# Post ts_110912724174830640

- Post ID: `ts_110912724174830640`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-08-18T21:24:22.649Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110912724174830640
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110912724174830640/analysis

## Post text

_A repost of his own earlier post, with nothing added._

> RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/110912538592420505

## Reposted post

Original: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110912538592420505 (2023-08-18T20:37:10.774Z (UTC))

> Thank you to Jonathan T. Gilliam for his great understanding and remarks on the Radical Left Democrat Fascists and their use of coordinated Indictments in an attempt to hurt my Presidential campaign through ELECTION INTERFERENCE. So far it has been a big BACKFIRE for them! These Marxist Monsters must not be allowed to destroy our Elections or Country any more than they already have. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (4:26), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> Let's bring in former FBI special agent and ABCL, Jonathan Gilliam. Jonathan, good morning to you. Lots of different Trump cases to talk about this morning, but let's start in Georgia and this possible attempt to look into impeachment proceedings against Fulton County DA, Fonny Willis. What do you think about that? Do you think that's going anywhere? I don't know. It could, you know, but the, the politics in Georgia, as we've seen with their governor, um, some of these people are anti-Trump, so I'm not sure exactly where it will go. And even the wording of the state Senator and the way that he laid that out, uh, showed that if he can get the people to go along with him, then it could have legs. I mean, the sheer fact that they released an indictment before a jury had actually, uh, been seated and given, uh, their judgment on the indictment, it was released publicly. I mean, this, it's unbelievable. I want to say how this is connected to Jack Smith, who is a federal prosecutor or a special, uh, prosecutor. And then we look at the judge that's involved with the federal indictments. All of these individuals have shown political bias in their careers recently, even, um, that against Trump and against conservatives and the legal system, as we used to know it, as we can see now is completely shoved out the door. We have judges who are, uh, who are not, uh, impartial. They are partial. We have prosecutors, uh, both federal and, uh, at the state level, who show that, uh, they will go and try somebody based on politics and opinion. Our legal system is in dire straits right now. And Trump is a perfect example of, of a victim of this system. I'm glad you mentioned Jack Smith. And I think this timeline we're about to show bears out what you're saying. Trump's defense team wants his separate federal election interference trial. I.e. The Jack Smith, one of the Jack Smith cases to begin in April, 2026 prosecution proposing January 2nd of next year. If we could keep this wall up for a moment, you see January 2nd is the potential trial. Then you have the New Hampshire primary. Then you have the Iowa caucus, excuse me, then the primary, then you have Nevada caucuses, more primaries than March 4th potential Georgia trial. Then you have super Tuesday, then you have two more trials. Obviously you see this interspersing. And when you lay it out like that, Jonathan, how else can you explain Jack Smith and the other prosecutors, quite frankly, rush to get Trump inside a courtroom with any other explanation? Then they're trying to mess up his campaign. What we're seeing right here, and that is so telling of what you're seeing right there, they've had literally years to bring all of these issues that they have with Trump to the forefront of the court system. And now they want to do it immediately. Time is of the essence. As far as they have shown in their opinions, time is of the essence that they have to have him in court during a presidential election season. If you would have tried this from the conservative standpoint against Biden or against Hillary Clinton when they were running, the left would have had heart attacks all over the place. The reality of what we're dealing with right now is it's so interesting that January 6th occurred. If you ask all the people that were there on January 6th that actually went into the Capitol building, no matter what you want to call it, they were there not to change government, but because they saw that government was broken and illegal things were going on and they had questions about the election. And interestingly, since that day, what the left and many other Republican politicians have done is illegal, unethical types of maneuvering to keep the very man that these people were saying was given a bad voting system and lost the election because of that, whether it's true or not, the left has gone and actually impeded his ability now to run in the next election. From an investigative standpoint, this is it's very telling. Jonathan Gilliam, we've got to leave it there with you this morning. Thank you so much for joining us. We appreciate it.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/912/723/793/311/226/original/a0abec247c0f89de.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 17,328
- Reposts: 4,924
- Replies: 1,034
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.401Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T07:14:25.307Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

# Analysis: ts_110912724174830640 — Self-Repost with Video (2023-08-18)

## Content Limitations

This post presents minimal analyzable text. The body consists solely of a self-repost marker (`RT:`) pointing to Trump's own earlier post (110912538592420505), accompanied by an `.mp4` video attachment. No original language, no claims, no identifiable emotional register are present in the text layer itself. Psychological inference must rely almost entirely on (a) contextual embedding within the day's posting pattern and (b) authorship timing analysis. This analysis is therefore necessarily constrained in scope; a summary is **not warranted** given the absence of clinically significant textual content.

