# Post ts_109367113810639976

- Post ID: `ts_109367113810639976`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2022-11-18T22:15:20.080Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
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## Post text

> Here we go again! I thought that the Unselect Committee on January 6th was a dead issue, especially with the record setting loss off Liz Chaney in the Great State of Wyoming, and likewise felt that the document hoax case, after reviewing the Clinton Socks Case & the Presidential Record Act, was dead, or at least dying fast. The Democrat Department of “Justice” had nothing, except Trump haters, so they just appointed a Special Prosecutor to go after me further. Disgraceful!

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.429Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T00:25:09.299Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Trump's reaction to Jack Smith's special counsel appointment reveals a characteristic narcissistic injury response pattern. The post displays magical thinking—the belief that Liz Cheney's primary loss should have ended the J6 investigation, and that the Clinton Socks Case resolves the classified documents matter. This conflation of political outcomes with legal immunity is a recurring cognitive schema. The defensive cascade is textbook: denial (cases are "dead"), rationalization (legal precedents that don't apply), projection (motives attributed to "Trump haters"), and splitting (entire DOJ cast as partisan). The vulnerable narcissistic state is notable—rather than grandiose counter-attack, Trump sounds genuinely surprised and aggrieved that investigations continued despite what he perceived as favorable political signals. The "Here we go again!" opener frames this as persecution fatigue, a parasocial technique inviting followers to share his exhaustion with what he presents as endless, baseless attacks. The false equivalence with the Clinton Socks Case is particularly significant as a reality distortion—the cases involve fundamentally different legal questions—yet this framing became a sustained talking point. Longitudinally, this post sits within a cluster of legal-grievance posts on the same day, suggesting heightened anxiety following the special counsel announcement just days after his campaign launch.

## Psychological Analysis: Response to Jack Smith Special Counsel Appointment

This post is Trump's direct reaction to AG Garland appointing Jack Smith as special counsel on November 18, 2022—just three days after Trump announced his 2024 candidacy. The post reveals a characteristic defensive cascade combining minimization, persecution framing, and outrage.

### Authorship
Posted at 5:15 PM ET. Trump was at Mar-a-Lago (had just announced his campaign there on Nov 15). The timing is business hours, but the content is clearly emotionally reactive and personally voiced. The "Here we go again!" opener, the characteristic renaming devices ("Unselect Committee," "Democrat Department of 'Justice'"), misspelling of "Cheney" as "Chaney," and the stream-of-consciousness structure all point strongly to authentic Trump authorship despite the daytime posting.

### Trigger Analysis
This is a textbook narcissistic injury response. The appointment of a special counsel represents an escalation of legal threat precisely when Trump expected these matters to die. The post reveals genuine surprise and frustration—he "thought" and "felt" these were resolved. The trigger is dual: exposure (continued investigation) and defeat (failure of his expectation that political wins would end legal jeopardy).

### Defense Mechanisms
Multiple defenses deployed simultaneously:
- **Minimization/Denial**: Characterizing J6 committee as "dead issue" and documents case as "hoax"
- **Rationalization**: Citing Cheney's primary loss and the Clinton socks case as legal justifications
- **Projection**: "Trump haters" as the motive rather than evidence
- **Splitting**: Pure good (Trump) vs pure evil ("Democrat Department of Justice")

### Cognitive Markers
"Chaney" for Cheney is a notable misspelling. "Unselect" is a deliberate coinage (neologism used as wordplay). "Record setting loss off Liz Chaney" uses "off" where "of" is intended—a minor error. The sentence structure is run-on but coherent, with logical flow from premise (expected resolution) to grievance (appointment) to judgment ("Disgraceful!").

### Rhetorical Techniques
The Clinton Socks Case reference is a deliberate false equivalence—comparing the Judicial Watch case about Clinton's audio recordings to the classified documents matter. "Democrat Department of Justice" (using noun form rather than adjective "Democratic") is a long-standing rhetorical diminishment. The closing "Disgraceful!" is a characteristic single-word moral verdict serving as emotional punctuation.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Record setting loss of Liz Cheney in Wyoming" | **Mostly True** | Cheney lost to Harriet Hageman by ~37 points in Aug 2022 primary, one of the largest margins for a sitting House member |
| "The document case is a hoax based on the Clinton Socks Case and Presidential Records Act" | **Mostly False** | The Clinton socks case (Judicial Watch v. NARA) involved audio recordings, not classified documents, and the court ruled presidential records are the president's personal property only regarding personal recordings—not classified national security documents. The PRA does not override classification law. |
| "Democrats appointed a Special Prosecutor" | **Half True** | AG Garland (appointed by Biden) named Jack Smith as Special Counsel (not Prosecutor). Smith was an independent career prosecutor, not a Democratic appointee. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 90%)

### Indicators

- Misspelling 'Chaney' for Cheney
- 'off' for 'of' typo
- Characteristic neologism 'Unselect Committee'
- Stream-of-consciousness run-on sentence
- Emotional reactivity with exclamation marks

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Vulnerable State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (AG Garland / Jack Smith special counsel appointment)

**Rage:** Intensity 60% targeting DOJ and Special Counsel
- Proportionality: 40%

Sentiment: -0.75

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Rapid posting cadence on this date across multiple legal topics
- Pressured quality to the run-on sentence structure

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 70%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 60%
- Sadism: 10%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 45%

Cognitive Markers:
- phonemic paraphasia
- neologism

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- shared grievance framing
- inviting audience to see persecution

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Framing active criminal investigations as 'dead' issues
- Characterizing documents case as 'hoax' despite evidence
- Implying DOJ staffed exclusively by 'Trump haters'

## Fact Checks (3)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._

> Record setting loss of Liz Cheney in Wyoming

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Cheney lost to Harriet Hageman by ~37 points in Aug 2022 primary, one of the largest margins for a sitting House member

Sources: general knowledge

> The document case is a hoax based on the Clinton Socks Case and Presidential Records Act

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The Clinton socks case (Judicial Watch v. NARA) involved audio recordings, not classified documents, and the court ruled presidential records are the president's personal property only regarding personal recordings—not classified national security documents. The PRA does not override classification law.

Sources: general knowledge

> Democrats appointed a Special Prosecutor

**HALF TRUE**

AG Garland (appointed by Biden) named Jack Smith as Special Counsel (not Prosecutor). Smith was an independent career prosecutor, not a Democratic appointee.

Sources: general knowledge

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- legal-grievance (90%)
- special-counsel (100%)
- persecution-narrative (85%)
- institutional-delegitimization (80%)
- false-equivalence (70%)

## That day

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

**Campaign Launch Afterglow Shattered by Special Counsel Appointment**

Trump spent the day oscillating between celebrating his recent 2024 campaign announcement and reacting to mounting legal threats. The morning started with positive media shares, shifted into anxious defensiveness about the Trump Organization fraud trial, and then took a sharp turn when Jack Smith was named special counsel. An afternoon attack on the National Review appeared to be displaced aggression over the legal news, and the evening ended with a rapid-fire dump of supportive links -- an apparent attempt to shore up the narrative before a planned public statement at Mar-a-Lago.

Full digest for 2022-11-18: https://trump.fm/date/2022-11-18/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, November 18). Here we go again! I thought that the Unselect... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109367113810639976
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Here we go again! I thought that the Unselect Committee on..." Truth Social, 18 Nov. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109367113810639976. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Here we go again! I thought that the Unselect Committee on...," Truth Social, November 18, 2022, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109367113810639976.

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