# Post ts_110044039949982181

- Post ID: `ts_110044039949982181`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-03-18T11:26:33.192Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> Page 2: NOW ILLEGAL LEAKS FROM A CORRUPT & HIGHLY POLITICAL MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEYS OFFICE, WHICH HAS ALLOWED NEW RECORDS TO BE SET IN VIOLENT CRIME & WHOSE LEADER IS FUNDED BY GEORGE SOROS, INDICATE THAT, WITH NO CRIME BEING ABLE TO BE PROVEN, & BASED ON AN OLD & FULLY DEBUNKED (BY NUMEROUS OTHER PROSECUTORS!) FAIRYTALE, THE FAR & AWAY LEADING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE & FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WILL BE ARRESTED ON TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK. PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!

## Engagement

- Likes: 87,286
- Reposts: 30,143
- Replies: 12,850
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.417Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T02:12:23.455Z (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 pre-dawn post (5:26 AM local, Iowa) constitutes one of the most psychologically and situationally dangerous in the observed corpus. Issued as Trump anticipated criminal indictment, it combines near-maximum emotional arousal, acute narcissistic injury response, DARVO defense architecture, and an explicit mobilization call ("PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!") directed at a nationally activated audience — structurally mirroring pre-January 6 communications. The grandiose-vulnerable narcissistic state oscillates within a single utterance: the "FAR & AWAY LEADING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE & FORMER PRESIDENT" is simultaneously a persecuted martyr of a Soros-funded corrupt DA. Factual claims are largely false (NYC at "new records" for violent crime — false; arrest on Tuesday March 21 — false; case "fully debunked" — overstated). The Soros funding claim is partially grounded but weaponized conspiratorially. The post's danger lies not in explicit incitement but in the predictable behavioral distribution of millions of rage-activated followers receiving, before dawn, a message that their champion faces imminent illegal arrest and they must "take the nation back." Danger level: HIGH.

# Analysis: Truth Social Post, 2023-03-18T11:26:33Z ("PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!")

## Overview

This post — labeled "Page 2:" indicating a multi-post thread — was published at 11:26 UTC on March 18, 2023. Trump was in Davenport, Iowa for a campaign rally (CST, UTC-6), placing local time at approximately **5:26 AM** — well before dawn. The companion posts on the same morning include an all-caps screed about America being "THIRD WORLD & DYING" (containing the authentic misspelling "STOLLEN") and a link to a Washington Times piece on legal weaponization. Together they constitute a coordinated pre-dawn narrative assault responding to imminent legal jeopardy.

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## Authorship Attribution

Pre-dawn local timing (5:26 AM CST), universal capitalization, stream-of-consciousness structure, dramatic third-person self-reference with full ceremonial title ("FAR & AWAY LEADING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE & FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA"), and unpolished emotional reactivity all converge strongly on authentic authorship. No aide would draft a pre-dawn mobilization call of this emotional intensity — they would wait for business hours, moderate the ALL CAPS, and omit "PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!" in favor of a more defensible phrasing.

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## Psychological Trigger and State

Criminal prosecution represents the severest possible narcissistic injury for an individual exhibiting extreme narcissistic features: not merely criticism of character or competence but formal societal condemnation, existential threat to freedom, and potentially definitive public exposure. The arousal level here — near-total capitalization, dense exclamatory structure, maximally charged semantics — reflects the magnitude of this threat.

The narcissistic state is **mixed grandiose/vulnerable** within a single utterance:
- **Grandiose pole**: The full ceremonial self-reference ("FAR & AWAY LEADING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE & FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA") functions as a status shield — invoking elevated identity to ward off the degradation of arrest.
- **Vulnerable pole**: "ILLEGAL LEAKS," "CORRUPT," targeted by Soros-funded enemies, victim of a "FAIRYTALE" — the persecuted martyr.

This oscillation within a single post is characteristic of the grandiose-vulnerable cycling observed under acute narcissistic injury (Ronningstam, 2005).

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## DARVO and Defense Mechanisms

The post enacts a textbook **DARVO** sequence (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender):

- **Deny**: "NO CRIME BEING ABLE TO BE PROVEN" — denial of the evidentiary basis of an active grand jury proceeding.
- **Attack**: "CORRUPT & HIGHLY POLITICAL MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEYS OFFICE," "FUNDED BY GEORGE SOROS," "VIOLENT CRIME," "ILLEGAL LEAKS" — multi-vector assault delegitimizing the prosecutorial institution.
- **Reverse**: Positions self as the victim of corrupt political machinery; implicitly positions followers as co-victims of a stolen nation.

