# Post ts_109798304630050276

- Post ID: `ts_109798304630050276`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-02-03T01:52:49.775Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109798304630050276/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_109798304630050276.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> I totally disagree with the Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, in that the Police Officer “Thug,”who has had a very checkered past to begin with, was not just “doing his job” when he shot and killed Great Patriot Ashli Babbitt at point blank range. Despite trying to keep him anonymous, shielded, and protected, this MISFIT proudly showed up on NBC Fake Nightly News “bragging” about the killing. He was not a hero but a COWARD, who wanted to show how tough he was. ASHLI BABBITT WAS MURDERED!!!

## Engagement

- Likes: 34,692
- Reposts: 12,011
- Replies: 2,913
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.421Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T02:05:45.129Z (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 represents a high-danger instance of stochastic terrorism targeting a named law enforcement officer. Trump publicly dehumanizes Capitol Police Officer Michael Byrd — who was legally cleared by the DOJ — through escalating epithets ("Thug," "MISFIT," "COWARD") and declares the lawful shooting of Ashli Babbitt during the January 6 Capitol breach to be "MURDER." The post employs DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender), transforming an insurrection participant into a "Great Patriot" martyr and a defending officer into a criminal. The racial coding of "Thug" applied to a Black officer is notable from someone who typically champions law enforcement. Psychologically, the post serves multiple narcissistic functions: maintaining dominance over McCarthy, binding followers through shared martyrdom narrative, and sustaining the alternative January 6 reality essential to Trump's identity. The stochastic terrorism pattern is textbook — a named, dehumanized target paired with an articulated grievance ("MURDER") and implicit demand for justice — all delivered to millions of followers. This is among the more dangerous post types in the longitudinal record, as it directly increases threat risk to a specific individual while demanding followers adopt a version of events contradicted by video evidence, DOJ findings, and legal proceedings.

## Psychological Analysis: Post ts_109798304630050276

### Context
Trump attacks Capitol Police Officer Michael Byrd, who fatally shot Ashli Babbitt during the January 6, 2021 Capitol breach, and publicly disagrees with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's defense of the officer. This is a late-night post (8:52 PM ET, assuming Mar-a-Lago) revisiting a two-year-old event.

### Authorship
The post is almost certainly authentic Trump. Stream-of-consciousness structure, emotional intensity, ALL CAPS passages, scare quotes, and the impulsive quality of publicly attacking his own party's Speaker of the House all point to personal authorship. The evening timing is consistent with his typical posting window.

### Psychological Analysis
This post is remarkable for its inversion of reality: a woman shot while attempting to breach a barricaded door during an insurrection is cast as a "Great Patriot" who was "MURDERED," while the officer defending lawmakers is called a "Thug," "MISFIT," and "COWARD." This represents a profound deployment of **distortion** and **splitting** — the binary moral universe where Trump's supporters are heroes and anyone opposing them is villainous.

The disagreement with McCarthy serves multiple functions: it reasserts Trump's dominance over the Republican Party leader, signals to the January 6 base that he remains their champion, and maintains the martyrdom narrative around Babbitt that energizes his most radical supporters.

The racial subtext is notable — calling a Black officer a "Thug" with a "checkered past" employs racially coded language while dehumanizing a law enforcement officer, a striking contradiction from someone who typically positions himself as pro-police.

### Danger Assessment
This post is **high danger**. It names a specific law enforcement officer, dehumanizes him ("Thug," "MISFIT," "COWARD"), declares a lawful shooting to be "MURDER," and implicitly calls for accountability against a named individual. This follows the stochastic terrorism pattern: identified target + articulated grievance + implied need for action. Officer Byrd has already received death threats; posts like this intensify that risk.

