# Post ts_110846322763789860 - Post ID: `ts_110846322763789860` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-08-07T03:57:37.415Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110846322763789860 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110846322763789860/analysis ## Post text > A MUST WATCH! ## What the media says **Video transcript** (6:25), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > That was a very contentious election, and we all know it. January 6th, this past cycle for the president said to be an insurrection. And President Trump was said to be guilty of seditious conspiracy. We had a whole January 6th commission set up by Nancy Pelosi. She picked the Democrats and the Republicans. She rejected the Republicans that Leader McCarthy had chosen. It's never been done before in American history. And they do all this one-sided public stuff, and they turn it over to a prosecutor. The funny thing about the prosecution is, here it is. There is a criminal act, rebellion or insurrection, passed during the Civil War period. It appears nowhere in the charges against Donald Trump. Donald Trump is not guilty of rebellion or insurrection, he's not even charged with it. Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the US or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or in prison not more than 10 years or both, and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States. That's not in here. Well, what about seditious conspiracy? I remember legal analysts all over cable TV, some here, CNN for sure, MSNBC, New York Times, Washington, but seditious conspiracy, they have Trump dead to rights. But it's not in the charges. If two or more persons in any state or territory in any place subject to the jurisdiction in the United States, conspired to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to cease, take or possess any property of the United States, contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or in prison not more than 20 years or both. So why? Why didn't this out of control rogue, Eric Holder, Obama, Biden, prosecutor, Garland's man, Smith, bring these charges because he had no evidence. Rebellion or insurrection, all the testimony, the January 6th committee, all the testimony, all the witnesses, all the documents, not a centilla of evidence that Donald Trump led any kind of rebellion or insurrection. What about seditious conspiracy? There was no seditious conspiracy. Donald Trump is the man who said if they want 10,000 armed army soldiers to protect them on January 6th, please let me know while nobody's leading an insurrection if they're offering armed federal troops to protect the Capitol building. And we heard what Donald Trump said about peacefully lobbying Congress. So it doesn't work. So what happened? So Jack and the boys go back and they say, you know what, we can't let this go anyway. So they go back to the Civil War, post Civil War period, a law that was passed in 1871. It was called the Ku Klux Klan Act at the time to try and defeat the Klan. That's one of the counts here, 18 U.S.C. 241 conspiracy against rights. It is a disgusting and preposterous overreach. Then we have two counts under 18 U.S.C. 1512. Now these laws were passed in 2002 to address gaps that they felt existed in the Enron scandal investigation. If you consider the Enron statutes, they have nothing to do with January 6th protests, even though this has been used, so-called obstruction, this has been used against one protester after another by the same prosecutors from January 6th. This has not yet gone to the Supreme Court. It will be tested by the Supreme Court. And I believe the Supreme Court will say no, this was never intended to be used that way. Then we have count one, 18 U.S.C. 371. Now that count is a garden variety statute that the federal government uses against federal contractors, people who cheat the government out of money and so forth. And that has been expanded to include, you know, challenging the legitimate activity of the government. Again, stretched completely out of control. Those are the four charges. This is a disgusting attack on our electoral system. And as I've said before, the electoral system in America is now dead unless all of this is reversed. We cannot have, after all these years, more than two centuries, a Department of Justice and U.S. attorneys with 20/20 hindsight delving into what a president or a candidate thinks. Now that 1876 election, I told you that that state sent in two groups of electors. You're free to do that. Congress decides all this stuff. They're not criminal activities. So but now what are the rules for running, challenging and disputing elections today? We don't know. Who decides? Apparently prosecutors. What can a candidate or when can a candidate rely on legal advice since President Trump's lawyers are being indicted for giving legal advice? Is a president not free to discuss decisions about elections with his vice president and strongly urge him to take one position or another? Of course he's free to do that. Is a president free to publicly dispute election results? They all do when they lose, including people like Hillary Clinton and Al Gore. The electoral process is now not purely political and constitutional as it was intended. But now it is the control of prosecutors, Department of Justice, and in the hands of these people, the Biden administration, it is a disaster. The judge who's going to hear this case is the most radical partisan activist Obama appointee in the entire federal judiciary. Gee, I wonder how she got chosen. We'll be right back. