# Post ts_111185706880521039

- Post ID: `ts_111185706880521039`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-10-06T02:27:28.059Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111185706880521039.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Gregg Jarrett and Elizabeth MacDonald—Thank you to both! Letitia James is a corrupt politician using her office for political gain, although her run for Governor was not exactly successful—She polled at close to ZERO, and went back to the AG’s office and “Getting Trump.”

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (4:51), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> Let's bring in Fox News legal analyst, he's Greg Jarrett. Greg, this story. Greg, you have an excellent, sharp legal mind. I'm not just saying that to blow smoke, it's true. You've looked at this New York fraud case against former President Trump. Does it violate Trump's constitutional due process rights and rights to a jury? - Oh, I think it absolutely does. This executive law, Liz, was intended for consumer fraud cases impacting the general public. Here, the public wasn't impacted at all. Indeed, no party was harmed, which is normally an element of proof and fraud cases. The banks made more than 100 million in profits from the loans to Trump. So this statute, as it's being used by Letitia James, is really turning the law on its head. It gives her unfettered authority to pursue Trump for fraud without actually having to prove the basic elements of fraud demanded by law. And that, as you say, deprives the defendant of a right to fairly defend himself, and it also deprives him of a right to a trial by a jury, both of which are due process violations under the 5th, the 7th, and the 14th Amendments to the Constitution. But let me point out one other argument here. It's also unconstitutional, Liz, in a different way. The judge's order of forced dissolution of any company that Trump has an interest in, well, what's that gonna do? It's gonna adversely impact every other business partner and entity associated with Trump that are not part of this case. They weren't even sued. They'll be harmed with no notice, no right to defend their interests. How is that consumer protection? It's not, it's consumer punishment. This isn't equitable relief, which the statute calls for. It's a severe penalty where trial by jury rights are utterly abandoned. - You know, the New York law this case is brought under, let's show the viewer. It does not require a victim, no need to prove intent into fraud, but the judge can force Trump to pay a quarter billion dollars and lose all his properties. You know, David Asim points out the very definition of fraud in the dictionary includes intent. But this law is so overbroad, you know, and by the way, the attorney general campaigned on going after Trump, calling him a quote con man, saying I'm gonna direct a bright light into every dark corner of his real estate dealings. But you know, the thing is Greg, you make important points here. Judge Engaron, he acknowledged no victim of Trump's fraud, lodged a complaint or otherwise claimed damages. Deutsche Bank didn't file for damages. Usually a murder conviction requires that the victim's body be found. And there's also this, I gotta say in this point, it's important. The judge's order cites that courts have ruled that a state has a quasi-sovereign interest in protecting the integrity of the marketplace. The New York attorney general, Greg, is not the sole guardian of the marketplace. The SEC is in there, the Federal and State Bank and insurance regulators, they've got oversight too. - Yeah, at all excellent points, they're all quite valid that you just made, Liz. Look, this case should never have been filed. It's a classic case of a political persecution under the guise of a legitimate prosecution. And in my judgment, it's illegitimate for the reasons I've stated and you've stated. Letitia James, you'll recall, ran for office on the campaign promise of quote unquote, getting Trump for something, anything. I don't have it, but I'll find it. In other words, she prejudged a case of which she had no knowledge. She hadn't even opened the files yet on the investigation that was pending. That is a terrible violation of the canons of ethics governing prosecutors. In my judgment, she ought to be severely sanctioned, if not disbarred. She won't be because the far left liberal New York bar is cheering her on instead of doing their job. And the judge seems equally biased in this case. He endorsed this pronouncement that Mar-a-Lago is worth a paltry 18 million. I mean, you can't buy a porta potty in Palm Beach for that. And the real estate experts say, are you kidding the land alone 17 acres in this exclusive sought after enclave is worth $500 million. So, you know, this is using the reins of government power for political persecution against Trump. - Got it, Greg Jarrett. Thanks for coming on the show. It's good to see you.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/185/706/401/052/820/original/004d31af70d8d3e6.mp4

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T10:22:00.865Z (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 late-evening post represents a structured devaluation response to acute narcissistic injury from Trump's ongoing civil fraud trial. Trump deploys two primary mechanisms: projection — attributing corruption and self-interested exploitation to Letitia James while himself being adjudicated for fraud — and rationalization — constructing a pseudo-logical argument (failed governor run → revenge prosecution) that pre-emptively delegitimizes any trial outcome. The post is notably more controlled than the preceding day's "DERANGED!" eruption, suggesting partial reconstitution of grandiose defenses after the distress of walking out of court on October 4. The explicit gratitude toward Fox validators (supply receipt made public) reveals the vulnerability beneath the reconstituted grandiosity. The "close to ZERO" claim about James's gubernatorial polling is factually exaggerated; she withdrew before serious polling, but available data showed modest single-digit support. Authorship is almost certainly authentic: 10:27 PM EDT local time, reactive to a Fox segment just watched, with structural and stylistic markers fully consistent with documented Trump voice. No danger indicators. Epistemic closure is structurally embedded — within this framework, no legitimate legal challenge against him is possible, making trial proceedings a loyalty test requiring followers to dismiss evidence in advance.

