# Post ts_111471975742097145

- Post ID: `ts_111471975742097145`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-11-25T15:49:24.225Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
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## Post text

> Andrew C. McCarthy: “If you’re a top executive at a financial institution that is heavily regulated by New York State, and you see how the state has gone after Trump hammer and tong in a transparently partisan vendetta, do you want to get on the ‘wrong’ side of that? When you see that an elected-Democratic attorney general, aided and abetted by an elected-Democratic judge, is hellbent on putting Trump out of business and taking a quarter-billion dollars from him in a case where there are no victims, what makes you think they wouldn’t come after you if you cross them? This is the business climate under woke-progressive, vindictive government.”

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T11:04:38.351Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

On Thanksgiving weekend 2023, with the NY civil fraud trial proceeding and a $370M judgment exposure looming, Trump amplified a McCarthy quote framing the case as a "transparently partisan vendetta" creating a chilling business climate. The post is aide-formatted but personally selected content — posted at 10:49 AM EST at Mar-a-Lago, consistent with business-hours Scavino curation. Psychologically, it reflects the vulnerable narcissistic pole: Trump as martyred victim of institutional persecution at vast scale. The key defensive maneuver is third-party megaphoning — McCarthy's credentialed voice launders the persecution narrative, providing intellectual scaffolding (rationalization) while allowing Trump displacement of the raw rage visible in same-day authentic posts. The claim of "no victims" constitutes meaningful reality distortion: NY Executive Law §63(12) permits AG action to protect marketplace integrity without individual victim complainants, making the "no victims" framing materially false as a legal proposition. The rhetorical architecture — ad hominem via partisan labeling, fear-based appeals to financial executives' self-interest, false dichotomy between enforcement and coercion — represents sophisticated propaganda technique delivered through borrowed authority. Paranoid features are present in the extension of persecution to the entire business community. The post fits a stable longitudinal pattern: raw authentic grievance in early-morning posts, followed by polished third-party amplification of the same injury. No marked deviation from established baseline.

## Authorship Assessment

This post was made at **15:49 UTC on November 25, 2023** (Thanksgiving Saturday). Trump was almost certainly at **Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida** (EST = UTC−5), placing the post at **10:49 AM local time** — well within business hours. The format — a cleanly attributed third-party quote, correct punctuation, no typos, no ALL CAPS, no personal interjections — is consistent with **aide-curated amplification** (consistent with Scavino's pattern). However, the content selection is clearly personal: Trump's three other posts that same day reflect raw grievance ("POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!"), and his 2 AM Thanksgiving rant had already named AG James and Judge Engoron directly. Assessment: **aide-formatted, Trump-selected content** — he chose this quote but staff shaped the presentation.

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## Psychological Analysis

### Trigger
The post is driven by **narcissistic injury** from the ongoing NY civil fraud trial. The trial context (AG James seeking ~$370M; September ruling already finding him liable) represents exposure — documented fraud findings threatening both financial standing and the self-narrative of the "brilliant businessman." Same-day authentic posts ("POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!") reveal the underlying emotional register; the McCarthy quote is the polished public-facing channel for the same injury.

### Narcissistic State: Vulnerable with Grandiose Undertones
The **vulnerable narcissistic pole** dominates: Trump is cast as victim of a "transparently partisan vendetta," pursued by partisan actors "hellbent on putting Trump out of business." The implied scale of the persecution ("quarter-billion dollars," the entire regulatory apparatus of New York State) paradoxically serves the grandiose need — only a figure of supreme importance would warrant such elaborate institutional attack. This oscillation between persecution and implicit exceptionalism is a well-documented feature of vulnerable narcissistic presentation.

### Third-Party Megaphoning
A tactically sophisticated move: by quoting McCarthy rather than speaking directly, Trump achieves:
1. **Plausible emotional distance** from the content while retaining its affective payload
2. **Borrowed credibility** from a recognized conservative legal commentator (former AUSA)
3. **Court-adjacent insulation** — framing judicial criticism as a media quote rather than personal statement, relevant given active gag-order litigation visible in the same period's events

This is a recurring pattern in Trump's social media behavior: friendly media voices serve as megaphones when direct expression is constrained or strategically suboptimal.

### Paranoid Features
The McCarthy quote — chosen and amplified by Trump — extends the persecution narrative beyond him personally to the entire New York business community. The argument: that observing the state's treatment of Trump, financial executives will rationally fear crossing regulators, creating a climate of coercive compliance through implied threat. This is **paranoid ideation deployed strategically**: the regulatory apparatus of New York is recast as a political weapon deployed against dissent. Whether this reflects Trump's genuine paranoid schema or instrumental deployment of paranoid framing for audience mobilization cannot be determined from the text; both possibilities warrant clinical note.

