# Post ts_110559859771264530 - Post ID: `ts_110559859771264530` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-06-17T13:46:19.028Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110559859771264530 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110559859771264530/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: 8,884 - Reposts: 2,536 - Replies: 248 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.408Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T05:37:40.193Z (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 bare-URL post, likely aide-curated at 9:46 AM EDT (business hours, Bedminster), is psychologically significant as a component of a same-day counter-narrative strategy following Trump's federal arraignment on 37 felony counts. By sharing a PJ Media article alleging DOJ "illegal wiretaps" and "misconduct," the post deploys projection at a systemic level: reflecting the structure of criminal allegations (illegal acts, abuse of power) back onto prosecutors. The rhetorical mechanism is sophisticated — inflammatory frames ("Hit Squad," "Illegal Wiretaps") are transmitted through curation, not personal assertion, preserving deniability. The same day's posting pattern shows narcissistic state oscillation between acute grandiosity (escalator anniversary triumphalism) and persecuted vulnerability (DOJ persecution framing), consistent with processing of maximal narcissistic injury. Four same-day PJ Media shares constitute a RAND Firehose micro-campaign, creating false impression of independent corroboration. Danger is elevated (not critical) in context: "Hit Squad" language frames federal agents as criminal actors before a large armed civilian audience, contributing to ambient threat environment for law enforcement. # Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2023-06-17T13:46:19Z (ts_110559859771264530) ## Overview This post consists entirely of a URL to a PJ Media article alleging illegal wiretapping and prosecutorial misconduct by DOJ attorneys previously involved in cases against Trump figures. There is no original text. The post's significance is contextual rather than intrinsic: it appears within four days of Trump's historic federal arraignment on 37 felony counts, and forms part of a same-day cluster of at least four PJ Media article shares building a counter-narrative around DOJ criminality. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Assessment: Very likely aide-written (Scavino or equivalent) | Confidence: High** UTC 13:46:19 converts to **9:46 AM EDT** at Bedminster, NJ — solidly within business hours. The post contains zero original text, no emotional markers, no typos, and no ALL CAPS passages. Critically, a post appearing adjacent in the same day's feed — *"Smith is a sick and deranged sleazebag"* — carries unmistakable Trump voice markers (name-calling, single declarative sentence, raw emotional charge). The contrast confirms Trump was posting personally that day; this bare URL is staff execution of a media amplification strategy. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) This post provides insufficient original text to assess trait expression directly. The curation choice, however, reflects: - **Low Agreeableness** (antagonism facet): article selection frames federal prosecutors as a criminal "hit squad" - **High Neuroticism** (angry hostility facet): even in silence, the content choice signals adversarial orientation toward legal institutions - **Low Conscientiousness** (deliberation, per authenticity analysis): likely not Trump's own deliberation but staff action --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Dominant motive: Agency/Power (defensive variant)** The post does not seek admiration (supply-seeking) nor express grandiosity. Its motivational structure is defensive — protecting the self-concept from the profound narcissistic injury of federal indictment by constructing a counter-reality in which the prosecutors are the actual criminals. **Schema activated:** *Persecution schema* — the world is populated by enemies using institutional power illegitimately. Legal processes are inherently weaponized. The "real" criminal actors wear government badges. This schema is not new (it predates the indictment by years) but the arraignment has activated it at maximum intensity. --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** Martyred target of corrupt state apparatus **Narrative sequence:** Contamination → potential Redemption The contamination arc: a great president (per the adjacent escalator anniversary post celebrating his achievements) has been subjected to criminal persecution by the very institutions meant to protect justice. The article share advances a redemption-via-exposure subplot: *if the prosecutors themselves are criminals, the charges collapse and the hero is vindicated.* **Contrasting other:** DOJ as "Hit Squad" — not merely wrong but actively criminal, organized, and conspiratorial. **Identity claim (implicit):** *I am the victim of the same illegal tactics they've used before. This is a pattern, not a prosecution.