# Posts from Monday, April 22, 2024 37 posts on 2024-04-22. ## Day analysis Day analysis page: https://trump.fm/date/2024-04-22/analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-04-11T15:40:38.483Z (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 Day One: 30-Post Defensive Barrage as Criminal Accountability Triggers Maximum Narcissistic Injury** Trump spent the entire day consumed by the opening of his Manhattan criminal trial, producing 30 posts — one of his highest-volume days on record. The morning brought raw, explosive outbursts compressed into all-caps screams before his team intervened with curated endorsements and supportive op-eds. He repeatedly tried to redirect attention to Columbia University's Gaza protests, framing them as proof of a double standard, and called on supporters to protest at courthouses nationwide in language structurally echoing his pre-January 6 rhetoric. The afternoon was dominated by a five-post barrage arguing for absolute presidential immunity, including the remarkable claim that even acts that "cross the line" deserve legal protection. The day's most concerning element was the repeated naming of prosecutor Alvin Bragg alongside conspiracy theories about George Soros — a pattern with documented history of generating real-world threats. - Posts analyzed: 30 - Dominant state: mixed - Narrative arc: contamination - Aggregate rage level: 0.63 - Max danger level: high - Escalation detected - Theme obsession: Manhattan criminal trial and legal persecution - Claims: 85 (39 false) - Era: 2024 Campaign # Daily Psychological Digest: April 22, 2024 ## Context and Location Donald Trump was in Manhattan, New York for the opening day of his criminal hush money trial. All analysis uses EDT (UTC−4) as his local timezone. Posts span from 11:33 PM EDT on April 21 through 6:47 PM EDT on April 22 — a 19-hour window encompassing the night before trial, the pre-court morning, apparent court recesses, and post-adjournment. --- ## I. Psychological State Tracking ### Dominant State: Mixed (Grandiose-Vulnerable Oscillation) The day's dominant psychological state is **mixed**, characterized by rapid oscillation between grandiose and vulnerable narcissistic poles — consistent with acute narcissistic injury from an unchosen, uncontrollable external event (criminal prosecution). Neither state stabilizes; grandiosity is deployed defensively to compensate for vulnerability, but the underlying wound (public criminal accountability) continually reasserts itself. ### State Transitions **Phase 1 — Pre-Trial Anxiety (11:33 PM – 12:05 AM EDT):** Posts `ts_112312764442352510` and `ts_112312890922422470` establish the psychological baseline: mixed state with high rage (0.82, 0.72), reflecting anticipatory narcissistic injury. Trump composes his own pre-trial narrative — persecution, conspiracy, DARVO inversion — in the midnight hours before being compelled to appear as a criminal defendant. The night-before timing is clinically significant: this is a subject unable to sleep, constructing defensive scaffolding against the morning's assault on self-concept. **Phase 2 — Morning Acute Rage Spike (7:05 – 9:19 AM EDT):** Six posts in rapid succession represent the day's maximum psychological activation. Posts escalate from the displacement-laden Gaza protest comparison (`ts_112314542953753353`, rated HIGH danger) through the compressed rage peaks of "ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!!" (`ts_112314915349929541`, rage 0.95) and "WITCH HUNT!!!" (`ts_112314919791257966`, rage 0.92), before partially modulating through the courthouse comparison (`ts_112314957107439839`) and arriving at a brief, quasi-composed framing in `ts_112315069158299789` ("Make no mistake about it, this is a Biden Trial"). This phase shows output complexity collapsing under emotional pressure — three-word and two-word posts at peak intensity represent what the commentary identifies as "maximally efficient affect transfer." **Phase 3 — Aide-Managed Supply Restoration (9:37 – 9:39 AM EDT):** A rapid cluster of six posts in two minutes — Rich Lowry quote, NY Sun article, Substack "lawfare" piece, congressional endorsement, John Daly "Daddy Trump" quote, National Pulse "only Trump can save the West" article — marks a clear shift to aide-mediated content. Authorship confidence drops to 0.10–0.28 across this cluster. The psychological function is compensatory: restoring the grandiose self-image (feared world leader, beloved patriarch, constitutional savior) at the precise moment it is under maximum courtroom attack. The timing suggests this was a pre-loaded content queue deployed while Trump was physically in the courtroom. **Phase 4 — Midday Displacement and Strategic Disinformation (1:19 – 1:54 PM EDT):** Two posts during what appears to be a court recess show partial de-escalation but continued displacement. `ts_112316013610482805` returns to the Columbia protest comparison with more controlled affect, while `ts_112316152694594986` deploys a calculated TikTok disinformation operation targeting young voters — notable for its near-total factual inversion (Trump himself issued executive orders banning TikTok in 2020). **Phase 5 — Immunity Perseveration Cluster (2:47 – 3:04 PM EDT):** Seven posts in 17 minutes constitute the day's most sustained thematic perseveration. Posts oscillate between aide-polished constitutional argumentation (`ts_112316420428508670`, `ts_112316425995098563`) and authentic ALL-CAPS emotional discharge (`ts_112316361085152419`, `ts_112316422666754482`). The cluster's most clinically significant moment is the explicit acknowledgment in `ts_112316422666754482` that "EVEN EVENTS THAT 'CROSS THE LINE' MUST FALL UNDER TOTAL IMMUNITY" — a grandiose entitlement claim arguing that acknowledged criminal conduct by a president should be legally unreachable. **Phase 6 — Post-Court Processing (3:31 – 6:47 PM EDT):** Seven posts showing gradual de-escalation: video-accompanied "Biden Witch Hunt" framing (`ts_112316531468383034`), surrogate quotes (Turley, Burgum), bare-URL link shares to sympathetic op-eds, and a final reactive authentic post (`ts_112317304531781626`) deploying the "election denier" label-inversion against Bragg. The "DJT" signature and "Wow" opener in the final post suggest post-adjournment impulsive composition. --- ## II. Escalation Detection **Escalation Detected: Yes** The morning phase shows a clear escalation pattern: - **Start:** `ts_112312764442352510` (11:33 PM EDT, April 21) — rage 0.82, extended narrative construction - **Acceleration:** `ts_112314542953753353` (7:05 AM EDT) — rage 0.78, HIGH danger courthouse mobilization - **Peak:** `ts_112314915349929541` (8:40 AM EDT) — rage 0.95, intensity 1.00, output collapsed to three words - **Secondary Peak:** `ts_112314919791257966` (8:41 AM EDT) — rage 0.92, one minute later - **Trajectory:** Gradual overnight buildup, then rapid spike in the 90 minutes before court The rage intensity of 0.95 at peak is disproportionate to any articulated specific grievance — the posts contain no argument, only affect. This is consistent with Kohutian narcissistic rage: total, non-targeted, and intensity-maximized. The escalation was interrupted by aide intervention (the 9:37 AM supply cluster) rather than self-regulation. A secondary, lower-amplitude escalation occurs in the immunity cluster (2:47–3:04 PM), peaking at rage 0.65 in `ts_112316361085152419` and `ts_112316422666754482`, but this is more perseverative rumination than spiral. --- ## III. Theme Analysis ### Dominant Themes 1. **Trial Delegitimization / Persecution Narrative** (≈20 posts): The trial is reframed as "witch hunt," "election interference," and "Biden trial" across nearly every post. This is the day's gravitational center — every other theme orbits it. 2. **Presidential Immunity** (8 posts): A five-to-eight post cluster arguing for absolute presidential immunity, triggered by both the active trial and the upcoming SCOTUS hearing on April 25. Escalates from constitutional principle to the explicit claim that criminal acts deserve protection. 3. **Columbia/Gaza Protest Displacement** (4 posts): Pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University are instrumentalized as a comparative grievance vehicle — "they get to protest, we don't" — serving as displacement for courthouse frustration. 4. **Third-Party Validation / Supply Seeking** (9 posts): Curated quotes, endorsements, and article shares functioning as narcissistic supply during acute injury. Sources selected for credentialed authority (National Review, governors, legal scholars). 5. **Soros/Bragg Conspiracy** (4+ posts): Repeated "Soros-funded" framing applied to DA Bragg, activating antisemitic conspiratorial architecture with a named Black prosecutor as target. ### Obsession Assessment **Yes — thematic obsession is present.** Every single post on this day relates directly or tangentially to the criminal trial. Even the congressional endorsement (`ts_112315144040309876`) and TikTok post (`ts_112316152694594986`) serve trial-displacement functions. The immunity cluster's five-to-eight-post perseveration on a single constitutional argument — with oscillation between polished and raw registers — is consistent with anxious rumination rather than strategic messaging. The return to the same theme across 30 posts and 19 hours meets clinical criteria for obsessive preoccupation. --- ## IV. Contradiction Detection 1. **Columbia Arrests:** `ts_112314957107439839` claims "nothing happened" to Columbia protesters. Over 100 students were arrested the preceding week, a widely documented public fact. **Severity: major** — direct denial of verifiable reality. 2. **TikTok Ban Authorship:** `ts_112316152694594986` attributes the TikTok ban entirely to Biden. Trump himself issued Executive Orders 13942 and 13943 in August 2020 attempting to ban TikTok. The bipartisan congressional vote was 352-65 in the House and 79-18 in the Senate. **Severity: major** — complete inversion of documented record. 3. **Election Denier Label:** `ts_112317304531781626` calls Bragg an "Election Denier" while Trump himself remains the most prominent election denier in American politics, having contested the 2020 election across sixty-plus failed legal challenges. **Severity: moderate** — projection-driven label inversion. 4. **Immunity vs. Perfection:** `ts_112316422666754482` argues acts that "cross the line" deserve immunity, while the broader day's messaging consistently frames Trump's conduct as entirely proper and the charges as fabricated. These positions are logically incompatible: you don't need immunity for acts that weren't wrong. **Severity: moderate** — reveals the defense's underlying incoherence. --- ## V. Hypomanic Indicators - **Post Volume:** 30 posts in a single day — significantly above typical daily output (estimated 85th–90th percentile) - **Time Span:** 11:33 PM EDT (April 21) to 6:47 PM EDT (April 22) = 19 hours 14 minutes - **Maximum Gap:** 7 hours (12:05 AM to 7:05 AM EDT) — likely sleep window - **Minimum Gap:** 1 minute between posts at multiple points (8:40–8:41 AM; 9:37–9:39 AM cluster; 3:02–3:04 PM cluster) - **Rapid-Fire Clusters:** Three distinct bursts of 3+ posts within 5 minutes - **Sleep Indicators:** Posting at 11:33 PM and 12:05 AM before a trial day that required early morning court appearance suggests anxiety-disrupted sleep, but a ~7-hour gap is not conclusive for sleep deprivation - **Hypomanic Episode Assessment:** **No.