# Post ts_110980269463103747

- Post ID: `ts_110980269463103747`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-08-30T19:42:01.840Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110980269463103747/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110980269463103747.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> The Security Tapes from Mar-a-Lago that evil and sinister prosecutor, Deranged Jack Smith, “leaked” or otherwise stated were deleted or altered were, in fact, NOT deleted or altered.IT WAS A FAKE STORY!

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (1:38), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> The security tapes from Mar-a-Lago that evil and sinister prosecutor deranged Jack Smith leaked or otherwise stated were deleted or altered were, in fact, not deleted or altered at all. In fact, I didn't even have to give them. These are my tapes. I gave them openly and freely. It was a fake story put out by these government thugs. That's what they are. They're government thugs. They're bad people. The tapes were openly handed over without protest or litigation. I didn't have to do that. And then the deranged one, Jack Smith, makes me look as bad as possible by leaking fake stories about we altered the tapes. No. They now admit the tapes were not altered. The whole case is fake because I come under the Presidential Records Act, Biden and Mike Pence don't. They don't. It's a different kind of a problem. But Joe Biden has documents from when he was a senator. You can't do it. It's an impossible. These are classified documents. He's not allowed. But I have the Presidential Records Act, and it was developed and approved by Congress exactly for this purpose. The whole thing is a fake charade. The one who is liable and very responsible is Crooked Joe Biden, the most crooked, the most corrupt president, the most incompetent president in the history of our country. Thank you very much.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/980/268/048/570/339/original/f57a3893f28e2407.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 15,567
- Reposts: 4,319
- Replies: 563
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.400Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T08:04:37.048Z (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 is a structured narcissistic injury response to federal obstruction charges alleging Mar-a-Lago security tape deletion by Trump associates. The psychological trigger is exposure-type injury: the allegations imply Trump directed evidence destruction, attacking both his legal standing and his grandiose self-image as dominant and untouchable. Defense architecture is pathological (denial, distortion) and immature (projection, devaluation) — Jack Smith is rendered 'evil and sinister' and 'Deranged' rather than engaged as a legal adversary. The post's DARVO structure reverses victim and offender: Trump's alleged obstruction becomes Smith's fabrication. The 'FAKE STORY' formulation deliberately activates years of 'FAKE NEWS' audience conditioning, instructing followers to treat a federal grand jury indictment as manufactured fiction — a structural gaslighting operation requiring epistemic closure as group membership. Authorship is stylometrically authentic despite business-hours timing (3:42 PM EDT at Bedminster), consistent with Trump dictation through a staff channel. Same-day posting volume across disparate targets (Murdoch, Biden, Democrats, Smith) suggests a mild hypomanic register under acute cumulative legal stress. Danger is rated elevated: the sustained dehumanization of named federal prosecutors ('evil,' 'sinister') contributes to a longitudinal targeting pattern against law enforcement figures, even absent direct incitement in this specific post.

## Post Analysis: ts_110980269463103747 | 2023-08-30

### Context

This post responds to reporting on the Mar-a-Lago security tape allegations embedded in Jack Smith's federal classified documents obstruction charges. The June 2023 superseding indictment alleged that Trump employees — Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira — were directed to delete security footage that DOJ had subpoenaed. Trump's post is a direct, categorical denial of documented federal charges.

This is posted on a day of extraordinary legal and psychological pressure: the Fulton County mugshot occurred approximately six days prior, Judge Chutkan had just set a March 4, 2024 trial date, and the Georgia co-defendants had all surrendered. The cumulative narcissistic injury load is extreme.

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### Authorship Attribution

**UTC:** 2023-08-30T19:42:01Z → **EDT (UTC−4):** 3:42 PM — solidly within business hours.

Trump was most likely at Bedminster, NJ (his summer residence) at this time. The late-afternoon timing is consistent with aide-facilitated posting. However, the *content* is heavily stylistically authentic:

- Epithet stacking: "evil and sinister prosecutor, Deranged Jack Smith" — the doubled descriptor ("evil and sinister" — near-synonyms for intensification), the nickname schema ("Deranged"), the scare-quoted verb ("leaked"), and the terminal ALL-CAPS verdict declaration ("IT WAS A FAKE STORY!") are signature Trump rhetorical patterns.
- The post shows no polish, no event announcement structure, no scheduling language.
- Short, punchy declarative syntax with emotional punctuation.

**Assessment:** Content is almost certainly Trump-generated (dictated or typed), posted via Scavino/staff channel. Confidence: **medium-high**. The stylometry strongly suggests authentic Trump authorship of the text despite business-hours timing.

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### Psychological State & Trigger

**Trigger type:** Narcissistic injury — specifically, **exposure** subtype. The security tape allegations suggest active obstruction by Trump's team, which if true would imply Trump directed or tolerated evidence destruction. This attacks his legal standing and, more psychologically significant, his grandiose self-image as dominant and untouchable.

**Narcissistic state:** Mixed — predominantly **grandiose** in form (categorical assertion, dismissal of prosecutors) but with **vulnerable** substrate visible in the urgency of the denial and the intensity of the epithet attack on Smith. The post oscillates between "I have triumphed over this lie" (grandiose) and "they are persecuting me with fabrications" (persecutory/vulnerable).