* --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators ### Narcissistic Dynamics - **Trigger:** Narcissistic injury — federal arraignment (June 13) = maximum public exposure, legal accountability, and status threat. The most significant narcissistic wound of the subject's life to this point. - **Narcissistic state:** Vulnerable (persecuted, wounded). Contrast with the same-day escalator anniversary post expressing grandiose state — the rapid oscillation between grandiose (EIGHT YEAR ANNIVERSARY, "INCREDIBLE JOURNEY," "TREMENDOUS SUCCESS") and vulnerable (DOJ hit squad, illegal wiretaps, misconduct) on the same day is diagnostically notable. - **Rage:** Absent in this specific post (expressed in adjacent posts). This post is the quieter, more calculated dimension of the response. ### Defense Mechanisms 1. **Projection (Immature):** The structural logic of DOJ misconduct allegations mirrors the structure of charges Trump faces — abuse of power, illegal acts, targeting political opponents. Reflecting those accusations back onto prosecutors is projection operating at a systemic level. 2. **Distortion (Pathological):** Framing a constitutionally-grounded prosecution by career federal prosecutors as a "Legal Hit Squad" engaged in "Illegal Wiretaps" grossly reshapes external reality to meet inner needs. 3. **Rationalization (Neurotic):** Building a logical-seeming case (DOJ has documented prior misconduct → therefore this prosecution is also misconduct → therefore the charges are illegitimate) that allows rejection of accountability without engaging factual substance. --- ## Cognitive Status **Assessment: Insufficient data from this post alone.** This post is a bare URL. No language production markers are assessable. The aide-attribution further means this cannot contribute to cognitive baseline tracking. No cognitive flags applicable. --- ## Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques **Key technique: Metalepsis via headline** The most sophisticated aspect of this post is what it *doesn't* say. The article headline contains the inflammatory language: "DOJ's Trump Legal Hit Squad," "Illegal Wiretaps," "Misconduct." The poster never personally asserts these claims, yet the frame is fully transmitted. This provides rhetorical power with legal deniability. **Volume strategy (RAND Firehose model):** This post is the fourth in a same-day series of PJ Media article shares. Four articles from one outlet, published June 14-16, shared in rapid succession on June 17, creates an *impression of independent corroboration* where none exists — all articles are from the same reporter, same outlet, same ideological frame. **Source credibility laundering:** PJ Media is branded as if it were neutral investigative journalism. The article's sourcing — a single unnamed previous DOJ target making allegations — is not visible to most readers who see the headline alone. --- ## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion - **Attacks on institutional perception:** Framing DOJ as "Hit Squad" positions all prosecutorial action as presumptively criminal - **Reality inversion:** The prosecuted becomes the victim; prosecutors become perpetrators - **Epistemic closure mechanism:** Followers who accept this frame lose the capacity to evaluate charges on their legal merits — any prosecution becomes evidence of persecution --- ## Danger Assessment **Level: Elevated (contextually)** In isolation, this post is low-danger — a bare URL. In context: - Part of sustained effort to delegitimize law enforcement institutions following criminal indictment - "Hit Squad" language frames federal agents as violent criminal actors — language that has historically preceded threats against federal law enforcement figures - The day's posting pattern, taken as a whole, constitutes an organized campaign to establish DOJ as an illegitimate criminal enterprise targeting political opponents — a frame that, when accepted by a large armed civilian base, creates elevated ambient threat to law enforcement personnel **Stochastic terrorism assessment:** This specific post falls below the threshold. The broader day-of pattern warrants monitoring. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "DOJ prosecutors engaged in illegal wiretapping targeting Trump-adjacent figures" | **Unverifiable** | Article sources single unnamed individual's allegations with no independent corroboration cited. Allegation may reference real disputed conduct but 'illegal' characterization is contested. | | "There is a 'Trump Legal Hit Squad' within DOJ" | **Mostly False** | Standard prosecutorial assignment; 'hit squad' is rhetorical framing without evidentiary basis. Jack Smith was appointed as Special Counsel through normal DOJ procedure. | Overall Veracity: 35% ## Archetypal Analysis **Active archetype: Martyr/Victim** (subordinate to Hero/Savior arc overall) This post activates the Martyr archetype — the righteous leader subjected to criminal persecution by corrupt institutional power. The archetypal resonance for followers: *the great king is being persecuted by the corrupt court.