# Post ts_110846349074069382 - Post ID: `ts_110846349074069382` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-08-07T04:04:18.868Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110846349074069382 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110846349074069382/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110846349074069382.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > “An Attorney General who has completely politicized the DOJ, and they are carrying water for the Biden Administration in a very destructive way…”James Trusty Former DOJ Prosecutor ## What the media says **Video transcript** (7:02), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Welcome back America. We're here with one of the finest litigators I know, Jim Trusty who used to work at the Department of Justice, also a former federal prosecutor. He's with the IFA law firm, a law partner there, and was a former lawyer for Donald Trump. Jim Trusty, you see what's taken place in Washington, DC. I've read this complaint now and there's nothing in here at all. 18 US Code 2383 about rebellion or insurrection. I thought that's what this was all about. 18 US Code section 2384 seditious conspiracy. I heard former federal prosecutors saying they have them dead to rights on that. Instead what I read is an assault on the First Amendment, an assault on attorneys providing advice who are indicted for giving me advice the government doesn't agree with. I see this really as a political statement dressed up as a legal statement here. Do you agree? And if so, how does somebody get away with this? Yeah, well, we get away from it. We get away with this because of the fact you've got an attorney general who's completely politicized the DOJ and they're carrying water for the Biden administration in a very destructive way. I mean, you've touched on it perfectly, Mark. The problem is this is creative prosecution. You know, that's the last thing you want. What you want in a situation where the stakes are this high when you're literally affecting elections and when you're literally going after a former president, what you'd want from a Department of Justice is scrupulous transparency, where they are literally willing to have anybody look over their shoulder that asks, including special masters or judges, where they are forthcoming with discovery, where they basically don't do anything that's obviously creative because the creativity shows that this is just ends justify the means. This is just a group that has decided even if we don't have the evidence that we were hoping for, we're going to come up with something. We've got the target. Now we're going to come up with the charges. And so I think if you look at these indictments, you know, it is a very bad precedent for what is considered fair game in a high-profile public integrity type prosecution. If you're a lawyer advising candidates, now you are exposed to possible indictment if after the fact a prosecutor looks back on this, could be any US attorney at this point now, any they look back and they say you know what you lied. You know what the advice that you gave to your candidate was intended to obstruct the the peaceful movement from one senator to another, one administration to another. I mean this document literally destroys the ability to get straight legal advice, it destroys the ability for a candidate to know what's in, what's out, what the rules of the game are, who's going to decide them and so forth and so on. Isn't that for Congress to decide other than a grand jury? Yeah I mean Mark, look there's a commonality between the two federal indictments, between Mar-a-Lago and now this can is you know Klein conspiracy as they call it under under the statute 18 USC 371. The commonality in these indictments is that DOJ has blown open important privileges that are held by presidents and others and so in the Mar-a-Lago case, attorney-client privilege which is almost absolutely inviolable was blown open by a friendly judge to allow for an indictment to have all these highlight moments of what Evan Corcoran said or what the exchange was between Evan Corcoran and the president about complying with the subpoena. The common thing we see in this more recent indictment is there's no such thing as executive privilege. The highlights in this indictment tend to be conversations between the vice president and the president which used to be sacrosanct. So what you're coming up with is a model for candidates or for presidents or for vice presidents where they have to know that hey all this stuff that's supposed to be behind closed doors so we can run this country is fair game for ambitious creative prosecutors and so we can't have these conversations. I mean we want to encourage frankness and disagreement between these high-level people that are running our country and these two indictments stand for the proposition that we'll criminalize it if there's a disagreement and that is the worst precedent imaginable in a case that demands transparency. It's very important what you're saying here. Attorney-client privilege was denied Donald Trump in the documents case. It was litigated in secret. We still haven't read the order that the judge issued. I assume the judge in Florida is going to have an opportunity to figure this stuff out. An emotion will likely be fired I hope by the Trump lawyers challenging all this. It's very difficult