# Post ts_110852231722697129 - Post ID: `ts_110852231722697129` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-08-08T05:00:20.968Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110852231722697129 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110852231722697129/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110852231722697129.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Jesse Watters: “The Biden administration is demanding Donald Trump give up his freedom of speech during the presidential campaign. The Democrats’ 2024 strategy is to prosecute Trump instead of persuade voters to vote for Biden. And the media’s following suit: they won’t let Trump’s lawyers talk and won’t let you listen to Trump himself.“ ## What the media says **Video transcript** (5:49), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > the 2024 election will be the first election that will be decided in the courtroom instead of the ballot box. The Democrat strategy is prosecute Trump instead of persuade voters to vote for Biden. The New York Times reports that President Biden urged his administration on several occasions to prosecute Donald Trump. After being charged for contesting the 2020 election, Donald Trump said this, "If you go after me, I'm coming after you." Biden's prosecutor is now refusing to hand discovery materials to Trump's defense counsel, which he's legally required to do. The government has to show the defense the material evidence against the client unless Donald Trump takes a vow of silence and agrees that he won't say anything about the government's case against him. The Biden administration is demanding the likely Republican nominee give up his freedom of speech during the presidential campaign. The Biden administration is telling Donald Trump, "We're going to arrest you and you're not allowed to say anything about it." The Biden administration is saying Donald Trump didn't have freedom of speech after he lost the election and he shouldn't have freedom of speech before the next election. Asking state legislatures to investigate fraud, recount votes, and asking Mike Pence to send the certificates back to the states was a crime, and he should go to jail for the rest of his life? A politician, asking another politician to do something politically outlined in the Constitution is a crime, according to Joe Biden's Justice Department. Contesting an election that the Democrats won is a crime punishable by life in prison. The Democrats won a secret show trial. There will be no cameras in the courtroom, and for the next nine months, Democrat prosecutors want Trump gagged from speaking about the last election. They don't want President Trump talking to the press about the trial because only Democratic prosecutors are allowed to leak trial details to the press. That's how that works. Does Trump's defense counsel want cameras in the courtroom? I personally would love to see that. I'm convinced the Biden administration does not want the American people to see the truth, and they acted on it by filing this protective order, which is an effort to keep important information about this case from the press. CNN, a so-called news organization founded on the principles of free speech and freedom of the press, wants the president of the United States to go to prison for exercising his free speech rights, and wants reporters to be denied the opportunity to listen to what the former president says about what they claim to be the most important court case in American legal history. Not only is President Trump being attacked for his First Amendment rights, now these prosecutors are trying to arrange on the freedom of the press. Okay, let's stick, I appreciate you trying to stick up for us. I'm telling you- I appreciate you trying to stick up for us, but let's talk about the actual- I'm telling you what's going on right now. The intelligence agencies Silicon Valley and the American media have aligned with the Democratic Party to remove Donald Trump from social media platforms, and now prohibit him from speaking about how the current president is attempting to throw him in jail. But not only that, the media wouldn't even take Trump's remarks live after he was arrested by the Biden administration. I just wanted to tell our viewers, the former president is expected to speak. We're not going to bring those comments live. We're going to monitor what he says, anything that's newsworthy. We will turn that around and bring it to our viewers. So the media doesn't want to listen to Trump's lawyers, they won't let him talk, they constantly interrupt, and the media doesn't want you to listen to Trump. And Joe Biden has been on vacation for 10 days, and the media hasn't asked him a simple question about throwing his main political rival in prison. This is a conspiracy to prevent the voters from hearing from either candidate. Donald Trump was impeached for using government resources, remember, to ask a foreign country to investigate his political opponent. Now Joe Biden is using government resources from his own country to investigate his political opponent, and not a single person thinks that's wrong. Well, except Binder. This is who Donald Trump is. He did it as a businessman, he did it as a candidate, and now he's doing it as a president. The thing about now is that he's using government resources to go after his political opponent. That's the thing that we have to remember. One of the worst ways to instill confidence in our elections is to throw people in prison who question them. If Al Gore had asked Florida to send an alternate slate of electors after the 500 vote recount margin, Al Gore would have been charged with conspiracy to defraud the government. Al Gore believes he won that election. His opponent's brother was the governor of Florida in an election this close. You're saying Al Gore working the phones before certification was illegal? It's preposterous. They were alternate electors sent in 1876. They were alternate ones sent in 1960. On advice of counsel, Trump asked Pence to kick it back to the states for recertification where state legislatures are constitutionally empowered to determine elections. That's called politics. But apparently Trump's politics are such a threat to Washington that his political speeches could be grounds to throw him in prison before trial if this gag order is allowed. See, the deep state is destroying our nation, but the tables must turn and we will quickly destroy the deep state. We know where the bodies are buried. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/852/231/649/462/257/original/30f3ee075fe05485.