# Posts from Saturday, April 20, 2024 32 posts on 2024-04-20. ## Day analysis Day analysis page: https://trump.fm/date/2024-04-20/analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-04-11T15:57:13.983Z (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._ **Trial Jury Seated, Trump Spirals Into All-Day Immunity Obsession** Trump's day was dominated by his Manhattan criminal trial, where a full jury was seated and his last-ditch immunity appeal was rejected. He responded with a sustained barrage of posts arguing for absolute presidential immunity — returning to the topic more than ten times across the afternoon. The mood swung between anxious self-defense and flashes of grandiose confidence, with a brief flash of real anger when he demanded the judge be removed. By evening, a campaign rally in Wilmington, North Carolina offered a reset, shifting him into crowd-pleasing mode. Notably absent: any mention of the House passing a major Ukraine aid bill or the growing Columbia University protests. - Posts analyzed: 25 - Dominant state: mixed - Narrative arc: contamination - Aggregate rage level: 0.38 - Max danger level: elevated - Escalation detected - Theme obsession: Presidential immunity - Claims: 53 (23 false) - Era: 2024 Campaign ## Daily Psychological Profile: April 20, 2024 ### Context & Location Trump was in New York for his Manhattan criminal hush money trial during the workweek, with a campaign rally scheduled for 7:00 PM EDT in Wilmington, North Carolina. All times are converted to EDT (UTC−4). The posting window spans 8:42 PM EDT on April 19 through 6:52 PM EDT on April 20, with a 12-hour-45-minute overnight gap indicating normal sleep. ### Triggering Events The dominant trigger was the **full seating of the criminal jury** in the Manhattan hush money trial (People v. Trump), with opening arguments imminent. A secondary trigger was the **D.C. Circuit's rejection of Trump's immunity stay**, compounding the legal threat. Notably absent from the day's output: any response to the House's passage of $95.3B in foreign aid (including Ukraine funding) or the escalating Columbia University protests — both major news events that would ordinarily attract comment. This attentional narrowing is clinically significant, suggesting the trial monopolized cognitive resources to the exclusion of normally high-salience political topics. ### Psychological State Tracking **Dominant state: Mixed (grandiose-vulnerable oscillation)** The day exhibits a textbook narcissistic oscillation pattern organized around a central legal injury: 1. **Evening baseline (8:42–8:50 PM EDT, Apr 19):** Grandiose. Two low-intensity posts praising allies and promoting a book. The subject performs the magnanimous patron role — warm, expansive, issuing personal promises to call supporters (ts_112300770133694813, ts_112300799336174565). 2. **Morning activation (9:36 AM EDT):** Vulnerable. The first post after the overnight gap is a full ALL-CAPS immunity demand (ts_112303812917835369). The shift from relaxed patronage to defensive constitutional argumentation signals that the trial's overnight psychological processing produced acute anxiety. The vulnerable state is masked by aggressive typography but betrayed by the defensive posture. 3. **Peak distress (10:13–10:14 AM EDT):** Mixed, rage-dominant. Post ts_112303957058200168 represents the day's maximum psychological activation (intensity 0.93, rage 0.85). The DARVO sequence is fully deployed: denial, attack, reversal of victim/offender. The demand that Judge Merchan "MUST BE REMOVED IMMEDIATELY" crosses into borderline stochastic terrorism territory. One minute later, ts_112303961007796682 ("TRUTH SOCIAL IS THE REAL VOICE OF AMERICA!!!") represents compensatory grandiosity — a brief manic assertion of dominance between eruptions of persecution anxiety. 4. **Sustained immunity perseveration (11:42 AM–3:09 PM EDT):** Mixed with grandiose and vulnerable alternation. Ten posts on presidential immunity within approximately five hours constitute the day's defining psychological feature. The subject cycles between two registers: - **Raw emotional discharge** (ALL CAPS, personal pronouns, rage): ts_112304991352988782, ts_112305085944404923 - **Polished constitutional argumentation** (mixed case, institutional framing, Founders invocations): ts_112304308352955328, ts_112304518556074264, ts_112305116582213823, ts_112305117296223846 This dual-register pattern suggests both authentic Trump distress and aide-mediated strategic messaging operating in parallel. The 3:00–3:09 PM EDT cluster is particularly striking: seven posts in eleven minutes, the highest posting density of the day, including the four-post "Page 2" immunity treatise and the maximally aggressive Biden-prosecution threat. 5. **Rally-mode decompression (5:35–6:52 PM EDT):** Grandiose. The subject shifts to campaign supply-seeking — rally promotions, crowd expressions of love, supporter testimonials. The narcissistic economy rebalances as the subject moves from the courtroom (injury site) to the rally (supply site). ### Escalation Analysis **Escalation detected.