# Post ts_109483572079223516 - Post ID: `ts_109483572079223516` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2022-12-09T11:52:12.169Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109483572079223516 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109483572079223516/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_109483572079223516.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE FBI & “JUSTICE” DEPARTMENT? THEY SEEM TO BE TOTALLY OUT OF CONTROL! THERE IS, RIGHT NOW, A “WEAPONIZATION” OF JUSTICE THE LIKES OF WHICH OUR COUNTRY HAS NEVER SEEN BEFORE. THE TWITTER AND FACEBOOK SCANDAL HAS ALREADY PROVEN TO BE, WITH THE POSSIBLE EXCEPTION OF SPYING ON MY CAMPAIGN,THEIR MOST SINISTER ACT IN HISTORY. EVEN THE RINOS & THE WEAK ARE OPENLY ADMITTING THAT THE 2020 ELECTION WAS RIGGED, BUT IN A DARKER WAY THAN EVER THOUGHT POSSIBLE. SO MANY LIVES DESTROYED! ## Engagement - Likes: 25,881 - Reposts: 8,079 - Replies: 1,419 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.427Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T00:42:18.713Z (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 is a psychologically significant deflection artifact. Arriving amid four simultaneous threats — Trump Organization criminal conviction, Walker's Georgia loss, expanding classified documents probe, and backlash to his Constitution termination call — Trump engages none of them. Instead, he constructs a persecution narrative around the Twitter Files, reframing private companies' content moderation as the "most sinister act" in law enforcement history. The displacement is comprehensive: every real threat is replaced by a manufactured one where he is victim rather than defendant. The false consensus claim ("Even the RINOs are admitting the election was rigged") and the emotional closer ("So many lives destroyed!") serve as parasocial recruitment tools, inviting audience identification with a collective persecution narrative. The institutional delegitimization of FBI and DOJ as "out of control" and weaponized, combined with claims of historically unprecedented persecution, represents elevated-level danger rhetoric contributing to erosion of trust in law enforcement during a period when those institutions are actively investigating the speaker. The mixed narcissistic state — oscillating between grandiose exposure of conspiracy and vulnerable victimhood — is characteristic of responses to narcissistic injury too large to confront directly. ## Psychological Analysis: December 9, 2022 ### Context This post arrives amid several converging threats: the Trump Organization's tax fraud conviction (all 17 counts), the Georgia runoff loss of Trump-backed Walker, discovery of additional classified documents, and widespread condemnation of his "terminate the Constitution" statement two days prior. The post pivots away from all of these to focus on the "Twitter Files" (Elon Musk's release of internal Twitter documents about content moderation of the Hunter Biden laptop story). ### Authorship Posted at 6:52 AM ET (Trump likely at Mar-a-Lago). This is classic early-morning Trump: ALL CAPS throughout, emotional intensity, stream-of-consciousness linking multiple grievances, missing space after comma ("CAMPAIGN,THEIR"). Highly likely authentic. ### Psychological State This is a textbook deflection post. With the Organization convicted, Walker defeated, classified docs expanding, and Constitution comments drawing fire, Trump redirects to the one narrative where he can claim victimhood: alleged government weaponization against him. The "Twitter Files" provide a convenient vehicle. ### Defense Mechanisms - **Displacement**: Redirects from real legal threats to FBI/DOJ as persecutors - **Projection**: "Out of control" — projects his own norm-violation (Constitution termination call) onto institutions - **Distortion**: "2020 election was rigged" reframed as now proven by social media content moderation - **Denial**: Complete absence of any reference to the Organization conviction or other adverse events ### Rhetorical Techniques The post chains multiple grievances into a single escalating narrative. "EVEN THE RINOS & THE WEAK" serves dual purpose: claiming growing consensus while devaluing those allies as insufficient. "So many lives destroyed!" provides emotional punctuation without specificity — a parasocial empathy bid. ### Narcissistic Dynamics The post oscillates between grandiose (exposing the "most sinister act") and vulnerable ("so many lives destroyed"). The trigger is clearly narcissistic injury from multiple simultaneous defeats, but the response avoids directly engaging any of them, instead constructing a counter-narrative of persecution. ### Danger Assessment "Weaponization" framing of federal law enforcement, combined with claims of the "most sinister act in history," contributes to delegitimization of institutions. The stochastic terrorism risk is moderate — FBI/DOJ are named as threats, grievance is articulated, but no specific action is implied. ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Even the RINOs & the Weak are openly admitting that the 2020 election was rigged" | **False** | No significant Republican officials were conceding the 2020 election was rigged in December 2022. The Twitter Files showed internal content moderation debates but did not demonstrate election rigging. | | "The Twitter and Facebook scandal has proven to be their most sinister act in history" | **Mostly False** | The Twitter Files revealed internal debates about content moderation of the Hunter Biden laptop story. These were editorial decisions by private companies, not FBI/DOJ actions, though some FBI communication with platforms was documented. | Overall Veracity: 10% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 95%) ### Indicators - ALL CAPS throughout - 6:52 AM ET early morning post - missing space after comma (CAMPAIGN,THEIR) - stream-of-consciousness grievance chaining - emotional reactivity ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Trump Organization conviction, Walker loss, classified documents discovery, Constitution termination backlash) **Rage:** Intensity 70% targeting FBI, DOJ, social media companies - Proportionality: 30% Sentiment: -0.80 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Early morning ALL CAPS post - Rapid chaining of multiple grievances - Elevated emotional intensity ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 80% - Antisocial: 50% - Paranoid: 70% - Sadism: 20% **Defense Mechanisms:** - displacement (neurotic) - projection (immature) - distortion (pathological) - denial (pathological) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 35% Cognitive Markers: - tangentiality - perseveration **Parasocial Techniques:** - victimhood framing inviting audience identification - So many lives destroyed — empathy bid without specificity - inclusive persecution narrative (we are all victims) ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - Names FBI and DOJ as threats to the public - Frames law enforcement as engaged in 'most sinister act in history' - Contributes to ongoing delegitimization of federal institutions ### Gaslighting - Claims 2020 election rigging is now openly admitted when it is not - Frames content moderation decisions as proof of election rigging - Implies broad consensus where none exists ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Even the RINOs & the Weak are openly admitting that the 2020 election was rigged **FALSE** No significant Republican officials were conceding the 2020 election was rigged in December 2022. The Twitter Files showed internal content moderation debates but did not demonstrate election rigging. Sources: Twitter Files reporting by Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss et al. > The Twitter and Facebook scandal has proven to be their most sinister act in history **MOSTLY FALSE** The Twitter Files revealed internal debates about content moderation of the Hunter Biden laptop story. These were editorial decisions by private companies, not FBI/DOJ actions, though some FBI communication with platforms was documented. Sources: Twitter Files releases December 2022 Overall Veracity: 10% ## Tags - institutional_delegitimization (90%) - election_denial (80%) - deflection (90%) - persecution_narrative (85%) - twitter_files (70%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Under Siege on All Fronts, Trump Builds a Persecution Cathedral From the Twitter Files** Trump spent the day besieged by his company's fraud conviction, fallout from dining with white supremacists, and the expanding classified documents probe — but addressed almost none of it head-on. Instead, he seized on the Twitter Files as proof the 2020 election was stolen, hammering the theme from morning to evening. The most alarming moment came when he accused Jewish leaders of disloyalty for criticizing the Fuentes dinner, warning their ingratitude was costing Israel support in Congress. He also dismissed the newly freed Brittney Griner as an "America hating basketball player," turning a hostage release into a grievance competition. The afternoon devolved into a rapid-fire dump of favorable links, suggesting the morning's emotional fuel had burned out. Full digest for 2022-12-09: https://trump.fm/date/2022-12-09/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, December 9). WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE FBI & “JUSTICE”... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109483572079223516 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE FBI & “JUSTICE” DEPARTMENT?..." Truth Social, 9 Dec. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109483572079223516. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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