** While posting volume is elevated and temporal patterns show agitation, the output is thematically coherent (not flight-of-ideas), contextually explained by extraordinary external circumstances (criminal trial opening day), and partially attributable to aide-mediated content. The pattern is more consistent with acute situational stress response than hypomanic episode. Many of the 30 posts are bare URLs or short quotes requiring minimal composition effort. --- ## VI. Narrative Arc ### Arc Type: Contamination The day follows a classic **contamination narrative** — a structure in which events that should be neutral or even functional (legal proceedings, constitutional process) are systematically reframed as persecution and victimhood. The arc unfolds as follows: - **Setup (night before):** Trump constructs a pre-emptive persecution frame, establishing himself as a "very successful and popular President" subjected to rigged elections and corrupt prosecution - **Wound (morning):** David Pecker's testimony and opening statements deliver the narcissistic injury; output collapses to raw affect ("ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!!", "WITCH HUNT!!!") - **Displacement (mid-morning):** Unable to attack the court directly due to gag order, rage is channeled toward Columbia protesters and the "two-tiered justice" comparison - **Supply restoration (late morning):** Aide-curated content rebuilds the grandiose self-image (world leader, beloved patriarch, constitutional savior) - **Intellectual defense (afternoon):** The immunity cluster attempts to convert personal jeopardy into constitutional principle — the contamination narrative's most sophisticated expression - **Evening coda:** Post-adjournment processing through surrogate validation and reactive label-inversion At no point does the narrative allow for engagement with the trial's substance. The contamination is total: legal accountability is persecution, prosecutors are conspirators, the courtroom is an "armed camp," and the only appropriate response is immunity from all accountability. --- ## VII. Event Correlation ### Primary Trigger: Manhattan Criminal Trial — Opening Statements - **Reaction Type:** Defensive and offensive simultaneously - **Response Posts:** Virtually all 30 posts - **Pattern:** DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender) applied systematically ### Secondary Trigger: Columbia University Gaza Protests - **Reaction Type:** Amplifying (instrumentalized as displacement vehicle) - **Response Posts:** `ts_112314542953753353`, `ts_112314957107439839`, `ts_112315051307753887`, `ts_112316013610482805` - **Pattern:** Domestic protesters labeled "Hamas" to construct binary between MAGA patriots and terrorist-affiliated enemies ### Tertiary Trigger: Upcoming SCOTUS Immunity Hearing (April 25) - **Reaction Type:** Offensive (pre-emptive framing) - **Response Posts:** Immunity cluster (7–8 posts) - **Pattern:** Personal legal defense universalized into constitutional principle; "GOD BLESS THE SUPREME COURT" as conditional benediction contingent on favorable ruling --- ## VIII. Danger Assessment ### Maximum Danger Level: HIGH Post `ts_112314542953753353` (7:05 AM EDT) is assessed at **HIGH** danger — the day's most operationally concerning communication. It calls on "Country Loving Republicans" to "peacefully protest" at courthouses nationwide, using language structurally identical to pre-January 6 mobilization rhetoric. The "peacefully" qualifier cannot operate as good-faith moderator given documented precedent. This post targets specific geographic locations (courthouses), occurs during active criminal proceedings, and functions as proxy mobilization that a gag order prevents Trump from doing directly. ### Stochastic Terrorism Pattern: Present The day's posting cluster exhibits cumulative stochastic terrorism features: 1. **Named targeting with conspiracy framing:** DA Alvin Bragg is named in multiple posts and linked to George Soros — an antisemitic conspiracy framework that has generated documented real-world threats 2. **Institutional delegitimization:** Sustained characterization of legal proceedings as political persecution creates conditions where followers may view court officers as legitimate adversaries 3. **Mobilization language:** Courthouse protest calls with January 6 structural parallels 4. **Hamas labeling:** Domestic protesters coded as foreign terrorist affiliates, raising ambient threat environment 5. **No single post constitutes direct incitement,** but the cumulative pattern across 14 elevated-or-higher danger posts creates an integrated threat environment ### Danger Post IDs Posts rated elevated or higher: `ts_112312764442352510`, `ts_112312890922422470`, `ts_112314542953753353` (HIGH), `ts_112314915349929541`, `ts_112314919791257966`, `ts_112314957107439839`, `ts_112315051307753887`, `ts_112315069158299789`, `ts_112315142201336542`, `ts_112316013610482805`, `ts_112316152694594986`, `ts_112316422666754482`, `ts_112316424306913335`, `ts_112316426415939184` --- ## IX. Cognitive Concerns ### Aggregate Markers - **Output collapse under stress:** The compressed two- and three-word posts at peak rage (8:40–8:41 AM) represent cognitive simplification under emotional overwhelm — output collapses to slogans when affect exceeds processing capacity - **Perseverative fixation:** Five-to-eight posts on presidential immunity within 17 minutes suggests rumination-driven repetition, though content varies sufficiently to avoid pathological perseveration criteria - **Associative coherence maintained:** Despite high volume and emotional intensity, posts remain thematically coherent and contextually appropriate throughout the day - **No word-finding difficulties, neologisms, or syntactic degradation** detected in authentic posts - **Complexity trend: Stable** — no evidence of cognitive decline relative to established baseline; post complexity varies by emotional state but recovers consistently ### Notable Cognitive Feature The immunity cluster's most sophisticated argument — that "EVEN EVENTS THAT 'CROSS THE LINE' MUST FALL UNDER TOTAL IMMUNITY" — represents a failure of metacognitive monitoring. The subject appears unaware that this concession undermines his parallel narrative that no wrongdoing occurred, suggesting either compartmentalization between argument tracks or diminished self-monitoring under stress. --- ## X. Defense Mechanism Inventory The following defense mechanisms were deployed across the day's 30 posts, listed by frequency: 1. **Projection** — Present in ≈20 posts. The dominant mechanism: election interference projected onto