# Posts from Sunday, May 5, 2024 42 posts on 2024-05-05. ## Day analysis Day analysis page: https://trump.fm/date/2024-05-05/analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-04-11T13:14:55.558Z (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 Under Siege: 25-Post Proxy Blitz Floods the Zone While Trump Escapes to Formula 1** Trump spent most of the day orchestrating a massive legal-media counteroffensive against his Manhattan criminal trial, posting over two dozen quotes from conservative commentators attacking the judge, the prosecutor, and the gag order -- all within a half-hour window in the afternoon. The tone was overwhelmingly defensive and aggrieved, a stark contrast to the three cheerful posts from the Miami Formula 1 Grand Prix later that evening, where he claimed credit for McLaren's victory. A lone early-morning post denying he ever suggested states might monitor pregnancies hinted at the political anxiety simmering beneath the legal crisis. Overall, a day defined by siege mentality, proxy warfare, and a brief escape into sports glamour. - Posts analyzed: 37 - Dominant state: vulnerable - Narrative arc: contamination - Aggregate rage level: 0.45 - Max danger level: elevated - Theme obsession: Manhattan criminal trial delegitimization - Claims: 127 (41 false) - Era: 2024 Campaign # Daily Psychological Digest: May 5, 2024 ## Location & Timezone Context Trump was in the Miami, Florida area on this date, attending the Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix at the Miami International Autodrome. The Manhattan hush money trial was in Sunday recess. All analysis uses **EDT (UTC-4)** as his local timezone. - **First post:** 3:29 AM EDT (ts_112387302489868990) - **Last post:** 7:11 PM EDT (ts_112391008793529584) - **Active posting window:** ~16 hours --- ## I. Psychological State Tracking ### Dominant State: **Vulnerable** The overwhelming majority of the day's 37 posts (~25) occupy the vulnerable narcissistic register — persecution narratives, victimhood framing, institutional delegitimization, and borrowed-authority validation seeking. This is the most lopsidedly vulnerable day in recent memory, attributable to the compound narcissistic injuries of the preceding trial week: the April 30 contempt finding (nine violations, $9,000 fine, jail warning), Hope Hicks' tearful testimony confirming Trump's "deny, deny, deny" directive, and ongoing gag order constraints. ### State Transitions | Time (EDT) | Post(s) | State | Trigger | |---|---|---|---| | 3:29 AM | ts_112387302489868990 | Mixed | Narcissistic injury (TIME interview) | | 9:29 AM | ts_112388720142555140 | Mixed (rage) | Narcissistic injury (trial displacement) | | 2:40–3:08 PM | ts_112389943333794588 through ts_112390052608778606 | Vulnerable (dominant) | Coordinated injury response to trial | | 3:21–6:48 PM | ts_112390102752564879 through ts_112390918342969824 | Grandiose | Supply-seeking (F1 Grand Prix) | | 7:11 PM | ts_112391008793529584 | Grandiose | Maintenance (book promotion) | The critical transition occurs at 2:40 PM EDT, when the account shifts from isolated reactive posts to a coordinated 28-minute blitz of proxy legal commentary. This shift represents the day's defining psychological event: the gag-order-constrained narcissistic subject channeling rage through credentialed surrogates in a professionally managed information operation. The transition to grandiose state at the F1 Grand Prix (3:21 PM) is a textbook compartmentalization event — the affective discontinuity between trial-persecution content and breezy lifestyle posting is itself diagnostically significant, reflecting shallow, state-dependent emotional processing characteristic of narcissistic personality structure. --- ## II. Escalation Detection ### No Classical Escalation Detected The day does not exhibit a traditional rage spiral with escalating intensity. Instead, the pattern is **sustained siege**: a coordinated, high-volume, moderate-intensity barrage maintained at a consistent level across 25+ posts before abruptly terminating when the subject transitions to the F1 event. - **Peak intensity post:** ts_112390022654263253 (Paul Ingrassia quote, intensity 0.78, rage 0.72) - **Peak rage post:** ts_112390006953060919 (Jarrett quote attacking Merchan, rage 0.72) and ts_112390022654263253 (Ingrassia, rage 0.72) - **Trajectory:** Flat/sustained rather than escalating. The coordinated dump format prevents organic escalation dynamics. The rage is **disproportionate to any single trigger** but proportionate to the cumulative injury load: contempt finding + gag order + Hicks testimony + daily trial attendance as defendant. The proxy-voice mechanism modulates expression intensity — the same content delivered in Trump's authentic voice would likely register significantly higher rage scores. --- ## III. Theme Analysis ### Dominant Themes 1. **Trial Delegitimization** (~25 posts): The day's overwhelming preoccupation. Every conservative legal commentator is deployed to a single purpose: establishing that the Bragg prosecution is categorically illegitimate, unconstitutional, and politically motivated. This is not analysis — it is epistemic closure construction. 2. **Gag Order Grievance** (~8 posts, overlapping with #1): The gag order receives special treatment as both a First Amendment violation and proof of persecution. The irony — attacking the gag order via proxy while technically complying — is the day's most psychologically revealing behavioral signature. 3. **Clinton Whataboutism** (~6 posts): The FEC fine against Clinton's 2016 campaign and the 1992 troopergate episode are deployed as false-equivalence ammunition. The factual kernel (Clinton was fined) is embedded in misleading framing that obscures material legal distinctions. 4. **Biden Conspiracy** (~5 posts): Biden is cast as orchestrator of the prosecution — "thoroughly complicit," using "henchmen" — a paranoid-conspiratorial schema requiring coordinated action between a state DA and the federal executive with no supporting evidence. 5. **Formula 1 / Lifestyle** (3 posts): Counter-programming — projecting undiminished status and dominance through elite event attendance. 6. **Abortion / Reproductive Rights** (2 posts): Damage control on the TIME magazine interview and Dobbs electoral liability. ### Obsession Assessment: **Yes** The return to trial delegitimization across 25+ posts in a single day, using 8+ distinct commentator voices all advancing the same narrative, constitutes abnormal thematic fixation. The obsession is managed rather than spontaneous — it is a coordinated communications operation — but the underlying psychological driver (narcissistic injury demanding relentless counter-narrative) is authentic. --- ## IV. Contradiction Detection ### Identified Contradictions 1. **"I never said" vs. documented non-denial** - **Post ts_112387302489868990:** "I never said that 'some states may choose to monitor women's pregnancies to possibly prosecute for violating any abortion bans.'" - **Documented reality:** The TIME magazine interview (published ~May 1, 2024) recorded Trump conspicuously declining to deny this scenario when directly asked. - **Severity:** Major — categorical denial of documented conduct. 