# Post ts_111594869972152547 - Post ID: `ts_111594869972152547` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-12-17T08:43:01.366Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111594869972152547 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111594869972152547/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111594869972152547.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > “David Schoen on the weaponization of courts against Trump: ‘It’s outrageous’” ## What the media says **Video transcript** (4:54), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Welcome back, America. David Schoen from Jerusalem. We have a question about Washington, D.C. and what's going on in our country, here, directly. We have a special prosecutor. There's nothing special about him. He insists that presidential immunity, that is, a president can't be charged with a crime while he's president, even a phony made-up crime, but whatever it is. The Trump lawyers have said, "That's right, and so you can't charge President Trump for acts he did, or didn't do, as President of the United States after he leaves office because you completely undermine the whole concept of presidential immunity." Presidents will constantly be looking over their shoulders and wondering if they're going to be charged afterwards. So the impact on a chief executive, the ability to decapitate the executive branch through this litigation, he says, "I want to skip the circuit court. I'm going directly to the Supreme Court." The Supreme Court remarkably says, "Well, we may not take up the case, but we might." And they say, "Defense counsel, can we hear what you have to say about this? What do you make of all this?" I think it's outrageous. You raise a number of points here. First of all, the idea of circumventing the appellate court is a horrible decision. But it's also hypocritical. At every juncture of this case, when Judge Chutkin has been presented with a reason to postpone the trial or some other motion in the case, she has said over and over again, "I will not treat you, President Trump, like a special defendant. You will be treated like every other defendant before this court. I won't consider the political interests. I won't consider the public interest in an election. I won't consider your role as a leading candidate. You will move forward like everyone else." That's the opposite of what Jack Smith is saying in his petition. He's asking the Supreme Court to circumvent all of the analysis that a court of appeals would engage in and that every other defendant is entitled to. And what's his reason? Well, he says it's because there might not be sufficient time for the court to hear the case during this term. That's subterfuge. There's no reason for the court to hear it during this term. What he means is there's a possibility the court wouldn't hear it before Donald Trump is elected president. And that's what this is all about in this case. It's a horrible decision. And the decision he cites, by the way, in which the court took expedited review, United States v. Nixon, involved a subpoena, not the fundamental trial issues in the case, the fundamental underlying issue. This is what Nixon v. Fitzgerald was all about in 1982 in the civil context to find absolute immunity on separation of powers grounds and other grounds because the president must be able to act freely. In this case, at all times, President Trump acted under Article 2, Section 3 of the Constitution, which provides simply that he must faithfully execute the laws. Based on the information he had, he believed that he was acting to investigate what he believed to be election fraud. He was acting consistent with his duty, his oath under Article 2, Section 1, Clause 8, to execute his office faithfully and so on. That's what he believed. But your point is a president must be able to act freely and not worry about criminal liability over official acts in office. And the Nixon, the Fitzgerald court even said the outer perimeters of the office. This is the heart of the office. It's unbelievable when you look at this case, and let me just say they violate his First Amendment rights. The circuit court panel, two Obama appointees, one Biden appointee, says, OK, you can criticize Jack Smith, but that's it. That is a ridiculous interpretation of the First Amendment. And that First Amendment exists especially if you're a defendant and the government's trying to put you in prison for the rest of your life, especially when you're in the middle of a presidential election, but apparently not according to these courts. Violation of his First Amendment right, Fifth Amendment right. They took from him attorney-client privilege with his lead lawyer, so the lead lawyer had to testify for the government, and his notes are presented to the grand jury as well as his testimony. Sixth Amendment violation, the right to competent counsel where they're rushing the case in five months where you're talking about 12 million documents, and that's their side. The other side, the defense has a right to try and build a case with documents and witnesses do. And what's the rush, David Schoen? There's no emergency. There's no national security issue. There is nothing. Final words. I also believe they've stripped him of his right to a public trial, and the media and the public citizens' independent right to that public trial. He must be permitted to discuss the lack of integrity of this prosecution and of the prosecutors. I have a sanctions motion going against J.P. Cooney, who's Jack Smith's deputy chief counsel for lying to a federal court in order to get records. He must be able to speak on these matters of public interest to the greatest extent possible. And the court always says in other situations, when the government writes a speaking indictment, laying out unproven allegations in detail that everyone can download, well, a jury, we can do that in voir dire. We can search out whether a jury has been influenced by that. The same thing with any comments President Trump or his lawyers make. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/594/868/401/838/134/original/29e17dc986c5a20e.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 13,055 - Reposts: 4,100 - Replies: 760 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.387Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T14:56:23.924Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Posted at 12:43 AM Pacific from Las Vegas (day after UFC 296 appearance), this clip-share of attorney David Schoen calling Trump's legal situation 'outrageous' is a textbook example of proxy-validation posting. Trump authors nothing substantive himself — instead amplifying a credentialed voice who performs the persecution narrative on his behalf. The pattern is psychologically efficient: it generates narcissistic supply (audience affirmation that the victimization is real), provides institutional cover via Schoen's legal credentials, and insulates Trump from direct accountability for the underlying claim. The post reflects the vulnerable pole of Trump's characteristic narcissistic oscillation — embedded between grandiose celebration posts celebrating the New Hampshire rally and UFC appearance, this interjection of legal grievance reveals the underlying wound that the performance of triumph is designed to paper over. The 'weaponization' frame is the key reality distortion — it collapses structurally independent legal proceedings (federal special counsel, county DA, state AG) into a single coordinated political attack, requiring followers to reject judicial institutional independence as a premise. Gaslighting function is modest but present — followers primed by this framing are less equipped to evaluate legal developments on their merits. No danger indicators. Cognitive markers cannot be assessed from the post itself; surrounding same-day posts show no deviation from established baseline. # Analysis: ts_111594869972152547 — December 17, 2023 ## Contextual Frame Trump posts this clip at **12:43 AM Pacific Time** from Las Vegas, where he attended UFC 296 the previous evening. It is sandwiched between grandiose celebration posts (New Hampshire rally, UFC appearance with Dana White) — a recurring oscillation pattern between the grandiose and vulnerable narcissistic poles. The legal context at this moment is acute: Judge Chutkan has just paused the federal election interference trial pending the immunity appeal; Jack Smith has made the extraordinary move of petitioning SCOTUS directly; the Giuliani $48M verdict has demonstrated that defamation-based legal exposure is real and costly. These are meaningful triggers for narcissistic injury. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Score: 0.65 (leans authentic)** - UTC 08:43 → **12:43 AM PST** in Las Vegas — falls squarely in Trump's documented late-night authentic window - Surrounding posts on the same date show classic authentic Trump signatures: ALL CAPS, exclamatory, emotional reactivity ("GAME OVER for DeSanctimonious!") - The clip-share format with a brief pull-quote is used by both Trump and aides, but the timing is the decisive factor here - Hypothesis: Trump was watching cable news or a phone feed in the early hours and boosted a clip validating his legal grievance in real-time --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits The post is minimal in original language, limiting direct trait assessment. However: - **Neuroticism (angry hostility)**: High — the persecution frame is a neuroticism expression; the legal system is cast as an active hostile force - **Agreeableness**: Very low — no cooperation signaled, purely adversarial institutional framing - **Openness**: Low — rigid application of a pre-formed schema ("weaponization") to complex legal proceedings - **Extraversion**: Expressed through audience engagement even at midnight; the compulsion to post rather than sleep reflects excitement-seeking and attention orientation --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Dominant motive: Power/Agency** — the post is fundamentally about resisting subjugation to legal authority. The "weaponization" frame reclaims the agency narrative: *I am not subject to law; law is being wrongly deployed against me.* **Schema activated**: Courts = political weapons; legal accountability = persecution; Trump = target of coordinated institutional attack **Supply-seeking mechanism**: By sharing Schoen's "outrageous" verdict, Trump is soliciting audience agreement — a low-effort supply acquisition that requires no personal vulnerability. --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role**: The persecuted sovereign — a figure of legitimate power subjected to illegitimate force. This is a contamination sequence: *I won, I led, I was great — and then the corrupt system came for me.* **Contrasting other**: The weaponized judiciary, unnamed political opponents wielding law as instrument. **Identity claim embedded**: *What is being done to me is objectively outrageous — this is not my opinion, this is what lawyers say.