### Defense Mechanisms
- **Rationalization**: McCarthy's legal commentary provides intellectual scaffolding converting Trump's personal grievance into a systemic civic threat, making the affect appear reasoned
- **Projection**: AG James and Judge Engoron are cast as the vindictive actors weaponizing institutional power for personal ends — a dynamic extensively documented in Trump's own litigation history, now attributed wholesale to adversaries
- **Displacement**: The raw rage visible in same-day authentic posts ("POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!") is here displaced into measured third-party commentary, redirecting the emotional charge through a safer vessel

### Reality Distortion: "No Victims"
The most factually significant distortion in the post. NY Executive Law §63(12) expressly empowers the AG to pursue marketplace fraud without individual victim complainants — the statute's purpose is to protect market integrity, not just individual injured parties. While banks involved in Trump transactions did not report financial losses (and some filed supportive letters), this is legally distinct from "no victims." The framing serves to delegitimize the prosecution's foundational premise in audience perception while being materially false as a legal claim.

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## Rhetorical Analysis

The McCarthy excerpt deploys a coordinated set of persuasion techniques:
- **Ad hominem via partisan labeling**: Both AG James and Judge Engoron are twice identified as "elected-Democratic," converting judicial roles into political ones in the audience's schema
- **Appeal to self-interest (fear-based)**: The argument is addressed to financial executives — "do you want to get on the 'wrong' side?" — weaponizing regulatory risk to build a coalition of business-community sympathizers
- **Loaded language accumulation**: "hammer and tong," "transparently partisan vendetta," "hellbent," "woke-progressive, vindictive government" — each phrase adds affective weight without evidentiary content
- **False dichotomy**: Legitimate regulatory enforcement is framed as politically motivated coercion; no alternative reading is permitted
- **Rhetorical question as assertion**: "What makes you think they wouldn't come after you?" presents speculation as settled conclusion

The closing phrase — "This is the business climate under woke-progressive, vindictive government" — functions as an ideological summary optimized for maximum conservative audience resonance, tying the specific case to a broader culture-war framework.

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## Epistemic Closure and Gaslighting

The post demands acceptance of a total framework: the NY judicial process is wholly partisan, legal findings are invalid on their face, and regulators are instruments of political coercion. The "no victims" claim directly contradicts established legal findings. The characterization of the judge as an agent of partisan vendetta — rather than a judicial officer — represents DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender) applied to the judiciary itself.

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## Danger Assessment

**Elevated (low end).** No direct threats, eliminationist language, or dehumanizing content. The mild danger indicator is the structural inversion of the intimidation dynamic: the post implies financial institutions should fear being on the "wrong side" of those aligned against Trump — a soft social-pressure signal to the business community that carries implicit coercive weight despite its rhetorical packaging as a warning *about* government coercion.

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## Longitudinal Note

This post fits a stable pattern visible throughout the trial period: raw emotional expression in early-morning authentic posts, followed by polished third-party amplification of the same grievance through credentialed conservative voices. The pattern represents a functional division between Trump's authentic emotional voice and a curated media-amplification strategy. No deviation from this established baseline.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "There are no victims in the NY civil fraud case" | **Mostly False** | NY Executive Law §63(12) expressly empowers the AG to pursue marketplace fraud without individual victim complainants; the statute's purpose is protecting market integrity. While banks involved did not report financial losses, this is legally distinct from 'no victims.' Judge Engoron found victims in the integrity of the marketplace and counterparties who received fraudulent documents. |
| "AG James is seeking a quarter-billion dollars from Trump" | **Half True** | AG James sought approximately $370 million in disgorgement of ill-gotten gains; $250M was an earlier estimate cited in filings and media. 'Quarter-billion' ($250M) understates the actual figure sought by approximately 48%. |
| "Both the AG and the judge are elected Democrats" | **Mostly True** | AG Letitia James is elected on the Democratic party line — accurate. Judge Arthur Engoron is elected as a civil court judge in Manhattan and has run on the Democratic and Working Families Party lines. The characterization is factually grounded, though framing an elected judge as a partisan actor elides judicial independence norms. |
| "New York State has gone after Trump 'hammer and tong' in a 'transparently partisan vendetta'" | **Unverifiable** | This is an opinion characterization of prosecutorial and judicial motivation, not a factual claim amenable to true/false verification. The case does involve an elected Democratic AG against a Republican presidential candidate; whether motivation is partisan is not provable from external evidence. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- Posted at 10:49 AM EST (Mar-a-Lago, Thanksgiving weekend) — business hours
- Clean attributed third-party quote format with no typos or grammatical errors
- No ALL CAPS passages or personal interjections from Trump
- No emotional outbursts in Trump's voice despite high personal salience of topic
- Format consistent with Scavino aide-curation pattern

