# Post ts_110559859307181340 - Post ID: `ts_110559859307181340` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-06-17T13:46:11.992Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110559859307181340 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110559859307181340/analysis ## Post text > https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/catherinesalgado/2023/06/16/exclusive-previous-target-of-dojs-trump-legal-hit-squad-details-illegal-wiretaps-misconduct-n1703933 ## Engagement - Likes: 7,209 - Reposts: 1,692 - Replies: 99 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.408Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T05:38:01.498Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Posted four days after Trump's historic arraignment on 37 federal felony counts, this bare URL share amplifies a PJ Media article alleging illegal DOJ wiretaps and prosecutorial misconduct — the third such article shared in a single day. Posted at 9:46 AM EDT at Bedminster (business hours, no text), authorship attribution favors aide execution of a coordinated counter-narrative campaign rather than authentic spontaneous Trump posting. The content serves the DARVO pattern operating across Trump's post-arraignment communications: Deny (share misconduct allegations), Attack (prosecutors as criminal "hit squad"), Reverse Victim and Offender (the indicted subject as the real victim of illegal government conduct). The "illegal wiretaps" claim recycles the discredited 2017 Trump Tower wiretapping allegation, demonstrating stable paranoid schema reactivation under legal threat. The dehumanizing "hit squad" framing — endorsed through amplification without distancing commentary — contributes to prosecutor threat conditions and warrants elevated danger assessment. Psychologically, the post reflects acute post-indictment narcissistic injury response: grandiose victimhood, paranoid features at high intensity, and systematic legitimacy destruction of the prosecutorial apparatus. Combined with companion same-day posts ranging from raw invective to institutional attacks, the pattern suggests a deliberate multi-register information operation aimed at establishing DOJ corruption as the dominant interpretive frame before legal proceedings advance. Clinical significance is moderate for this post in isolation; high in longitudinal context. # Psychological Analysis: ts_110559859307181340 ## Overview This post consists solely of a URL to a PJ Media article alleging illegal DOJ wiretaps and prosecutorial misconduct — the third in a same-day series of articles attacking Special Counsel Jack Smith and the DOJ apparatus pursuing Trump's classified documents case. Posted four days after his federal arraignment on 37 felony counts, the post is best understood as a component of a coordinated post-arraignment counter-narrative campaign rather than as a standalone communication. --- ## Authorship Attribution (Confidence: Medium) **Likely aide-written (score: 0.25/1.0).** Trump was at Bedminster, NJ on June 17, 2023 (he had delivered his post-arraignment defiant speech there on June 13 and remained). Local time at posting: **9:46 AM EDT** — solidly within Scavino/aide business hours. The complete absence of editorial commentary is the primary indicator: authentic Trump posts almost universally include emotional framing, ALL CAPS passages, or explicit evaluation ("WITCH HUNT!", "Sleazebag!"). The companion post from the same day — *"Smith is a sick and deranged sleazebag"* with a near-identical PJ Media URL — suggests the bare URL posts may be the aide's clean amplification while Trump provides the raw emotional caption in a separate post. The mechanical three-article PJ Media campaign across one day is consistent with a curated information operation. --- ## Multi-Level Personality Analysis ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits With no text, direct trait expression is minimal. The act of sharing, however, reveals: - **Neuroticism (angry hostility)**: The content selection betrays preoccupation with prosecutorial persecution — even when silent, the subject's attention is directed at threat and grievance. - **Low Agreeableness**: Implicitly endorses "hit squad" dehumanization of federal prosecutors. - **Low Conscientiousness** (if authentic): Sharing inflammatory, factually contested content without verification reflects impulsive information hygiene. ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motives dominate.** Post-indictment, the central motivational goal is control-restoration — specifically, reframing the legal threat as an illegitimate power play rather than a valid legal proceeding. Sharing DOJ misconduct allegations serves multiple agency functions simultaneously: 1. **Power**: Undermines the authority of the prosecutorial apparatus. 2. **Status**: Positions self as target of conspiracy rather than defendant in a legal proceeding. 3. **Autonomy**: Signals defiance — the rules being applied do not apply legitimately. **Schema revealed**: The legal system is not a neutral arbiter but a weaponized instrument of political opponents. This is a stable schema evident since at least 2016; the indictment has activated it to full intensity. ### Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role**: The persecuted innocent / martyr-warrior. By amplifying "illegal wiretaps" allegations, the subject constructs a narrative in which he is the *real* victim of criminal conduct — inverting the legal reality of the indictment. **Contamination sequence**: The clear underlying narrative arc is: *successful presidency → betrayal by corrupt deep state → persecution through weaponized law → [implied: redemption through political victory]*. This post serves the contamination → resistance phase of that arc. **Contrasting other**: DOJ / Jack Smith / "the Communist Misfits" (per companion post). The subject defines himself against a corrupt, lawless government apparatus — the Warrior archetype fighting a tyrannical order. **Redemption frame**: The implicit promise to followers is that exposure of DOJ misconduct will vindicate the subject and invert the contamination sequence. ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Malignant Narcissism Assessment:** | Component | Rating | Evidence | |---|---|---| | Narcissistic features | 0.85 | Grandiose victimhood; reality-distorting self-framing | | Antisocial features | 0.60 | Disregard for legal authority; delegitimization of courts | | Paranoid features | 0.80 | "Hit squad," illegal wiretaps — systematic persecution belief | | Ego-syntonic sadism | 0.20 | Minimal in this post; companion "sleazebag" post higher | The paranoid features are most salient here. The "illegal wiretaps" claim echoes the 2017 claim that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower — a claim that was investigated and found without basis. Its reactivation in the current legal context reflects a stable paranoid schema: surveillance and illegal government penetration as recurring persecution narrative. --- ## Defense Mechanisms **Projection (Immature)**: The subject is accused of unlawful handling of classified documents. The response amplifies accusations that prosecutors themselves engaged in illegal conduct (wiretaps). Classic projection: the unlawfulness attributed to self is redistributed to persecutors. **Denial (Pathological)**: "Hit squad" framing wholesale rejects prosecutorial legitimacy. The federal legal process is not an institution with authority but a criminal operation — denial at institutional scale. **Rationalization (Neurotic)**: PJ Media articles function as pseudo-evidence constructing a logical framework for the denial: *"I'm not a defendant; I'm a victim of a criminal conspiracy."* --- ## DARVO Pattern The post exemplifies DARVO at institutional scale: - **Deny**: No acknowledgment of charges' substance. - **Attack**: DOJ framed as criminal "hit squad." - **Reverse Victim and Offender**: The indicted subject is the true victim of illegal government conduct. This is consistent with the companion post's Hugh Hewitt endorsement ("Election Interference by the Communist Misfits and Thugs") — the legal threat is reframed as the actual crime, and the subject as the actual victim. --- ## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion The "illegal wiretaps" allegation serves a gaslighting function at the audience level: followers who accept this frame perceive the prosecution as itself criminal, making jury conviction morally equivalent to complicity in a coup. This epistemic closure dynamic is a loyalty test — accepting the persecution narrative becomes a marker of in-group membership. The recycled wiretap claim (from 2017) demonstrates the subject's (or his team's) willingness to revive discredited allegations when they serve the current narrative need. --- ## Archetypal Analysis **Primary archetype: Warrior-Victim hybrid.** The "hit squad" framing positions DOJ as a combat adversary. Trump is simultaneously the Warrior (defiant, fighting back through information warfare) and the Victim/Martyr (targeted by illegal government violence). This dual archetype is psychologically potent for supporters: it justifies both sympathy and militant support. **Shadow projection**: The "illegal conduct" attributed to DOJ prosecutors mirrors the allegations against the subject himself. What is disowned (unlawful behavior) is projected wholesale onto enemies. **Mythological narrative**: The Deep State as corrupt tyrannical order; Trump as the heroic individual challenging institutional corruption. The Trickster element: using the information environment to undermine the legal system's ability to function. --- ## Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques **Delegation of inflammatory language**: By sharing without comment, the subject adopts "hit squad" and "illegal wiretaps" framing while maintaining deniability. The article's language does the rhetorical work. **Firehose of Falsehood (partial)**: Three PJ Media articles in one day — volume saturation intended to establish DOJ-corruption as the dominant frame before the legal process advances. **Legitimacy destruction**: Systematic decredentialing of the prosecutorial apparatus. If DOJ is a criminal "hit squad" that uses illegal wiretaps, no prosecution it brings can be legitimate — a jury nullification seed. **Dehumanization**: "Hit squad" militarizes DOJ prosecutors — not officers of the court but paramilitary actors. This framing, while not the subject's own words here, is endorsed through amplification. --- ## Danger Assessment **Elevated.** The "hit squad" framing applied to named/identifiable federal prosecutors represents a stochastic terrorism concern: target identification (Jack Smith, DOJ "legal hit squad") + articulation of grievance (illegal wiretaps, criminal misconduct) + implied moral license (if they're criminals, resistance is justified). This is not a direct incitement but part of a sustained pattern of prosecutor dehumanization that creates ambient threat conditions. Prosecutors in the Trump cases have reported receiving death threats; the "hit squad" narrative contributes to that environment. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "DOJ engaged in illegal wiretaps against Trump/his associates in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents investigation" | **Unverifiable** | No verified public evidence supports this claim. The article cites an unnamed 'previous target' of DOJ. The claim echoes the 2017 Trump Tower wiretapping allegation, which the House Intelligence Committee investigated and found without basis. No congressional or IG finding has confirmed illegal wiretapping in the documents case. | | "DOJ prosecutors engaged in prior misconduct in the Trump documents case" | **Unverifiable** | The PJ Media article references a previous DOJ target alleging misconduct. Without independent verification of the underlying claims, this cannot be assessed. The framing as 'exclusive' in partisan media without corroboration from neutral outlets is a reliability concern. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Longitudinal Context This post is part of a dense post-arraignment cluster (June 13–17). The same-day posts show a multi-register response strategy: 1. **Celebration/nostalgia** (escalator anniversary) — supply-seeking, mood management 2. **Direct personal attack** ("sleazebag") — raw narcissistic rage 3. **Institutional delegitimization** (multiple PJ Media links) — systematic counter-narrative 4. **Elite validation** (Hugh Hewitt endorsement) — social proof The bare URL posts appear to be the "clean amplification" layer of this campaign — content that looks like journalism rather than invective, providing the campaign's factual scaffolding. The "illegal wiretaps" narrative is a significant escalation of the counter-narrative: it moves from "politically motivated prosecution" (arguable) to "criminal conduct by prosecutors" (a much more dangerous claim with more potent stochastic implications). ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 25%) ### Indicators - Posted at 09:46 AM EDT (Bedminster, NJ) — business hours, aide-consistent window - No accompanying text — purely a URL share, atypical of authentic Trump posts which almost always add commentary - Mechanical sharing pattern: third PJ Media URL shared that day, suggesting a curated information campaign rather than spontaneous emotional posting - Clean, error-free format (trivially so, since there is no text) ## Psychological Profile ### State **Vulnerable State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Federal arraignment on 37 felony counts (June 13, 2023)) **Rage:** Intensity 45% targeting DOJ / Special Counsel Jack Smith - Proportionality: 20% Sentiment: -0.65 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 85% - Antisocial: 60% - Paranoid: 80% - Sadism: 20% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - denial (pathological) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 10% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Implicit identity of interest — followers are told the same 'hit squad' could target them - Legitimacy destruction — if DOJ broke the law against Trump, all federal law enforcement is suspect - Grievance amplification via third-party sourcing, maintaining plausible deniability for the most inflammatory framing ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** **Stochastic Terrorism Pattern Detected** ### Indicators - 'Hit squad' militarizes identifiable federal prosecutors — target dehumanization - Amplifies 'illegal conduct' frame providing moral license for anti-prosecutor action - Part of sustained pattern of prosecutor delegitimization linked to documented death threats against Trump case prosecutors - Three-article same-day campaign creates saturation effect normalizing prosecutorial criminalization narrative ### Gaslighting - Recycling discredited 2017 wiretap claim as current 'evidence' - Reframing legal proceedings as themselves criminal — epistemic inversion - Amplifying unverified 'previous target' claims as factual foundation for dismissing indictment - Loyalty test dynamic: accepting DOJ-as-criminal-hit-squad as in-group marker **Violent Imagery Present** ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > DOJ engaged in illegal wiretaps against Trump/his associates in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents investigation **UNVERIFIABLE** No verified public evidence supports this claim. The article cites an unnamed 'previous target' of DOJ. The claim echoes the 2017 Trump Tower wiretapping allegation, which the House Intelligence Committee investigated and found without basis. No congressional or IG finding has confirmed illegal wiretapping in the documents case. Sources: House Intelligence Committee 2017 findings on Trump Tower wiretap claim; DOJ Inspector General investigations > DOJ prosecutors engaged in prior misconduct in the Trump documents case **UNVERIFIABLE** The PJ Media article references a previous DOJ target alleging misconduct. Without independent verification of the underlying claims, this cannot be assessed. The framing as 'exclusive' in partisan media without corroboration from neutral outlets is a reliability concern. Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - post-arraignment-response (90%) - doj-delegitimization (90%) - darvo (85%) - paranoid-features (80%) - aide-authored (70%) - information-warfare-campaign (85%) - wiretap-narrative-recycled (75%) - stochastic-terrorism-concern (70%) - pjmedia-amplification (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **"Long Live the King": Royal Self-Coronation and Prosecutorial Rage Four Days After Historic Federal Arraignment** Four days after becoming the first former president charged with federal crimes, Trump spent the morning flooding his feed with a coordinated counter-narrative — attacking Jack Smith, sharing conservative articles alleging DOJ misconduct, and declaring himself the only person who can save Fox News. The day's emotional arc ran from late-night grandiose mythologizing about his 2015 escalator ride, through a rapid-fire morning barrage targeting prosecutors, rivals, and disloyal Republicans, peaking with an accusation that Biden personally orchestrated the indictment. The afternoon went quiet, closing with a serene golf course promotion — a striking mood shift after hours of grievance and rage. Full digest for 2023-06-17: https://trump.fm/date/2023-06-17/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, June 17). https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/catherinesal... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110559859307181340 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/catherinesalgado/2023/..." Truth Social, 17 Jun. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110559859307181340. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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