# Post ts_109803437564351118

- Post ID: `ts_109803437564351118`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-02-03T23:38:12.136Z (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!

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.421Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T02:06:26.511Z (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 demonstrates a sophisticated reality inversion: Trump reframes Mark Pomerantz's book — which argued the Manhattan DA *should* have prosecuted Trump — as evidence the case is fatally flawed. The key distortion concerns prosecutor resignations: Pomerantz and Dunne quit because DA Bragg initially *stopped* the investigation, not because they considered it weak. Trump inverts their protest 180 degrees. The selective quotation marks create false authority, and the "IN OTHER WORDS" bridge explicitly instructs followers how to misread the evidence. The escalation from pseudo-scholarly citation to "SleazeBag disbarred Lawyer From Hell" to "A LOSER!" reveals the emotional substrate beneath the strategic framing. The Cohen attack follows a witness intimidation pattern — publicly degrading a cooperating witness during an active grand jury investigation. This post exemplifies the intersection of narcissistic defense (distortion, splitting) with deliberate propaganda technique (cherry-picking, testimonial manipulation), making it difficult to disentangle genuine belief from strategic manipulation — a characteristic ambiguity in Trump's communications.

## Psychological Analysis: Post ts_109803437564351118

### Context
Trump responds to Mark Pomerantz's book about the Manhattan DA's case against him. Pomerantz, a former special assistant DA, published a book critical of DA Alvin Bragg's initial hesitation to prosecute. Trump selectively reads the book as vindicating him.

### Authorship
Posted at 6:38 PM ET (Trump likely at Mar-a-Lago). Business hours, but the stream-of-consciousness style, emotional escalation, ALL CAPS finale, and characteristic epithets ("Crooked Hillary," "SleazeBag disbarred Lawyer From Hell") are strongly authentic Trump.

### Psychological Dynamics
The post is driven by **narcissistic injury** from the ongoing Manhattan grand jury investigation. Trump employs a sophisticated (for him) rhetorical strategy: weaponizing a prosecutor's own book against the case. The selective quotation marks around "weak," "fatal flaws," "irresponsible," "unfair," and "President Trump" create an appearance of authoritative sourcing while likely decontextualizing the quotes.

The escalation pattern is characteristic: measured paraphrasing → emotional epithets → ALL CAPS declaration. The final "A LOSER!" is pure projection of his core fear onto the case itself.

### Defense Mechanisms
- **Distortion**: Reshaping Pomerantz's book (which actually argued FOR prosecution) into evidence against the case
- **Projection**: "SleazeBag" and "LOSER" — projecting feared self-attributes
- **Splitting**: Prosecutors who quit = good (validates him); DA pursuing case = bad

### Rhetorical Techniques
The strategic use of quotation marks creates false authority. The Michael Cohen attack serves dual purpose: discrediting a key witness and punishing a former loyalist who defected.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Pomerantz was Crooked Hillary Clinton's attorney" | **Mostly False** | Pomerantz was a former federal prosecutor who joined the Manhattan DA's office as a special assistant. His prior legal career included various clients but he is not primarily known as Clinton's attorney. This is guilt-by-association framing. |
| "Prosecutors in the DA's Office quit in protest over the case" | **Half True** | Pomerantz and colleague Carey Dunne resigned in February 2022 when DA Bragg initially paused the investigation, but they quit because they wanted to PROCEED with prosecution, not because they thought the case was weak. |
| "Michael Cohen is a disbarred lawyer" | **True** | Cohen was disbarred in February 2019 after pleading guilty to federal charges. |

Overall Veracity: 57%

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- ALL CAPS emotional finale
- characteristic epithets (Crooked Hillary, SleazeBag)
- escalating emotional intensity
- stream-of-consciousness structure
- evening posting time at Mar-a-Lago

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Manhattan DA investigation / grand jury)

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

Sentiment: -0.50

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 70%
- Antisocial: 40%
- Paranoid: 50%
- Sadism: 30%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 55%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- selective quotation to manufacture authority
- IN OTHER WORDS translation creates false consensus

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Witness intimidation pattern toward Michael Cohen
- Delegitimizing legal proceedings

### Gaslighting

- Inverts meaning of prosecutor resignations (they quit wanting TO prosecute, reframed as quitting because case was weak)
- Selective quotation creates false narrative

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> Pomerantz was Crooked Hillary Clinton's attorney

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Pomerantz was a former federal prosecutor who joined the Manhattan DA's office as a special assistant. His prior legal career included various clients but he is not primarily known as Clinton's attorney. This is guilt-by-association framing.

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

**HALF TRUE**

Pomerantz and colleague Carey Dunne resigned in February 2022 when DA Bragg initially paused the investigation, but they quit because they wanted to PROCEED with prosecution, not because they thought the case was weak.

> Michael Cohen is a disbarred lawyer

**TRUE**

Cohen was disbarred in February 2019 after pleading guilty to federal charges.

Overall Veracity: 57%

## Tags

- legal_defense (90%)
- witness_intimidation (70%)
- reality_inversion (85%)
- manhattan_da (80%)
- michael_cohen (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_109803437564351118
- 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_109803437564351118. 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_109803437564351118.

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