# Post ts_110860965885418709 - Post ID: `ts_110860965885418709` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-08-09T18:01:33.797Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110860965885418709 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110860965885418709/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110860965885418709.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Just found out that Crooked Joe Biden’s DOJ secretly attacked my Twitter account, making it a point not to let me know about this major “hit” on my civil rights. My Political Opponent is going CRAZY trying to infringe on my Campaign for President. Nothing like this has ever happened before. Does the First Amendment still exist? Did Deranged Jack Smith tell the Unselects to DESTROY & DELETE all evidence? These are DARK DAYS IN AMERICA! ## Engagement - Likes: 28,000 - Reposts: 10,378 - Replies: 3,107 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.403Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T07:05:56.114Z (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 a high-intensity narcissistic injury response to the revelation that the DOJ obtained a search warrant for Trump's Twitter/X account as part of the January 6 investigation. The post is almost certainly authentically authored by Trump, despite afternoon timing, based on overwhelming stylometric evidence. The psychological architecture follows a textbook DARVO pattern: Trump, the subject of a federal criminal investigation, positions himself as the victim of a criminal conspiracy by transforming a lawful judicial warrant into a 'secret civil rights attack.' The projection defense is clinically notable — accusations of evidence destruction directed at Jack Smith and the J6 Committee appear on the same day Trump faces charges that include obstruction, creating a textbook projection dynamic. Paranoid features are pronounced (surveillance framing, 'secretly,' 'making it a point not to let me know'), consistent with the paranoid dimension of the malignant narcissism construct. Danger level is elevated — not from this post alone, but from its position within a same-day cluster that includes Trump's 'I'm coming after you' post, which prosecutors separately flagged for witness intimidation risk. The combination of targeted name-calling toward Jack Smith with delegitimization of the entire legal apparatus ('Does the First Amendment still exist?') constitutes a pattern that can lower inhibitions in radicalized followers. No cognitive deterioration markers; post is fully consistent with established baseline. # Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2023-08-09T18:01:33Z ## Authorship Attribution **Verdict: Authentic Trump (confidence: high, score: 0.88)** The 14:01 EDT posting time (Bedminster, NJ — Trump's documented summer residence) falls within business hours, which could superficially suggest aide authorship. However, the stylometric fingerprint is overwhelmingly authentic: dual nickname deployment ("Crooked Joe," "Deranged Jack Smith"), the perseverative neologism "Unselects" appearing across multiple same-day posts, a rhetorical question cascade, emotionally reactive ALL CAPS, and the fragmented stream-of-consciousness jump from Twitter warrant → First Amendment → evidence destruction in a single paragraph. Aide-drafted posts tend toward coherent thematic organization and polished sentences; this post's reactive, fragmented quality — apparently triggered by breaking news about the DOJ warrant — is inconsistent with scheduled aide content. --- ## Situational Context This post emerges in an acutely pressurized legal period. Trump had been arraigned days earlier on January 6 federal charges, a protective order was being sought by prosecutors after his threatening "I'm coming after you" post (same day), and the revelation of the DOJ's sealed warrant for his Twitter/X account DMs provided a fresh, concrete injury. The post is one of at least five Trump posts on August 9, 2023, forming a multi-theme grievance cluster of unusually high density. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) The dominant trait expressions in this post are **Neuroticism (Angry Hostility, N2)** and **low Agreeableness** (antagonism, distrust, combativeness). Extraversion is elevated in its assertiveness and dominance-seeking dimensions. Conscientiousness is low — the post is impulsive and undeliberated. Openness is minimal, with rigid black-and-white framing throughout. --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations — Motives and Schemas **Agency motives (0.94)** dominate entirely, particularly around power and autonomy. The post is almost exclusively about control being wrested from Trump by adversaries — legal process as power-theft. Communion motives are essentially absent. The operative schema is a **surveillance/persecution worldview**: adversaries are coordinating against him specifically, secretly, and with malicious intent. The self-schema is one of unique, historically unprecedented victimhood ("Nothing like this has ever happened before"). --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** Persecuted sovereign — the legitimately powerful leader whose very existence is under criminal assault by corrupt institutional actors. **Narrative sequence:** Contamination — every good (his Twitter presence, his campaign, the