** The trajectory is best characterized as a **spike** with sustained plateau: - **Onset:** ts_112303812917835369 (9:36 AM EDT) — first immunity post, rage 0.62 - **Peak:** ts_112303957058200168 (10:13 AM EDT) — maximum activation, rage 0.85, intensity 0.93 - **Sustained plateau:** 10:14 AM–3:38 PM EDT — seven additional rage-bearing or elevated-danger posts - **De-escalation:** 3:38 PM EDT onward — shift to rally content - **Duration:** Approximately 360 minutes from onset to resolution The escalation is disproportionate to the proximate trigger in the sense that jury seating is a routine procedural step, but proportionate to the existential threat it represents to the subject's narcissistic self-structure. The 37-minute gap between onset and peak is rapid, consistent with narcissistic injury response rather than deliberate strategic escalation. ### Theme Analysis **Presidential immunity** dominates overwhelmingly — 10 of 25 posts (40%) are dedicated exclusively to this topic. This constitutes **abnormal single-topic perseveration** well above baseline thematic diversity. The immunity argument evolves across the day: 1. **Universal constitutional principle** (9:36 AM): Every president will be indicted 2. **Specific trial grievance** (10:13 AM): This trial is a scam rushed by partisans 3. **Extortion/blackmail scenario** (11:42 AM): Opposing party will use indictment as leverage 4. **Bilateral threat** (2:36 PM): Biden loses immunity too 5. **Existential/apocalyptic** (3:00 PM): "GREAT AND EVERLASTING DANGER" 6. **Founders' sacred intent** (3:02–3:09 PM): Constitutional heritage invoked 7. **Retaliatory prosecution** (3:07 PM): Biden's "ACTUAL CRIMES" enumerated Secondary themes include campaign rally promotion (6 posts, 24%), narcissistic supply/endorsements (4 posts, 16%), and platform promotion (1 post, 4%). The trial and immunity themes are functionally merged, representing approximately 48% of the day's output dedicated to legal self-defense. ### Contradiction Detection **Major contradiction — Immunity for me but not for thee:** The day's central logical inconsistency is the simultaneous insistence that presidential immunity is constitutionally essential for presidential function AND the explicit threat to prosecute the sitting president (Biden). - ts_112305085944404923: "WITHOUT PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY, IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR A PRESIDENT TO PROPERLY FUNCTION" - ts_112305114245672523: Biden "would certainly be Prosecuted for his many ACTUAL CRIMES" If immunity is necessary for presidential function, then prosecuting Biden (a sitting president) would impair that function — the very outcome Trump claims to oppose. This contradiction reveals that the constitutional argument is instrumentalized self-defense rather than principled position. **Moderate contradiction — Personal vs. institutional framing:** - ts_112304991352988782 frames immunity as "MY PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY" (personal possession) - ts_112304518556074264 frames it as institutional necessity ("the Presidency will lose its power and prestige") The shift between personal and institutional framing exposes the narcissistic self-state merger underlying the constitutional argument: the subject cannot consistently distinguish between his personal legal exposure and the structural integrity of the office. ### Hypomanic Indicators - **Post count:** 25 (estimated 70th–75th percentile for Trump's Truth Social baseline) - **Posting window (local):** 8:42 PM EDT (Apr 19) to 6:52 PM EDT (Apr 20) - **Overnight gap:** 12 hours 45 minutes (8:50 PM → 9:36 AM) — normal - **Maximum posting density:** 7 posts in 11 minutes (3:00–3:13 PM EDT) — very high but contextually driven - **Sleep deprivation evidence:** None. The overnight gap is consistent with 7–9 hours of sleep. - **Hypomanic episode threshold: Not met.** While posting frequency is elevated and single-topic perseveration is notable, the pattern is better explained by acute situational stress (criminal trial) than by endogenous mood dysregulation. The normal overnight gap, coherent thematic organization, and appropriate evening decompression argue against hypomania. ### Narrative Arc: Contamination The day follows a **contamination arc** — a narrative structure in which a positive or neutral situation is progressively poisoned by negative intrusion. What could have been a standard campaign day (endorsements, rally promotion, crowd engagement) is contaminated by the trial proceedings. The evening of April 19 shows a relaxed, grandiose figure praising supporters; by morning, the trial has consumed the psychological field. The afternoon rally provides temporary relief but cannot resolve the underlying injury. The subject never achieves the redemptive turn that would characterize a redemption arc — there is no moment of mastery or transcendence over the legal threat, only displacement into rally narcissistic supply. ### Danger Assessment **Maximum danger level: Elevated** (8 posts) No individual post reaches "high" or "critical," but the **cumulative pattern** is more concerning than any single post: - **Target identification:** Judge Merchan named and characterized as corrupt; Biden and prosecutors identified as persecutors - **Grievance articulation:** Sustained, escalating framing of legal process as existential attack on national survival - **Mobilization language:** "the great people of America WILL NOT STAND FOR IT" (ts_112305114245672523); "MUST BE REMOVED IMMEDIATELY" regarding Judge Merchan (ts_112303957058200168) - **Stochastic terrorism pattern:** Present at low-to-moderate level. The combination of named judicial targets, sustained grievance framing, and diffuse mobilization language across multiple posts creates cumulative radicalization potential exceeding what individual post-level assessments capture. Danger-flagged posts: ts_112303812917835369, ts_112303957058200168, ts_112304308352955328, ts_112305085944404923, ts_112305095954297300, ts_112305114245672523, ts_112305116582213823, ts_112305121124205366. ### Cognitive Assessment - **Complexity trend: Stable.