# Post ts_110925104505781551 - Post ID: `ts_110925104505781551` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-08-21T01:52:51.389Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110925104505781551 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110925104505781551/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110925104505781551.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > A MUST WATCH! PART 1 of 2!@marklevinshow ## What the media says **Video transcript** (8:45), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Hello America, welcome. I'm Mark Leven and this is Life, Liberty and Leven. We have two great guests tonight, Senator Tom Cotton and Victor Davis Hanson. But before I go to our great guests, we really need to take a step back and see what's happening to our country. I couldn't be happier that you're here this evening. There was a great philosopher, he didn't live that long, but a great philosopher in the 1800s. His name was Frederick Basquiat. He wrote a little book called The Law. Ronald Reagan had that book, among many other books, on his bookshelves at his home. Because what the man said was incredibly profound. And I want to quote him very, very briefly to lay the foundation for what I want to get to with you this evening. He said, "The law perverted and the police powers of the state perverted along with it. The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose. The law become the weapon of every kind of greed. Instead of checking crime, the law itself is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish." He said, "Unfortunately, law by no means confines itself to its proper functions. And when it has exceeded its proper functions, it is not done so merely in some inconsequential and debatable matters. The law has gone further than this. It has acted in direct opposition to its own purpose. The law has been used to destroy its own objective. It has been applied to annihilating the justice that it was supposed to maintain. To limiting and destroying rights, which its real purpose was to respect. The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous, who wish without risk, to exploit the person, liberty, and property of others. It has converted plunder into a right in order to protect plunder. And it has converted lawful defense into a crime in order to punish lawful defense." That was written almost 200 years ago and that is exactly what's happening to our country today with the Democrat Party and this Marxist movement. Let's just take a big picture look here. Let's look at the federal level, the judges, the Department of Justice as applies to former president and candidate Donald Trump. In Washington they used a DC grand jury to bring Florida charges, venue shopping, and violation of Department of Justice rules for prosecutors and grand juries. Grand jury abuses by the so-called special counsel, including the denial of attorney-client privilege and due process to the former president. That is using attorney-client privilege information discussions with your lawyer and lawyer's notes with a grand jury, in which you don't have a lawyer there, in which you can't provide exculpatory information, in which you cannot challenge anything. We have a prosecutor working for Jack Smith who's accused of extorting a lawyer. Seems pretty serious to me. That is, he said he would help him get a judgeship in exchange for telling his client to turn state witness against former President Trump. Where is that now? It's being investigated in secret by the chief judge of that district who's another Obama appointee. We've heard nothing. Former president, as I said, stripped of attorney-client privilege and that was done in secret by another Obama judge. We have no idea why that occurred and her order remains secret. We're talking about a former president, the leading Republican nominee for president, and all these secret trial activities going on. Former president was stripped of his executive privilege authority to protect his conversations with his former vice president and his staff while he was president of the United States. That's never been done before. No attorney-client privilege, no executive privilege. Criminalized a document dispute using a search warrant, a SWAT team from the FBI, and seized records. Never done before in American history. An abuse of law, most aggressive use of the law to do something which is really outrageous. A secret search warrant we just heard from another Obama judge, allowing the government to seize all communications the former president had on Twitter, including private communications. Again, trial by secrecy in a Democrat courtroom with a Democrat judge, a Democrat prosecutor, a Democrat grand jury, Democrat future jury. Now why was that done in secret? The bogus argument, well, if he finds out that we're looking at his Twitter account, he may flee the country. Yeah, he'll leave his family, he'll leave Mar-a-Lago, he'll leave it all. He'll just flee the country. Now how ridiculous is that? Now what have they done? They use an 1871 Ku Klux Klan statute, a 2002 Enron statute, and financial obstruction statute, none of which has anything at all to do with January 6th. They use the 1917 Espionage Act which was passed by Woodrow Wilson to imprison his political opponents. Sound familiar? It was applied against Eugene Debs who was running for president on the Socialist Party, and he ran while he was in prison. I guess that's what the Biden administration thinks ought to happen now. Piling charges, as we say, that is making multiple criminal charges from a single event. Just piling them on, piling them on. Now why do they do that? Because they just want one conviction, and they