# Post ts_111044612830822737

- Post ID: `ts_111044612830822737`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-09-11T04:25:23.711Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/111043262213905938“THIS IS A RAILROAD JOB—PLAIN AND SIMPLE!”

## Reposted post

Original: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111043262213905938 (2023-09-10T22:41:55.013Z (UTC))

> Great lawyer David Schoen on Mark Levin Show, tonight, 8:00 P.M. Will talk about ELECTION INTERFERENCE!

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (4:54), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> Here are one of the great civil rights criminal defense lawyers of our time, David Shone. He also represented President Trump in one of the impeachment cases. You're familiar with him. David Shone, I want to talk about Judge Chunkin for a moment. I've made the case that this setting the date on March 4th violates the Sixth Amendment, effective representation by counsel. There's 12.8 million pages of documents. You have five months to prepare. Even the feds couldn't say that they've ever had a case where five months was enough. And this is a very complex case. You have a lot of questions that are raised for the first time, complexity involving a former president, motions, filings. She also sets the date one day before Super Tuesday, the most important date in the election cycle in the Republican primary. She also jumps the line, jumps in front of the first case that's in Florida with Judge Cannon, who already set her trial date for May. And I'm sure that's created a lot of chaos down there on the other case. My argument, David Shone, is she's doing this. She wants a Democrat jury. She wants at least one conviction on one of the counts. So Donald Trump is walking around with a scarlet letter, convicted felon. So the likes of Chris Christie and others, as well as Democrats, can say, well, he's a convicted felon. What's your take on this? Well, I think we've seen just that sort of thing in some of her words. In other words, the lady doth protest too much, methinks. She has made clear that this is only going to be treated like every other case for every other defendant, and she won't kowtow to election concerns and that sort of thing very defensively. Of course, it's not like any other case. There's a great public interest. The government spoke about a public interest in a speedy trial rather than the defendant's interest in a speedy trial. There's a greater public interest here in the election and the democratic process and letting that democratic process run its course. I had a misdemeanor case in this same district set for eight months in the future, not this kind of schedule. This schedule is outrageous. Nobody could prepare in this timeframe, certainly not these lawyers. It's once more, unfortunately, the political process reaching another branch of government and where it has no place. And I earlier read what the code of professional conduct is for judges, and this would seem to me to violate it in multiple ways. That's number one. Number two, she says it's like any other case, whether it's athletes or anything else. And yet the Department of Justice for several decades, Democrat and Republican attorneys generals have issued memos in March of election years specifically saying this is not like any other case. You better make sure that when you conduct investigations that you do not interfere with a campaign and they go further. You're not to charge people before a campaign unless you get a sign off by the attorney general of the United States himself. But they give warning after warning after warning that this is different, that you are not supposed to use the criminal justice system to affect an election. Yet we have a prosecutor and a judge who are doing exactly that. No? Yeah. Well, I don't think you got the most recent memo, which was if Trump is involved, ignore all previous memos for every other election. No, you're 100% right. In my view, it violates the fifth and the sixth amendment rights. There's no possible way you hit on the most important one, the effective assistance of counsel, but also due process, all of the fair trial rights, the right to compel witnesses. He can't even sort out who the witnesses would be. They don't know what the exculpatory evidence would be. And the prosecutor said, well, they streamlined things and they've gone through and made it easier. It's not for the prosecutor to decide what evidence the defense finds most important. The defense has to do the painstaking work of going through the evidence. Listen, I've had experience with two members of a couple of members of this Mr. Smith's team, and especially in this DC process. I have right now a sanctions motion going against JP Cooney, the lead fellow in this case and Molly Gaston in another case in this district. We're awaiting a hearing because of their outrageous government misconduct. And in that case, the judge said he's very concerned about their misconduct and he's concerned that they don't seem to be concerned, but we haven't had the hearing yet. So Trump is a speedy trial on behalf of the government, not on behalf of the defender or the public. Let's make that clear. And you have a matter before one of these judges in the same district and they can't seem to get around to it, right? Right. I've got a case actually with Judge Chutkin and another judge in this district, Judge Walton, both of whom I'm sure are in another setting of fine judges. But literally I've had a motion to dismiss, and those are civil cases, but important cases with claims hanging over my client's head, and then literally I've had motions to dismiss pending for over three years without any action on them. Well, maybe Judge Chutkin can put that in the front of her calendar and work that out. I mean, it's been sitting there for three years. Yeah, this is a railroad job. That's all it is.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/044/610/641/670/198/original/99dd91eb74665605.mp4

