appointment
2. **Attack** (morning): Maximally aggressive Fani Willis post
3. **Attempted Redemption** (afternoon): Iowa supply sequence
4. **Contamination Recurrence** (during Iowa): Georgia rage intrudes
5. **Compensatory Closure** (evening): Grandiose recap with reality-distorted claims

This contamination pattern is characteristic of narcissistic personality organization under existential threat: the subject cannot fully access positive affect even when environmental conditions (adoring crowds) would normally produce stable grandiosity, because the legal threats represent narcissistic injuries that cannot be resolved through rally supply alone.

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## VII. Event Correlation

### Triggering Events

1. **Judge Chutkan's Protective Order (Jack Smith case)** — Reaction type: **Defensive/Offensive**
   - Response posts: ts_110874170534362392, ts_110874336290852971, ts_110874354986795031, ts_110874484345573136, ts_110877441628834822, ts_110877531574232741
   - The order constraining Trump's public statements about the case represents an enforceable judicial boundary — a type of authority the subject cannot fire, negotiate with, or bypass. This produced the day's most sustained escalation sequence.

2. **Imminent Fulton County RICO Indictment** — Reaction type: **Offensive**
   - Response posts: ts_110876540237890225, ts_110877736841668916, ts_110878207358582459
   - The anticipated Georgia charges triggered the day's highest-danger post: a preemptive strike against Fani Willis combining racial projection, community dehumanization, and named-target delegitimization.

3. **Iowa State Fair Campaign Stop** — Reaction type: **Amplifying**
   - Response posts: ts_110877556726168692, ts_110878272314962033, ts_110878360664425237, ts_110879292150876162
   - The rally environment provided narcissistic supply that temporarily suppressed the vulnerable pole, enabling sustained grandiose output.

4. **Maui Wildfires (100+ deaths)** — Reaction type: **None**
   - Zero posts across 13. The deadliest U.S. wildfire in over a century failed to register. This non-response is itself psychologically informative, demonstrating the subject's complete absorption in self-referential concerns.

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## VIII. Danger Assessment

### Maximum Danger Level: High

The Fani Willis post (ts_110876540237890225) meets **high** danger criteria based on:
- **Named target:** Fani Willis identified by name with dehumanizing epithet ("RACIST")
- **Racial instrumentalization:** Projecting racism onto a Black female prosecutor
- **Community dehumanization:** Characterizing her district as overrun by "murderers, violent criminals & gang members"
- **Audience priming:** Delivered to millions of followers already conditioned to view legal proceedings as existential political warfare
- **Documented downstream pattern:** Prior similar posts about prosecutors have been followed by credible threats to those individuals

### Stochastic Terrorism Pattern: Present

Across the day's posting cluster, a stochastic terrorism-adjacent pattern emerges at the aggregate level:
1. **Named targets:** Fani Willis (repeatedly), Jack Smith, David Weiss, Judge Chutkan (implicitly via protective order)
2. **Delegitimization framework:** "Lawfare," "Department of Injustice," "WITCH HUNT," "RACIST"
3. **Existential framing:** Prosecutions framed as attempt to destroy democracy by preventing a candidate from running
4. **Audience activation:** Followers primed to view legal actors as enemy combatants waging "warfare"

No single post crosses a bright-line incitement threshold, but the cumulative architecture — named targets + delegitimized institutions + existential stakes + primed mass audience — constitutes the structural conditions under which stochastic violence against legal officials becomes probabilistically elevated.