prosecutors, extortion projected onto legal process, "election denier" label projected onto Bragg, TikTok ban responsibility projected onto Biden 2. **Denial** — Present in ≈18 posts. Denial of trial legitimacy, denial of 2020 election outcome, denial of Columbia arrests, denial of own TikTok ban history 3. **Distortion** — Present in ≈15 posts. Reality grossly reshaped: state prosecution becomes federal conspiracy, legal proceeding becomes election interference, accountability becomes persecution 4. **Rationalization** — Present in ≈10 posts. Personal legal jeopardy intellectualized into constitutional immunity principle 5. **Displacement** — Present in ≈6 posts. Courthouse frustration redirected onto Columbia protesters, TikTok, congressional endorsement 6. **Splitting** — Present in ≈5 posts. Binary MAGA/RINO, patriot/terrorist, Trump/Biden frameworks with no complexity admitted 7. **Devaluation** — Present in ≈4 posts. Bragg, Roth, Biden systematically diminished The overwhelming preponderance of Vaillant Level 1 (pathological) and Level 2 (immature) defenses — with near-total absence of mature defense mechanisms — is consistent with acute narcissistic crisis under existential legal threat. ### Narrative A classic contamination arc in which the opening day of a criminal trial — a neutral institutional process — is systematically reframed as persecution. The narrative begins with pre-trial defensive scaffolding (night before), peaks in raw affect discharge (morning), receives aide-managed supply restoration (mid-morning), intellectualizes through constitutional immunity arguments (afternoon), and closes with post-adjournment reactive processing (evening). At no point does the narrative engage the trial's substance; contamination is total and sustained across all 30 posts. ### Dominant themes - Trial delegitimization and persecution narrative (1 post) - Presidential immunity (1 post) - Third-party validation and narcissistic supply (1 post) - Columbia/Gaza protest displacement (1 post) - Soros/Bragg conspiracy targeting (1 post) ### Contradictions that day - [ts_112314957107439839](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112314957107439839): Nothing happened to Columbia protesters — they faced no consequences vs. [ts_112314957107439839](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112314957107439839): Over 100 Columbia students were arrested the preceding week (documented public fact) - [ts_112316152694594986](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112316152694594986): Biden is responsible for banning TikTok vs. [ts_112316152694594986](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112316152694594986): Trump himself issued Executive Orders 13942 and 13943 in August 2020 attempting to ban TikTok; the 2024 legislation passed with overwhelming bipartisan support (352-65, 79-18) - [ts_112317304531781626](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112317304531781626): DA Bragg is an Election Denier vs. [ts_112312764442352510](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112312764442352510): Trump himself denies the 2020 election outcome in the same day's posts, calling it 'Rigged and Stolen' - [ts_112316422666754482](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112316422666754482): Even acts that 'cross the line' must have total immunity vs. [ts_112315069158299789](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112315069158299789): The broader day's messaging frames Trump's conduct as entirely proper with charges being fabricated — contradicting the need for immunity from wrongful acts ### Cognitive concerns - Output collapse under peak stress: two- and three-word posts at maximum rage intensity suggest cognitive simplification when affect overwhelms processing capacity - Perseverative fixation: 5-8 immunity posts in 17 minutes indicates rumination-driven repetitive output - Metacognitive monitoring failure: simultaneously arguing no wrongdoing occurred AND that wrongful acts deserve immunity, without apparent awareness of the contradiction - Complexity recovers consistently after emotional peaks — no sustained degradation detected ## Posts ### [ts_112317304531781626](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112317304531781626) Truth Social · 2024-04-22T22:47:37.987Z (UTC) > Wow, D.A. Alvin Bragg is an Election Denier, the exact same thing that they said about me. But I was right!!! DJT 18,063 likes · 4,677 reposts · 1,146 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112317304531781626.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112317304531781626/analysis --- ### [ts_112317291716034101](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112317291716034101) Truth Social · 2024-04-22T22:44:22.358Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment **Video transcript** (2:12), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > I'm going to look you in the eyes, and I'm going to tell you the future. It's an American story, and that's why Americans are going to love it. People are going to build you up, but God, are they going to? Because when you're great and new, we love you. Man, we'll build you into something that doesn't even exist. You're going to change the fucking world. But you know what? Once they've built you as high as they possibly can, they're going to tear you back to the back down. It's the most predictable pattern. We build you into something that doesn't exist, and that means you have to try to be that thing all day, every day. That's how it works, and we do it again and again and again. And I'm going to tell you the truth. You're going to be attacked, betrayed, exposed, and humiliated, and you'll survive that. A lot of people can climb that mountain. It's the way down that breaks them, because that's the moment when you are truly alone. And what will you do then? Can you summon the will to fight on through all the pain and rise again? That will be the defining question of your life. And I think you already know the answer, and that's why