2. **Manufactured consensus across unrelated domains** - **Post ts_112387302489868990:** "all legal scholars" wanted Roe overturned - **Multiple trial posts:** "legal scholars" and "legal community" see Bragg's case as illegitimate - Both deploy fabricated universal expert agreement to opposite ends. The same rhetorical device (unanimous scholarly consensus) cannot honestly apply to both the abortion question and the trial question. - **Severity:** Moderate — reveals the consensus claim as a reflexive rhetorical device rather than factual assertion. 3. **Rule-of-law framing contradiction** - **Trial posts:** Repeatedly invoke constitutional principles, due process, and rule of law as being violated by the prosecution - **Behavioral reality:** Trump was found in contempt five days prior for nine violations of a court order — actively undermining the rule of law he claims to champion - **Severity:** Major — structural hypocrisy embedded across the day's output. --- ## V. Hypomanic Indicators ### Post Frequency - **37 posts** in a single day is well above Trump's typical baseline (~10-15 posts/day during this period) - However, ~25 posts were deposited in a **28-minute window** (2:40–3:08 PM EDT), strongly indicating a **pre-staged batch upload** by communications staff rather than organic real-time posting - The batch-upload pattern invalidates frequency-based hypomanic inference ### Time Gap Analysis - 3:29 AM → 9:29 AM: **6-hour gap** (likely sleep) - 9:29 AM → 2:40 PM: **5-hour gap** (travel to Miami / pre-race activity) - 2:40 PM → 3:08 PM: **28 minutes, ~25 posts** (batch upload) - 3:21 PM → 4:26 PM → 6:48 PM → 7:11 PM: Normal spacing ### Sleep Assessment The 3:29 AM EDT post is noteworthy — it suggests either sleep disruption or a brief wake-post-sleep cycle. The 6-hour gap until the next post at 9:29 AM is consistent with returning to sleep. **Insufficient evidence for sleep deprivation**, though the 3:29 AM timestamp warrants longitudinal tracking. ### Hypomanic Episode: **No** The high post count is an artifact of coordinated staff communications strategy, not pressured output from the subject himself. The posting pattern — isolated early-morning post, long gaps, coordinated batch, then normal-frequency authentic posts — is inconsistent with hypomanic episode criteria. --- ## VI. Narrative Arc: **Contamination** The day's narrative follows a contamination trajectory: what could have been a day of elite leisure (Formula 1 Grand Prix in Miami) is contaminated by the overwhelming weight of legal jeopardy. **Act I — Predawn Damage Control (3:29 AM):** The day begins with anxiety. Trump is awake at 3:29 AM crafting a denial of documented statements about pregnancy monitoring — the abortion issue threatening his electoral viability. **Act II — Displacement (9:29 AM):** A single post redirecting all trial anxiety onto Biden via campus protests. The trial itself is never mentioned — its absence is the defense. **Act III — The Siege (2:40–3:08 PM):** The day's defining event. Twenty-five posts in 28 minutes — Jarrett, McCarthy, Turley, Lowry, Ingrassia, Davis, Ventry, von Spakovsky, Hewitt, Shugerman, Jordan — all deployed to construct an alternative legal reality in which the prosecution is unconstitutional, the judge is corrupt, the gag order violates the First Amendment, and any verdict would be illegitimate. This is not spontaneous expression; it is information warfare conducted under legal constraint. **Act IV — Escape (3:21–6:48 PM):** Three F1 posts perform affective compartmentalization. The shift from persecution victim to VIP sports spectator is instantaneous and complete — no transitional affect, no residual anxiety. Trump claims McLaren's victory as his own ("I visited before the race, and Endorsed"), converting someone else's win into personal narcissistic supply. **Act V — Return to Baseline (7:11 PM):** A book promotion closes the day in grandiose maintenance mode. The contamination arc is unmistakable: the trial dominates even a day meant for leisure, forcing a massive defensive operation that dwarfs all other activity. --- ## VII. Event Correlation ### Campus Protests (Gaza War) - **Reaction type:** Offensive/Amplifying - **Response posts:** ts_112388720142555140 - **Analysis:** The nationwide campus protests are instrumentalized as evidence of Biden's incompetence and national decline. Trump does not engage with the substance of the protests (Gaza, divestment) but uses them as raw material for anti-Biden attack. The protests serve as displacement target for trial-generated rage. ### Manhattan Criminal Trial (Ongoing) - **Reaction type:** Defensive - **Response posts:** ts_112389991372899546 through ts_112390052608778606 (~25 posts) - **Analysis:** The trial is the day's gravitational center. Every legal commentary post responds to the compound injury of contempt findings, damaging testimony, and gag order constraints. The defensive response is unprecedented in volume and coordination — a full-spectrum delegitimization campaign operating through proxy voices. ### Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix - **Reaction type:** Amplifying (supply-seeking) - **Response posts:** ts_112390102752564879, ts_112390360819372262, ts_112390918342969824 - **Analysis:** The F1 event provides narcissistic counter-programming — a domain of unambiguous status and winning that offsets trial exposure. --- ## VIII. Danger Assessment ### Maximum Danger Level: **Elevated** Thirteen of 37 posts received elevated danger ratings. No single post reaches "high" or "critical," but the **aggregate pattern** is the concern: - **Named targets:** Judge Merchan is attacked by name in at least 6 posts as biased, incompetent, "semi-literate," "clueless," and "deeply unqualified." DA Bragg is named in virtually every legal commentary post. - **Audience priming:** The 25-post blitz pre-conditions followers to reject any guilty verdict as illegitimate — "conviction orchestration," "show trial," "farcical." - **Grievance saturation:** Eight distinct commentator voices create an impression of unanimous expert consensus that the trial is corrupt, providing intellectual permission structure for rejection of outcomes. - **Gag order circumvention:** The proxy-voice strategy simultaneously complies with and undermines the spirit of judicial constraint, signaling to followers that the legal system's authority is itself illegitimate. ### Stochastic Terrorism Pattern: **Present** The day's output maps the documented pattern: named targets (Merchan, Bragg) + articulated grievances (bias, incompetence, corruption, unconstitutional conduct) + audience mobilization (persecution narrative, delegitimization of legal outcomes) + historical precedent (followers have previously targeted Trump's named adversaries). No explicit incitement is present, but the structural conditions for stochastic violence are maintained across 13 elevated-danger posts. --- ## IX. Cognitive Concerns ### Assessment Limitations The overwhelming majority of the day's content is third-party quotation, rendering cognitive assessment of Trump's own processing largely impossible. Only four posts contain primary Trump-authored text: the abortion denial (ts_112387302489868990), the Biden attack (ts_112388720142555140), the Newsom/IVF post (ts_112389943333794588), and the F1 victory post (ts_112390918342969824). ### Observable Markers - **3:29 AM post:** Adequate syntactic complexity, sustained argument structure, appropriate