# Post ts_109466941853686848

- Post ID: `ts_109466941853686848`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2022-12-06T13:22:55.067Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> Murder and Violent Crime is at an all time high in NYC, and the D.A.’s office has spent almost all of its time & money fighting a political Witch Hunt for D.C. against “Trump” over Fringe Benefits, something that in the history of our Country, has never been so tried in Court before. Two weeks at trial, yet no MURDER CASE has gone to trial in 6 years, much to the consternation of victims mothers and families who are devastated that NOTHING is being done to bring JUSTICE. Too busy on “Donald.”

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T00:39:38.834Z (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, published on the day the Trump Organization was convicted on all 17 counts of criminal tax fraud, exemplifies a narcissistic injury response through complete avoidance of the verdict. Trump employs displacement and whataboutism, redirecting attention to NYC violent crime while falsely claiming it is at "an all time high" (actual murders are ~80% below the 1990 peak). The prosecution is minimized as mere "Fringe Benefits" when the actual charges included conspiracy, grand larceny, and systematic tax fraud spanning 2005-2021. Notable is the instrumentalization of murder victims' families — their grief is deployed not from genuine empathy but as rhetorical ammunition against the DA. The scare quotes around "Trump" and "Donald" create psychological distancing, framing the prosecution as targeting an abstraction rather than a real person. The false dichotomy (prosecute Trump OR prosecute murderers) delegitimizes the legal process. This post sits within a same-day pattern of grievance across multiple posts involving the "Witch Hunt" narrative, the Mar-a-Lago documents case, and the Georgia runoff. The convergence of legal defeat (conviction), political defeat (Walker likely to lose that evening), and constitutional controversy (his "termination" statement days earlier) represents a multi-front threat environment producing intensified defensive output.

## Psychological Analysis: Trump Post ts_109466941853686848 (2022-12-06)

### Context
This post was made on the day the Trump Organization was convicted on all 17 counts of tax fraud in Manhattan. Trump is deflecting from this legal defeat by attacking the Manhattan DA's office, framing the prosecution as a misallocation of resources away from violent crime.

### Authorship
Posted at 13:22 UTC = 8:22 AM ET. Trump was likely at Mar-a-Lago (same timezone). The post shows authentic Trump markers: emotional intensity, ALL CAPS emphasis on "MURDER CASE" and "JUSTICE," stream-of-consciousness structure, and the self-referential shift between third-person "Trump" and first-person perspective. The scare quotes around his own name are a characteristic distancing device.

### Psychological Dynamics
The post is a textbook response to narcissistic injury — the Trump Organization conviction. Rather than address the verdict, Trump employs **displacement** (redirecting to violent crime) and **rationalization** (the case is trivial "fringe benefits"). The framing of the prosecution as unprecedented ("never been so tried in Court before") serves **distortion** — minimizing the severity of 17 felony convictions.

The invocation of murder victims' families is instrumentalizing others' suffering for self-defense — a notable empathy deficit marker. These families become props in his grievance narrative rather than objects of genuine concern.

### Rhetorical Techniques
"Witch Hunt" (repeated across posts), false dichotomy (prosecuting Trump OR prosecuting murderers), appeal to victimhood (both his own and murder victims'), whataboutism.

### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Murder and Violent Crime is at an all time high in NYC" | **False** | NYC murders peaked at 2,245 in 1990. In 2022, there were approximately 433 murders — an 80% reduction from the peak. While crime rose from 2020 lows, it was nowhere near 'all time high.' |
| "No MURDER CASE has gone to trial in 6 years" | **Mostly False** | While NYC had a significant backlog of cases exacerbated by COVID, murder cases did go to trial during this period. The claim appears to be a gross exaggeration of legitimate case backlog concerns. |
| "Fringe Benefits have never been so tried in Court before" | **Mostly False** | Tax fraud cases involving executive compensation schemes have been prosecuted before, though this particular configuration was unusual. The charges were broader than mere 'fringe benefits' — they included conspiracy, grand larceny, and tax fraud. |

Overall Veracity: 13%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 82%)

### Indicators

- ALL CAPS emphasis on key words
- Scare quotes around own name
- Stream-of-consciousness structure
- 8:22 AM local time — early but plausible for authentic posting
- Emotional reactivity consistent with legal defeat response

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Vulnerable State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Trump Organization conviction on all 17 counts)

**Rage:** Intensity 65% targeting Manhattan DA's office
- Proportionality: 30%

Sentiment: -0.72

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 70%
- Antisocial: 40%
- Paranoid: 50%
- Sadism: 15%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 50%

Cognitive Markers:
- perseveration

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Invoking victims' families to create shared grievance
- Third-person self-reference creating mythologized persona

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Fabricated crime statistics ('all time high') to construct false narrative
- Minimizing 17 felony convictions as trivial 'Fringe Benefits'
- Attacking prosecutorial legitimacy to undermine legal system credibility

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> Murder and Violent Crime is at an all time high in NYC

**FALSE**

NYC murders peaked at 2,245 in 1990. In 2022, there were approximately 433 murders — an 80% reduction from the peak. While crime rose from 2020 lows, it was nowhere near 'all time high.'

Sources: NYPD CompStat historical data

> No MURDER CASE has gone to trial in 6 years

**MOSTLY FALSE**

While NYC had a significant backlog of cases exacerbated by COVID, murder cases did go to trial during this period. The claim appears to be a gross exaggeration of legitimate case backlog concerns.

Sources: NYC court records

> Fringe Benefits have never been so tried in Court before

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Tax fraud cases involving executive compensation schemes have been prosecuted before, though this particular configuration was unusual. The charges were broader than mere 'fringe benefits' — they included conspiracy, grand larceny, and tax fraud.

Sources: Manhattan DA case records

Overall Veracity: 13%

## Tags

- legal-response (90%)
- whataboutism (85%)
- false-statistics (80%)
- victim-instrumentalization (70%)
- witch-hunt-narrative (90%)

## That day

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

**Besieged on All Fronts: Trump Organization Conviction, Walker Loss, and a Morning Spiral of Defensive Fury**

Trump spent the evening before Georgia's Senate runoff rallying supporters for Herschel Walker and sharing tributes to allies, maintaining an upbeat tone. By early the next morning, the mood darkened sharply as he fired off a rapid burst of posts pushing election fraud claims, attacking Liz Cheney, defending himself in the Mar-a-Lago documents case, and lashing out at the Manhattan DA on the very day his company was convicted on all 17 counts of tax fraud. The day's arc moved from campaign optimism to a defensive crouch, with the most intense anger reserved for the prosecutors who secured the Trump Organization verdict.

Full digest for 2022-12-06: https://trump.fm/date/2022-12-06/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, December 6). Murder and Violent Crime is at an all time high... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109466941853686848
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Murder and Violent Crime is at an all time high in NYC, and..." Truth Social, 6 Dec. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109466941853686848. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Murder and Violent Crime is at an all time high in NYC, and...," Truth Social, December 6, 2022, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109466941853686848.

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