# Post ts_111631473392334346 - Post ID: `ts_111631473392334346` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-12-23T19:51:45.224Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111631473392334346 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111631473392334346/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111631473392334346.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > “Supreme Court Rejects Special Counsel Request” ## What the media says **Video transcript** (3:46), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > A big news for President Trump last night as the Supreme Court declines to speed up the ruling on Jack Smith's immunity case against him, 45 taking to Truth Social to celebrate the court's decision, saying in part, "Crooked Joe Biden and his henchmen waited three years to bring this sham case, and now they have tried and failed to rush this witch hunt through the courts." Here to break it all down, let's bring in Fox News legal analyst Greg Jarrett. Nobody better to talk about this, Greg, and I want to get right to it because it seemed significant to me that the High Court wasted no time in a single sentence with no descents saying no. Go with the regular appellate process. We're not taking this. What's your read? Yeah, it was always, Griff, highly unlikely that the Supreme Court would take the case at this juncture because it's premature. The justices want to hear first from the appellate court, the DC Circuit. That's the normal process, and for good reason. The intermediate court refines the issues and scrutinizes what is essentially a novel legal theory here of immunity. It's untested. So their opinions are quite valuable to the Supreme Court. The justices also don't like it, Griff, when somebody tries to butt to the front of the line and rob them, the justices of meaningful legal judgment, and here the special counsel really offered no compelling reason, except obviously wants a trial of Trump in the middle of a presidential campaign, I think, to damage him to the benefit of Democrats and Joe Biden, and perhaps the justices saw this for what it was, election interference. Jack Smith, the special counsel, keeps insisting Trump should be treated like everybody else all right, and then appeal the case like everyone else. Well, that's a great point, Greg, and it seems to me that what ultimately had the court take in it, what Jack Smith either intentionally or not would have accomplished, is to show that the court can be bullied and feel political pressure when they are the institution that should be independent. Yes, and the Supreme Court, Griff, doesn't like such antics or imaginations. Eventually, they may decide Trump's immunity argument. It is, I think, a credible one, that he acted consistent with his sworn duty to uphold and enforce all laws, and that includes ensuring free and fair elections. If he actually suspected there was fraud or faulty vote counting, well, he's entitled to pursue challenges under the law and even contest the electors, which Democrats obviously did in prior elections. Somehow, it's okay for them to do it, but not a Republican president. Well, and Greg, in just 30 seconds I got left, I want to ask you, because if it goes through the appellate process, it could still end up in the Supreme Court. Do you think that this could end up having implications on future presidents? Oh, I think it's a precedent-setting case, as to whether a president enjoys absolute immunity, limited immunity. What is the conduct in the course and scope of presidential duties? These are all open issues that the U.S. Supreme Court has never directly decided. The Supreme Court doesn't like to take political cases. In the end, they may be forced to. We'll wait and see. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/631/473/230/293/036/original/1ac94e23e1df0cf8.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 16,312 - Reposts: 3,715 - Replies: 520 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.382Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T14:59:12.674Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Post Analysis: ts_111631473392334346 **Date:** 2023-12-23 | **Local Time:** ~2:51 PM EST (Mar-a-Lago, UTC-5) | **Age:** 77 --- ### Authorship Attribution **Assessment: Aide-written (High Confidence)** This post bears the clear signature of aide (Scavino) composition rather than authentic Trump authorship: - **Timing:** 14:51 EST — well within business hours. Authentic Trump posts cluster in late night/early morning windows; this falls in the midday professional window. - **Style:** A single, clean headline-as-caption. No typographical errors, no ALL CAPS, no parenthetical asides, no ellipses trailing into emotional digressions. - **Format:** Appears to pair a curated news clip (MP4 media attachment) with a minimal descriptor — a media-sharing pattern consistent with aide curation. - **Contrast:** The same-day authentic Trump post ("sick puppies team of Lowlifes and Radical Left Thugs… Radical Left… Witch Hunt…") shows the expected stream-of-consciousness, emotionally dysregulated voice. This post is its exact structural opposite. The choice of "Special Counsel" rather than Trump's preferred epithet "Deranged Jack Smith" is a particularly reliable authorship marker. Trump virtually never refers to Smith by title in his own posting. --- ### Psychological State In context, this post functions as **strategic victory amplification** in response to a factual legal development: the Supreme Court unanimously declined Jack Smith's request to expedite the presidential immunity case. The amplification occurs within a four-day window following a significant narcissistic injury — the Colorado Supreme Court's December 19 ruling disqualifying Trump from