to see how you've due process when the information that you've discussed with your lawyer becomes the basic information used by the government against you. I can't think of another system like this. The crime fraud exception as we talked about it's a very very high bar so just so the public understands it's not that what if I do this what if I do this what if I do this that's fair game. The issue is when you try to get your lawyer look Frank my lawyer Frank you need to destroy those documents I insist that you destroy those documents that's the crime fraud exception not asking what happens if I destroy the documents any client is free to ask their their lawyer that sort of thing we don't know anything about this do we Jim? Yeah well I might know a little bit but look I mean there's the reality which yeah and there's things obviously I can't talk about but what I would just say is this the crime fraud exception is designed to be what you're talking about where there is cause and effect even if you even if the attorney is an unwitting in other words they're not purposefully breaking the law you have to show to a court considering that crime fraud exception that the advice was given and that the client then said oh well therefore I will now be able to break the law so it would be like hey Frank can I destroy all these documents they're looking for and Frank says yeah that would make it go away and then he destroys the documents right that would be a situation where you know you would at least have the possibility of blowing open the attorney-client relationship for that purpose I can just tell you there was nothing like that here and the bottom line is the indictment has all of these nuggets of conversations that happen every day of the week when you talk about white-collar investigations where an executive turns to his lawyer and says hey can we fight this subpoena can we do we have to turn stuff over what would happen if I do this what would happen if I do that we as a society as a criminal justice system want to encourage those types of interchanges and right now because of the desire to get one man and one man only the Department of Justice has created new law new precedent new damage to the institution of the presidency because of their pursuit of one man we'll be right back ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/846/348/701/513/643/original/efb4afafe17c6762.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 12,866 - Reposts: 3,457 - Replies: 345 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.403Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T07:02:53.362Z (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 midnight local time (Bedminster, NJ), this post deploys a surrogate-voice technique — quoting former Trump attorney and DOJ veteran James Trusty — to mount a systematic delegitimization attack on the DOJ in the immediate wake of Trump's January 6 arraignment. The primary psychological dynamic is narcissistic injury response operating through immature defenses: projection (accusing the DOJ of the precise politicization Trump himself is accused of), splitting (DOJ wholly corrupted / Trusty wholly credentialed), and DARVO (Deny → Attack → Reverse Victim and Offender). The "completely politicized" characterization inverts the documented institutional structure of the Special Counsel appointment, constituting reality distortion rather than mere opinion. The surrogate citation provides plausible deniability and pseudo-rational scaffolding for what is fundamentally a self-protective attack on legal accountability. In narrative identity terms, Trump occupies the persecuted dissident protagonist role — entirely offstage yet the sole referent of every claim. Shadow projection is structurally precise: Trump's own documented pressure on DOJ leadership is projected onto the current institution as its defining corruption. Assessed in isolation this post is elevated (not high) danger; in the contemporaneous sequence — direct threats, judge recusal demands, Mark Levin amplification — it constitutes one node in a delegitimization architecture consistent with stochastic terrorism infrastructure-building. Authorship is assessed as leaning authentic (midnight local timing) with possible aide involvement in clip sourcing. ## Psychological Analysis: ts_110846349074069382 (2023-08-07) ### Authorship Attribution The UTC timestamp 04:04:18 converts to **12:04 AM EDT** at Bedminster, NJ — Trump's typical August residence (Trump National Golf Club). This late-night/midnight local timing is squarely within the authentic-Trump posting window. However, the post's format — a curated video clip captioned with a third-party attributed quote — reflects a hybrid pattern: aide-sourced media with Trump-authored framing language. The introductory phrase ("An Attorney General who has completely politicized the DOJ, and they are carrying water for the Biden Administration in a very destructive way…") is grammatically unresolved as a standalone clause — neither the polished construction of a communications aide nor typical Trump direct-speech aggression. This suggests Trump authored the caption framing while the clip was likely sourced/shared by staff. **Confidence: medium.