# Post ts_109803431467323052

- Post ID: `ts_109803431467323052`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-02-03T23:36:39.182Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> Wow, the book just put out by Crooked Hillary Clinton’s attorney, Mark Pomerantz, is turning out to be a hit on the District Attorney and the “weak” case “with many fatal flaws.” Prosecutors in the D.A.’s Office actually quit in protest in that they thought it was “irresponsible” and very “unfair” to “President Trump.”They also felt they didn’t want to rely on a SleazeBag disbarred Lawyer From Hell like Michael Cohen as a witness. IN OTHER WORDS, THEY THOUGHT THE CASE WAS TERRIBLE - A LOSER!

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T02:06:15.177Z (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 selectively distorts Mark Pomerantz's book to construct a narrative of prosecutorial weakness, when the book actually argued the Manhattan DA should have been more aggressive in pursuing charges. This represents a sophisticated reality distortion: prosecutors who resigned did so because the case *wasn't* being brought, yet Trump frames their departure as validating his claim the case was meritless. The attack on Michael Cohen as "SleazeBag disbarred Lawyer From Hell" is psychologically notable given Cohen was disbarred for crimes committed at Trump's direction—a textbook projection pattern. The emotional architecture of the post is revealing: measured pseudo-quotation builds apparent credibility before the ALL CAPS climax ("THEY THOUGHT THE CASE WAS TERRIBLE - A LOSER!") reveals the underlying anxiety. "LOSER" functions as Trump's core feared identity projected outward. The gaslighting is deliberate and systematic—inverting a hostile source's thesis to serve as apparent vindication requires conscious manipulation rather than cognitive confusion. This post demonstrates the intersection of legal threat response and narcissistic defense: converting exposure-based injury into grandiose supply through strategic distortion of public record.

## Psychological Analysis: Post ts_109803431467323052

### Context
Trump responds to Mark Pomerantz's book about the Manhattan DA's investigation. Pomerantz, a former special assistant DA, resigned and wrote a book critical of DA Bragg's initial hesitancy to prosecute. Trump selectively cites the book's criticism of the case to frame the prosecution as illegitimate.

### Authorship
Posted at 6:36 PM ET (Trump likely at Mar-a-Lago). Business hours, but the post has strong authentic markers: stream-of-consciousness, escalating emotional intensity, ALL CAPS climax, characteristic nicknames ("Crooked Hillary," "SleazeBag"), and the rhetorical flourish "Lawyer From Hell." Mixed signals but leans authentic—likely Trump dictating or posting with awareness of the book's content from cable news coverage.

### Psychological Dynamics
This is a **narcissistic injury response** to the ongoing Manhattan DA investigation. Trump weaponizes a critic's own critique—Pomerantz wrote the book to argue the case *should* have been brought sooner, but Trump cherry-picks elements suggesting prosecutorial weakness. This is sophisticated **distortion**: reshaping a hostile source into apparent vindication.

The escalation from quoted paraphrases to ALL CAPS ("IN OTHER WORDS, THEY THOUGHT THE CASE WAS TERRIBLE - A LOSER!") reveals the emotional core. "LOSER" is Trump's ultimate term of contempt—projection of his deepest fear onto the case itself.

### Defense Mechanisms
- **Distortion**: Selectively reframing a hostile book as supportive
- **Projection**: Calling Cohen a "SleazeBag"—Cohen was Trump's personal attorney
- **Splitting**: Case is entirely bad, prosecutors who left were entirely right

### Rhetorical Analysis
The post uses a pseudo-journalistic framing ("turning out to be") to give subjective interpretation the appearance of emergent consensus. Strategic use of quotation marks around "weak," "fatal flaws," "irresponsible," "unfair," and "President Trump" creates an illusion of direct citation while likely paraphrasing loosely. The ALL CAPS summary functions as interpretive override—telling the audience what to conclude.

Notable dehumanizing language toward Cohen: "SleazeBag disbarred Lawyer From Hell" stacks three pejoratives. Cohen's disbarment resulted from crimes committed *on Trump's behalf*, making this attack particularly psychologically revealing—destroying the instrument of one's own past behavior.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Mark Pomerantz was Crooked Hillary Clinton's attorney" | **Mostly False** | Pomerantz was a former federal prosecutor who joined the Manhattan DA's office as special assistant DA to investigate Trump. He was not Hillary Clinton's personal attorney. He worked at Paul Weiss and had various clients but this framing is misleading guilt-by-association. |
| "Prosecutors in the DA's Office quit in protest over the weak case" | **Half True** | Pomerantz and another prosecutor resigned when DA Bragg initially paused the investigation, but they resigned because they believed the case SHOULD be brought, not because it was weak. Trump inverts their actual position. |
| "Michael Cohen is a disbarred lawyer" | **True** | Cohen was disbarred in February 2019 after pleading guilty to federal charges including campaign finance violations related to hush money payments made on Trump's behalf. |

Overall Veracity: 57%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 75%)

### Indicators

- ALL CAPS climax
- characteristic nicknames (Crooked Hillary, SleazeBag)
- emotional escalation pattern
- stream-of-consciousness quality
- evening posting time

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Manhattan DA investigation / Pomerantz book)

**Rage:** Intensity 60% targeting Michael Cohen, Manhattan DA
- Proportionality: 40%

Sentiment: -0.50

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 70%
- Antisocial: 40%
- Paranoid: 40%
- Sadism: 30%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 60%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- interpretive framing
- pseudo-quotation authority
- ALL CAPS directive

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Inverts prosecutors' actual position—they quit because case WASN'T being brought, not because it was weak
- Frames Pomerantz's book as critical of the case when it argued the opposite

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> Mark Pomerantz was Crooked Hillary Clinton's attorney

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Pomerantz was a former federal prosecutor who joined the Manhattan DA's office as special assistant DA to investigate Trump. He was not Hillary Clinton's personal attorney. He worked at Paul Weiss and had various clients but this framing is misleading guilt-by-association.

> Prosecutors in the DA's Office quit in protest over the weak case

**HALF TRUE**

Pomerantz and another prosecutor resigned when DA Bragg initially paused the investigation, but they resigned because they believed the case SHOULD be brought, not because it was weak. Trump inverts their actual position.

> Michael Cohen is a disbarred lawyer

**TRUE**

Cohen was disbarred in February 2019 after pleading guilty to federal charges including campaign finance violations related to hush money payments made on Trump's behalf.

Overall Veracity: 57%

## Tags

- legal_defense (90%)
- manhattan_da (80%)
- michael_cohen (70%)
- source_distortion (90%)
- witness_discrediting (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). Wow, the book just put out by Crooked Hillary... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109803431467323052
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Wow, the book just put out by Crooked Hillary Clinton’s..." Truth Social, 3 Feb. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109803431467323052. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Wow, the book just put out by Crooked Hillary Clinton’s...," Truth Social, February 3, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109803431467323052.

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