Additional defenses in operation:
- **Distortion**: "FULLY DEBUNKED (BY NUMEROUS OTHER PROSECUTORS!) FAIRYTALE" grossly reshapes the legal record (prior prosecutors declined to charge; they did not "debunk" underlying facts).
- **Projection**: Accusing the DA's office of corruption and political motivation while facing charges arising from conduct to manipulate an election.
- **Rationalization**: Political-persecution framing converts accountability into illegitimate targeting.
- **Splitting**: The DA and Soros are pure evil; his supporters are pure victims; no intermediate ground exists.

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## Stochastic Terrorism Assessment

The terminal phrase **"PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!"** requires careful scrutiny in its full context:

1. **Target identification**: Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg named/implied; George Soros named.
2. **Grievance articulation**: Illegal leaks, corrupt institution, no crime proven, political persecution of "THE FAR & AWAY LEADING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE."
3. **Escalatory framing**: Companion post characterizes the nation as "THIRD WORLD & DYING," "AMERICAN PATRIOTS... HELD IN CAPTIVITY LIKE ANIMALS."
4. **Mobilization call**: "PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!" — directed at a national audience primed by the above.

The word "PROTEST" provides legal deniability, but the January 6 Committee documented precisely how equivalent language ("fight like hell," "take back our country," "be there, will be wild") functioned as operational mobilization. The pattern here is structurally identical: named targets + articulated existential grievance + ambiguous but emotionally charged action imperative directed at millions of activated followers. This meets the definition of **stochastic terrorism** as understood in the political violence literature (Hamm & Spaaij, 2017): public demonization of targets in a manner predictably inspiring some followers to violence without explicit incitement.

**Danger level: HIGH.**

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## Rhetorical Techniques

- **Universal capitalization**: Amplifies emotional intensity, simulates shouting, eliminates register variation.
- **Hyperbolic superlatives**: "FAR & AWAY LEADING," "HIGHLY POLITICAL," "FULLY DEBUNKED."
- **Third-person grandiose self-reference**: Distancing technique that transforms personal legal jeopardy into threat against a public institution.
- **Guilt by association**: Soros funding of Bragg's 2021 campaign PAC weaponized as evidence of corrupt conspiracy.
- **False dichotomy**: Either his supporters protest ("TAKE OUR NATION BACK") or the nation is lost.
- **Appeal to fear**: Nation "DYING," third world, elections stolen, patriots imprisoned.
- **Delegitimization of process**: "ILLEGAL LEAKS," "CORRUPT," "POLITICAL" — the prosecution apparatus itself is framed as the crime.
- **RAND Firehose**: Multiple posts on the same morning releasing coordinated, high-volume, maximally alarming claims.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Manhattan DA's office has 'ALLOWED NEW RECORDS TO BE SET IN VIOLENT CRIME'" | **Mostly False** | NYC homicide rate in 2022 was approximately 6.1 per 100,000, far below the early 1990s peak exceeding 30 per 100,000. While some crime categories rose post-COVID, overall violent crime remained well below historical records. |
| "DA's leader 'IS FUNDED BY GEORGE SOROS'" | **Half True** | Alvin Bragg's 2021 DA campaign received approximately $1 million from Color of Change PAC, which received funding from George Soros. The connection exists but the 'funded by Soros' framing is reductive and omits that Bragg received funding from many sources; the Soros connection was indirect via a PAC. |
| "Investigation based on case 'FULLY DEBUNKED (BY NUMEROUS OTHER PROSECUTORS!)'" | **Mostly False** | Prior federal prosecutors (SDNY, DOJ) declined to bring federal charges, some citing jurisdiction or DOJ policy on charging sitting presidents rather than lack of evidence. The Manhattan DA pursued independent state-law theories. Declination ≠ debunking. |
| "Will 'BE ARRESTED ON TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK' (March 21, 2023)" | **False** | No arrest occurred on Tuesday, March 21, 2023. Trump was eventually indicted by the Manhattan grand jury and arraigned on April 4, 2023 — two weeks after the predicted date. |
| "Leaks from the DA's office are 'ILLEGAL'" | **Unverifiable** | Media reported information about grand jury activity. Whether this constituted illegal grand jury leaks or authorized communications was not legally established at the time of posting. |

Overall Veracity: 28%

## Cognitive Status

This post falls **within baseline** for Trump's documented emotional arousal style. The all-caps format obscures syntactic complexity assessment, but the structure — though non-linear — maintains coherent thematic progression (attack DA → establish victimhood → invoke status → call to action). No phonemic or semantic paraphasia detected. Companion post "STOLLEN" misspelling is a persistent authentic marker, not a novel error. No temporal confusion or name confusion present. Baseline deviation is assessed as **none to slight** for this post specifically, though the macro-arousal level is among the highest observed.

