# Post ts_110859441854770499 - Post ID: `ts_110859441854770499` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-08-09T11:33:58.850Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110859441854770499 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110859441854770499/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110859441854770499.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Remember, these Indictments aren’t “Legit,” they were all thrown up at me, quickly an haphazardly, including the local ones, by my political opponent, Crooked Joe Biden. It’s not like the State or Country is coming down on me. It’s a dishonest politician and his gang of Thugs breaking the law in order to get re-elected. There should be OUTRAGE at this, a new LOW in American Politics. ELECTION INTERFERENCE! The good news is that the PEOPLE “get it,” and so does the Fake News! ## Engagement - Likes: 26,259 - Reposts: 7,863 - Replies: 1,719 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.403Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T07:12:52.652Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary This post represents an acute narcissistically significant response to simultaneous multi-jurisdictional criminal indictments. The full DARVO architecture is present: denial of indictment legitimacy, criminalization of prosecutors, and complete victim/offender reversal. The distortion is clinically notable — four independent grand jury processes are systematized into one corrupt politician's personal operation, a paranoid construction requiring a self-concept so cosmologically central that all adversarial forces must orbit it. Defenses are predominantly pathological (denial, distortion) and immature (projection). The mixed narcissistic state — grandiose reassurance papering over visible wounding — and the opening imperative 'Remember' positioning the subject as sole reality-arbiter for his audience are consistent with established pattern. The post is authentic Trump, composed at 7:33 AM EDT, and sits within a documented multi-day threatening-post cluster that prompted federal prosecutors to seek a protective order. Danger level is elevated: 'gang of Thugs breaking the law' dehumanizes and criminalizes legal actors, completing a target + grievance + criminalization framing that generates ambient threat conditions for judicial participants. No acute cognitive decline markers detected; complexity is below educated adult baseline but within the subject's documented personal baseline. # Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2023-08-09T11:33:58Z ## Authorship Attribution **Confidence: High | Score: 0.87 (authentic Trump)** Posted at 7:33 AM EDT (Trump was in the Northeast corridor following the August 8 Windham, NH rally — EDT applies). Early morning window matches established posting behavior. The orthographic error "quickly an haphazardly" (an for and) is a strong authentic marker — impulsive thumb-typing under emotional agitation. No aide-written polish is detectable: syntax is fragmented, emotional escalation is unstructured, and scare quotes around "Legit" and "get it" are a signature Trump stylistic tic. The five-plus post day with rapid topic switching further supports unmediated authentic posting. --- ## Psychological State & Triggers This post is a textbook **acute narcissistic injury response** to simultaneous multi-jurisdictional criminal indictments. The indictments represent one of the most severe external threats to the subject's self-concept possible for a public figure: criminal accountability by institutionalized state power. The **narcissistic state is mixed**: the grandiose register ("The good news is that the PEOPLE get it") papers over a visibly wounded substructure. The need to open with "Remember" — an instructional imperative positioning the speaker as sole authoritative narrator of reality — reveals anxiety that the audience might form independent assessments without his guidance. **Trigger type:** Narcissistic injury (criminal indictment, defeat, exposure) **Rage:** Present, moderate intensity (0.68), wildly disproportionate to any measured response — the indictments are characterized not as legal error but as organized criminality requiring public OUTRAGE. --- ## Defense Mechanisms | Mechanism | Level | Evidence | |---|---|---| | **Denial** | Pathological | "these Indictments aren't 'Legit'" — wholesale reality refusal, no engagement with evidence | | **Distortion** | Pathological | Four independent grand jury processes collapsed into one criminal gang operation | | **Projection** | Immature | Biden accused of "breaking the law to get re-elected" — the exact accusation underlying Trump's own indictments displaced onto accuser | | **Rationalization** | Neurotic | "It's not like the State or Country is coming down on me" — factually inverted logical minimization | The concentration at pathological and immature levels, with minimal mature functioning, is clinically