want a jury to sit there and say, look, we got 40 charges here in the document case. All right, let's, let's find Gilly on one or two of them and we'll clear them with the rest. That's what's going on. Every dirty trick imaginable. There has been relentless leaking of investigative sensitive and even concealed information to the media, in particular Maggie Haberman at The New York Times, to the Washington Post and to CNN. And I've demonstrated here, I have examples of over 40 leaks from this prosecutor in the Department of Justice in the past six months in violation of federal law to destroy the objectivity of any jury pool. And as for The New York Times, I want you to remember something. Their reporter in Moscow was a Stalin mouthpiece. During the Holocaust, their bureau chief in Berlin was a Hitler mouthpiece while they covered up the Holocaust. I want to remind you, The New York Times helped install Fidel Castro, who had 28 guerrilla militia behind him. That was it. To overthrow the government in Cuba, which was, which was a corrupt government, but still it was the communist regime. And now The New York Times is trying to overthrow this government. In Atlanta, outrageous leaked district attorneys grand jury charges before the grand jury even met to vote on the charges, indicted 19 individuals, including the former president, for exercising their free speech rights, organizing a challenge to an ongoing political campaign for president, seeking dual electors in an extremely close election, which by the way is done often, providing legal advice, lobbing state officials, and then accusing them all because of all these so-called phony charges of mob action. That is RICO, a mob law, a grand conspiracy to obstruct and overturn the election. In other words, they were charged for routine political activity. The DA, who represents only Fulton County, Georgia, county prosecutor, nonetheless claims to use evidence involving six other states outside of Georgia, uses allegations made by the Pelosi January 6 committee, which have since destroyed God knows how much material that they collected on that committee in order to prevent the former president from using any exculpatory information that they may have come across to defend himself. This is a federal matter, not a state matter. She's obviously coordinating with the Department of Justice and the special counsel, Jack Smith. We know this. She was directly asked if she was and she said, "I'm not discussing my investigation." That's a yes and she's not discussing her investigation, which means she's been coordinating with Jack Smith. This is not only interference in a federal election, it's a bald-faced attempt to empower thousands and thousands of local and state prosecutors to decapitate the federal government, if there's a Republican candidate, if there's a Republican president. Just to decapitate it. More on that later. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/925/103/899/064/753/original/ca08c6b2b694d703.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 21,110 - Reposts: 7,477 - Replies: 1,267 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.401Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T07:16:06.395Z (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_110925104505781551 — August 21, 2023 ## Overview This post is, in isolation, one of the least psychologically rich artifacts in Trump's output — a seven-word promotional tag for a Mark Levin video, styled in two-part serialization with no propositional content. Its interpretive value lies almost entirely in its **contextual positioning** within the 24-hour posting sequence and the surrounding legal events. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Assessment: Lean authentic (0.65/1.0), medium confidence.** UTC timestamp `01:52:51Z` converts to **9:52 PM EDT** on August 20, 2023 — placing this squarely within Trump's documented late-evening posting window. The ALL CAPS "MUST WATCH," exclamation-heavy minimal syntax, and impulsive two-part serialization pattern all align with authenticated Trump stylometrics. The purely promotional nature with no self-referential commentary slightly reduces confidence, but the overall profile favors authentic authorship over aide production. --- ## Contextual Significance On August 21, 2023, Trump **cancelled the press conference** at which he had promised to release "irrefutable evidence" of Georgia election fraud — a highly embarrassing reversal citing legal advice. Meanwhile, the Georgia surrender deadline of **August 25** was looming, and his bond conditions included unprecedented social media restrictions against threatening witnesses and co-defendants. Against this backdrop, the Levin promotion reads as a **displacement maneuver**: rather than generating original content that might attract scrutiny or inadvertently violate bond conditions, Trump redirects follower attention toward a pre-aligned legal-media validator. Levin — a lawyer, constitutional commentator, and Fox prime-time host — implicitly launders the pro-Trump legal framing with professional credibility Trump cannot safely provide himself at this moment. --- ## Psychological Dynamics ### Narcissistic State: Grandiose (maintenance register) The adjacent CBS poll post is the high-intensity grandiosity anchor of this session. This Levin promotion represents a lower-register **supply maintenance** behavior — positioning Trump as the authoritative curator of his followers' information diet without requiring him to make any falsifiable claim. "MUST WATCH" is an implicit authority assertion: *my judgment about what matters is correct; follow my direction.