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## Narrative Identity (McAdams Level 3)

- **Protagonist role**: Persecuted champion — simultaneously the nation's greatest defender and its most victimized citizen.
- **Contamination sequence**: The rightful leader of a great nation is being illegally destroyed by corrupt, Soros-funded enemies — the American Dream being murdered.
- **Redemption arc (implied)**: "TAKE OUR NATION BACK" — followers can reverse the contamination by acting.
- **Identity claims**: FAR & AWAY LEADING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE; FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA — full ceremonial identity invoked as protection.
- **Contrasting other**: Bragg's office, Soros, "RADICAL LEFT ANARCHISTS" (companion post).

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## Archetypal Dimensions

The post embodies a **Warrior-Martyr-King** archetypal fusion:
- **Warrior**: Combat mode, enemies attacking, nation at war.
- **Martyr**: Unjust persecution; the innocent man targeted by corrupt power.
- **King under siege**: Legitimate ruler whose realm has been usurped; followers are called to restore the proper order.

The **Shadow** projection is notable: Trump faces charges of corruption, election interference, and abuse of power — precisely the accusations directed at the DA's office in this post. The criminal (hush money, election manipulation) is projected onto the prosecutor (corrupt, political, funded by enemies).

**Order/Chaos positioning**: Paradoxically, this post attacks the legal *order* (DA, prosecution) as illegitimate while positioning itself as defending a higher *order* (constitutional democracy, "real Americans"). The Trickster disrupts the corrupt-but-established order to restore the authentic-but-lost order — a rhetorical structure with deep populist resonance.

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## Gaslighting and Reality Distortion

The post operationalizes gaslighting at scale: followers who accept the framing must believe:
1. An active grand jury proceeding is a "FAIRYTALE."
2. An imminent arrest is an unprecedented political persecution, not accountability.
3. The proper response to legal process is nationwide protest.

This constitutes **epistemic closure engineering**: accepting the persecution narrative becomes a group membership test. Those who question it (journalists, legal commentators, opposing voters) are cast as either dupes or conspirators. The RAND Firehose strategy — high volume, maximum alarm, compressed timeframe — prevents deliberative processing.

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## Summary

This pre-dawn post, issued at 5:26 AM local time as Trump faced imminent criminal indictment, represents one of the most psychologically and dangerously significant posts in the observed corpus. The convergence of extreme narcissistic injury (criminal prosecution), maximum emotional arousal (near-universal capitalization), grandiose-vulnerable state oscillation, DARVO defense structure, explicit mobilization language ("PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!"), and targeted enemy identification (Bragg, Soros) constitutes a stochastic terrorism pattern structurally identical to pre-January 6 communications. The arrest prediction was factually false, but its primary function was not informational — it was mobilizational: converting anticipated legal accountability into an imminent attack on the nation requiring active resistance. The post's danger lies not in explicit incitement but in the predictable behavioral distribution of a massive, primed, and rage-activated audience receiving this content before dawn. Danger level: HIGH.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 93%)

### Indicators

- Posted at 5:26 AM local time (CST) in Davenport, Iowa — pre-dawn, strongly authentic window
- Near-universal ALL CAPS formatting consistent with peak emotional arousal posts
- Dramatic third-person self-reference with full ceremonial title ('FAR & AWAY LEADING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE & FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA')
- Stream-of-consciousness structure without polished transitions
- Part of multi-post pre-dawn thread including companion post with 'STOLLEN' misspelling — persistent authentic signature

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg / imminent criminal indictment in Stormy Daniels hush money investigation)

**Rage:** Intensity 90% targeting Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, George Soros, 'Radical Left,' prosecutorial system
- Proportionality: 10%

Sentiment: -0.83

**Moderately Hypomanic**
- Near-universal capitalization across extended text
- Pre-dawn posting (5:26 AM local time)
- Multi-post coordinated morning barrage
- Grandiose self-reference with maximum title invocation
- Intensely pressured, urgent rhetorical style

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 92%
- Antisocial: 68%
- Paranoid: 88%
- Sadism: 38%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 32%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Shared victimhood ('OUR NATION,' 'TAKE OUR NATION BACK')
- Invitation to collective action against named enemies
- Existential threat framing binding followers to protective response
- Grandiose self-presentation as proxy for audience's own status and identity

