# Post ts_109446862314736731

- Post ID: `ts_109446862314736731`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2022-12-03T00:16:25.620Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109446862314736731
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109446862314736731/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_109446862314736731.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> What the FBI did with harassing, cajoling, and intimidating Big Tech companies into corrupting the 2020 Presidential Vote to the side of the Radical Left is no different in meaning than STUFFING THE BALLOT BOXES, only far more sophisticated and impactful. This is a major and very serious violation of the law, yet they come after me for what virtually every other President has done, and is allowed to do by law, probably as a means of complicating and covering up their massive Election Crime!!!

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.427Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T00:35:50.187Z (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 exemplifies Trump's DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender) pattern at full deployment. Seizing on the Twitter Files release, he constructs a false equivalence between routine FBI-tech company communications and literal ballot stuffing, using ALL CAPS to anchor the emotional frame. The psychological core is revealed in the pivot—"yet they come after me"—exposing narcissistic injury from ongoing legal investigations as the driving force. He employs projection (accusing others of election crimes while under investigation), rationalization (claiming presidential precedent), and pathological distortion (equating communication with vote fraud). The post also functions as deflection from the Fuentes dinner controversy dominating news coverage. The mixed narcissistic state—grandiose claims about the scale of the "crime" combined with vulnerable victimhood—is characteristic of his response to legal threat. Danger indicators include continued delegitimization of federal law enforcement and framing the legal system as a political weapon, which contributes to erosion of institutional trust.

## Psychological Analysis: Post ts_109446862314736731

### Context
Posted December 2, 2022 at ~7:16 PM EST (Trump likely at Mar-a-Lago). This is an evening post expanding on a theme he'd been hammering all day—FBI contacts with tech companies and the 2020 election. The Twitter Files had just dropped, giving him fresh ammunition. He's also deflecting from the Fuentes dinner controversy.

### Authorship
Evening timing, stream-of-consciousness structure, ALL CAPS emphasis, emotional escalation, and the characteristic run-on sentence structure all point to authentic Trump. The post builds from a semi-coherent legal argument into conspiratorial grievance—a classic Trump arc.

### Psychological Analysis
This post is a textbook example of **projection** and **DARVO**. Trump, facing legal jeopardy (likely referencing the classified documents investigation and Jan 6 committee), reframes himself as the victim while accusing the FBI of the very type of election interference he was investigated for. The phrase "yet they come after me" reveals the narcissistic injury driving the post—legal exposure is the trigger.

The logical structure is notable: he equates FBI communications with tech companies to "STUFFING THE BALLOT BOXES," then immediately hedges by calling it "far more sophisticated"—an implicit acknowledgment that the analogy doesn't hold, papered over with escalation.

### Defense Mechanisms
- **Projection**: Accusing opponents of election crimes while under investigation for election-related conduct
- **Rationalization**: "what virtually every other President has done" normalizes his own behavior
- **Distortion**: Equating FBI-tech company meetings with ballot stuffing

### Rhetorical Techniques
The post uses false equivalence, persecution narrative, and the firehose approach (multiple overlapping claims in one post making each harder to rebut individually).

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "The FBI harassed, cajoled, and intimidated Big Tech companies into corrupting the 2020 Presidential Vote" | **Mostly False** | FBI communicated with tech companies about foreign influence operations, which is standard practice. There is no evidence of intimidation or vote corruption. |
| "What virtually every other President has done, and is allowed to do by law" | **False** | No other president retained classified documents after leaving office and resisted return, which is the likely reference. The comparison is without precedent. |

Overall Veracity: 10%

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- Evening posting time (~7:16 PM EST)
- ALL CAPS for emphasis (STUFFING THE BALLOT BOXES)
- Run-on sentence structure
- Emotional escalation pattern
- Stream-of-consciousness logic

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Ongoing legal investigations and Twitter Files providing deflection opportunity)

**Rage:** Intensity 70% targeting FBI / DOJ / 'Radical Left'
- Proportionality: 30%

Sentiment: -0.75

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Rapid posting cadence (multiple posts same day on same theme)
- Grandiose framing of personal grievance as national crisis

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 80%
- Antisocial: 50%
- Paranoid: 70%
- Sadism: 20%

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

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

Cognitive Markers:
- tangentiality

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- shared grievance framing
- us-vs-them mobilization
- victim identification

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Delegitimization of FBI and DOJ
- Framing legal system as weapon of political opponents
- Implying need for action against 'massive Election Crime'

### Gaslighting

- Reframing FBI routine communications as election rigging
- Claiming 'everybody is now admitting' election was rigged (from prior post)
- Normalizing his conduct as what 'every other President has done'

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> The FBI harassed, cajoled, and intimidated Big Tech companies into corrupting the 2020 Presidential Vote

**MOSTLY FALSE**

FBI communicated with tech companies about foreign influence operations, which is standard practice. There is no evidence of intimidation or vote corruption.

Sources: Twitter Files releases; Congressional testimony

> What virtually every other President has done, and is allowed to do by law

**FALSE**

No other president retained classified documents after leaving office and resisted return, which is the likely reference. The comparison is without precedent.

Sources: Historical presidential records practices

Overall Veracity: 10%

## Tags

- election denial (90%)
- DARVO (85%)
- FBI delegitimization (80%)
- legal deflection (75%)
- Twitter Files (70%)

## That day

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

**Former President Calls for "Termination" of the Constitution in Most Extreme Post to Date**

Trump seized on the release of the "Twitter Files" to mount a full-day campaign claiming vindication for his 2020 election fraud narrative. What began as familiar grievance rhetoric escalated sharply by morning into an explicit call to terminate constitutional provisions — one of the most extreme statements ever made by a former president. The afternoon brought continued attacks on Republican leaders and democratic institutions before the day wound down with a flurry of supportive article links. The overall mood was one of emboldened grandiosity, with the Twitter Files serving as fuel for claims that grew more radical with each post.

Full digest for 2022-12-03: https://trump.fm/date/2022-12-03/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, December 3). What the FBI did with harassing, cajoling, and... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109446862314736731
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "What the FBI did with harassing, cajoling, and intimidating..." Truth Social, 3 Dec. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109446862314736731. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "What the FBI did with harassing, cajoling, and intimidating...," Truth Social, December 3, 2022, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109446862314736731.

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