# Post ts_108513010651245430

- Post ID: `ts_108513010651245430`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2022-06-21T02:05:40.070Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> Well, the “crazed” (I’m leading in all the polls!) Democrats are coming at me on all fronts. Even after years of beating them back on their lame-brained and fully debunked schemes of Russia, Russia, Russia,TWO Fake Impeachments, the NO COLLUSION Mueller Report and, to top it all, illegally spying on my campaign (& me!), including while I was in the Oval Office, they are now playing the ridiculous Insurrection Card - Same “sick” people each time. I guess it must be “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T20:54:09.009Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

This post is a clinically significant defensive volley triggered by the June 2022 J6 committee public hearings, representing a compact specimen of narcissistic grandiose-vulnerable oscillation under acute stress. The subject simultaneously claims dominant poll position and victim status within a single parenthetical, a structural co-occurrence that is reliably diagnostic of the narcissistic self-state. The grievance catalog — Russia, Mueller, two impeachments, surveillance, now J6 — functions as both persecution-confirmation and resilience display, while preemptively delegitimizing the current inquiry by associating it with prior investigations characterized as debunked. Primary defenses are denial (Russian interference "fully debunked"), distortion (FISA warrant recast as illegal Oval Office surveillance), projection (pathology located in investigators via "Trump Derangement Syndrome"), and rationalization. The borrowed clinical register of "TDS" is rhetorically sophisticated: it co-opts the language of diagnosis to diagnose critics, rendering objection to Trump evidence of the very derangement asserted. Authorship is almost certainly authentic — late evening local time, raw HTML entity artifact, stream-of-consciousness syntax. No acute cognitive deviation from baseline detected; syntactic complexity is within Trump's normal variance. Fact-check findings are poor: three of five verifiable claims rate mostly false or false. Danger level is elevated based on sustained institutional delegitimization in post-J6 context, though no direct incitement is present in this specific post.

# Analysis: ts_108513010651245430 — June 20, 2022 (10:05 PM EDT)

## Authorship Attribution

**Verdict: Authentic Trump (high confidence)**

UTC timestamp 02:05:40 on June 21 converts to **10:05 PM EDT on June 20**, placing this squarely in Trump's documented late-evening posting window. In mid-June 2022, Trump was most likely at his Bedminster, NJ estate (his standard summer residence), which shares the EDT timezone. Beyond timing, the stylometric signature is unmistakable: stream-of-consciousness grievance accumulation, ironic scare quotes used while still deploying the term ("crazed," "sick"), ALL CAPS for performative oral emphasis ("TWO," "NO COLLUSION"), mid-sentence parenthetical self-congratulation ("I'm leading in all the polls!"), characteristic rhetorical tripling ("Russia, Russia, Russia"), and the raw HTML entity `&` rendering as literal text — a telltale sign of unmediated, unreviewed posting. No aide would produce this syntax or leave the encoding artifact uncorrected.

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## Trigger: Narcissistic Injury — J6 Committee Public Hearings

The House Select Committee on January 6th was conducting high-profile public hearings throughout June 2022, presenting firsthand testimony and documentary evidence directly implicating Trump in the effort to overturn the 2020 election. The phrase "playing the ridiculous Insurrection Card" makes the trigger explicit. These hearings constitute a compound narcissistic injury: public exposure, loss of narrative control, legal jeopardy, and — critically — the *framing of Trump himself as the agent of disorder* rather than its victim. The injury is existential to his self-construct.

The prior posts from June 19–20 form a visible stress ramp: June 19 posts rehearse the Russia/Mueller framework as defensive scaffolding; the Georgia "perfect call" post on June 19 is preemptive mitigation of an adjacent threat; this June 20 post accumulates all grievances into a single defensive volley. The pattern suggests escalating reactivity across 48 hours.