we're all here. A shoe is just a shoe, until someb… (full transcript: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112317291716034101) 19,225 likes · 6,482 reposts · 1,601 replies · unknown views --- ### [ts_112317260946389881](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112317260946389881) Truth Social · 2024-04-22T22:36:32.851Z (UTC) > https://dailycaller.com/2024/04/22/jonathan-turley-alvin-bragg-trial-donald-trump/ 10,823 likes · 3,043 reposts · 320 replies · unknown views Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112317260946389881/analysis --- ### [ts_112317260046444327](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112317260046444327) Truth Social · 2024-04-22T22:36:19.119Z (UTC) > https://nypost.com/2024/04/22/opinion/hush-money-is-not-a-crime-and-bragg-has-no-case-against-trump/ 11,580 likes · 3,131 reposts · 495 replies · unknown views Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112317260046444327/analysis --- ### [ts_112316948979186234](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112316948979186234) Truth Social · 2024-04-22T21:17:12.622Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment 12,562 likes · 3,269 reposts · 588 replies · unknown views --- ### [ts_112316546574028670](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112316546574028670) Truth Social · 2024-04-22T19:34:52.395Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment > Governor Doug Burgum: "He'd be out doing two rallies a day...when President Trump campaigns, he talks about inflation, he talks about the border...public safety...stopping the wars...it is absolutely election interference and it is so unfair to the public and to our country." **Video transcript** (0:40), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > This is, again, back to the sham trial. He'd be doing two rallies a day. You know that, you know that he loves getting out and talking to real Americans and real people, and he's campaigning on the issues. And one of the reasons why this is election and fear is because when President Trump campaigns, he talks about inflation, he talks about the border, he talks about public safety, he talks about stopping the wars and stopping the killing. These are the issues that are mattered to the voters. And so every day that the Democrats can keep him sitting in the courtroom is a win for them. And so it is absolutely, it's election interference, and it is so unfair to the public and to our country to have this happening. 17,136 likes · 5,140 reposts · 1,041 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112316546574028670.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112316546574028670/analysis --- ### [ts_112316538977046615](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112316538977046615) Truth Social · 2024-04-22T19:32:56.471Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment > Jonathan Turley: "The fact that we are actually talking about this case being presented in a New York courtroom, leaves me in utter disbelief." **Video transcript** (0:41), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > here is in this case trump is right media this is an embarrassment made the fact that we are actually talking about this case being presented in a new york courtroom leaves me in other disbelief the the arguments today did in fact capture all the problems here you know you had this misdemeanor under state law where they had run out this is going back to related to the two thousand sixteen election and they zapped it back into life by alleging that there was a campaign finance violation under the federal laws that doesn't exist the department justice doesn't view it this way 19,250 likes · 5,244 reposts · 862 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112316538977046615.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112316538977046615/analysis --- ### [ts_112316531468383034](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112316531468383034) Truth Social · 2024-04-22T19:31:01.900Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment > This is a Biden Witch Hunt to keep me off the campaign trail… **Video transcript** (0:13), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > -This is a Biden witch hunt to keep me off the campaign trail. So far, it's not working because my poll numbers are higher than they've been because the public understands that it's a witch hunt. 20,667 likes · 5,286 reposts · 1,289 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112316531468383034.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112316531468383034/analysis --- ### [ts_112316513707643352](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112316513707643352) Truth Social · 2024-04-22T19:26:30.892Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment 9,372 likes · 2,379 reposts · 324 replies · unknown views --- ### [ts_112316426415939184](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112316426415939184) Truth Social · 2024-04-22T19:04:18.929Z (UTC) > 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 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.” A President has to be free to determine what is right for our Country, with no undue pressure! 12,864 likes · 3,387 reposts · 915 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112316426415939184.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112316426415939184/analysis --- ### [ts_112316425995098563](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112316425995098563) Truth Social · 2024-04-22T19:04:12.506Z (UTC) > Without 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 fear of retribution! 11,118 likes · 2,856 reposts · 346 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112316425995098563.