# Post ts_110772725733214052

- Post ID: `ts_110772725733214052`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-07-25T04:00:55.843Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110772725733214052
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110772725733214052/analysis

## Post text

> https://justthenews.com/videos/sen-johnson-evidence-president-bidens-involvement-hunters-business-deals-mounting

## Engagement

- Likes: 7,602
- Reposts: 2,225
- Replies: 218
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.405Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T06:36:47.610Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Post Analysis: ts_110772725733214052 — URL Share (Just the News / Sen. Johnson / Biden)

**Date/Time:** 2023-07-25T04:00:55Z UTC → ~00:00–00:01 EDT (Bedminster, NJ — Trump's typical late-July residence)

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### Authorship Attribution

This post is a bare URL with no accompanying text. The UTC timestamp converts to **midnight EDT** at Bedminster, NJ (Trump's usual late-July location, away from Mar-a-Lago during summer). Midnight falls within Trump's documented late-night posting window, supporting authentic authorship. However, bare-URL shares without any personal commentary are a stylistic marker that can indicate aide-assisted posting (Scavino or similar staff amplifying approved content). The contextual pattern — five rapid URL shares across this day, all on a single narrative thread (Biden corruption) — is consistent with a coordinated amplification session, which may involve staff curation with Trump's directional approval rather than solo posting.

**Assessment:** Mixed signal. Timing favors authentic; format (bare URL, no prose) is ambiguous. **Medium confidence: aide-assisted or hybrid (staff-curated, Trump-approved).**

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### Contextual Frame

This post does not stand alone; it is one of at least five URL-only shares from 2023-07-25, all targeting the Biden corruption narrative:
1. Gateway Pundit — Washington Post declining readership
2. TippInsights — "Biden's lawfare against Trump could backfire"
3. Daily Mail — Biden calling voter a "damn liar" about Hunter's business resurfaced
4. Just the News (Comer) — Biden lied about family business dealings
5. **This post** — Sen. Johnson, evidence of Biden involvement mounting

This constitutes a **sustained, single-day narrative campaign** against Biden, occurring in the immediate aftermath of the July 19 federal court denial in Trump's hush money case. The pattern is psychologically and rhetorically coherent as a **displacement/projection sequence**: personal legal threat → outward attack on opponent.

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### Psychological State & Triggers

**Trigger:** Narcissistic injury — the July 19 ruling by Judge Hellerstein that Trump's hush money payments were personal, not presidential, denied his federal transfer bid and implicitly reframed his conduct as non-executive and therefore more legally exposed. This is a concrete defeat requiring a defensive response.

**Narcissistic State:** Vulnerable state masked by aggressive outward projection. The subject is not posting about his own legal situation; instead he is flooding the information environment with opponent-targeted content — a classic maneuver to shift the psychological and public locus of threat.

**Rage:** Not overtly present in this post specifically (no text), but the volume and rapidity of the day's posting sequence signals an agitated, reactive psychological state consistent with low-grade narcissistic rage expressed through compulsive amplification rather than direct verbal aggression.

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### Defense Mechanisms

1. **Displacement (Neurotic):** Legal jeopardy that is personal and documented is deflected toward competitor's alleged wrongdoing. The energy of threat-response is redirected to a "safer" (politically acceptable) target.
2. **Projection (Immature):** The very category of concern — a powerful figure using political/legal systems corruptly for family benefit — is mirrored exactly onto Biden. The subject's own legal exposure to corruption-adjacent charges is projected onto the opponent.
3. **Rationalization (Neurotic):** By framing Biden as equally or more corrupt, the implicit reasoning is that Trump's legal jeopardy is politically motivated equivalence rather than legitimate accountability.

