# Post ts_110613983084737212

- Post ID: `ts_110613983084737212`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-06-27T03:10:35.256Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110613983084737212
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110613983084737212/analysis
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## Post text

> The Deranged Special Prosecutor, Jack Smith, working in conjunction with the DOJ & FBI, illegally leaked and “spun” a tape and transcript of me which is actually an exoneration, rather than what they would have you believe. This continuing Witch Hunt is another ELECTION INTERFERENCE Scam. They are cheaters and thugs!

## Engagement

- Likes: 26,182
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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.407Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T06:02:42.306Z (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 late-night post (11:10 PM EDT) represents a high-intensity narcissistic injury response to the reported emergence of the Bedminster tape — audio evidence in Trump's own voice potentially undermining his public declassification defense. The psychological architecture is precise: denial of the evidence's meaning (reversal to "exoneration"), projection of criminality onto prosecutors ("cheaters and thugs"), paranoid conspiracy framing ("working in conjunction"), and full DARVO execution that repositions Trump as victim of federal crime. Authorship is almost certainly authentic — timing, ALL CAPS, attack nicknames, and the "Witch Hunt" shibboleth are deeply consistent with Trump's established signature. Defense mechanisms are predominantly pathological-tier (denial, distortion) with immature projection overlaid. The post exemplifies the epistemic closure dynamic: followers are explicitly cued to reject the mainstream interpretation of documentary evidence in favor of Trump's reality, functioning as a loyalty test. The characterization of named federal officials as "cheaters and thugs" represents ongoing delegitimization of the judicial system that elevates risk of hostile actor behavior at the population level. No cognitive deviation from 2023 baseline is observed. Danger level assessed as elevated — not for a direct incitement in this post, but for the cumulative pattern of naming adversaries, framing them as criminals, and demanding followers accept this framing as a condition of in-group membership.

# Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post, 2023-06-27T03:10:35Z

## Authorship Attribution

**Local Time:** The UTC timestamp converts to **11:10 PM EDT** on June 26, 2023. In late June 2023, Trump was based at Bedminster, NJ (his New Jersey golf club, where the classified documents tape was reportedly recorded in 2021) or had returned to Mar-a-Lago. Either location places him in EDT (UTC−4). Late-night posting at ~11 PM strongly matches the authentic Trump signature pattern: reactive, emotionally-charged, post-prime-time.

**Stylometric indicators of authenticity:** Attack nickname construction ("Deranged Special Prosecutor"), ALL CAPS emphasis ("ELECTION INTERFERENCE"), the recurring "Witch Hunt" shibboleth, the rhetorical pivot from accusation to counter-framing ("actually an exoneration"), and the blunt closing epithet ("cheaters and thugs") are all deeply consistent with authenticated Trump posts. Sentence structure is fragmented and emotionally driven rather than polished. No aide-written characteristics (no scheduling information, no complete policy sentences, no formal grammar). **High confidence: authentic Trump.**

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## Contextual Trigger

This post responds to a highly specific legal event: media reports that Jack Smith's team possessed an audio recording (the "Bedminster tape") from a July 2021 meeting at which Trump allegedly acknowledged retaining a classified Pentagon document about a potential Iran attack and stated he could not declassify it. This represented one of the most direct pieces of evidentiary exposure in the classified documents case — Trump's own voice contradicting his public declassification defense. The post is a textbook **narcissistic injury response** to documentary evidence threatening both legal standing and public self-image.

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

The post is dominated by **high Neuroticism** (angry hostility, impulsiveness), **low Agreeableness** (contempt, derogation, zero trust), and **high Extraversion** (assertive, dominant). Conscientiousness is absent — no deliberation, no precision, purely reactive. Openness is foreclosed (rigid persecution schema applied without consideration of alternative interpretations).

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations (Motives & Schemas)

**Agency motives dominate:** power preservation, status defense, control of narrative. No communion motives present. The self-schema is that of a uniquely targeted figure ("me") being subjected to coordinated institutional betrayal. The world-schema is conspiratorial: institutions (DOJ, FBI, Special Counsel) operate not as rule-of-law entities but as partisan attack mechanisms.

The phrase "working in conjunction with" is telling — it frames what is legally normal coordination within the Justice Department as sinister conspiracy, consistent with a paranoid schema in which normal institutional behavior is reinterpreted as persecution.