** Posts range from eight-word declarations to multi-paragraph constitutional arguments. The variation reflects register-switching (authentic vs. aide-assisted) rather than cognitive fluctuation. - **Notable markers:** "far ahead of the times" (slight idiom drift, ts_112300770133694813); perseverative single-topic focus (10 immunity posts); involuntary anxiety surfacing through constitutional abstraction ("His mind must be clear, and he must not be guided by the fear of retribution" — ts_112305116582213823, revealing the subject's own fear state through projected universalization). - **Attentional narrowing:** Failure to respond to major political events (Ukraine aid vote, Columbia protests) suggests threat-processing has consumed available attentional bandwidth. - **No significant cognitive deterioration** relative to established baseline. ### Defense Mechanism Inventory The day deploys a comprehensive suite of narcissistic defenses: 1. **Projection** (dominant): Allegations facing Trump (foreign financial entanglement, prosecutor manipulation, abuse of power) systematically attributed to Biden across multiple posts 2. **DARVO** (systematic): Denial → Attack → Reverse Victim/Offender deployed in at least 4 posts (ts_112303957058200168, ts_112305095954297300, ts_112305114245672523, ts_112305121124205366) 3. **Rationalization**: Personal legal jeopardy repackaged as constitutional principle in every immunity post 4. **Displacement**: Criminal defendant → constitutional guardian / institutional martyr 5. **Splitting**: "THEY" (unnamed persecutors) vs. "the great people" / the Founders 6. **Distortion**: Routine legal procedure → "Nation-destroying ruling"; commercial platform → "REAL VOICE OF AMERICA" 7. **Denial**: "I DID NOTHING WRONG" despite 34 felony counts with documentary evidence ### Authorship Analysis The day exhibits a clear dual-authorship pattern: - **Authentic Trump (high confidence):** ALL CAPS immunity/trial posts, personal outreach (ts_112300770133694813), rally excitement posts. Markers: emotional volatility, personal pronouns, characteristic lexicon, typo-adjacent formatting. - **Aide-generated/polished:** Link shares, endorsement quote posts, formal immunity arguments (ts_112305116582213823, ts_112305117296223846). Markers: business-hours timing, absence of Trump lexicon, structural coherence, strategic framing. Average authorship confidence across the day: 0.47, indicating roughly half the output is staff-mediated — consistent with a high-stress legal day where communications infrastructure is fully mobilized. ### Narrative The day follows a contamination arc: an evening of relaxed grandiose patronage gives way to a morning consumed by trial anxiety, which poisons what could have been a standard campaign day. Ten immunity posts across five hours represent the central psychological event — personal legal jeopardy converted into existential constitutional crisis through sustained defense mechanism deployment. The evening rally provides temporary narcissistic supply but no genuine resolution of the underlying injury. The subject never achieves mastery or transcendence over the legal threat. ### Dominant themes - Presidential immunity (1 post) - Campaign rally and events (1 post) - Narcissistic supply and endorsements (1 post) - Trial persecution and witch hunt (1 post) - Platform promotion (1 post) ### Contradictions that day - [ts_112305085944404923](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112305085944404923): WITHOUT PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY, IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR A PRESIDENT TO PROPERLY FUNCTION vs. [ts_112305114245672523](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112305114245672523): Biden would certainly be Prosecuted for his many ACTUAL CRIMES if immunity is removed - [ts_112304991352988782](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112304991352988782): IF THEY TAKE AWAY MY PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY — framing immunity as personal possession vs. [ts_112304518556074264](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112304518556074264): The Presidency will lose its power and prestige — framing immunity as institutional necessity ### Cognitive concerns - Perseverative single-topic focus: 10 of 25 posts (40%) on presidential immunity, well above baseline thematic diversity - Attentional narrowing: no response to major political events (House Ukraine aid vote, Columbia University protests) despite high baseline salience - Slight idiom drift: 'far ahead of the times' in ts_112300770133694813 (standard idiom is 'ahead of the times' or 'ahead of his time') - Involuntary anxiety projection: 'His mind must be clear, and he must not be guided by the fear of retribution' surfaces the subject's own psychological state through constitutional abstraction ## Posts ### [ts_112305998403864793](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112305998403864793) Truth Social · 