# Post ts_110587679918218551 - Post ID: `ts_110587679918218551` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-06-22T11:41:20.869Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110587679918218551 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110587679918218551/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110587679918218551.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > CONGRESS, PLEASE INVESTIGATE THE POLITICAL WITCH HUNTS AGAINST ME CURRENTLY BEING BROUGHT BY THE CORRUPT DOJ AND FBI, WHO ARE TOTALLY OUT OF CONTROL. THIS CONTINUING SAGA IS RETRIBUTION AGAINST ME FOR WINNING AND, EVEN MORE IMPORTANTLY TO THEM, ELECTION INTERFERENCE REGARDING THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. IT WILL BE THERE UPDATED FORM OF RIGGING OUR MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION. LOOK AT THE POLLS - THEY CAN’T BEAT ME (MAGA!) AT THE BALLOT BOX, THE ONLY WAY THEY CAN WIN IS TO CHEAT. STOP THEM NOW! ## Engagement - Likes: 30,540 - Reposts: 10,064 - Replies: 2,808 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.408Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T06:00:35.826Z (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 June 22, 2023 post represents an acute narcissistic crisis response to the June 8 federal indictment on 37 counts. The ALL-CAPS formatting, early-morning EDT timing (7:41 AM), grammatical typo (THERE/THEIR), and signature lexicon confirm high-confidence authentic Trump authorship. The post exhibits a complete DARVO structure: denying legitimacy of charges, attacking investigating institutions as CORRUPT, and reversing victim/offender positions to cast a federal defendant as the persecuted party. Projection is prominent — electoral fraud attributed to opponents despite documented 2020 conduct. The narcissistic state oscillates visibly within a single paragraph between vulnerable (persecution victim) and grandiose (unbeatable at ballot box), consistent with Kohutian narcissistic rage following significant narcissistic injury. The same-day cluster of approximately five substantively identical posts constitutes a RAND Firehose saturation pattern. The Hunter Biden misdemeanor plea deal announced the same day likely amplified the narcissistic wound through perceived double standard. The post's institutional delegitimization of federal law enforcement at scale warrants an elevated danger rating, though the specific call to action (STOP THEM NOW!) is directed at Congress for oversight investigations rather than the general public for extralegal action. Cognitive status is consistent with established baseline; the their/there error reflects impulsive composition rather than decline. Epistemic closure is fully operative — all investigations are framed as inherently illegitimate by definition. ## Comprehensive Psychological Analysis **Post ID:** ts_110587679918218551 | **Date:** 2023-06-22 | **Platform:** Truth Social **Local Time:** 7:41 AM EDT (New York / Bedminster, NJ) | **Subject Age:** 77 --- ### Authorship Attribution **Verdict: Authentic Trump (High Confidence, 0.88)** Multiple converging indicators confirm direct authorship: - **ALL-CAPS throughout**: Signature high-affect Trump formatting - **Grammatical error**: "IT WILL BE THERE UPDATED FORM" — homophone confusion (their/there), consistent with Trump's documented baseline; aide-written posts would not contain this - **Timing**: 7:41 AM EDT — early-morning posting consistent with Trump's known schedule; within the authentic window - **Lexicon**: "WITCH HUNTS" (signature term), "CORRUPT," "SCAM," "ELECTION INTERFERENCE" — all high-frequency Trump vocabulary - **Stream-of-consciousness structure**: Multiple topics stitched without formal transitions - **Tribal marker**: "(MAGA!)" inserted parenthetically as rally cry --- ### Contextual Frame This post arrives 14 days after the historic June 8, 2023 federal indictment on 37 counts related to mishandling classified documents. It is one of approximately five thematically aligned same-day posts, forming a coordinated saturation cluster. The Hunter Biden misdemeanor plea deal, announced the same day, likely amplified the narcissistic wound through perceived double-standard, intensifying output. --- ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) | Trait | Score | Evidence | |-------|-------|----------| | Neuroticism | 0.92 | ALL-CAPS, urgent tone, disproportionate rage, impulsive composition | | Agreeableness | 0.10 | Zero cooperative framing; purely adversarial positioning throughout | | Extraversion | 0.75 | Assertive, audience-mobilizing, fundamentally performative | | Conscientiousness | 0.25 | Typo, impulsive unreviewed composition, no hedging | | Openness | 0.15 | Rigid interpretive schema: all investigations = corrupt by definition | **Dominant facet**: Angry hostility (neuroticism subfacet N.2) --- ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motives** dominate overwhelmingly (0.90). Power, autonomy, and status are simultaneously threatened and defended. The post reveals an entrenched schema: - Self = uniquely targeted winner, rightful leader - Authorities = corrupt agents of political enemies - World = zero-sum contest where rules apply only to opponents **Communion** appears only instrumentally — "(MAGA!)" functions as tribal identity marker rather than genuine relational expression. **Entitlement schema**: The demand that Congress investigate the DOJ reveals an expectation that governmental mechanisms should serve personal protection rather than independent oversight. --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role**: Persecuted champion — victim and invincible winner held in simultaneous, unresolved tension - **Narrative sequence**: Contamination — winning is continuously poisoned by enemies; victory → betrayal - **Identity claims**: "THEY CAN'T BEAT ME (MAGA!)" — explicit merger of personal identity with political movement - **Contrasting other**: The amorphous "THEY" (DOJ, FBI, Radical Left) — omnipresent but faceless enemies - **Redemption arc (implied)**: Congress investigates → vindication → restoration of proper order --- ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Narcissistic Dynamics** This post is a textbook narcissistic injury response to the June 8 indictment. The injury is multilayered: legal jeopardy, public humiliation, exposure of alleged misconduct. The response follows the Kohutian narcissistic rage model — intensity disproportionate to precipitating stimulus, inability to metabolize criticism, purely retaliatory framing. **Narcissistic state: Mixed (vulnerable ↔ grandiose oscillation within single paragraph)** - Vulnerable pole: "WITCH HUNTS AGAINST ME," "RETRIBUTION AGAINST ME" - Grandiose pole: "THEY CAN'T BEAT ME (MAGA!) AT THE BALLOT BOX" The oscillation within a single paragraph is diagnostically notable; the subject cannot sustain either pole for more than a sentence before being pulled to the other. **Defense Mechanisms (Vaillant hierarchy)** 1. **Denial (Pathological)**: Federal indictment treated as categorically illegitimate; no engagement with substantive legal content 2. **Distortion (Pathological)**: Legal accountability reframed wholesale as "ELECTION INTERFERENCE" — reality reshaped to meet inner need 3. **Projection (Immature)**: "THE ONLY WAY THEY CAN WIN IS TO CHEAT" — electoral manipulation attributed to opponents 4. **Splitting (Immature)**: Complete bifurcation: MAGA/Trump = righteous victims; DOJ/FBI = "TOTALLY OUT OF CONTROL" **DARVO (Deny-Attack-Reverse Victim and Offender)**: The entire post is a structural DARVO operation. **Malignant Narcissism Assessment (Kernberg)**: - Narcissistic features: 0.90 — grandiosity, entitlement, belief in unique/special status - Paranoid features: 0.75 — coordinated persecution narrative, planted evidence (same-day posts) - Antisocial features: 0.50 — contempt for legal proceedings, disregard for institutional legitimacy - Sadism: 0.20 — minimal sadistic content in this particular post --- ### Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis **Primary rhetorical devices:** 1. ALL-CAPS saturation — typographic emotional coercion 2. Labeling: "CORRUPT," "WITCH HUNTS," "SCAM," "TOTALLY OUT OF CONTROL" 3. False dichotomy: win at ballot box OR cheat — no legitimate third option 4. Appeal to polls: polling cited as evidence of persecution (non sequitur) 5. Call to mobilization: "STOP THEM NOW!" — urgency directive 6. Reality inversion: legal accountability reframed as illegal persecution **Propaganda techniques:** - RAND Firehose: ~5 same-day posts on identical themes — saturation over argumentation - Institutional delegitimization: systematic erosion of federal law enforcement credibility - Victim inversion: defendant positioned as victim of legal system - Tribal framing: us/them bifurcation reinforcing in-group solidarity No explicit dehumanizing language toward individuals. No violent imagery meeting stochastic terrorism threshold in this specific post. --- ### Gaslighting & Reality Distortion **Present**: Yes. DARVO throughout. "Witch Hunt" labeling functions as epistemic closure device — followers need not evaluate evidence if the framing is pre-installed. "CORRUPT DOJ AND FBI" asserted as foundational premise without evidence. Reality distortions: 1. Criminal indictment reframed as election interference 2. DOJ/FBI characterized as institutionally corrupt 3. Electoral invincibility claimed despite documented 2020 loss 4. Legal proceedings described as coordinated multi-jurisdictional persecution **Epistemic closure**: Yes — the framing treats all investigations as inherently illegitimate by definition; no evidence could penetrate this schema. --- ### Cognitive Status