use of qualifiers. The cherry-picking of Ohio and Kansas (states that voted to protect abortion access) as examples of his position working is either deliberate misdirection or reflects genuine confusion about what those votes meant. - **9:29 AM post:** Anaphoric structure ("unable to talk, unable to reason, unable to...") shows preserved rhetorical capacity. The causal leap from campus protests to "World War III" ("WWW3") is tangential but within baseline parameters. - **F1 post:** Magical thinking (visit = endorsement = causation of victory) is characteristic rather than novel. ### Complexity Trend: **Stable** Insufficient authentic-voice data for meaningful trend assessment. Available samples show no deviation from established cognitive baseline. ### Aggregate Cognitive Concerns - Magical/causal thinking (F1 endorsement = victory) - Manufactured consensus claims deployed reflexively across unrelated domains - Paranoid-conspiratorial ideation (Biden orchestrating state-level prosecution) - Complete absence of engagement with adverse evidence (no mention of Hicks testimony, contempt findings, or documentary evidence) --- ## X. Propaganda & Information Warfare Analysis The day's most significant finding is not psychological but operational. The 25-post legal commentary blitz constitutes a textbook **RAND Firehose of Falsehood** deployment: 1. **High volume:** 25 posts in 28 minutes 2. **Multi-channel:** 8+ distinct commentator voices (Jarrett, McCarthy, Turley, Lowry, Ingrassia, Davis, Ventry, von Spakovsky, Hewitt, Shugerman, Jordan/Malliotakis/Van Drew) 3. **Rapid dissemination:** Batch-posted for maximum feed saturation 4. **No commitment to consistency:** Legal arguments range from jurisdictional (FEC preemption) to constitutional (due process) to political (election interference) — some mutually reinforcing, others independent 5. **Cross-partisan credibility engineering:** The inclusion of Jed Shugerman (a Democrat law professor critical of the prosecution) among partisan voices is a sophisticated credibility-building technique The cumulative effect is epistemic closure: followers who consume the day's output receive a self-contained alternative legal reality that renders engagement with prosecution evidence unnecessary and pre-delegitimizes any adverse verdict. --- ## XI. Behavioral Significance The near-total absence of Trump's authentic voice across the legal commentary posts is a **behavioral anomaly** of clinical significance. The gag order and contempt findings appear to have achieved partial behavioral modification — suppressing direct impulsive expression and forcing mediation through aides and quoted authorities. However, the underlying drive (dominance assertion, institutional attack, persecution narrative) is fully intact; only the delivery mechanism has changed. This is consistent with antisocial adaptation to constraint: compliance with the letter while violating the spirit, maintaining the attack drive through technically permissible channels. The F1 posts provide the day's only window into unmediated Trump psychology — and what they reveal is characteristic: complete affective compartmentalization, instantaneous state-switching from persecution victim to triumphant VIP, and magical-thinking causal attribution. The defendant at a criminal trial watches a car race and tweets about winning. The discontinuity is the diagnosis. ### Narrative A day of elite leisure (Formula 1 in Miami) is overwhelmed by the gravitational pull of criminal trial anxiety. Predawn damage control on abortion gives way to a massive 25-post proxy-voice legal blitz that constitutes the day's true center of gravity, briefly interrupted by compartmentalized F1 spectating before closing with routine maintenance. The trial contaminates everything — even the escape is defined by what it escapes from. ### Dominant themes - Trial delegitimization (1 post) - Gag order grievance (1 post) - Clinton whataboutism (1 post) - Biden conspiracy (1 post) - Formula 1 / lifestyle supply (1 post) - Abortion and reproductive rights (1 post) ### Contradictions that day - [ts_112387302489868990](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112387302489868990): I never said that some states may choose to monitor women's pregnancies to possibly prosecute for violating any abortion bans vs. [ts_112387302489868990](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112387302489868990): Documented TIME magazine interview recorded Trump conspicuously declining to deny this scenario when directly asked - [ts_112387302489868990](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112387302489868990): All legal scholars wanted Roe v. Wade overturned and returned to the states vs. [ts_112390044685482674](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390044685482674): The legal community sees Bragg's case as legally obscene — manufactured unanimous expert consensus deployed reflexively across unrelated domains - [ts_112390050496947595](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390050496947595): Prosecution and gag order violate rule of law and constitutional principles vs. [ts_112390050496947595](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390050496947595): Trump was found in contempt five days prior for nine violations of a court order — actively undermining the rule of law he invokes ### Cognitive concerns - Magical/causal thinking: claims pre-race visit caused McLaren's F1 victory - Manufactured consensus deployed reflexively: 'all legal scholars' invoked for both abortion and trial positions - Paranoid-conspiratorial ideation: Biden orchestrating independent state-level prosecution with no supporting evidence - Complete avoidance of adverse evidence: zero engagement with Hicks testimony, contempt findings, or documentary record - Category confusion or deliberate misdirection: cites Ohio and Kansas as pro-life victories when both states voted to protect abortion access ## Posts ### [ts_112391008793529584](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112391008793529584) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T23:11:35.702Z (UTC) > New York Times Bestselling Author, the Great Tammy Bruce, is out with a NEW BOOK, “FEAR ITSELF, Exposing the Left’s Mind-Killing Agenda.” Tammy understood Left Wing Lunacy as a destructive force long before most others. This is an important book, a MUST READ. MAGA2024. Order it now!!! DJT 14,846 likes · 3,566 reposts · 527 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112391008793529584.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112391008793529584/analysis --- ### [ts_112390918342969824](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390918342969824) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T22:48:35.635Z (UTC) · 2 media attachments > It was a great honor to see my friends at McLaren win the big Miami Formula 1 race. It was the car I visited before the race, and Endorsed—that’s what we need for our Country—WINNING! 17,299 likes · 3,717 reposts · 607 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112390918342969824.