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## Psychological State: Grandiose-Vulnerable Oscillation Under Acute Stress

This post is a textbook specimen of the narcissistic grandiose-vulnerable oscillation. The opening parenthetical — *"(I'm leading in all the polls!)"* — telescopes both states into a single breath: the subject is ostensibly describing being attacked, yet cannot suppress the dominance assertion mid-sentence. The victimhood ("coming at me on all fronts") and the grandiosity ("I'm leading") are not sequenced but *simultaneous* — the wound and the compensatory inflation inhabit the same clause. This co-occurrence is structurally diagnostic.

The catalog format (Russia → Mueller → two impeachments → surveillance → now J6) serves multiple narcissistic functions simultaneously:
1. **Pattern-confirmation**: each new attack becomes evidence of a persecutory conspiracy, validating the paranoid framework
2. **Resilience display**: having survived all prior attacks, the subject positions himself as exceptionally durable
3. **Delegitimization by association**: the J6 inquiry is absorbed into a chain of "debunked schemes," inheriting their stigma without requiring independent refutation

The closing line — *"I guess it must be 'Trump Derangement Syndrome'"* — employs feigned casualness ("I guess") to perform reluctant diagnosis while actually asserting it with full conviction. The borrowed clinical register co-opts the language of pathology to pathologize the investigators.

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## Defense Mechanisms

**Denial** is the primary defense. The Russian interference operation — documented by the intelligence community, the Senate Intelligence Committee (bipartisan), and the Mueller Report itself — is framed as "lame-brained and fully debunked." The investigations were not debunked; they produced indictments, guilty pleas, and documented findings. The denial here is total and ego-syntonic.

**Distortion** escalates the surveillance claim beyond its factual basis. The FISA warrant on Carter Page was legally authorized (procedurally flawed per the DOJ Inspector General, but not illegal); characterizing it as "illegally spying on my campaign" is distortion. The addition of "including while I was in the Oval Office" is a further escalation with no documented factual basis — surveillance of a sitting president personally in the Oval Office was not part of any investigation. This is distortion shading toward confabulation-adjacent elaboration.

**Projection** is explicit: "crazed," "sick," and "lame-brained" are applied to investigators and oversight bodies, while conspiratorial persecution thinking — a formal marker of disordered cognition — is attributed to opponents via the "TDS" frame.

**Rationalization** operates through the "fully debunked" formulation: complex, partially-substantiated investigations are retroactively collapsed to zero, providing post-hoc logical justification for treating them as persecution.

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## Rhetorical Analysis

The post deploys a dense stack of persuasion techniques in rapid succession:

- **Accumulation/parallelism**: the list of past grievances functions as an overwhelm strategy — the sheer volume of "attacks" implies systematic persecution more effectively than any single example
- **Ironic scare quotes**: permits Trump to apply pejorative framing ("crazed," "sick") while maintaining deniability about whether he's the one making the characterization
- **Rhetorical tripling**: "Russia, Russia, Russia" — amplification through repetition, borrowed from his rally cadence
- **Labeling via co-opted clinical language**: "Trump Derangement Syndrome" pathologizes dissent without argument
- **False dichotomy framing**: "Same 'sick' people each time" — collapses all oversight into a unitary conspiracy
- **Whataboutism via historical displacement**: each new inquiry is deflected by reference to supposedly equivalent prior inquiries that were "debunked"
- **Firehose volume**: the post makes five distinct factual claims in rapid succession, preventing careful examination of any one

No dehumanizing language in this post. No violent imagery. The rhetorical register is defensive-aggressive rather than eliminationist.

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## Cognitive Status

No markers of acute cognitive change relative to established baseline. The post is, by Trump's standards, syntactically complex: a 120-word compound sentence with multiple embedded dependent clauses, a running list, and parenthetical interruptions. Vocabulary is consistent with his documented register ("lame-brained," "crazed," "ridiculous"). Temporal sequencing of the grievance catalog is coherent (chronological: Russia → Mueller → impeachments → surveillance → J6). No paraphasia, neologism, or word-finding difficulty detected.

The perseveration on Russia/Mueller is thematically appropriate to the J6 hearing context and longitudinally consistent with prior posts — not a novel intrusion. This distinguishes it from pathological perseveration.

Complexity score is slightly above Trump's median post complexity given the embedded clause structure, but within normal variance.