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112316425995098563/analysis --- ### [ts_112316424306913335](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112316424306913335) Truth Social · 2024-04-22T19:03:46.747Z (UTC) > The Supreme Court will address the historic question of Presidential Immunity on Thursday, but unfortunately, I will not be able to attend. The Highly Conflicted Judge in the Manhattan D.A. “case” (Soros-backed Alvin Bragg) has prohibited me from attending. Without Presidential Immunity, the President cannot function, as his Political Opponents will blackmail and extort him with the threat of wrongful prosecution at every turn. We look forward to presenting our case to the Supreme Court. 12,034 likes · 3,535 reposts · 493 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112316424306913335.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112316424306913335/analysis --- ### [ts_112316422666754482](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112316422666754482) Truth Social · 2024-04-22T19:03:21.719Z (UTC) > A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES MUST HAVE FULL IMMUNITY, WITHOUT WHICH IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM/HER TO PROPERLY FUNCTION. ANY MISTAKE, EVEN IF WELL INTENDED, WOULD BE MET WITH ALMOST CERTAIN INDICTMENT BY THE OPPOSING PARTY AT TERM END. EVEN EVENTS THAT “CROSS THE LINE” MUST FALL UNDER TOTAL IMMUNITY, OR IT WILL BE YEARS OF TRAUMA TRYING TO DETERMINE GOOD FROM BAD. THERE MUST BE CERTAINTY. EXAMPLE: YOU CAN’T STOP POLICE FROM DOING THE JOB OF STRONG & EFFECTIVE CRIME PREVENTION BECAUSE YOU WANT TO GUARD AGAINST THE SELDOM SEEN “ROGUE COP.” SOMETIMES YOU JUST HAVE TO LIVE WITH “GREAT BUT SLIGHTLY IMPERFECT.” ALL PRESIDENTS MUST HAVE COMPLETE & TOTAL PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY, OR THE AUTHORITY & DECISIVENESS OF A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WILL BE STRIPPED & GONE FOREVER. HOPEFULLY THIS WILL BE AN EASY DECISION. GOD BLESS THE SUPREME COURT! 10,786 likes · 2,828 reposts · 333 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112316422666754482.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112316422666754482/analysis --- ### [ts_112316422249170092](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112316422249170092) Truth Social · 2024-04-22T19:03:15.348Z (UTC) > WITHOUT IMMUNITY, IT WOULD BE VERY HARD FOR A PRESIDENT TO ENJOY HIS OR HER “GOLDEN YEARS” OF RETIREMENT. THEY WOULD BE UNDER SIEGE BY RADICAL, OUT OF CONTROL PROSECUTORS, MUCH LIKE I AM (BUT WITHOUT THE “RETIREMENT” WORD!). 9,927 likes · 2,495 reposts · 229 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112316422249170092.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112316422249170092/analysis --- ### [ts_112316421060066640](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112316421060066640) Truth Social · 2024-04-22T19:02:57.203Z (UTC) > A key Constitutional issue is whether or not a President should have Immunity. The answer is YES! During the hearing in the D.C. Circuit, the other side actually conceded two very important points, either of which would give the critical Immunity argument to us. If for any reason it were held that a President doesn’t have Immunity, then Crooked Joe Biden, after he leaves Office, could be charged for the horrible and dangerous job he is doing on the Southern Border, the Afghanistan Disaster with all of its Death, Destruction, and “Surrender,” or his quid pro quo on Ukraine, where he said, on tape, that if they don’t get rid of an Unfriendly Prosecutor, they don’t get the $1 Billion in Funding from the United States (He then clapped his hands, and said, in effect, “I won!”)….. 9,614 likes · 2,564 reposts · 227 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112316421060066640.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112316421060066640/analysis --- ### [ts_112316420428508670](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112316420428508670) Truth Social · 2024-04-22T19:02:47.566Z (UTC) > Page Two: No Immunity for a President would make it very difficult for him or her to do the job of protecting our Country. A current President would always be thinking, with every move made, whether or not there would be a Criminal Prosecution after leaving Office! 9,008 likes · 2,268 reposts · 152 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112316420428508670.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112316420428508670/analysis --- ### [ts_112316361085152419](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112316361085152419) Truth Social · 2024-04-22T18:47:42.057Z (UTC) > IF A PRESIDENT DOES NOT HAVE IMMUNITY, THE COURT WILL BE “OPENING THE FLOODGATES” TO PROSECUTING FORMER PRESIDENTS. AN OPPOSING HOSTILE PARTY WILL BE DOING IT FOR ANY REASON, ALL OF THE TIME. THIS IS NOT WHAT THE FOUNDERS HAD IN MIND! 10,221 likes · 2,741 reposts · 512 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112316361085152419.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112316361085152419/analysis --- ### [ts_112316152694594986](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112316152694594986) Truth Social · 2024-04-22T17:54:42.270Z (UTC) > Just so everyone knows, especially the young people, Crooked Joe Biden is responsible for banning TikTok. He is the one pushing it to close, and doing it to help his friends over at Facebook become richer and more dominant, and able to continue to fight, perhaps illegally, the Republican Party. It’s called ELECTION INTERFERENCE! Young people, and lots of others, must remember this on November 5th, ELECTION DAY, when they vote! They also must remember, more importantly, that he is destroying our Country, and is A MAJOR THREAT TO DEMOCRACY! 13,048 likes · 4,192 reposts · 1,074 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112316152694594986.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112316152694594986/analysis --- ### [ts_112316013610482805](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112316013610482805) Truth Social · 2024-04-22T17:19:20.099Z (UTC) > The Palestinian Protests at Columbia University have CLOSED THE COLLEGE DOWN. But the area surrounding the Courthouse, in Downtown Manhattan, is closed up like a drum, with New York City’s Finest (Police) all over the place. Why not send some to Columbia to protect Jewish Students, and others. The University would then not have to Shut Down. Republicans want the right to protest in front of the Courthouse, like everyone else! 19,467 likes · 5,144 reposts · 1,649 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112316013610482805.