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## Authorship Attribution

**Timing:** UTC 21:24:22 → **17:24 EDT** (Trump was at Bedminster, NJ, his standard summer residence in August 2023; UTC−4 applies). This places the post in mid-afternoon business hours — **not** a late-night reactive window.

**Format indicators:** The post contains no original text, no capitalization variation, no typos, no emotional commentary. It is a structurally clean self-amplification of an earlier post with a video asset. This format (silent self-RT with media, zero text) is markedly inconsistent with authenticated Trump voice, which almost invariably includes some verbal framing even on video posts.

**Assessment:** Aide authorship (Scavino or equivalent) is the more probable attribution — mid-afternoon timing, sterile format, and absence of any verbal signature converge on this reading. Confidence: **medium** (self-RTs are a known Trump behavior, so full certainty is not warranted, but the absence of any text overlay during a period of high emotional activation is notable).

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## Contextual Embedding

While the post itself yields little, its position within the day's stream is informative. The surrounding posts on 2023-08-18 form a dense, coordinated anti-Georgia-prosecution cluster:

1. Newt Gingrich clip claiming Willis was "ordered" to indict (authority-laundering)
2. Washington Times piece framing Fulton County as a Democratic "Ponzi scheme" (delegitimization)
3. American Spectator piece framing the indictment as election interference timed for Super Tuesday (conspiratorial framing)
4. This video self-repost

The day falls within the acute reactive window following the Georgia RICO indictment (August 14, 2023) and the announcement of the August 25 surrender deadline. The posting pattern reflects a characteristic multi-channel defensive narrative operation: recruit credible-seeming third-party validators (Gingrich, conservative outlets), then amplify via repost.

The video content itself is not accessible for analysis from metadata alone. Given the surrounding posts, it is plausible this is a campaign or political defense video, but this remains speculative without viewing.

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## Psychological State (Contextual Inference Only)

The broader posting pattern on this date is consistent with **narcissistic injury response** to the Georgia indictment — projection of illegitimacy onto the prosecutorial apparatus, recruitment of external validators, and volume-based narrative flooding. This post, however, contributes no independent psychological signal.

**Narcissistic state:** Cannot be assessed from this post in isolation. Contextually, the surrounding posts suggest a **mixed grandiose/vulnerable** oscillation characteristic of the indictment period: grandiose in framing the prosecution as a historic persecution of the most powerful political figure, vulnerable in the delegitimization framing that requires external support structures.

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## Danger Assessment

The specific post carries no danger indicators. Contextually, however, this posting period coincided with the documented doxxing of Georgia grand jurors (names/addresses posted on Truth Social and other platforms), subsequent harassment, and DA Willis seeking juror protections. The day's overall posting pattern — which includes multiple pieces framing Willis and the Georgia process as corrupt, illegitimate, and politically motivated — contributes to the ambient targeting environment. This post does not independently constitute an elevated danger signal.

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## Cognitive Assessment

No language sample is available for assessment. Not applicable.

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 20%)

### Indicators

- Mid-afternoon EDT timing (17:24) inconsistent with late-night authentic Trump pattern
- Zero original text — no verbal framing, no capitalization variation, no emotional overlay
- Clean structural format: silent self-RT with media asset only
- High emotional activation period makes complete silence atypical for authentic Trump voice

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Georgia RICO indictment (contextual))

Sentiment: 0.00

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 0%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 0%

## Tags

- self-repost (90%)
- video-content (80%)
- georgia-indictment-period (70%)
- aide-attributed (60%)
- minimal-text (100%)

## That day

_From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._

**Georgia Indictment Consumes Entire Day as "Marxist Monsters" Dehumanization Marks New Rhetorical Escalation**

The entire day revolved around one thing: the Georgia RICO indictment handed down four days earlier, with a surrender deadline looming. The evening before featured a face-saving cancellation of a promised evidence reveal, repackaged as a savvy legal strategy, followed by a confident dismissal of the upcoming Republican debate. The next afternoon brought an explosive burst of activity -- a high-rage post branding prosecutors "Marxist Monsters" who "must not be allowed to destroy our Elections or Country," then a rapid-fire dump of about ten supportive article links, and two more original posts insisting every indictment is orchestrated by Biden personally. The mood was agitated and singularly focused, with no topic other than legal peril breaking through all day.

Full digest for 2023-08-18: https://trump.fm/date/2023-08-18/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, August 18). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110912724174830640
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1..." Truth Social, 18 Aug. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110912724174830640. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1...," Truth Social, August 18, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110912724174830640.

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