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

- **Protagonist role:** Simultaneous warrior and victim — actively fighting back ("they would have you believe") while persecuted ("illegally leaked")
- **Contamination sequence:** Exculpatory evidence (as Trump frames it) is being criminally weaponized against him — a good-into-bad transformation through enemy action
- **Identity claims:** Implicitly: "I am a target of institutional corruption, not a criminal"; "I know more than my persecutors"
- **Contrasting other:** Jack Smith ("Deranged"), DOJ & FBI (criminal conspirators), unnamed media ("they would have you believe")
- **Redemption framing:** Embedded — the tape is "actually an exoneration," positioning eventual vindication as inevitable

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## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Malignant Narcissism (Kernberg)

**A. Narcissistic Features:** Extreme sense of persecution-as-specialness; the entire DOJ/FBI apparatus is organized against *him* specifically. The claim that incriminating evidence is "actually an exoneration" reflects the grandiose refusal to accept unflattering external reality. Entitlement framing ("illegally leaked") treats normal legal proceedings as violations of his rights.

**B. Antisocial Features:** Routine deceitfulness evident in the reframing of the tape's meaning. No engagement with legal facts; contempt for process ("cheaters and thugs" applied to federal law enforcement).

**C. Paranoid Features:** "Working in conjunction with" conspiracy framing. The post assumes coordinated bad-faith action by multiple institutions simultaneously — characteristic paranoid ideation. All adversarial events are integrated into a unified persecution narrative ("This continuing Witch Hunt").

**D. Ego-Syntonic Sadism:** Less prominent in this post; the emphasis is defensive rather than offensive delight. However, the nickname "Deranged" retains the characteristic devaluation-as-dominance move.

### Narcissistic Rage (Kohut)

**Rage is clearly present** at moderate-to-high intensity. The trigger is a concrete narcissistic injury: documentary evidence in his own voice undermining his public defense. The response is globally disproportionate — dismissing the entire prosecutorial apparatus as "cheaters and thugs." The rage is not directed at any specific act but at the totality of the perceived conspiracy.

### Narcissistic State: Mixed (grandiose/vulnerable)

Classic oscillation: the post opens in vulnerable mode (persecution, illegal acts against me) and closes in grandiose/contemptuous mode (dismissing adversaries as criminals). This oscillation within a single short post is characteristic.

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## Defense Mechanisms

**Denial (Level 1/Pathological):** The core move of the post — asserting that what is being presented as incriminating evidence is "actually an exoneration." This is not rationalization (which engages the content) but direct reality-reversal.

**Distortion (Level 1/Pathological):** The institutional framing — normal prosecutorial activity by DOJ and FBI is distorted into criminal conspiracy ("illegally leaked").

**Projection (Level 2/Immature):** "Cheaters and thugs" — the accusation of rule-breaking and thuggery is projected onto law enforcement actors pursuing legal processes, while Trump's own conduct (allegedly retaining classified documents) is erased.

**Rationalization (Level 3/Neurotic):** "ELECTION INTERFERENCE" — reframing criminal prosecution as political persecution provides a logical-sounding alternative explanation that avoids engaging with the evidentiary substance.

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## DARVO Pattern

This post is a textbook **DARVO** (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender):
- **Deny:** The tape is an exoneration, not evidence of wrongdoing
- **Attack:** "Deranged Special Prosecutor," "illegally leaked," "cheaters and thugs"
- **Reverse Victim/Offender:** Trump is the victim of criminal conspiracy; the prosecutors are the actual criminals

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## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion

The post contains deliberate epistemic manipulation: "which is actually an exoneration, rather than what they would have you believe." This construction:
1. Claims access to the true meaning of the evidence
2. Attacks the credibility of the alternative interpretation
3. Demands followers accept Trump's framing over documented evidence

This is an epistemic closure mechanism — followers are implicitly asked to trust Trump's characterization of evidence they cannot independently evaluate, as part of in-group loyalty.

