# Post ts_110823730478690702 - Post ID: `ts_110823730478690702` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-08-03T04:12:06.495Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110823730478690702 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110823730478690702/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110823730478690702.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Greg Kelly: “Trump indictment is a ‘Political Hit Job’” https://youtu.be/McLbLYHEAuA?list=PLanUqPajptu5g083z-0ggsIxzKhWXNBrW ## What the media says **Video transcript** (8:38), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > This is a jumbo calendar, okay? Nine years divided into months, okay, years and months. 108 months altogether. We did this because I think it's interesting when the alleged offenses committed by Donald Trump, when they allegedly happened, as to when he was actually processed or charged. So let's go all the way back to 2016, which is all the way up here. This is where the alleged payment thing was Stormy Daniels, right? Then you got to go all the way over here to January 6th. And then August 8th of 2022, that's when the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago. So they were kind of all over the place, right? Isn't it wild that all the indictments are falling in this three-month span on the federal level? And you got this one over here, the local, only two months separated from the federal indictments. And how big, how many months did they have to choose from? They waited until within less than a year away from the primary. Doesn't that seem suspicious? Isn't that kind of, um, possibly prosecutorial abuse or election interference? I think so. All right, take a look at this. Let's be clear on this point. It wasn't just that they asked for a pause. Uh, the president, uh, specifically asked me and his gaggle of, uh, of crackpot lawyers asked me to literally reject votes, which would have resulted in, uh, in the issue being turned over to the House of Representatives, and literally chaos would have ensued. Mike Pence, there was a way to do it. And people can disagree about that, I understand. But did you just call them crackpot lawyers? That's something coming from Vice President Pence. He'd go to law school. It's fine law school, but it's not all that. Uh, I.U. McKinney School of Law. Never heard of it, but, uh, number 98 in the nation. And I don't think he actually ever practiced law. Rudy Giuliani went to New York University Law School, one of the top 10 in the country, and became one of the top prosecutors in American history. John Eastman went to the University of Chicago Law School and became one of the top academics in the country. These are not crackpot lawyers. Pence is just mimicking what the mainstream media say. Tells you something about Mike Pence. And here's something else about Mike Pence that really bothers me. You know, he could have told people ahead of January 6th, "My only duty and role that day is to, is to count the votes," nothing else. He could have said that out loud. Um, he knew his mind was made up. But why didn't he tell anybody? I mean, he told Mark Short, and he told his daughter. So he's driving over to, uh, the Capitol on January 6th. He's pulling up, and we have this from his book. See, he knew what he was gonna do. He also knew that nobody else knew. I turned to my daughter and said with a sigh, "God bless those people. They're gonna be so disappointed." Why don't they roll down the window and say, "Hey, I'm just gonna rubber-stamp the whole thing, sorry." Again, Mike Pence, that's his position. And he could defend that position. I disagree with it. Donald Trump disagreed with it. People disagree about stuff all the time. It goes to the Supreme Court. Five to four decisions. He could have said something. And it might have precluded a lot of the strife on January 6th. Some of the candidates and the stuff they're saying about this indictment, I think it renders them ineligible to be the nominee and to be president. This is Asa Hutchinson. I'm sorry, if you can't see this indictment for the political hit job that it is, you're not qualified, but anyway. -The voters that Donald Trump has misled, the indictment talks about that he knew that he had not won the election, but he continued to propagate this idea that he had. He misled his voters, and he continues to do that today. I've already been through that about the advisers, Asa Hutchinson, or Ada, as Donald Trump calls them, for some reason, it's not going to happen. Congressman Heard, former CIA guy who's running, I wonder why, his denial of the 2020 election results and actions on January 6th show he's unfit for office. Okay, who are you again? Just good luck with getting people to know who you are. Here's a guy I like, Vivek Ramaswamy. This is the reaction. This is the reaction. -We do not want to become a country where the party in power is able to use banana-republic-like tactics to eliminate its political opponents. Yet I'm sad to say that's exactly where we are. The allegations in this indictment fall flat. It is wrong and incorrect and inaccurate to place blame for what happened on January 6th at the feet of Donald Trump. -Good for you, Vivek Ramaswamy, and he's still a competitor of Donald Trump, but he's doing it the right way. Keep an eye on him. Now, let's check in on Joe Biden at the beach again today. Joe Biden at the beach. It's not Memorial