# Post ts_109739617122973661

- Post ID: `ts_109739617122973661`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-01-23T17:07:49.485Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> I’ve got a 75 year old man, who has NEVER been in trouble before, sitting in PRISON over not paying a small tax on the use of a company apartment, a company car, or his grandchildrens education, etc., while drug dealers & murderers freely roam the sidewalks of New York, with nothing being done to stop them. Crime, in fact, is at an all time high! The Radical Left Democrats put him there. 90 days in jail, or 10 years (life!), depending on what you say about “Trump.” Our Country is going to Hell!

## Engagement

- Likes: 26,529
- Reposts: 8,217
- Replies: 1,620
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.423Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T01:54:52.138Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Trump's post about Allen Weisselberg's imprisonment reveals significant psychological dynamics through proxy identification. By defending his 75-year-old CFO (Trump was 76), he unconsciously projects his own legal vulnerability. The post grossly distorts reality: $1.76M in tax fraud over 15+ years becomes "a small tax on a company apartment," and the false claim that crime is "at an all time high" creates a misleading contrast. Most notable is the implied witness intimidation—"depending on what you say about 'Trump'"—which publicly frames cooperation with prosecutors as betrayal deserving punishment. This combines vulnerable narcissistic presentation (persecution, victimhood) with characteristic splitting (innocent old man vs. Radical Left Democrats) and pathological distortion of facts. The post fits a broader pattern visible across the day's posts: Trump responding to escalating legal threats (Weisselberg sentencing, AG James investigation, classified documents comparison) with increasingly desperate reality-distortion and persecution narratives. The self-referential quotation marks around "Trump" suggest dissociative distancing from his own legal exposure.

## Psychological Analysis: Post ts_109739617122973661

### Context
This post concerns Allen Weisselberg, Trump Organization CFO, who was sentenced to jail for tax fraud related to unreported compensation (company apartment, car, tuition payments). Trump frames this as political persecution while contrasting it with street crime in New York.

### Authorship
Posted at 12:07 PM ET (Trump likely at Mar-a-Lago, so ~12:07 PM local). The emotional intensity, stream-of-consciousness quality, ALL CAPS emphasis, and characteristic closing ("Our Country is going to Hell!") strongly suggest authentic Trump authorship despite business-hours timing.

### Psychological Dynamics
This is a classic narcissistic injury response. Weisselberg's prosecution threatens Trump directly—Weisselberg cooperated as part of the broader Trump Organization fraud case. Trump's framing reveals projection: he minimizes the crimes ("small tax," "company apartment") while catastrophizing the punishment, and implicitly acknowledges the coercive dynamic ("depending on what you say about 'Trump'").

The "75 year old man" framing is notable—Trump was 76. This is likely unconscious identification with Weisselberg as a proxy for his own legal vulnerability.

### Key Rhetorical Features
- **Minimization**: Tax fraud on hundreds of thousands in unreported income becomes "a small tax on the use of a company apartment"
- **False equivalence**: Corporate tax fraud vs. street crime
- **Implied coercion claim**: "depending on what you say about 'Trump'" suggests prosecutors offered leniency for testimony against Trump
- **Apocalyptic framing**: "Our Country is going to Hell!"

### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "75 year old man who has NEVER been in trouble before" | **Mostly True** | Weisselberg was 75 and had no prior criminal record |
| "sitting in PRISON over not paying a small tax on the use of a company apartment, a company car, or his grandchildrens education" | **Mostly False** | Weisselberg was convicted of scheming to defraud, grand larceny, and tax fraud involving approximately $1.76 million in unreported compensation over 15+ years. Sentenced to 5 months at Rikers Island. The framing as 'a small tax' grossly minimizes the scale. |
| "Crime, in fact, is at an all time high" | **False** | NYC crime in 2022-2023 was elevated compared to recent lows but far below historical peaks of the early 1990s. National violent crime was also below historical highs. |
| "90 days in jail, or 10 years (life!), depending on what you say about Trump" | **Half True** | Weisselberg received 5 months (not 90 days) at Rikers as part of a plea deal requiring testimony at the Trump Organization trial. The 10-year framing references potential maximum sentence had he not cooperated, though the coercion framing is editorialized. |

Overall Veracity: 38%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 85%)

### Indicators

- ALL CAPS emphasis on NEVER and PRISON
- Stream-of-consciousness run-on sentence
- Characteristic closing phrase 'Our Country is going to Hell!'
- Emotional reactivity and personal investment
- Quotation marks around 'Trump' as self-referential device

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Vulnerable State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Weisselberg prosecution as proxy threat to Trump)

**Rage:** Intensity 70% targeting Manhattan DA / Radical Left Democrats
- Proportionality: 30%

Sentiment: -0.80

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 70%
- Antisocial: 50%
- Paranoid: 70%
- Sadism: 10%

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

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

Cognitive Markers:
- tangentiality
- perseveration

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Inviting audience to share outrage at injustice
- Creating identification with 'ordinary' victim figure
- Positioning audience as fellow targets of political persecution

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Reframing $1.7M tax fraud as trivial 'small tax' to distort audience perception of the crime
- False claim that crime is 'at an all time high' to create false context
- Framing lawful prosecution as political persecution

## Fact Checks (4)

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

> 75 year old man who has NEVER been in trouble before

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Weisselberg was 75 and had no prior criminal record

> sitting in PRISON over not paying a small tax on the use of a company apartment, a company car, or his grandchildrens education

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Weisselberg was convicted of scheming to defraud, grand larceny, and tax fraud involving approximately $1.76 million in unreported compensation over 15+ years. Sentenced to 5 months at Rikers Island. The framing as 'a small tax' grossly minimizes the scale.

> Crime, in fact, is at an all time high

**FALSE**

NYC crime in 2022-2023 was elevated compared to recent lows but far below historical peaks of the early 1990s. National violent crime was also below historical highs.

> 90 days in jail, or 10 years (life!), depending on what you say about Trump

**HALF TRUE**

Weisselberg received 5 months (not 90 days) at Rikers as part of a plea deal requiring testimony at the Trump Organization trial. The 10-year framing references potential maximum sentence had he not cooperated, though the coercion framing is editorialized.

Overall Veracity: 38%

## Tags

- legal_threat (90%)
- proxy_identification (80%)
- reality_distortion (85%)
- witness_intimidation_implied (70%)
- victim_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). I’ve got a 75 year old man, who has NEVER been in... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109739617122973661
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "I’ve got a 75 year old man, who has NEVER been in trouble..." Truth Social, 23 Jan. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109739617122973661. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "I’ve got a 75 year old man, who has NEVER been in trouble...," Truth Social, January 23, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109739617122973661.

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