# Post ts_109735878816613944

- Post ID: `ts_109735878816613944`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-01-23T01:17:07.450Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109735878816613944
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109735878816613944/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_109735878816613944.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/109717829216897657 The only way you will get to the bottom of this Scam!

## Reposted post

Original: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109717829216897657 (2023-01-19T20:46:52.420Z (UTC))

> The Supreme Court has just announced it is not able to find out, even with the help of our “crack” FBI, who the leaker was on the R v Wade scandal. They’ll never find out, & it’s important that they do. So, go to the reporter & ask him/her who it was. If not given the answer, put whoever in jail until the answer is given. You might add the publisher and editor to the list. Stop playing games, this leaking cannot be allowed to happen. It won’t take long before the name of this slime is revealed!

## Engagement

- Likes: 19,678
- Reposts: 4,871
- Replies: 827
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.423Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T01:52:11.057Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

# Analysis: Self-RT — "The only way you will get to the bottom of this Scam!"

## Overview
A low-content self-retweet referencing an earlier post, with brief commentary framing unspecified proceedings as a "Scam." Contextually, this aligns with the period when Trump withdrew lawsuits against NY AG Letitia James and was fined nearly $1M by a federal judge.

## Authorship
Posted ~8:17 PM ET from Mar-a-Lago. Evening timing is ambiguous. The brevity and self-RT format are consistent with either Trump or an aide maintaining engagement. Moderate lean toward authentic given the grievance content.

## Psychological State
The post functions as grievance maintenance — keeping the "scam" narrative alive without elaboration. The vagueness of "this Scam" is notable: it requires followers to already share the interpretive frame. This is characteristic of in-group signaling where specificity is unnecessary because the audience already knows what is meant.

## Defense Mechanisms
Primary defense is **denial** — reframing legitimate legal proceedings as fraudulent. Secondary is **projection** — the subject of a fraud investigation labels the investigation itself as fraud.

## Rhetorical Function
Self-retweeting serves narcissistic supply by amplifying one's own message and implicitly asserting its importance. The phrase "the only way" creates urgency and implies that conventional channels have failed, nudging toward epistemic closure.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Unspecified proceedings are a 'Scam'" | **Mostly False** | NY AG civil fraud case was supported by substantial documentary evidence; federal judge characterized Trump as using courts for revenge |

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 60%)

### Indicators

- RT of own post
- brief commentary
- late evening timing ~8:17pm ET
- ALL CAPS not present but exclamation mark

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Vulnerable State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Legal setbacks - withdrawn lawsuits, fine)

Sentiment: -0.50

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 40%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 40%
- Sadism: 10%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- denial (pathological)
- projection (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 15%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- rallying followers to shared grievance
- implying insider knowledge of corruption

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Characterizing legal proceedings supported by evidence as a 'Scam'

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> Unspecified proceedings are a 'Scam'

**MOSTLY FALSE**

NY AG civil fraud case was supported by substantial documentary evidence; federal judge characterized Trump as using courts for revenge

Sources: Known events context

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Tags

- grievance-maintenance (70%)
- self-amplification (50%)
- legal-persecution-narrative (80%)

## That day

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

**Golf Trophies and Grievance Spirals: A Day of Whataboutism Over Classified Documents**

Trump opened the day celebrating a senior golf championship at his own club, then spent most of the remaining hours hammering a single theme: that Biden's classified documents situation proves the Mar-a-Lago search was unjust. The mood shifted from self-congratulation to agitation as the day wore on, with a late-night cluster of posts after 1 AM showing rising anger about the Special Counsel investigation. The most heated moments came around midday, when he used a racist nickname to attack Mitch McConnell's wife, defended his imprisoned former CFO Allen Weisselberg, and repeatedly demanded his own exoneration. The Monterey Park mass shooting, which killed eleven people the night before, went unacknowledged except as a vehicle for grievance about January 6th defendants.

Full digest for 2023-01-23: https://trump.fm/date/2023-01-23/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, January 23). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109735878816613944
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1..." Truth Social, 23 Jan. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109735878816613944. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1...," Truth Social, January 23, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109735878816613944.

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