* The use of Schoen as proxy is narratively important: it allows Trump to position himself as the calm subject of others' indignation rather than as a reactive grievant. --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators ### Malignant Narcissism Assessment - **Narcissistic features** (0.60): Entitlement, specialness, lack of empathy for legal system integrity - **Paranoid features** (0.55): Preoccupation with perceived attacks, institutional suspicion - **Antisocial features** (0.30): Contempt for legal authority - **Sadism** (0.10): Not present in this post ### Defense Mechanisms 1. **Projection (immature)**: "Weaponization" attributes aggression to the courts 2. **Rationalization (neurotic)**: Schoen's legal credentials launders the grievance as professional assessment 3. **Devaluation (immature)**: Courts reduced to weapons; judicial institution categorically delegitimized --- ## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis **Primary technique: Third-party validator** — Schoen provides institutional cover. A partisan claim is transformed into an expert opinion. **Loaded framing**: "Weaponization" presupposes improper political motive as established premise rather than contested interpretation. --- ## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion The "weaponization" framing constitutes a mild but structurally significant gaslighting move: federal prosecution by Senate-confirmed special counsel, Georgia prosecution by elected county DA, and NY civil fraud by elected state AG are presented as unified, politically coordinated assault — requiring followers to reject structural independence of each proceeding. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Courts are being weaponized against Trump" | **Mostly False** | The cases involve grand jury indictments, independent prosecutorial decisions, and an elected AG — not executive branch direction. The 'weaponization' framing presupposes improper political motive as established fact; no evidence of improper direction has been substantiated. | | "David Schoen said 'It is outrageous'" | **Unverifiable** | Schoen is a real attorney who represented Trump in impeachment trials. Quote attribution is plausible but specific clip cannot be independently verified. | Overall Veracity: 35% ## Danger Assessment: **None** No eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no stochastic terrorism indicators. Standard grievance-narrative maintenance posting. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 65%) ### Indicators - UTC 08:43 converts to 00:43 PST in Las Vegas (confirmed location for UFC 296) — early morning window consistent with authentic posting - Content is a simple proxy-quote repost with video, a format used by both Trump and aides - Brevity and absence of personal commentary slightly suggest aide curation, but late-night local timing outweighs - Surrounding posts show classic authentic Trump cadence (ALL CAPS, emotional reactivity) ## Psychological Profile ### State **Vulnerable State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Active federal and state legal prosecutions (Jack Smith, NY civil fraud, Georgia)) Sentiment: -0.55 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 60% - Antisocial: 30% - Paranoid: 55% - Sadism: 10% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) - devaluation (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 20% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Solicits audience outrage by outsourcing emotional labor to Schoen — Trump need not say 'I am being persecuted'; the proxy says it for him - Video format creates immersive validation loop for followers primed by persecution narrative ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - 'Weaponization' reframes documented independently-initiated legal proceedings as centrally-coordinated political persecution - Presenting Schoen's characterization as authoritative implies no credible counter-view exists ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Courts are being weaponized against Trump **MOSTLY FALSE** The cases involve grand jury indictments, independent prosecutorial decisions, and an elected AG — not executive branch direction. The 'weaponization' framing presupposes improper political motive as established fact; no evidence of improper direction has been substantiated. Sources: Jack Smith Special Counsel appointment documentation; NY AG civil fraud case procedural record; Fulton County DA grand jury proceedings > David Schoen said 'It is outrageous' **UNVERIFIABLE** Schoen is a real attorney who represented Trump in impeachment trials. Quote attribution is plausible but specific clip cannot be independently verified. Overall Veracity: 35% ## Tags - victim-narcissism (80%) - proxy-validation (75%) - weaponization-framing (85%) - legal-persecution-narrative (90%) - projection-defense (70%) - epistemic-closure (65%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **A rally high, a 90-minute grievance spiral, and the "poisoning the blood" line — bracketed on both sides by the same four-word thank-you.** Trump spent the day on a high-energy circuit: a New Hampshire rally, a flight to Las Vegas for a UFC fight night, and then a rally in Reno. Most of his posting was celebratory — thanking crowds, sharing rally clips, gloating over a top strategist quitting Ron DeSantis's super PAC. But in a roughly 90-minute window while traveling, a share of a Wall Street Journal piece about his federal prosecution set off a sharp spiral that ended with him amplifying his rally line about immigrants "poisoning the blood" of the country, along with a claim that the 2024 election would be rigged. He came back down almost as fast as he went up, returning to rally thank-yous within half an hour. Contrary to how the raw timestamps look, he was on West Coast time and had a normal night's rest — the day was intense, but not sleepless. Full digest for 2023-12-17: https://trump.fm/date/2023-12-17/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, December 17). “David Schoen on the weaponization of courts... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111594869972152547 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“David Schoen on the weaponization of courts against Trump:..." Truth Social, 17 Dec. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111594869972152547. 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