# Posts from Friday, April 19, 2024

22 posts on 2024-04-19.

## Day analysis

Day analysis page: https://trump.fm/date/2024-04-19/analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-04-11T16:05:23.723Z (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._

**Day One of Criminal Trial Triggers Narcissistic Flooding, Progressive Verbal Collapse**

Trump spent his first day as a criminal defendant in a Manhattan courtroom and used social media to reframe the experience as a constitutional crisis. The morning opened with a rapid-fire burst of legal arguments about presidential immunity, delivered with the tone of a man preparing for battle. By afternoon, the arguments gave way to raw anger — prosecutors became "thugs," the judge was "railroading" him, and the trial was a plot to "destroy our country." The day ended with a two-word post — "WITCH HUNT!!!" — a stark emotional collapse from the structured arguments he started with. Tucked quietly among the rage was a campaign message endorsing early and absentee voting, a complete reversal of years of claims that those methods are vehicles for fraud.

- Posts analyzed: 13
- Dominant state: mixed
- Narrative arc: contamination
- Aggregate rage level: 0.65
- Max danger level: high
- Escalation detected
- Theme obsession: Presidential immunity and criminal trial persecution
- Claims: 28 (18 false)
- Era: 2024 Campaign

# Daily Digest: April 19, 2024

## Location & Timezone Context

Trump was in New York City for the first day of his Manhattan criminal hush-money trial (People v. Trump, 34 felony counts). All times below converted to EDT (UTC−4). Posting window: **9:23 AM – 6:09 PM EDT** — entirely within normal waking hours at his known location.

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## I. Psychological State Tracking

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

The day's dominant psychological signature is a sustained mixed narcissistic state driven by acute institutional confrontation. The subject oscillates between grandiose self-positioning (constitutional defender, protector of the presidency) and vulnerable persecution narratives (targeted by conspirators, railroaded by a corrupt judge). This oscillation is characteristic of narcissistic injury under conditions of high threat and low control — precisely the conditions of involuntary criminal prosecution.

### State Transitions

**Phase 1 — Structured Grandiosity with Vulnerable Undertow (9:23–9:24 AM EDT)**
Five posts deployed in approximately 60 seconds, all centered on presidential immunity. The framing is predominantly grandiose (speaking for the institution of the presidency, invoking the Founders), but the vulnerable subtext is legible in the urgency, ALL-CAPS register, and catastrophic language ("GREAT AND EVERLASTING DANGER"). Posts ts_112298098854411457 through ts_112298102586112232 form a psychologically coherent cluster — likely composed as a batch before the courthouse session, reflecting overnight processing of the trial's psychic meaning.

**Phase 2 — Brief Grandiose Displacement (12:41 PM – 2:26 PM EDT)**
The Harlem campaign post (ts_112298879725551247) and NATO burden-sharing post (ts_112299289371188052) represent a displacement interlude. The NATO post is clinically notable: under acute personal legal threat, the subject retreats to a well-rehearsed, psychologically safe grievance domain (allied defense spending). This is textbook defensive redirection — the subject can be righteous and powerful in this space, unlike the courtroom.

**Phase 3 — Escalating Mixed State with Paranoid Features (2:26–2:30 PM EDT)**
Four posts in four minutes following what appears to be a courthouse break. Posts ts_112299290175235638 and ts_112299291545366475 deploy rage at 0.78 intensity with elevated danger, framing prosecutors as "Nasty, Crooked People" and "Biden's D.C. Thugs" who want to "DESTROY OUR COUNTRY." The Merchan post (ts_112299307282737971) represents the day's peak: rage 0.82, intensity 0.88, danger HIGH. Named targets (Judge Merchan, DA Bragg) receive criminal characterizations. The paranoid features are maximally expressed here — a coordinated federal-local conspiracy is constructed with no documented evidentiary basis.

**Phase 4 — Vulnerable Collapse (5:00 PM EDT)**
"WITCH HUNT!!!" (ts_112299894721864275) — two words, three exclamation marks, zero propositional content. This post represents the emotional terminus of the day. The commentary astutely identifies the compression pattern: as narcissistic injury intensifies and overwhelms regulatory capacity, verbal elaboration collapses toward pure affect. The grandiose register is conspicuously absent, suggesting the day's dual institutional defeats (jury fully seated, appellate stay denied) temporarily breached the grandiose defense structure. This is the most psychologically revealing post of the day precisely because of its emptiness.