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## Danger Assessment: Elevated

No direct incitement or specific identified target in this post. However, the danger elevation is assigned for the *systemic* contribution: this post is part of a sustained, high-volume campaign to delegitimize every oversight institution that could constrain Trump (Congress, DOJ, FBI, judiciary). The "same sick people each time" formulation constructs a persecutory conspiratorial enemy that followers are implicitly invited to oppose. In the post-J6 environment, with a documented record of followers acting on Trump's rhetoric, the persecution-justification framing carries non-trivial downstream risk even without explicit incitement.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "I'm leading in all the polls" | **Mostly True** | In Republican primary polling June 2022, Trump held substantial leads of 30-40+ points over nearest competitor Ron DeSantis. Claim is accurate for Republican primary polls; general election polling was more mixed. |
| "fully debunked schemes of Russia, Russia, Russia" | **Mostly False** | Russian interference in 2016 election was confirmed by: (1) all 17 US intelligence agencies, (2) bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee in 5-volume report, (3) Mueller Report documenting 140+ contacts and resulting in 37 indictments and 7 guilty pleas. No collusion in narrow criminal-conspiracy sense was charged; broader scheme was not 'fully debunked.' |
| "NO COLLUSION Mueller Report" | **Half True** | Mueller declined to establish a criminal conspiracy charge (the legal standard for 'collusion'). However, the report explicitly stated it 'does not exonerate' Trump, documented 10 potential obstruction episodes, and documented extensive Russia-campaign contacts. The 'no collusion' framing selectively presents one finding while omitting others. |
| "illegally spying on my campaign" | **Mostly False** | The FISA warrant targeting Carter Page was court-authorized by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The DOJ Inspector General (Horowitz report, Dec 2019) found 17 'significant errors and omissions' in warrant applications but found the predicate for opening the investigation was valid (Crossfire Hurricane) and did not find the surveillance itself illegal. |
| "including while I was in the Oval Office" | **False** | No released investigation record, Inspector General report, congressional testimony, or credible reporting documents surveillance of Donald Trump personally conducted while he was physically in the Oval Office. This appears to be an elaboration without factual basis. |

Overall Veracity: 34%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 87%)

### Indicators

- 10:05 PM EDT local time — late evening posting window consistent with authentic Trump
- Raw HTML entity & rendered as literal text — unreviewed posting artifact
- Stream-of-consciousness grievance accumulation
- Ironic scare quotes: 'crazed', 'sick'
- ALL CAPS emphasis: TWO, NO COLLUSION

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (House Select Committee J6 public hearings, June 2022)

**Rage:** Intensity 62% targeting House Select Committee / Democrats / 'deep state' law enforcement
- Proportionality: 18%

Sentiment: -0.72

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Pressured accumulation of grievances across multiple domains in single post
- Grandiosity co-occurring with victimhood without apparent cognitive dissonance
- High energy tone despite adversarial framing
- Rapid associative linking across five distinct political episodes

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 88%
- Antisocial: 52%
- Paranoid: 78%
- Sadism: 22%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- denial (pathological)
- distortion (pathological)
- projection (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct second-person implicit address ('they are coming at me') invites followers to share the persecution experience
- Shared enemy construction ('Same sick people each time') builds in-group solidarity through common antagonist
- Resilience performance ('years of beating them back') models defiance for followers
- Medical diagnosis of critics ('Trump Derangement Syndrome') provides followers with dismissal framework requiring no engagement with substance

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Sustained delegitimization of all oversight institutions (Congress, DOJ, FBI) as conspiratorial persecution apparatus
- Persecution narrative framing that implicitly justifies extra-legal resistance
- 'Same sick people each time' — constructing a persistent conspiratorial enemy for followers to oppose
- Post-J6 context: documented history of followers acting on Trump's institutional delegitimization rhetoric
- DARVO pattern positions Trump as victim of criminal conspiracy, potentially motivating follower 'defense'