** James Trusty, notably, was Trump's own attorney who resigned in June 2023 just before the classified documents superseding indictment — making his subsequent public criticism of DOJ a form of credentialed surrogate amplification. --- ### Contextual Frame This post falls within the most acute legal jeopardy period in Trump's life to that point: his arraignment on four federal charges related to January 6 occurred August 3, 2023 — four days prior. Simultaneously, prosecutors had just sought a protective order citing Trump's "I'm coming after you" Truth Social post. The psychological landscape is one of **active narcissistic injury compounded by genuine existential threat**, producing the full activation of paranoid-projective defenses. --- ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) The post is a controlled expression of hostility, atypical for Trump's most dysregulated moments. The quote format imposes a veneer of deliberation: - **Agreeableness (very low)**: The attack is institutional and comprehensive — "completely politicized," "carrying water," "very destructive." No qualification, no acknowledgment of legitimate function. - **Neuroticism — Angry Hostility (elevated)**: The emotional charge is present in the loaded word choices, though modulated by the surrogate structure. - **Conscientiousness (low)**: The grammatically incomplete caption suggests impulsive composition rather than deliberate construction. - **Extraversion**: Moderate; less performative than surrounding ALL CAPS posts. - **Openness (very low)**: Rigid, closed interpretive frame — no alternative reading of DOJ conduct is admitted. --- ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations — Goals, Motives, and Schemas **Dominant motive: Agency/Power (defensive variant)**. The primary motivational goal here is not acquisition of power but *protection of status* against institutional threat. The post seeks to delegitimize the source of accountability before accountability is fully imposed. **Schema activated**: "Corrupt system targeting the exceptional individual" — a deeply embedded cognitive framework in Trump's public identity since at least 2015. The schema requires: (1) a persecuting institution, (2) a credentialed validator of persecution, (3) an audience primed to receive this frame. All three are present. **Communion motives**: Absent. No warmth, no solidarity beyond implicit in-group signal. --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role**: Persecuted dissident / political prisoner. The self is entirely offstage — Trump is not mentioned — yet the post's meaning is wholly self-referential. - **Contamination sequence**: A once-legitimate Department of Justice has been transformed into a weaponized instrument of partisan persecution. The good (institutional legitimacy) has been contaminated by political corruption. - **Identity claims** (implicit): "I am the target of an unprecedented, illegitimate political prosecution by a captured state apparatus." - **Contrasting other**: The "completely politicized" AG (Merrick Garland) and the "Biden Administration" — framed as a coordinated persecutory force. - **Surrogate narrator**: The deployment of Trusty as the speaking subject is a narrative technique — it places the accusation in the mouth of a credentialed insider, elevating it from partisan complaint to expert testimony. --- ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators #### Malignant Narcissism (Kernberg) **A. Narcissistic Features**: Implicit entitlement to immunity from legal process. The entire DOJ is positioned as serving to persecute him — grandiosity and persecution collapse into a single narrative. **B. Antisocial Features**: Systematic delegitimization of the rule of law functions as contempt for institutional constraints. No acknowledgment of legal process validity. **C. Paranoid Features (prominent)**: "Completely politicized" — absolute, totalizing characterization. No hedging, no partial validity attributed to the institution. This paranoid coloring is consistent across the surrounding posts (Mark Levin amplification, aggressive threats, judge recusal demands). **D. Ego-Syntonic Sadism**: Absent in this post specifically. #### Narcissistic Dynamics **Trigger**: **Narcissistic injury** — the indictment and arraignment represent the most severe public challenge to his self-concept as an untouchable power figure. The legal system becoming the agent of his humiliation activates the deepest layer of narcissistic wound. **Narcissistic State**: **Mixed — predominantly vulnerable with grandiose defense**. The vulnerability is in the victimhood framing; the grandiosity is in the dismissiveness of legal proceedings as entirely illegitimate. **Narcissistic Rage**: Present but displaced and modulated through the surrogate quote. The rage is present in the extreme characterizations ("completely," "very destructive") but the citation structure channels it into pseudo-analytical register. #### Defense Mechanisms 1. **Projection (Immature, Level 2)**: *Primary defense*. The accusation that the DOJ is "completely politicized" projects onto the institution exactly what Trump is accused of — weaponizing political processes for personal benefit. The irony is structurally complete: a man indicted for attempting to corrupt the electoral process accuses the prosecutorial institution of political corruption. 2. **Splitting (Immature, Level 2)**: The DOJ is wholly corrupted; Trusty is wholly credentialed and valid. No intermediate position is admitted. All-good/all-bad binary is total. 