# Post ts_110573502833046518 - Post ID: `ts_110573502833046518` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-06-19T23:35:55.629Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110573502833046518 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110573502833046518/analysis ## Post text > https://tippinsights.com/bombshell-from-2022-biden-hinted-at-using-legal-means-to-prevent-trumps-potential-return-to-power/ ## Engagement - Likes: 10,711 - Reposts: 3,362 - Replies: 405 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.408Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T05:58:47.180Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary An aide-written URL share (7:35 PM EDT, Bedminster) posting a tippinsights.com article arguing Biden privately directed AG Garland to prosecute Trump and that Biden's November 2022 democratic-process statement was a blueprint for political persecution. The post contains no original text and is part of a three-URL curation pattern on this date, consistent with Scavino-operation media amplification rather than authentic Trump. The article's central thesis is mostly false — real Biden statements are cited, but the causal inference drawn (Biden directed the prosecution) is unsupported and inverts the actual function of special counsel appointments. Psychologically, this post is part of the post-arraignment narcissistic injury response: delegating the persecution claim to a third-party source is more controlled defense work than direct assertion, projecting DOJ weaponization onto Biden via a classic immature projection mechanism. Epistemic closure is operative — sharing the article functions as an in-group loyalty signal requiring followers to accept the persecution frame as truth. Danger level is none; intensity is low for this individual post, though its aggregate function in a high-volume narrative campaign is non-trivial. ## Post Analysis: URL Share — tippinsights.com **Date:** June 19, 2023 | **Local Time:** ~7:35 PM EDT (Bedminster, NJ) | **Subject Age:** 77 | **Post ID:** ts_110573502833046518 --- ### Overview This post consists entirely of a hyperlink — no original text whatsoever. The linked article (tippinsights.com) argues that President Biden privately pressured AG Merrick Garland to prosecute Trump and that Biden's November 9, 2022 statement ("he will not take power if he does run... under legitimate efforts of our Constitution") telegraphed a deliberate political strategy to neutralize Trump through legal means. The piece frames Jack Smith's appointment nine days later as the direct result of this pressure, calling it "election interference." This post appears six days after Trump's federal arraignment (June 13, 2023) on 37 counts related to classified document retention. On this same date, other posts include an all-caps rant about "witch hunt cases" and an accusation that Biden was meeting with DOJ official Lisa Monaco to "plot and scheme against Republicans." --- ### Authorship Attribution **Assessment: Aide-written — high confidence.** Multiple convergent indicators: - **Format:** Bare URL with zero accompanying text. Authentic Trump posts almost invariably include emotional commentary, editorial framing, ALL CAPS passages, or at minimum a fragment of reaction. Even his URL reposts typically carry an annotation. - **Timing:** 7:35 PM EDT — solidly within business/evening hours at his Bedminster, NJ residence. Not the characteristic late-night or pre-dawn window of impulsive authentic posting. - **Curation pattern:** This is the third URL-only post in Trump's feed on this date (WaPo opinion piece, Newsmax clip, now this). Three consecutive URL drops without editorial text strongly suggests a staff member — likely Scavino's communications operation — running a curated media amplification campaign. - **Negative evidence:** Compare to the same-day authentic post: *"NOTHING ABOUT THE WITCH HUNT CASES BEING BROUGHT AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH LEGAL MERIT..."* — that post is emotionally saturated, all-caps, and stream-of-consciousness. This URL share has none of that signature. The selection of the article is psychologically meaningful regardless of who posted it, as it reflects the broader narrative strategy being executed by Trump and/or his communications team. --- ### Psychological Analysis Despite the absence of original text, article *selection* is a psychologically diagnostic act. The article chosen performs several functions within the subject's post-arraignment psychological landscape: **Externalized validation / narcissistic scaffolding:** Rather than asserting the "witch hunt" claim directly (with attendant legal and ridicule risk), routing the assertion through a third-party source lends false authority while maintaining deniability. This is sophisticated psychological defense work — likely staff-engineered, but consistent with the subject's core needs. **Narcissistic injury response context:** The June 13 arraignment constitutes one of the most acute narcissistic injuries of Trump's public life — formal criminal booking, fingerprinting, and public submission to judicial authority. The subject's entire Truth Social output in the six days following has been dominated by persecution framing, consistent with the oscillation from grandiose to vulnerable narcissistic state typical of severe narcissistic injury. This post is part of that defensive reconstruction effort. **Projection mechanics:** The article accuses Biden of weaponizing the legal system to eliminate a political rival — a textbook projection of a behavioral pattern extensively documented in the subject himself (weaponizing DOJ/FBI against perceived enemies, pressuring election officials, etc.). The psychological function of sharing this article is to reassign agency: *he* did not lose control of legal processes through his own conduct; *Biden* orchestrated this. **Contamination narrative:** The post reinforces the dominant narrative structure in Trump's identity construction during this period — a contamination sequence in which legitimate presidential power and national triumph are sabotaged and destroyed by enemies (Biden, DOJ, "the deep