### Gaslighting

- 'Fully debunked schemes of Russia' — denial of bipartisan-confirmed, intelligence-community-verified foreign interference operation
- 'NO COLLUSION Mueller Report' — selective framing that omits obstruction findings and 37 indictments
- 'Illegally spying on my campaign' — mischaracterizes court-authorized FISA warrant as criminal conduct
- 'Including while I was in the Oval Office' — asserts surveillance of Trump personally in Oval Office, a claim without documented factual basis
- DARVO inversion: positions the investigated as the victim and investigators as criminal conspirators

## Fact Checks (5)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-19._

> I'm leading in all the polls

**MOSTLY TRUE**

In Republican primary polling June 2022, Trump held substantial leads of 30-40+ points over nearest competitor Ron DeSantis. Claim is accurate for Republican primary polls; general election polling was more mixed.

Sources: FiveThirtyEight Republican primary polling averages, June 2022; RealClearPolitics Republican primary tracker

> fully debunked schemes of Russia, Russia, Russia

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Russian interference in 2016 election was confirmed by: (1) all 17 US intelligence agencies, (2) bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee in 5-volume report, (3) Mueller Report documenting 140+ contacts and resulting in 37 indictments and 7 guilty pleas. No collusion in narrow criminal-conspiracy sense was charged; broader scheme was not 'fully debunked.'

Sources: Mueller Report Vol. I (2019); Senate Intelligence Committee Report Vol. 5 (2020); IC Assessment ICA 2017-01D

> NO COLLUSION Mueller Report

**HALF TRUE**

Mueller declined to establish a criminal conspiracy charge (the legal standard for 'collusion'). However, the report explicitly stated it 'does not exonerate' Trump, documented 10 potential obstruction episodes, and documented extensive Russia-campaign contacts. The 'no collusion' framing selectively presents one finding while omitting others.

Sources: Mueller Report Vol. I and II (2019)

> illegally spying on my campaign

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The FISA warrant targeting Carter Page was court-authorized by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The DOJ Inspector General (Horowitz report, Dec 2019) found 17 'significant errors and omissions' in warrant applications but found the predicate for opening the investigation was valid (Crossfire Hurricane) and did not find the surveillance itself illegal.

Sources: DOJ IG Report: Review of FBI's Crossfire Hurricane Investigation (Dec 2019)

> including while I was in the Oval Office

**FALSE**

No released investigation record, Inspector General report, congressional testimony, or credible reporting documents surveillance of Donald Trump personally conducted while he was physically in the Oval Office. This appears to be an elaboration without factual basis.

Sources: DOJ IG Horowitz Report (2019); Senate Intelligence Committee Report (2020)

Overall Veracity: 34%

## Tags

- persecution-narrative (95%)
- grandiose-vulnerable-oscillation (88%)
- J6-committee-response (92%)
- institutional-delegitimization (85%)
- DARVO (82%)
- poll-obsession (75%)
- russia-hoax-frame (88%)
- paranoid-object-relations (78%)
- reality-distortion (80%)
- authentic-authorship (87%)
- narcissistic-injury-response (90%)

## That day

_From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._

**J6 Hearings Trigger Full-Spectrum Defensive Campaign: Victimhood to Vindication in Four Posts**

Trump spent the day almost entirely focused on defending himself against the January 6 committee hearings, which were dominating the news cycle. A late-night post the evening before set the tone with a sweeping grievance catalog, and by morning he had shifted into rapid-fire counterattack mode -- questioning the committee's legitimacy, claiming vindication from a Washington Post correction, and celebrating a Texas GOP resolution rejecting the 2020 election results. The mood moved from defensive and aggrieved to triumphant over the course of a few hours, though the underlying anxiety about the hearings was unmistakable throughout.

Full digest for 2022-06-21: https://trump.fm/date/2022-06-21/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, June 21). Well, the “crazed” (I’m leading in all the... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_108513010651245430
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Well, the “crazed” (I’m leading in all the polls!)..." Truth Social, 21 Jun. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108513010651245430. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Well, the “crazed” (I’m leading in all the polls!)...," Truth Social, June 21, 2022, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108513010651245430.

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