# Post ts_110560063274571806 - Post ID: `ts_110560063274571806` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-06-17T14:38:04.248Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110560063274571806 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110560063274571806/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110560063274571806.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > CROOKED JOE BIDEN pressed deranged Jack Smith to do this FAKE INDICTMENT on me in order to take the pressure off the fact that they caught Joe Biden stealing FIVE MILLION DOLLARS, and that’s just the beginning! ## Media - image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/560/063/225/613/764/original/eb580303adc56f24.qt ## Engagement - Likes: 33,795 - Reposts: 10,850 - Replies: 2,656 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.408Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T05:40:16.235Z (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 hours after his federal arraignment on 37 felony counts, this post is a textbook acute narcissistic injury response. The dominant dynamic is DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender): the 'FAKE INDICTMENT' denial, coordinated attack on Biden and Smith, and inversion of victim/perpetrator roles form a psychologically integrated defensive structure. Projection operates as the core defense: Trump, facing misappropriation charges, accuses Biden of 'stealing' $5 million, presenting an unverified allegation as established fact. The causal narrative (Biden pressed Smith to indict Trump to deflect from Biden's own crimes) represents distortion at the pathological defense level, reshaping institutional reality to restore internal coherence. The narcissistic state is mixed-vulnerable: Victim role is primary, with grandiose overlay (I alone expose this). No cognitive deterioration detected; post is structurally coherent and consistent with documented Trump communication baseline under acute threat. Danger is elevated: the 'deranged Jack Smith' labeling of a specific law enforcement officer, to an activated audience on arraignment day, follows the documented stochastic terrorism pattern of target identification plus grievance articulation without explicit call to action. # Psychological Analysis: ts_110560063274571806 **Platform:** Truth Social | **Date:** 2023-06-17 14:38 UTC (10:38 AM EDT) | **Age:** 77 --- ## Context This post was published within hours of Trump's federal arraignment in Miami on 37 felony counts — the first federal criminal indictment of a former U.S. president. It is one of several posts from the same day, collectively representing his post-arraignment communication strategy. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Confidence: High (authentic Trump, score: 0.87)** The 10:38 AM EDT timestamp falls in business hours, which weakly suggests aide involvement. However, the post's stylistic fingerprint is overwhelmingly authentic: ALL CAPS emotional intensifiers (*FAKE INDICTMENT*, *FIVE MILLION DOLLARS*, *CROOKED JOE BIDEN*), contemptuous nickname deployment, stream-of-consciousness causal chain, and abrupt escalatory close ("that's just the beginning!"). The extraordinary emotional context of arraignment day \\u2014 documented as a period of personal authorship \\u2014 overrides the business-hours indicator. The .qt video attachment is consistent with sharing campaign-style media prepared for the day. --- ## Psychological State & Trigger **Trigger: Acute Narcissistic Injury (Exposure)** The federal arraignment constitutes perhaps the most severe narcissistic injury of Trump's post-presidential life: public formalization of criminal defendant status, physical surrender to legal process, and documented exposure of conduct he considers a matter of entitlement. The post is the predictable defensive eruption. **Narcissistic State: Mixed (Vulnerable + Grandiose oscillation)** The primary state is *vulnerable*: persecuted, unjustly targeted, victim of coordinated conspiracy. The grandiose overlay manifests in the self-appointed role of sole perceiver and revealer of the *real* crime ("they caught Joe Biden"). This oscillation \\u2014 "I am being destroyed" / "I alone see the truth" \\u2014 is the classic mixed narcissistic presentation under acute threat. --- ## Defense Mechanisms (Vaillant hierarchy) **1. Denial (Pathological, Level 1)** Labeling a procedurally valid federal grand jury indictment "FAKE" represents a refusal to accept external legal reality. This is not rhetorical hyperbole alone \\u2014 the post functions as if the indictment simply does not have legitimate existence. **2. Projection (Immature, Level 2)** Trump, facing charges of misappropriating government property (classified documents), accuses Biden of "stealing FIVE MILLION DOLLARS." The content of the projection \\u2014 financial theft by a powerful figure who believes