**Phase 5 — Aide-Authored Recovery (6:09 PM EDT)**
The voting mobilization post (ts_112300168902589359) is assessed at 0.15 authorship confidence. Its placement at day's end, after the subject's emotional collapse, suggests campaign staff reasserting narrative control.

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## II. Escalation Detection

**Escalation detected: YES**

The day exhibits a two-arc escalation pattern:

### Arc 1: Morning Immunity Burst (9:23–9:24 AM)
Five posts in ~60 seconds with intensity climbing from 0.58 to 0.88. The escalation is compressed and internally coherent — a pre-composed argumentative sequence that builds from constitutional principle to apocalyptic warning. Peak within this arc: ts_112298102586112232 ("GREAT AND EVERLASTING DANGER"), intensity 0.88.

### Arc 2: Afternoon Trial Rage (2:26–2:30 PM)
Following a displacement interlude (NATO/campaign posts), intensity ramps from 0.38 (Germany post) through 0.81 (trial persecution posts) to 0.88 (Merchan attack). This is the day's primary escalation arc, peaking at ts_112299307282737971 with the highest danger rating (HIGH) of any post.

### Post-Peak Collapse
Rather than sustained rage, the subject experiences verbal collapse at 5:00 PM ("WITCH HUNT!!!"), suggesting the escalation exhausted regulatory resources rather than triggering further spiral. This collapse-rather-than-spiral pattern may reflect the constraining effect of the courtroom environment — the subject cannot freely act on rage while physically present in a proceeding.

**Trajectory:** Gradual escalation across two arcs with collapse terminus.
**Peak intensity:** 0.88 at ts_112299307282737971
**Duration:** ~307 minutes from first post to peak (9:23 AM → 2:30 PM EDT)

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## III. Theme Analysis

### Dominant Themes

1. **Presidential Immunity / Legal Self-Defense** (8 posts, 62%): ts_112298098854411457, ts_112298099795296351, ts_112298101345821428, ts_112298102201890826, ts_112298102586112232, ts_112299290175235638, ts_112299291545366475, ts_112299307282737971. The day is consumed by legal jeopardy processing.

2. **Campaign Maintenance** (3 posts, 23%): ts_112298879725551247, ts_112299296829722141, ts_112300168902589359. Aide-authored campaign material providing narrative counterweight to trial-related emotional output.

3. **NATO / Allied Burden-Sharing** (1 post, 8%): ts_112299289371188052. Displacement function — psychologically safe grievance domain.

4. **Persecution / Witch Hunt** (1 post, 8%): ts_112299894721864275. Terminal affect expression.

### Theme Obsession Assessment

**Obsession detected: YES.** The immunity/trial persecution theme dominates 9 of 13 posts (69%) when including the "WITCH HUNT" post. The remaining 4 are aide-authored campaign content (3) and a single displacement post (1). When filtering to authentic-authorship posts only (≥0.60 confidence), trial-related content constitutes 9 of 10 posts (90%). This represents single-topic perseveration driven by acute situational stressor rather than endogenous obsessive ideation.

### Theme Evolution
The thematic arc tracks psychological deterioration: structured constitutional argumentation (morning) → paranoid political conspiracy framing (afternoon) → raw affect (evening). The intellectual scaffolding progressively strips away as the day's institutional defeats accumulate.

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## IV. Contradiction Detection

### Contradiction 1: Universal Principle vs. Targeted Conspiracy (Moderate)
The morning immunity posts frame prosecution as a universal structural threat to all presidents (ts_112298098854411457: "EVERY PRESIDENT THAT LEAVES OFFICE WILL BE IMMEDIATELY INDICTED"). The afternoon posts frame it as a coordinated Biden-specific conspiracy targeting Trump personally (ts_112299291545366475: "Political Attack from Biden's D.C. Thugs"). These frames are logically incompatible — a universal structural vulnerability is not the same as a targeted political operation — but serve complementary psychological functions (institutional legitimacy + personal victimhood).

### Contradiction 2: Early Voting Reversal (Major)
The voting post (ts_112300168902589359) endorses "ABSENTEE VOTING, EARLY VOTING, AND ELECTION DAY VOTING" as "ALL GOOD OPTIONS." This directly contradicts years of sustained rhetoric (2020–2023) in which Trump characterized absentee and early voting as fraud mechanisms, filed lawsuits targeting them, and built political identity around the claim they stole the 2020 election. The reversal occurs without acknowledgment, explanation, or apology — a significant epistemic demand on followers.