the primary ballot under the 14th Amendment's insurrection clause. The sequencing is psychologically meaningful: - **Injury:** Colorado removes Trump from ballot (Dec 19) - **Partial repair:** SCOTUS rejects expedited immunity review (Dec 22-23) - **Amplification:** Both authentic (rage-laden) and aide-polished (neutral headline) posts broadcast the repair The aide-written version serves a distinct function from the authentic counterpart: it signals the victory to an audience who may process "neutral news headline" as more credible than Trump's own characterization. It is propaganda through performed objectivity. **Narcissistic state (contextual inference):** Oscillating. The authentic same-day post reveals grandiose-vulnerable cycling: triumphalist ("very successful campaign") interwoven with persecution framing ("Radical Left Thugs"). This aide post represents the grandiose stabilization point — the win, cleanly stated. --- ### Defense Mechanisms Minimal in this specific post (aide-authored, low emotional content). At the strategic level: - **Rationalization** (implicit): The neutral headline framing implies the legal system itself vindicates Trump, converting a procedural outcome (SCOTUS declining expedited review) into an apparent substantive exoneration. - **Splitting** (structural): "Supreme Court" (good, validating institution) vs. implicitly "Special Counsel" (bad, persecutory force). The headline encodes the split without requiring explicit expression. --- ### Rhetorical Techniques - **Simulated objectivity:** Headline-style phrasing mimics neutral news reporting, borrowing institutional credibility without subjective framing. The aide avoids Trump's characteristic distortions, allowing the audience to project their own interpretation onto an apparently objective statement. - **Selective amplification (RAND Firehose element):** In a period containing multiple adverse legal events (Colorado ballot disqualification, Giuliani defamation suit), only favorable developments receive amplification. Volume asymmetry shapes perceived reality. - **Identity-by-association:** Pairing with a video clip (likely a news segment) visually anchors the victory in mainstream media coverage, a counterintuitive legitimization strategy for a figure who simultaneously attacks media credibility. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Supreme Court Rejects Special Counsel Request" | **Mostly True** | SCOTUS unanimously declined Jack Smith's motion to grant certiorari before judgment to expedite immunity review, bypassing the DC Circuit. Factually accurate as stated, but the headline elides that this was a procedural outcome (declining to short-circuit appellate process) rather than a ruling on the merits of presidential immunity. | Overall Veracity: 80% ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 10%) ### Indicators - Posted at 14:51 EST (business hours, Scavino window) - Single clean headline, no typographical errors - No ALL CAPS, no ellipses, no parenthetical asides - Uses formal title 'Special Counsel' rather than Trump's authentic epithet 'Deranged Jack Smith' - Media-clip-share format consistent with aide curation ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (SCOTUS rejection of Smith expedited review) Sentiment: +0.55 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 20% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) - splitting (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 10% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Simulated objectivity borrows institutional credibility to perform validation to audience ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Supreme Court Rejects Special Counsel Request **MOSTLY TRUE** SCOTUS unanimously declined Jack Smith's motion to grant certiorari before judgment to expedite immunity review, bypassing the DC Circuit. Factually accurate as stated, but the headline elides that this was a procedural outcome (declining to short-circuit appellate process) rather than a ruling on the merits of presidential immunity. Sources: Pre-researched historian events: SCOTUS rejection of Smith expedited review, December 22-23 2023 Overall Veracity: 80% ## Tags - aide-authored (95%) - legal-victory-amplification (85%) - SCOTUS (90%) - Jack Smith immunity case (90%) - counter-narrative to Colorado disqualification (70%) - simulated objectivity (75%) - grandiose phase (45%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **A Procedural SCOTUS Win Becomes Fuel for a Coordinated Holiday Persecution Campaign** Trump spent the day before Christmas Eve fixated on the Supreme Court's refusal to fast-track Jack Smith's immunity appeal — a narrow procedural ruling he treated as sweeping vindication. A heated morning post attacking prosecutors by name gave way to a rapid-fire afternoon burst of aide-curated media clips, all hammering the same "lawfare" theme. The underlying driver appeared to be the Colorado ballot disqualification from four days earlier, which went conspicuously unmentioned while the persecution narrative intensified. The day ended with an apocalyptic fundraising pitch casting the 2024 election as America's "final chance," blending personal legal jeopardy with national existential threat. Full digest for 2023-12-23: https://trump.fm/date/2023-12-23/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, December 23). “Supreme Court Rejects Special Counsel Request” [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111631473392334346 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“Supreme Court Rejects Special Counsel Request”" Truth Social, 23 Dec. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111631473392334346. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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