2024-04-20T22:52:20.089Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment > A message to the Great People of Wilmington, North Carolina… **Video transcript** (2:03), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Trump, your favorite president of all time, hopefully. As you can see, there's some very bad weather heading in and we're flying in in a few minutes, but they really would prefer that we not come in because it's a certain danger to all of this. And we want to make sure that everybody is safe above all. And so they've asked us to ask people to leave the site and seek shelter. And what we'll do is we'll make up for this very quickly at another time, but we'll do it as quick as possible. I'm more devastated that this could happen, but we want to keep everybody safe. It's the most important thing and we want everybody there to be 100% safe. There seems to be some thunder and lightning and it's a pretty big storm. So if you don't mind, I think we're going to have to just do a rain check. I'm so sad, I'm in North Carolina right now and waiting to go in, but they're saying the weather is really getting bad, really, really getting bad. So we have to rely on the weather service and some of the officials, and I just want to thank you. I'm so sorry, but we'll do it again and we'll do it bigger and better and you have my promise. Same location. And thank you all very much. Thank you, everybody… (full transcript: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112305998403864793) 19,236 likes · 4,910 reposts · 1,215 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112305998403864793.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112305998403864793/analysis --- ### [ts_112305725516505960](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112305725516505960) Truth Social · 2024-04-20T21:42:56.159Z (UTC) · repost > RT @realDonaldTrumpTRUTH SOCIAL IS THE REAL VOICE OF AMERICA!!! Reposted from @realDonaldTrump (Donald J. Trump), 2024-04-20T14:14:11.897Z (UTC) (https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/112303961007796682) > TRUTH SOCIAL IS THE REAL VOICE OF AMERICA!!! 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views --- ### [ts_112305722744534029](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112305722744534029) Truth Social · 2024-04-20T21:42:13.863Z (UTC) · repost > RT @realDonaldTrumphttps://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/how-to-watch-president-trumps-rally-in-wilmington-north-carolina/ Reposted from @realDonaldTrump (Donald J. Trump), 2024-04-20T16:56:42.100Z (UTC) (https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/112304599997371857) > https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/how-to-watch-president-trumps-rally-in-wilmington-north-carolina/ 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views --- ### [ts_112305722214433598](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112305722214433598) Truth Social · 2024-04-20T21:42:05.774Z (UTC) · repost > RT @realDonaldTrump Reposted from @realDonaldTrump (Donald J. Trump), 2024-04-20T16:57:05.585Z (UTC) (https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/112304601536428590) _No text recovered._ - image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/112/304/601/507/217/104/original/394fdd6e2e69420a.jpg 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views --- ### [ts_112305720826897095](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112305720826897095) Truth Social · 2024-04-20T21:41:44.602Z (UTC) · repost > RT @realDonaldTrumpJoin me LIVE, tonight in Wilmington, North Carolina—at 7:00pm Eastern. Will be on @RSBN, @NewsMax, @OAN, @realAmericasVoice, and Donald J. Trump @Rumble, among others. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! https://rumble.com/v4qewlt-president-trump-in-wilmington-nc.html Reposted from @realDonaldTrump (Donald J. Trump), 2024-04-20T17:51:31.741Z (UTC) (https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/112304815587274930) > Join me LIVE, tonight in Wilmington, North Carolina—at 7:00pm Eastern. Will be on @RSBN, @NewsMax, @OAN, @realAmericasVoice, and Donald J. Trump @Rumble, among others. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! https://rumble.com/v4qewlt-president-trump-in-wilmington-nc.html 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views --- ### [ts_112305695426311930](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112305695426311930) Truth Social · 2024-04-20T21:35:17.025Z (UTC) > RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/112289065602899142 I LOVE NORTH CAROLINA. Heading to Wilmington NOW. See you soon!!! DJT Reposted [ts_112289065602899142](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112289065602899142) (2024-04-17T23:06:06.116Z (UTC)) > 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 7,630 likes · 1,165 reposts · 234 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112305695426311930.