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## V. Hypomanic Indicators

- **Post count:** 13 posts across 8 hours 46 minutes
- **Posting window (EDT):** 9:23 AM – 6:09 PM (entirely within normal business hours)
- **Burst patterns:** Two rapid-fire clusters — 5 posts in ~60 seconds (9:23 AM), 5 posts in ~4 minutes (2:26 PM)
- **Time gaps:** 3h17m gap between morning burst and midday post; 1h45m gap between afternoon Harlem post and afternoon burst; 2h30m gap to WITCH HUNT; 1h09m to final post
- **Sleep deprivation indicators:** None. No posts before 9 AM or after 7 PM EDT. Posting pattern is consistent with courthouse schedule (pre-session, lunch break, post-session).
- **Hypomanic episode threshold:** **Not met.** The burst posting pattern is better explained by acute situational stress (first day of criminal trial) than by endogenous mood elevation. The posting is reactive and thematically focused rather than expansive and tangential, which is inconsistent with hypomanic presentation.

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## VI. Narrative Arc: Contamination

The day follows a **contamination** narrative — a controlled opening progressively deteriorates toward victimhood and emotional collapse.

The morning posts, while intense, represent the subject's most organized psychological position of the day: structured legal argumentation, constitutional framing, invocation of founding principles. This is the "together" version of the defendant — anxious but cognitively regulated, deploying rehearsed legal-political arguments ahead of the courthouse session.

The day's institutional defeats — the full jury seated, the appellate stay denied — progressively erode this regulatory structure. By afternoon, the constitutional framing has been replaced by paranoid conspiracy narratives ("Biden's D.C. Thugs"), dehumanizing language aimed at legal officials ("Nasty, Crooked People"), and personalized attacks on the presiding judge. By evening, even these elaborated responses have collapsed into a two-word automatism: "WITCH HUNT!!!"

The trajectory is one of progressive defensive failure: grandiose → mixed → vulnerable. The aide-authored voting post at 6:09 PM reads as campaign staff applying a tourniquet to the day's narrative hemorrhage.

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## VII. Event Correlation

### Primary Trigger: Full Jury Seated / Stay Denied
The entire posting day is organized around the Manhattan criminal trial. The dual institutional defeats — complete jury selection and appellate denial of a stay — constitute the primary triggering events. Every authentic post responds to this stressor, either directly (immunity arguments, trial rage) or through displacement (NATO burden-sharing). The reaction type is **defensive** in the morning (constitutional argumentation) and **offensive** by afternoon (attacks on named officials).

### Non-Referenced Events
FISA Section 702 reauthorization, Taylor Swift's album release, and the Columbia University Gaza protests receive zero engagement. This absence is itself diagnostically significant — on a typical day, at least one of these high-salience cultural/political events would attract commentary. The trial has effectively monopolized the subject's cognitive resources.

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## VIII. Danger Assessment

### Highest Danger Level: HIGH

The Merchan post (ts_112299307282737971) reaches HIGH danger due to:
- Named targets (Judge Merchan, DA Bragg) receiving criminal characterizations ("corrupt," "railroading")
- Documented background of prior threats to both individuals
- Stochastic terrorism indicators: criminal framing of identifiable officials + radicalized audience + ambient threat environment
- The "SCAM" and "election interference" framing provides moral justification framework for follower action

### Stochastic Terrorism Pattern: Present

Across the day, a cumulative pattern emerges:
1. Legal officials are framed as enemies of America (ts_112299290175235638: "want to DESTROY OUR COUNTRY")
2. Specific officials are named and criminally characterized (ts_112299307282737971: Merchan "railroading," Bragg corrupt)
3. Federal conspiracy is alleged (ts_112299291545366475: "Biden's D.C. Thugs")
4. Dehumanizing language normalizes hostility (ts_112299291545366475: "Thugs"; ts_112299290175235638: "Nasty, Crooked People")

No single post constitutes a direct incitement. The pattern across posts creates ambient threat conditions by systematically delegitimizing and dehumanizing identifiable legal officials before an audience with documented history of threat behavior toward these same individuals.