notable. --- ## DARVO Architecture The post exhibits complete **DARVO** (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender): - **Deny**: "Indictments aren't 'Legit'" - **Attack**: "dishonest politician," "gang of Thugs," "breaking the law" - **Reverse**: Trump = persecuted innocent; prosecutors = actual criminals --- ## Rhetorical Techniques The rhetorical spine is subject-object reversal: the criminally indicted defendant becomes victim; the legitimate legal actors become the criminals. "Gang of Thugs" performs double dehumanizing work — stripping prosecutors of their institutional roles and criminalizing them simultaneously, priming the audience to view them as legitimate targets of extra-legal response. The closing reassurance ("The good news is...") performs emotional regulation for the audience — channeling OUTRAGE into comforting certainty that hidden truth is already winning. --- ## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion The statement "It's not like the State or Country is coming down on me" is a direct factual inversion of documented reality. Manhattan DA (New York State), Fulton County DA (Georgia State, indictment imminent Aug 14), and DOJ Special Counsel (the federal government) are definitionally the state and country taking action. The confident assertiveness of the inversion is the mechanism — delivered without qualification. --- ## Danger Assessment: **Elevated** This post exists within a documented multi-day threatening-post cluster. The concurrent "If You Go After Me, I'm Coming After You" post prompted federal prosecutors to request a protective order from Judge Chutkan, citing intimidation risk to witnesses. This post — "gang of Thugs breaking the law" directed at prosecutors — dehumanizes and criminalizes legal actors, completing a target-identification + grievance-articulation + criminalization framing that creates ambient threat conditions without explicit calls to action. --- ## Cognitive Status No significant markers. One typo attributable to impulsive composition. Syntax is coherent and goal-directed throughout. No word-finding difficulty, perseveration, temporal confusion, or neologism. Complexity is below educated adult baseline but consistent with Trump's documented baseline across prior decades. **No deterioration signal.** --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Indictments were thrown up quickly and haphazardly" | **Mostly False** | Federal J6 investigation ran from January 2021 through 2023; Manhattan DA investigation began ~2019; each involved extensive grand jury proceedings over years | | "Indictments were directed by political opponent Crooked Joe Biden" | **Mostly False** | DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith appointed under standing regulations specifically to ensure independence from White House; Manhattan and Fulton County cases are entirely independent state prosecutions with no federal executive involvement | | "It's not like the State or Country is coming down on me" | **False** | Manhattan DA (New York state), Fulton County DA (Georgia state, indictment imminent Aug 14), DOJ Special Counsel (federal) are literally the state and country taking legal action against him across multiple jurisdictions simultaneously | | "Biden and associates are breaking the law to get re-elected" | **Unverifiable** | No evidence that legal proceedings against Trump were conducted illegally; claim is opinion framed as fact without supporting evidence offered | | "The PEOPLE 'get it'" | **Half True** | Republican primary polling showed strong majority of GOP voters supportive of persecution narrative; general public opinion divided with majority of Americans in multiple polls viewing indictments as legitimate | Overall Veracity: 28% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 87%) ### Indicators - Orthographic error 'an haphazardly' (an for and) — impulsive thumb-typing - 7:33 AM local time (EDT) — consistent with early-morning posting pattern - Stream-of-consciousness cascade without editorial structure - Scare quotes around 'Legit' and 'get it' — signature Trump punctuation tic - ALL CAPS emotional escalation (OUTRAGE, ELECTION INTERFERENCE, PEOPLE) ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (Multiple simultaneous criminal indictments across federal and state jurisdictions) **Rage:** Intensity 68% targeting Biden, DOJ prosecutors, Jack Smith, state-level prosecutors - Proportionality: 12% Sentiment: -0.78 **Mildly Hypomanic** - High-volume posting day (5+ posts on August 9 across disparate topics) - Rapid topic-switching (indictments → J6 records → Christie body-shaming → retweet) - Elevated emotional activation with capitalization bursts - Early morning posting suggesting reduced sleep or agitated wakefulness ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 83% - Antisocial: 55% - Paranoid: 80% - Sadism: 25% **Defense Mechanisms:** - denial (pathological) - distortion (pathological) - projection (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 38% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Opening 'Remember' as instructional demand — positions subject as sole authoritative narrator - Appeal to mass validation ('the PEOPLE get it') — converts audience into supply source - Epistemic closure framing — knowing the persecution narrative is test of group membership ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - 'Gang of Thugs breaking the law' — dehumanizes and criminalizes legal actors, priming audience to view prosecutors and judges as legitimate targets - Post exists within documented multi-day pattern: concurrent 'If You Go After Me I'm Coming After You' post prompted federal protective order request - Target identification + grievance articulation + criminalization framing without explicit call to action = stochastic terrorism precursor pattern - Mass audience reception of prosecutor-as-criminal narrative creates ambient threat environment for legal actors in case ### Gaslighting - 'It's not like the State or Country is coming down on me' — direct factual inversion of documented reality; multiple state and federal actors are explicitly doing exactly that - 'These Indictments aren't Legit' — denial of validity of properly constituted grand jury proceedings - Opening 'Remember' functions as reality-correction instruction — implies audience's unguided perception is wrong and requires authoritative narration - Epistemic closure: 'the PEOPLE get it' and even 'Fake News gets it' — closes off independent verification by framing in-group agreement as already established **Dehumanizing Language Present** ## Fact Checks (5) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-24._ > Indictments were thrown up quickly and haphazardly **MOSTLY FALSE** Federal J6 investigation ran from January 2021 through 2023; Manhattan DA investigation began ~2019; each involved extensive grand jury proceedings over years Sources: Known events context: Trump arraigned August 3 2023 on charges stemming from prolonged investigation > Indictments were directed by political opponent Crooked Joe Biden **MOSTLY FALSE** DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith appointed under standing regulations specifically to ensure independence from White House; Manhattan and Fulton County cases are entirely independent state prosecutions with no federal executive involvement Sources: Special Counsel regulations 28 C.F.R. § 600 > It's not like the State or Country is coming down on me **FALSE** Manhattan DA (New York state), Fulton County DA (Georgia state, indictment imminent Aug 14), DOJ Special Counsel (federal) are literally the state and country taking legal action against him across multiple jurisdictions simultaneously Sources: Known events: Trump arraigned on federal charges; Manhattan indictment March 2023 > Biden and associates are breaking the law to get re-elected **UNVERIFIABLE** No evidence that legal proceedings against Trump were conducted illegally; claim is opinion framed as fact without supporting evidence offered > The PEOPLE 'get it' **HALF TRUE** Republican primary polling showed strong majority of GOP voters supportive of persecution narrative; general public opinion divided with majority of Americans in multiple polls viewing indictments as legitimate Overall Veracity: 28% ## Tags - narcissistic-injury (95%) - DARVO (92%) - paranoid-persecution-narrative (88%) - reality-distortion (85%) - dehumanization (72%) - indictment-response (98%) - projection (83%) - epistemic-closure (80%) - authentic-trump (87%) - mixed-narcissistic-state (79%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Indictment Siege Drives Obsessive J6 Records Fixation, DARVO Cycling, and Sustained Target-Labeling Across 13-Post Day** Trump spent the day consumed by his recent federal indictment, returning again and again to the claim that the January 6th Committee destroyed its records. Late-night posts showed sustained anger and a striking pivot from legal grievance to mocking Chris Christie with barely-disguised cruelty. The morning brought a rapid-fire burst of posts rehitting indictments, border security, and the committee -- with the committee posts reaching the day's emotional peak. News that the DOJ had obtained a warrant for his Twitter account sparked another angry response in the afternoon. Notably absent from the day's 13 posts: any mention of the deadly Maui wildfires that were killing over 100 people. Full digest for 2023-08-09: https://trump.fm/date/2023-08-09/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, August 9). Remember, these Indictments aren’t “Legit,” they... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110859441854770499 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Remember, these Indictments aren’t “Legit,” they were all..." Truth Social, 9 Aug. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110859441854770499. 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