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112305695426311930/analysis --- ### [ts_112305237640985781](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112305237640985781) Truth Social · 2024-04-20T19:38:51.775Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment > “Primarily I have voted Democrat throughout my life, but I’m utterly disgusted with what I’m seeing…They’ve clearly politicized this thing with Donald Trump because they can’t come up with a strategy to offset the momentum he’s clearly gained.” **Video transcript** (0:56), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > When I think about Donald Trump, I think about this case in New York. I mean, I'm looking at the Democrats right now, and again, primarily I have voted Democrat throughout my life, but I'm utterly disgusted with what I'm seeing because it seems to me that they're trying to use the law in the courts. They've clearly politicized this thing with Donald Trump because they can't come up with a strategy to offset the momentum. He's clearly gayed. In at least five polls, he's up. He's up in the polls over Biden, in at least five polls that I counted. That's the reality of the situation, despite the counts against them, the indictments against them being impeached twice and all of this other stuff. He is the presumptive GOP nominee, and you don't seem to have the issues in your favor. You believe, so because of that, you're going to manipulate the system as best as you possibly can to avoid him possibly running for reelection again. That appears to be their strategy, but I'm here to tell you, it's not working. 13,474 likes · 3,831 reposts · 799 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112305237640985781.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112305237640985781/analysis --- ### [ts_112305137203253468](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112305137203253468) Truth Social · 2024-04-20T19:13:19.219Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment > RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/112304815587274930 Thank you North Carolina—Will see you tonight at 7:00pm Eastern! Reposted [ts_112304815587274930](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112304815587274930) (2024-04-20T17:51:31.741Z (UTC)) > Join me LIVE, tonight in Wilmington, North Carolina—at 7:00pm Eastern. Will be on @RSBN, @NewsMax, @OAN, @realAmericasVoice, and Donald J. Trump @Rumble, among others. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! https://rumble.com/v4qewlt-president-trump-in-wilmington-nc.html **Video transcript** (0:42), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Let's go Trump, let's go Trump Let's go Trump, let's go Trump! 10,130 likes · 2,291 reposts · 531 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112305137203253468.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112305137203253468/analysis --- ### [ts_112305121124205366](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112305121124205366) Truth Social · 2024-04-20T19:09:13.865Z (UTC) > Of course I was entitled, as President of the United States and Commander in Chief, to Immunity. I wasn’t campaigning, the Election was long over. I was looking for voter fraud, and finding it, which is my obligation to do, and otherwise running our Country. If I don’t get Immunity, then Crooked Joe Biden doesn’t get Immunity, and with the Border Invasion and Afghanistan Surrender, alone, not to mention the Millions of dollars that went into his “pockets” with money from foreign countries, Joe would be ripe for Indictment. By weaponizing the DOJ against his Political Opponent, ME, Joe has opened a giant Pandora’s Box. As President, I was protecting our Country, and doing a great job of doing so - Just look around at the complete mess that Crooked Joe Biden has caused. The least I am entitled to is Presidential Immunity on Fake Biden Indictments! 15,690 likes · 4,432 reposts · 1,354 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112305121124205366.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112305121124205366/analysis --- ### [ts_112305117296223846](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112305117296223846) Truth Social · 2024-04-20T19:08:15.455Z (UTC) > Legal Scholars are extremely thankful for the Supreme Court’s Decision to take up Presidential Immunity. Without Presidential Immunity, a President will not be able to properly function, or make decisions, in the best interest of the United States of America. Presidents will always be concerned, and even paralyzed, by the prospect of wrongful prosecution and retaliation after they leave office. This could actually lead to the extortion and blackmail of a President. The other side would say, “If you don’t do something, just the way we want it, we are going to go after you when you leave office, or perhaps even sooner.” 12,095 likes · 3,198 reposts · 457 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112305117296223846.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112305117296223846/analysis --- ### [ts_112305116582213823](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112305116582213823) Truth Social · 2024-04-20T19:08:04.559Z (UTC) > Page 2: A President has to be free to determine what is right for our Country without undue pressure. If there is no Immunity, the Presidency, as we know it, will “no longer exist.” Many actions for the benefit of our Country will not be taken. This is in no way what the Founders had in mind. Legal Experts and Scholars have stated that the President must have Full Presidential Immunity. A President must be free to make proper decisions. His mind must be clear, and he must not be guided by the fear of retribution! 11,235 likes · 2,885 reposts · 274 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112305116582213823.