# Post ts_111562245050348079 - Post ID: `ts_111562245050348079` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-12-11T14:26:04.562Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111562245050348079 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111562245050348079/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111562245050348079.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > “Jonathan Turley On Trump’s New York Civil Trial” ## What the media says **Video transcript** (2:52), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Fox News contributor and GW Law School professor, Jonathan Turley. Hey, Professor Turley. Hi, Anzalie. How are you doing? I'm doing great. Thank you. Why do you think he decided? Because over the weekend we thought he was going to testify, then yesterday on Truth Socially said he's not going to. Why do you think he changed his mind? Well, a lot of lawyers would have suggested this course of action because he's already testified in the trial. And so if you're happy with the record you created, why create the chance for a loss or mistake. And so lawyers tend to be risk averse and I think many would have said you don't need to testify. But what's going to happen next is maybe some of the most interesting parts of the trial because there are still some rebuttal witnesses and one defense witness that many of us are interested in. And that defense witness is Professor Bartoff, who's an NYU professor, and he gave very strong testimony in favor of the Trump defense and said that he did not see evidence of accounting fraud in any of these documents. Yeah. Letitia James, the AG here, she ran on taking down Donald Trump. She's seeking $250 million in damages. She wants to prevent him from conducting business here in New York anymore. Trump is claiming election interference and a witch hunt. Do you agree? Well, I think that the part of the problem here is, as you noted, you have an AG that ran on the pledge to nail Trump on anything. She didn't even specify. And she used this law which doesn't require a victim. You know, before Professor Bartoff testified, two bankers testified that said, no, we didn't lose money and we actually wanted more loans from Trump. Trump described him as a whale client, someone you want more business with. But that hasn't stopped James. She wants the Trumps to have the company to be dissolved. She wants a quarter of a billion dollars when no one lost money. And the fact is that it's so over the top that it may end up really raising concerns upon appeal. Look, James had this judge at a low. I mean, I think that she knows that this judge has already obviously decided there was fraud and he's likely to hammer Trump in terms of damages. But they still have to go to the Court of Appeals, which just recently handed Trump somewhat of a victory. They said, we're not going to dissolve these companies until we see more. Yeah, there's so many buildings, as you know, here in New York that have his name on it. He saved Woolman Rink, which is the ice skating rink where all of our kids go ice skating in Central Park and where many of our viewers go when they visit New York. So it would be a travesty to see so many of his businesses fail here in New York or he wouldn't be able to have his name on these buildings. So thank you so much, Jonathan, for coming on. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/562/244/889/034/986/original/970412a92cc30fe4.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 8,901 - Reposts: 2,672 - Replies: 410 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.388Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T11:35:41.369Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Analysis: ts_111562245050348079 — "Jonathan Turley On Trump's New York Civil Trial" **Date:** 2023-12-11 | **Local Time:** 09:26 AM EST (New York) | **Age:** 77 --- ## Authorship Attribution: Aide-Written (Confidence: High) This post carries every marker of aide (likely Scavino) authorship and none of Trump's authentic stylometric signature. **Timing:** 9:26 AM Eastern in New York — solidly within business-hours operation. Trump's authentic posts cluster in late evening and early morning; this falls outside that window. **Style:** A five-word descriptive caption with correct capitalization, a named subject, and zero emotional vocabulary. This is the opposite of Trump's authentic register, which in the immediately surrounding posts features ALL CAPS, epithets ("Sleazebag," "Peekaboo"), run-on grievance syntax, and exclamation points. The tonal shift is categorical, not gradational. **Pattern:** The same-day post ("A must watch with Mark Levin and Congressman Michael Waltz…") follows an identical structural template — brief descriptive caption, media attachment — suggesting a coordinated media amplification workflow operating parallel to Trump's authentic output stream. --- ## Strategic Function: Authority Laundering The post's psychological function is defensive information management. On December 11, Trump declined to testify in his NY civil fraud trial — a high-vulnerability moment inviting narrative about legal weakness. The response is to amplify Jonathan Turley, a Fox News-aligned legal commentator whose commentary on the trial has consistently favored Trump's position (questioning the fraud framing, absence of jury, and AG James's conduct). This is **proxy validation**: routing a favorable narrative through credentialed, ostensibly independent expertise rather than asserting it first-person. The poster's fingerprints stay clean; followers absorb the framing through Turley's authority. It is rhetorically more sophisticated — and less emotionally revealing — than Trump's own