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112316013610482805/analysis --- ### [ts_112315203670112649](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112315203670112649) Truth Social · 2024-04-22T13:53:21.306Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment **Video transcript** (2:57), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Thank you very much. I just want to say, before we begin, these are all Biden trials. This is done as election interference. Everybody knows it. I'm here, instead of being able to be in Pennsylvania and Georgia and lots of other places campaigning, and it's very unfair. Fortunately, the poll numbers are very good. They've been going up because people understand what's going on. This is a witch hunt, and it's a shame, and it comes out of Washington, and it's in coordination with Washington, everything, including the DA's office. It's in coordination with Washington. I just want people to understand that this is done for purposes of hurting the opponent of the worst president in the history of our country. Second of all, we have another trial going on right now. That's Latisha James. She campaigned on the fact that I will get Trump, I'm going to get Trump, and it has to do with a bond of $175 million. Now, first of all, she doesn't want me to participate with financial companies in New York, so we have a company, I guess based in California, it's a bonding company, and I put up $175 million in cash, but she says the bonding company is not good. She doesn't like the bonding company be… (full transcript: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112315203670112649) 14,304 likes · 4,642 reposts · 1,408 replies · unknown views --- ### [ts_112315148858697285](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112315148858697285) Truth Social · 2024-04-22T13:39:24.948Z (UTC) > https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/12/14/top-natsec-reporter-admits-only-trump-can-save-the-west-now/ 9,261 likes · 2,699 reposts · 344 replies · unknown views Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112315148858697285/analysis --- ### [ts_112315147940969000](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112315147940969000) Truth Social · 2024-04-22T13:39:10.947Z (UTC) · 2 media attachments > “Golf Legend John Daly Says 'All of Us on the Tours...Want Daddy Trump Back'” 12,226 likes · 3,080 reposts · 421 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112315147940969000.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112315147940969000/analysis --- ### [ts_112315144040309876](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112315144040309876) Truth Social · 2024-04-22T13:38:11.425Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment > After selling his highly successful Oil and Gas Business, Tony Wied has decided to run for Congress in Wisconsin’s 8th Congressional District. Tony is running against RINO Roger Roth, who is a “clone” of Paul Ryan, and no friend to MAGA - He should drop out of the Race NOW. As your next Congressman, Tony will work hard to Unleash American Energy, Stop Inflation, Secure our Border, Support our Military / Vets, and Protect our always under siege Second Amendment. Tony Wied has my Complete and Total Endorsement - He will not let you down! 11,126 likes · 2,999 reposts · 236 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112315144040309876.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112315144040309876/analysis --- ### [ts_112315142201336542](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112315142201336542) Truth Social · 2024-04-22T13:37:43.365Z (UTC) > https://paulingrassia.substack.com/p/the-lefts-lawfare-will-destroy-american?utm_medium=reader2 9,126 likes · 2,805 reposts · 498 replies · unknown views Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112315142201336542/analysis --- ### [ts_112315141489785446](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112315141489785446) Truth Social · 2024-04-22T13:37:32.508Z (UTC) > https://www.nysun.com/article/the-potentially-unprecedented-punishment-of-trump 8,147 likes · 2,371 reposts · 234 replies · unknown views Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112315141489785446/analysis --- ### [ts_112315140563375947](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112315140563375947) Truth Social · 2024-04-22T13:37:18.372Z (UTC) > Rich Lowry, The National Review: “As Senator Tom Cotton pointed out on Sunday, Kabul didn’t collapse on Trump’s watch, Russia didn’t invade Ukraine, and Hamas didn’t launch a historic terror attack on Israel…The argument that adversaries feared him, and therefore acted with a measure of restraint, is intuitive, at the very least… A more important question is whether the right people fear President Biden, a test that Trump…appeared to pass during his time in office.” 9,786 likes · 2,778 reposts · 232 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112315140563375947.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112315140563375947/analysis --- ### [ts_112315139718042299](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112315139718042299) Truth Social · 2024-04-22T13:37:05.474Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment 8,896 likes · 2,346 reposts · 188 replies · unknown views --- ### [ts_112315133611024467](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112315133611024467) Truth Social · 2024-04-22T13:35:32.292Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment 8,803 likes · 3,261 reposts · 306 replies · unknown views --- ### [ts_112315132708795826](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112315132708795826) Truth Social · 2024-04-22T13:35:18.521Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment 6,954 likes · 1,961 reposts · 113 replies · unknown views --- ### [ts_112315069158299789](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112315069158299789) Truth Social · 2024-04-22T13:19:08.861Z (UTC) > Make no mistake about it, this is a Biden Trial, they all are. It’s all about Election Interference. Sad! 12,515 likes · 3,561 reposts · 851 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112315069158299789.