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112305116582213823/analysis --- ### [ts_112305114245672523](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112305114245672523) Truth Social · 2024-04-20T19:07:28.906Z (UTC) > REMEMBER, if I don’t have Presidential Immunity, then Crooked Joe Biden doesn’t have it either, and he would certainly be Prosecuted for his many ACTUAL CRIMES, including illegally receiving massive amounts of money from Foreign Countries, including China, Ukraine, and Russia, paying off Ukraine to fire an unfriendly prosecutor, allowing millions of people to illegally Enter and Destroy our Country, SURRENDERING in Afghanistan, with Hundreds Dead, many Americans Left Behind, and handing over Billions of Dollars Worth of the Best Military Equipment anywhere on Earth, the Decimation of American Wealth through the Green New Scam, and so much more. REMEMBER, Crooked Joe Biden and his CORRUPT JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, D.A.’s and A.G.’s, has attacked his Political Opponent at a level never seen before in this Country, and wants desperately to PUT “TRUMP” IN PRISON. He is playing a very dangerous game, and the great people of America WILL NOT STAND FOR IT. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!! 11,427 likes · 3,033 reposts · 415 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112305114245672523.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112305114245672523/analysis --- ### [ts_112305095954297300](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112305095954297300) Truth Social · 2024-04-20T19:02:49.808Z (UTC) > A President of the United States must have Full Immunity in order to properly function and do what has to be done for the good of our Country. A Nation-destroying ruling like the one handed down by the D.C. Circuit cannot be allowed to stand. If not overturned, as it should be, this decision would terribly injure not only the Presidency, but the Life, Breath, and Success of our Country. A President will be afraid to act for fear of the opposite Party’s Vicious Retribution after leaving Office. I know from personal experience because I am going through it right now. It will become a Political Weapon used for Election Interference. Our Elections will be corrupted and under siege. So bad, and so dangerous for our Nation. SAVE PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY! 10,279 likes · 2,580 reposts · 321 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112305095954297300.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112305095954297300/analysis --- ### [ts_112305085944404923](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112305085944404923) Truth Social · 2024-04-20T19:00:17.064Z (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! 10,231 likes · 2,465 reposts · 302 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112305085944404923.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112305085944404923/analysis --- ### [ts_112304991352988782](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112304991352988782) Truth Social · 2024-04-20T18:36:13.713Z (UTC) > IF THEY TAKE AWAY MY PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY, THEY TAKE AWAY CROOKED JOE BIDEN’S PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY. 14,622 likes · 3,621 reposts · 936 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112304991352988782.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112304991352988782/analysis --- ### [ts_112304989396017591](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112304989396017591) Truth Social · 2024-04-20T18:35:43.854Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment > https://www.DonaldJTrump.com 10,150 likes · 2,326 reposts · 171 replies · unknown views Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112304989396017591/analysis --- ### [ts_112304892824177655](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112304892824177655) Truth Social · 2024-04-20T18:11:10.284Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment > RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/112300770133694813 Reposted [ts_112300770133694813](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112300770133694813) (2024-04-20T00:42:43.026Z (UTC)) > ‘P RAE’ EASLEY - I watched your great interview tonight with Pete Hegseth. You are a real leader, far ahead of the times. This is happening all over America. We will put Chicago into the winning mix! Will be calling you. Love to all, DONALD J.TRUMP **Video transcript** (4:00), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > hood. We need that on my block that I'm asking y'all to use our tax money for our people. We need it. We got people leaning. We got people rocking. We got overdosing. We got a pass out line. We need the money for us. We are the headquarters of the cartel and everybody in here knows it. They selling more drugs than the law can allow y'all giving money back to them because they traffic those people up here. So we paying them going and that comment. Absolutely not. Joining me now is that Chicago resident Patricia P. Ray easily. P. Ray, I would say it's self-evident that you need a change in leadership, but Chicago keeps replacing extremist Democrats with, it seems even more extreme Democrats and now you're spending money on illegals and not your own citizens. How do you change that? Well, that's what my organization Chicago Red is doing. We are rapidly turning the city of Chicago Red. We're telling everyone that the Chicago blues gave us the blues and so we want everybody to put on their gym shoes, tie them up real tight because we're running to the right. We're done. We don't want to talk to them anymore. We have choices. Have you seen this inside the black community inside Chicago?