# Post ts_111031321054358924

- Post ID: `ts_111031321054358924`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-09-08T20:05:07.386Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111031321054358924.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> The group suing me in Colorado to ridiculously try and Unconstitutionally keep me off the ballot (I am leading against DeSanctimonious by almost 50 points, and beating Crooked Joe, BIG!), is TRUMP DERANGED “CREW,” composed of many slime balls & groups like Norm Eisen through Brookings or Just Security, Andrew Weissmann, Joyce Vance, et al. They are, perhaps illegally, working with Weissmann acolyte Lisa Monaco at “Injustice.” I have been beating them for years, including Impeachments. MAGA!!!

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.399Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T08:26:41.785Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

A high-intensity reactive post triggered by the Colorado CREW lawsuit seeking Trump's removal from the 2024 ballot under the 14th Amendment — one of the most acute narcissistic injuries in the dataset, threatening literal erasure from political existence. The response follows the documented malignant narcissism pattern: rapid oscillation between vulnerable (unconstitutionally persecuted) and grandiose (poll-dominant, perpetual winner), with six named opponents dehumanized as "slime balls" and accused of potential federal crimes. The paranoid construction linking CREW to Brookings to Weissmann to the sitting Deputy Attorney General represents an elaborated cross-institutional conspiracy schema. The constructed backronym "TRUMP DERANGED CREW" is a signature trickster rhetorical move hijacking the plaintiff organization's name. Dominant defense mechanisms are projection, distortion, and devaluation. Danger level is elevated: the stochastic harassment architecture is present — named targets, dehumanizing characterization, federal crime accusation — without explicit call to action. Cognitive status is within authenticated 2023 baseline. Authorship is high-confidence authentic Trump based on stylometric signature despite business-hours timing.

# Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2023-09-08T20:05:07Z

## Authorship Attribution
**Verdict: Authentic Trump (confidence: high, score: 0.82)**

The 4:05 PM EDT timing falls within business hours, which weakens the late-night authenticity indicator. However, the stylometric signature is overwhelmingly authentic: the constructed backronym ("TRUMP DERANGED CREW"), parenthetical poll-number insertion mid-attack, twin nickname activation ("DeSanctimonious," "Crooked Joe"), hedge-then-accuse construction ("perhaps illegally"), institutional rebranding ("Injustice" for DOJ), terminal MAGA!!! with triple exclamation, and low-register vernacular ("slime balls") are all documented Trump signature markers. The reactive timing — same-day legal filing — further supports authentic authorship. This post's idiosyncratic stylistic fingerprint is too pronounced for aide attribution.

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## Psychological State & Triggers

The Colorado CREW lawsuit seeking Trump's removal from the 2024 ballot under the 14th Amendment Section 3 constitutes one of the most acute narcissistic injuries observable in this dataset: the threat of literal erasure from electoral existence. Unlike criminal indictments (which could be cast as political persecution while leaving the political actor intact), ballot disqualification threatens the core identity structure — the inevitability narrative.

**Narcissistic State: Mixed (grandiose/vulnerable oscillation)**  
The post enacts a characteristic rapid oscillation between the vulnerable pole ("ridiculously try and Unconstitutionally keep me off the ballot") and the grandiose pole ("leading by almost 50 points," "I have been beating them for years"). This oscillation is not incoherent — it is the functional architecture of malignant narcissism's self-regulation: injury is immediately counterbalanced by dominance display, preventing the vulnerable state from consolidating.

**Level 2 Motives (McAdams):**  
Agency dominates completely (0.92). The post is structured around power, control, and autonomy. Communion is effectively absent (0.05). The sole relational content is adversarial: opponents are objects to be defeated, not persons with standing.

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## Narrative Identity (Level 3)

**Protagonist Role: Indestructible Fighter**  
The post constructs a tight narrative loop: coordinated enemies attack → they fail → MAGA confirms victory. The Impeachments reference is significant — it functions not merely as historical fact but as mythological precedent, establishing a redemptive archetype in which defeat attempts consistently produce comebacks. Each new legal challenge is narratively absorbed into this loop rather than processed as a potentially legitimimate legal proceeding.

