# Post ts_110591805291115097

- Post ID: `ts_110591805291115097`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-06-23T05:10:28.976Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110591805291115097
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110591805291115097/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110591805291115097.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> “They’ve been after Trump from the beginning—BUT…”

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (0:30), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> They've been after Trump from the beginning, but... Questions swirl around President Biden's handling of classified documents. Found in President Biden's garage. Multiple classified documents. You and the former president are both now under investigation by the Justice Department. But they didn't indict Biden. Instead, Biden's DOJ went after Trump. Anything to block him from becoming president again. Stand with President Trump against Biden's corruption. Nick America really is responsible for the content of this advertising.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/591/805/208/257/873/original/376cc6b0e7a2cd3f.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 17,962
- Reposts: 5,593
- Replies: 481
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.408Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T05:55:01.804Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

A minimalist teaser post (seven words + video) functioning as a concentrated persecution-narrative delivery mechanism. Authentic Trump authorship is strongly indicated by late-night timing (01:10 AM EDT), third-person self-reference, and affective punctuation style. The post captures the vulnerable narcissistic pole: Trump is framed as a historically persecuted figure ("from the beginning"), with the vague pronoun "They" serving as a projective container for any follower's preferred enemy. The "BUT…" cliffhanger is rhetorically sophisticated — it suspends the audience between contamination and redemption sequences, compelling video consumption to resolve the psychological tension. Dominant defense mechanisms are projection (all adversarial agency externalized), splitting (pure innocent vs. coordinated hunters), and denial (persecution framing retroactively rejects any legitimate basis for legal proceedings). The post likely responds to narcissistic injury from the June 2023 federal indictment. Cognitive assessment is not possible from this volume of text; the brevity is purposeful, not symptomatic. The Victim/Martyr archetype is engaged, with prospective Hero redemption signaled by the ellipsis. Danger level is elevated (not high): no specific targets or violent imagery present, but the "hunted from the beginning" framing contributes to cumulative radicalization dynamics when read in series with similar posts.

# Psychological Analysis: ts_110591805291115097
**Platform:** Truth Social | **Date:** 2023-06-23 | **Local Time:** ~01:10 AM EDT | **Subject Age:** 77

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## Authorship Attribution
**Score: 0.88 — High confidence authentic Trump**

Posted at approximately 01:10 AM Eastern time (DC area, ahead of June 24 Road to Majority conference). This firmly occupies the late-night authentic window. Third-person self-reference ("Trump") is among the strongest single authorship markers in this corpus — aides write "President Trump" formally or "I" conventionally. The staccato structure, affective em-dash, and ellipsis-as-cliffhanger are all consistent with Trump's documented authentic posting style. No aide-written characteristics are present.

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)
**Most salient facets:**
- **Neuroticism (high):** Victimhood framing, persecution sensitivity, hostility toward unnamed adversaries
- **Agreeableness (very low):** Adversarial world-view, zero trust expressed
- **Extraversion (high):** Assertive self-promotion even in victim register; audience engagement via cliffhanger
- **Conscientiousness (low):** Impulsive, reactive, no deliberative content
- **Openness (low):** Rigid, binary persecution narrative; no complexity acknowledged

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations
**Dominant motive: Power/Agency (defensive)**
The post is primarily agency-motivated but in a defensive register — protecting status against attack rather than asserting dominance offensively. The agency motive is threatened (indictment context) and the post functions as psychological countermobilization.

**Schema revealed:**
- *Self:* Special, historically significant figure worthy of targeting by entrenched powers
- *World:* Actively hostile; coordinated persecution is the default condition
- *Others:* "They" — an undifferentiated malevolent force pursuing Trump across time

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity
**Protagonist role:** Martyr/persecuted hero
**Narrative sequence:** Contamination → implied Redemption
- The contamination sequence is established: a good/great figure has been relentlessly hunted ("from the beginning")
- The "BUT…" constitutes a redemption pivot signal — suffering will be transcended, persecution will fail
- **Identity claim:** "Trump" as an iconic, trans-personal entity — not merely "I" but a historical figure commented upon from outside
- **Contrasting other:** The vague "They" — powerful, coordinated, relentless, ultimately futile

This is a canonical persecution-to-redemption narrative structure. The ellipsis suspends the audience between contamination and redemption, maximizing emotional investment in the video content.