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390918342969824/analysis --- ### [ts_112390505861570524](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390505861570524) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T21:03:41.632Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment **Video transcript** (0:15), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > [crowd chanting] 17,029 likes · 3,827 reposts · 585 replies · unknown views --- ### [ts_112390497924650712](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390497924650712) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T21:01:40.529Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment **Video transcript** (0:23), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > [Music] 15,476 likes · 3,395 reposts · 315 replies · unknown views --- ### [ts_112390482602137850](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390482602137850) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T20:57:46.724Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment **Video transcript** (0:23), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > (upbeat music) 13,899 likes · 3,047 reposts · 242 replies · unknown views --- ### [ts_112390360819372262](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390360819372262) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T20:26:48.395Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment > Great to be at the Formula One Miami Grand Prix! **Video transcript** (0:14), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > >> USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA! 15,776 likes · 3,406 reposts · 468 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112390360819372262.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390360819372262/analysis --- ### [ts_112390356327597098](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390356327597098) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T20:25:39.856Z (UTC) · repost > RT @realDonaldTrumpOn my way to Formula 1 — at the Miami International Autodrome… Reposted from @realDonaldTrump (Donald J. Trump), 2024-05-05T19:21:10.614Z (UTC) (https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/112390102752564879) > On my way to Formula 1 — at the Miami International Autodrome… - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/112/390/102/710/738/616/original/c593939cbbe02063.mp4 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views --- ### [ts_112390355278896137](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390355278896137) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T20:25:23.854Z (UTC) · repost > RT @grenellOn this glorious holiday of the Resurrection of Christ, I extend my heartfelt greetings to all Christian Orthodox brothers and sisters. May this Easter Sunday be filled with joy, peace, and the light of new mercies every morning. Christ is Risen! Reposted from @grenell (Richard Grenell), 2024-05-05T20:12:51.742Z (UTC) (https://truthsocial.com/@grenell/112390305981786809) > On this glorious holiday of the Resurrection of Christ, I extend my heartfelt greetings to all Christian Orthodox brothers and sisters. May this Easter Sunday be filled with joy, peace, and the light of new mercies every morning. > > > > Christ is Risen! - image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/112/390/305/888/755/214/original/70378bb1c3c0614a.jpg 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views --- ### [ts_112390102752564879](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390102752564879) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T19:21:10.614Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment > On my way to Formula 1 — at the Miami International Autodrome… 18,277 likes · 3,681 reposts · 568 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112390102752564879.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390102752564879/analysis --- ### [ts_112390052608778606](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390052608778606) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T19:08:25.473Z (UTC) > Hugh Hewitt: “THE SHOW TRIAL OF DONALD TRUMP: THE RAILROADING OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT IS IN PLAIN SIGHT…The Fourteenth Amendment, because of its guarantee that ‘nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws’ binds the courts of New York to the requirement of due process of law first stated in the Fifth Amendment. Former President Donald Trump is not receiving the process owed him by the Constitution of the United States.” 14,405 likes · 4,164 reposts · 740 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112390052608778606.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390052608778606/analysis --- ### [ts_112390051921049462](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390051921049462) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T19:08:14.979Z (UTC) > Hans von Spakovsky: “TRUMP’S NY PROSECUTION IS A BOGUS CASE BY A BOGUS PROSECUTOR…Neither the FEC nor the Justice Department ever filed an enforcement action against the Trump campaign or Trump personally over the payment; specifically, because it was not a campaign-related expense. You know what would have led to enforcement actions? If Trump had actually claimed this was a campaign-related expense and had used campaign funds to make the payment, I have no doubt he would have been prosecuted by the feds for the illegal use of campaign funds to pay a personal expense. That’s what former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., went to prison for after he pleaded guilty in 2013 to spending $750,000 on personal expenses.” 11,865 likes · 3,176 reposts · 324 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112390051921049462.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390051921049462/analysis --- ### [ts_112390051150141839](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390051150141839) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T19:08:03.216Z (UTC) > Andrew McCarthy: “I think the gag order is over-the-top and have said so…It is an arrogant expression of a judge convinced that nothing — not even free expression and robust political speech in a presidential election — takes precedence over the administration of justice in the farcical ongoing trial…If Merchan were truly interested in the administration of justice, he could have postponed the trial until after the November election.” 11,910 likes · 3,103 reposts · 303 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112390051150141839.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390051150141839/analysis --- ### [ts_112390050496947595](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390050496947595) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T19:07:53.250Z (UTC) > Jim Jordan, Nicole Malliotakis, and Jeff Van Drew: “AMERICAN PEOPLE CAN SEE THROUGH MANHATTAN POLITICAL TRIAL AGAINST TRUMP...For the first time ever in American history, a politically elected prosecutor is trying to jail a former president and current declared candidate for that office. This prosecution, coming less than seven months before the presidential election, threatens to undermine the election and ultimately harm our democracy… Americans see through this charade. They intuitively know when someone’s getting a raw deal. They see crime in Manhattan as Bragg spends his time prosecuting a president for political reasons. They see violent criminals roaming the streets and local businesses shutting down because it’s unsafe. Americans are smarter than Democrats give them credit for. Americans understand that politics is why President Trump is on trial.” 