**Rage assessment:** Present at moderate-to-high intensity. The language is more controlled than raw rage posts but the epithet cluster ("evil," "sinister," "Deranged") and the screaming caps verdict reveal underlying agitation. Target: Jack Smith specifically. Proportionality: grossly disproportionate — a legal dispute over security footage becomes a claim that the chief prosecutor is *evil and sinister*. Proportionality score: ~0.10.

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### Defense Mechanisms

1. **Denial (pathological):** The core move — "were, in fact, NOT deleted or altered" — is a categorical denial of documented federal charges backed by subpoenaed evidence and grand jury testimony. No counter-evidence is cited; assertion alone is deployed against documented legal filings.

2. **Distortion:** The entire legal proceeding is reframed as a fabricated narrative. "IT WAS A FAKE STORY" distorts a federal indictment into a media invention.

3. **Projection:** Accusing Smith of "leaking" reverses the information-flow dynamic. Trump's camp has a documented history of strategic leaking; the accusation displaces this onto the prosecutor.

4. **Devaluation:** Smith is rendered as a moral primitive ("evil and sinister") and a psychiatric case ("Deranged"), stripping his institutional legitimacy rather than engaging with the evidentiary record.

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### Multi-Level Personality Analysis

**Level 1 — Traits (Big Five):**
- *Agreeableness* dominant in this post: extremely low (0.1) — combative, hostile, zero conciliation
- *Neuroticism* (angry hostility facet): very high (0.82)
- *Extraversion* (assertiveness): high (0.72)
- *Openness*: very low (0.15) — rigid, formulaic response pattern
- *Conscientiousness*: low (0.28) — impulsive, reactive, no deliberation visible

**Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations:**
- **Power/agency motive** overwhelmingly dominant: the post is entirely about asserting dominance over a legal threat and reasserting control of the narrative.
- **Schema of self:** uniquely persecuted but ultimately victorious; truth is whatever he declares it to be.
- **Schema of others:** antagonists are categorically evil (Smith = "evil and sinister"), not merely mistaken or adversarial — a splitting schema.
- **No communion motives present.**

**Level 3 — Narrative Identity:**
- **Protagonist:** the wrongly accused truth-teller, surrounded by conspiratorial fabricators
- **Narrative sequence:** contamination in progress — legitimate standing → persecution by fabricated stories
- **Identity claims:** "I am the one exposing the fake story" — heroic whistleblower framing
- **Contrasting other:** Jack Smith as epitome of corrupt prosecutorial evil
- **Redemption implicit:** the truth is coming out ("in fact, NOT deleted or altered") — comeback being seeded

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### Rhetorical Techniques

- **Ad hominem (compounded):** "evil and sinister prosecutor, Deranged Jack Smith" — three attacks on character replacing any engagement with evidence
- **Scare quotes:** "leaked" and "deleted or altered" in quotation marks — implies Smith's characterizations are themselves fabrications
- **False epistemic grounding:** "in fact" asserts certainty without evidence
- **ALL CAPS verdict:** "IT WAS A FAKE STORY!" — rhetorical gavel-strike, presenting assertion as established truth
- **Framing echo:** "FAKE STORY" deliberately echoes "FAKE NEWS" — activates audience priming from years of media-distrust conditioning
- **RAND Firehose element:** volume + categorical assertion across multiple same-day posts creates reality saturation; each post denies, attacks, or claims victory across different fronts simultaneously

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### Gaslighting & Reality Distortion

This post qualifies as a **structured gaslighting operation**:

- Denies documented federal charges (denial of documented events)
- Frames the prosecutor — not Trump's employees who allegedly deleted footage — as the bad actor (DARVO: Trump = victim of Smith's fabrication)
- Attacks the epistemic apparatus: "FAKE STORY" instructs followers that Smith's version of events is not merely wrong but deliberately constructed
- Requires followers to accept a flat contradiction of a federal indictment as truth — epistemic closure marker

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### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "The Security Tapes from Mar-a-Lago were NOT deleted or altered" | **Unverifiable** | The ultimate factual question is sub-judice. However, a federal grand jury indictment (June 2023 superseding indictment) charged Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira with obstruction related to alleged efforts to delete security footage in response to DOJ subpoenas. The charges were based on evidence presented to a grand jury. Whether tapes were actually deleted is legally unresolved; that the allegation is documented and legally serious is certain. |
| "Jack Smith 'leaked' information about the tapes" | **Unverifiable** | Specific evidence of leaking by Smith's team is not documented in available record. The information about the tapes appeared in court filings — public legal documents — not leaks per se. The 'leaked' characterization appears to be Trump's rhetorical framing. |
| "IT WAS A FAKE STORY" | **False** | Characterizing documented federal indictment charges — presented to a grand jury and resulting in additional counts against Trump associates — as a 'FAKE STORY' is false with respect to the documented legal record, regardless of ultimate factual resolution. |

Overall Veracity: 33%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 78%)