rules don't apply to him \\u2014 closely mirrors the psychological valence of the actual charges. **3. Splitting (Immature, Level 2)** The post operates in rigid binaries: Trump (innocent victim) vs. Biden (criminal thief) vs. Smith (deranged instrument). No complexity, gradation, or ambiguity is permitted. **4. Distortion (Pathological, Level 1)** The causal narrative \\u2014 Biden pressed Smith to indict Trump to deflect from Biden's own crimes \\u2014 grossly reshapes institutional and evidentiary reality. It requires rejecting the independence of the Special Counsel, the grand jury process, and the evidentiary record. **5. Rationalization (Neurotic, Level 3)** The political-persecution frame provides a logically structured (if factually hollow) explanation for the charges that preserves the grandiose self-concept. --- ## DARVO Structure The post is a near-perfect DARVO sequence: - **Deny:** "FAKE INDICTMENT" - **Attack:** Biden is "CROOKED"; Smith is "deranged" - **Reverse Victim and Offender:** Biden is the real criminal; Trump is the persecuted party This is not merely rhetorical strategy but a psychologically functional defensive maneuver that restores internal coherence under the most severe threat. --- ## Rhetorical Techniques - **Whataboutism** (structural backbone): Biden's alleged crimes delegitimize Trump's actual charges - **False specificity as credibility anchor**: "$5 million" implies documented fact from an unverified informant form - **Contemptuous labeling as person-erasure**: "deranged," "CROOKED" strip targets of legitimate standing - **Epistemic closure demand**: audience must adopt logically incompatible evidentiary standards (any charge against Trump = political fabrication; any allegation against Biden = proven fact) - **Escalatory close**: "just the beginning!" prevents audience reflective closure and sustains mobilization energy --- ## Narrative Identity (McAdams) - **Protagonist role:** Persecuted Warrior-Revealer \\u2014 simultaneously victim of conspiracy and sole exposer of it - **Narrative sequence:** Contamination (arraignment as betrayal-by-corrupt-system) with attempted redemption inversion (Biden will be exposed, "just the beginning") - **Contrasting other:** Biden as the genuine criminal whose hidden guilt is the *real* story - **Identity claims:** "I am the target precisely because I am the threat to those who are truly corrupt" --- ## Danger Assessment: **ELEVATED** The labeling of Special Counsel Jack Smith as "deranged" constitutes target identification with psychiatric delegitimization to an audience that was physically mobilized outside the Miami courthouse the same day. The pattern \\u2014 named target + "deranged" characterization + articulated grievance (he was pressed to fabricate charges) + no explicit call to action \\u2014 matches the documented stochastic terrorism structure. It does not rise to *high* because it lacks direct incitement language, but it is elevated within an established pattern of similar rhetoric preceding third-party violence. --- ## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion Multiple simultaneous reality distortions are operating: 1. Federal grand jury indictment labeled "FAKE" 2. Special Counsel independence denied without evidence 3. Unverified informant allegation presented as "caught" \\u2014 established fact 4. Entire institutional legal process reframed as political weapon The cumulative effect demands followers reject procedurally documented reality as a condition of group membership \\u2014 the defining feature of epistemic closure. --- ## Cognitive Status No deterioration indicators detected. The post is emotionally activated but structurally directed and coherent within its own (distorted) logical frame. Complexity is low-moderate, consistent with Trump's documented reactive-post baseline. The absence of cognitive disintegration under maximum stress is itself a data point: defensive structure is intact and functional. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Biden pressed Jack Smith to do this indictment" | **False** | The Special Counsel operates with statutory independence insulated from White House direction. No evidence of Biden directing Smith's prosecutorial decisions. The indictment followed a grand jury process with independently presented evidence. | | "This is a FAKE INDICTMENT" | **False** | A federal grand jury issued the indictment on 37 counts following legally proper evidence presentation. The indictment was procedurally valid regardless of its ultimate legal merits. | | "They caught Joe Biden stealing FIVE MILLION DOLLARS" | **Mostly False** | This references an unverified FBI informant form (FD-1023) containing unsubstantiated claims from a foreign national about alleged payments to Biden. The informant's claims were contested and unverified. 