### Danger Post IDs
- ts_112298099795296351 (elevated)
- ts_112298102586112232 (elevated)
- ts_112299290175235638 (elevated)
- ts_112299291545366475 (elevated)
- ts_112299307282737971 (HIGH)

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## IX. Cognitive Concerns

### Aggregate Markers
- **Perseveration:** Severe. Single-topic fixation across 90% of authentic posts. Situationally driven but clinically notable in its totality.
- **Verbal complexity decline:** Present. Morning posts deploy multi-clause arguments with constitutional vocabulary. By 5 PM, output has collapsed to a two-word automatism. This is affect-driven rather than cognitive in origin, but the trajectory is clinically significant.
- **Catastrophic threat inflation:** Persistent. Personal criminal trial → "EVERLASTING DANGER" to the nation. This is a stable feature of the subject's rhetoric but intensified under acute stress.
- **Factual accuracy:** Multiple false claims (European budget surpluses, Founders' intent on immunity, coordinated Biden-Bragg conspiracy). Consistent with established baseline of factual inaccuracy under stress.
- **No novel cognitive markers** detected. All patterns are within the subject's established behavioral range, intensified by situational stressor.

### Complexity Trend: Declining

The trajectory from structured multi-sentence legal argumentation to two-word affect discharge represents a clear within-day decline in expressive complexity. This is better characterized as emotional flooding overwhelming cognitive regulation than as organic cognitive deterioration.

### Narrative

The day follows a contamination arc: a structured, legally-framed morning opening progressively deteriorates through paranoid conspiracy narratives and personalized attacks on legal officials, culminating in a two-word emotional collapse. The grandiose defensive structure erected before the courthouse session is systematically eroded by the day's institutional defeats — full jury seated, appellate stay denied — leaving raw vulnerability exposed by evening.

### Dominant themes

- Presidential immunity / legal self-defense (1 post)
- Campaign maintenance (1 post)
- NATO / allied burden-sharing (1 post)
- Persecution / witch hunt (1 post)

### Contradictions that day

- [ts_112298098854411457](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112298098854411457): Every president who leaves office will be immediately indicted — this is a universal structural threat to the presidency
  vs. [ts_112299291545366475](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112299291545366475): This is a targeted political attack from Biden's D.C. thugs coordinated with the DA's office to help re-elect Biden
- [ts_112300168902589359](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112300168902589359): Absentee voting, early voting, and Election Day voting are ALL GOOD OPTIONS
  vs. [ts_112300168902589359](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112300168902589359): Contradicts years of sustained rhetoric (2020-2023) characterizing absentee and early voting as fraud mechanisms that stole the 2020 election

### Cognitive concerns

- Severe perseveration: 90% of authentic posts fixated on single topic (trial/immunity)
- Progressive verbal complexity decline: structured multi-clause arguments collapse to two-word automatism by evening
- Catastrophic threat inflation: personal criminal trial reframed as existential national danger
- Multiple false or misleading factual claims under stress (European budgets, Founders' intent, coordinated conspiracy)

## Posts

### [ts_112300168902589359](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112300168902589359)

Truth Social · 2024-04-19T22:09:49.004Z (UTC)

> ABSENTEE VOTING, EARLY VOTING, AND ELECTION DAY VOTING ARE ALL GOOD OPTIONS. REPUBLICANS MUST MAKE A PLAN, REGISTER, AND VOTE!

22,238 likes · 5,928 reposts · 1,763 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112300168902589359.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112300168902589359/analysis

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### [ts_112299894721864275](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112299894721864275)

Truth Social · 2024-04-19T21:00:05.297Z (UTC)

> WITCH HUNT!!!

19,252 likes · 4,386 reposts · 1,984 replies · unknown views

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112299894721864275/analysis

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### [ts_112299468870383203](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112299468870383203)

Truth Social · 2024-04-19T19:11:47.319Z (UTC) · repost

> RT @realDonaldTrumpJoin me this Saturday, April 20th, in Wilmington, North Carolina—at 7:00 PM Eastern! Tickets: https://event.donaldjtrump.com/events/president-donald-j-trump-to-hold-a-rally-in-wilmington-north-carolina

Reposted from @realDonaldTrump (Donald J. Trump), 2024-04-17T23:06:06.116Z (UTC) (https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/112289065602899142)