… (full transcript: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112304892824177655) 9,660 likes · 2,771 reposts · 374 replies · unknown views Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112304892824177655/analysis --- ### [ts_112304815587274930](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112304815587274930) Truth Social · 2024-04-20T17:51:31.741Z (UTC) > Join me LIVE, tonight in Wilmington, North Carolina—at 7:00pm Eastern. Will be on @RSBN, @NewsMax, @OAN, @realAmericasVoice, and Donald J. Trump @Rumble, among others. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! https://rumble.com/v4qewlt-president-trump-in-wilmington-nc.html 10,922 likes · 2,442 reposts · 421 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112304815587274930.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112304815587274930/analysis --- ### [ts_112304711727525851](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112304711727525851) Truth Social · 2024-04-20T17:25:06.967Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment > “When you think about Donald Trump as a candidate for office, and as a political athlete…I say often, he’s as gifted a political athlete as I’ve ever seen…” **Video transcript** (1:20), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > when you think about Donald Trump as a candidate for office and as a political athlete, I say often he's as gifted a political athlete as I've ever seen. I don't agree with a lot of his things, but you have to respect the business and understand how politics is that the art of politics is litigated. This move here, Dana, we had a conversation about this a day or so ago. Here he is in New York. He goes to a bodega. He was at, I think, at a gas station a day or so before. This is as good a campaigning as you can do. Now, whether they, some may argue or say that the crowd was scripted, whatever happened there, it looked good. This is the kind of theater you want when you're in a campaign. And he was able to highlight, in addition to that, an issue that is on the forefront of a lot of voters' minds, not just in New York, but everywhere, law and order and crime. I'll refrain from some of the conversation and analysis around DA Brack, but if you look at what, to the judge's point, this juxtaposition of Donald Trump there versus the trial, this is what's going to be talked about over the next day. So as a political move, as a political athlete, this was a very, very smart thing for the pr… (full transcript: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112304711727525851) 9,718 likes · 2,519 reposts · 447 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112304711727525851.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112304711727525851/analysis --- ### [ts_112304601536428590](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112304601536428590) Truth Social · 2024-04-20T16:57:05.585Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment 11,488 likes · 2,376 reposts · 348 replies · unknown views --- ### [ts_112304599997371857](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112304599997371857) Truth Social · 2024-04-20T16:56:42.100Z (UTC) > https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/how-to-watch-president-trumps-rally-in-wilmington-north-carolina/ 12,489 likes · 2,709 reposts · 320 replies · unknown views Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112304599997371857/analysis --- ### [ts_112304518556074264](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112304518556074264) Truth Social · 2024-04-20T16:35:59.405Z (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! 9,221 likes · 2,555 reposts · 691 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112304518556074264.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112304518556074264/analysis --- ### [ts_112304505029181202](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112304505029181202) Truth Social · 2024-04-20T16:32:33.000Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment > “TRUST TO DO A BETTER JOB ON THE ECONOMY—BATTLEGROUND STATES” https://www.DonaldJTrump.com 8,093 likes · 2,134 reposts · 302 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112304505029181202.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112304505029181202/analysis --- ### [ts_112304308352955328](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112304308352955328) Truth Social · 2024-04-20T15:42:32.007Z (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! 10,549 likes · 3,024 reposts · 949 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112304308352955328.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112304308352955328/analysis --- ### [ts_112304120111038897](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112304120111038897) Truth Social · 2024-04-20T14:54:39.661Z (UTC) > https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/david-schoen-donald-trump-judge-juan-merchan/2024/04/19/id/1161696/ 8,900 likes · 3,064 reposts · 575 replies · unknown views Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112304120111038897/analysis --- ### [ts_112303961007796682](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112303961007796682) Truth Social · 2024-04-20T14:14:11.897Z (UTC) > TRUTH SOCIAL IS THE REAL VOICE OF AMERICA!!! 