# Post ts_109738637546776757

- Post ID: `ts_109738637546776757`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-01-23T12:58:42.337Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> “It’s very disturbing that this goes back to time in the Senate, because unlike President Trump, Vice President Biden didn’t have the right to Declassify these documents, no ability whatsoever. We’re talking about a span of two decades now, minimum. The timeline, there were 68 days elapsed between Biden finding the documents and them becoming public news. They did this to avoid not only the Midterm Election, but that crucial Georgia Election-A DOJ Coverup.”Tiana Lowe, Washington Examiner

## Engagement

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- Reposts: 3,987
- Replies: 436
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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.423Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T01:52:07.304Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Psychological Analysis: Post ts_109738637546776757

### Overview
Trump quotes Tiana Lowe of the Washington Examiner making a detailed legal/political argument about Biden's classified documents scandal. This is part of a sustained campaign on this date (see also the Bartiromo quote post) to highlight perceived double standards between Biden's document handling and his own.

### Authorship
Posted at 12:58 UTC = 7:58 AM EST. Trump was likely at Mar-a-Lago in January 2023. This is early morning but not unusually so. The post is a clean, well-formatted quote with attribution — characteristic of aide-assisted posting. However, the ALL CAPS "DOJ Coverup" and "NOTHING WRONG" in adjacent posts suggest Trump is actively engaged this morning.

### Psychological Analysis
This is a classic projection/whataboutism post. Trump, under investigation by Special Counsel Jack Smith for classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, amplifies commentary about Biden's parallel document situation. The defensive function is transparent: by outsourcing the argument to a journalist, Trump maintains plausible distance while advancing the "double standard" narrative that serves as his primary defense mechanism.

The quote specifically emphasizes Biden lacked declassification authority (unlike Trump as president) — a key legal distinction Trump's team was pushing. The "DOJ Coverup" framing extends the paranoid schema of institutional persecution.

### Rhetorical Techniques
- Borrowed credibility (quoting a journalist rather than making claims directly)
- Whataboutism (deflecting from own investigation)
- Appeal to double standard
- Conspiracy framing ("DOJ Coverup")

#

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Unlike President Trump, Vice President Biden didn't have the right to Declassify documents" | **Mostly True** | Vice Presidents do not have inherent declassification authority. Presidents do via executive order, though whether Trump actually declassified the documents at Mar-a-Lago is disputed. |
| "68 days elapsed between Biden finding the documents and them becoming public news" | **Mostly True** | Biden's team found documents at Penn Biden Center on Nov 2, 2022. CBS News broke the story on Jan 9, 2023 — approximately 68 days. |
| "DOJ Coverup to avoid Midterm Election and Georgia Election" | **Unverifiable** | The timing is factual (documents found before midterms, disclosed after Georgia runoff), but attributing this to a deliberate DOJ coverup is speculation. AG Garland stated the timeline followed standard procedures. |

Overall Veracity: 70%

## Longitudinal Context
This post is one of at least five posts on this date, showing high engagement. The pattern of quoting sympathetic media figures is a standard supply-seeking behavior — finding external validation for grievances.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 35%)

### Indicators

- Clean formatting and proper punctuation
- Business hours posting (7:58 AM ET)
- Well-structured quote attribution
- But ALL CAPS 'DOJ Coverup' suggests Trump involvement or direction

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Vulnerable State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Special Counsel investigation into Trump's own classified documents)

Sentiment: -0.50

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 40%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 50%
- Sadism: 10%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- projection (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- borrowed credibility from journalist
- framing shared grievance narrative

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> Unlike President Trump, Vice President Biden didn't have the right to Declassify documents

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Vice Presidents do not have inherent declassification authority. Presidents do via executive order, though whether Trump actually declassified the documents at Mar-a-Lago is disputed.

Sources: Executive Order 13526; Constitutional law analysis

> 68 days elapsed between Biden finding the documents and them becoming public news

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Biden's team found documents at Penn Biden Center on Nov 2, 2022. CBS News broke the story on Jan 9, 2023 — approximately 68 days.

Sources: CBS News reporting January 2023

> DOJ Coverup to avoid Midterm Election and Georgia Election

**UNVERIFIABLE**

The timing is factual (documents found before midterms, disclosed after Georgia runoff), but attributing this to a deliberate DOJ coverup is speculation. AG Garland stated the timeline followed standard procedures.

Sources: DOJ statements January 2023

Overall Veracity: 70%

## Tags

- classified_documents (90%)
- double_standard_narrative (80%)
- DOJ_conspiracy (60%)
- borrowed_credibility (70%)

## 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). “It’s very disturbing that this goes back to time... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109738637546776757
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“It’s very disturbing that this goes back to time in the..." Truth Social, 23 Jan. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109738637546776757. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "“It’s very disturbing that this goes back to time in the...," Truth Social, January 23, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109738637546776757.

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