# Post ts_110776418869387058

- Post ID: `ts_110776418869387058`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-07-25T19:40:08.622Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
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## Post text

> So far this “prosecutor,” Jack Smith(?), handpicked by Biden, Merrick Garland, and rabid Trump Hater, Lisa Monaco, has spent more than $28 Million TARGETING me. When you add the Mueller Witch Hunt, it’s over $100 Million. Almost nothing has been spent on Crooked Joe Biden, by far the most corrupt President in the History of the United States. There is no longer “Justice” in the U.S.A., it’s all about persecuting your political opponent, me. But we will WIN, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

## Media

- image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/776/418/752/296/424/original/5d56939823f947fd.jpg

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.404Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T06:23:59.415Z (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 highly characteristic persecution-narrative post triggered by ongoing federal investigation pressure from Special Counsel Jack Smith (classified documents indictment filed June 2023; January 6 probe active). The post exhibits the well-established pattern: narcissistic injury → victimhood consolidation → grandiose rebound. Psychological defense mechanisms are predominantly immature to pathological: projection of corruption onto Biden while personally under criminal indictment; splitting into perfect-victim self and perfect-evil antagonists; systemic distortion invalidating the entire U.S. justice system. The rhetorical architecture is efficient — scare quotes, parenthetical dismissal, financial quantification, and whataboutism — deploying practiced techniques without novel escalation. Danger is assessed as elevated rather than high: no dehumanizing language or eliminationist rhetoric, but named targeting of Smith, Garland, and Monaco within a persecution frame, combined with the categorical claim that U.S. justice no longer exists, amplifies radicalization risk for susceptible followers. No cognitive markers of concern; complexity is consistent with established baseline. Authorship assessed as highly authentic Trump based on dense stylistic fingerprints (parenthetical mock-uncertainty, scare quotes, ALL CAPS emotional markers, Witch Hunt brand recycling). This post represents a stable data point in a documented long-running pattern — no acute escalation, but the longitudinal trend of institutional delegitimization warrants ongoing monitoring.

# Psychological Analysis: Trump Truth Social Post — July 25, 2023

## Overview

This post is a canonical example of Trump's persecution-narrative template, triggered by the active Jack Smith federal investigations (classified documents indictment, June 2023; January 6 probe ongoing). It follows a predictable three-beat psychological structure: **wound → victimhood consolidation → grandiose rebound.** Despite its familiarity, it warrants careful analysis for several reasons: named individual targeting, systemic institutional delegitimization, and its function within a multi-post saturation day.

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## 1. Authorship Attribution

**Assessment: Highly authentic Trump (0.82/1.0), high confidence.**

The post's stylistic fingerprints are densely characteristic:

- **"Jack Smith(?)"** — the parenthetical question mark is an idiosyncratic Trump tic applying mock-uncertainty to delegitimize without factual argument. This exact construction does not appear in aide-written posts.
- **Scare quotes** around "prosecutor" and "Justice" — delegitimization through punctuation, a consistent Trump technique.
- **ALL CAPS emotional anchors** (TARGETING, WIN, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN) — aides tend toward restrained emphasis.
- **"Witch Hunt" brand deployment** — recycled verbatim from established rhetorical inventory.
- **Stream-of-consciousness connector logic** — the sentence moving from Smith → Mueller → Biden → systemic claim in a single associative chain.
- **Abrupt tonal whiplash** at close: wounded victim → triumphant fighter. Aides would smooth this transition.

**Timing caveat:** 3:40 PM EDT (Bedminster, NJ, expected July residence) falls within business hours, introducing slight uncertainty. However, Trump posts throughout the afternoon on Truth Social regularly, and the raw emotional texture overrides timing considerations here.

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## 2. Psychological State and Triggers

**Primary trigger:** Narcissistic injury via legal exposure. By July 2023, Trump had been federally indicted on classified documents charges (June 8, 2023); the January 6 investigation was approaching indictment. The accumulated legal pressure constitutes sustained narcissistic injury of the *exposure* subtype — his public persona, his claims of invincibility, and his self-concept as beyond accountability are all under attack.