11,259 likes · 2,983 reposts · 305 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112390050496947595.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390050496947595/analysis --- ### [ts_112390049575449349](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390049575449349) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T19:07:39.191Z (UTC) > Paul Ingrassia: “ALVIN BRAGG’S LEGAL ASSAULT ON PRESIDENT TRUMP IS LAWFARE OF THE WORST KIND…To channel our eloquent Commander-in-Chief: For God’s sake it’s been seven years already, what the hell is another seven months going to make a difference!  The choice to prosecute President Trump now, perhaps at the summit of his political clout, where most reputable polls have him trouncing Biden in the upcoming general election, just reeks of improprieties – and indeed, election interference – of the worst possible variety.” 10,304 likes · 2,716 reposts · 196 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112390049575449349.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390049575449349/analysis --- ### [ts_112390048873320499](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390048873320499) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T19:07:28.475Z (UTC) > Jed Shugerman: “I THOUGHT THE BRAGG CASE AGAINST TRUMP WAS A LEGAL EMBARRASSMENT. NOW I THINK IT’S A HISTORIC MISTAKE…Eight years after the alleged crime itself, it is reasonable to ask if this is more about Manhattan politics than New York law. This case should serve as a cautionary tale about broader prosecutorial abuses in America — and promote bipartisan reforms of our partisan prosecutorial system.” 10,263 likes · 2,684 reposts · 175 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112390048873320499.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390048873320499/analysis --- ### [ts_112390048048659469](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390048048659469) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T19:07:15.891Z (UTC) > Gregg Jarrett: “Hocus-pocus is a meaningless distraction or illusion that is intended to fool. That neatly summarizes District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against Donald Trump…It is Bragg, himself, who is guilty of election interference in 2024 by bringing a legally absurd case designed to take Trump off the campaign trail while his opponent, Joe Biden, freely blankets key states in advance of the November balloting. It’s a neat trick called ‘lawfare’ — weaponizing the law to persecute a political enemy under the guise of a legitimate prosecution. It doesn’t matter that any conviction will surely be overturned on appeal. By then, the damage will be done.” 9,787 likes · 2,629 reposts · 184 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112390048048659469.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390048048659469/analysis --- ### [ts_112390047286610789](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390047286610789) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T19:07:04.263Z (UTC) > Gregg Jarrett: “THE MYSTERIOUS 'OTHER CRIME' THAT IS NOT: MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY BRAGG HAS MANAGED TO BRING A POLITICALLY MOTIVATED CASE AGAINST TRUMP BY CONTORTING THE LAW BEYOND ALL RECOGNITION…Even the liberal New York Times has published several articles casting doubt on Bragg’s daffy legal theories.  On Tuesday, it ran a blistering column written by Jed Handelsman Shugerman, a distinguished law professor at Boston University entitled, ‘I Thought the Bragg Case Against Trump Was a Legal Embarrassment. Now I Think It’s a Historic Mistake.’ I couldn’t agree more.” 9,456 likes · 2,457 reposts · 136 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112390047286610789.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390047286610789/analysis --- ### [ts_112390046386271094](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390046386271094) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T19:06:50.527Z (UTC) > Gregg Jarrett: “Any neutral and objective judge who is knowledgeable in the law would have long ago dismissed Bragg’s sham charges. Instead, the case went to Judge Juan Merchan whose anti-Trump bias is on conspicuous display whenever he takes the bench. His unconstitutional gag order on the leading candidate for president is but one in a string of head-banging pronouncements.” 9,101 likes · 2,399 reposts · 137 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112390046386271094.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390046386271094/analysis --- ### [ts_112390045644950577](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390045644950577) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T19:06:39.214Z (UTC) > Jonathan Turley: “TRUMP IS RIGHT — NEW YORK CASE IS AN ‘EMBARRASSMENT…Trump is right this is an embarrassment. The fact that we are actually talking about this case being presented in a New York court room leaves me in utter disbelief…You had this misdemeanor under state law that had run out. This is going back related to the 2016 election. They zapped it back into life by alleging that there was a campaign finance violations under the federal laws that doesn’t exist. The Department of Justice doesn’t view it this way.” 9,222 likes · 2,481 reposts · 129 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112390045644950577.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390045644950577/analysis --- ### [ts_112390044685482674](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390044685482674) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T19:06:24.576Z (UTC) > Jonathan Turley: “ALVIN BRAGG HAS HIS TRUMP TRIAL, ALL HE NEEDS NOW IS A CRIME: For many of us in the legal community, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against former President Donald Trump borders on the legally obscene: an openly political prosecution based on a theory even legal pundits dismiss…Of course, neither Bragg nor his office has ever seen this type of criminal case in any other defendant. Ever. We’ve never seen a case like this one where a dead misdemeanor from 2016 could be revived as a felony just before the 2024 election.” 8,836 likes · 2,349 reposts · 125 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112390044685482674.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390044685482674/analysis --- ### [ts_112390044002315195](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390044002315195) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T19:06:14.150Z (UTC) > Jonathan Turley: “ON ALVIN BRAGG AND THE ART OF NOT TAKING THE LAW TOO SERIOUSLY…Bragg is vague as to what should have been noted on the ledgers for the payments. It is not even clear if Trump knew of this expense’s designation as a legal cost. However, it really did not matter, because the misdemeanor has been as dead as Dillinger for years…For months, Bragg has suggested that the ‘other crime’ was the violation of federal election laws, suggesting that the payment was really a campaign contribution Trump made to himself that was not properly recorded. The problem is that the Justice Department investigated that crime already and decided that it was not a viable criminal claim. It did not even seek a civil fine.” 8,407 likes · 2,162 reposts · 91 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112390044002315195.