## Danger Assessment

**HIGH**

**Stochastic Terrorism Pattern Detected**

### Indicators

- 'PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!' — explicit mobilization call directed at national audience facing claimed existential threat
- Structural pattern matches pre-January 6 communications: named targets + articulated grievances + ambiguous action imperative
- Named target identification (Bragg, Soros) focuses grievance and potential retaliatory action
- Companion posts characterize nation as 'THIRD WORLD & DYING' and 'AMERICAN PATRIOTS... HELD IN CAPTIVITY LIKE ANIMALS' — maximizing perceived urgency and injustice
- Pre-dawn timing suggests unmediated emotional discharge reaching millions before rational processing
- Historical precedent: January 6 Committee documented how structurally equivalent language ('fight like hell,' 'take back our country') translated to operational violence

### Gaslighting

- Characterizing active grand jury proceedings as 'FULLY DEBUNKED...FAIRYTALE' — denying documented legal reality
- 'NO CRIME BEING ABLE TO BE PROVEN' while grand jury is actively hearing evidence
- 'ILLEGAL LEAKS' framing delegitimizes journalism and legal information as criminal acts against him
- False arrest prediction ('TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK') functions to pre-frame any eventual arrest as confirmation of persecution narrative regardless of actual timeline

## Fact Checks (5)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-24._

> Manhattan DA's office has 'ALLOWED NEW RECORDS TO BE SET IN VIOLENT CRIME'

**MOSTLY FALSE**

NYC homicide rate in 2022 was approximately 6.1 per 100,000, far below the early 1990s peak exceeding 30 per 100,000. While some crime categories rose post-COVID, overall violent crime remained well below historical records.

Sources: NYPD CompStat historical data; NYC crime statistics 2022

> DA's leader 'IS FUNDED BY GEORGE SOROS'

**HALF TRUE**

Alvin Bragg's 2021 DA campaign received approximately $1 million from Color of Change PAC, which received funding from George Soros. The connection exists but the 'funded by Soros' framing is reductive and omits that Bragg received funding from many sources; the Soros connection was indirect via a PAC.

Sources: FEC filings; Color of Change PAC disclosures

> Investigation based on case 'FULLY DEBUNKED (BY NUMEROUS OTHER PROSECUTORS!)'

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Prior federal prosecutors (SDNY, DOJ) declined to bring federal charges, some citing jurisdiction or DOJ policy on charging sitting presidents rather than lack of evidence. The Manhattan DA pursued independent state-law theories. Declination ≠ debunking.

Sources: SDNY declination record; DOJ policy documentation

> Will 'BE ARRESTED ON TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK' (March 21, 2023)

**FALSE**

No arrest occurred on Tuesday, March 21, 2023. Trump was eventually indicted by the Manhattan grand jury and arraigned on April 4, 2023 — two weeks after the predicted date.

Sources: Manhattan DA indictment record, April 4 2023

> Leaks from the DA's office are 'ILLEGAL'

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Media reported information about grand jury activity. Whether this constituted illegal grand jury leaks or authorized communications was not legally established at the time of posting.

Overall Veracity: 28%

## Tags

- narcissistic-injury (97%)
- stochastic-terrorism (88%)
- mobilization-call (95%)
- DARVO (92%)
- authentic-authorship (93%)
- pre-dawn-posting (85%)
- grandiose-vulnerable-oscillation (88%)
- criminal-prosecution (97%)
- Manhattan-DA (95%)
- George-Soros (82%)
- false-prediction (90%)
- epistemic-closure (87%)
- Jan6-pattern-echo (85%)
- RAND-firehose (78%)
- reality-distortion (88%)

## That day

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

**72 Hours Before Predicted Arrest, Trump Deploys Full Mobilization Rhetoric Mirroring Pre-January 6 Pattern**

Trump spent the entire day consumed by the Manhattan DA investigation, posting nothing about any other topic despite a global banking crisis and domestic flooding. A quiet 1 AM link share gave way to an explosive early-morning rage burst calling America "third world and dying," accusing the DA of corruption, and predicting his own arrest for Tuesday. The day escalated into repeated calls to "PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK" and "PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST" with no peaceful qualifier — language that structurally mirrors his pre-January 6 communications. A polished fundraising appeal dropped into the middle of the crisis posts, revealing the operational machinery converting existential threat into donor mobilization.

Full digest for 2023-03-18: https://trump.fm/date/2023-03-18/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, March 18). Page 2: NOW ILLEGAL LEAKS FROM A CORRUPT &... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110044039949982181
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Page 2: NOW ILLEGAL LEAKS FROM A CORRUPT & HIGHLY..." Truth Social, 18 Mar. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110044039949982181. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Page 2: NOW ILLEGAL LEAKS FROM A CORRUPT & HIGHLY...," Truth Social, March 18, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110044039949982181.

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