### Indicators

- Epithet stacking ('evil and sinister prosecutor, Deranged Jack Smith') matches authentic Trump naming schema
- ALL CAPS verdict declaration ('IT WAS A FAKE STORY!') is signature authentic pattern
- 'FAKE STORY' echoes established 'FAKE NEWS' framing — deep stylistic fingerprint
- Scare quotes around 'leaked' and 'deleted or altered' — characteristic Trumpian skepticism punctuation
- 3:42 PM EDT posting time is business hours — ambiguous but does not rule out Trump dictation via staff channel

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Jack Smith / federal obstruction charges alleging Mar-a-Lago security tape deletion)

**Rage:** Intensity 68% targeting Jack Smith / DOJ prosecutors
- Proportionality: 10%

Sentiment: -0.72

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Multiple rapid-fire posts across same day covering disparate targets (Murdoch, Biden, Democrats, Smith, general patriotic declaration)
- Elevated emotional register sustained across all posts
- Grandiose certitude without deliberation or qualification
- Engagement with multiple grievances simultaneously suggests pressured ideation

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 82%
- Antisocial: 64%
- Paranoid: 78%
- Sadism: 52%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- denial (pathological)
- distortion (pathological)
- projection (immature)
- devaluation (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 28%

Cognitive Markers:
- perseveration

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Activation of pre-conditioned 'FAKE NEWS' audience skepticism via 'FAKE STORY' echo
- Invites followers into shared persecution narrative — Smith as their enemy too
- Declarative certainty ('in fact') creates epistemically closed group reality

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Repeated dehumanization of named federal prosecutor ('evil,' 'sinister,' 'Deranged') — contributes to sustained targeting pattern
- Characterizing law enforcement figures as evil builds audience permission structure for hostility toward prosecutors
- Part of longitudinal pattern: same day posts show escalating antagonism across multiple targets (Murdoch, Biden, Democrats, Smith)
- No direct incitement in this post but contributes to stochastic terrorism precursor architecture against named legal officials

### Gaslighting

- Denial of documented federal charges as 'FAKE STORY'
- DARVO: Trump's alleged obstruction reframed as Smith's fabrication — victim and offender reversed
- Attacks epistemic apparatus: instructs followers Smith's account is not merely wrong but deliberately manufactured
- 'In fact' asserts certainty to close epistemic space without presenting counter-evidence
- Scare quotes around Smith's own language delegitimize the prosecutor's factual characterizations

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

## Fact Checks (3)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._

> The Security Tapes from Mar-a-Lago were NOT deleted or altered

**UNVERIFIABLE**

The ultimate factual question is sub-judice. However, a federal grand jury indictment (June 2023 superseding indictment) charged Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira with obstruction related to alleged efforts to delete security footage in response to DOJ subpoenas. The charges were based on evidence presented to a grand jury. Whether tapes were actually deleted is legally unresolved; that the allegation is documented and legally serious is certain.

Sources: Federal superseding indictment, United States v. Trump, June 2023

> Jack Smith 'leaked' information about the tapes

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Specific evidence of leaking by Smith's team is not documented in available record. The information about the tapes appeared in court filings — public legal documents — not leaks per se. The 'leaked' characterization appears to be Trump's rhetorical framing.

> IT WAS A FAKE STORY

**FALSE**

Characterizing documented federal indictment charges — presented to a grand jury and resulting in additional counts against Trump associates — as a 'FAKE STORY' is false with respect to the documented legal record, regardless of ultimate factual resolution.

Sources: DOJ superseding indictment June 2023

Overall Veracity: 33%

## Tags

- narcissistic_injury_response (95%)
- denial_of_legal_record (92%)
- prosecutor_dehumanization (85%)
- DARVO (90%)
- epistemic_closure (88%)
- fake_news_framing (87%)
- obstruction_denial (90%)
- jack_smith_targeting (82%)
- hypomanic_cluster (65%)
- authentic_authorship (78%)

## That day

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

**Post-Mugshot Counteroffensive: 99-Post Barrage Converts Criminal Booking Into Campaign Ammunition**

Six days after his historic Fulton County mugshot, Trump flooded Truth Social with 99 posts — one of his highest-volume days on record. The morning was a staff-produced wall of favorable links building a persecution-meets-triumph narrative, but the afternoon turned personal and heated, with escalating all-caps attacks on Jack Smith, the DOJ, Biden, Rupert Murdoch, and Bill Barr. The most alarming moment came when he amplified an article explicitly calling the indictments a "declaration of war" requiring a "fight fire with fire" response. Throughout it all, the dominant mood was defiant grandiosity — the mugshot had already been converted into a fundraising bonanza and cultural weapon, with poll leads and the $20 million August haul cited as proof that persecution only makes him stronger.

Full digest for 2023-08-30: https://trump.fm/date/2023-08-30/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, August 30). The Security Tapes from Mar-a-Lago that evil and... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110980269463103747
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "The Security Tapes from Mar-a-Lago that evil and sinister..." Truth Social, 30 Aug. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110980269463103747. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "The Security Tapes from Mar-a-Lago that evil and sinister...," Truth Social, August 30, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110980269463103747.

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