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## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Malignant Narcissism (Kernberg)
**Narcissistic features (high, ~0.75):** Grandiosity is embedded in the persecution framing — one is only worth hunting if one is extraordinarily significant. The third-person register implicitly elevates Trump to the level of a historical figure narrated about, not merely a participant.

**Paranoid features (high, ~0.72):** "They've been after Trump from the beginning" — the temporal scope ("from the beginning") and collective agency ("They") are consistent with paranoid object relations. A coordinated, persistent, malevolent pursuit is asserted without qualification.

**Antisocial features (low, ~0.20):** Not prominently present in this post's limited text.

**Sadism (minimal, ~0.05):** No evident pleasure in others' suffering; post is in the vulnerable register.

### Defense Mechanisms
1. **Projection (immature):** All adversarial agency is located externally ("They") with zero self-reflective attribution
2. **Splitting (immature):** Innocent Trump vs. conspiratorial hunters — no complexity
3. **Denial (pathological):** "From the beginning" reframes the entirety of legal accountability as persecution, denying any legitimate basis for proceedings
4. **Rationalization (neurotic, implied):** "BUT…" promises a counter-narrative that will explain why the persecution ultimately fails

### Narcissistic Dynamics
**State:** Vulnerable narcissistic pole — this is not the grandiose, dominant register but the persecuted, wounded register. The June 2023 federal indictment (Jack Smith, classified documents) represents a maximal narcissistic injury: criminal charges filed by the state constitute the most severe external threat to the self-as-special-entity.

**Trigger:** Narcissistic injury — federal indictment, ongoing legal proceedings
**Rage:** Muted in this post (redirected into persecution framing rather than expressed as explicit rage)
**Supply-seeking mechanism:** Victimhood framing invites audience sympathy and outrage; cliffhanger compels video consumption and engagement

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## Cognitive Status Markers
**Complexity score: 0.15** (note: deliberately low by design — this is a teaser post)
**Baseline deviation: None**

The extreme brevity prevents meaningful cognitive assessment. The construction is simple but purposeful — this is a video teaser designed to emotionally prime the audience. Third-person self-reference is well-established in Trump's baseline from at least 2015 onward and does not indicate new cognitive markers. Insufficient data for longitudinal cognitive comparison from this post alone.

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## Archetypal Analysis (Jungian)
**Primary archetype: Victim/Martyr** — the persecuted innocent whose suffering is unjust and ultimately meaningful
**Secondary archetype: Hero (prospective)** — the "BUT…" invokes the hero's return from trials
**Shadow projection:** "They" carries all the aggression, conspiracy, and malevolence that cannot be owned; these are the shadow qualities projected onto the opponent

The martyrdom archetype is particularly potent in American political mythology (Lincoln, MLK, JFK). By positioning "Trump" as perpetually hunted "from the beginning," the post invokes this archetype's emotional resonance without explicit claim.

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## Order/Chaos Dynamics
**Positioning:** Order-attacker (attacking what is framed as illegitimate/corrupt order)
The post frames the DOJ/legal apparatus as corrupt order illegitimately pursuing Trump. Trump is positioned as the disrupting force against institutional corruption — a chaos-agent who exposes the rot in existing hierarchies.

**Grievance intensity:** High — temporal scope ("from the beginning") indicates deep, chronic grievance
**Blame target:** Unnamed institutional "They" — maximally inclusive, projects onto whatever enemy each follower identifies

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## Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques
- **Open loop/cliffhanger:** "BUT…" — forces video consumption to resolve psychological tension
- **Persecution frame:** All legal accountability recast as political vendetta
- **Vague enemy ('They'):** Functions as projective container — audience populates with personal enemies
- **Iconification:** Third-person "Trump" transforms the subject into a brand/historical figure
- **Temporal anchoring:** "From the beginning" establishes persecution as foundational, not reactive

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## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion
**Present (mild in text; video content unknown)**
The claim "from the beginning" implicitly denies any legitimate triggering conduct for any investigation. This is a form of retroactive reality revision — framing all accountability as persecution requires distorting the documented record of actions that prompted legal scrutiny. The persecution frame operates as a loyalty test: accepting it requires rejecting institutional accountability frameworks.