First Amendment itself) is being transformed into a vehicle for his destruction by bad-faith actors. **Identity claims:** He is uniquely targeted; he is the defender of constitutional rights; his presidential campaign is actively being criminally obstructed; his persecution is historically unprecedented. **Contrasting other:** The "Unselects" + "Deranged Jack Smith" + "Crooked Joe Biden" coalition — a unified criminal enterprise operating through institutional cover. --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators ### Malignant Narcissism Assessment - **Narcissistic features (0.90):** Grandiosity ("Nothing like this has ever happened before"), sense of being specially targeted, entitlement to immunity from legal process, arrogant dismissal of institutional legitimacy. - **Paranoid features (0.88):** Most clinically prominent here. The language of "secretly," "making it a point not to let me know," and the assumption of coordinated conspiratorial intent across multiple actors reflects a well-developed paranoid schema. The gag order — a routine judicial secrecy measure — is processed as personally directed concealment. - **Antisocial features (0.62):** Contempt for legal process, implicit disregard for institutional authority, no acknowledgment of the legitimacy of any investigative action. - **Sadism (0.38):** Lower in this post; the tone is more wounded than cruel. No evident delight in humiliation here. ### Narcissistic Dynamics **Trigger:** Narcissistic injury / exposure type. The DOJ warrant represents a concrete, documentable action that both intrudes on Trump's private communications and is conducted by a named adversary. It cannot be easily dismissed or denied, which intensifies the injury. **Narcissistic state:** Mixed — oscillating between grandiose ("I am so threatening they must act in secret") and vulnerable ("DARK DAYS IN AMERICA," constitutional rights under siege). This oscillation within a single short post is characteristic of the malignant narcissism presentation. **Rage:** Present at high intensity (0.82), grossly disproportionate (0.15 proportionality) to the triggering event. A search warrant, however unprecedented in its target, is a lawful judicial instrument — the rage response appropriate to that trigger would be measured legal objection; what is produced instead is civilizational alarm. --- ## Defense Mechanisms ### 1. Projection (Immature) The accusation that Jack Smith told the "Unselects to DESTROY & DELETE all evidence" is clinically striking projection. Trump himself faces federal charges that include obstruction of justice allegations related to documents. The attributing of evidence-destruction intent to his prosecutors — without evidence — while himself under investigation for related conduct is a textbook projection dynamic. ### 2. Distortion (Pathological) A legally obtained search warrant, approved by a federal judge, is transformed into a "secret attack" and "major hit on civil rights." This gross reshaping of legal reality to meet the persecutory narrative exceeds rationalization — it reconstructs the nature of the event entirely. ### 3. Denial (Pathological) The entire legal apparatus is delegitimized. "Does the First Amendment still exist?" refuses to accept that the Constitution's speech protections are compatible with criminal investigation of that speech's author. Legal reality is denied at the structural level. ### 4. Splitting (Immature) "Unselects" as a totalizing derogatory label reduces the J6 Committee to pure illegitimacy with no gradation. Biden, Smith, and the DOJ are collapsed into a unified all-bad adversary with no distinctions permitted. --- ## Rhetorical and Propaganda Analysis The post's rhetorical architecture is a compressed persecution narrative designed to move the audience emotionally before any single claim can be evaluated: 1. **Opening wound** (Twitter warrant → civil rights hit) 2. **Personalization** (Biden personally "going CRAZY") 3. **Constitutional emergency** (First Amendment at risk) 4. **Counter-accusation pivot** (Jack Smith ordering evidence destruction) 5. **Civilizational closure** (DARK DAYS IN AMERICA) The **DARVO pattern** (Deny-Attack-Reverse Victim and Offender) is structurally complete: by the time the counter-accusation appears, the persecution frame is already established, making the accusation feel like self-defense. Rhetorical questions ("Does the First Amendment still exist?") allow the planting of conclusions without the legal exposure of direct false assertion. The **firehose technique** — multiple major accusations in rapid succession — prevents evaluation of any individual claim. --- ## Gaslighting and Reality Distortion Gaslighting is present through the DARVO inversion (investigative subject becomes victim of criminal conspiracy) and through epistemic poisoning of routine legal procedure. The gag order on Twitter — a standard judicial confidentiality mechanism — is reframed as sinister, targeted concealment, attacking followers' ability to perceive legal institutions accurately. The conflation of Jack Smith with the J6 Committee creates a false unified conspiracy that demands followers accept a demonstrably false organizational claim as a condition of in-group membership. --- ## Cognitive Status Fully consistent with established 2022-2023 baseline. Simple vocabulary, short declarative sentences, perseverative neologism use, emotional amplification via capitalization. Mild tangentiality is observed (conceptual jumps across the post are associative rather than logically structured), but this is within the documented Trump baseline. No word-finding difficulty, phonemic paraphasia, or confabulation detected. The "Unselects" neologism is a pre-existing coinage, not a novel production failure. **No cognitive deterioration markers; no baseline deviation.