# Post ts_109897456366933579

- Post ID: `ts_109897456366933579`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-02-20T14:08:25.250Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109897456366933579
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109897456366933579/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_109897456366933579.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> You can’t find Obstruction of Justice when there is no crime, or when a crime is made up, fiction, and fails.

## Engagement

- Likes: 21,245
- Reposts: 4,594
- Replies: 785
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.420Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T02:59:33.897Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: Post ts_109897456366933579 (2023-02-20)

### Content
A brief legal-defensive statement asserting obstruction of justice cannot exist without an underlying crime.

### Authorship
Posted at 14:08 UTC = 9:08 AM EST. Trump was likely at Mar-a-Lago (Palm Beach). This is business hours, and the post is grammatically clean and concise — somewhat atypical of Trump's usual stream-of-consciousness style. However, the legal defensiveness and terse, declarative tone are consistent with Trump's personal voice on legal matters. The brevity and lack of typos could go either way. Mixed signals.

### Context
This likely references the DOJ/Special Counsel investigation into Trump — the Fox News/Mark Levin link shared in a contemporaneous post about attorney-client privilege reinforces this is a day of legal grievance. The post echoes a long-standing Trump legal argument (no obstruction without underlying crime), which is legally incorrect but rhetorically effective for his base.

### Psychological Analysis
The post reflects a defensive posture against perceived legal persecution. The construction "made up, fiction, and fails" uses a tricolon of dismissal — escalating from fabricated to fictional to failed. This is classic denial and rationalization.

### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "You can't find Obstruction of Justice when there is no crime" | **False** | Obstruction of justice is a standalone federal offense under 18 U.S.C. §§ 1503, 1505, 1512. No underlying crime needs to be charged or proven. This was explicitly addressed in the Mueller Report Vol. II. |

Overall Veracity: 0%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 50%)

### Indicators

- Business hours posting (9:08 AM ET)
- Clean grammar and punctuation
- But terse, combative tone typical of Trump on legal topics
- No typos or ALL CAPS
- Legal defensiveness is personally characteristic

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Vulnerable State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (DOJ/Special Counsel investigation)

Sentiment: -0.40

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 30%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- denial (pathological)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 30%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- framing legal jeopardy as persecution

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Presents legally false premise as self-evident truth
- Characterizes real legal proceedings as 'made up, fiction'

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> You can't find Obstruction of Justice when there is no crime

**FALSE**

Obstruction of justice is a standalone federal offense under 18 U.S.C. §§ 1503, 1505, 1512. No underlying crime needs to be charged or proven. This was explicitly addressed in the Mueller Report Vol. II.

Sources: 18 U.S.C. § 1503; Mueller Report Vol. II (2019)

Overall Veracity: 0%

## Tags

- legal-defense (100%)
- obstruction (90%)
- denial (80%)

## That day

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

**Mar-a-Lago Presidents' Day: Rival Destruction, Legal Deflection, and Strategic Silence on Kyiv**

Trump spent Presidents' Day at Mar-a-Lago in full campaign mode, hosting supporters at Club 45 and basking in crowd energy. The day was bookended by pointed attacks on Ron DeSantis — mocking his crowd sizes, poll numbers, and establishment allies. A brief mid-morning dip into legal defensiveness over DOJ investigations was quickly papered over with media-ally endorsements and a shout-out to Tiger Woods. The most striking feature of the day was what went unsaid: Biden's dramatic surprise visit to Kyiv drew absolutely no response, suggesting the DeSantis primary threat looms far larger in Trump's mind than the sitting president.

Full digest for 2023-02-20: https://trump.fm/date/2023-02-20/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, February 20). You can’t find Obstruction of Justice when there... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109897456366933579
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "You can’t find Obstruction of Justice when there is no..." Truth Social, 20 Feb. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109897456366933579. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "You can’t find Obstruction of Justice when there is no...," Truth Social, February 20, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109897456366933579.

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