# Post ts_110651641423808537 - Post ID: `ts_110651641423808537` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-07-03T18:47:35.902Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110651641423808537 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110651641423808537/analysis ## Post text > https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/trump-special-counsel-jack-smith-involved-lois-lerner-irs-scandal ## Engagement - Likes: 8,734 - Reposts: 2,954 - Replies: 354 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.407Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T06:08:54.689Z (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 post — a bare URL to a Washington Examiner piece linking special counsel Jack Smith to the Lois Lerner IRS scandal — represents a calculated defensive maneuver in the vulnerable narcissistic register, most likely aide-authored given the business-hour timing and complete absence of textual commentary. The core psychological function is prosecutor delegitimization through guilt-by-association: by surfacing Smith's alleged role in a prior conservative grievance, the post attempts to preemptively contaminate Smith's credibility before the federal prosecution proceeds. Defense mechanisms include projection (Smith is himself guilty of political targeting), rationalization (prior conduct invalidates current authority), and devaluation. The rhetorical strategy achieves deniability through implication — the headline does all persuasive work while Trump asserts nothing directly. The factual claim that Smith was "involved" in the IRS scandal is misleading; he held a supervisory charging role and declined prosecution, a contentious but not itself improper decision. No danger indicators present. Consistent with documented baseline paranoid-persecution schema and routine prosecutorial threat management rather than marked deviation from established behavioral patterns. # Psychological Analysis: ts_110651641423808537 **Date:** 2023-07-03 | **Platform:** Truth Social | **Age:** 77 --- ## Post Characterization This is a zero-text article share — a bare URL to a Washington Examiner piece claiming special counsel Jack Smith was involved in the Lois Lerner IRS targeting scandal. The communicative content is entirely delegated to the article headline, making this one of the lower-information posts in terms of direct psychological signal, while being strategically pointed. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Likely aide-written (confidence: medium).** The post was made at approximately 14:47 EDT at Bedminster, NJ (Trump's summer residence) — mid-afternoon business hours. The complete absence of any textual commentary is the primary indicator: authentic Trump posts, even simple article shares, virtually always contain reactive editorializing ("Witch Hunt!", "Terrible!", "Read this!"). A pure URL with no text represents suppression of Trump's characteristic impulsive annotation, more consistent with a Scavino-style curation post. Same-day comparison is instructive: "TRUTH IS HOT!!!" and the Iowa rally post show his typical expressive register active the same day. --- ## Psychological Framework Analysis ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) Low direct signal given zero-text format. Article selection implies: - **Low Agreeableness**: Hostility toward Smith, zero charitable framing - **High Neuroticism (Angry Hostility facet)**: Implicit — the choice of this specific article reflects background state of persecutory preoccupation - **Low Conscientiousness (Deliberation)**: Countered here — if aide-written, this is actually more deliberated than typical authentic posts ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Primary motive activated: Power/Agency.** The post is a defensive agency maneuver — an attempt to control the narrative surrounding a legal threat that represents a fundamental loss of control. Secondary motive: Status maintenance — Smith's credibility attacks Trump's status as someone above corrupt institutional process. **Schema revealed:** The world contains corrupt systems that target the righteous; those systems must be exposed. Smith is not a legitimate law enforcement officer but a political operative in a lineage of corrupt DOJ actors. This schema converts the prosecution from a legal event into a persecution narrative episode. ### Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** Repeated victim of the same corrupt machine — the article positions the IRS targeting → Smith investigation as a continuous pattern, reinforcing a contamination sequence in which legitimate Trump authority is perpetually sabotaged by deep state actors. **Contrasting other:** Jack Smith as corrupt political operative, linked to Lois Lerner as archetype of weaponized government. **Identity claim (implicit):** I am the target, not the defendant; the system targeting me is itself criminal. **Redemption/Contamination:** The post activates a contamination sequence — a new prosecution episode in a recurring narrative of politically motivated persecution. ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Paranoid Features (moderate, consistent with baseline):** The selection of this article reflects a sustained paranoid schema in which legal proceedings are reframed as political persecution. Consistent with documented baseline; no escalation noted from prior posts. **Narcissistic Features:** The entire communicative act functions to protect the grandiose self-concept from legal challenge. Rather than engaging with the substance of Smith's investigation, the post attacks the investigator's legitimacy — a characteristic narcissistic defense that bypasses the content of criticism by attacking the critic's standing. **Vulnerable Narcissistic State:** Unlike Trump's grandiose posts from this period (e.g., rally announcements), this is a reactive, defensive communication triggered by prosecution anxiety. The vulnerability is sublimated — expressed through weaponized information-sharing rather than direct complaint. --- ## Defense Mechanisms 1. **Projection (immature):** Smith is framed as the corrupt political actor targeting opponents — precisely the charge he is bringing against Trump. The post inverts the prosecution narrative: the prosecutor is himself guilty of the underlying offense (using government power to target political enemies). 2. **Rationalization (neurotic):** Provides pseudo-logical grounds for dismissing the investigation: Smith has a prior history of partisan conduct, therefore this prosecution is illegitimate on its face. 3. **Devaluation (immature):** Reduces Smith from Special Counsel to a recycled DOJ partisan, stripping him of institutional authority. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis The strategy is rhetorically sophisticated in its minimalism. By publishing only a URL, Trump (or his aide) achieves several simultaneous effects: - **Deniability:** No assertion was made; journalism was merely shared - **Priming:** Followers encounter the Lerner-Smith association as "news" rather than claim - **Argument from authority:** Washington Examiner provides institutional packaging for opposition research - **Memory activation:** The IRS scandal is already encoded in conservative epistemic communities as confirmed DOJ weaponization; invoking it makes the Smith connection feel like pattern recognition rather than accusation The rhetorical technique is **argument by implication** — the persuasive work is done entirely by the article headline, leaving Trump's communicative fingerprints on the messaging while maintaining plausible non-assertion. --- ## Cognitive Status Insufficient signal for assessment from this post type. No language production evidence. Consistent with longitudinal baseline of strategic article-sharing behavior. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Jack Smith was involved in the Lois Lerner IRS scandal" | **Mostly False** | Smith served as chief of the DOJ Public Integrity Section (2010-2015), which had oversight of potential IRS prosecutions. The DOJ ultimately declined to prosecute Lerner, a decision criticized by conservatives as political cover but consistent with evidentiary standards applied by career prosecutors including under Republican appointees. 'Involvement' implies culpability or wrongdoing where the documented record shows a contested but not per se improper charging decision. | Overall Veracity: 20% ## Danger Assessment **Level: None.** No dehumanizing language, no violent imagery, no stochastic terrorism indicators. This is a standard political delegitimization post targeting a legal opponent's credibility through associative journalism. Risk is epistemic (normalization of prosecutorial delegitimization) rather than physical. --- ## Archetypal / Order-Chaos Analysis **Archetype activated: Victim + Shadow projection.** The post casts Smith as the Shadow — repository of all the corruption and political targeting that Trump's supporters fear and that Trump disowns in himself. The prosecutorial power is inverted: the one with power is actually the corrupt actor; Trump retains the victim/martyr position. **Order-Chaos positioning:** Defender of legitimate order against corrupt institutional order. The post implicitly argues that the "real" rule of law was subverted by Lerner/Smith, and that resisting the prosecution is actually a defense of proper legal order. --- ## Summary This post — a bare URL to a Washington Examiner piece linking special counsel Jack Smith to the Lois Lerner IRS scandal — represents a calculated defensive maneuver in the vulnerable narcissistic register, most likely aide-authored given the business-hour timing and absence of any textual commentary. The core psychological function is prosecutor delegitimization through guilt-by-association: by surfacing Smith's alleged role in a prior, already-encoded conservative grievance, the post attempts to preemptively contaminate Smith's credibility before the federal prosecution proceeds. Defense mechanisms include projection (Smith is himself guilty of political targeting), rationalization (prior misconduct invalidates current authority), and devaluation. The rhetorical strategy achieves deniability through implication — the headline does all persuasive work while Trump asserts nothing directly. The factual claim that Smith was "involved" in the IRS scandal is misleading; he held a supervisory role and declined prosecution, a decision that was politically contentious but not itself misconduct. No danger indicators are present. Clinically, the post is consistent with documented baseline paranoid-persecution schema and represents routine prosecutorial threat management rather than a marked deviation from established behavioral patterns. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 35%) ### Indicators - 18:47 UTC = ~14:47 EDT (Trump likely at Bedminster NJ in July, his summer residence) — mid-afternoon business hours - Post is a bare URL with zero text commentary, no capitalization, no emotional punctuation — atypical of authentic Trump posts which almost always include reactive text - Same-day posts include 'TRUTH IS HOT!!!' and Iowa rally promotion, suggesting mixed aide/authentic activity - Pure link shares without editorial comment are a common Scavino/aide pattern for article amplification ## Psychological Profile ### State **Vulnerable State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Jack Smith special counsel investigation) Sentiment: -0.45 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 40% - Antisocial: 20% - Paranoid: 50% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) - devaluation (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 10% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Implicit call to followers to distrust prosecutor - Leverages pre-existing IRS scandal grievance memory in conservative base ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Jack Smith was involved in the Lois Lerner IRS scandal **MOSTLY FALSE** Smith served as chief of the DOJ Public Integrity Section (2010-2015), which had oversight of potential IRS prosecutions. The DOJ ultimately declined to prosecute Lerner, a decision criticized by conservatives as political cover but consistent with evidentiary standards applied by career prosecutors including under Republican appointees. 'Involvement' implies culpability or wrongdoing where the documented record shows a contested but not per se improper charging decision. Sources: DOJ Public Integrity Section records; House Oversight Committee IRS investigation reports; Washington Examiner reporting Overall Veracity: 20% ## Tags - jack-smith (90%) - prosecution-delegitimization (85%) - lois-lerner-irs (80%) - guilt-by-association (80%) - aide-authored (60%) - vulnerable-narcissism (70%) - persecution-schema (75%) - projection (80%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Aide-Run Legal PR Machine Hums Along While Trump Stays Mostly Silent** A quiet, managed day split between legal defense articles and campaign promotion, with almost no original Trump-authored text. Staff curated and batch-posted links pushing back on the federal indictment — disputing the Iran document, attacking Jack Smith's credibility, and amplifying friendly media — while also sharing polling and crowd-size flattery. The only clearly Trump-penned moment was a brief, exuberant shout about Truth Social's popularity. Notably absent was any mention of cocaine found at the White House the day before, a lay-up attack line left on the table. Full digest for 2023-07-03: https://trump.fm/date/2023-07-03/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, July 3). https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/tr... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110651641423808537 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/trump-specia..." Truth Social, 3 Jul. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110651641423808537. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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