state"). Legal accountability is reframed as victimization. --- ### Rhetorical Analysis The rhetorical work is wholly delegated to the linked article: - **"Bombshell" framing:** Implies suppressed revelatory truth being surfaced, appealing to conspiratorial epistemology and suggesting the mainstream media has been hiding something decisive. - **Post hoc fallacy:** Biden's November 9, 2022 statement → Jack Smith appointment November 18 = 9-day gap → therefore causal. This is the article's central argument and its central logical flaw. - **Borrowed legitimacy:** The article cites NYT and C-SPAN, lending mainstream-source credibility to a fringe interpretive frame. The facts cited are real; the inferences drawn from them are not. - **DARVO structure:** Deny the legitimacy of the charges, Attack Biden as the true aggressor, Reverse Victim and Offender — Trump becomes the persecuted, Biden the persecutor. - **Epistemic closure maintenance:** Sharing the article requires followers to accept its framing as a condition of in-group membership. It functions less as argument than as loyalty-test signal. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Biden hinted at using legal means to prevent Trump's potential return to power / directed the prosecution against Trump" | **Mostly False** | The article correctly cites Biden's November 9, 2022 statement ('he will not take power if he does run... under legitimate efforts of our Constitution') and reported NYT frustration with Garland. However, Biden's statement most naturally references democratic/electoral processes, not legal prosecution. The causal inference — Biden statement therefore directed Jack Smith's appointment nine days later — is unsupported and ignores that special counsels are appointed precisely to insulate DOJ from political direction, the opposite of the article's claim. The 'bombshell' framing overstates both the novelty and the significance of the underlying facts. | Overall Veracity: 20% ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 12%) ### Indicators - URL-only post with zero accompanying text or editorial framing - 7:35 PM EDT timing — business/evening hours at Bedminster, NJ, not late-night authentic window - Third URL-only post in a single day, consistent with staff media curation pattern - No typos, ALL CAPS, emotional fragments, or stream-of-consciousness syntax characteristic of authentic Trump posts - Contrast with same-day authentic posts which show high emotional saturation and impulsive style ## Psychological Profile ### State **Vulnerable State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Federal arraignment June 13, 2023 — 37-count indictment, public booking, submission to judicial authority) Sentiment: -0.40 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 85% - Antisocial: 60% - Paranoid: 80% - Sadism: 30% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - denial (pathological) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - third-party validation amplification - persecution narrative reinforcement via curated external sources - epistemic loyalty test — sharing article implies followers must accept its framing ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - Article frames legitimate 37-count federal prosecution as entirely politically orchestrated, denying its evidentiary basis - DARVO pattern: prosecution recast as aggression against Trump, Biden as the true criminal actor - Same-day posts reinforce the attack on audiences' ability to trust legal institutions ('ELECTION INTERFERENCE', 'Plots and Schemes') ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Biden hinted at using legal means to prevent Trump's potential return to power / directed the prosecution against Trump **MOSTLY FALSE** The article correctly cites Biden's November 9, 2022 statement ('he will not take power if he does run... under legitimate efforts of our Constitution') and reported NYT frustration with Garland. However, Biden's statement most naturally references democratic/electoral processes, not legal prosecution. The causal inference — Biden statement therefore directed Jack Smith's appointment nine days later — is unsupported and ignores that special counsels are appointed precisely to insulate DOJ from political direction, the opposite of the article's claim. The 'bombshell' framing overstates both the novelty and the significance of the underlying facts. Sources: NYT 2022 reporting on Biden inner circle discussions about Garland; C-SPAN November 9 2022 Biden press statement; DOJ Special Counsel appointment regulations (28 CFR Part 600) Overall Veracity: 20% ## Tags - aide_written (88%) - post_arraignment_response (92%) - narcissistic_injury_defense (80%) - projection (82%) - third_party_validation (85%) - DARVO (78%) - mostly_false_framing (80%) - persecution_narrative (90%) - closure_signal (75%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Six Days After Arraignment, a Wounded Presidency Cycles Through Every Defense in the Arsenal** Trump spent the day consumed by the fallout from his federal indictment the previous week, producing 23 posts from Bedminster that toggled between combative attacks and anxious self-defense. The morning brought jabs at DeSantis and complaints about polling methodology, while the evening devolved into a rapid-fire dump of news links building a legal defense through comparison to Clinton and Bush. The most heated moment was an all-caps outburst declaring the case has nothing to do with legal merit, followed by a paranoid claim that Biden was caught plotting with a senior Justice Department official. A clear split emerged between Trump's own emotional eruptions and what appeared to be a parallel, staff-managed PR operation flooding the feed with curated articles. Full digest for 2023-06-19: https://trump.fm/date/2023-06-19/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, June 19). https://tippinsights.com/bombshell-from-2022-biden... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110573502833046518 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://tippinsights.com/bombshell-from-2022-biden-hinted-at..." 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