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390044002315195/analysis --- ### [ts_112390043247493080](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390043247493080) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T19:06:02.631Z (UTC) > Gregg Jarrett: “NY VS. TRUMP: DA BRAGG'S WEB OF DECEIT STARTS TO UNRAVEL…There’s no there there. But Alvin Bragg could care less. He deliberately commandeered a state statute that has no application to a federal election and twisted it into a pretzel to bring a preposterous charge against Trump that is utterly unsupported by the facts and the law.” 6,126 likes · 1,764 reposts · 86 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112390043247493080.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390043247493080/analysis --- ### [ts_112390042496071090](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390042496071090) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T19:05:51.165Z (UTC) > Rich Lowry: “REMEMBER WHEN BILL CLINTON STOLE THE 1992 ELECTION? The Arkansas governor’s political operation was, in part, an elaborate conspiracy to keep women who alleged to have had affairs with Clinton quiet. Hillary Clinton was an active participant in the schemes. And so, by Bragg’s logic, this Democratic power couple — dominant in the party for a decade or more and still honored today — comprises election thieves…State troopers were involved in procuring women for Clinton and had been pressured prior to the 1992 campaign not to talk. A Clinton loyalist named Buddy Young told one of the troopers during the campaign, ‘If you know what’s good for you, you’ll keep your mouth shut’… Now, if we take Alvin Bragg seriously, stealing the 1992 election has to be added to the list.” 9,219 likes · 2,725 reposts · 190 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112390042496071090.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390042496071090/analysis --- ### [ts_112390041586360261](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390041586360261) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T19:05:37.287Z (UTC) > Andrew McCarthy: “ALVIN BRAGG’S OUTRAGEOUS CONSPIRACY THEORY…Bragg is reluctant to be transparent about what he’s doing. After all, what he’s trying to enforce is not federal campaign law as it exists; it is a faux federal law that Bragg is making up as he goes along…Bragg law is not federal campaign law…Bragg is illegitimately undertaking to enforce federal campaign law and, in so doing, making up his own version of what federal campaign law provides — sharply different from what that law actually says and from the DOJ/FEC standards for enforcing it…What a farce.” 7,858 likes · 2,039 reposts · 96 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112390041586360261.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390041586360261/analysis --- ### [ts_112390040825094983](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390040825094983) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T19:05:25.668Z (UTC) > Andrew McCarthy: “HOW JUDGE MERCHAN IS ORCHESTRATING TRUMP’S CONVICTION…Bragg, a county district attorney responsible for enforcing state law, has no authority to prosecute federal crimes, much less crimes under FECA — a corpus so abstruse that Congress created a specialized bureaucracy, the Federal Election Commission, to ensure its uniform application, vesting the FEC and the Justice Department with exclusive enforcement jurisdiction…Yet, Judge Merchan has swallowed whole Bragg’s theory that he can enforce FECA.” 7,657 likes · 2,013 reposts · 98 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112390040825094983.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390040825094983/analysis --- ### [ts_112390039940395033](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390039940395033) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T19:05:12.169Z (UTC) > Andrew McCarthy: “BIDEN’S COLLUSION IN THE ANTI-TRUMP LAWFARE GAMBIT: The president is thoroughly complicit in the prosecutions of his opponent, which he hopes to ride to a second term in the Oval Office…Unlike Trump, Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign actually did violate the campaign-finance laws by misdescribing its disbursements in concocting the Russiagate smear (e.g., the production of the Steele dossier) as legal expenses rather than opposition research. Consequently, the FEC fined Clinton’s campaign. Now, let’s say a district attorney in some deep-red county in Florida, Texas, or Oklahoma theorized that Hillary had schemed to steal the 2016 election, and that the shady description of the Russiagate expenditures in her campaign’s ledgers amounted to falsification of business records under the laws of that DA’s state…” 7,627 likes · 2,017 reposts · 98 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112390039940395033.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390039940395033/analysis --- ### [ts_112390037964046931](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390037964046931) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T19:04:42.012Z (UTC) > Page 2: “Let’s say that ambitious Republican DA, in order to court the affections of MAGA populists or Clinton-loathing conservatives, had gotten a grand jury to indict Hillary on the Bragg theory — namely, falsification of records to conceal a violation of federal campaign law. Ask yourself this question: In those circumstances, do you think there’s a scintilla of a chance that the Biden Justice Department, with its exclusive jurisdiction over criminal enforcement of federal campaign law in the United States, would sit idly by while a red-state prosecutor, with no federal authority, indicted a Democratic icon? Or do you figure that they would instantly bury the state and federal courts in voluminous legal briefs to get the case shut down as a lawless abuse of power? Would the media–Democrat complex be cheering the prosecutor, or ripping him as a reckless hack who was making up his own version of federal campaign law in order to persecute a partisan rival?”… 7,497 likes · 2,002 reposts · 100 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112390037964046931.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390037964046931/analysis --- ### [ts_112390037336100068](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390037336100068) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T19:04:32.452Z (UTC) > Page 3: “Yet, when it comes to the trial in Manhattan, the Biden Justice Department is sitting on its hands and ignoring the district attorney’s usurpation of federal authority. There’s one reason and one reason alone for that: Bragg indicted Donald Trump. In the end, maybe this will all backfire on Democrats. But regardless of how it is being executed, never forget what the lawfare campaign is designed to do: Joe Biden hopes to ride these prosecutions of his opponent to a second term in the Oval Office.” 7,363 likes · 1,970 reposts · 94 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112390037336100068.