# Psychological Analysis: Trump Truth Social Post — October 6, 2023 (02:27 UTC)

## Authorship Attribution

**Verdict: High confidence authentic Trump**

The UTC timestamp 02:27:28 converts to **10:27 PM EDT** in New York — where Trump was located for the civil fraud trial. This falls squarely within his documented late-evening/authentic posting window. Content markers reinforce: reactive gratitude to specific named Fox personalities (Gregg Jarrett, Fox News legal analyst; Elizabeth MacDonald, Fox Business host) is consistent with someone who has just watched a supportive TV segment and immediately posted. Structural fingerprints — em-dashes, parenthetical digressions used as evidence-marshaling devices, scare quotes, hyperbole — match his documented voice at high confidence. No aide would write with this personal, emotionally reactive quality. Attached video likely captures the Fox segment being thanked.

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## Contextual Frame

Trump's civil fraud trial began October 2 under Judge Engoron. He walked out mid-afternoon on October 4. Judge Engoron had already issued a gag order after Trump attacked the judge's law clerk. This post was published the evening of October 5 (local time) — the day after the walkout. It is one of several posts that day attacking Letitia James, suggesting a sustained devaluation campaign in response to the trial's commencement.

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## Multi-Level Personality Analysis

### Level 1: Dispositional Traits
Dominant facets present: **low agreeableness** (combative, contemptuous dismissal), **low neuroticism display** (more controlled than preceding day's posts — partially reconstituted grandiose defenses), **high extraversion** (assertive, dominant tone), **low openness** (rigid moral schema: legitimate vs. witch-hunt). The absence of full-caps outbursts signals relative emotional regulation compared to the October 5 "DERANGED!" eruption.

### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations
Strong **agency motives** dominate (status protection, control, dominance). The post works to reassert control narratively when the legal environment is imposing constraint. Communion is visible only in the gratitude to Fox validators — supply receipt framed as loyalty reciprocity. The governing schema: *powerful figures who fail in their own ambitions organize their careers around my destruction.*

### Level 3: Narrative Identity
- **Protagonist role:** Wronged achiever persecuted by a resentful also-ran
- **Narrative sequence:** Contamination — legitimate success (his business career, presidency) corrupted by the vindictive machinations of those who failed to surpass him
- **Identity claim:** I am so consequential that failed politicians restructure their entire careers around defeating me
- **Contrasting other:** Letitia James — defined as a double failure (electoral, moral) whose prosecution is self-interested compensation

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## Clinical Indicators

### Narcissistic Dynamics
**Trigger:** Active narcissistic injury from trial proceedings and the October 4 walkout; public exposure of alleged fraud is an existential threat to the grandiose self-schema.

**Narcissistic state:** Mixed — grandiose surface (I am so important she built a career chasing me), vulnerable substrate (the explicit need to source validation from Fox figures before attacking). This pattern of collecting validators before counter-striking is documented across his posting history under legal pressure.

**Rage:** Present but modulated. Intensity ~0.45 (compared to 0.75+ in the October 5 posts). More strategic than explosive.

### Defense Mechanisms

**1. Projection (dominant, immature level)**
The post accuses James of being "a corrupt politician using her office for political gain" — the precise charge *Trump himself faces in the proceeding underway.* He is being adjudicated for misusing business structures for personal financial gain; he attributes identical corruption to his adversary. This is the most clinically significant feature of the post.

**2. Devaluation (immature level)**
Reduces James from the Attorney General prosecuting a documented fraud case to "a failed gubernatorial candidate who polled at close to ZERO." This move renders the legal threat psychologically manageable by attacking the stature of its source.

**3. Rationalization (neurotic level)**
Constructs pseudo-logical argument: failed governor run → case is personal revenge. Provides a veneer of reasoned argument over a primarily threat-neutralization function.

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## Rhetorical Analysis

Core rhetorical move: **delegitimization via motive attribution.** James's electoral failure is offered as dispositive evidence that her prosecution is revenge, not law enforcement. Scare quotes around "Getting Trump" perform a crucial function: they rhetorically transform a legal proceeding into a confessed personal obsession, inviting the audience to share in that framing.

The public thanks to Jarrett and MacDonald function as an **endorsement chain**: trusted media figures validate me → therefore I am right → therefore you (audience) should accept this framing. This is an efficient parasocial trust transfer.

No dehumanizing language, no violent imagery, no stochastic terrorism indicators. Rhetorical intensity is moderate.