32,802 likes · 7,393 reposts · 2,531 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112303961007796682.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112303961007796682/analysis --- ### [ts_112303957058200168](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112303957058200168) Truth Social · 2024-04-20T14:13:11.689Z (UTC) > THIS SCAM “RUSHED” TRIAL TAKING PLACE IN A 95% DEMOCRAT AREA IS A PLANNED AND COORDINATED WITCH HUNT THAT COULD HAVE BEEN BROUGHT 8 YEARS AGO, BUT EVERYBODY PASSED. INSTEAD THEY WAITED AND BROUGHT IT RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF MY PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE WORST AND MOST INCOMPETENT PRESIDENT EVER, CROOKED JOE BIDEN. IT IS BEING PRESIDED OVER BY POSSIBLY THE MOST CONFLICTED JUDGE IN JUDICIAL HISTORY, WHO MUST BE REMOVED FROM THIS HOAX IMMEDIATELY. I DID NOTHING WRONG! 13,967 likes · 3,964 reposts · 1,202 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112303957058200168.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112303957058200168/analysis --- ### [ts_112303887152849274](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112303887152849274) Truth Social · 2024-04-20T13:55:25.005Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment **Video transcript** (4:06), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > >> What's happening here with the judicial system is an outrage. This is a giant witch hunt to try and earn a campaign that's beating the worst president in history. >> Here at is New York based trial attorney Rebecca Rose Woodland. Rebecca, thanks for being here. You're familiar with how justice is administered here in New York. What do you take or so called justice? What do you take from this first week? >> In the first week I've never seen something move so rapidly on something that's so important. So Donald Trump has constitutional rights like everyone else. But somehow this judge is moving past things that he should be slowing down, taking his time and giving intense weight to. That's justice. We're not seeing that here. >> Rebecca, one thing, when you look at kind of what's been going on so far, they've denied the change of venue. They are not disclosing the witnesses beforehand, the gag order on former President Trump. I heard former Attorney General Bill Barr also say, the timing of this trial, seven years after the supposed fact, it's hard to deny the fact that this seems politically motivated. What's your take? >> Well, it's obviously politically motivated. It's obviously… (full transcript: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112303887152849274) 8,825 likes · 2,570 reposts · 418 replies · unknown views --- ### [ts_112303812917835369](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112303812917835369) Truth Social · 2024-04-20T13:36:32.265Z (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! 13,053 likes · 3,497 reposts · 1,002 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112303812917835369.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112303812917835369/analysis --- ### [ts_112300799336174565](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112300799336174565) Truth Social · 2024-04-20T00:50:08.616Z (UTC) > A new and great book by Pete Hegseth, “THE WAR ON WARRIORS.”GET IT NOW AT FOXNEWSBOOKS.COM 13,633 likes · 3,143 reposts · 862 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112300799336174565.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112300799336174565/analysis --- ### [ts_112300777493152047](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112300777493152047) Truth Social · 2024-04-20T00:44:35.315Z (UTC) · repost > RT @realDonaldTrump Reposted from @realDonaldTrump (Donald J. Trump), 2024-04-19T14:47:41.969Z (UTC) (https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/112298430424628686) _No text recovered._ - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/112/298/430/286/382/393/original/1e0728261725031c.mp4 **Video transcript** (reposted clip, 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_112300777493152047) 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views --- ### [ts_112300770133694813](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112300770133694813) Truth Social · 2024-04-20T00:42:43.026Z (UTC) > ‘P RAE’ EASLEY - I watched your great interview tonight with Pete Hegseth. You are a real leader, far ahead of the times. This is happening all over America. We will put Chicago into the winning mix! Will be calling you. Love to all, DONALD J.TRUMP 14,880 likes · 3,576 reposts · 524 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112300770133694813.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112300770133694813/analysis ## For agents - Site overview: https://trump.fm/llms.txt - API specification: https://trump.fm/openapi.json - MCP server: https://trump.fm/mcp (search and fetch tools, no auth) - This day as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/posts/date/2024-04-20 - Day analysis as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/analysis/date/2024-04-20 - The posts alone, without the day analysis: https://trump.fm/date/2024-04-20.md?analysis=false _Markdown view of a trump.fm page. 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