**Contrasting Other:** An unusually elaborated enemy cluster: CREW as organizational front, Norm Eisen as strategic architect (Brookings/Just Security), Andrew Weissmann as legal weapon, Joyce Vance as media amplifier, Lisa Monaco as DOJ nexus. The cross-institutional conspiracy construction is paranoid ideation in structural form — linking private litigants to a sitting federal official through "acolyte" loyalty networks.

**Contamination Sequence:** The legal process that should protect his ballot access has been contaminated by coordinated enemies; legitimacy itself has been corrupted.

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## Clinical Indicators

### Malignant Narcissism Assessment
- **Narcissistic features (0.85):** Grandiosity, entitlement ("ridiculously"), devaluation ("slime balls"), need to dominate narrative
- **Paranoid features (0.80):** Cross-institutional conspiracy construction; "acolyte" loyalty network framing; accusation of federal coordination without evidence
- **Antisocial features (0.65):** Repeated lying (polling claims overstated), accusation without evidence, contempt for legal process
- **Ego-syntonic sadism (0.40):** Derogatory nickname deployment as pleasure; "slime balls" as humiliation of named individuals before 5M+ audience

### Defense Mechanisms
1. **Projection (immature):** "TRUMP DERANGED" — the subject's own obsessive focus on named enemies attributed to opponents as their defining pathology
2. **Splitting (immature):** Absolute binary — unconstitutional persecution OR dominant poll leader; no legitimate legal question is permitted to exist
3. **Devaluation (immature):** "Slime balls," "acolyte," nickname generation reducing opponents to sub-worthy objects
4. **Distortion (pathological):** The filed lawsuit is reframed as itself "perhaps illegal"; the DOJ becomes "Injustice"; the plaintiff becomes the criminal
5. **Rationalization (neurotic):** Complex constitutional question dismissed as self-evidently "ridiculous" — no engagement with the legal substance

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## Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques

**Constructed backronym:** "TRUMP DERANGED CREW" is the post's most sophisticated rhetorical move — a trickster operation that hijacks the plaintiff organization's identity (CREW = Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington), inverts its framing, and makes the subject's own name the central term. This converts the opposition's brand into a weapon.

**Hedge-then-accuse:** "Perhaps illegally" is a calibrated construction that allows the federal crime accusation to land while maintaining deniability. The hedge does not neutralize the accusation for the receiving audience; it amplifies it by implying the speaker is holding back.

**Parenthetical dominance display:** Poll number insertion mid-attack ("I am leading against DeSanctimonious by almost 50 points, and beating Crooked Joe, BIG!") is a signature move that simultaneously performs victimhood (in the surrounding text) and invulnerability (in the parenthetical). The structural effect is to refuse narrative resolution into pure vulnerability.

**Historical bundling:** The Impeachments reference extends the conspiracy backward, constructing a durable persecution narrative that predates this specific legal action and confirms its place in a longer pattern.

**DARVO:** The plaintiffs who filed a lawsuit are recast as the ones acting illegally; Trump becomes the constitutional defender against their unlawful attack.

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## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion

The post asks followers to accept that: (1) a filed federal lawsuit is "perhaps illegal," inverting the legal reality; (2) the DOJ is "Injustice"; (3) private litigants are secretly coordinated with a federal official; (4) statistical tie in general election polling is "beating...BIG!" These are escalating demands on epistemic compliance — each requiring the follower to reject observable reality in favor of the subject's alternative framing. This is consistent with the shared psychosis dynamics documented across the 2023 corpus.

