# Post ts_110189690089509619 - Post ID: `ts_110189690089509619` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-04-13T04:47:18.022Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110189690089509619 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110189690089509619/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110189690089509619.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > The A.G. case should be tried in front of the Commercial Division, not in front of a highly partisan, Trump Hating Judge who was sought out, or “shopped,” by Peekaboo James. VERY UNFAIR. NEW YORK STATE SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THIS INJUSTICE! ## Engagement - Likes: 31,515 - Reposts: 7,870 - Replies: 1,156 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.414Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T04:13:58.116Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary On April 13, 2023 — the night of a compelled deposition before NY AG Letitia James — Trump posted this legally-framed grievance at 12:47 AM local time. Authorship is high-confidence authentic: late-night timing, derogatory nickname deployment, reactive emotional register tied to a personally experienced same-day event. The post represents a moderate-high-intensity narcissistic injury response: being forced to submit to deposition by a perceived political enemy triggers the characteristic grandiose-vulnerable oscillation, expressed through quasi-legal complaint layered over genuine rage. Defense mechanisms include pathological distortion (routine court assignment recast as corrupt judge-shopping), immature splitting (legitimate vs. corrupt venues), projection, and rationalization. The post is notably more legally coherent than same-day output, suggesting partial strategic framing. The "Peekaboo James" nickname — deployed three times across the day — functions as a dominance ritual reasserting symbolic superiority over a figure who holds formal institutional power. Danger level is elevated primarily through cumulative framing: this post, embedded in a same-day cluster including "WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE," constructs a persecution narrative requiring collective response while systematically pre-delegitimizing future adverse rulings. The judicial delegitimization pattern visible here is consistent with documented post-indictment behavior and represents an epistemically closed framework in which adverse court outcomes are structurally impossible to accept as legitimate. ## Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post, April 13, 2023 (04:47 UTC) ### Authorship Attribution **Verdict: High confidence — authentic Trump** UTC 04:47:18 converts to **12:47 AM EDT** (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC−4). Trump was in Manhattan per his own earlier posts ("Just arrived in Manhattan for a deposition"). A 12:47 AM post from the subject of a high-stakes legal deposition occurring the same day is entirely consistent with the established late-night authentic posting pattern. Additional authenticating markers: derogatory nickname ("Peekaboo James") repeated from earlier same-day post, ALL CAPS emotional bursts, fragmented syntax, reactive emotional content tied to live events he personally experienced that day. --- ### Context and Trigger Trump arrived in Manhattan on April 13, 2023 for a deposition in the New York AG's civil fraud case. He posted prolifically across the day: this post at 12:47 AM local is the final post of that day cluster, the most focused legally, and composed after a day of emotional escalation. The triggering narcissistic injury is severe and concrete — compelled attendance at legal deposition initiated by a person he perceives as an enemy, before a judge he cannot control. --- ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) - **Extraversion**: High assertiveness, dominance display; publicly attacking judicial assignment rather than restricting to legal channels - **Agreeableness**: Very low — derogation ("Peekaboo James"), contempt for judicial institution, zero acknowledgment of any legitimacy in opposing position - **Conscientiousness**: Low in regulatory sense — impulsive, reactive midnight post; *however* the post is more legally coherent than much of the day's output, suggesting partial strategic framing - **Neuroticism/Angry hostility**: Very high — ALL CAPS, exclamatory sentence endings, shame-attribution to the state - **Openness**: Effectively closed — rigid victimhood frame, no epistemic flexibility --- ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motives dominate**: The post is fundamentally about control — demanding the case be reassigned to a venue where outcomes might differ. This is simultaneously a legal argument and a dominance maneuver; by publicly attacking the