# Post ts_109564121526613135

- Post ID: `ts_109564121526613135`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2022-12-23T17:16:59.271Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109564121526613135
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109564121526613135/analysis

## Post text

> https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jan-6-committee-criminal-referrals-trump-political-theater-doj-likely-ignore-say-legal-experts

## Engagement

- Likes: 12,792
- Reposts: 3,545
- Replies: 615
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.425Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T01:09:47.158Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: Link Share — Fox News on Jan. 6 Criminal Referrals as "Political Theater"

This post is a bare URL share of a Fox News article framing the Jan. 6 committee's criminal referrals of Trump as "political theater" that DOJ will "likely ignore." No original commentary is provided. The post functions as signal-boosting of a favorable media narrative during a period of intense legal threat.

### Context
This post appears amid a sustained barrage of posts on December 23, 2022, all centered on delegitimizing the Jan. 6 committee and the 2020 election. The Jan. 6 committee had just unanimously voted to refer Trump for criminal prosecution on four charges — a historically unprecedented action. Trump's other posts from this day feature ALL CAPS declarations, election fraud claims, and attacks on Pelosi and the FBI.

### Authorship
Posted at 12:16 PM ET (Trump likely at Mar-a-Lago for Christmas). The bare-link format with no commentary is characteristic of aide posting (likely Scavino), who curates favorable media coverage. Trump's authentic posts from the same day are markedly different in style — emotional, caps-heavy, stream-of-consciousness.

### Psychological Function
Even without original text, the selection of this specific article reveals the defensive strategy: externalize validation. Rather than directly arguing the referrals are meaningless, the post outsources that claim to "legal experts" via Fox News — a form of rationalization through authority appeal. This sits within the broader pattern of the day's posts, which collectively constitute a sustained narcissistic defense against the injury of criminal referral.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Jan 6 committee criminal referrals are 'political theater' DOJ will likely ignore" | **Mostly False** | DOJ did not ignore the referrals. Special Counsel Jack Smith brought indictments on four federal charges in August 2023, closely tracking the committee's referrals. |

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 15%)

### Indicators

- Bare URL with no commentary
- Business hours posting (12:16 PM ET)
- Clean formatting
- Curated favorable media — typical Scavino pattern

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Jan. 6 committee criminal referral)

Sentiment: +0.10

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 40%
- Antisocial: 20%
- Paranoid: 20%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- denial (pathological)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 0%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- curated media validation
- appeal to expert authority

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> Jan 6 committee criminal referrals are 'political theater' DOJ will likely ignore

**MOSTLY FALSE**

DOJ did not ignore the referrals. Special Counsel Jack Smith brought indictments on four federal charges in August 2023, closely tracking the committee's referrals.

Sources: Known events context; General knowledge of subsequent legal proceedings

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Tags

- jan6_committee (90%)
- media_curation (80%)
- link_share (100%)
- denial (70%)

## That day

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

**Besieged by Jan. 6 Referrals, Trump Mounts an All-Caps Counteroffensive Built on Election Fraud Obsession**

Two days before Christmas, Trump spent his morning in a sustained fury over the Jan. 6 Committee's criminal referral, firing off escalating posts insisting the 2020 election was stolen and the government itself was the real criminal. The intensity peaked with an all-caps declaration that the U.S. government had been "caught" cheating, complete with a fabricated statistic and calls for prosecutors to root out a national "cancer." By afternoon, the storm had passed and he pivoted to rapid-fire link sharing and a plug for his coffee-table book -- a familiar cool-down pattern after a rage-heavy morning.

Full digest for 2022-12-23: https://trump.fm/date/2022-12-23/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, December 23). https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jan-6-committee-c... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109564121526613135
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jan-6-committee-criminal-re..." Truth Social, 23 Dec. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109564121526613135. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jan-6-committee-criminal-re...," Truth Social, December 23, 2022, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109564121526613135.

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