** --- ## Danger Assessment: **ELEVATED** This post does not independently meet the threshold for "high" danger, but its context does. It is part of a same-day cluster that includes Trump's "If you go after me, I'm coming after you" post — which federal prosecutors separately flagged for witness intimidation risk and cited in their request for a protective order. The combination of: - A targeted individual named (Jack Smith) accused of committing a federal crime without evidence - Delegitimization of the entire legal apparatus ("Does the First Amendment still exist?") - Civilizational alarm framing ("DARK DAYS IN AMERICA") that implicitly positions action as necessary ...creates a pattern that can lower inhibitions in radicalized followers. The danger is primarily stochastic — the post does not directly call for action, but it identifies targets (Smith), articulates grievance (criminal conspiracy against Trump), and frames the stakes as civilizational, which constitutes the three elements of the stochastic risk pattern. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Crooked Joe Biden's DOJ secretly attacked my Twitter account, making it a point not to let me know" | **Half True** | The DOJ did obtain a sealed search warrant for Trump's Twitter/X account DMs as part of the January 6 investigation. A federal court initially ordered Twitter (later X) not to notify Trump about the subpoena, and Twitter was fined $350,000 for delaying compliance. The factual core is real — there was a warrant and a gag order. However, 'secretly attacked' and framing it as a 'hit on civil rights' is gross distortion: search warrants on suspects' accounts are standard, lawful criminal procedure, not attacks on civil rights. | | "Nothing like this has ever happened before" | **False** | Search warrants for suspects' social media account data are routine in federal criminal investigations. The DOJ has sought account data from numerous individuals under criminal investigation. The specific application to a former president is novel, but the legal mechanism is entirely precedented. | | "Did Deranged Jack Smith tell the Unselects to DESTROY & DELETE all evidence?" | **False** | This conflates Jack Smith (Special Counsel appointed in November 2022, separate from the J6 Committee) with the House January 6 Select Committee. The J6 Committee transferred its records to the National Archives upon dissolution per standard congressional procedure. There is no credible evidence Jack Smith directed evidence destruction. The rhetorical question format allows Trump to imply the claim without asserting it directly. | | "My Political Opponent is going CRAZY trying to infringe on my Campaign for President" | **Mostly False** | DOJ has maintained the investigation is conducted on legal merits independent of electoral considerations. Special Counsel Jack Smith was appointed specifically to insulate the investigation from political interference. Characterizing the prosecution as a political opponent 'going crazy' misrepresents the institutional structure of the prosecutions. | Overall Veracity: 18% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 88%) ### Indicators - Posting time of 14:01 EDT (Bedminster, NJ — Trump's summer residence) is business hours, which superficially suggests aide authorship, but stylometric evidence overwhelmingly overrides timing - Signature nickname deployment: 'Crooked Joe Biden,' 'Deranged Jack Smith' — both are established Trump coinages used authentically - 'Unselects' is a Trump-coined neologism deployed repeatedly across this day's posting cluster - Rhetorical question cascade ('Does the First Amendment still exist? Did Deranged Jack Smith tell...') is characteristic Trump stream-of-consciousness - Emotional escalation arc across the paragraph — rising from grievance to existential crisis — matches authentic Trump pattern ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (DOJ search warrant for Trump's Twitter/X account data, revealed publicly; fresh arraignment context) **Rage:** Intensity 82% targeting DOJ, Biden, Jack Smith, January 6 Select Committee - Proportionality: 15% Sentiment: -0.87 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Compressed, pressured quality — multiple major accusations in rapid succession without pause for substantiation - ALL CAPS emphasis markers across multiple phrases in a single short post - Grandiose self-reference ('Nothing like this has ever happened before') combined with acute reactive affect - Part of a multi-post cluster on the same day covering multiple grievance themes at high intensity — consistent with elevated output state ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 90% - Antisocial: 62% - Paranoid: 88% - Sadism: 38% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - distortion (pathological) - denial (pathological) - splitting (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 