# Post ts_111121962393672893

- Post ID: `ts_111121962393672893`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-09-24T20:16:24.379Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111121962393672893
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111121962393672893/analysis

## Post text

> https://thegreggjarrett.com/the-brief-the-medias-favorite-lies-to-protect-joe-biden-in-his-sons-influence-peddling-schemes/

## Engagement

- Likes: 7,404
- Reposts: 1,907
- Replies: 101
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.397Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T08:52:45.343Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: URL Share — Gregg Jarrett Article on Biden/Media

**Post Summary**

This post consists entirely of a bare URL to thegreggjarrett.com, with no original authorial text. The linked article's title — *"The Brief: The Media's Favorite Lies to Protect Joe Biden in His Son's Influence Peddling Schemes"* — constitutes the entire communicative content. This severely limits psychological inference; analysis is necessarily constrained to what can be read from curation choice, timing, and topical framing.

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### Authorship Attribution

**UTC:** 2023-09-24T20:16:24Z. Per known events, Trump held a campaign rally in Dubuque, Iowa on this date. Iowa observes CDT (UTC−5), placing the post at **3:16 PM local time** — solidly within business hours. Combined with the absence of any original text, impulsive punctuation, or emotional register, this post bears all the hallmarks of **aide-authored content** (likely Scavino operation staff). Authentic Trump posts at this period typically contain at minimum a declarative sentence, exclamation point, or brief editorial. A bare URL mid-afternoon while the principal is preparing for or recovering from a campaign rally is consistent with surrogate posting.

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### Psychological State and Triggers

With no original text, direct inference about psychological state is severely constrained. What can be read from *curation choice*:

- **Trigger:** The article subject — Biden family "influence peddling" and media complicity — aligns with Trump's recurrent preoccupation with prosecutorial asymmetry. The Menendez indictment on gold bars and bribery was dominating news this same week, providing a political-corruption backdrop.
- **Whataboutism as standing operating procedure:** Amplifying Biden/media corruption narratives during a period of Trump's own mounting legal exposure is consistent with the projection/displacement cycle.
- **Narcissistic dynamic:** Supply-maintenance posting — amplifying friendly voices (Jarrett, a Fox News legal analyst and Trump loyalist) — is a routine feature of the account even when the principal is not actively composing.

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### Defense Mechanisms

- **Projection / Displacement (immature):** Directing audience attention toward Biden-family corruption displaces scrutiny from Trump's own concurrent legal situation.
- **Rationalization (neurotic):** Framing media coverage as systematic lying provides a cognitive structure that immunizes followers against counter-evidence.

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### Rhetorical Techniques

Despite containing no original words, the post employs several techniques through link-sharing:

1. **Appeal to authority:** Gregg Jarrett functions as a credentialed legal voice whose conclusions Trump implicitly endorses.
2. **Whataboutism:** Pivoting the audience toward Biden corruption narrative.
3. **Priming via headline framing:** The article's title performs the rhetorical work: "favorite lies" presupposes systematic media dishonesty; "influence peddling schemes" presupposes criminal culpability without adjudication.
4. **Epistemic closure reinforcement:** Directing followers to a friendly media ecosystem that mirrors their existing beliefs.

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### Danger Assessment

**None.** No eliminationist language, no target identification with grievance framing, no dehumanization, and no mobilization language.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Biden's son engaged in influence peddling schemes (article headline amplified by post)" | **Half True** | Hunter Biden's business dealings with Burisma and Chinese entities are documented and were under congressional investigation. DOJ plea negotiations were ongoing. However, 'schemes' implies criminal adjudication not established as of this date. |
| "Media fabricates lies to protect Joe Biden (article headline)" | **Unverifiable** | This is an opinion characterization of media motivation and intent, not subject to truth-value assessment. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 15%)

### Indicators

- Posted at 3:16 PM CDT — business hours, not Trump's typical late-night pattern
- Zero original text; bare URL only
- Trump was preparing for/recovering from Dubuque Iowa rally at this time
- No emotional register, typos, ALL CAPS, or exclamation points
- Consistent with Scavino-style surrogate posting during travel day

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Routine Biden-corruption narrative amplification; concurrent with Trump's own legal exposure)

Sentiment: -0.45

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 20%
- Paranoid: 30%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- projection (immature)
- displacement (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 0%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Third-party voice amplification (Jarrett as proxy)
- Epistemic in-group reinforcement via curated media ecosystem

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> Biden's son engaged in influence peddling schemes (article headline amplified by post)

**HALF TRUE**

Hunter Biden's business dealings with Burisma and Chinese entities are documented and were under congressional investigation. DOJ plea negotiations were ongoing. However, 'schemes' implies criminal adjudication not established as of this date.

Sources: DOJ records; Congressional testimony record

> Media fabricates lies to protect Joe Biden (article headline)

**UNVERIFIABLE**

This is an opinion characterization of media motivation and intent, not subject to truth-value assessment.

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- bare-url-post (100%)
- aide-authored (85%)
- biden-corruption-narrative (90%)
- media-hostility (70%)
- whataboutism (80%)
- friendly-media-amplification (75%)
- displacement (60%)
- epistemic-closure (65%)

## That day

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

**From Abortion Victory Lap to Media 'Treason' Threats: Grandiosity Curdles Into Authoritarian Escalation**

Trump spent most of the day in self-congratulatory mode, sharing a flood of favorable polling articles and claiming sole credit for overturning Roe v. Wade. The afternoon brought a burst of link-sharing -- over a dozen posts in two hours, mostly curated by staff -- highlighting polls showing him leading Biden by 10 points. The mood darkened toward evening as he pivoted to the Menendez indictment to relitigate his own legal grievances, and the day ended with the most alarming post: an explicit threat to use federal regulatory power against NBC and MSNBC for what he called "Country Threatening Treason." That final post stood out as a concrete, specific vision of press suppression framed as patriotic duty.

Full digest for 2023-09-24: https://trump.fm/date/2023-09-24/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, September 24). https://thegreggjarrett.com/the-brief-the-medias-f... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111121962393672893
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://thegreggjarrett.com/the-brief-the-medias-favorite-li..." Truth Social, 24 Sep. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111121962393672893. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "https://thegreggjarrett.com/the-brief-the-medias-favorite-li...," Truth Social, September 24, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111121962393672893.

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