# Post ts_111466445989697854 - Post ID: `ts_111466445989697854` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-11-24T16:23:06.899Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111466445989697854 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111466445989697854/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111466445989697854.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Andrew C. McCarthy: “It’s an amazing thing to watch: Donald Trump, front-runner in the Republican presidential nomination race, is on trial for supposedly inventing wealth that he didn’t have; and in order to nail him, elected Democrats Tish James and Arthur Engoron are inventing losses that no one ever suffered.” ## Engagement - Likes: 15,215 - Reposts: 4,525 - Replies: 553 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.390Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T11:03:35.458Z (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 Thanksgiving midday post, almost certainly aide-curated, amplifying a legal defense argument via Andrew C. McCarthy's credentialed framing. Psychologically, it reflects a vulnerable narcissistic state responding to the sustained injury of the NY civil fraud trial. The key rhetorical structure is DARVO — prosecutors are recast as the fabricating party through a mirror-accusation deploying the word 'inventing' symmetrically. The deliberate labeling of Engoron and James as 'elected Democrats' attacks judicial legitimacy through partisan identity collapse. Both primary factual claims rate as half-true and mostly false respectively: McCarthy's framing misrepresents the legal standard and evidentiary record. This post is the polished institutional counterpart to the same morning's authenticated 2am raw attack on identical targets — the two posts together reveal a two-register communication strategy: emotional/authentic at night, credentialed/curated by day. No danger indicators present. # Analysis: Truth Social Post — November 24, 2023 (ts_111466445989697854) ## Overview This post consists entirely of a quoted passage attributed to Andrew C. McCarthy — a former federal prosecutor and National Review contributor — characterizing the New York civil fraud trial as a politically motivated exercise in judicial invention. Trump contributes no original text; the post is pure quotation laundering. The date is Thanksgiving Day 2023, a day the known events record was already eventful: Trump had posted a 2am attack calling Letitia James "racist" and Judge Engoron a "Psycho." This 11:23am post represents the daylight, media-credentialed version of the same narrative. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Verdict: Aide-written (high confidence)** - **Local time:** 11:23 AM EST (UTC-5; Trump was almost certainly at Mar-a-Lago for Thanksgiving) - **Format:** Clean, correctly punctuated block quote with no typos, no capitalization irregularities, no stream-of-consciousness elaboration - **No added commentary:** Authentic Trump posts rarely repost third-party content without appending his own voice ("SO TRUE!" or "WITCH HUNT!"). The silence here is conspicuous - **Content type:** Calibrated legal/political argument — exactly the kind of credentialed-source amplification a comms aide would curate - **Pattern:** Contrasts sharply with the 2am Thanksgiving post (same day, confirmed authentic by timing and tone) which attacked the same targets with raw emotional language This reads as opposition-research/comms material: a polished legal argument packaged for audience amplification. The aide selects McCarthy precisely because he is a former federal prosecutor; the quote carries institutional credibility Trump's own words cannot. --- ## Psychological Analysis ### Trigger **Narcissistic injury** — the ongoing New York civil fraud trial, presided over by Judge Engoron and brought by AG Letitia James, represents a sustained, institutionally legitimated challenge to Trump's identity as a successful businessman. The trial directly attacks the central pillar of his public persona and self-concept: wealth. ### Narcissistic State **Vulnerable (wounded)** — the framing is entirely defensive and victimhood-oriented. There is no grandiose claim of counter-triumph here; the thrust is "I am being persecuted." This contrasts with grandiose-state posts that celebrate wins. The 2am authentic post earlier that morning was more raw; this polished version sustains the same vulnerable posture but with institutional scaffolding. ### Defense Mechanisms 1. **Rationalization (neurotic, Level 3):** McCarthy's legal framing is imported wholesale to supply a logical justification for dismissing the trial's premises. By attributing the argument to a credentialed former AUSA, the rationalization gains external validation. 2. **Projection (immature, Level 2):** The rhetorical structure performs a neat reversal: Trump is accused of *inventing* wealth; the prosecutors are cast as *inventing* losses. The same verb ("inventing") is applied to accusers, projecting fabrication onto the institutional actors. 3. **DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender):** Structurally embedded in McCarthy's quoted framing. Trump is denied agency ("supposedly"), the elected officials are attacked, and the victim/offender polarity is reversed — the prosecution becomes the fraudulent party. ### Narrative Identity (McAdams Level 3) - **Protagonist role:** Victimized innocent on trial for invented charges - **Contrasting other:** "Elected Democrats Tish James and Arthur Engoron" — the explicit political labeling ("elected Democrats") is significant; it casts judicial figures as partisan actors, delegitimizing the legal process entirely - **Contamination sequence:** A legitimate legal process is being contaminated by partisan fabrication - **Identity claim (implicit):** Trump is the man being targeted *because* he is a genuine threat to Democratic power — his persecution is evidence of his importance --- ## Rhetorical Analysis - **Appeal to authority:** McCarthy's former-prosecutor credential is the load-bearing element. The quote is selected *because* of who McCarthy is, not just what he says. - **Strategic ambiguity:** By posting only the quote, Trump avoids owning the argument directly while fully broadcasting it. Plausible deniability preserved. - **False equivalence / mirror accusation:** "Inventing wealth / inventing losses" creates a symmetry that implies equal fabrication on both sides, laundering a contested legal claim as common sense. - **Political framing of judicial actors:** "Elected Democrats" applied to both James and Engoron conflates prosecutorial/judicial roles with partisan identity, attacking institutional legitimacy. - **Epistemic closure trigger:** The framing pre-empts engagement with the trial's substance by categorizing it entirely as political theater. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Donald Trump is on trial for supposedly inventing wealth that he didn't have" | **Half True** | The NY AG's fraud case was supported by documentary evidence of inflated asset valuations in financial statements; Judge Engoron issued a liability ruling in September 2023 based on forensic accounting. McCarthy's 'supposedly' framing misrepresents the evidentiary status. | | "Elected Democrats Tish James and Arthur Engoron are inventing losses that no one ever suffered" | **Mostly False** | The NY AG's case proceeds under NY Executive Law §63(12) which does not require proof of realized monetary loss by specific victims — it targets persistent fraudulent conduct in commerce. Engoron's rulings consistently applied this established legal standard. The 'no victim' argument was explicitly rejected by the court. James is elected; Engoron is also elected (NY Supreme Court), but labeling both as partisan actors misrepresents their institutional roles. | Overall Veracity: 35% ## Cognitive Assessment The post is not an original language production sample; it is a quote. No direct cognitive assessment of Trump is possible from this text. The aide-written framing means this post is essentially uninformative for longitudinal cognitive tracking. --- ## Danger Assessment **Level: None.** The post is defensive and institutional in character. No dehumanizing language, no eliminationist framing, no target-grievance-action structure. It attacks the credibility of the trial process rather than the persons involved. --- ## Summary This Thanksgiving midday post is almost certainly aide-curated rather than authentic Trump — timed at 11:23 AM local (Mar-a-Lago), free of typos and personal interjections, and structured as a credentialed legal argument rather than emotional output. It functions as the polished daylight counterpart to the raw 2am authentic post that called the same targets "racist" and "Psycho." Psychologically, it reflects a vulnerable narcissistic state in response to the sustained injury of the NY civil fraud trial, with rationalization and DARVO as the primary defense architecture. The McCarthy quote performs a classic projection move: importing the word "inventing" to apply it symmetrically to prosecutors, implying fabrication on both sides. The deliberate labeling of Engoron and James as "elected Democrats" delegitimizes judicial process by collapsing it into partisan identity. The two primary factual claims are half-true and mostly false respectively — McCarthy's framing is a legal defense argument, not an accurate characterization of the court's findings or the applicable legal standard. No danger indicators present. ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 20%) ### Indicators - 11:23 AM EST local time — business hours, not authentic Trump window - No original Trump text appended — unusual for authentic posts - Correctly punctuated block quote with zero typos or capitalization irregularities - Calibrated legal/political argument consistent with comms aide curation - Contrasts sharply with same-day 2am authentic post (raw emotional attacks on same targets) ## Psychological Profile ### State **Vulnerable State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (NY civil fraud trial (AG Letitia James / Judge Engoron)) Sentiment: -0.40 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 60% - Antisocial: 20% - Paranoid: 50% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) - projection (immature) - passive aggression (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 30% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Credentialed-source laundering to make partisan argument appear institutional - Political labeling of judicial actors ('elected Democrats') to invite audience distrust of courts - Mirror-accusation structure inviting audience to perceive equivalence between defendant and prosecutors ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - Reframes documented judicial finding of liability as partisan fabrication - DARVO: reverses prosecutor/defendant roles, positioning accusers as the fraudulent actors - Political labeling of Judge Engoron ('elected Democrat') misrepresents judicial independence ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Donald Trump is on trial for supposedly inventing wealth that he didn't have **HALF TRUE** The NY AG's fraud case was supported by documentary evidence of inflated asset valuations in financial statements; Judge Engoron issued a liability ruling in September 2023 based on forensic accounting. McCarthy's 'supposedly' framing misrepresents the evidentiary status. Sources: NY AG v. Trump Organization civil fraud case; Engoron liability ruling September 2023 > Elected Democrats Tish James and Arthur Engoron are inventing losses that no one ever suffered **MOSTLY FALSE** The NY AG's case proceeds under NY Executive Law §63(12) which does not require proof of realized monetary loss by specific victims — it targets persistent fraudulent conduct in commerce. Engoron's rulings consistently applied this established legal standard. The 'no victim' argument was explicitly rejected by the court. James is elected; Engoron is also elected (NY Supreme Court), but labeling both as partisan actors misrepresents their institutional roles. Sources: NY Executive Law §63(12); People v. Trump Organization trial record 2023 Overall Veracity: 35% ## Tags - legal-defense (90%) - DARVO (80%) - aide-written (85%) - judicial-delegitimization (80%) - vulnerable-narcissism (70%) - credentialed-laundering (75%) - NY-civil-fraud-trial (90%) - thanksgiving-2023 (50%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Thanksgiving at Mar-a-Lago Consumed by Civil Fraud Trial Defense** Trump spent Thanksgiving Day at Mar-a-Lago entirely consumed by his New York civil fraud trial rather than the holiday. The morning started early with defensive legal posts, followed by paired expert quotes arguing banks were never actually defrauded, then an afternoon burst of five posts mixing trial defense documents with favorable polling. The Israel-Hamas ceasefire -- the biggest world event of the day -- went completely unmentioned. The mood was anxious and defensive throughout, with the only bright spots being shared polls showing him leading Biden and DeSantis. Full digest for 2023-11-24: https://trump.fm/date/2023-11-24/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, November 24). Andrew C. McCarthy: “It’s an amazing thing to... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111466445989697854 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Andrew C. McCarthy: “It’s an amazing thing to watch: Donald..." Truth Social, 24 Nov. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111466445989697854. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Andrew C. 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