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### Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques

- **Whataboutism:** Classic DARVO-adjacent deflection. When scrutiny lands on subject, immediately amplify scrutiny of opponent. Not a denial of the self-relevant charge; a redirection of audience attention.
- **Appeal to authority:** Routing through a sitting U.S. Senator (Ron Johnson, R-WI) and established right-wing media (Just the News) lends institutional legitimacy framing to politically contested claims.
- **Firehose of falsehood (volume dimension):** Five Biden-targeting shares in a single day represents an information saturation technique — not arguing any single point thoroughly but creating cumulative impression of pervasive corruption through sheer repetition.
- **Source laundering:** Using Just the News, Gateway Pundit, Daily Mail — outlets with documented right-leaning editorial angles — to present contested claims as neutral news.
- **No dehumanizing language** in this post (bare URL, no text).
- **No violent imagery.**

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### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Evidence of President Biden's direct involvement in Hunter Biden's business deals is 'mounting'" | **Mostly False** | As of July 2023, the Congressional investigations led by Comer and Johnson had not produced documentary evidence of Joe Biden directing, receiving proceeds from, or directly participating in Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings. IRS whistleblowers raised process concerns about the DOJ investigation but did not establish presidential corruption. The subsequent House impeachment inquiry (launched September 2023) was closed in 2024 without impeachment articles, with the evidentiary record characterized as insufficient by both Democratic and some Republican members. |

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 45%)

### Indicators

- Midnight EDT timing consistent with Trump's late-night posting window
- Bare URL with no accompanying text — ambiguous format that can reflect aide curation
- Part of a five-post single-day amplification session suggesting coordinated content strategy
- No typos or personal commentary to distinguish authentic voice

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Vulnerable State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Judge Hellerstein's July 19 denial of federal transfer motion in hush money case)

Sentiment: -0.30

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 60%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 40%
- Sadism: 10%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- displacement (neurotic)
- projection (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 0%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Shared grievance construction (both subject and followers are victims of Biden corruption)
- Information saturation — repeated exposure creates conviction without argument

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> Evidence of President Biden's direct involvement in Hunter Biden's business deals is 'mounting'

**MOSTLY FALSE**

As of July 2023, the Congressional investigations led by Comer and Johnson had not produced documentary evidence of Joe Biden directing, receiving proceeds from, or directly participating in Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings. IRS whistleblowers raised process concerns about the DOJ investigation but did not establish presidential corruption. The subsequent House impeachment inquiry (launched September 2023) was closed in 2024 without impeachment articles, with the evidentiary record characterized as insufficient by both Democratic and some Republican members.

Sources: House Oversight Committee proceedings 2023; Senate Finance/Homeland Security joint investigation record; House impeachment inquiry closure 2024

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Tags

- whataboutism (90%)
- displacement (85%)
- projection (80%)
- biden_corruption_narrative (95%)
- url_only_post (100%)
- post_legal_defeat_reactive_posting (75%)
- information_saturation (70%)
- right_media_amplification (85%)
- vulnerable_narcissism_masked (65%)

## That day

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

**Legal Siege Triggers 40-Post Displacement Marathon: Biden Corruption as Shield Against Mounting Indictments**

Trump posted 40 times from Bedminster — well above his usual pace — in a day dominated by legal anxiety. A late-night burst of Biden corruption links gave way to a midday dump of polling and endorsement articles, before the afternoon brought genuine heat: attacks on Jack Smith, a tirade calling congressional Democrats "slimeballs," and a surprisingly furious reaction to a minor EU travel fee. About 40% of the day's posts hammered Biden family corruption, building a counter-narrative ahead of Devon Archer's expected congressional testimony. The mood swung between calculated deflection and real anger, with brief detours into policy boasting about Texas property taxes and the Right to Try Act.

Full digest for 2023-07-25: https://trump.fm/date/2023-07-25/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, July 25). https://justthenews.com/videos/sen-johnson-evidenc... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110772725733214052
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://justthenews.com/videos/sen-johnson-evidence-presiden..." Truth Social, 25 Jul. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110772725733214052. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "https://justthenews.com/videos/sen-johnson-evidence-presiden...," Truth Social, July 25, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110772725733214052.

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