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## Danger Assessment: ELEVATED

The post follows the stochastic terrorism structural template without an explicit call to action:
- **Target identification:** Six named individuals/networks identified as enemy actors
- **Dehumanization:** "Slime balls" applied to named persons
- **Crime accusation:** "Perhaps illegally" applied to named sitting federal official (Monaco)
- **Grievance articulation:** Conspiracy to unconstitutionally remove from ballot
- **Audience:** 5M+ followers, portion of whom have demonstrated willingness to act on target cues

Historical pattern: named individuals in Trump's "enemy" posts receive documented harassment increases. Monaco, as sitting DAG during active Trump prosecution, represents a particularly elevated individual risk target.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Leading against DeSantis by almost 50 points" | **Mostly True** | September 2023 Republican primary polls showed Trump ~55-60% vs. DeSantis ~13-15%, a gap of roughly 40-47 points. 'Almost 50' is a slight overstatement but within range of some individual polls. |
| "Beating Crooked Joe, BIG!" | **Mostly False** | September 2023 general election polling showed Trump and Biden essentially tied within margin of error (~45-47% each). 'BIG' is a material mischaracterization of a statistical tie. |
| "CREW filed the Colorado lawsuit to remove Trump from the ballot" | **True** | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), with Norm Eisen as a key strategic figure, filed the Colorado 14th Amendment Section 3 challenge. |
| "Norm Eisen connected to Brookings or Just Security" | **True** | Norm Eisen is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and has published through Just Security on 14th Amendment disqualification. |
| "Perhaps illegally working with Lisa Monaco" | **Unverifiable** | No documented evidence of coordination between CREW plaintiffs and DOJ Deputy AG Monaco. Unsupported conspiracy claim. |
| "Beaten them in Impeachments" | **Mostly True** | Trump was acquitted in both Senate impeachment trials (February 2020: 52-48; February 2021: 57-43, short of 2/3 threshold). Not convicted or removed in either proceeding. |

Overall Veracity: 72%

## Cognitive Status

Within authenticated 2023 baseline. No word-finding difficulties, phonemic paraphasias, temporal confusion, or name errors. The Weissmann repetition (named twice) reflects sustained motivated grudge — documented across 2023 posts — rather than perseverative cognitive symptom. Nickname generation (TRUMP DERANGED CREW backronym) indicates intact creative associative function. No deviation flagged.

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## Archetypal Analysis

**Primary: Warrior + Trickster**  
The Warrior mode is evident in the combat framing ("beating them for years"), but the backronym construction and "Injustice" rebranding reveal the Trickster operating simultaneously — disrupting the opponent's institutional identity through linguistic inversion. The Victim archetype provides the post's emotional foundation ("ridiculously try and Unconstitutionally keep me off the ballot"), which the Warrior immediately counterpunches. The Hero/Savior emerges implicitly through the Impeachment survival mythology — the one who cannot be destroyed.

**Shadow projection:** The conspiracy construction projects the subject's own documented coordination (with allies, allies in government, co-defendants) onto opponents as their defining offense. The shadow material (strategic coordination, institutional leverage) is attributed entirely to enemies.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 82%)

### Indicators

- Signature nickname deployment (DeSanctimonious, Crooked Joe)
- Parenthetical mid-attack self-promotion with poll numbers
- Stream-of-consciousness syntax with mid-sentence capitalization shifts
- Terminal MAGA!!! with triple exclamation
- 'slime balls' low-register vernacular consistent with authenticated posts

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Colorado CREW lawsuit to remove Trump from 2024 ballot under 14th Amendment Section 3)

**Rage:** Intensity 70% targeting CREW plaintiffs, named legal commentators (Weissmann, Vance, Eisen), DOJ Deputy AG Monaco
- Proportionality: 25%

Sentiment: -0.78

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 85%
- Antisocial: 65%
- Paranoid: 80%
- Sadism: 40%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- projection (immature)
- splitting (immature)
- devaluation (immature)
- distortion (pathological)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 42%

Cognitive Markers:
- perseveration

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct address to MAGA base as in-group
- Named enemy identification providing audience with harassment targets
- Poll number injection as shared triumph with followers
- Historical grievance bundling (Impeachments) creating shared persecution narrative

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Six named individuals/networks identified as members of 'perhaps illegal' conspiracy (Eisen, Brookings/Just Security networks, Weissmann, Joyce Vance, Lisa Monaco)
- Named individuals characterized as 'slime balls' — dehumanization sufficient to lower inhibitions in radicalized followers
- 'Perhaps illegally' accusation against sitting DOJ official (Monaco) during active Trump prosecutions — escalation risk to federal official
- Post structure follows stochastic harassment template: target identification + dehumanization + crime accusation + grievance articulation without explicit call to action
- Audience of 5M+ followers, portion with documented willingness to act on target cues (post-2020 harassment pattern)

