# Post ts_109423251440782165 - Post ID: `ts_109423251440782165` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2022-11-28T20:11:52.349Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109423251440782165 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109423251440782165/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_109423251440782165.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > —And I’m supposed to get a fair shake from this person, who’s under tremendous pressure from his family, but he is actually worse than they are? Can Republicans, and fair-minded people, generally, allow this to happen? Jack Smith is nothing less than a hit man for Obama, his Attorney General Eric Holder, and Andrew Weissmann. Weaponization. Our Country is in big trouble, a real mess! ## Media - image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/109/423/251/389/073/090/original/c3b2dbe73fd38d9c.jpg ## Engagement - Likes: 17,596 - Reposts: 6,070 - Replies: 1,123 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.428Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-23T23:06:51.420Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Posted at 3:11 PM EST from Mar-a-Lago during a high-stress period combining legal escalation (Jack Smith appointment) and political fracture (Republican condemnation of Fuentes dinner), this fragment-post reveals predominantly vulnerable narcissistic dynamics with prominent paranoid features. The undefined "this person" and the mid-sentence opening suggest authentic, relatively unfiltered composition. Most clinically notable is the insertion of Eric Holder—Obama's AG who left office in 2015—into a 2022 prosecutorial conspiracy chain. This temporal displacement, while potentially deliberate propaganda, is consistent with a relatively fixed persecution schema that does not update chronologically: the enemy network is stored as a stable cognitive object rather than a dynamic, time-sensitive map. Defense mechanisms are multilayered: projection (weaponization accusation), splitting (fair-minded people vs. hit network), rationalization (pseudo-logical enemy chain), and probable displacement of Republican "family" criticism onto the unnamed judicial figure "under pressure from his family." The rhetorical move from personal injury to national catastrophe in four sentences reflects the grandiose contamination inherent to vulnerable narcissistic states: victimhood cannot be merely personal—it must carry civilizational stakes to maintain self-importance. Danger level is elevated; "hit man" framing for a named federal official, combined with a mobilization appeal to a large political constituency, warrants monitoring without reaching explicit incitement threshold. ## Full Psychological Analysis — Truth Social, 2022-11-28T20:11:52Z (ts_109423251440782165) --- ### Structural Note The post opens with "—And," indicating it is a mid-thread fragment continuing from one of the same-day blank posts (which contained only the attached image). This stream-of-consciousness threading technique is a characteristic Trump stylistic signature: an image drops first as visual anchor, then a text continuation follows. --- ### Authorship Attribution **Local Time:** UTC 20:11 converts to 3:11 PM EST. Trump was almost certainly at Mar-a-Lago on this date (the Fuentes/Kanye dinner occurred there on or around Nov. 22; holiday period). **Assessment:** Mixed signals. The 3:11 PM local time is mid-business-hours, which marginally favors aide involvement in *threading* the post. However, the textual fingerprints overwhelmingly indicate authentic Trump composition: fragment opening ("—And"), undefined pronoun antecedent ("this person"), run-on dependent clauses, emotional escalation to a declaratory one-word sentence ("Weaponization."), comma-heavy parenthetical asides ("Can Republicans, and fair-minded people, generally"), and the signature terminal doom phrase ("a real mess!"). Most likely scenario: Trump dictated or typed the text; an aide may have managed the image + thread mechanics. **Confidence:** Medium-high for authentic text composition. --- ### Personality — Level 1: Dispositional Traits - **Neuroticism (dominant):** Angry hostility permeates ("hit man"), with vulnerability surfacing in the opening victimhood frame ("I'm supposed to get a fair shake"). Impulsiveness evident in the undefined antecedent "this person"—no care for readability, driven by felt urgency. - **Extraversion:** Assertive-dominant, but notably defensive rather than expansive; the extraversion here is reactive rather than initiating. - **Agreeableness (very low):** Zero epistemic charity toward named targets; contempt for legal system procedures. - **Conscientiousness (low):** Unresolved pronoun references, historical inaccuracies (Holder), and fragmented logic suggest minimal deliberative editing. - **Openness (low):** Rigidly closed interpretive frame; investigation can only be persecution, never legitimate. --- ### Personality — Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Dominant motive — Power/Agency (defensive):** The post is an attempt to reassert narrative control over a legal situation that threatens his power base. The