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112315069158299789/analysis --- ### [ts_112315051307753887](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112315051307753887) Truth Social · 2024-04-22T13:14:36.549Z (UTC) > RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/WashingtonExaminer/statuses/112313960007330862 Look at this story. Hamas Protests. But why aren’t Country Loving Republicans allowed to peacefully protest around the Courthouse, where I am right now. It’s like an armed camp. MAGA2024! 7,909 likes · 2,480 reposts · 438 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112315051307753887.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112315051307753887/analysis --- ### [ts_112314957107439839](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112314957107439839) Truth Social · 2024-04-22T12:50:39.133Z (UTC) > Unlike at Columbia University where the Radical Left Palestinian Protesters sat on the Front Lawn, practically took over the School, and screamed, “Death to the Jews, Death to Israel, Death to America,” and nothing happened to them, Lower Manhattan surrounding the Courthouse, where I am heading now, is completely CLOSED DOWN. SO UNFAIR!!! 10,531 likes · 3,218 reposts · 628 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112314957107439839.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112314957107439839/analysis --- ### [ts_112314919791257966](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112314919791257966) Truth Social · 2024-04-22T12:41:09.701Z (UTC) > WITCH HUNT!!! 10,929 likes · 2,719 reposts · 589 replies · unknown views Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112314919791257966/analysis --- ### [ts_112314915349929541](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112314915349929541) Truth Social · 2024-04-22T12:40:01.965Z (UTC) > ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!! 11,055 likes · 2,774 reposts · 396 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112314915349929541.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112314915349929541/analysis --- ### [ts_112314542953753353](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112314542953753353) Truth Social · 2024-04-22T11:05:19.678Z (UTC) > RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/WashingtonExaminer/statuses/112312890356274376 Why are Palestinian protesters, and even rioters, allowed to roam the Cities, scream, shout, sit, block traffic, enter buildings, not get permits, and basically do whatever they want including threatening Supreme Court Justices right in front of their homes, and yet people who truly LOVE our Country, and want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, are not allowed to “Peacefully Protest,” and are rudely and systematically shut down and ushered off to far away “holding areas,” essentially denying them their Constitutional Rights. America Loving Protesters should be allowed to protest at the front steps of Courthouses, all over the Country, just like it is allowed for those who are destroying our Country on the Radical Left, a two tiered system of justice. Free Speech and Assembly has been “CHILLED” for USA SUPPORTERS. GO OUT AND PEACEFULLY PROTEST. RALLY BEHIND MAGA. SAVE OUR COUNTRY! “THE ONLY THING YOU HAVE TO FEAR IS FEAR ITSELF.” 12,747 likes · 4,567 reposts · 1,069 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112314542953753353.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112314542953753353/analysis --- ### [ts_112312890922422470](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112312890922422470) Truth Social · 2024-04-22T04:05:11.656Z (UTC) > The Corrupt Soros Funded District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, who has totally lost control of Violent Crime in New York, says that the payment of money to a lawyer, for legal services rendered, should not be referred to in a Ledger as LEGAL EXPENSE. What other term would be more appropriate??? Believe it or not, this is the pretext under which I was Indicted, and that Legal Scholars and Experts CANNOT BELIEVE. It is also the perfect Crooked Joe Biden NARRATIVE - To be STUCK in a courtroom, and not be allowed to campaign for President of the United States! 16,294 likes · 4,909 reposts · 1,735 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112312890922422470.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112312890922422470/analysis --- ### [ts_112312764442352510](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112312764442352510) Truth Social · 2024-04-22T03:33:01.723Z (UTC) > Four years ago I was a very successful and popular President of the United States and, in November, went into an Election where I received more votes, by far, than any sitting President in the history of our Country. Unfortunately, the Election was Rigged and Stolen, and our once great Country has quickly become a Nation In Serious Decline. Tomorrow morning I report to a New York Criminal Court for a Trial on, somewhat ironically, ELECTION INTERFERENCE, ruled over by Crooked Joe Biden’s DOJ, before a Corrupt and Highly Conflicted Judge, a failed Soros funded District Attorney who didn’t want to bring this case, which could have been brought eight years ago, but wasn’t, in an almost completely Democrat District. Virtually every Legal Scholar and Expert says that there is NO CASE, NO CRIME, NO NOTHING! IT IS A SHAM THAT SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN BROUGHT, EXCEPT TO TRY AND DAMAGE BIDEN’S POLITICAL OPPONENT, ME. 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