Assessment No significant deviation from established baseline warranting clinical concern: - "IT WILL BE THERE UPDATED FORM" — their/there homophone error is documented in Trump's baseline typo repertoire; consistent with impulsive, unreviewed composition, not cognitive decline - Semantic coherence intact — while circular and emotionally driven, the internal logical chain (investigation = witch hunt = election interference = cheating) is consistent - No word-finding difficulty, confabulation, or temporal confusion detected - Complexity below general population baseline but consistent with Trump's high-affect register - Mild perseveration: part of ~5-post same-day cluster on identical legal themes **Baseline deviation: None** --- ### Danger Assessment **Level: Elevated** - "STOP THEM NOW!" contains mobilizing urgency with broad audience reach - Institutional delegitimization of federal law enforcement at scale (70M+ followers) - Saturation posting amplifies emotional activation - "CORRUPT DOJ AND FBI, WHO ARE TOTALLY OUT OF CONTROL" frames investigators as lawless threats Does not reach "high" threshold: call to action directed at Congress specifically for oversight; no individual targets identified; no explicit threat language; no call for extralegal action. --- ### Archetypal Analysis (Jungian Framework) **Primary archetypes**: Victim-Martyr + Warrior + King (claiming authority over Congress) **Shadow projection**: The corruption and rule-bending projected onto DOJ/FBI maps precisely onto the conduct alleged in the indictment itself. The Shadow is fully exteriorized; no integration evident. **Mythological narrative**: Righteous leader persecuted by corrupt institutional forces — deep archetypal resonance operating independently of factual content, explaining emotional power within base. **Order/Chaos positioning**: Simultaneously order attacker (delegitimizing existing institutions as corrupt) and order restorer (promising proper governance). Chaos is attributed to "them," restoration to "me." --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "THEY CAN'T BEAT ME AT THE BALLOT BOX" | **Half True** | In June 2023, Trump led Republican primary polling by substantial margins (typically 30-40 points over DeSantis). General election polling showed more competitive results with Biden. The claim is well-supported for the primary but overstated as an absolute. | | "CORRUPT DOJ AND FBI, WHO ARE TOTALLY OUT OF CONTROL" | **Unverifiable** | Institutional corruption characterization without specific evidence provided. Durham Report (May 2023) did document procedural failures in Crossfire Hurricane, but did not establish systematic institutional corruption. The characterization as 'TOTALLY OUT OF CONTROL' is unsupported by any documented institutional review. | | "RETRIBUTION AGAINST ME FOR WINNING" | **Unverifiable** | Causal claim about prosecutorial motivation. No documentary evidence of retributive intent in federal indictment; charges were based on documented handling of classified materials. Prosecutorial motivation is inherently difficult to verify externally. | | "ELECTION INTERFERENCE REGARDING THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION" | **Mostly False** | The classified documents indictment stems from conduct (document retention after January 2021) predating formal 2024 campaign announcement. Career DOJ prosecutors, not political appointees, led the investigation. The characterization conflates timing proximity with causal intent. | Overall Veracity: 43% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 88%) ### Indicators - ALL-CAPS throughout entire post (signature high-affect Trump formatting) - Grammatical error: 'IT WILL BE THERE UPDATED FORM' (their/there homophone confusion, documented baseline typo pattern) - 7:41 AM EDT timing — early morning, consistent with Trump's known schedule - Signature lexicon: WITCH HUNTS, CORRUPT, SCAM, ELECTION INTERFERENCE - Emotional reactivity and stream-of-consciousness structure without formal transitions ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Federal indictment on 37 counts (June 8, 2023), compounded by Hunter Biden plea deal announced same day amplifying perceived double standard) **Rage:** Intensity 85% targeting DOJ, FBI, unnamed political opponents described as 'THEY' - Proportionality: 15% Sentiment: -0.82 **Moderately Hypomanic** - ALL-CAPS throughout entire post — sustained typographic hyperarousal - Multiple exclamation points signaling pressured urgency - Voluminous same-day posting (~5 posts on identical legal themes) - Urgency language throughout: CURRENTLY, STOP THEM NOW, CONTINUING SAGA - Grandiosity coexisting with persecution narrative within single paragraph ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 90% - Antisocial: 50% - Paranoid: 75% - Sadism: 20% **Defense Mechanisms:** - denial (pathological) - distortion (pathological) - projection (immature) - splitting (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 35% Cognitive Markers: - perseveration **Parasocial Techniques:** - Tribal identity merger: '(MAGA!)' fuses self with audience identity - Shared victimhood framing: persecution narrative creates in-group solidarity - Rally-cry structure mobilizes followers as agents of defense - Poll-citing validates followers' beliefs as objective reality ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - 'STOP THEM NOW!' — mobilizing urgency with broad dissemination to 70M+ followers - Institutional delegitimization of federal law enforcement framing investigators as lawless threats - Part of ~5-post same-day saturation campaign amplifying emotional activation - 'CORRUPT DOJ AND FBI, WHO ARE TOTALLY OUT OF CONTROL' — positions investigators as enemies of democracy rather than legitimate authority - Sustained delegitimization pattern contributes to ambient threat environment for federal law enforcement personnel ### Gaslighting - DARVO structure: entire post repositions defendant as victim and investigators as criminals - 'Witch Hunt' labeling functions as epistemic inoculation — followers pre-disposed to reject evidence - Criminal indictment reframed as election interference without engagement with charges - DOJ/FBI corruption asserted as foundational premise without evidence - Electoral invincibility claimed despite documented 2020 loss ('THEY CAN'T BEAT ME AT THE BALLOT BOX') ## Fact Checks (4) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > THEY CAN'T BEAT ME AT THE BALLOT BOX **HALF TRUE** In June 2023, Trump led Republican primary polling by substantial margins (typically 30-40 points over DeSantis). General election polling showed more competitive results with Biden. The claim is well-supported for the primary but overstated as an absolute. Sources: June 2023 Republican primary polling aggregates; June 2023 general election head-to-head polling > CORRUPT DOJ AND FBI, WHO ARE TOTALLY OUT OF CONTROL **UNVERIFIABLE** Institutional corruption characterization without specific evidence provided. Durham Report (May 2023) did document procedural failures in Crossfire Hurricane, but did not establish systematic institutional corruption. The characterization as 'TOTALLY OUT OF CONTROL' is unsupported by any documented institutional review. > RETRIBUTION AGAINST ME FOR WINNING **UNVERIFIABLE** Causal claim about prosecutorial motivation. No documentary evidence of retributive intent in federal indictment; charges were based on documented handling of classified materials. Prosecutorial motivation is inherently difficult to verify externally. > ELECTION INTERFERENCE REGARDING THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION **MOSTLY FALSE** The classified documents indictment stems from conduct (document retention after January 2021) predating formal 2024 campaign announcement. Career DOJ prosecutors, not political appointees, led the investigation. The characterization conflates timing proximity with causal intent. Overall Veracity: 43% ## Tags - witch_hunt_narrative (95%) - DARVO (93%) - narcissistic_injury_response (91%) - institutional_delegitimization (89%) - federal_indictment_reaction (88%) - election_interference_framing (86%) - projection (84%) - splitting (82%) - MAGA_identity_merger (79%) - mobilizing_rhetoric (77%) - RAND_firehose_saturation (75%) - epistemic_closure (73%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Post-Indictment Siege Mentality: Twenty Posts Map a Day of Legal Wound Management and Rival Destruction** Trump spent the day consumed by his federal indictment from two weeks earlier, posting a steady stream of grievances about a "two-tiered justice system" — fueled by comparison to Hunter Biden's lighter plea deal. The morning brought an intense burst of rage, including an all-caps demand that Congress investigate and "STOP" the DOJ, representing the day's emotional peak. He also mounted a coordinated attack on Ron DeSantis over COVID lockdowns, projecting his own pandemic record onto his primary rival. Notably absent from 20 posts: any mention of the Titan submersible tragedy, the biggest news story of the day, underscoring how completely his legal situation dominated his attention. Full digest for 2023-06-22: https://trump.fm/date/2023-06-22/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, June 22). CONGRESS, PLEASE INVESTIGATE THE POLITICAL WITCH... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110587679918218551 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "CONGRESS, PLEASE INVESTIGATE THE POLITICAL WITCH HUNTS..." Truth Social, 22 Jun. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110587679918218551. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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