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.398Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T08:21:50.490Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Midnight retruth on 9/11 anniversary amplifying Trump's own earlier post: "THIS IS A RAILROAD JOB—PLAIN AND SIMPLE!" Posted at 12:25 AM EDT at Bedminster NJ — high-confidence authentic Trump, consistent with late-night ruminative grievance cycling. The post arrives in the immediate aftermath of the Georgia arraignment and Meadows' denied federal transfer, representing the vulnerable pole of Trump's grandiose-vulnerable narcissistic oscillation visible across same-day posts. The 'railroad job' idiom is rhetorically efficient: it bypasses rational-legal argument and activates American folk-justice intuitions of the innocent man crushed by corrupt courts. 'Plain and simple' functions as epistemic closure, foreclosing deliberation. The self-retruth structure — broadcasting a message from hours earlier at midnight — is consistent with supply-seeking behavior and anxious ruminative state. Dominant defense mechanisms are pathological denial (rejecting legal process legitimacy wholesale) and distortion (collapsing complex multi-jurisdictional proceedings into simple persecution narrative). The same-day cluster of posts reveals characteristic narcissistic state cycling: grandiose compensation ('90% approval, crushing second-tier candidates by 70 points') alternating with victim protest ('railroad job,' 'impossible trial date'), both responses to the same acute legal threat. Danger level is elevated but not acute — no dehumanizing language or explicit violence indicators, but the corruption-of-justice framing at scale contributes to ambient grievance ecology. Clinically significant for its clarity as a distilled instance of vulnerable narcissistic injury response and institutional delegitimization.

# Psychological Analysis: ts_111044612830822737

**Date:** 2023-09-11 | **Platform:** Truth Social | **Local Time:** ~12:25 AM EDT (Bedminster, NJ) | **Subject Age:** 77

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## Authorship Attribution

**High confidence: authentic Trump.** The post was made at 12:25 AM local time at Bedminster NJ (Trump's typical September residence), squarely within his documented late-night posting window. The content — ALL CAPS, raw emotional declarative, self-retruth amplification — exhibits none of the aide-written markers (polished grammar, event announcements, professional formatting). The act of retruthing his own post from hours earlier is a self-amplification behavior consistent with agitated ruminative state.

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## Contextual Background

The post appears in the wake of the Georgia arraignment on 13 felony charges (August 24, 2023) and the September 8 denial of Meadows' federal court transfer bid — a significant legal setback for a key Trump co-defendant. The cluster of same-day posts (Spectator article on unconstitutionality, Mark Levin clip on "impossible trial date") establishes this post as part of a defensive information ecosystem Trump was actively amplifying. The date — September 11 — adds an ironic backdrop: a day of national victimhood invoked on the same day Trump recasts himself in the victim role.

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## Multi-Level Personality Analysis

### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

| Trait | Salience | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| **Neuroticism** | Very High | Angry hostility, late-night reactive posting, ALL CAPS outrage |
| **Agreeableness** | Very Low | Adversarial framing, zero empathy for legal system or co-defendants |
| **Openness** | Very Low | 'Plain and simple' is a rigidity marker — no ambiguity tolerated |
| **Extraversion** | High | Assertive, dominating declarative; self-amplification |
| **Conscientiousness** | Low | Impulsive midnight retruth, zero deliberative quality |

The dominant facet is **angry hostility** (neuroticism), expressed through grievance projection onto institutions.

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### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency motives** dominate: the core motive is restoration of control and status threatened by the legal process. The persecution framing serves to reframe a situation of *diminished agency* (being indicted, arraigned, facing trial) into a narrative of *righteous resistance* — converting powerlessness into martyrdom.

**Power schema:** The post reveals a schema in which any institutional check on his behavior is, by definition, corrupt — a schema that renders the legal process inherently illegitimate regardless of its evidentiary basis.