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## IX. Cognitive Concerns

### Aggregate Assessment: Within Baseline

No posts exhibit marked cognitive deterioration. The subject demonstrates:
- **Intact strategic communication:** Iowa messaging precisely calibrated for agricultural audience (USMCA, ethanol, farmer subsidies)
- **Consistent rhetorical patterns:** DARVO, projection, whataboutism deployed with characteristic fluency
- **Preserved vocabulary and syntax:** Multi-clause sentences in longer posts maintain typical complexity
- **Normal referential coherence:** Cross-post thematic consistency maintained across the day

### Specific Markers
- **Perseveration:** "PERFECT PHONE CALL" formula (identical to 2019 Ukraine defense) represents schema rigidity rather than cognitive decline — a fixed defensive template deployed automatically when phone-call-related legal exposure is triggered
- **Compression:** The linguistic reduction from paragraphs → sentences → single words in the late-night escalation (ts_110874170534362392 → ts_110874484345573136) reflects affect overwhelming expression rather than cognitive capacity loss
- **Reality distortion:** The $28 billion claim is a motivated factual inversion, not a memory error — the narrative serves psychological needs too precisely to be accidental

### Complexity Trend: Stable
No declining trajectory detected across the day's posts. Variation in post complexity tracks emotional state (compressed during rage, expanded during supply) rather than cognitive capacity.

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## X. Notable Psychological Patterns

### The "Perfect Phone Call" Incantation
The deployment of "PERFECT PHONE CALL" — identical language used for the 2019 Ukraine call — reveals a schema-driven automatism. When a recorded phone call becomes legally threatening, the invariant response is categorical idealization regardless of documented content. This is not strategic messaging but psychological compulsion: the word "PERFECT" functions as an identity-preserving incantation rather than a factual claim.

### Supply Interruption Failure
The Iowa State Fair should have provided a clean supply sequence (crowds → gratitude → grandiosity). Instead, the Georgia threat penetrated even this protected environment (ts_110877736841668916). This suggests the anticipated indictment represents a narcissistic injury of sufficient magnitude to overwhelm the subject's typical supply-acquisition defensive system — a rare failure state in this personality organization.

### Empathy Deficit Documentation
The complete absence of Maui wildfire reference across 13 posts on a day when 100+ Americans died in the deadliest U.S. wildfire in a century — while finding time for 8 self-referential legal grievance posts — provides unusually clear documentation of the empathy deficit characteristic of narcissistic personality organization.

### Narrative

A potentially triumphant Iowa State Fair campaign day is contaminated by the legal siege dominating Trump's psychological landscape. Legal rage intrudes even into supply events, and the evening's grandiose recap functions as compensatory rather than organic celebration. The contamination is bidirectional: legal wounds poison the rally, while rally supply fails to resolve the legal wounds.

### Dominant themes

- Legal persecution / lawfare (1 post)
- Campaign vitality / narcissistic supply (1 post)
- Georgia indictment / Fani Willis (1 post)
- Biden corruption counter-narrative (1 post)

### Contradictions that day

- [ts_110874170534362392](https://trump.fm/post/ts_110874170534362392): David Weiss would not have been picked by me
  vs. [ts_110874170534362392](https://trump.fm/post/ts_110874170534362392): Weiss was formally nominated as U.S. Attorney by the Trump administration in 2017
- [ts_110877531574232741](https://trump.fm/post/ts_110877531574232741): Prosecutors are engaged in Election Interference against Trump
  vs. [ts_110877531574232741](https://trump.fm/post/ts_110877531574232741): Trump was federally indicted for alleged election interference — accusing prosecutors of the exact crime charged
- [ts_110879292150876162](https://trump.fm/post/ts_110879292150876162): Got our great Farmers 28 Billion Dollars from China
  vs. [ts_110879292150876162](https://trump.fm/post/ts_110879292150876162): The $28B Market Facilitation Program payments came from U.S. taxpayers to offset damage from Trump's own tariff war

### Cognitive concerns

- Schema perseveration: PERFECT PHONE CALL formula deployed identically across Ukraine (2019) and Georgia (2023) contexts
- Linguistic compression under affect load: paragraph → sentence → single word across late-night escalation
- Reality distortion in $28B farmer claim — motivated factual inversion serving psychological needs
- Complete empathy absence: zero mention of 100+ Maui wildfire deaths across 13 posts

## Posts

### [ts_110879292150876162](https://trump.fm/post/ts_110879292150876162)

Truth Social · 2023-08-12T23:42:10.415Z (UTC)

> Just got back from Iowa. Incredible crowds and people! BIG lead in the Polls. Got our great Farmers 28 Billion Dollars from China. NOBODY else could have, or would have, done that. Add USMCA &amp; Ethanol, &amp; we have an unbeatable combination!!!