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Vulnerable State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (NY civil fraud trial — AG James seeking ~$370M, September liability ruling)

**Rage:** Intensity 45% targeting AG Letitia James, Judge Engoron, New York State government
- Proportionality: 25%

Sentiment: -0.72

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 72%
- Antisocial: 28%
- Paranoid: 68%
- Sadism: 15%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 50%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Third-party authority lending (McCarthy) to validate persecution narrative
- Extending personal grievance to audience's self-interest (financial executives face same fate)
- Epistemic closure framing: regulatory system is wholly partisan coercion

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Implicit social pressure signal to financial institutions to avoid 'the wrong side' — soft coercive framing directed at business community
- Broad delegitimization of NY State regulatory and judicial apparatus as partisan weapon could reduce compliance with legal processes among followers
- Inversion of intimidation dynamic: post characterizes legal accountability as government intimidation, potentially mobilizing business-community resentment

### Gaslighting

- 'No victims' claim directly contradicts established legal findings and the statutory framework under which the case was brought
- Framing of judicial officer as partisan actor ('elected-Democratic judge') delegitimizes the entire proceeding preemptively
- DARVO structure: Trump as genuine victim of institutional predation, while his own documented asset inflation fraud is the predatory act under review
- 'Transparently partisan' presents contested motivational characterization as self-evident fact, attacking audience's capacity to perceive legitimacy in the process

## Fact Checks (4)

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

> There are no victims in the NY civil fraud case

**MOSTLY FALSE**

NY Executive Law §63(12) expressly empowers the AG to pursue marketplace fraud without individual victim complainants; the statute's purpose is protecting market integrity. While banks involved did not report financial losses, this is legally distinct from 'no victims.' Judge Engoron found victims in the integrity of the marketplace and counterparties who received fraudulent documents.

Sources: NY Executive Law §63(12); Engoron September 2023 liability ruling

> AG James is seeking a quarter-billion dollars from Trump

**HALF TRUE**

AG James sought approximately $370 million in disgorgement of ill-gotten gains; $250M was an earlier estimate cited in filings and media. 'Quarter-billion' ($250M) understates the actual figure sought by approximately 48%.

Sources: NY AG Office complaint filings; Published trial reporting

> Both the AG and the judge are elected Democrats

**MOSTLY TRUE**

AG Letitia James is elected on the Democratic party line — accurate. Judge Arthur Engoron is elected as a civil court judge in Manhattan and has run on the Democratic and Working Families Party lines. The characterization is factually grounded, though framing an elected judge as a partisan actor elides judicial independence norms.

Sources: NY State Board of Elections records

> New York State has gone after Trump 'hammer and tong' in a 'transparently partisan vendetta'

**UNVERIFIABLE**

This is an opinion characterization of prosecutorial and judicial motivation, not a factual claim amenable to true/false verification. The case does involve an elected Democratic AG against a Republican presidential candidate; whether motivation is partisan is not provable from external evidence.

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- persecution_narrative (90%)
- third_party_megaphoning (85%)
- ny_civil_fraud_trial (95%)
- vulnerable_narcissism (80%)
- paranoid_features (70%)
- judicial_delegitimization (85%)
- business_community_appeal (75%)
- aide_curated (85%)
- epistemic_closure (80%)
- reality_distortion (70%)

## That day

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

**Thanksgiving Weekend Grievance Cascade: Legal Anxiety Fuels Scattershot Attacks from Mar-a-Lago**

Trump spent the Saturday after Thanksgiving on a sustained posting session from Mar-a-Lago, firing off 17 posts across about four and a half hours in the late morning and afternoon. The day opened with sharp attacks on the New York civil fraud trial and false claims of election cheating in Wisconsin, then broadened into a wide-ranging grievance tour hitting Forbes, The Atlantic, an Iowa evangelical leader, and the Biden administration's hostage negotiations. Notably, he falsely claimed Hamas had not returned any American hostages, when two had been released weeks earlier. The mood was predominantly combative but controlled — more of a holiday content dump than a meltdown — and wound down with poll-boosting links and plans to attend a college football game in South Carolina.

Full digest for 2023-11-25: https://trump.fm/date/2023-11-25/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, November 25). Andrew C. McCarthy: “If you’re a top executive at... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111471975742097145
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Andrew C. McCarthy: “If you’re a top executive at a..." Truth Social, 25 Nov. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111471975742097145. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Andrew C. McCarthy: “If you’re a top executive at a...," Truth Social, November 25, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111471975742097145.

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