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### Level 3: Narrative Identity

- **Protagonist role:** Pure victim/martyr. No fighter or dealmaker visible here — only the persecuted innocent.
- **Contamination sequence:** Implied arc — legitimate electoral success → betrayal by corrupt institutions → railroad prosecution. The good (political triumph) has been contaminated by bad-faith persecution.
- **Identity claim:** "I am the target of a corrupt system." The railroad idiom positions him alongside historical wrongly-convicted figures in American folklore.
- **Contrasting other:** The judicial system, prosecutors, and implicitly Biden/Democrats as the architects of the "railroad."
- **Redemption absent:** This post offers no redemption arc — only grievance. The redemption is implied (presumably via electoral victory), but not articulated here.

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### Level 4: Clinical Indicators

**Narcissistic state: Vulnerable.** This represents the persecuted/wounded pole of Trump's characteristic grandiose-vulnerable oscillation. The Georgia arraignment constitutes a direct narcissistic injury — exposure of alleged wrongdoing by authoritative institutions with genuine coercive power. The same-day posts that bracket this one show the oscillation pattern clearly:

- *Grandiose compensatory:* "90% approval rating... crushing second-tier candidates by 50, 60, and even 70 points. THAT'S POPULAR!" — expansive, dominant, status-asserting.
- *Vulnerable:* "This is a railroad job," "impossible trial date" — persecuted, wounded, seeking rescue.

This cycling within a single day under sustained legal pressure is consistent with dysregulated narcissistic functioning.

**Defense mechanisms:**

1. **Denial (pathological):** 'Railroad job' wholesale rejects the legitimacy of the legal proceedings — not a refutation of specific evidence but a categorical denial of the system's good faith.
2. **Distortion (pathological):** Reducing a multi-jurisdictional grand jury process to "plain and simple" corrupt persecution distorts a complex legal reality to fit an internal persecution narrative.
3. **Projection (immature):** Corrupt motivation attributed entirely to the prosecuting institutions; no self-examination present.

**Paranoid features (moderate-high):** The "railroad job" framing reflects preoccupation with coordinated persecution by powerful institutions — a paranoid interpretive lens that converts legal accountability into conspiratorial attack.

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## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis

The post is brief but rhetorically efficient. **'Railroad job'** is doing disproportionate work — it is a culturally resonant American folk idiom evoking the corrupt small-town justice of Westerns and Depression-era labor disputes. It bypasses rational-legal argument and appeals directly to populist folk-justice intuitions: the powerful crushing the innocent through rigged courts. The audience needs no argument — the idiom supplies the entire narrative frame.

**'PLAIN AND SIMPLE'** functions as an epistemic closure device. It signals that deliberation is finished, the verdict is in, and the invitation is to join the resolved camp rather than evaluate the evidence. This is a standard propaganda technique for audiences already primed by prior messaging.

The **self-retruth structure** (amplifying his own earlier post at midnight) is notable: it suggests the message did not receive sufficient validation the first time, triggering a second broadcast. This is consistent with supply-seeking behavior — not obtaining adequate narcissistic supply from the initial post and recycling the grievance for additional validation.

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## Gaslighting / Reality Distortion

**Moderate gaslighting present.** The 'railroad job' framing, broadcast to millions, implicitly requests followers to accept that documented grand jury indictments are corrupt fabrications. This is not gaslighting of a specific individual but a scaled reality-distortion campaign requiring followers to accept Trump's persecution narrative as the price of in-group membership.

**Epistemic closure:** Yes. The "plain and simple" framing signals that no alternative interpretation is acceptable — a classic epistemic closure move that positions doubt as disloyalty.

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## Danger Assessment

**Elevated (not high).** The post does not contain explicit dehumanizing language, eliminationist rhetoric, or stochastic terrorism indicators. However, framing the legal system as a corrupt "railroad" targeting an innocent political leader — broadcast to millions during an active criminal process — contributes to an ambient grievance ecology that can motivate motivated actors. The danger is structural/cumulative rather than acute.

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## Cognitive Status

The post is too brief and stylistically simple to yield meaningful cognitive markers. No word-finding difficulties, paraphasias, or temporal confusions are detectable. Consistent with Trump's known terse, declarative Truth Social style. No deviation from baseline warranted.

