# Post ts_111545730016648976

- Post ID: `ts_111545730016648976`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-12-08T16:26:05.144Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111545730016648976
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111545730016648976/analysis

## Post text

> https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/12/why_did_the_media_cover_the_congenital_liar_cohen_but_not_the_expert_witnesses_for_trumps_banking.html

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.388Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T11:33:42.864Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

# Analysis: Trump Truth Social Post — 2023-12-08T16:26 UTC

## Context
Trump was in New York on December 8, 2023, attending his civil fraud trial in which the defense had just presented expert witness testimony on December 7. The post is a bare URL to an *American Thinker* opinion piece whose title reads: *"Why Did the Media Cover the Congenital Liar Cohen But Not the Expert Witnesses for Trump's Banking [case]."*

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits
Limited signal from a URL-only post, but the selection behavior is informative:
- **Low Agreeableness**: Content selection reveals adversarial orientation; zero conciliatory framing
- **Elevated Neuroticism (hostile facet)**: Chose an article leading with an attack label ("congenital liar") during a period of acute legal threat
- **Low Conscientiousness (deliberation)**: The near-zero effort of the post itself (no original text) contrasts with a substantive legal proceeding — reactive rather than strategic

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations
**Agency motives dominate**: Control of the legal narrative is threatened; this post attempts to re-establish control by undermining Cohen's credibility and framing the proceedings as a media-corrupted spectacle.

**Power schema**: The world is divided into those who attack (media, Cohen, AG James) and those unjustly targeted (Trump, his experts). Fairness is structurally impossible in this worldview — reinforcing the schema that the system is rigged.

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity
- **Protagonist role**: Martyr/victim of coordinated institutional attack
- **Contamination sequence**: Trial that should vindicate is instead corrupted by media choosing to amplify a liar (Cohen) over credible experts
- **Contrasting other**: Cohen serves as the contaminated villain — not merely wrong but constitutionally ("congenitally") dishonest
- **Identity claim (implicit)**: I am the target of liars and a media that protects them

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## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Narcissistic Dynamics
The vulnerable narcissistic state is operative. Rather than grandiose proclamations, this post performs defensive delegitimization — characteristic of narcissistic injury response when direct counterattack is legally constrained. The trial forces a passivity that conflicts with the dominant agency motive; proxy amplification is the permitted outlet.

### Defense Mechanisms
**Projection** is the central mechanism: "congenital liar" directed at Cohen while Trump faces a civil fraud verdict already rendered (Judge Engoron found Trump liable for persistent fraud in September 2023 — before this post). The character of the attack mirrors the nature of the exposure, a textbook projective dynamic.

**Splitting** structures the article title: Cohen = irredeemable liar; Trump's experts = credible, wrongfully ignored. The complexity of competing testimony is collapsed into a moral binary.

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## Authorship Attribution
**Likely aide-written (confidence: high).** Post time = 11:26 AM EST (business hours). Zero original text. Pure curation. No typos, emotional punctuation, or reactive commentary. Consistent with Scavino social media management pattern during legal proceedings when Trump's own posting is monitored for contempt exposure.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Michael Cohen is a 'congenital liar'" | **Half True** | Cohen was convicted in 2018 of lying to Congress, tax evasion, and bank fraud — documented instances of dishonesty are established. However, 'congenital' implies biological, innate, incurable lying as a diagnosis, which is rhetorical hyperbole, not a factual claim. |
| "Media covered Cohen but not Trump's expert witnesses during the banking fraud trial" | **Mostly True** | Cohen's prior convictions and history with Trump made him inherently more newsworthy by standard editorial criteria. Defense expert witnesses in civil fraud proceedings typically receive substantially less coverage. The asymmetry is real, though the implied explanation (media bias vs. news value) is contested. |
| "Trump had expert witnesses testify favorably in his banking fraud case" | **True** | Confirmed by known events: Trump's defense presented expert witness testimony on December 7, 2023, the day before this post. |

Overall Veracity: 77%

## Order/Chaos Dynamics
**Order-attacker posture**: The post frames the existing media/legal order as corrupt and biased, positioning Trump as subject to an illegitimate process. The implicit promise is that a different order (Trump restored to power) would correct this asymmetry.

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## Danger Assessment
**None elevated.** Standard legal defense narrative amplification. No dehumanization, no mobilization language, no stochastic terrorism indicators.

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- Post time 16:26 UTC = 11:26 AM EST (Trump in New York for civil fraud trial, standard business hours)
- Zero original text — entire post is a single URL with no commentary, typos, or reactive language
- Curation-style link amplification consistent with Scavino/aide social media management pattern
- No ALL CAPS, no emotional punctuation, no stream-of-consciousness signature markers

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Vulnerable State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (NY civil fraud trial proceedings)

Sentiment: -0.55

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 50%
- Antisocial: 20%
- Paranoid: 60%
- Sadism: 20%

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Outsources attack language to article title, maintaining plausible deniability while still amplifying the 'congenital liar' characterization
- Frames supporters as victims of media manipulation alongside Trump

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Implicit attack on institutional perception: framing media coverage choices as evidence of systemic corruption rather than standard news value judgments
- Delegitimizing prosecution witness post-liability finding (Engoron already found Trump liable September 2023) — retroactively attacking the evidentiary basis for a ruling already made

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> Michael Cohen is a 'congenital liar'

**HALF TRUE**

Cohen was convicted in 2018 of lying to Congress, tax evasion, and bank fraud — documented instances of dishonesty are established. However, 'congenital' implies biological, innate, incurable lying as a diagnosis, which is rhetorical hyperbole, not a factual claim.

Sources: Cohen plea/conviction record 2018; Congressional testimony 2019

> Media covered Cohen but not Trump's expert witnesses during the banking fraud trial

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Cohen's prior convictions and history with Trump made him inherently more newsworthy by standard editorial criteria. Defense expert witnesses in civil fraud proceedings typically receive substantially less coverage. The asymmetry is real, though the implied explanation (media bias vs. news value) is contested.

Sources: NY civil fraud trial coverage record, December 2023

> Trump had expert witnesses testify favorably in his banking fraud case

**TRUE**

Confirmed by known events: Trump's defense presented expert witness testimony on December 7, 2023, the day before this post.

Sources: Known events: Trump Attends NY Civil Fraud Trial, December 7 2023

Overall Veracity: 77%

## Tags

- legal-defense-amplification (90%)
- aide-authored (85%)
- cohen-attack (80%)
- media-bias-narrative (75%)
- ny-fraud-trial (90%)
- proxy-attack (70%)
- projection (65%)
- vulnerable-narcissism (60%)

## That day

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

**Legal Siege Day: Trump Systematically Targets Every Judge and Prosecutor Across All Active Cases**

Trump spent December 8 almost entirely consumed by his legal battles, firing off 25 posts dominated by attacks on the judges and prosecutors handling his cases. The morning was the most heated, with back-to-back rants about the New York fraud trial, the January 6 case, and the E. Jean Carroll verdict — including a flatly false claim that he was "found NOT GUILTY." Between the legal salvos, his team posted endorsements and favorable links to project campaign normalcy, and the evening closed with a coordinated three-part attack on Ron DeSantis over COVID. The overall mood was combative and defensive, with an unusually high number of posts naming and dehumanizing specific legal officials.

Full digest for 2023-12-08: https://trump.fm/date/2023-12-08/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, December 8). https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/12/why_d... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111545730016648976
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/12/why_did_the_med..." Truth Social, 8 Dec. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111545730016648976. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/12/why_did_the_med...," Truth Social, December 8, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111545730016648976.

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