**Narcissistic state:** Mixed — predominantly **vulnerable** (persecuted, financially victimized, unfairly targeted) with a **grandiose** rebound at the close ("we will WIN"). This oscillation is a stable feature of the corpus. The vulnerable state is not resolution — it is the precondition for the grandiose assertion that follows. The psychological movement reads: *I am being destroyed → therefore my ultimate vindication will be all the more dramatic.*

**Narcissistic rage:** Present, intensity 0.72/1.0. The rage is sustained and targeted rather than explosive. Proportionality is very low (0.2) — the post frames routine prosecutorial activity as historically unprecedented injustice. Targets: Smith (most proximate), Garland and Monaco (institutional enablers), Biden (shadow villain and projection target).

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## 3. Defense Mechanisms

**Projection (immature):** The most structurally significant defense. Calling Biden "by far the most corrupt President in the History of the United States" while personally facing multiple criminal indictments is a textbook projection of the unbearable self-attribute (corruption, criminal exposure) onto the contrasting other. The projection is not incidental — it is load-bearing. Without it, the post would have to acknowledge the factual basis for the investigations.

**Splitting (immature):** The world is cleanly divided: Trump (perfect victim, wrongly targeted) vs. the prosecution team (rabid, handpicked, conspiratorial). There is no acknowledgment of institutional legitimacy, procedural correctness, or any fact that would complicate the binary.

**Distortion (pathological):** "There is no longer 'Justice' in the U.S.A." — this is not hyperbole about a specific ruling; it is the wholesale invalidation of an entire institutional system. This reshapes external reality to fit the internal narrative of persecution rather than acknowledging any complexity.

**Denial (pathological):** The premise of criminal exposure is entirely absent. The investigations are not mentioned as having factual predicates; they exist only as persecution.

**Rationalization (neurotic):** The financial framing ($28M, $100M) constructs quasi-empirical scaffolding for the grievance. By denominating persecution in dollars, the post makes the irrational feel measurable and therefore real.

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## 4. Narrative Identity (McAdams Level 3)

**Protagonist role:** Persecuted outsider / wrongly targeted fighter. This is Trump's most stable narrative self-presentation in the legal context.

**Narrative sequence:** Contamination — a good thing (American justice) has been corrupted by bad actors. But the close introduces a counter-redemption promise: the contamination will be overcome ("we will WIN").

**Identity claims:**
1. I am the singular target of an unprecedented coordinated prosecution
2. I am the primary obstacle to a corrupt establishment
3. My persecution is evidence of my importance

**Contrasting other:** The "corrupt establishment" — Biden, Garland, Smith, Monaco — who define Trump by opposition. He requires enemies of this magnitude to sustain the narrative of his significance.

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## 5. Rhetorical Techniques

**Delegitimization through punctuation:** The opening line does extraordinary rhetorical work. Scare quotes around "prosecutor" query the title's legitimacy. The parenthetical "(?)'' after Jack Smith's name implies either that Smith isn't real, isn't legitimate, or doesn't merit the dignity of confident naming. This is dismissiveness encoded in typography.

**Financial anchoring:** $28M and $100M give the persecution grievance empirical texture. Followers can repeat specific numbers, making the claim feel documented. The figures are disputed (see fact-checks), but their precision signals (falsely) that Trump has reviewed the accounts.

**DARVO structure:** The post's logical skeleton is Deny (no wrongdoing acknowledged), Attack (Biden is the real criminal, prosecutors are rabid haters), Reverse Victim and Offender (he is the persecuted one; the prosecutors are the criminals). This structure is consistent across the persecution-narrative corpus.

**Whataboutism:** The pivot to Biden serves double duty — deflects from his own exposure and supplies a contrasting villain whose (alleged) corruption justifies the complaint about selective prosecution.

**Collective absorption:** The closing "we will WIN" absorbs the audience into shared identity. The persecution of "me" becomes the persecution of "us," and the vindication of "me" becomes the vindication of "us." This is the parasocial binding mechanism.

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## 6. Gaslighting and Reality Distortion

Gaslighting is present at the systemic level. The post does not merely dispute a fact; it demands followers accept a framework in which the entire U.S. justice system has lost legitimacy. This is an epistemic loyalty test: those who accept the claim must reject institutional authority as a category. The DARVO inversion, combined with the Biden projection, requires followers to inhabit an alternative reality where the prosecuted is innocent and the investigator is the criminal.