21,254 likes · 5,080 reposts · 1,049 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110879292150876162.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110879292150876162/analysis

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### [ts_110879262700526654](https://trump.fm/post/ts_110879262700526654)

Truth Social · 2023-08-12T23:34:40.952Z (UTC) · repost

> RT @candacemoore

Reposted from @candacemoore (Candy-O), 2023-08-12T12:07:34.779Z (UTC) (https://truthsocial.com/@candacemoore/110876560902082977)

_No text recovered._

- image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/876/560/845/176/296/original/c22419227f3eb57c.jpg

0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

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### [ts_110878360664425237](https://trump.fm/post/ts_110878360664425237)

Truth Social · 2023-08-12T19:45:16.972Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment

> GREAT afternoon at the IOWA STATE FAIR! https://www.donaldjtrump.com/join

**Video transcript** (0:15), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> [Crowd noise]

19,868 likes · 4,852 reposts · 1,022 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110878360664425237.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110878360664425237/analysis

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### [ts_110878272314962033](https://trump.fm/post/ts_110878272314962033)

Truth Social · 2023-08-12T19:22:48.954Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment

> THANK YOU IOWA—MAGA!!!

**Video transcript** (0:47), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> >> Who loves Trump? >> I do. >> [APPLAUSE]

20,011 likes · 4,823 reposts · 826 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110878272314962033.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110878272314962033/analysis

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### [ts_110878207358582459](https://trump.fm/post/ts_110878207358582459)

Truth Social · 2023-08-12T19:06:17.715Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment

> RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/110877556726168692

Reposted [ts_110877556726168692](https://trump.fm/post/ts_110877556726168692) (2023-08-12T16:20:49.851Z (UTC))

> Looking forward to seeing all of my friends in Iowa. Landing soon!

**Video transcript** (0:14), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> Four more years, four more years, four more years, four more years, four more years, four more years, four more years!

15,592 likes · 3,602 reposts · 517 replies · unknown views

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110878207358582459/analysis

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### [ts_110877736841668916](https://trump.fm/post/ts_110877736841668916)

Truth Social · 2023-08-12T17:06:38.193Z (UTC)

> How can they charge me in Georgia? The phone call was PERFECT. WITCH HUNT!

19,460 likes · 4,689 reposts · 1,775 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110877736841668916.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110877736841668916/analysis

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### [ts_110877556726168692](https://trump.fm/post/ts_110877556726168692)

Truth Social · 2023-08-12T16:20:49.851Z (UTC)

> Looking forward to seeing all of my friends in Iowa. Landing soon!

17,863 likes · 3,237 reposts · 934 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110877556726168692.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110877556726168692/analysis

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### [ts_110877531574232741](https://trump.fm/post/ts_110877531574232741)

Truth Social · 2023-08-12T16:14:26.147Z (UTC)

> The Lunatic Left, working closely with Crooked Joe Biden and his corrupt DOJ, is not only focusing on Election Interference, but on getting the Trump Campaign to spend vast amounts of money on legal fees, thereby having less to spend on ads showing that Crooked Joe is the WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY!

19,189 likes · 5,336 reposts · 1,502 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110877531574232741.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110877531574232741/analysis

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### [ts_110877441628834822](https://trump.fm/post/ts_110877441628834822)

Truth Social · 2023-08-12T15:51:33.612Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment

> “This entire thing is an attempt to stop President Trump from running again.”