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## Gaslighting / Reality Distortion

The "close to ZERO" polling claim is factually exaggerated (James withdrew before extensive primary polling; available data showed modest single-digit support). More structurally, framing the prosecution as revenge contradicts the documented evidentiary basis — the fraud case was built on multi-year financial records reviewed independently of any gubernatorial ambition. Epistemic closure is structurally embedded: within this framework, *no legitimate legal challenge is possible,* making the trial itself a loyalty test for his followers.

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## Cognitive Status

No markers of concern. The post is coherent, strategically organized, and deploys specific factual claims (however distorted) in service of a clear rhetorical goal. Vocabulary and syntactic complexity are consistent with established Trump baseline. The controlled register relative to October 5 posts reflects situational emotional regulation, not cognitive shift.

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## Longitudinal Note

Comparing the trajectory across the October 5–6 posts:
- Oct 5: "DERANGED!" — explosive, raw, dissociated affect
- Oct 6 (this post): More controlled devaluation campaign — strategic, supply-seeking, pseudo-logical

This oscillation from vulnerable/explosive → reconstituted grandiose is consistent with the documented pattern under sustained legal exposure. The reconstitution is partial: the need to publicly receipt Fox validation signals the underlying narcissistic supply deficiency.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Her run for Governor was not exactly successful" | **True** | James announced gubernatorial candidacy in October 2021 and withdrew in December 2021, returning to the AG race she ultimately won. |
| "She polled at close to ZERO" | **Mostly False** | James withdrew before extensive primary polling was conducted. Available polling showed modest single-digit support, not 'close to zero.' The characterization is a significant exaggeration. |
| "Letitia James is a corrupt politician using her office for political gain" | **Unverifiable** | Opinion/assertion. The civil fraud case was built on multi-year documented financial records reviewed by independent accountants. Motive attribution is not directly verifiable. |

Overall Veracity: 57%

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- 10:27 PM EDT local time — late evening posting window consistent with authentic Trump
- Stream-of-consciousness em-dash sentence structure
- Reactive gratitude to specific Fox News/Fox Business personalities just watched
- Scare-quoted 'Getting Trump' is idiomatic to Trump's voice
- Parenthetical aside about gubernatorial race is characteristically digressive but pointed

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Letitia James / civil fraud trial proceedings)

**Rage:** Intensity 45% targeting Letitia James
- Proportionality: 15%

Sentiment: -0.55

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 72%
- Antisocial: 45%
- Paranoid: 55%
- Sadism: 30%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 48%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Public acknowledgment of Fox validators as supply receipt and endorsement chain signaling
- Gratitude display performs loyalty reciprocity for audience
- Scare quotes frame prosecution as shared in-group joke

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Frames documented multi-year fraud investigation as purely personal political revenge
- Uses James's failed governor run to pre-emptively nullify legitimate legal proceedings
- Scare quotes around 'Getting Trump' rhetorically transform legal process into personal obsession narrative

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> Her run for Governor was not exactly successful

**TRUE**

James announced gubernatorial candidacy in October 2021 and withdrew in December 2021, returning to the AG race she ultimately won.

Sources: General knowledge / documented public record

> She polled at close to ZERO

**MOSTLY FALSE**

James withdrew before extensive primary polling was conducted. Available polling showed modest single-digit support, not 'close to zero.' The characterization is a significant exaggeration.

Sources: General knowledge / documented public record

> Letitia James is a corrupt politician using her office for political gain

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Opinion/assertion. The civil fraud case was built on multi-year documented financial records reviewed by independent accountants. Motive attribution is not directly verifiable.

Overall Veracity: 57%

## Tags

- narcissistic-injury-response (85%)
- projection (90%)
- devaluation (82%)
- verdict-nullification (78%)
- fox-validator-dependency (65%)
- epistemic-closure (80%)
- civil-fraud-trial-reactive (95%)
- letitia-james-attack (90%)
- authentic-authorship (88%)

## That day

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

**Trial Anxiety Drives Midnight Legal Defense Blitz as Trump Builds Brick-by-Brick Counter-Narrative**

Trump spent the day overwhelmingly focused on his New York civil fraud trial, firing off a rapid burst of posts in the late evening that mixed attacks on Attorney General Letitia James with carefully curated legal expert quotes and favorable property appraisals. After midnight, the mood shifted to compensatory grandiosity with a Jim Jordan endorsement and sweeping promises to triple auto production. The afternoon brought a fresh defensive flare-up over allegations he shared classified submarine information at Mar-a-Lago, complete with inflated polling claims. The overall picture is a man under serious legal pressure constructing an elaborate public counter-narrative while toggling between wounded defensiveness and projections of dominance.

Full digest for 2023-10-06: https://trump.fm/date/2023-10-06/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, October 6). Gregg Jarrett and Elizabeth MacDonald—Thank you... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111185706880521039
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Gregg Jarrett and Elizabeth MacDonald—Thank you to both!..." Truth Social, 6 Oct. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111185706880521039. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Gregg Jarrett and Elizabeth MacDonald—Thank you to both!...," Truth Social, October 6, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111185706880521039.

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