'Caught' implies proven fact; no such proof existed at this date or subsequently. | Overall Veracity: 7% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 87%) ### Indicators - ALL CAPS emotional emphasis on key phrases (FAKE INDICTMENT, FIVE MILLION DOLLARS, CROOKED JOE BIDEN) - Established nickname deployment (CROOKED JOE BIDEN, deranged Jack Smith) - Stream-of-consciousness causal chain construction - Abrupt escalatory close ('that's just the beginning!') - Emotional reactivity precisely matched to trigger (arraignment day) ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Federal arraignment on 37 felony counts; formal criminal defendant status) **Rage:** Intensity 85% targeting Jack Smith and Joe Biden - Proportionality: 15% Sentiment: -0.91 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Elevated, pressured rhetorical quality - Grandiosity under extreme stress rather than collapse - Combative energy mobilized within hours of arraignment - Escalatory rather than deflated response to severe legal jeopardy ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 88% - Antisocial: 62% - Paranoid: 82% - Sadism: 28% **Defense Mechanisms:** - denial (pathological) - projection (immature) - splitting (immature) - distortion (pathological) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 28% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Direct address to audience as fellow perceivers of hidden truth - Escalation framing ('just the beginning') to maintain forward momentum and prevent audience reflection - Specificity of dollar amount ($5M) to create false credibility anchor - Shared persecution narrative binding audience to speaker ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - Target identification with psychiatric delegitimization: 'deranged Jack Smith' labels a specific law enforcement officer as mentally unstable to a large, activated audience - Grievance articulation: clearly frames political persecution by named individuals (Smith, Biden) - Activated audience context: Trump supporters had gathered outside Miami courthouse same day — post feeds active crowd psychology - Pattern match to documented stochastic terrorism structure: target + grievance + implied injustice without explicit call to action - Historical precedent: similar rhetoric preceded January 6 and Whitmer kidnapping plot — the pattern is documented as precursor to third-party violence ### Gaslighting - Denial of documented legal reality: federal grand jury indictment labeled 'FAKE' - Complete institutional delegitimization: DOJ/courts reframed as political weapons - DARVO structure: real defendant cast as persecuted victim; alleged accuser (Biden) cast as actual criminal - Epistemic closure demand: followers must adopt logically incompatible evidentiary standards (any charge against Trump = political; any allegation against Biden = proven fact) - Attacks on institutional perception: 'FAKE INDICTMENT' requires rejection of procedurally valid federal legal process ## Fact Checks (3) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Biden pressed Jack Smith to do this indictment **FALSE** The Special Counsel operates with statutory independence insulated from White House direction. No evidence of Biden directing Smith's prosecutorial decisions. The indictment followed a grand jury process with independently presented evidence. Sources: Special Counsel regulations 28 CFR § 600; DOJ independence protocols > This is a FAKE INDICTMENT **FALSE** A federal grand jury issued the indictment on 37 counts following legally proper evidence presentation. The indictment was procedurally valid regardless of its ultimate legal merits. Sources: Federal court records, U.S. v. Trump, No. 9:23-cr-80101 > They caught Joe Biden stealing FIVE MILLION DOLLARS **MOSTLY FALSE** This references an unverified FBI informant form (FD-1023) containing unsubstantiated claims from a foreign national about alleged payments to Biden. The informant's claims were contested and unverified. 'Caught' implies proven fact; no such proof existed at this date or subsequently. Sources: House Oversight Committee FD-1023 disclosure proceedings (2023); DOJ response to congressional subpoenas Overall Veracity: 7% ## Tags - narcissistic_injury_response (97%) - DARVO (95%) - projection (92%) - pathological_denial (90%) - whataboutism (93%) - target_labeling (78%) - epistemic_closure (88%) - arraignment_response (99%) - authentic_authorship (87%) - fact_distortion (91%) ## 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). CROOKED JOE BIDEN pressed deranged Jack Smith to... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110560063274571806 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "CROOKED JOE BIDEN pressed deranged Jack Smith to do this..." Truth Social, 17 Jun. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110560063274571806. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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