* This is a powerful mobilizing frame because it simultaneously elevates the subject (worthy of persecution) and recruits followers into a rescue narrative. **Shadow projection:** The "criminal abuse of power" that is Trump's legal exposure is fully projected onto DOJ. The Shadow (illegality, corruption, abuse of power) is disowned and attributed entirely to the opposing institution. --- ## Summary *This post is clinically significant primarily as a data point in a same-day pattern, not for its intrinsic content.* A bare URL shared at business hours by an aide, it forms one element of a coordinated counter-narrative strategy deployed in the immediate aftermath of Trump's historic federal arraignment. Psychologically, the post's function is projection and distortion: reflecting the structure of criminal allegations (illegal acts, abuse of power, targeting political opponents) back onto federal prosecutors. The same day shows marked narcissistic state oscillation between grandiosity (escalator anniversary triumphalism) and vulnerability (persecution framing), consistent with acute narcissistic injury processing following the most significant legal exposure of the subject's life. The rhetorical sophistication — transmitting inflammatory frames through curation rather than assertion — suggests staff execution rather than authentic expression. Danger remains at elevated (not critical) level for this specific post, though the broader day-of pattern of institutional delegitimization warrants longitudinal monitoring against subsequent developments in the legal proceedings. ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 15%) ### Indicators - Posted at 9:46 AM EDT (Bedminster, NJ) — solidly within business hours - Zero original text; bare URL only - No emotional markers, typos, or ALL CAPS - Systematic pattern: four PJ Media article shares in rapid succession suggest aide-curated content queue - Contrast with adjacent authentic post ('Smith is a sick and deranged sleazebag') which has clear Trump voice markers ## Psychological Profile ### State **Vulnerable State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Federal arraignment on 37 felony counts (June 13, 2023)) Sentiment: -0.55 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 30% - Antisocial: 20% - Paranoid: 55% - Sadism: 5% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - distortion (pathological) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Curating third-party validation to avoid direct assertion — letting headline language ('Hit Squad', 'Illegal Wiretaps') do the rhetorical work with plausible deniability - Volume-based reality flooding: multiple article shares in succession to create impression of overwhelming evidence ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - 'Hit Squad' framing characterizes federal law enforcement as organized criminal actors — language with documented correlation to threats against federal agents - Part of same-day pattern systematically delegitimizing DOJ as an institution following historic indictment - Volume-based counter-narrative (four article shares) aimed at establishing prosecutorial criminality in followers' minds — a frame that historically precedes threats to named individuals ### Gaslighting - Institutional reality inversion: prosecutors recast as perpetrators of illegal acts - Epistemic closure: if DOJ is a criminal 'hit squad,' no prosecution can be evaluated on its legal merits - Source laundering: allegations by a single unnamed individual presented through headline framing as established misconduct ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > DOJ prosecutors engaged in illegal wiretapping targeting Trump-adjacent figures **UNVERIFIABLE** Article sources single unnamed individual's allegations with no independent corroboration cited. Allegation may reference real disputed conduct but 'illegal' characterization is contested. Sources: PJ Media article by Catherine Salgado, June 16, 2023 > There is a 'Trump Legal Hit Squad' within DOJ **MOSTLY FALSE** Standard prosecutorial assignment; 'hit squad' is rhetorical framing without evidentiary basis. Jack Smith was appointed as Special Counsel through normal DOJ procedure. Overall Veracity: 35% ## Tags - projection (90%) - institutional_delegitimization (85%) - post-arraignment_response (95%) - aide_authored (85%) - firehose_pattern (75%) - persecution_schema (80%) - martyrdom_archetype (70%) - reality_inversion (80%) ## 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_110559859771264530 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/catherinesalgado/2023/..." Truth Social, 17 Jun. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110559859771264530. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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