**Video transcript** (4:55), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> going on. This went into President Trump. A judge issued a protective order in the case looking into January 6th. A protective order is designed to protect evidence related to the case. It is designed to again protect "sensitive materials." Here's what the district judge Tanya Chutkin had to say, "Mr. Trump, like every American, has a First Amendment right to free speech, but that's right is not absolute. In a criminal case such as this one, the defendant's free speech is subject to the rules." So, anything Trump may say when it comes to this case, not anything and everything, will come under her purview for her to look at and say whether or not it is a violation of this protective order. Here's what President Trump had to say about this First Amendment case. The case is a ridiculous case. It's a First Amendment case, but we don't want Trump to speak. So, they want me, they take away your rights on First Amendment. Now they sue because, so now I have one of these lunatic reporters back there saying, "Sir, we'd like to talk to you about your case." Or, "I'm sorry, I'm not allowed to talk about it." Somehow that's that good for votes. Do you agree? When we say, "I can't talk, I'd lov… (full transcript: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110877441628834822)

14,274 likes · 4,088 reposts · 782 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110877441628834822.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110877441628834822/analysis

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### [ts_110876540237890225](https://trump.fm/post/ts_110876540237890225)

Truth Social · 2023-08-12T12:02:19.473Z (UTC)

> I hear that RACIST Fulton County (Atlanta) District Attorney “Phoney”Fani Willis, who weakly presides over one of the deadliest communities in the U.S., with thousands of murderers, violent criminals &amp; gang members roaming the streets while going untried, free, &amp; are treated with “kid gloves,” is using a potential Indictment of me, and other innocent people, as a campaign and fundraising CON JOB, all based on a PERFECT PHONE CALL, AS PRESIDENT, CHALLENGING ELECTION FRAUD - MY DUTY &amp; RIGHT!

29,185 likes · 8,762 reposts · 3,146 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110876540237890225.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110876540237890225/analysis

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### [ts_110874484345573136](https://trump.fm/post/ts_110874484345573136)

Truth Social · 2023-08-12T03:19:29.047Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment

> “LAWFARE!”

**Video transcript** (4:59), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> Fox News alert, the judge in Donald Trump's January 6th case just set a big trap for the former president. If you read the headlines, you'd believe that Judge Tanya Chutkin came out and ruled in Trump's favor on the state's proposed gag order, which would have completely barred him from discussing his case, documents, evidence, witnesses, the whole thing. Chutkin ruled that Trump is only barred from discussing sensitive information. Okay. Well, what constitutes sensitive information? Oh, nothing, just every single person interviewed by prosecutors because they could be witnesses. Well, that's going to be a problem because Trump happens to be running a presidential campaign against Mike Pence. Now, is Trump going to debate Mike Pence if he can't talk about Mike Pence? Chutkin doesn't care. During the hearings today, she told Trump's attorneys this. The fact that he is running a political campaign currently has to yield to the administration of justice. And if that means he can't say exactly what he wants to say in a political speech, that is just going to how it's going to be half to, adding that she'll be scrutinizing his statements very carefully. Do you really expect Trump to abi… (full transcript: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110874484345573136)

17,924 likes · 6,108 reposts · 1,675 replies · unknown views

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110874484345573136/analysis

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### [ts_110874354986795031](https://trump.fm/post/ts_110874354986795031)

Truth Social · 2023-08-12T02:46:35.182Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment

> “THE BIDEN COVER-UP”

**Video transcript** (5:51), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> A special counsel has just been appointed to oversee the Hunter Biden investigation. But this isn't an investigation. It's a cover-up. Biden's Attorney General Merrick Garland hand-pits the same Delaware prosecutor who's been covering for the Bidens for the last 25 years. On Tuesday of this week, Mr. Weiss advised me that in his judgment, his investigation had reached a stage at which he should continue his work as a special counsel. And he asked to be so appointed. Upon considering his request, as well as the extraordinary circumstances relating to this matter, I have concluded that it is in the public interest to appoint him as special counsel. David Weiss, who just spent the past five years squelching this investigation, is still in charge. Weiss tipped off Hunter Biden to search warrants, ran out the clock on the statute of limitations, never opened the laptop and never followed up on the $5 million Joe Biden bribe allegation. This same man is now being tapped to conduct an investigation that he never did in the first place. The same prosecutor, who a judge caught cooking up a sleazy plea deal for Hunter, is not the right man for the job. A.G. Garland will have Weiss on a short… (full transcript: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110874354986795031)