Specific reality distortions:
- Characterizes a Senate-confirmation-pathway Special Counsel appointment as a Biden political hit
- Inflates prosecution costs by approximately 3x ($100M vs. ~$41M verifiable across Mueller + Smith)
- Asserts the U.S. justice system has categorically failed based solely on his own prosecution
- Erases the active Hunter Biden investigation to claim "almost nothing" has been spent on Biden

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## 7. Fact-Check Summary

| Claim | Verdict |
|---|---|
| Jack Smith spent >$28M targeting Trump | Half-true (figure disputed, likely inflated) |
| Total with Mueller >$100M | Mostly false (~$41M verifiable) |
| Almost nothing spent on Biden | Half-true (misleading framing) |
| Biden most corrupt president in history | Unverifiable (opinion) |
| Smith "handpicked by Biden" | Mostly false (appointed by Garland per DOJ regs) |

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## 8. Danger Assessment: ELEVATED

No eliminationist language. No explicit call to action. No dehumanizing terminology.

However:
- **Named individual targeting** of Jack Smith, Lisa Monaco, and Merrick Garland within a persecution frame raises their personal risk from radicalized followers.
- **Categorical institutional delegitimization** ("There is no longer Justice in the U.S.A.") removes the psychological governor that legal authority represents for susceptible followers.
- **Financial grievance quantification** escalates outrage intensity without providing any legitimate outlet.
- The longitudinal pattern of escalating anti-institutional rhetoric across the corpus tracks with pre-violence radicalization literature on delegitimization as a precursor condition.

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## 9. Cognitive Status

No markers of concern. Vocabulary, syntactic structure, and logical coherence are within established baseline. The complexity score (0.28) reflects Trump's characteristic simple sentence structure rather than deviation from baseline. No word-finding difficulty, paraphasia, temporal confusion, or name confusion detected. Stable trajectory.

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## 10. Archetypal / Order-Chaos Dynamics

The post positions Trump simultaneously as:
- **Victim** (persecuted by corrupt power)
- **Warrior** (fighting back against the machine)
- **Order-Restorer** (MAGA promise to return legitimate justice)

The shadow projection targets the prosecution team, who are cast as the true chaos agents disrupting proper American order. This archetypal inversion — where the legally charged individual frames prosecutors as the lawbreakers — is structurally coherent within the persecution narrative and emotionally resonant with followers who distrust institutional authority.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Jack Smith has spent more than $28 Million TARGETING me" | **Half True** | Special counsel spending reports were filed semi-annually; costs through December 2022 were approximately $9.2M for the Smith office alone. By mid-2023 cumulative costs were higher but the $28M figure appears to include indirect DOJ support costs and is disputed. A specific figure in this range circulated in conservative media but was not confirmed in official reports available by July 2023. |
| "When you add the Mueller Witch Hunt, it's over $100 Million" | **Mostly False** | The Mueller investigation's total cost was approximately $32 million. Even aggregating Smith's investigation, state-level cases (which are not federal expenditures), and the Mueller probe does not reach $100M without counting costs Trump did not originate and methods of accounting not used in official reports. |
| "Almost nothing has been spent on Crooked Joe Biden" | **Half True** | As of July 2023, no comparable federal special counsel investigation of Biden existed. A separate investigation into Hunter Biden (tax, gun charges) was ongoing under Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, not a special counsel. The claim is narrowly true in terms of special counsel spending but misleading by implication. |
| "Joe Biden is by far the most corrupt President in the History of the United States" | **Unverifiable** | This is an opinion claim without factual grounding; no credible historical or legal ranking supports it. Biden had not been charged with any crime at time of posting. |
| "Jack Smith was handpicked by Biden" | **Mostly False** | Jack Smith was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland as Special Counsel in November 2022, pursuant to DOJ regulations designed to insulate the office from political direction. Smith had previously served as a career war crimes prosecutor at The Hague. The characterization of Biden as the selecting authority misrepresents the appointment process. |

Overall Veracity: 38%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 82%)