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390037336100068/analysis --- ### [ts_112390025226005271](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390025226005271) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T19:01:27.645Z (UTC) > Andrew McCarthy: “HILLARY CLINTON, RECIDIVIST ELECTION-THEFT CONSPIRATOR…Regarding 1992, the Clinton campaign used a law firm as the intermediary for tens of thousands of dollars in payments to a private investigator (Jack Palladino) whose task was to obtain the silence of women who claimed to have had affairs with Bill Clinton…it turns out that this 1992 tactic — booking as legal fees what might euphemistically be called ‘research’ — was the blueprint for the 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign, in cahoots with the Democratic National Committee. They paid their law firm, Perkins Coie, which retained the research firm Fusion GPS and its contractor, former British spy Christopher Steele, to generate the farcical Steele dossier that was shared with the FBI, the State Department, and the media to smear Trump as a clandestine agent of the Kremlin… 7,684 likes · 2,208 reposts · 159 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112390025226005271.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390025226005271/analysis --- ### [ts_112390024816068848](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390024816068848) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T19:01:21.390Z (UTC) > Page 2: “In the Clinton campaign and DNC filings with the FEC, the payments were disguised as ‘legal services’ and ‘legal compliance and consulting,’ rather than research…How cynically amusing, then, for Bragg to rationalize that Trump had to be charged because the 2016 election race was so tight that any deceptive scheme could have affected the outcome. It goes without saying that Bragg has not lifted a finger to prosecute Hillary.” 7,414 likes · 2,065 reposts · 99 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112390024816068848.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390024816068848/analysis --- ### [ts_112390022654263253](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390022654263253) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T19:00:48.404Z (UTC) > Paul Ingrassia: “HOW DONALD TRUMP'S MANHATTAN CRIMINAL TRIAL EPITOMIZES THE LEFT'S WAR ON THE CONSTITUTION - AND AMERICA: NEVER BEFORE IN AMERICA HAS A MAJOR PARTY LEADER IN JOE BIDEN WEAPONIZED THE JUSTICE SYSTEM TO PERSECUTE HIS BIGGEST POLITICAL ADVERSARY, IN DONALD TRUMP – UNTIL NOW…No fraud alleged. No statute cited. No crime asserted…If the rule of law is destroyed, if the Constitution no longer applies, we are a nation in ruin…At no other point in American history has the outcome of a presidential election been so pivotal for determining the fate of not just America, but the world. Not in 1980 at the height of the Cold War with Ronald Reagan; not in 1940 at the peak of World War II with Franklin Roosevelt; not even in 1860, at the outbreak of the Civil War, with Abraham Lincoln. The silver lining of all this is that the momentum is behind Trump, and he is poised to win – in a big, big way this election cycle.  We cannot accept defeat; victory is our only choice.” 7,323 likes · 2,021 reposts · 137 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112390022654263253.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390022654263253/analysis --- ### [ts_112390021915967458](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390021915967458) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T19:00:37.138Z (UTC) > Garrett Ventry: “Judge Merchan’s gag order against President Trump is wildly unconstitutional and it is the peak of election interference. The entire campaign they’re running against President Trump has been lawfare. They can’t beat him at the polls.” 7,215 likes · 1,941 reposts · 90 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112390021915967458.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390021915967458/analysis --- ### [ts_112390021328360553](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390021328360553) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T19:00:28.172Z (UTC) > Mike Davis: “‘ELECTION INTERFERENCE’: BRAGG CASE GAG ORDER PUTS UNPRECEDENTED LIMITATIONS ON TRUMP CAMPAIGN: This unconstitutional and un-American gag order is yet another weapon used by Biden and his henchmen to silence his chief political rival, President Trump.” 7,190 likes · 1,981 reposts · 97 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112390021328360553.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390021328360553/analysis --- ### [ts_112390020749706931](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390020749706931) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T19:00:19.342Z (UTC) > Andrew McCarthy: “WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE LAW AND THE INDICTMENT DO NOT STATE WHAT THE CRIME IS…Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s prosecution of former president Donald Trump violates both the federal and state constitutions… This is a prosecutor making it up as he goes along. Due process worthy of the name does not tolerate that.” 6,971 likes · 1,910 reposts · 84 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112390020749706931.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390020749706931/analysis --- ### [ts_112390019950751794](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390019950751794) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T19:00:07.151Z (UTC) > Andrew McCarthy: “BRAGG’S PROSECUTION OF TRUMP VIOLATES NEW YORK STATE’S CONSTITUTION…Congress gave the Justice Department and the FEC exclusive enforcement authority over federal campaign law to ensure uniform application nationally of what is an esoteric, constitutionally fraught area of law. To allow any local prosecutor in the country, despite having no federal jurisdiction, to implicate these laws and impose his own version of them is the antithesis of what Congress intended…Bragg’s prosecution violates the U.S. Constitution because he is trying Trump on a crime — conspiracy to steal an election by violating federal campaign law — that is not charged in the indictment and is not even a New York crime…. 6,715 likes · 1,799 reposts · 75 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112390019950751794.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390019950751794/analysis --- ### [ts_112390019429349143](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390019429349143) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T18:59:59.195Z (UTC) > Page 2: Bragg’s prosecution also violates the New York constitution because the felony business-records-falsification statute he invokes fails to spell out, expressly and with specificity, the ‘other crimes’ that trigger it — and, in the instance of this prosecution against Trump, fails to spell out whether the state legislature intended to empower state prosecutors to enforce federal campaign law.” 6,565 likes · 1,743 reposts · 62 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112390019429349143.