# Post ts_111052451715674342

- Post ID: `ts_111052451715674342`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-09-12T13:38:55.688Z (UTC)
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- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111052451715674342.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Attorney David Schoen: “Trump’s Jan. 6 case is not like any other case!”

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (4:58), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> Welcome back, America. We're here with 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 Chunken 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 felons are 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, this is going to be treated like every other case for every other defendant and she won't cow-tow 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 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 a hundred percent 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 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. You're in simple.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/052/450/388/479/654/original/990befd834580156.mp4

## Engagement

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

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T08:31:07.367Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Psychological & Rhetorical Analysis

### Post Classification
A brief surrogate-voice amplification post, almost certainly aide-authored (Scavino), disseminating favorable legal commentary on the January 6 federal case. Clinically low-intensity but reveals managed narrative strategy during a period of acute legal pressure.

### Authorship: Aide-Written (High Confidence)
Timestamp converts to **9:38 AM EDT** — within standard business hours. Format (attributed quote + video) is canonical Scavino. No authentic Trump stylometric markers present. Compare to the same-day post linking to the Hannity 9/11 anniversary piece — identical aide-pattern structure.

### Psychological Context & Trigger
In the weeks preceding this post, Trump was arraigned in Fulton County on 13 felony charges and faced an active federal Jan. 6 indictment from Special Counsel Jack Smith. Simultaneously, Mark Meadows' bid for federal court removal was denied. The subject is in a sustained **vulnerable narcissistic state** — multiple simultaneous legal exposures constitute compound narcissistic injury. This post is a measured, low-reactivity response: rather than direct rage expression, it deploys a **surrogate voice defense**.

### Defense Mechanisms
- **Rationalization**: Schoen's "not like any other case" provides a legal-flavored frame suggesting the prosecution is aberrant
- **Denial (implicit)**: The framing implies — without asserting — that the case's uniqueness signals illegitimacy
- **Idealization**: Elevating Schoen's credentialed voice reinforces defensive self-serving narrative

### Narrative Identity (Level 3 — McAdams)
The **Victim/Persecuted Hero** archetype is operative. The exceptionalism claim ("not like any other") serves dual narrative function: (1) it elevates the subject as uniquely targeted, which paradoxically reinforces grandiosity while performing victimhood; (2) it primes the base to view the prosecution as a novel political weapon rather than standard legal process — a **contamination sequence** (legitimate process → weaponized persecution).

### Rhetorical Analysis
The surrogate-voice technique is the primary device: Schoen delivers the self-serving claim, insulating the subject from appearing directly defensive. The exclamation mark in the quote performs the emotional emphasis the subject typically provides through ALL CAPS or hyperbole. Strategic ambiguity in "not like any other" allows the audience to fill the ellipsis with their preferred persecution narrative.

### Gaslighting Indicators
Mild. The framing implicitly attacks the legitimacy of a legally valid prosecution without asserting it directly — a softened version of the "witch hunt" DARVO pattern. The audience is primed to reject the prosecution's normalcy.

#

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Trump's Jan. 6 case is not like any other case" | **Unverifiable** | This is a legal opinion by defense attorney David Schoen, not a verifiable factual claim. In a narrow sense, every criminal case has unique elements; in a broader sense, the Jan. 6 federal case involves charges (obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the United States) that have precedent in prior prosecutions, though the political context and subject's status as former president are genuinely unprecedented. As stated, the claim is too vague to adjudicate. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Longitudinal Context
Taken alongside same-day posts amplifying the Hannity 9/11 message and attacking DeSantis (Loomer link), a pattern emerges: multiple shorter, link-based posts amplifying favorable third-party content rather than first-person declarations — consistent with a managed communications day under legal counsel guidance, possibly with restrictions on what can be said directly about pending cases.

### Danger & Fact Assessment
No danger indicators. The sole extractable claim ("not like any other case") is legal opinion, not verifiable fact — rated **unverifiable** as stated.

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- UTC 13:38:55 converts to 9:38 AM EDT (Trump in NYC/Bedminster area in September)
- Business hours post — classic aide/Scavino pattern
- Clean, complete grammar and punctuation
- No typos, ALL CAPS, or emotional interjections
- Simple quote-amplification format with video attachment is a signature Scavino-style post type

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Vulnerable State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Department of Justice / Jack Smith Jan. 6 federal prosecution)

Sentiment: -0.25

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 50%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 40%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- rationalization (neurotic)
- idealization (immature)
- denial (pathological)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 10%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Surrogate voice technique: letting attorney deliver the self-serving message, maintaining plausible deniability while amplifying the claim to the base
- Video content invites emotional investment beyond plain text

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Implicit framing that prosecution's uniqueness signals illegitimacy — softened DARVO without direct assertion
- Surrogate voice used to deliver delegitimizing claim while avoiding direct accusation that could be challenged

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> Trump's Jan. 6 case is not like any other case

**UNVERIFIABLE**

This is a legal opinion by defense attorney David Schoen, not a verifiable factual claim. In a narrow sense, every criminal case has unique elements; in a broader sense, the Jan. 6 federal case involves charges (obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the United States) that have precedent in prior prosecutions, though the political context and subject's status as former president are genuinely unprecedented. As stated, the claim is too vague to adjudicate.

Sources: General legal knowledge

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- aide-authored (90%)
- legal-defense (95%)
- jan6-case (95%)
- surrogate-voice (85%)
- persecution-narrative (80%)
- vulnerable-narcissism (70%)
- implicit-delegitimization (75%)
- low-intensity (90%)

## That day

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

**Multi-Front Legal Siege Drives Pre-Dawn Grievance Spiral as McCarthy Impeachment Delivers Evening Vindication**

Trump started the day with a burst of pre-dawn posting focused on defending himself against the looming New York civil fraud trial, arguing at length that banks were happy and no one was harmed. As the morning progressed, he pivoted to attacking Biden over the Iran hostage deal and a false 9/11 claim, with his sharpest language reserved for accusing Biden of receiving "kickbacks." The middle of the day was dominated by aide-posted link shares reinforcing legal persecution and polling strength narratives. The mood shifted noticeably toward triumphant grandiosity by evening, likely buoyed by Kevin McCarthy's announcement of a formal Biden impeachment inquiry, culminating in a three-word victory lap: "TRUMP WAS RIGHT."

Full digest for 2023-09-12: https://trump.fm/date/2023-09-12/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, September 12). Attorney David Schoen: “Trump’s Jan. 6 case is... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111052451715674342
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Attorney David Schoen: “Trump’s Jan. 6 case is not like any..." Truth Social, 12 Sep. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111052451715674342. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Attorney David Schoen: “Trump’s Jan. 6 case is not like any...," Truth Social, September 12, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111052451715674342.

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