* ### Trigger: Supply-seeking under legal stress The combination of cancelled press conference, approaching surrender deadline, and bond-condition-constrained social media behavior creates a psychological pressure context in which Trump cannot express his characteristic grandiosity directly. The Levin promotion is structurally consistent with **anxiety displacement through allied media routing** — a neurotic-level defense that allows continued audience engagement without legal risk exposure. ### Defense Mechanisms **Displacement (neurotic):** Legal anxiety is discharged through a promotional act that engages followers without creating new legal liability. The energy that might otherwise fuel a combative legal-threat post is redirected toward amplification. **Rationalization (neurotic):** Framing the Levin content as "MUST WATCH" and "very important" implicitly frames Trump's legal situation through Levin's favorable interpretive lens, providing narrative comfort without requiring Trump to make any direct claim. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis The post is rhetorically minimal but structurally functional: - **Urgency imperative** ("MUST WATCH"): Attentional capture without propositional content — cannot be fact-checked. - **Serial escalation** (Part 1 of 2): Manufactured incompleteness that guarantees a second follower interaction, a low-cost engagement technique. - **Appeal to authority**: Levin's credibility as lawyer-commentator provides implicit legal legitimacy that Trump cannot safely claim for himself given bond conditions. - **Information curation as power display**: Trump positions himself as the arbiter of what his audience should consume — an agency expression that costs nothing and requires no factual commitment. --- ## Danger Assessment **None.** The post contains no threatening language, no target identification, no dehumanizing rhetoric, and no eliminationist framing. In the context of bond conditions restricting threatening social media activity, this post is conspicuously compliant — further supporting the interpretation that legal constraints are shaping content selection during this window. --- ## Longitudinal Note The five-post sequence on August 20–21 (CBS poll → MAGA solicitation → Levin Part 1 → Levin Part 2) shows a pattern common during legal stress periods: **lead with grandiosity** (the poll post), **convert attention to resources** (the MAGA/donate post), then **outsource narrative framing** to allied media (the Levin posts). This sequence suggests either coordinated messaging strategy or an intuitive behavioral pattern that has been reinforced across multiple indictment cycles. The cancellation of the press conference on this same date is conspicuously absent from the posting record — an omission that itself constitutes a form of reality management. --- *No clinical summary generated: post is sub-threshold for clinical significance as a standalone artifact.* ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 65%) ### Indicators - ALL CAPS 'MUST WATCH' consistent with authentic Trump urgency framing - Late evening posting: UTC 01:52:51 converts to 9:52 PM EDT on August 20 — within Trump's documented active window - Exclamation-heavy, minimal syntax typical of authentic posts - Paired with a stylistically similar Part 2 post at near-identical time, suggesting organic posting session rather than scheduled aide content - However, the purely promotional/amplification nature with no editorial commentary slightly reduces confidence ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Mark Levin / friendly media ecosystem) Sentiment: +0.35 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 30% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 10% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - displacement (neurotic) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 10% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Urgency framing ('MUST WATCH') mobilizes follower attention toward sanctioned information source - Direct tag of @marklevinshow creates parasocial triangulation — Trump as curator of 'what matters' - Two-part serialization manufactures anticipation and return engagement ## Tags - media_amplification (90%) - supply_seeking (70%) - displacement (60%) - mark_levin (80%) - georgia_indictment_context (60%) - urgency_framing (50%) - echo_chamber_reinforcement (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Facing Fourth Indictment and Imminent Arrest, Trump Oscillates Between Grandiose Defiance and High-Danger Prosecutor Targeting** Trump spent the day reacting to mounting legal pressure from his Georgia RICO indictment, with his surrender and mugshot just three days away. The morning began with low-key Levin show promotions before erupting into angry attacks on the DOJ and Fulton County DA Fani Willis. Mid-day brought a brief grandiose interlude celebrating Iowa poll numbers, but the evening culminated in his most intense post of the day — a long, rage-fueled announcement of his upcoming arrest that repeatedly vilified Willis by name. Throughout it all, a pattern emerged: every legal setback was reframed as persecution, every prosecutor cast as the real criminal, and every poll number offered as proof of martyrdom. Full digest for 2023-08-21: https://trump.fm/date/2023-08-21/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, August 21). A MUST WATCH! PART 1 of 2!@marklevinshow [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110925104505781551 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "A MUST WATCH! PART 1 of 2!@marklevinshow" Truth Social, 21 Aug. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110925104505781551. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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