appeal to Republicans to "not allow this to happen" is a power-maintenance move: recruiting proxies to shield him. **Secondary motive — Status protection:** The framing of being denied a "fair shake" is a status injury response; fairness appeals activate when perceived rank is under threat. **Schemas:** - *Self:* Perpetually persecuted by coordinated enemies; uniquely unfair target. - *Others:* Divided into "fair-minded people" (in-group) versus a conspiratorial hit network (out-group). - *World:* Irredeemably corrupt ("big trouble, a real mess"). --- ### Personality — Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** Victim-Martyr. The opening rhetorical question ("Am I supposed to get a fair shake?") casts him as a man denied basic justice. - **Contamination sequence:** The implicit arc is one of corruption—proper legal processes that *should* protect him have been "weaponized" and turned against him. - **Identity claims:** Fair-minded, unfairly targeted, uniquely persecuted, defender of a legitimate Republican constituency. - **Contrasting other:** A nameless, pressure-ridden surrogate puppeteered by an Obama–Holder–Weissmann network. The contrast pair is authentic victim vs. corrupt apparatus. --- ### Clinical Level 4 — Narcissistic Dynamics **Trigger:** Composite narcissistic injury. Two simultaneous sources of wound are active on this date: 1. Jack Smith's Special Counsel appointment (direct legal/existential threat) 2. Republican condemnation of the Fuentes dinner (party "family" exerting pressure, creating betrayal injury) The phrase "under tremendous pressure from his family" is conspicuously odd—it may be a displaced reference to the Republican "family" pressure narrative, projected onto the unnamed legal antagonist, or an unsubstantiated personal claim about Smith/Garland that serves guilt-by-association purposes. Its ambiguity is itself a vulnerability marker. **Narcissistic state:** Predominantly *vulnerable*. The opening is not grandiose assertion but wounded protest. However, the pivot to "Jack Smith is nothing less than a hit man" and the terminal alarm ("Our Country is in big trouble") contain grandiose contamination—only someone of enormous significance warrants this caliber of organized opposition. **Rage:** Present at moderate intensity (5/10). The rage is articulate rather than explosive here; it has been somewhat channeled into a political call-to-action rather than raw expletive discharge. Proportionality: markedly disproportionate—characterizing a lawful Special Counsel appointment as a mob-style assassination contract. **Malignant Narcissism Assessment:** - *Narcissistic features:* High. Entitlement to "fair shake," envy-framing (enemies jealously conspire), grandiose victimhood. - *Antisocial features:* Moderate. Contempt for prosecutorial legitimacy; implicit call to obstruct lawful process. - *Paranoid features:* High. Conspiracy chain (Obama → Holder → Weissmann → Smith) constructed without evidentiary basis; preoccupation with coordinated attack. - *Sadistic features:* Low/absent in this post. Punitive pleasure not prominent; defensive posture dominates. --- ### Defense Mechanisms 1. **Projection (immature):** Accusations of political weaponization externalize what is arguably his own historical pattern of using political power as a weapon. 2. **Splitting (immature):** Clean partition of world into "Republicans and fair-minded people" (all-good) vs. the hit-man apparatus (all-bad). 3. **Rationalization (neurotic):** Framing a legitimate legal appointment as a coordinated assassination plot provides a cognitive rationale for why the investigation must be invalid. 4. **Displacement (neurotic):** The Fuentes dinner condemnation from "his [Republican] family" may be displaced onto the legal antagonist, making the unnamed "person under pressure from his family" a safer target for resentment than the Republican leaders who publicly condemned him. --- ### Cognitive Status Markers **Flagged items:** - **Semantic paraphasia (mild):** "His Attorney General Eric Holder" — Holder was Obama's AG from 2009–2015, not connected to the 2022 Jack Smith appointment. This conflation could represent (a) deliberate propaganda association for emotional effect, or (b) genuine temporal displacement confusing the Obama-era adversarial network with the present. The distinction matters diagnostically. Given that Trump has historically used Holder's name as a villain reference, (a) remains more probable. However, the unreflective insertion into a present-tense conspiratorial chain is consistent with mild temporal schema slippage. Confidence: medium. - **Vague antecedent:** "This person" — no prior textual referent in the post. Context-dependent reference that assumes shared knowledge, consistent with baseline Trump style but notable. - **Logical gap:** The chain "Obama → Holder → Weissmann → Smith" has no documented organizational connection; it is an associative rather than logical chain. **Complexity:** Slightly below mid-period baseline. Sentence architecture is functional but not complex. Vocabulary is simple and affective ("hit man," "mess," "big trouble"). Consistent with affective activation suppressing