# Post ts_109438388688108712

- Post ID: `ts_109438388688108712`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2022-12-01T12:21:28.337Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109438388688108712
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109438388688108712/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_109438388688108712.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Mother’s and families of victims of Violent Crime, which is breaking all Records in NYC, are furious that the criminals who killed their loved ones haven’t been given a trial in many years, while millions of dollars, & years of work,  has been spent on a ridiculous Fringe Benefits Case, the likes of which has never been prosecuted before in our County’s history. It is a continuation of the greatest Witch Hunt of all time. The D.A.s Office should focus on Murders & Violent Crime, not "Bullshit!”

## Engagement

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- Reposts: 7,279
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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.427Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T00:36:29.427Z (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 represents a textbook narcissistic injury response to legal prosecution, escalating from an earlier same-day post on the same topic. Trump instrumentalizes violent crime victims and their families as rhetorical shields against the Manhattan DA's tax fraud case targeting his organization. The post employs multiple defense mechanisms — displacement (redirecting to violent crime), rationalization (unprecedented = illegitimate), and denial (dismissing charges as "ridiculous"). The false dichotomy between prosecuting murder and prosecuting financial fraud is a deliberate rhetorical construction. The quoted "Bullshit!" ending is strategically deployed with plausible deniability. Multiple factual claims are misleading: NYC violent crime is not at record highs, and the DA's office does prosecute murders. The post continues Trump's systematic delegitimization of legal institutions investigating him, framing lawful prosecution as persecution — a pattern with implications for rule-of-law norms.

## Psychological Analysis: Trump Post ts_109438388688108712

### Context
This post continues a theme from an earlier same-day post about the Manhattan DA's "Fringe Benefits" case (the Weisselberg tax fraud prosecution). Trump escalates from factual framing to emotional/visceral language, invoking crime victims' families and ending with a profanity — "Bullshit!" — in quotes, as if attributing it to the mothers he references.

### Authorship
Posted at 12:21 UTC = 7:21 AM ET. Trump was likely at Mar-a-Lago in early December 2022, making this 7:21 AM local time — consistent with his early-morning posting pattern. The emotional escalation, profanity, stream-of-consciousness style, and ampersand usage all point to authentic Trump authorship. The post reads as a follow-up rant building on his earlier, more measured post about the same topic.

### Psychological Dynamics
This is a classic narcissistic injury response to legal threat. The DA case targets his organization directly. He deploys several defenses simultaneously: **displacement** (redirecting attention to violent crime), **projection** (accusing the DA of misplaced priorities when Trump himself is deflecting), and **rationalization** (framing prosecution as unprecedented and therefore illegitimate).

The invocation of grieving mothers is instrumentalizing — using others' suffering as a rhetorical weapon rather than expressing genuine empathy. This is consistent with low agreeableness (tender-mindedness) and interpersonal exploitation.

### Rhetorical Technique
The "Bullshit!" ending is notable — placed in quotes to maintain plausible deniability while delivering maximum emotional impact. The post constructs a zero-sum frame: every dollar spent prosecuting Trump's organization is a dollar stolen from murder victims.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Manhattan DA has not tried a murder case since 2015" | **Mostly False** | This claim was made in the earlier post. Manhattan DA's office prosecutes homicides regularly. Trump may be conflating specific high-profile cases or misrepresenting statistics. |
| "Violent crime in NYC is breaking all records" | **Mostly False** | While NYC saw increases in some crime categories in 2021-2022, violent crime was far below historical highs from the early 1990s. Murders in 2022 were declining from 2021 levels. |
| "No such fringe benefits case has ever been prosecuted before in county history" | **Half True** | Tax fraud prosecutions for executive perks are unusual but not unprecedented. The scale and specific charges were relatively novel for the Manhattan DA's office. |
| "Millions of dollars and years of work spent on the case" | **Mostly True** | The investigation into the Trump Organization did span multiple years and consume significant prosecutorial resources. |

Overall Veracity: 43%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 85%)

### Indicators

- Early morning posting (7:21 AM ET)
- Profanity usage
- Ampersand instead of 'and'
- Emotional escalation from prior post
- Stream-of-consciousness with excessive commas

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Vulnerable State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Manhattan DA prosecution (Weisselberg fringe benefits case))

**Rage:** Intensity 70% targeting Manhattan DA
- Proportionality: 30%

Sentiment: -0.75

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 70%
- Antisocial: 40%
- Paranoid: 50%
- Sadism: 20%

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

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

Cognitive Markers:
- tangentiality

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Invoking shared grievance with crime victims
- Positioning self alongside suffering mothers against elite prosecutors

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Framing a legitimate tax fraud prosecution as 'ridiculous' and 'Bullshit'
- Implying DA cannot prosecute both financial crime and violent crime simultaneously
- Claiming violent crime is 'breaking all Records' when it is below historical highs

## Fact Checks (4)

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

> Manhattan DA has not tried a murder case since 2015

**MOSTLY FALSE**

This claim was made in the earlier post. Manhattan DA's office prosecutes homicides regularly. Trump may be conflating specific high-profile cases or misrepresenting statistics.

> Violent crime in NYC is breaking all records

**MOSTLY FALSE**

While NYC saw increases in some crime categories in 2021-2022, violent crime was far below historical highs from the early 1990s. Murders in 2022 were declining from 2021 levels.

> No such fringe benefits case has ever been prosecuted before in county history

**HALF TRUE**

Tax fraud prosecutions for executive perks are unusual but not unprecedented. The scale and specific charges were relatively novel for the Manhattan DA's office.

> Millions of dollars and years of work spent on the case

**MOSTLY TRUE**

The investigation into the Trump Organization did span multiple years and consume significant prosecutorial resources.

Overall Veracity: 43%

## Tags

- legal_threat_response (90%)
- witch_hunt_narrative (80%)
- victim_instrumentalization (70%)
- DA_delegitimization (70%)
- false_crime_statistics (60%)

## That day

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

**Legal Anxiety Dominates as Trump Org Trial Triggers Three-Post Defensive Barrage**

Trump's day was dominated by anxiety over the Trump Organization criminal tax fraud trial, which he attacked in three rapid-fire posts that grew increasingly heated before pulling back. He opened the evening before with self-congratulatory endorsement posts and late-night shots at Karl Rove and Mitch McConnell, but the morning shift to the trial revealed real vulnerability underneath the bravado. He closed with a lengthy deflection of the Kanye West–Nick Fuentes dinner controversy, attacking the AP reporter by name while conspicuously avoiding any mention of Fuentes or white nationalism.

Full digest for 2022-12-01: https://trump.fm/date/2022-12-01/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, December 1). Mother’s and families of victims of Violent... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109438388688108712
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Mother’s and families of victims of Violent Crime, which is..." Truth Social, 1 Dec. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109438388688108712. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Mother’s and families of victims of Violent Crime, which is...," Truth Social, December 1, 2022, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109438388688108712.

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