### Indicators

- Scare quotes around 'prosecutor' and parenthetical '(?)' after Jack Smith's name — a textbook Trump delegitimization tic
- ALL CAPS used for key emotional targets: TARGETING, WIN, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
- Stream-of-consciousness sentence structure with em-dash-style pivots via commas
- Established rhetorical brand 'Witch Hunt' deployed verbatim
- Closing MAGA rally-cry signature

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Jack Smith federal investigation / ongoing indictment pressure (classified documents charges filed June 2023; January 6 investigation ongoing))

**Rage:** Intensity 72% targeting Jack Smith, Merrick Garland, Lisa Monaco, Joe Biden, the federal justice system
- Proportionality: 20%

Sentiment: -0.62

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 85%
- Antisocial: 60%
- Paranoid: 78%
- Sadism: 35%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 28%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Collective 'we' in closing ('we will WIN') — absorbs audience into shared identity and shared vindication
- Direct address implied by 'me' repetition — audience positioned as witnesses to his personal martyrdom
- Monetary specifics create false intimacy of inside knowledge

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Systemic institutional delegitimization — 'There is no longer Justice in the U.S.A.' positions law enforcement as an illegitimate enemy, not a legitimate authority
- Named-individual targeting of Jack Smith, Merrick Garland, Lisa Monaco — attaching identities to the persecution narrative elevates risk to those individuals from radicalized followers
- Grievance quantification ($28M, $100M) amplifies sense of outrage and injustice without providing any legitimate outlet
- Pattern of escalating anti-institutional rhetoric across the corpus tracks with pre-violence radicalization literature on institutional delegitimization

### Gaslighting

- Wholesale invalidation of the justice system ('There is no longer Justice in the U.S.A.') requires followers to reject the premise of legitimate legal process
- Framing criminal indictments — a documented legal reality — as purely political persecution with no acknowledgment of underlying facts
- DARVO structure inverts victim and perpetrator: he is persecuted, Biden is the real criminal — followers must accept this inversion to remain in the epistemic in-group

## Fact Checks (5)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-24._

> Jack Smith has spent more than $28 Million TARGETING me

**HALF TRUE**

Special counsel spending reports were filed semi-annually; costs through December 2022 were approximately $9.2M for the Smith office alone. By mid-2023 cumulative costs were higher but the $28M figure appears to include indirect DOJ support costs and is disputed. A specific figure in this range circulated in conservative media but was not confirmed in official reports available by July 2023.

Sources: DOJ Special Counsel semi-annual reports

> When you add the Mueller Witch Hunt, it's over $100 Million

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The Mueller investigation's total cost was approximately $32 million. Even aggregating Smith's investigation, state-level cases (which are not federal expenditures), and the Mueller probe does not reach $100M without counting costs Trump did not originate and methods of accounting not used in official reports.

Sources: Mueller investigation final cost report, GAO

> Almost nothing has been spent on Crooked Joe Biden

**HALF TRUE**

As of July 2023, no comparable federal special counsel investigation of Biden existed. A separate investigation into Hunter Biden (tax, gun charges) was ongoing under Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, not a special counsel. The claim is narrowly true in terms of special counsel spending but misleading by implication.

> Joe Biden is by far the most corrupt President in the History of the United States

**UNVERIFIABLE**

This is an opinion claim without factual grounding; no credible historical or legal ranking supports it. Biden had not been charged with any crime at time of posting.

> Jack Smith was handpicked by Biden

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Jack Smith was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland as Special Counsel in November 2022, pursuant to DOJ regulations designed to insulate the office from political direction. Smith had previously served as a career war crimes prosecutor at The Hague. The characterization of Biden as the selecting authority misrepresents the appointment process.

Overall Veracity: 38%

## Tags

- narcissistic-injury-response (92%)
- persecution-narrative (90%)
- institutional-delegitimization (78%)
- DARVO (85%)
- whataboutism (80%)
- projection (82%)
- jack-smith-investigation (95%)
- financial-grievance-framing (70%)
- maga-rally-close (65%)
- splitting (75%)

## 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). So far this “prosecutor,” Jack Smith(?),... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110776418869387058
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "So far this “prosecutor,” Jack Smith(?), handpicked by..." Truth Social, 25 Jul. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110776418869387058. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "So far this “prosecutor,” Jack Smith(?), handpicked by...," Truth Social, July 25, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110776418869387058.

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