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## Archetypal Analysis

**Primary archetype: Victim/Martyr.** Secondary: **Order-Attacker** (targeting corrupt institutions). The post invokes the archetypal innocent man ground down by a rigged system — a resonant American narrative with deep folk roots (wrongly convicted hero, the little guy vs. the machine). The appeal is to audiences who already perceive institutional order as corrupt and illegitimate. Trump channels their pre-existing grievances against "the system" through the lens of his own persecution, conflating his legal predicament with their structural resentments.

**Shadow projection:** The corrupt, rule-ignoring, power-abusing figure — traits consistent with the documented conduct underlying the indictments — is fully projected onto the prosecutorial system.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "This is a railroad job — plain and simple" | **Unverifiable** | This is an opinion/characterization framing documented legal proceedings as corrupt persecution. Multiple grand jury indictments across federal and state jurisdictions are documented facts; whether they constitute a 'railroad job' is a normative judgment not susceptible to factual verification. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 88%)

### Indicators

- Post timestamp 04:25 UTC = 12:25 AM EDT (Bedminster NJ, summer residence) — late-night authentic Trump window
- ALL CAPS rhetorical exclamation ('THIS IS A RAILROAD JOB—PLAIN AND SIMPLE!')
- Emotionally reactive, zero-nuance declarative framing
- Self-retruth amplifying own earlier content — classic late-night engagement pattern
- Em-dash punctuation and exclamation mark consistent with authentic Trump style

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Vulnerable State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Criminal prosecution system — Georgia arraignment, Meadows federal transfer denial)

**Rage:** Intensity 65% targeting Federal and state legal apparatus
- Proportionality: 20%

Sentiment: -0.72

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 82%
- Antisocial: 38%
- Paranoid: 78%
- Sadism: 5%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 20%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Victimhood identification — invites audience to share his persecution narrative
- Certainty signaling ('PLAIN AND SIMPLE') — forecloses deliberation and invites unreflective agreement
- ALL CAPS as emotional transmission vector

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Systemic framing of legal accountability as corrupt persecution — delegitimizes rule of law for millions of followers
- Scale of institutional delegitimization could motivate motivated actors in ambient grievance ecology
- No direct dehumanization or eliminationist language — danger is structural/cumulative

### Gaslighting

- 'Railroad job' framing implicitly requires followers to accept documented grand jury proceedings as fabricated persecution
- Scaled reality-distortion campaign: in-group membership requires accepting persecution narrative over documented legal facts
- 'Plain and simple' forecloses independent evaluation — epistemic closure as loyalty test

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-24._

> This is a railroad job — plain and simple

**UNVERIFIABLE**

This is an opinion/characterization framing documented legal proceedings as corrupt persecution. Multiple grand jury indictments across federal and state jurisdictions are documented facts; whether they constitute a 'railroad job' is a normative judgment not susceptible to factual verification.

Sources: Georgia v. Trump arraignment record; Federal indictments DOJ 2023

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- railroad-job (95%)
- vulnerable-narcissism (90%)
- institutional-delegitimization (88%)
- authentic-trump (88%)
- late-night-post (85%)
- narcissistic-injury-response (87%)
- epistemic-closure (82%)
- supply-seeking-retruth (78%)
- 9/11-anniversary-context (55%)
- georgia-arraignment-response (92%)

## That day

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

**On 9/11 Anniversary, Legal Grievance Eclipses National Mourning in 18-Post Barrage**

Trump spent the 22nd anniversary of September 11 almost entirely consumed by his legal troubles and political attacks, offering only a single four-word memorial before pivoting to hours of grievance. A late-night burst of posts processing his Georgia indictment gave way to an aggressive afternoon session attacking Biden, Fox News, Republican rivals, and the justice system itself. The most alarming moment came when he framed immigration as an "invasion" destroying American cities, deploying dehumanizing language on the nation's most emotionally charged date. The day revealed how completely personal legal crisis had displaced any capacity for communal mourning or national reflection.

Full digest for 2023-09-11: https://trump.fm/date/2023-09-11/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, September 11). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111044612830822737
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1..." Truth Social, 11 Sep. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111044612830822737. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1...," Truth Social, September 11, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111044612830822737.

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