posts. --- ## Psychological Context (Inferred from Period) Trump's authentic December 10 posts establish a narcissistic state oscillating between **grandiose** (claiming Mar-a-Lago is worth "50 to 100 times" the assessed value; asserting total victory at appellate division) and **vulnerable** (prosecutorial persecution, "Biden driven witch hunt," election interference framing). The civil fraud trial represents a sustained **narcissistic injury** — not mere criticism but courtroom exposure of financial conduct with potential loss of New York business operations. The aide-curated post operates within this context as **supply management**: when the authentic narcissistic discharge would be counterproductive (legally sensitive moment, testimony decision), the communications apparatus substitutes calm expert validation. The underlying psychological dynamic — defensive mobilization against exposure — is consistent with the period's authentic posts, but the expression is professionalized. --- ## Rhetorical Architecture The rhetorical sophistication lies in absence: no claims to rebut, no targets to identify, no distortions to track. The post imports Turley's pre-existing argument structure wholesale. This is **one-step removed persuasion** — followers receive the framing without the fingerprints of Trump's assertion, lending it false epistemic independence. --- ## Clinical Significance Post does not meet threshold for clinical summary. Content is too minimal for cognitive assessment. No danger indicators. No gaslighting, dehumanization, or stochastic terrorism elements. Analytically significant primarily as a data point in authorship differentiation and as documentation of the aide-managed parallel communication stream operating during high-stakes legal periods. ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Jonathan Turley has commented on Trump's New York Civil Trial" | **True** | Jonathan Turley, a George Washington University law professor and Fox News legal analyst, made multiple public statements and media appearances during the NY civil fraud trial criticizing the case's legal basis, the absence of a jury, and AG James's conduct. His commentary was consistently favorable to Trump's legal position. | Overall Veracity: 100% ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 8%) ### Indicators - Posted at 14:26 UTC = 09:26 AM EST (New York, where Trump was attending the civil fraud trial) — solidly within business hours, a strong aide indicator - Sparse, professionally formatted descriptive caption with correct capitalization and no typos - Classic media-sharing post structure: title only, no emotional editorializing, no ALL CAPS - Stark tonal contrast with same-period authentic Trump posts (e.g., the December 10 ALL-CAPS multi-paragraph rants against 'Peekaboo' James) - Pattern matches Dan Scavino's established media-amplification style: curating favorable third-party commentary without personal interjection ## Psychological Profile ### State **Vulnerable State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (New York civil fraud trial proceedings) Sentiment: -0.10 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 20% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 10% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) - idealization (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 10% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Appeal to external authority to launder narrative credibility - Passive broadcast of favorable commentary without fingerprints — follower absorbs perspective without explicit persuasion attempt ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Jonathan Turley has commented on Trump's New York Civil Trial **TRUE** Jonathan Turley, a George Washington University law professor and Fox News legal analyst, made multiple public statements and media appearances during the NY civil fraud trial criticizing the case's legal basis, the absence of a jury, and AG James's conduct. His commentary was consistently favorable to Trump's legal position. Sources: General knowledge — Turley's media record during 2023 trial period Overall Veracity: 100% ## Tags - aide_authored (95%) - media_amplification (90%) - legal_defense_messaging (85%) - authority_laundering (80%) - ny_civil_fraud_trial (90%) - supply_seeking_proxy (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Legal Walls Close In as Trump Floods Feed with Validation and Ends Day in Rage** Trump spent a relatively quiet day in New York during his civil fraud trial, but the posting pattern told a clear story. The morning was dominated by poll numbers and feel-good coverage, while the afternoon saw a rapid dump of curated links -- counter-programming against two major legal blows: Jack Smith's extraordinary Supreme Court petition and Trump's decision not to testify in the fraud case. The day ended with a sharp turn toward anger, including an attack on a New York Times reporter over "dictator" coverage and a rant pathologizing all critics as suffering from a "terminal disease." The contrast between the polished morning and the combative close suggested the legal pressure was building beneath the surface all day. Full digest for 2023-12-11: https://trump.fm/date/2023-12-11/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, December 11). “Jonathan Turley On Trump’s New York Civil Trial” [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111562245050348079 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“Jonathan Turley On Trump’s New York Civil Trial”" Truth Social, 11 Dec. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111562245050348079. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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