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 23,295 - Reposts: 8,922 - Replies: 2,478 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.403Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T07:07:19.964Z (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 1:00 AM EDT from likely Bedminster, NJ, this media amplification of a Jesse Watters segment represents textbook proxy ventriloquism: legally sensitive grievances about the DOJ protective order request are routed through a trusted surrogate, maintaining plausible deniability while transmitting an identical message. DARVO is fully operative — the subject's own threatening post that triggered the protective order is erased; the legal response becomes the aggression. The 'freedom of speech' framing is a significant factual distortion; the order concerned discovery material dissemination and witness protection, not campaign speech. The vulnerable narcissistic state (victimized, silenced, constitutionally martyred) contrasts with the grandiose pole of same-day direct posts, indicating rapid state oscillation under legal stress. Epistemic closure is reinforced by the 'won't let you listen' formulation, positioning Truth Social and Fox as the last uncensored channels. Danger level is elevated: no direct incitement, but this post advances the narrative scaffolding — illegitimate persecution, silenced martyr, enemy government — that precedes escalation. The post arrives in a high-density legal period immediately post-arraignment, and functions as part of a coordinated multi-channel persecution narrative visible across the same 24-hour window. # Analysis: Truth Social Post — August 8, 2023 (05:00 UTC) ## Authorship Attribution **Verdict: Likely Authentic Trump (Medium-High Confidence)** The UTC timestamp of 05:00:20 converts to **1:00 AM EDT** (Bedminster, NJ, where Trump typically resides in August). This falls squarely within his documented late-night posting window. The absence of original text — pure media share — introduces some ambiguity, but the timing is the dominant signal. The thematic content (free speech suppression, DOJ persecution) is precisely aligned with same-day direct posts, indicating the same psychological preoccupation. The choice of Watters specifically reflects Trump's personal media consumption patterns rather than an aide's curation. --- ## Context and Trigger This post lands in a dense legal window: Trump had just been arraigned on four federal felony counts related to January 6 (pleading not guilty), and prosecutors had requested a protective order specifically because of Trump's own threatening Truth Social post ("If you go after me, I'm coming after you"). The subject is responding to acute narcissistic injury — legal exposure, loss of control over the narrative, and the irony of being legally constrained *by his own threatening post*. --- ## Psychological State: Vulnerable Narcissism The post represents the **vulnerable pole** of Trump's narcissistic oscillation. Rather than the grandiose, domineering voice of his direct posts that same day, here the subject presents as silenced, persecuted, constitutionally martyred. The "freedom of speech during the presidential campaign" framing casts the legal proceedings not as a response to documented conduct but as a suppression of democratic participation. This vulnerable-grandiose oscillation is clinically consistent with the fragmented self-structure observed across the longitudinal record: the same legal situation produces "I'm coming after you" (grandiose/warrior) and "they won't let Trump speak" (victim/martyr) within the same 24-hour window. --- ## DARVO and Gaslighting This post is a structurally complete **DARVO** operation: - **Deny**: The protective order request — triggered by Trump's threatening post — is erased from the narrative - **Attack**: DOJ, Biden, media are recast as the aggressors - **Reverse Victim and Offender**: The threatening poster becomes the silenced victim of censorship The factual distortion is significant. The DOJ's protective order concerned *discovery material dissemination* and *witness protection*, not a general restriction on campaign speech. Framing this as "demanding Trump give up his freedom of speech" requires a substantial reshaping of documented reality. --- ## Proxy Ventriloquism Using Watters as rhetorical surrogate is a recurring and strategically functional technique. It allows: 1. Legally sensitive grievances to be articulated through a deniable channel 2. Amplification to a pre-primed Fox News tribal audience 3. Framing as "news coverage" rather than personal self-defense The subject consumes the Watters commentary, recognizes it as expressing his own internal narrative, and re-transmits it — a closed loop of self-validating reality construction. --- ## Rhetorical Techniques The Watters clip deploys a three-part false structure: (1) Biden as speech suppressor, (2) prosecution as electoral strategy, (3) media as enforcement arm. This completes an all-encompassing conspiracy frame with no internal falsifiability. The "won't let you listen" formulation is particularly targeted — it positions Truth Social as the last uncensored channel, driving platform loyalty while reinforcing epistemic closure. --- ## Defense Mechanisms - **Distortion (pathological)**: Protective order reframed as free speech suppression - **Projection (immature)**: Political motivation attributed to prosecutors; own threatening conduct omitted - **Rationalization (neurotic)**: Media proxy makes grievance appear as legitimate news coverage --- ## Danger Assessment: Elevated No direct incitement is present. However, this post contributes to the *narrative scaffolding* preceding escalation: illegitimate government, silenced martyr, enemy forces. This mirrors language patterns documented preceding political violence. Combined with the same-day threatening post and the protective order context, the broader communication environment in this period warrants elevated flagging. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "The Biden administration is demanding Donald Trump give up his freedom of speech during the presidential campaign" | **Mostly False** | DOJ/Special Counsel requested a protective order limiting public dissemination of discovery materials and protecting potential witnesses — triggered by Trump's own threatening Truth Social post. No restriction on campaign speech or general political expression was sought. | | "The Democrats' 2024 strategy is to prosecute Trump instead of persuade voters to vote for Biden" | **Unverifiable** | Characterization of prosecutorial intent presented as established fact. Special Counsel operates under a framework designed for independence from political direction. | | "The media won't let Trump's lawyers talk and won't let you listen to Trump himself" | **Mostly False** | No gag order on defense counsel existed at this date. Trump's legal team was actively making public statements. Claim conflates individual editorial choices with systemic suppression. | Overall Veracity: 30% ## Narrative Identity (McAdams Level 3) **Protagonist role**: Constitutional martyr / the silenced — the one figure whose voice the regime fears most. **Narrative sequence**: Contamination — a legitimate presidential campaign being poisoned by weaponized state apparatus. **Contrasting other**: The Biden-DOJ-media nexus as a unified anti-democratic force. **Identity claim**: "The only politician in American history not allowed to speak" (from same-day direct post) — extreme uniqueness assertion that transforms legal jeopardy into historical distinction. --- ## Archetypal Register **Primary**: Victim/Martyr — persecuted by corrupt power, silenced, denied justice. **Secondary**: The Silenced Truth-Teller — whose suppression proves the danger of what they know. **Shadow projection**: The actual suppression and intimidation (his threatening post, the witness concerns) is projected outward onto opponents as *their* conduct. --- ## Cognitive Assessment Not assessable from a pure media share. No original language production to analyze against baseline. Fact of selection — choosing this clip, this framing, this channel, at 1 AM — reflects intact strategic communication instincts appropriate to acute legal pressure. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 70%) ### Indicators - Posted at 1:00 AM EDT (Bedminster, NJ) — strongly within authentic late-night window - No original text suggests possible aide curation, but timing overrides - Content thematically identical to same-day direct posts with high emotional investment - Media share format (video clip) is sometimes aide-facilitated ## Psychological Profile ### State **Vulnerable State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (DOJ protective order request following Trump's threatening post; federal arraignment on January 6 charges) Sentiment: -0.65 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 75% - Antisocial: 45% - Paranoid: 65% - Sadism: 15% **Defense Mechanisms:** - distortion (pathological) - projection (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 35% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Proxy ventriloquism via trusted media ally (Watters) - Victim-of-censorship framing activates audience resentment - Epistemic closure: positions Trump channels as only unfiltered truth source ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - Continues persecution narrative infrastructure from 'I'm coming after you' post — sustained witness-adjacent pressure via narrative - Framing prosecution as illegitimate political attack removes normative barriers to retaliation among followers - Epistemic closure reinforcement: followers primed to reject legal proceedings as enemy action ### Gaslighting - Protective order (responding to Trump's own threatening post) reframed as unprovoked political attack on free speech - Omits Trump's 'I'm coming after you' post as the precipitating cause of the protective order request - Framing implies suppression of campaign speech when the legal action concerned evidence dissemination - DARVO: the offensive actor (threatening post author) becomes the victim of censorship ## Fact Checks (3) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > The Biden administration is demanding Donald Trump give up his freedom of speech during the presidential campaign **MOSTLY FALSE** DOJ/Special Counsel requested a protective order limiting public dissemination of discovery materials and protecting potential witnesses — triggered by Trump's own threatening Truth Social post. No restriction on campaign speech or general political expression was sought. Sources: Known events: Prosecutors Request Protective Order After Trump's Threatening Post > The Democrats' 2024 strategy is to prosecute Trump instead of persuade voters to vote for Biden **UNVERIFIABLE** Characterization of prosecutorial intent presented as established fact. Special Counsel operates under a framework designed for independence from political direction. > The media won't let Trump's lawyers talk and won't let you listen to Trump himself **MOSTLY FALSE** No gag order on defense counsel existed at this date. Trump's legal team was actively making public statements. Claim conflates individual editorial choices with systemic suppression. Overall Veracity: 30% ## Tags - proxy-ventriloquism (90%) - DARVO (90%) - free-speech-framing (85%) - post-arraignment (85%) - vulnerable-narcissism (80%) - protective-order-distortion (80%) - epistemic-closure (75%) - reality-distortion (75%) - persecution-narrative (80%) - media-amplification (70%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Midnight Grievance to Rally Grandeur: Legal Crisis and Campaign Supply Compete for Control** Trump's day began well after midnight with angry posts attacking the DOJ's request for a protective order, framing it as Biden personally silencing him during a presidential campaign. After a few hours of sleep, he shifted to campaign mode -- touting poll numbers, celebrating a military endorsement, and heading to a rally in New Hampshire. An afternoon burst of vindication came when a former FBI agent pleaded guilty to unrelated charges, which Trump seized as retroactive proof the Russia investigation was corrupt. A late-afternoon attack on Judge Chutkan's impartiality, built on a conspiracy chain from a right-wing blog, interrupted the rally-day optimism. The day closed with a flood of rally highlight links, the campaign supply cycle providing a counterweight to the legal crisis running underneath. Full digest for 2023-08-08: https://trump.fm/date/2023-08-08/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, August 8). Jesse Watters: “The Biden administration is... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110852231722697129 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Jesse Watters: “The Biden administration is demanding..." Truth Social, 8 Aug. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110852231722697129. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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