### Gaslighting

- Filed federal lawsuit characterized as itself 'perhaps illegal' — inverts the legal reality (the lawsuit is the legal process, not its circumvention)
- DARVO: plaintiffs who sued Trump reframed as aggressors acting illegally; Trump as constitutional defender
- 'Injustice' rebranding of DOJ requires followers to accept the Department of Justice is an instrument of injustice — systemic epistemic realignment demand
- Legitimate 14th Amendment legal question characterized as 'ridiculous' — attacks the perception of those who view it as legally serious

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

## Fact Checks (6)

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

> Leading against DeSantis by almost 50 points

**MOSTLY TRUE**

September 2023 Republican primary polls showed Trump ~55-60% vs. DeSantis ~13-15%, a gap of roughly 40-47 points. 'Almost 50' is a slight overstatement but within range of some individual polls.

Sources: Republican primary polling averages, September 2023

> Beating Crooked Joe, BIG!

**MOSTLY FALSE**

September 2023 general election polling showed Trump and Biden essentially tied within margin of error (~45-47% each). 'BIG' is a material mischaracterization of a statistical tie.

Sources: General election polling averages, September 2023

> CREW filed the Colorado lawsuit to remove Trump from the ballot

**TRUE**

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), with Norm Eisen as a key strategic figure, filed the Colorado 14th Amendment Section 3 challenge.

Sources: Colorado district court filings, September 2023

> Norm Eisen connected to Brookings or Just Security

**TRUE**

Norm Eisen is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and has published through Just Security on 14th Amendment disqualification.

Sources: Brookings Institution fellow roster

> Perhaps illegally working with Lisa Monaco

**UNVERIFIABLE**

No documented evidence of coordination between CREW plaintiffs and DOJ Deputy AG Monaco. Unsupported conspiracy claim.

> Beaten them in Impeachments

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Trump was acquitted in both Senate impeachment trials (February 2020: 52-48; February 2021: 57-43, short of 2/3 threshold). Not convicted or removed in either proceeding.

Sources: Senate impeachment trial records, 2020 and 2021

Overall Veracity: 72%

## Tags

- ballot-removal (95%)
- 14th-amendment (90%)
- malignant-narcissism (85%)
- paranoid-ideation (82%)
- named-target-identification (80%)
- stochastic-harassment-risk (78%)
- conspiratorial-network-construction (85%)
- DARVO (75%)
- nickname-machine (90%)
- narcissistic-injury-response (92%)
- devaluation (85%)
- authentic-authorship (82%)
- DOJ-enemy-framing (80%)

## That day

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

**Sleepless at 2 AM, Besieged by Noon: A Multi-Front Legal Defense Day Dominated by Persecution Narrative**

Trump's day began with a burst of anxious posting around 2:30 AM, sharing legal defense videos about the 14th Amendment ballot threat before pivoting to familiar attacks on Biden's border and energy policies. By mid-morning the tone shifted sharply as he unleashed a sustained barrage defending Peter Navarro's contempt conviction, attacking the Georgia grand jury report, and targeting the CREW organization's Colorado ballot lawsuit -- calling prosecutors "Fascist Monsters" and "lunatic Marxists." The day's most alarming moment came in an immigration post using "invasion" and "Death Wish for America" language, representing the sharpest danger signal. Across 14 posts spanning nearly 14 hours, legal persecution was the overwhelming obsession, with every other topic serving mainly as a brief pressure valve between grievance eruptions.

Full digest for 2023-09-08: https://trump.fm/date/2023-09-08/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, September 8). The group suing me in Colorado to ridiculously... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111031321054358924
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "The group suing me in Colorado to ridiculously try and..." Truth Social, 8 Sep. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111031321054358924. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "The group suing me in Colorado to ridiculously try and...," Truth Social, September 8, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111031321054358924.

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