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390019429349143/analysis --- ### [ts_112390006953060919](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390006953060919) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T18:56:48.822Z (UTC) > Gregg Jarrett: “Make no mistake, Merchan’s poorly worded, vague, and semi-literate orders muffling Trump are a prior restraint on free speech that is protected by the First Amendment. There is no exception in the Bill of Rights for defendants in criminal trials. But clueless judges like Merchan often shred constitutional rights with lawless gag orders because they are arrogant and imperious. They are bullies who know that by the time there’s a successful appeal, the trial is over and the arguments are rendered moot. So, they get away with it, which only emboldens them. It should be pointed out that Merchan is an ‘acting’ judge, which is a felicitous description for a jurist who appears deeply unqualified to preside over the trial of a former president of the United States…. 5,029 likes · 1,528 reposts · 109 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112390006953060919.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390006953060919/analysis --- ### [ts_112390006474348272](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390006474348272) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T18:56:41.519Z (UTC) > ….Oh…and he just happens to be the same judge who presided over two other Trump cases. A coincidence? Hardly. What are the odds? Common sense and the law of averages make it highly improbable, since there are more than 100 trial judges in New York City. Bragg went ‘judge shopping’ and got what he wanted…Alvin Bragg’s Theater of the Absurd is an insult to the principles of justice that Americans hold dear.” 5,013 likes · 1,544 reposts · 81 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112390006474348272.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112390006474348272/analysis --- ### [ts_112389991372899546](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112389991372899546) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T18:52:51.095Z (UTC) > Gregg Jarrett: “NY VS. TRUMP: A TRIAL IN SEARCH OF AN IMAGINARY CRIME: Playwright Samuel Beckett would be proud. The Trump hush money trial is like ‘Waiting for Godot’ —a chaotic and nonsensical plot of absurdist fiction. The titular Godot, of course, never arrives…All of which makes it a trial in search of an imaginary crime. It doesn’t matter to Bragg that Trump perpetrated none of the crimes alleged during opening statements…He doesn’t care about the damage his meritless case is doing to the legal system. The DA’s objective is to sully the presumptive GOP nominee for president to unduly influence the upcoming election. It’s a politically motivated prosecution and a disgraceful abuse of the rule of law. Any honest, knowledgeable, and intelligent judge would have long ago tossed the case. Instead, it was given to Juan Merchan. His conspicuous bias against Trump is exceeded only by his seeming incompetence.” 6,911 likes · 1,941 reposts · 164 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112389991372899546.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112389991372899546/analysis --- ### [ts_112389943333794588](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112389943333794588) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T18:40:38.070Z (UTC) > Gavin Newscum, the failed Governor of California, who is allowing his once beautiful State to go to Hell, refuses to recognize that Republicans are the Leaders on I.V.F. (Fertilization) - We are the ones taking care of Women, and now, after 53 years, where both Parties and all Legal Scholars and Experts wanted the always difficult and contentious subject of Abortion to go back to the States, we got it done, and now the States are setting their own Rules and Regulations - and it’s really working! We’ve given the Abortion Issue back to the Voters. It’s clean, it’s decisive, and we’ve taken Radicalization by Democrats, the killing of a Child in the 8th Month, 9th Month, or even after Birth, off the table. It now seems probable that our Country can start to pull together on the always difficult and controversial Issue of Abortion. IT’S UP TO THE STATES NOW, WHERE EVERYBODY WANTS IT, AND WHERE IT ALWAYS SHOULD HAVE BEEN! 7,747 likes · 2,277 reposts · 375 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112389943333794588.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112389943333794588/analysis --- ### [ts_112388720142555140](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112388720142555140) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T13:29:33.727Z (UTC) > The primary reason for all of these terrible protests is Crooked Joe Biden. He is unable to talk, unable to reason, unable to put two simple sentences together, unable to even climb 3 steps to a helicopter, or the main stairs to Air Force One. In other words, his mind and body are shot. He is also, and has always been, a very dishonest man, a Manchurian Candidate, of sorts, receiving money, for no apparent reason, from foreign countries, and blatantly prosecuting his Political Opponent in an attempt to win the Presidential Election of 2024. This is Election Interference only used by Third World Countries. Now we have the protests, and Crooked Joe Biden doesn’t know what to do — Next will be World War Three, and everything else! We are a Nation in Serious Decline, a Failing Nation, but we will not be a Failing Nation much longer. Four years ago we were a GREAT NATION, AND WE WILL SOON BE A GREAT NATION AGAIN!!! MAGA2024 18,185 likes · 5,638 reposts · 2,099 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112388720142555140.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112388720142555140/analysis --- ### [ts_112387302489868990](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112387302489868990) Truth Social · 2024-05-05T07:29:02.066Z (UTC) > I never said that “some states may choose to monitor women’s pregnancies to possibly prosecute for violating any abortion bans.” This was made up by Democrats and the Fake News Media. After 50 years, Abortion is now up to the States, where everybody, Republican and Democrat, plus all legal scholars and experts, have wanted it to be. The people choose, and many States, like Ohio and Kansas, have chosen. Many others are in the process of choosing. Arizona’s Legislature has just voted to kill an old 1800’s law, and a new one will soon be voted on by the people. It is all working, will never go back to the Federal Government, and our Country will soon start uniting on this long contentious issue. At the same time, nobody wants to see abortion in the 7th, 8th, or 9th month or, execution after birth, as some states, like the former Democrat Governor of Virginia said, was permitted. Listen to your heart, but common sense must also be applied. Remember, politicians must also win elections! 17,532 likes · 5,428 reposts · 1,638 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112387302489868990.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112387302489868990/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/2024-05-05 - Day analysis as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/analysis/date/2024-05-05 - The posts alone, without the day analysis: https://trump.fm/date/2024-05-05.md?analysis=false _Markdown view of a trump.fm page. Post, analysis, date, feed, contradictions, search and about pages answer in markdown at their URL with `.md` appended (`/index.md` for the home page), or when sent `Accept: text/markdown`._