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/846/322/318/749/923/original/e3322d470a4c1bea.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 13,383 - Reposts: 4,639 - Replies: 411 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.403Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-04-03T19:27:22.439Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Posted at approximately midnight Eastern on August 7 — four days after Trump's federal arraignment on election interference charges — this spare four-word post ("A MUST WATCH!") with attached video is best understood as a post-indictment supply-seeking maneuver rather than substantive communication. Context from the same day's subsequent posts confirms the video is a Mark Levin clip framing the charges as historically routine "contentious elections" — a reality-distorting equivalence prosecutors would argue is legally and historically misleading. The ALL CAPS imperative, late-night timing (~midnight ET at Bedminster NJ), and minimal-text-plus-video format are all consistent with authentic Trump authorship. Psychologically, the post represents the soothing, supply-acquisition pole of a dual-mode post-injury response — offset against the rage-mode "I'm coming after you" post three days earlier that prosecutors cited in requesting a protective order. The defense architecture is rationalization and idealization in service of structural denial: if a credible surrogate frames the charges as ordinary political conflict, the narcissistic wound is temporarily managed without Trump directly making the false claim. No clinical deviation from Trump's established crisis-response baseline is detectable. ## Post Analysis: "A MUST WATCH!" — August 7, 2023 ### Overview This post is nearly content-free in textual terms: a four-word imperative ("A MUST WATCH!") paired with a video attachment (an mp4 hosted on Truth Social's CDN). Context from the same day's subsequent posts reveals the video is almost certainly a Mark Levin clip in which Levin defends Trump's narrative about "contentious" elections — a framing device designed to normalize the January 6 indictment as routine political conflict rather than criminal conduct. The post must be read against its crisis context: Trump was arraigned on four federal felony counts just four days prior (August 3), had publicly threatened those "going after" him in an all-caps post on August 4 (which prosecutors cited in requesting a protective order), and was actively demanding Judge Chutkan's recusal. The psychological function of this share is transparent: **narcissistic supply-seeking via proxy voice**. --- ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits The post itself is too minimal to assess trait expression with precision. However, the ALL CAPS imperative ("A MUST WATCH!") is a micro-expression of: - **Low Agreeableness** facet: *assertiveness bordering on commandingness* — the phrasing demands audience compliance rather than inviting voluntary engagement - **Extraversion**: excitement-seeking, positive affect projected onto the audience ("you must feel what I feel about this") - **Low Openness/Values rigidity**: the post functions as an echo-chamber amplifier — sharing friendly media that reinforces a pre-existing narrative rather than engaging with competing perspectives No evidence of deliberation or conscientiousness; this is an impulsive, emotionally-driven share. --- ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motive: dominance/control** Sharing a surrogate voice (Levin) who articulates Trump's preferred legal/historical framing serves a control function: Trump cannot directly argue his own case publicly without legal risk, so he outsources the narrative to a trusted amplifier. The imperative framing ("MUST WATCH") asserts control over the audience's attention and emotional valence. **Supply-seeking schema** Post-indictment, Trump requires continuous validation that the charges are politically motivated and historically precedented. Levin provides this. The share is a supply-acquisition mechanism: Trump draws psychological sustenance from the amplified agreement of a loyalist media figure, and simultaneously uses the post to signal to his base that credible validators exist. **Schema of self and world** Even in this compressed form, the schema is legible: *I am being persecuted; serious, credible people agree; watch and you will understand the injustice being done to me.* The implicit message is that any fair-minded viewer will conclude, as Levin does, that Trump is a victim of unprecedented political weaponization. --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** The Persecuted Patriot / Martyred Hero. Trump is not present as speaker in this post — he is entirely absent — yet the post is entirely *about* constructing his narrative identity. By proxy, Levin casts Trump as a figure whose experience rhymes with historical electoral controversies, implying continuity (and therefore legitimacy) with the American political tradition. **Contamination sequence**: The broader posting pattern this week (Women's Soccer, indictment attacks, Levin promotion) follows a contamination arc: America was great → corrupt forces have contaminated it → Trump is the primary victim of that contamination. **Contrasting Other:** Implicitly, Jack