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## Epistemic Closure
**Present:** The persecution framing is structurally closed to disconfirmation. Any evidence of legal wrongdoing is preemptively categorized as persecution-fabrication. This is a closed epistemic system offered to followers as the in-group truth.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "They've been after Trump from the beginning" | **Mostly False** | Federal investigations into Trump were preceded by documented conduct (classified documents handling, January 6 events, etc.) and were initiated through institutional processes including Special Counsel appointments. The claim that pursuit is the cause rather than a consequence of conduct is not supported by the public evidentiary record, though political motivations in prosecutorial decisions are a legitimate subject of debate. |

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Danger Assessment
**Level: Elevated**
No direct eliminationist language, violent imagery, or specific targeting present in the text. However, the persecution narrative ("from the beginning") functions as chronic radicalization fuel: it establishes that Trump is the target of a coordinated, long-running conspiracy, which in aggregate across many posts can prime vulnerable followers toward defensive violence on Trump's behalf. This post is not dangerous in isolation but contributes to a cumulative stochastic terrorism pattern when read in series.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 88%)

### Indicators

- Third-person self-reference ('Trump') — signature authentic marker
- Posted at 01:10 AM EDT (DC/Bedminster area, late night in local timezone)
- Staccato, incomplete sentence used as teaser — stream-of-consciousness style
- Em-dash for dramatic pause, ellipsis for cliffhanger — consistent with Trump's affective punctuation patterns
- Absence of formal grammar, no event announcement format

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Vulnerable State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (Federal indictment / ongoing legal proceedings)

Sentiment: -0.65

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 75%
- Antisocial: 20%
- Paranoid: 72%
- Sadism: 5%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- projection (immature)
- splitting (immature)
- denial (pathological)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 15%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Victim-bonding: inviting audience to share in persecution narrative
- Cliffhanger engagement: 'BUT…' compels audience to consume the video
- Third-person iconification: 'Trump' as brand/martyr elevates subject to mythic scale

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Persecution narrative with indefinite temporal scope ('from the beginning') — establishes chronic grievance framing
- Vague collective enemy ('They') maximally inclusive — any follower's enemy qualifies
- Martyrdom framing can prime defensive violence in radicalized followers
- Cumulative pattern with surrounding posts establishing DOJ/Democrats as coordinated persecutors

### Gaslighting

- 'From the beginning' retroactively reframes all legal accountability as persecution-by-design, denying any legitimate triggering conduct
- Persecution framing operates as loyalty test — acceptance requires rejecting institutional legal frameworks
- Implied equivalence: investigation = political attack, collapsing distinction between lawful process and persecution

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._

> They've been after Trump from the beginning

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Federal investigations into Trump were preceded by documented conduct (classified documents handling, January 6 events, etc.) and were initiated through institutional processes including Special Counsel appointments. The claim that pursuit is the cause rather than a consequence of conduct is not supported by the public evidentiary record, though political motivations in prosecutorial decisions are a legitimate subject of debate.

Sources: Public court records, Jack Smith indictment June 2023; Mueller investigation origins 2017; January 6 Committee findings

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Tags

- persecution_narrative (95%)
- victim_martyr_archetype (90%)
- third_person_self_reference (88%)
- authentic_trump (88%)
- vulnerable_narcissism (82%)
- late_night_post (82%)
- narcissistic_injury_response (80%)
- open_loop_rhetorical (78%)
- splitting_defense (75%)
- epistemic_closure (72%)
- indictment_context (70%)
- redemption_arc_implied (68%)

## That day

_From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._

**Post-Indictment Deflection Machinery Hums Quietly as Wagner Mutiny Goes Unmentioned**

Trump opened the day with a late-night burst of posts hammering Hunter Biden's plea deal, framing it as proof of a rigged justice system protecting the president's family. By morning, the emotional charge faded into routine campaign maintenance — a rapid-fire dump of supportive articles, endorsements, and opposition research hits on Ron DeSantis. He briefly weighed in on reports of Chinese military facilities in Cuba, casting it as proof only he could command global respect. The most striking feature of the day was what went unsaid: the Wagner Group's dramatic armed march on Moscow, arguably the biggest geopolitical event of the year, drew zero comment.

Full digest for 2023-06-23: https://trump.fm/date/2023-06-23/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, June 23). “They’ve been after Trump from the beginning—BUT…” [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110591805291115097
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“They’ve been after Trump from the beginning—BUT…”" Truth Social, 23 Jun. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110591805291115097. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "“They’ve been after Trump from the beginning—BUT…”," Truth Social, June 23, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110591805291115097.

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