Day weekend. It's not July 4th. It's not Labor Day. It's Wednesday. I mean, how many vacation days do federal employees get? He was at the beach. He also rode his bike all over the place, which is a bad idea. I already warned him about this, and he's had at least one major fall off that bike. Not good, not good. Now, he went to the beach also last night, which I can't figure out. Who goes to the beach at night? Generally speaking, I don't think older married couples go to the beach. I know some people go to the beach at night, but I don't know. That's a little bit odd. And he went to the movies, and not just any movie. He saw a three-hour movie on a Tuesday night. It's a weeknight. It's a school night if you're an adult, kind of. Well, it's not a school night, I guess. But you know what I mean. He shouldn't be going to a three-hour movie. What did he see? Oppenheimer. I saw that movie, and I could not stay for the whole three hours. I had to get back to my life. I had stuff to do, and I'm not the president of the United States. I just have a show on Channel 333. I had to get back to work. I couldn't stay for the whole thing. I did stay through the test in New Mexico. Overrated movie. Anyway, next, please, the judge in the case. We have to talk about her for a second. Tanya Shutkin. This is a bad judge. I'm not saying she's bad. I don't know about her record, but bad for the Trump case, because she has major conflicts. Take a look at this. She worked at Hunter Biden's law firm. You can't spend 12 years at the law firm where Hunter Biden worked. Boys, Schiller, Flexner, or whatever. You can't be there. That's the major conflict of interest. Next, please. Let's see, the judge donated $1,500 to Obama in 2008 and 2009. I'm sorry, that renders her ineligible to preside over a case where President Trump is a defendant, and I think we have one more. What is it? Number three, she lives in Washington, DC. Now, why is that? Why is that a problem? Well, if you watch local news in Washington, DC, they talk about January 6th like it was Pearl Harbor, like it was here in New York, like 9/11 or Hurricane Sandy. It's something that affected all of Washington, DC. They're very melodramatic about it. And also, the town is 92.1% Democrat. And according to the Constitution, Donald Trump, under the Sixth Amendment, is entitled-- all Americans are entitled to an impartial jury, and it's impossible for him to get one in Washington, DC. All right, folks, we need your help. We'd like to know how you feel about this indictment. I have a sneaking suspicion how you already feel, but Trump's second federal indictment, a crime or an effort to stop his 24 run. Please vote. Text Trump, T-R-U-M-P, to 39 747 39 747. There'll be a bunch of questions there. It'll take you through it, and we'll share the results with all of you. Thank you. It will mean a lot. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/823/727/725/851/038/original/8d696244d3bbd613.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 33,858 - Reposts: 9,854 - Replies: 1,985 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.403Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T06:58:23.290Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary On the day of his federal arraignment on January 6 charges, Trump's posting cluster reveals a multi-vector narcissistic defense response. This specific post — the lowest-effort item in that cluster — functions as a pure validation-seeking behavior: amplifying a sympathetic media figure (Greg Kelly, Newsmax) who frames the indictment as a 'political hit job.' The zero-composition format, combined with a 00:12 AM local timestamp, strongly suggests authentic late-night media consumption converted directly into public amplification. This is the vulnerable-state arm of a same-day oscillation between victimhood and grandiosity visible across the cluster. Psychologically, the post reveals a characteristic narcissistic response to acute injury: rather than generating original defensive content, the subject seeks external mirroring. The rationalization defense is fully operative — a grand jury indictment is metabolized as partisan persecution, preserving the grandiose self-narrative. While individually low-intensity, the post is clinically significant as part of a documented escalation pattern on a high-stakes legal date, and illustrates the propaganda architecture of the response cluster: each post addresses a different audience need (accusation, procedural challenge, fundraising, ideological framing, media validation), collectively constituting a Firehose-model information campaign launched within hours of arraignment. # Psychological Analysis — ts_110823730478690702 **Date:** 2023-08-03 | **Age:** 77 | **Platform:** Truth Social | **Local time:** ~00:12 AM EDT --- ## Contextual Frame This post cannot be analyzed in isolation. It is the fifth post in a same-day cluster responding to Trump's arraignment on four federal felony counts related to January 6. The arraignment represents one of the most acute narcissistic injuries documented in this dataset: a former president formally processed through a federal courtroom as a criminal defendant. The cluster as a whole constitutes a multi-vector defensive response; this post occupies the *media-validation* node of that architecture. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits **Extraversion (High):** Immediate public amplification of sympathetic coverage rather than private processing. No delay, no filter. **Agreeableness (Low):** The framing, even sourced through Kelly, is combative — 'hit job' is an accusation of criminal conspiracy by the prosecution. **Conscientiousness (Low):** Zero compositional effort. Minimum viable post. **Neuroticism (Elevated):** The zero-composition format, late-night timestamp, and reliance on external validation all index elevated emotional reactivity. The content itself is affect-driven rather than strategic. **Openness (Low):** No consideration of alternative framings of the indictment. The post functions as epistemic closure — the verdict on the proceedings is declared before any facts are argued. --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motives (High — threatened):** The indictment directly threatens the power and status motives that dominate Trump's motivational profile. The response cluster is almost entirely oriented toward restoring a sense of control and dominance. **Communion motives (Present — instrumental):** The amplification of Kelly positions Trump within a community of sympathetic validators. The parasocial relationship with followers is activated by presenting a trusted ally who shares their view. **Schemas revealed:** - *Self-schema:* Persecuted, uniquely targeted, innocent - *Other-schema (enemies):* Politically motivated, corrupt, operating outside legitimate authority - *World-schema:* Rules and institutions are weapons of factional warfare, not neutral arbiters --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** Martyr/Warrior hybrid — the indictment is reframed as proof of exceptional status (only someone this threatening gets this treatment). **Contamination sequence:** What began as a legitimate political return (2024 campaign) has been 'contaminated' by prosecutorial weaponization. The 'political hit job' label names the contaminating agent. **Identity claims (implicit):** *I am so threatening to the establishment that they must prosecute me to stop me.* The indictment is absorbed into the grandiose narrative rather than threatening it — a characteristic of stable narcissistic identity structure under stress. **Contrasting other:** The Biden administration / Jack Smith as the corrupt perpetrators; Greg Kelly / Newsmax audience as the knowing community. --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators ### Malignant Narcissism (Kernberg) **Narcissistic features (Moderate — 0.5):** The post is low-intensity by Trump standards, but functions within a cluster that collectively indexes high narcissistic reactivity. The framing of a federal criminal prosecution as a personal political attack reflects the entitlement schema ('I cannot legitimately be prosecuted'). **Paranoid features (Moderate — 0.5):** 'Political hit job' maps onto paranoid ideation — organized, targeted, malicious persecution. Consistent with the broader same-day cluster. **Antisocial features (Low — 0.1):** Not salient in this specific post. **Sadism (Absent):** No target is humiliated here; this is a defensive rather than offensive post. ### Narcissistic Dynamics **Trigger:** Narcissistic injury (exposure/defeat type) — arraignment on federal felony charges. **State:** Clearly **vulnerable** — the supply-seeking behavior (amplifying a validator rather than generating content) is the vulnerable-state response pattern. Compare with the grandiose post in the same cluster ('The Radical Left wants to Criminalize Free Speech!') — the oscillation between victim and warrior frames within a single day is diagnostic of the grandiose/vulnerable cycling characteristic of narcissistic personality under acute stress. **Rage:** Muted in this specific post. The rage is expressed in adjacent posts ('Crooked Joe Biden,' 'Deranged Jack Smith'); here, Kelly voices the aggression while Trump amplifies. ### Defense Mechanisms 1. **Rationalization (Neurotic):** Converting criminal prosecution into political persecution. 2. **Displacement (Neurotic):** Routing the attack through a media intermediary rather than expressing it directly. 3. **Projection (Immature, cluster-level):** Across the same-day cluster, attributing corrupt political motivation to Biden/Smith as a mirror defense against the same accusation. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Score: 0.75 (authentic)** | **Confidence: Medium** The 00:12 AM Eastern timestamp is the primary indicator. This falls squarely in the documented authentic-posting window. The zero-composition format — quote + YouTube link — is consistent with Trump watching Newsmax/streaming content late at night and immediately sharing without drafting. No stylometric markers are available (no original text), but the behavioral signature is strongly authentic. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis **Techniques:** - *Appeal to authority:* A named media figure delivers the persecution verdict, lending it apparent objectivity - *Source laundering:* The most aggressive characterization ('hit job') is attributed to Kelly, providing Trump deniability while achieving full amplification - *Volume architecture (cluster-level):* This post is one of five on a single day, each attacking from a distinct vector — a Firehose-pattern information campaign **Dehumanizing language:** Absent **Violent imagery:** Absent **Stochastic terrorism:** Absent --- ## Cognitive Status Insufficient material for cognitive assessment. The absence of original text precludes analysis of vocabulary, syntax, or coherence. No markers of concern can be identified, but equally none can be ruled out. Adjacent same-day posts provide more material; their syntax and vocabulary are within documented baseline range. --- ## Danger Assessment **Level: None** for this specific post. The post contains no eliminationist language, no target identification with implied action, and no violent imagery. Within the broader same-day cluster, the rhetoric is aggressive but does not cross stochastic terrorism thresholds in this instance. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "The Trump indictment is a 'Political Hit Job'" | **Unverifiable** | This is an opinion/characterization, not a factual claim. The indictment on four federal counts was produced by a federal grand jury under Special Counsel Jack Smith. Whether political motivation was operative is contested; grand jury proceedings themselves are non-partisan in form. The claim is unverifiable as a factual matter. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Archetypal / Order-Chaos Analysis **Archetype:** Victim/Martyr — Trump positions himself as the target of a corrupt institutional order. The post implicitly invokes the Hero-as-Victim paradox: the very attack proves the hero's threat to the corrupt establishment. **Order-chaos positioning:** Order *attacker* — the legal system is delegitimized as a political weapon, not a neutral institution. This is consistent with the broader campaign to position Trump's followers as existing outside the corrupt order, awaiting restoration. **Shadow projection:** The accusations of corrupt political motivation leveled at Biden/Smith may reflect projection of Trump's own documented attempts to use the Justice Department to serve political ends (a pattern established in the Mueller investigation and the post-2020 period). ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 75%) ### Indicators - Posted at 00:12 AM Eastern (UTC-4, summer) — deep late-night timing strongly consistent with authentic Trump media-consumption habits - Minimal composition: a single quoted line and a YouTube link, no original text — consistent with Trump watching cable/streaming and immediately amplifying - No typos or grammatical material to assess, but the spartan format mirrors known authentic sharing behavior - Greg Kelly (Newsmax) is a known Trump ally; amplifying allies late at night is a documented authentic pattern ## Psychological Profile ### State **Vulnerable State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Jack Smith federal indictment / arraignment on January 6 charges) Sentiment: -0.55 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 50% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 50% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - displacement (neurotic) - rationalization (neurotic) - projection (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 10% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Amplifying a trusted in-group media voice to make the persecution claim feel like consensus - Passive framing — letting Kelly state the grievance so followers attribute it to objective commentary rather than self-defense ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > The Trump indictment is a 'Political Hit Job' **UNVERIFIABLE** This is an opinion/characterization, not a factual claim. The indictment on four federal counts was produced by a federal grand jury under Special Counsel Jack Smith. Whether political motivation was operative is contested; grand jury proceedings themselves are non-partisan in form. The claim is unverifiable as a factual matter. Sources: Known events: Trump indicted by Jack Smith for January 6 election interference Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - narcissistic-injury-response (80%) - supply-seeking (75%) - media-amplification (70%) - indictment-response (90%) - persecution-narrative (70%) - source-laundering (65%) - vulnerable-narcissistic-state (75%) - authentic-late-night-post (70%) - firehose-cluster (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Arraignment Day: Trump Converts Federal Felony Charges Into Real-Time Martyrdom Narrative and Fundraising Event** Trump was arraigned in Washington DC on four federal felony charges related to January 6 and spent the entire day building a counter-narrative across 24 posts. The evening before, his team flooded Truth Social with sympathetic media links; by morning he was personally firing off defiant all-caps declarations, culminating in the messianic "I AM BEING ARRESTED FOR YOU." He attacked prosecutors, Biden, a minor primary rival, and Washington DC itself, while threading in three fundraising appeals. He closed the night declaring it "A VERY GOOD DAY" -- the clearest possible signal that the persecution brand is now fully fused with the campaign operation. Full digest for 2023-08-03: https://trump.fm/date/2023-08-03/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, August 3). Greg Kelly: “Trump indictment is a ‘Political Hit... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110823730478690702 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Greg Kelly: “Trump indictment is a ‘Political Hit Job’”..." Truth Social, 3 Aug. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110823730478690702. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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