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## Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques

- **Attack labels/ad hominem:** "Deranged Special Prosecutor"
- **Conspiracy framing:** "working in conjunction with"
- **Delegitimization:** "illegally leaked and 'spun'" — scare quotes around "spun" signal that the framing itself is the crime
- **ALL CAPS amplification:** "ELECTION INTERFERENCE" — emotional intensification, tribal signal
- **Recurrence of established epithet:** "Witch Hunt" — activates prior grievance schema in audience
- **Superlative/absolute framing:** "another... Scam" implies pattern, not isolated incident
- **Dehumanizing label:** "cheaters and thugs" applied to federal law enforcement
- **False dichotomy:** Either the tape is exoneration OR it's election interference — no middle ground acknowledged

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Jack Smith illegally leaked the tape and transcript" | **Mostly False** | No credible evidence of illegal leaking. The tape's existence became public through reporting consistent with legal proceedings. Smith's office denied leaking. Standard investigative journalism and/or legal discovery does not constitute illegal leaking. |
| "The tape is 'actually an exoneration'" | **Mostly False** | CNN's reporting on the Bedminster tape — Trump allegedly acknowledging he retained a classified Pentagon document and saying he couldn't declassify it — was assessed by most legal analysts as potentially inculpatory, directly contradicting his public declassification defense. The 'exoneration' framing is unsupported by legal expert consensus. |
| "This is ELECTION INTERFERENCE" | **Unverifiable** | This is a political characterization/opinion, not a verifiable factual claim. The legal proposition that prosecution of a candidate constitutes election interference has no evidentiary foundation in law, but 'election interference' as a rhetorical frame is not falsifiable in the way a specific factual claim is. |
| "DOJ and FBI are working 'in conjunction' with Smith against Trump" | **Half True** | Literally true in the institutional sense — Special Counsel Smith operates within DOJ and coordinates with FBI. Materially false in the conspiratorial sense implied — that this coordination represents criminal misconduct rather than standard institutional operation. |

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Cognitive Status

No notable departures from Trump's established 2023 baseline. Sentence fragments are habitual, not signs of impairment. Vocabulary is consistent with prior posts — monosyllabic epithets, short declarative bursts, emotional amplifiers. No word-finding difficulty, phonemic paraphasia, or temporal confusion observed. Complexity is low but consistent with baseline. **Baseline deviation: none.**

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## Danger Assessment

The characterization of federal law enforcement officials as "cheaters and thugs" — combined with the "ELECTION INTERFERENCE" frame that implies criminal action by officials — contributes to an ongoing rhetorical pattern that delegitimizes the legal system and its actors in the eyes of Trump's audience. This is not an isolated rhetorical move but a sustained escalation of anti-institutional sentiment directed at named individuals (Jack Smith).

While no explicit call to action is present, the cumulative pattern of naming adversaries + articulating grievances + framing them as criminals carries **elevated** stochastic terrorism risk. The pattern does not reach "high" threshold in this individual post; the danger is better understood longitudinally.

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## Summary

This late-night post represents a high-intensity narcissistic injury response to the reported emergence of the Bedminster tape — audio evidence in Trump's own voice potentially undermining his public declassification defense. The psychological architecture is precise: denial of the evidence's meaning (reversal to "exoneration"), projection of criminality onto prosecutors ("cheaters and thugs"), paranoid conspiracy framing ("working in conjunction"), and DARVO execution that repositions Trump as victim of federal crime rather than subject of criminal investigation. Authorship is almost certainly authentic — the timing (11 PM EDT), ALL CAPS emphasis, attack nicknames, and "Witch Hunt" invocation are deeply consistent with Trump's established signature. Defense mechanisms are predominantly pathological-tier (denial, distortion) with immature projection overlaid. The post exemplifies the epistemic closure dynamic: followers are explicitly cued to reject the mainstream interpretation of documentary evidence in favor of Trump's reality, functioning as a loyalty test. The "cheaters and thugs" epithet applied to federal law enforcement represents ongoing delegitimization of the judicial system that, at a population level, elevates risk of hostile actor behavior. Cognitively, no deviation from baseline is observed.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 92%)

### Indicators

- Late night posting (11:10 PM EDT) consistent with authentic Trump pattern
- Attack nickname construction: 'Deranged Special Prosecutor'
- ALL CAPS emphasis: 'ELECTION INTERFERENCE'
- Signature 'Witch Hunt' shibboleth
- Blunt monosyllabic closing epithet: 'cheaters and thugs'