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### [ts_110874336290852971](https://trump.fm/post/ts_110874336290852971)

Truth Social · 2023-08-12T02:41:49.995Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment

> Laura Ingraham: “Taking Trump off the trail, just as the the GOP primary season kicks off…These people are shameless, nothing but bad faith, as far as the eye can see.”

**Video transcript** (0:24), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> His other special prosecutor, Jack Smith, had asked the court to begin Trump's January 6th trial on January 2nd, 2024. Now, obvious, right? What he's up to there. Taking Trump off the trail just as the GOP primary season kicks off. Nice going. These people are shameless. Nothing but bad faith as far as the eye can see.

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### [ts_110874227348378852](https://trump.fm/post/ts_110874227348378852)

Truth Social · 2023-08-12T02:14:07.574Z (UTC) · repost

> RT @mrddmiaSpoke with @IngrahamAngle tonight about Merrick Garland's appointment of loyal Biden foot soldier David Weiss as special counsel to oversee the Hunter Biden investigation.The Biden DOJ cronies clearly want to move the case out of Judge Maryellen Noreika's jurisdiction to friendlier judges.Noreika had the guts to call out the sweetheart deal that the Biden DOJ set up for Hunter Biden, and Garland is running scared, hiding behind David Weiss.

Reposted from @mrddmia (🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸), 2023-08-11T23:55:26.352Z (UTC) (https://truthsocial.com/@mrddmia/110873682008124536)

> Spoke with @IngrahamAngle tonight about Merrick Garland's appointment of loyal Biden foot soldier David Weiss as special counsel to oversee the Hunter Biden investigation.
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> The Biden DOJ cronies clearly want to move the case out of Judge Maryellen Noreika's jurisdiction to friendlier judges.
>
> Noreika had the guts to call out the sweetheart deal that the Biden DOJ set up for Hunter Biden, and Garland is running scared, hiding behind David Weiss.

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/873/669/602/575/316/original/8aecd85f54c564bc.mp4

**Video transcript** (reposted clip, 1:10), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> Now, Mike, on MSNBC today, not surprisingly perhaps, they were praising this decision to appoint Weiss. This decision to make Weiss a special counsel is another marker that DOJ is renewing its independence during the Biden administration. This insulates decision making about the president's son from political appointees. Mike, that MSNBC that they're happy kind of tells you all you need to know here. Why did Attorney General Merrick Garland wait 30 months to make a special counsel appointment here and why did he pick David Weiss? And the answer is that he picked David Weiss because David Weiss has proven to be a loyal Biden foot soldier within the Justice Department and they did it now because they ran into a roadblock in Delaware called Judge Narika who called into question this sweetheart deal for Hunter Biden that Weiss put together so they're using this special counsel appointment as cover to make Garland look tough when actually what they're doing is they're going to move this case to D.C. or California to protect Biden.

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### [ts_110874170534362392](https://trump.fm/post/ts_110874170534362392)

Truth Social · 2023-08-12T01:59:40.675Z (UTC)

> David Weiss was picked by the two Democrat Senators from Delaware under “Blue Slip.” He would not have been picked by me. But I have a great idea. Why don’t they use Deranged Jack Smith. Weiss has been investigating Hunter for 4 years, giving him the “sweetheart” deal of all sweetheart deals. But a brilliant Judge in Delaware saw through it all. Now, I read, the Department of Injustice wants a new Judge and Jurisdiction. But so do I, with far stronger reasons than Hunter &amp; Crooked Joe. MAGA!!!

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