linguistic elaboration. --- ### Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques - **Ad hominem via occupational label:** "Hit man" reduces a legal official to a criminal archetype, bypassing any engagement with the merits of the investigation. - **Rhetorical question as call to action:** "Can Republicans, and fair-minded people, generally, allow this to happen?" — grammatically a question, functionally a mobilization command. The comma-laden delivery mimics exasperated speech. - **Guilt by association:** Linking Smith to Obama/Holder/Weissmann imports their prior valence as Trump adversaries without establishing actual operational connection. - **Lexical staccato:** The single-word sentence "Weaponization." deploys isolation for maximum rhetorical impact—a word stripped of context becomes a self-evident accusation. - **False binary:** Implies either Republicans act or the country is lost ("big trouble, a real mess"). - **Alarmism:** Terminal escalation to national catastrophe framing ("Our Country is in big trouble"). - **Dehumanizing language (mild):** "Hit man" doesn't dehumanize in the biological sense but does criminalize a legal official without basis. - **Violent imagery:** "Hit man" imports organized-crime, assassination-adjacent imagery into the description of a federal prosecutor. --- ### Gaslighting & Reality Distortion - **Denial of legitimate process:** Characterizing a Special Counsel appointment (a standard DOJ mechanism) as a mob contract inverts the meaning of the legal structure entirely. - **Historical revisionism via association:** Inserting Eric Holder (who has been a private citizen since 2015) into a 2022 conspiracy chain rewrites present reality with a 7-year-old enemy roster. - **Loyalty test framing:** "Can Republicans...allow this to happen?" implicitly demands that Republican identity requires opposition to the investigation—making epistemic acceptance of its legitimacy a marker of disloyalty. --- ### Shared Psychosis / Epistemic Closure Strong epistemic closure indicators: - The post presents the conspiracy interpretation not as theory but as established fact. - No hedge language; certainty is total. - "Fair-minded people" are those who accept this framing—dissent (e.g., Republican condemnation of Fuentes dinner) is implicitly reframed as unfairness. --- ### Archetypal Analysis - **Primary archetype: Victim/Martyr** — denied "fair shake," hunted by a coordinated network. - **Secondary: Warrior** — the appeal to Republicans to "not allow this" recasts the victimhood frame into a battle summons. - **Shadow projection:** The "hit man" designation projects onto Jack Smith precisely the instrumental use of power against enemies that characterizes Trump's own described political behavior. Classic Jungian shadow mechanism. - **Order/Chaos positioning:** Positions himself as order-seeker ("fair shake," rule of law) being attacked by chaos agents (weaponized prosecution). Simultaneously frames the country as in chaos ("big trouble") requiring Republicans to restore order by defending him. --- ### Danger Assessment **Level: Elevated** The "hit man" framing for a federal prosecutor is notable. While not as explicit as eliminationist language, it: 1. Casts a named legal official as a violent criminal operative. 2. Appeals to a large political constituency to act against this person. 3. Is delivered in a period of heightened political tension (post-midterm, early 2024 cycle). The stochastic terrorism threshold is approached but not crossed: there is a named target (Jack Smith), a grievance articulation (politically weaponized prosecution), but no explicit or clearly implied call to violence—only to political action. The "hit man" metaphor functions as rhetorical character assassination rather than operational incitement. Monitoring warranted. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Jack Smith is a hit man for Obama, his Attorney General Eric Holder, and Andrew Weissmann" | **False** | Jack Smith was appointed Special Counsel by Attorney General Merrick Garland (Biden appointee) on November 18, 2022, under 28 CFR Part 600. Eric Holder served as Obama's AG from 2009–2015 and has no documented role in Smith's appointment. Andrew Weissmann served on Mueller's Special Counsel team (2017–2019) and is now a private attorney and media commentator; he has no role in Smith's office. | | "Implied: Jack Smith's appointment is politically weaponized rather than based on legitimate legal grounds" | **Unverifiable** | Whether prosecutorial decisions reflect political motivation is contested. No evidence of improper political direction of the Special Counsel has been established in the public record as of the post date. | | "Unnamed 'person' is under 'tremendous pressure from his family'" | **Unverifiable** | No antecedent is established for 'this person.' The claim is unsubstantiated regardless of referent. | Overall Veracity: 33% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 82%) ### Indicators - Fragment opening '—And' indicating stream-of-consciousness continuation mid-thought - Undefined pronoun antecedent ('this person') suggesting no editorial pass - Comma-heavy parenthetical aside style ('Can Republicans, and fair-minded people, generally') - Single-word declaratory sentence ('Weaponization.') — signature rhetorical staccato - Terminal doom phrase ('a real mess!') with exclamation — classic authentic Trump closer ## Psychological Profile ### State **Vulnerable State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (Jack Smith Special Counsel appointment + simultaneous Republican condemnation of Fuentes dinner) **Rage:** Intensity 55% targeting Jack Smith / DOJ / perceived Obama-network conspirators - Proportionality: 15% Sentiment: -0.83 Baseline Deviation: slight ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 78% - Antisocial: 52% - Paranoid: 81% - Sadism: 18% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - splitting (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) - displacement (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 38% Cognitive Markers: - temporal confusion **Parasocial Techniques:** - Grievance sharing ('I'm supposed to get a fair shake') - In-group identity activation ('Can Republicans, and fair-minded people, generally') - Collective threat framing ('Our Country is in big trouble') - Enemy network naming for audience target anchoring ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - 'Hit man' framing imports assassination/organized-crime imagery to describe a named active federal prosecutor - Mobilization appeal to large political constituency ('Can Republicans...allow this to happen?') directed against named legal official - Post is part of high-volume same-day campaign suggesting sustained agitation state - Period context (post-midterm, early 2024 cycle, legal escalation) heightens potential for audience action on rhetoric ### Gaslighting - Characterizes a standard DOJ Special Counsel appointment as a politically organized hit contract - Inserts a 7-year-absent political figure (Holder) into present-day prosecutorial chain to manufacture false continuity of persecution - Loyalty test embedded in rhetorical question: Republican identity implicitly requires opposition to investigation's legitimacy - Frames acceptance of investigation as unfair ('Am I supposed to get a fair shake') — preemptively delegitimizes any findings **Violent Imagery Present** ## Fact Checks (3) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-23._ > Jack Smith is a hit man for Obama, his Attorney General Eric Holder, and Andrew Weissmann **FALSE** Jack Smith was appointed Special Counsel by Attorney General Merrick Garland (Biden appointee) on November 18, 2022, under 28 CFR Part 600. Eric Holder served as Obama's AG from 2009–2015 and has no documented role in Smith's appointment. Andrew Weissmann served on Mueller's Special Counsel team (2017–2019) and is now a private attorney and media commentator; he has no role in Smith's office. Sources: DOJ Special Counsel appointment announcement, November 18 2022; General knowledge of DOJ structure and Holder's tenure > Implied: Jack Smith's appointment is politically weaponized rather than based on legitimate legal grounds **UNVERIFIABLE** Whether prosecutorial decisions reflect political motivation is contested. No evidence of improper political direction of the Special Counsel has been established in the public record as of the post date. > Unnamed 'person' is under 'tremendous pressure from his family' **UNVERIFIABLE** No antecedent is established for 'this person.' The claim is unsubstantiated regardless of referent. Overall Veracity: 33% ## Tags - narcissistic-injury (90%) - paranoid-ideation (85%) - victim-framing (88%) - legal-persecution-narrative (92%) - enemy-network-construction (87%) - jack-smith (95%) - mobilization-appeal (78%) - temporal-conflation (62%) - weaponization-rhetoric (90%) - violent-metaphor (72%) - fuentes-dinner-fallout (55%) - authentic-composition (82%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **The Dog That Didn't Bark: 14 Posts of Deflection as Trump Ignores Fuentes Firestorm** Trump spent the day under bipartisan fire for dining with white nationalist Nick Fuentes but never once mentioned it. Instead, he flooded his feed with attacks on special counsel Jack Smith, Manhattan prosecutors, election officials, and CNN -- classic deflection through volume. The most notable stretch came in the late afternoon, when he fired off a rapid barrage calling Smith a "weaponized monster" and a "hit man," attacked Republican judges as cowards, and demanded Kari Lake be "installed" as Arizona governor. A pair of 2 AM posts hinted at restless nights at Mar-a-Lago, though a long quiet stretch before the afternoon burst suggests he eventually slept. Full digest for 2022-11-28: https://trump.fm/date/2022-11-28/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, November 28). —And I’m supposed to get a fair shake from this... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109423251440782165 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "—And I’m supposed to get a fair shake from this person,..." Truth Social, 28 Nov. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109423251440782165. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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