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Bedminster tape/transcript — audio evidence in Trump's own voice potentially undermining his public declassification defense)

**Rage:** Intensity 82% targeting Jack Smith, DOJ, FBI
- Proportionality: 15%

Sentiment: -0.82

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 88%
- Antisocial: 72%
- Paranoid: 80%
- Sadism: 35%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 32%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Epistemic closure invitation ('rather than what they would have you believe')
- In-group loyalty test — followers must accept Trump's framing of documentary evidence
- Shared persecution narrative construction
- 'Witch Hunt' activation of prior grievance schema

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Dehumanizing label applied to named federal officials: 'cheaters and thugs'
- Sustained delegitimization of judicial actors by name (Jack Smith)
- Framing prosecutors as criminals — reduces psychological barrier to hostile action by followers
- Pattern escalation: consistent naming of adversaries + articulation of grievance + implied criminal status of targets
- Epistemic closure mechanism increases follower susceptibility to radicalization narrative

### Gaslighting

- Direct reversal of documentary evidence meaning ('actually an exoneration, rather than what they would have you believe')
- Characterization of normal legal proceedings as criminal activity ('illegally leaked')
- DARVO: attackers cast as criminals, defendant cast as victim
- Epistemic closure cue — followers directed to reject alternative interpretation of evidence they cannot independently evaluate
- Attacks on institutional credibility ('cheaters') to preemptively discredit future adverse findings

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

## Fact Checks (4)

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

> Jack Smith illegally leaked the tape and transcript

**MOSTLY FALSE**

No credible evidence of illegal leaking. The tape's existence became public through reporting consistent with legal proceedings. Smith's office denied leaking. Standard investigative journalism and/or legal discovery does not constitute illegal leaking.

Sources: General knowledge of classified documents case proceedings

> The tape is 'actually an exoneration'

**MOSTLY FALSE**

CNN's reporting on the Bedminster tape — Trump allegedly acknowledging he retained a classified Pentagon document and saying he couldn't declassify it — was assessed by most legal analysts as potentially inculpatory, directly contradicting his public declassification defense. The 'exoneration' framing is unsupported by legal expert consensus.

Sources: General knowledge of classified documents case, legal commentary on Bedminster tape

> This is ELECTION INTERFERENCE

**UNVERIFIABLE**

This is a political characterization/opinion, not a verifiable factual claim. The legal proposition that prosecution of a candidate constitutes election interference has no evidentiary foundation in law, but 'election interference' as a rhetorical frame is not falsifiable in the way a specific factual claim is.

> DOJ and FBI are working 'in conjunction' with Smith against Trump

**HALF TRUE**

Literally true in the institutional sense — Special Counsel Smith operates within DOJ and coordinates with FBI. Materially false in the conspiratorial sense implied — that this coordination represents criminal misconduct rather than standard institutional operation.

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Tags

- narcissistic-injury-response (95%)
- DARVO (92%)
- epistemic-closure (88%)
- denial-pathological (90%)
- witch-hunt-narrative (85%)
- law-enforcement-delegitimization (80%)
- classified-documents-case (95%)
- authentic-authorship (92%)
- election-interference-frame (82%)
- dehumanization-officials (75%)

## That day

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

**Morning Rage Over Bedminster Tape Gives Way to NH Rally Supply Cycle as Legal Walls Close In**

Trump opened the day with intense late-night and early-morning attacks on Special Counsel Jack Smith over a leaked audio tape from the classified documents case, calling prosecutors "cheaters and thugs" and extending hostile language to Smith's family. The mood shifted sharply once he pivoted to campaign mode, posting favorable poll numbers and heading to New Hampshire for a rally and headquarters opening. Rally posts struck a martyrdom tone, framing his prosecution as an attack on his supporters' freedom. The day closed on a triumphant note as he celebrated a partial legal win in the New York AG case, inflating a narrow statute-of-limitations ruling into a sweeping vindication.

Full digest for 2023-06-27: https://trump.fm/date/2023-06-27/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, June 27). The Deranged Special Prosecutor, Jack Smith,... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110613983084737212
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "The Deranged Special Prosecutor, Jack Smith, working in..." Truth Social, 27 Jun. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110613983084737212. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "The Deranged Special Prosecutor, Jack Smith, working in...," Truth Social, June 27, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110613983084737212.

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