### Rhetorical Devices
- Scare quotes to delegitimize ("doing his job," "bragging")
- ALL CAPS for emotional peaks
- Ad hominem attack chain (Thug → MISFIT → COWARD)
- Martyrdom construction ("Great Patriot," "MURDERED")
- Appeal to in-group loyalty by contradicting McCarthy

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Officer had a very checkered past" | **Mostly False** | Officer Michael Byrd had one notable incident — he left his service weapon in a Capitol bathroom in 2019. His record was otherwise unremarkable. 'Very checkered' is a significant exaggeration. |
| "Ashli Babbitt was shot at point blank range" | **Mostly False** | Video shows Byrd fired from several feet away through a barricaded door. 'Point blank range' is misleading — it was close quarters but not contact distance. |
| "Ashli Babbitt was murdered" | **False** | The DOJ and Capitol Police investigated and cleared Officer Byrd, finding the shooting was lawful use of force to protect members of Congress from a mob breaching the Speaker's Lobby. |

Overall Veracity: 13%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 95%)

### Indicators

- Evening posting time (~8:52 PM ET)
- Stream-of-consciousness structure
- ALL CAPS emotional passages
- Scare quotes used liberally
- Impulsive attack on own party leader

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (McCarthy defending the officer who shot a Trump supporter, implicitly legitimizing the use of force on January 6)

**Rage:** Intensity 85% targeting Officer Michael Byrd / Kevin McCarthy
- Proportionality: 20%

Sentiment: -0.85

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- High emotional intensity late at night
- Grandiose positioning against party leadership

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 70%
- Antisocial: 60%
- Paranoid: 50%
- Sadism: 50%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 35%

Cognitive Markers:
- perseveration

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Martyrdom narrative binding followers to leader
- Modeling rage toward shared enemy
- Loyalty test — requiring followers to accept 'murder' framing

## Danger Assessment

**HIGH**

**Stochastic Terrorism Pattern Detected**

### Indicators

- Names and dehumanizes a specific law enforcement officer (Thug, MISFIT, COWARD)
- Declares lawful shooting to be MURDER — framing that implies need for justice/retribution
- Stochastic terrorism pattern: identified target + grievance + implicit call for accountability
- Officer Byrd has already received credible death threats; this post amplifies targeting
- Contradicts own party leader to signal this is a deeply held position, increasing follower commitment

### Gaslighting

- Reframing a lawful shooting as murder
- DARVO: reversing victim (mob participant) and offender (defending officer)
- Attacking the credibility of an officer cleared by DOJ investigation
- Demanding followers accept a version of events contradicted by video evidence and legal findings

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> Officer had a very checkered past

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Officer Michael Byrd had one notable incident — he left his service weapon in a Capitol bathroom in 2019. His record was otherwise unremarkable. 'Very checkered' is a significant exaggeration.

Sources: Public reporting on Michael Byrd's service record

> Ashli Babbitt was shot at point blank range

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Video shows Byrd fired from several feet away through a barricaded door. 'Point blank range' is misleading — it was close quarters but not contact distance.

Sources: January 6 video footage; DOJ investigation report

> Ashli Babbitt was murdered

**FALSE**

The DOJ and Capitol Police investigated and cleared Officer Byrd, finding the shooting was lawful use of force to protect members of Congress from a mob breaching the Speaker's Lobby.

Sources: DOJ April 2021 statement clearing Byrd; Capitol Police internal investigation

Overall Veracity: 13%

## Tags

- january-6 (100%)
- stochastic-terrorism (90%)
- DARVO (90%)
- dehumanization (85%)
- ashli-babbitt (90%)
- michael-byrd (85%)
- kevin-mccarthy (50%)
- intra-party-dominance (60%)
- martyrdom-narrative (80%)
- racially-coded-language (70%)

## That day

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

**Stochastic Terrorism Opens the Day as Trump Juggles Spy Balloon, Legal Threats, and Self-Promotion**

Trump spent the day bouncing between legal defense, tough-guy posturing on the Chinese spy balloon, and sharing flattering links about himself. The most alarming moment came in a late-evening post from the night before, where he publicly named and dehumanized the Capitol Police officer who shot Ashli Babbitt, calling the lawful action "MURDER." The morning brought a rapid-fire burst of posts covering everything from classified documents to drug deaths to Meta's stock price, before a brief midday dip into vulnerability about the state of the country. The evening closed with a distorted reading of a prosecutor's book and an aide-drafted statement using the balloon crisis to promise retributive use of law enforcement.

Full digest for 2023-02-03: https://trump.fm/date/2023-02-03/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, February 3). I totally disagree with the Speaker of the House,... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109798304630050276
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "I totally disagree with the Speaker of the House, Kevin..." Truth Social, 3 Feb. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109798304630050276. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "I totally disagree with the Speaker of the House, Kevin...," Truth Social, February 3, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109798304630050276.

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