3. **Idealization/Devaluation (Immature, Level 2)**: Trusty is idealized as institutional authority ("Former DOJ Prosecutor") while the current DOJ is completely devalued. 4. **Rationalization (Neurotic, Level 3)**: The surrogate citation provides quasi-logical scaffolding for what is fundamentally a self-interested attack on legal accountability. #### DARVO Pattern Deny (implied: charges are illegitimate) → Attack (DOJ "completely politicized") → Reverse Victim and Offender (Trump as target of corrupt state prosecution, Biden Administration as true aggressor). Classic and fully operational. --- ### Rhetorical and Propaganda Analysis - **Appeal to authority**: Trusty's "Former DOJ Prosecutor" designation weaponizes institutional credibility against the institution. The credential does the rhetorical work the content cannot do alone. - **Loaded language / hyperbole**: "Completely politicized" (absolute claim), "carrying water" (servile instrumentalization), "very destructive way" (existential stakes framing). - **Strategic ellipsis**: The "…" before attribution implies the quote is excerpted from a longer, more comprehensive argument — manufacturing a sense of depth and evidential support that may not exist. - **Surrogate voice technique**: Outsourcing the most aggressive claims to a named third party provides plausible deniability and perceived objectivity while amplifying the attack. - **Delegitimization architecture**: The cumulative post sequence (Mark Levin amplification × 2, threatening post, judge recusal demand, this post) constitutes a systematic campaign to pre-emptively invalidate every institutional actor involved in his prosecution. - **False dichotomy**: DOJ is either legitimate or it is a Biden instrument — no middle position is admitted. - **No dehumanizing language or violent imagery** in this specific post. --- ### Gaslighting and Reality Distortion The characterization of DOJ as "completely politicized" and acting as Biden Administration instrument constitutes reality distortion in a specific, documentable sense: Jack Smith was appointed as *Special Counsel* precisely to structurally insulate the investigation from White House direction — the institutional design of special counsel appointment is a direct counter-evidence to the "carrying water" claim. Presenting this arrangement as its opposite is not merely opinion; it inverts the documented institutional design. The DARVO structure is also a gaslighting operation at the systemic level: reframing accountability as persecution conditions followers to interpret all legal proceedings against Trump as evidence of corruption rather than evidence of wrongdoing. --- ### Cognitive Status The post is largely a third-party quote, limiting independent cognitive assessment. The caption ("An Attorney General who has completely politicized the DOJ, and they are carrying water for the Biden Administration in a very destructive way…") is a grammatically incomplete periodic sentence — the "who" subordinate clause has no governing main clause. This *may* reflect impulsive composition (authentic Trump) or simply the shorthand nature of social media captions. **No novel cognitive markers detected.** Complexity score is low but artifactually suppressed by the quote format. **No deviation from established baseline** for this post type. --- ### Archetypal Analysis **Warrior archetype** in its institutional battle mode: the embattled champion surrounded by corrupt institutional forces. **Shadow projection**: Trump's own documented efforts to pressure DOJ leadership (the documented calls to acting AG Rosen, the "just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me" episode) are precisely the behavior projected onto the current DOJ as "completely politicized." The Shadow — one's disowned qualities — is here projected with crystalline precision. **Order/Chaos Dynamics**: The post positions Trump as defending legitimate constitutional order against a corrupted institutional hierarchy. The framing is "order attacker" in the sense of attacking what is positioned as corrupt/captured order, while implicitly promising to restore authentic rule of law. ECOWAS, the grievance of institutional capture, is directed squarely at the Biden-era DOJ. --- ### Danger Assessment This post alone: **elevated** (not high). However, in the contextual sequence — direct threats ("I'm coming after you"), judge recusal demands, systematic delegitimization of every institutional actor — this post functions as **delegitimization infrastructure**. The cumulative pattern points toward stochastic terrorism architecture: identify the institutional targets (DOJ, specific prosecutors, Judge Chutkan), articulate the grievance framework (corrupt state persecution), imply through surrogate voices that counteraction is warranted. Any individual post can maintain plausible deniability; the pattern does not. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "The Attorney General has completely politicized the DOJ" | **Mostly False** | Jack Smith was appointed as Special Counsel under 28 C.F.R. § 600 specifically to create structural insulation from AG and White House direction. The 'completely' absolute claim and implied direct Biden control contradict the documented institutional design of the prosecution. | | "DOJ is 'carrying water for the Biden Administration'" | **Mostly False** | No documented evidence of White House direction of prosecutorial decisions. Special Counsel regulations explicitly prohibit this. The 'carrying water' characterization implies servile political instrumentalization contradicted by the independent counsel structure. | | "James Trusty is a Former DOJ Prosecutor" | **True** | James Trusty served as a federal prosecutor in the Department of Justice before entering private practice and later representing Trump. The credential is accurate. | Overall Veracity: 47% ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 60%) ### Indicators - Midnight local time (12:04 AM EDT, Bedminster NJ) — within authentic Trump posting window - Grammatically incomplete periodic sentence in caption suggests impulsive composition - Quote format with video clip consistent with aide-assisted media curation - James Trusty was Trump's own former attorney — personal connection suggests Trump-directed amplification - Surrounding posts on same day show authentic Trump all-caps pattern, suggesting sustained personal activity ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Federal indictment and arraignment on January 6 charges (August 3, 2023)) **Rage:** Intensity 55% targeting Department of Justice / Attorney General Merrick Garland / Biden Administration - Proportionality: 20% Sentiment: -0.65 **Mildly Hypomanic** - High-volume posting across same day (multiple Truth Social posts within hours) - Surrounding posts show ALL CAPS, reduced inhibition, elevated urgency - Rapid-fire topic switching: Levin promotion → threatening post → judge recusal → this post → more Levin amplification - Reduced sleep implied by midnight posting combined with daytime posting volume ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 75% - Antisocial: 55% - Paranoid: 80% - Sadism: 10% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - splitting (immature) - devaluation (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 32% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Positioning supporters as fellow aggrieved citizens against a common corrupt adversary - Validating conspiracy theories about weaponized government through credentialed expert citation - Us-vs-them framing that invites followers into the persecution narrative as co-victims ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - One node in multi-post delegitimization campaign targeting specific prosecutors, judges, and DOJ leadership - Contributes to infrastructure of stochastic terrorism when read in sequence with contemporaneous threatening posts ('I'm coming after you') and judge recusal demands - Systematic framing of accountability institutions as illegitimate may validate retaliatory sentiment in radicalized followers - Credentialed surrogate amplification increases persuasive reach of delegitimization messaging beyond Trump's direct audience ### Gaslighting - Characterizes Special Counsel appointment — designed specifically to insulate investigation from political direction — as 'carrying water for the Biden Administration,' inverting the documented institutional design - DARVO operation: frames the subject of a criminal investigation as victim of the prosecutorial institution - Presents absolute characterization ('completely politicized') as expert-validated fact, foreclosing acknowledgment of documented institutional independence mechanisms - Conditions followers to interpret all legal proceedings as evidence of government corruption rather than evidence of wrongdoing ## Fact Checks (3) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > The Attorney General has completely politicized the DOJ **MOSTLY FALSE** Jack Smith was appointed as Special Counsel under 28 C.F.R. § 600 specifically to create structural insulation from AG and White House direction. The 'completely' absolute claim and implied direct Biden control contradict the documented institutional design of the prosecution. Sources: Special Counsel regulations 28 C.F.R. § 600; Jack Smith appointment documentation, November 2022 > DOJ is 'carrying water for the Biden Administration' **MOSTLY FALSE** No documented evidence of White House direction of prosecutorial decisions. Special Counsel regulations explicitly prohibit this. The 'carrying water' characterization implies servile political instrumentalization contradicted by the independent counsel structure. Sources: Special Counsel appointment regulations; DOJ institutional design documentation > James Trusty is a Former DOJ Prosecutor **TRUE** James Trusty served as a federal prosecutor in the Department of Justice before entering private practice and later representing Trump. The credential is accurate. Sources: Public record — Trusty background Overall Veracity: 47% ## Tags - narcissistic-injury-response (90%) - projection (88%) - darvo (85%) - institutional-delegitimization (82%) - post-indictment (95%) - surrogate-voice (78%) - doj-attack (90%) - epistemic-closure (80%) - paranoid-features (75%) - reality-distortion (72%) ## 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). “An Attorney General who has completely... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110846349074069382 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“An Attorney General who has completely politicized the..." Truth Social, 7 Aug. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110846349074069382. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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