judge's legitimacy, Trump attempts to delegitimize any unfavorable ruling in advance. **Schema revealed**: The legal/judicial system is not a neutral arbiter but an extension of political warfare. This schema is ego-syntonic and elaborately developed across years of posts; the judicial system is either legitimate (when it rules favorably) or corrupt (when adverse). No cognitive dissonance is apparent. **Status threat**: Being deposed — particularly by an AG he has racially coded elsewhere in the same day's posts as a "LOWLIFE" — constitutes a profound status inversion that demands reactive reassertion. --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role**: Persecuted giant — the legitimate, successful builder forced to submit to corrupt petty officials - **Contamination sequence**: Great company and achievements → "unjust persecution" by corrupt political system. This sequence is explicitly constructed across the same-day posts ("I built a GREAT & prosperous company…but now have to prove it to this LOWLIFE") - **Identity claims**: The 45th President, builder of "magnificent structures," successful businessman — framed as the standard by which James is measured and found contemptible - **Contrasting other**: "Peekaboo James" (infantilized, diminished) and the unnamed "highly partisan, Trump Hating Judge" (anonymous but threatening). The nickname "Peekaboo" functions as a dominance ritual — by naming and infantilizing, Trump asserts symbolic superiority over a figure who has institutional power over him in reality --- ### Clinical Analysis #### Malignant Narcissism Components - **Narcissistic features**: Grandiosity high throughout the day's posts; entitlement to favorable judicial venue; belief that the entire apparatus of law is oriented around persecuting *him specifically* - **Paranoid features**: "Sought out, or 'shopped'" — the conspiracy framing that enemies coordinate to stack disadvantages. The paranoid reading is that no adverse procedural outcome can be accidental; all must be plotted - **Antisocial features**: Public attack on a sitting judge by the subject of active litigation — a behavior most actors recognize as counter-productive, suggesting impulse control subordinated to emotional discharge - **Sadism**: Lower in this post than in others this day; the "Peekaboo" nickname carries a demeaning quality but the post is primarily complaint-oriented rather than contempt-display #### Narcissistic Trigger **Narcissistic injury** — defeat/exposure type. Having to submit to deposition before an adversary elected on an anti-Trump platform constitutes a multi-layered injury: loss of control, forced submission, public visibility of legal vulnerability. #### Narcissistic Rage - **Present**: Yes - **Intensity**: 0.75/1.0 — significant but partially channeled into legal argument framing (lower raw intensity than the "RACIST, TRUMP HATING" post earlier this day) - **Proportionality**: 0.15 — grossly disproportionate; public vilification of judge and state for standard adversarial legal proceedings - **Target**: Judge (unnamed), AG James ("Peekaboo James"), New York State abstractly #### Narcissistic State **Mixed** — simultaneously grandiose (the state should be *ashamed* of its treatment of him, implying his importance) and vulnerable (VERY UNFAIR, persecution framing). This oscillation is characteristic of the malignant narcissistic pattern under acute stress. --- ### Defense Mechanisms 1. **Distortion** (pathological): Routine court venue assignment recast as corrupt "judge shopping" — reshaping procedural reality to fit persecutory narrative 2. **Projection** (immature): Attributes motivated unfairness to judge while engaging in motivated public attack on that same judge 3. **Splitting** (immature): Commercial Division = legitimate/safe; assigned judge = corrupt/biased. No middle ground acknowledged 4. **Rationalization** (neurotic): Wraps emotional rage in quasi-legal argument (Commercial Division jurisdiction) lending surface-legitimacy to what is fundamentally affective discharge 5. **Acting out** (immature): Publishing attacks on sitting judge mid-litigation is impulsive emotional discharge with potential real-world legal consequences --- ### Cognitive Status **Baseline comparison**: This post is more syntactically coherent than the day's more heated posts. The legal argument (Commercial Division vs. civil division) is accurate enough to suggest either retained legal knowledge or very recent aide-briefing absorbed into authentic expression. **Markers present**: - No significant word-finding difficulty - No phonemic or semantic paraphasia - Perseveration: "Peekaboo" nickname deployed three times across same-day posts — consistent with emotional fixation rather than pathological perseveration - Temporal coherence intact - Complexity: below lifetime baseline