28% Cognitive Markers: - perseveration - tangentiality **Parasocial Techniques:** - Direct address to followers implied through 'DARK DAYS IN AMERICA' — positioning himself as sentinel warning the people - Constitutional invocation ('Does the First Amendment still exist?') activates shared identity as patriots/defenders - Persecution narrative positions Trump as proxy-victim for all followers ('they're coming for you through me') - All-caps terminal phrases function as emotional synchronization signals to his base ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - This post is part of a same-day cluster that includes Trump's 'If You Go After Me, I'm Coming After You' post — which prosecutors separately flagged for witness intimidation risk; the two posts together constitute a threat-plus-delegitimization pattern - Naming Jack Smith as personally ordering criminal evidence destruction — without evidence — amplifies targeted harassment risk for a named individual already the subject of threats - Civilizational framing ('DARK DAYS IN AMERICA') elevates the emotional stakes and can function as a call to action for radicalized followers who feel called to act in dark days - Delegitimization of the entire legal apparatus ('Does the First Amendment still exist?') potentially signals to followers that extra-legal action may be necessary or justified ### Gaslighting - DARVO pattern: Trump is under federal investigation for attempting to obstruct an election; this post inverts that to frame the investigation itself as the criminal act against him - Denial of institutional legitimacy: 'Does the First Amendment still exist?' frames standard judicial warrant process as constitutional violation, attacking followers' accurate perception of legal reality - Conflation as reality distortion: merging Jack Smith (Special Counsel) with J6 Committee into a unified conspiracy implies coordinated criminal enterprise without evidence - The gag order on Twitter — a standard judicial secrecy measure — is reframed as conspiratorial concealment ('secretly,' 'making it a point not to let me know'), distorting routine legal procedure into sinister intent ## Fact Checks (4) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Crooked Joe Biden's DOJ secretly attacked my Twitter account, making it a point not to let me know **HALF TRUE** The DOJ did obtain a sealed search warrant for Trump's Twitter/X account DMs as part of the January 6 investigation. A federal court initially ordered Twitter (later X) not to notify Trump about the subpoena, and Twitter was fined $350,000 for delaying compliance. The factual core is real — there was a warrant and a gag order. However, 'secretly attacked' and framing it as a 'hit on civil rights' is gross distortion: search warrants on suspects' accounts are standard, lawful criminal procedure, not attacks on civil rights. Sources: DOJ v. Twitter sealed warrant proceedings, 2023; Court records — Twitter/X compliance fine > Nothing like this has ever happened before **FALSE** Search warrants for suspects' social media account data are routine in federal criminal investigations. The DOJ has sought account data from numerous individuals under criminal investigation. The specific application to a former president is novel, but the legal mechanism is entirely precedented. Sources: General federal criminal procedure practice > Did Deranged Jack Smith tell the Unselects to DESTROY & DELETE all evidence? **FALSE** This conflates Jack Smith (Special Counsel appointed in November 2022, separate from the J6 Committee) with the House January 6 Select Committee. The J6 Committee transferred its records to the National Archives upon dissolution per standard congressional procedure. There is no credible evidence Jack Smith directed evidence destruction. The rhetorical question format allows Trump to imply the claim without asserting it directly. Sources: National Archives records transfer procedure; J6 Committee final report and dissolution procedures > My Political Opponent is going CRAZY trying to infringe on my Campaign for President **MOSTLY FALSE** DOJ has maintained the investigation is conducted on legal merits independent of electoral considerations. Special Counsel Jack Smith was appointed specifically to insulate the investigation from political interference. Characterizing the prosecution as a political opponent 'going crazy' misrepresents the institutional structure of the prosecutions. Sources: DOJ Special Counsel appointment documentation Overall Veracity: 18% ## Tags - narcissistic-injury (95%) - DARVO (92%) - projection (90%) - paranoid-ideation (88%) - legal-persecution-narrative (95%) - first-amendment-weaponization (82%) - evidence-destruction-accusation (85%) - Jack-Smith-targeting (78%) - authentic-trump (88%) - apocalyptic-register (80%) - epistemic-poisoning (85%) - same-day-threat-cluster (75%) ## 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). Just found out that Crooked Joe Biden’s DOJ... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110860965885418709 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Just found out that Crooked Joe Biden’s DOJ secretly..." Truth Social, 9 Aug. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110860965885418709. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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