Smith, Judge Chutkan, and "Crooked Joe Biden" — the agents of the contamination. Though unnamed in this post, they are the negative space around which the Levin share is constructed. **Redemption arc:** The Levin clip gestures toward redemption — history will vindicate Trump because these things have happened before and the system survived. This is psychologically consoling to Trump and serves as supply. --- ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators #### Malignant Narcissism This post in isolation provides insufficient material for malignant narcissism scoring, but in the week's broader constellation: - **Narcissistic features**: Grandiosity (the persecution must be historically unprecedented); entitlement (the charges are inherently illegitimate); need for admiration (continuous validation-seeking through media surrogates) - **Paranoid features**: Demand for Chutkan recusal; perception that Washington DC is irredeemably hostile; threatening post on August 4 - **Antisocial features**: The August 4 "I'm coming after you" post (contextually linked) showed contempt for legal process and disregard for witness safety concerns - **Sadism**: Not expressed in this post #### Narcissistic Dynamics **Trigger:** Acute narcissistic injury — federal indictment + arraignment within the past week. The injury is among the most severe possible: public criminal charges framing his signature political claim (stolen 2020 election) as a crime rather than a legitimate grievance. **Response pattern:** Rather than rage (expressed more explicitly in surrounding posts), this post represents the **supply-seeking pole** of the post-injury response. Levin validates; Trump amplifies; the audience receives the validation and sends it back. This is a closed-loop supply circuit. **Narcissistic state:** Mixed — primarily **vulnerable** (post-indictment wound requires soothing) with grandiose elements managed through the Levin surrogate (if Levin says it's unprecedented persecution, Trump can maintain grandiose self-image while in a structurally vulnerable position). #### Defense Mechanisms - **Rationalization (neurotic):** The Levin content provides intellectual scaffolding justifying Trump's narrative that the charges are routine political weaponization - **Idealization (immature):** Levin is cast as uniquely insightful ("MUST WATCH"), elevating him to oracle status — a common Trump move with loyalist media figures - **Denial (pathological, structural):** The entire Levin-sharing enterprise is an exercise in denying the legal gravity of the charges by recasting them as historical normalcy --- ### Authorship Attribution **Verdict: Authentic Trump (high confidence)** - UTC timestamp 03:57:37 = approximately **11:57 PM Eastern** on August 6, 2023 — solidly in Trump's authentic late-night posting window - ALL CAPS imperative ("A MUST WATCH!") is a Trump linguistic signature, appearing repeatedly across his posting history when sharing media he finds validating - Minimal text + video share pattern matches authentic Trump behavior (aides produce more polished, text-rich posts) - Emotional reactivity consistent with post-indictment psychological state - No aide would structure a post this sparsely — the imperative all-caps share is a personal Trump behavior pattern **Likely local time:** ~11:57 PM ET. Trump's location on August 7, 2023 was most likely Bedminster, NJ (his summer residence), which is also Eastern time. The late-night timing is fully consistent with authentic authorship. --- ### Rhetorical Techniques The post's rhetorical power is almost entirely mediated through the attached video rather than the text. The four-word text itself deploys: 1. **Imperative framing**: "MUST WATCH" removes optionality — this is a command, not a recommendation 2. **ALL CAPS amplification**: Signals emotional urgency; creates parasocial intimacy (Trump is excited and wants you to share the excitement) 3. **Appeal to authority by proxy**: Levin (from context) is positioned as an authoritative interpreter; the share implies Trump endorses his analysis as definitive 4. **Reality reframing**: Levin's "contentious elections" framework normalizes the charges; the share propagates this reframe to Trump's audience No dehumanizing language, violent imagery, or stochastic terrorism indicators are present in this post. --- ### Gaslighting and Reality Distortion Minimal in the post text itself. The broader Levin narrative (from context) likely involves reality distortion around the legitimacy of the electoral fraud claims, but this cannot be assessed from the post text alone without viewing the video. No direct gaslighting (DARVO, denial of documented events) in these four words. --- ### Cognitive Status The post is too abbreviated to assess cognitive markers. No word-finding difficulty, paraphasia, or tangentiality detectable. The ALL CAPS imperative is stylistically consistent with Trump's established baseline and does not indicate deviation. Baseline comparison requires longer text samples. --- ### Danger Assessment **Danger level: None** (this post in isolation) The danger was concentrated in the August 4 "I'm coming after you" post (cited by prosecutors). This post represents the softer, supply-seeking pole of the same post-indictment psychological response. No eliminationist language, no target identification, no violent imagery. --- ### Archetypal Analysis **Primary archetype: Herald/Amplifier** (secondary: Martyr) Trump here is not performing as Warrior or Trickster — he is the Herald, announcing a message from a trusted voice. The psychological function is to maintain the **Hero narrative** through surrogation: if Trump directly claims vindication, it reads as self-serving; if Levin claims it, Trump becomes the humble conduit for independent truth-telling. This is a sophisticated (if unconscious) identity management maneuver. The **Martyr** archetype is structurally present — the entire week's posting pattern constructs Trump as unjustly persecuted, and this Levin share extends that construction. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Implicit claim (via Levin endorsement): The 2020 election dispute and resulting legal proceedings are comparable to past contentious presidential elections" | **Mostly False** | While the US has seen contentious elections (1876 Hayes-Tilden, 2000 Bush-Gore), no prior presidential candidate faced federal charges for a coordinated multi-state scheme involving fake electors and pressure on the vice president to reject certified results. The Levin framing draws a false equivalence between ordinary electoral disputes and conduct specifically charged as conspiracy to defraud the United States. | Overall Veracity: 20% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 85%) ### Indicators - ALL CAPS imperative ('A MUST WATCH!') is a recurring Trump linguistic signature when sharing validating media - UTC 03:57:37 = approximately 11:57 PM Eastern at Bedminster NJ — solidly within authentic late-night posting window - Minimal text + video share pattern is consistent with authentic impulsive Trump behavior; aides produce more polished content - Emotional reactivity consistent with post-indictment psychological state requiring urgent validation ## Psychological Profile ### Traits **Big Five:** - Extraversion: 82% - Agreeableness: 12% - Conscientiousness: 20% - Neuroticism: 65% - Openness: 15% Strongest facet: assertiveness (extraversion facet) expressed as commanding imperatives **Motives:** - Agency: 78% - Communion: 10% Primary drive: validation ### Narrative - **Role:** Martyred Herald — conduit for independent truth-tellers who vindicate him - **Arc:** contamination - **Contrasting:** Jack Smith / Judge Chutkan / Biden administration (implicit negative space) **Identity Claims:** - I am someone whose persecution is recognized by serious, credible commentators - I am connected enough to the truth that I can identify what you must watch ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (Federal indictment and arraignment (August 1-3, 2023)) Sentiment: +0.30 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 55% - Antisocial: 20% - Paranoid: 40% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) - idealization (immature) - denial (pathological) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 10% **Parasocial Techniques:** - ALL CAPS urgency creates shared emotional state with audience - Imperative framing ('MUST WATCH') simulates direct personal communication - Media share implies Trump and follower are jointly discovering validating truth ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-04-03._ > Implicit claim (via Levin endorsement): The 2020 election dispute and resulting legal proceedings are comparable to past contentious presidential elections **MOSTLY FALSE** While the US has seen contentious elections (1876 Hayes-Tilden, 2000 Bush-Gore), no prior presidential candidate faced federal charges for a coordinated multi-state scheme involving fake electors and pressure on the vice president to reject certified results. The Levin framing draws a false equivalence between ordinary electoral disputes and conduct specifically charged as conspiracy to defraud the United States. Sources: DOJ indictment August 1 2023 — four counts including conspiracy to defraud the US; Historical record of 1876 and 2000 electoral disputes Overall Veracity: 20% ## Tags - supply-seeking (90%) - proxy-validation (85%) - post-indictment-response (95%) - idealization-defense (75%) - late-night-authentic (85%) - levin-amplification (80%) - contamination-narrative (70%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Post-Arraignment Siege: Seventeen Posts Channel Legal Fury Into Systematic DOJ Delegitimization** Four days after his federal arraignment on January 6 charges, Trump posted seventeen times from Bedminster in a day consumed by fury at prosecutors and the justice system. A late-night cluster began with gloating over a soccer rival's public humiliation before shifting into defensive media-sharing, and by morning the posts escalated into sustained attacks on Jack Smith, the presiding judge, and the DOJ itself — which he rechristened the "Department of Injustice." Brief detours into golf congratulations, bacon prices, and foreign policy never broke the gravitational pull of the indictment. A notable error — misnaming a key congressional witness "Keven" instead of Devon Archer — was the day's clearest cognitive flag. Full digest for 2023-08-07: https://trump.fm/date/2023-08-07/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, August 7). A MUST WATCH! [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110846322763789860 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "A MUST WATCH!" Truth Social, 7 Aug. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110846322763789860. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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