> Join me this Saturday, April 20th, in Wilmington, North Carolina—at 7:00 PM Eastern! Tickets: https://event.donaldjtrump.com/events/president-donald-j-trump-to-hold-a-rally-in-wilmington-north-carolina

0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

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### [ts_112299430049149872](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112299430049149872)

Truth Social · 2024-04-19T19:01:54.951Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment

**Video transcript** (1:05), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> "It's a circus at the courthouse as Donald Trump's hush money trial gets underway." "This is a Manhattan jury. It went 87% for Biden." "One of the jurors said, 'I don't believe I can be fair in a vice.'" "The deck is stacked against him." "2-0, Trump violated election laws, okay. What laws?" "I've said from the beginning, this case is an abomination." "All you're doing is showing that you're scared you can't beat 'em." "I mean, this is a Frankenstein case. They took a dead misdemeanor." "They attached it to a dead alleged federal felony and zapped it back into life." "It's alive!" "You know, this guy, Bragg, I gotta tell you, he is a make-believe prosecutor." "Wappenizing the legal system for political gain." "Bragg isn't just trying to enforce federal campaign finance law, he's making up his own federal campaign finance law." "So you tell me how this is not a conflict of interest." "This is an American president. This is the United States of America's highest office." "And we're doing this?"

13,468 likes · 5,096 reposts · 778 replies · unknown views

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### [ts_112299307282737971](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112299307282737971)

Truth Social · 2024-04-19T18:30:41.692Z (UTC)

> Judge Merchan is “railroading” me, at breakneck speed, in order to completely satisfy his “friends.” Additionally, he has “GAGGED” me so that I cannot talk about the most important of topics, including his totally disqualifying conflict of interest, and taking away my Constitutional Right of Free Speech. Almost every Legal Scholar and Expert has stated that there is “NO CASE,” that this is a SCAM brought about by a Corrupt District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, who has let Violent Crime in New York flourish at levels never seen before, working with Crooked Joe Biden’s DOJ, IN ORDER TO HARM HIS POLITICAL OPPONENT, ME. THIS IS ELECTION INTERFERENCE AT A LEVEL NEVER SEEN BEFORE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. MAGA2024!

19,115 likes · 6,015 reposts · 2,685 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112299307282737971.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112299307282737971/analysis

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### [ts_112299296829722141](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112299296829722141)

Truth Social · 2024-04-19T18:28:02.227Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment

> MAKE NEW YORK SAFE AGAIN! https://www.DonaldTrump.com

12,976 likes · 3,187 reposts · 432 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112299296829722141.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112299296829722141/analysis

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### [ts_112299291545366475](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112299291545366475)

Truth Social · 2024-04-19T18:26:41.595Z (UTC)

> We are under Political Attack from Biden’s D.C. Thugs, working closely with the D.A.’s Office, in order to help Re-Elect Crooked Joe Biden, the Worst President in History. MAGA2024!

14,919 likes · 3,970 reposts · 663 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112299291545366475.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112299291545366475/analysis

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### [ts_112299290175235638](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112299290175235638)

Truth Social · 2024-04-19T18:26:20.689Z (UTC)

> This Trial is a Long, Rigged, Endurance Contest, dealing with Nasty, Crooked People, who want to DESTROY OUR COUNTRY. MAGA2024!

14,457 likes · 3,849 reposts · 708 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112299290175235638.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112299290175235638/analysis

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### [ts_112299289371188052](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112299289371188052)

Truth Social · 2024-04-19T18:26:08.454Z (UTC)

> Germany and other European Countries have Massive Budget Surpluses, as we spend Billions to defend them!

12,589 likes · 3,549 reposts · 406 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112299289371188052.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112299289371188052/analysis

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### [ts_112298883989531813](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112298883989531813)

Truth Social · 2024-04-19T16:43:02.791Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment

10,208 likes · 3,471 reposts · 632 replies · unknown views

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### [ts_112298883212548595](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112298883212548595)

Truth Social · 2024-04-19T16:42:50.929Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment

10,713 likes · 2,735 reposts · 324 replies · unknown views

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### [ts_112298882549157530](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112298882549157530)

Truth Social · 2024-04-19T16:42:40.806Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment

8,698 likes · 2,100 reposts · 173 replies · unknown views

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### [ts_112298881868549028](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112298881868549028)

Truth Social · 2024-04-19T16:42:30.420Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment

8,483 likes · 2,011 reposts · 172 replies · unknown views

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### [ts_112298881264445649](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112298881264445649)

Truth Social · 2024-04-19T16:42:21.204Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment

7,784 likes · 1,897 reposts · 127 replies · unknown views

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### [ts_112298880618108525](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112298880618108525)

Truth Social · 2024-04-19T16:42:11.346Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment

8,210 likes · 2,019 reposts · 175 replies · unknown views

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### [ts_112298879725551247](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112298879725551247)

Truth Social · 2024-04-19T16:41:57.724Z (UTC) · 2 media attachments

> 4/16/24 | HARLEM https://wwwDonaldJTrump.com

9,254 likes · 2,297 reposts · 195 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112298879725551247.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112298879725551247/analysis

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### [ts_112298430424628686](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112298430424628686)

Truth Social · 2024-04-19T14:47:41.969Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment

**Video transcript** (3:13), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> -Do you feel you have a plan, Jordan? -President Johnson, Congress has to create it. So, thank you very much. As you know, I've been saying for a long while, this is a rigged trial. It's coming from the White House. They have White House DOJ people in the trial, in the DA's office, representing the DA because he's probably not smart enough to represent himself as a guy who got elected using Trump. And you're not supposed to do that very much like Latisha James, all of it. New York is going down as a very corrupt place to do business. And I can tell you, a lot of people are not going to be moving to New York. But this is a rigged case, and this is a case that was put in very strongly because of politics. So, instead of being in Pennsylvania or Georgia or North Carolina or lots of other places today, I'm sitting in a courthouse all day long. This is going on for the week. And this will go on for another four or five weeks, and it's very unfair. And people know -- and people know it's very unfair. The gag order has to come off. People are allowed to speak about being, and I have a gag order, just to show you how much more unfair it is. And the conflict has to end with the judge. The j… (full transcript: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112298430424628686)

19,468 likes · 5,617 reposts · 1,748 replies · unknown views

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### [ts_112298102586112232](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112298102586112232)

Truth Social · 2024-04-19T13:24:19.519Z (UTC)

> WITHOUT PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY, IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR A PRESIDENT TO PROPERLY FUNCTION, PUTTING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN GREAT AND EVERLASTING DANGER!

16,216 likes · 4,303 reposts · 1,455 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112298102586112232.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112298102586112232/analysis

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### [ts_112298102201890826](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112298102201890826)

Truth Social · 2024-04-19T13:24:13.656Z (UTC)

> IF THEY TAKE AWAY MY PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY, THEY TAKE AWAY CROOKED JOE BIDEN’S PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY.

26,545 likes · 6,950 reposts · 2,394 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112298102201890826.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112298102201890826/analysis

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### [ts_112298101345821428](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112298101345821428)

Truth Social · 2024-04-19T13:24:00.591Z (UTC)

> Without Presidential Immunity, the Presidency will lose its power and prestige, and under some Leaders, have no power at all. The Presidency will be consumed by the other Branches of Government. THAT IS NOT WHAT OUR FOUNDERS WANTED!

13,606 likes · 3,525 reposts · 532 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112298101345821428.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112298101345821428/analysis

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### [ts_112298099795296351](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112298099795296351)

Truth Social · 2024-04-19T13:23:36.931Z (UTC)

> If a President does not have Immunity, the Opposing Party, during his/her term in Office, can extort and blackmail the President by saying that, “if you don’t give us everything we want, we will Indict you for things you did while in Office,” even if everything done was totally Legal and Appropriate. That would be the end of the Presidency, and our Country, as we know it, and is just one of the many Traps there would be for a President without Presidential Immunity. Obama, Bush, and soon, Crooked Joe Biden, would all be in BIG TROUBLE. If a President doesn’t have IMMUNITY, he/she will be nothing more than a “Ceremonial” President, rarely having the courage to do what has to be done for our Country. This is not what the Founders had in mind! Protect Presidential Immunity. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

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### [ts_112298098854411457](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112298098854411457)

Truth Social · 2024-04-19T13:23:22.574Z (UTC)

> IF IMMUNITY IS NOT GRANTED TO A PRESIDENT, EVERY PRESIDENT THAT LEAVES OFFICE WILL BE IMMEDIATELY INDICTED BY THE OPPOSING PARTY. WITHOUT COMPLETE IMMUNITY, A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO PROPERLY FUNCTION!

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