but within recent baseline range **Assessment**: No acute cognitive deterioration markers visible in this post specifically. The brevity and focus (relative to same-day posts) may reflect fatigue at 12:47 AM after an emotionally exhausting day. --- ### Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques - **Nickname/infantilization**: "Peekaboo James" — demeaning, dismissive, signals contempt while entertaining audience - **Passive-aggressive quotation marks**: "shopped" — signals conspiratorial framing while maintaining deniability - **Hyperbole**: "VERY UNFAIR," "INJUSTICE," "SHOULD BE ASHAMED" - **False authority appeal**: Citing the Commercial Division as the appropriate venue has a patina of legal legitimacy; whether it is legally correct is separable from its rhetorical function as legitimizing grievance - **Shame-attribution to institution**: "New York State Should Be Ashamed" — scales personal grievance to statewide moral failure; performative outrage for audience - **ALL CAPS**: Two instances — emphasis and emotional escalation signal **Violent imagery**: Absent in this post **Dehumanizing language**: Indirect (judge is "highly partisan, Trump Hating") — derogatory but not dehumanizing at clinical threshold **Propaganda techniques**: Reality distortion (judge shopping characterization), ad hominem (attacking judge's character rather than legal rulings) --- ### Gaslighting & Reality Distortion **Gaslighting present**: Yes, moderate - The "judge shopping" framing denies the routine nature of court venue assignment under NY filing procedures. While venue selection in litigation is a real phenomenon, characterizing normal civil court assignment as corrupt "shopping" for a predisposed judge distorts the factual record - Framing a deposition in civil litigation as a "persecution" of "The 45th President" engages DARVO dynamics: the person sued for alleged fraud is positioned as the victim of the legal process itself --- ### Epistemic Closure **Present**: Yes. No acknowledgment of any legitimacy in opposing legal position. The assigned judge's neutrality is treated as impossible *a priori*. This functions as a loyalty test for followers: accepting the "corrupt judge" framing requires dismissing the possibility of legitimate judicial process in this case. --- ### Danger Assessment **Level: Elevated** This post itself contains no eliminationist language and no direct calls to action. However, it is embedded in a same-day cluster that includes "WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE" (previous post), which rises to elevated stochastic terrorism concern. This post contributes to the danger ecology by: 1. Delegitimizing the judicial process and judge assigned to a major case 2. Framing the legal system as coordinated persecution — priming followers to view court outcomes as illegitimate 3. Naming a specific "villain" (James) in a narrative of coordinated injustice The danger is systemic/institutional rather than individually targeted in this specific post. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Judge was sought out or 'shopped' by Peekaboo James" | **Mostly False** | The NY AG's office filed under Executive Law §63(12) and consumer protection statutes that routed the case to Justice Engoron's part through standard court assignment procedures. While venue selection in litigation is a real phenomenon and the AG's office chose a filing path, characterizing this as corrupt 'judge shopping' for a predisposed judge misrepresents routine legal filing as deliberate manipulation. Legal commentators noted the assignment was procedurally standard. | | "The A.G. case should be tried in front of the Commercial Division" | **Unverifiable** | This is a legal opinion rather than a verifiable factual claim. Some legal observers did note the Commercial Division handles complex business litigation and there was an arguable case for that venue. NY courts ruled against reassignment. The merits of this legal argument are contested among practitioners and not resolvable as simple fact/fiction. | Overall Veracity: 35% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 88%) ### Indicators - 12:47 AM EDT local time — late-night authentic posting window - Subject physically present in Manhattan for deposition that day (per own posts) - Derogatory nickname 'Peekaboo James' consistent with prior same-day authentic posts - ALL CAPS emotional bursts (VERY UNFAIR, INJUSTICE) - Reactive content tied to personally experienced same-day event ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Compelled deposition before NY AG Letitia James; submission to adversarial legal process initiated by perceived political enemy) **Rage:** Intensity 75% targeting Judge Engoron (unnamed), AG Letitia James, New York State - Proportionality: 15% Sentiment: -0.85 Baseline Deviation: slight **Mildly Hypomanic** - Posting at 12:47 AM on day of major stressful legal event - Part of a high-volume posting cluster across the day (5+ posts) - Elevated energy and reactivity despite presumably exhausting day - Escalating emotional intensity across the day's post sequence ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 85% - Antisocial: 65% - Paranoid: 75% - Sadism: 35% **Defense Mechanisms:** - distortion (pathological) - projection (immature) - splitting (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) - acting out (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 48% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Invites audience to share outrage at 'injustice' - Positions followers as witnesses to persecution - Shame-attribution to New York State creates collective grievance - Repeating 'Peekaboo' nickname for entertainment/bonding ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - Systematic delegitimization of judicial process and assigned judge — primes followers to reject court outcomes as corrupt - Named villain (James) in coordinated persecution narrative — repeated across 5 same-day posts - Embedded in same-day cluster containing 'WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE' post (stochastic terrorism concern) - Institutional shame-attribution creates collective grievance without specifying response - Preemptive framing of legal proceedings as injustice before rulings issued ### Gaslighting - 'Judge shopping' framing characterizes routine NY court filing procedures as corrupt judicial manipulation - Framing civil fraud litigation as persecution of 'The 45th President' — DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender) - Implies judge's assignment was motivated rather than procedural, without evidence - Frames legal submission as injustice, priming followers to distrust court outcomes ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Judge was sought out or 'shopped' by Peekaboo James **MOSTLY FALSE** The NY AG's office filed under Executive Law §63(12) and consumer protection statutes that routed the case to Justice Engoron's part through standard court assignment procedures. While venue selection in litigation is a real phenomenon and the AG's office chose a filing path, characterizing this as corrupt 'judge shopping' for a predisposed judge misrepresents routine legal filing as deliberate manipulation. Legal commentators noted the assignment was procedurally standard. Sources: General legal knowledge of NY court structure and AG filing procedures > The A.G. case should be tried in front of the Commercial Division **UNVERIFIABLE** This is a legal opinion rather than a verifiable factual claim. Some legal observers did note the Commercial Division handles complex business litigation and there was an arguable case for that venue. NY courts ruled against reassignment. The merits of this legal argument are contested among practitioners and not resolvable as simple fact/fiction. Sources: General legal knowledge of NY Commercial Division jurisdiction Overall Veracity: 35% ## Tags - narcissistic-injury (95%) - judicial-delegitimization (90%) - narcissistic-rage (80%) - judge-shopping-claim (85%) - derogatory-nickname (85%) - DARVO (80%) - authentic-late-night (90%) - legal-proceedings-response (95%) - splitting (75%) - NY-AG-case (95%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Pre-Deposition Rage Spiral: 16-Post Barrage Builds From Grievance to Apocalyptic Mobilization** Trump spent the evening before a compelled civil fraud deposition in a sustained posting frenzy, firing off grievance after grievance about the special counsel, the attorney general, and the broader justice system. The mood escalated sharply over four hours, building from general persecution complaints to apocalyptic declarations that the country is "DEAD" and a call that "WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE." He flew from Florida to Manhattan overnight, posting past midnight with increasingly personal attacks on AG Letitia James, including a racially charged nickname. By afternoon, the raw fury gave way to a single polished video statement -- likely aide-produced -- reframing the day's forced legal submission as proof of a weaponized justice system. Full digest for 2023-04-13: https://trump.fm/date/2023-04-13/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, April 13). The A.G. case should be tried in front of the... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110189690089509619 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "The A.G. case should be tried in front of the Commercial..." Truth Social, 13 Apr. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110189690089509619. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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