# Post ts_111658135501606450

- Post ID: `ts_111658135501606450`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-12-28T12:52:16.810Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
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## Post text

> Crooked Joe Biden’s Prosecutorial Thug, Deranged Jack Smith, who is fighting viciously to damage his corrupt bosses Political Opponent, ME, much as they do in Third World Countries, wants to take away my right of Free Speech. He doesn’t want me to speak about the Rigged and Stollen Presidential Election of 2020, where the Evidence is MASSIVE & CONCLUSIVE, or Nancy Pelosi’s turning down 10,000 troops for January 6th, which would have quickly ended any problems, or why and how the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs & Misfits illegally deleted and destroyed all information and evidence pertaining to their findings, which we were going to use in our defence. Why isn’t Deranged Jack investigating them for this destruction of important documents that were vital to my defense in any upcoming or potential trial? Because under Crooked Joe Biden we have become a two tiered system of INJUSTICE!

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T15:05:57.966Z (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 7:52 AM local time at Mar-a-Lago on the same day Maine removed Trump from the primary ballot, this post represents a high-intensity narcissistic injury response organized around Jack Smith's prosecutorial activities and the perceived threat to Trump's free speech rights. The post is authentic Trump across all stylometric dimensions. Psychologically, it oscillates between grandiose (central target of organized government conspiracy) and vulnerable (Third World political prisoner analog) narcissistic states, a mixed configuration characteristic of malignant narcissistic structure under acute stress. The most clinically notable feature is the unusually transparent projection: Trump accuses the J6 Committee of "illegally deleted and destroyed all information and evidence" using language nearly identical to the obstruction charges he himself faces in the classified documents case. Pathological denial of the 2020 election outcome continues without modulation. The DARVO structure is the organizing frame of the entire post. Three of four verifiable factual claims are false or mostly false. Dehumanizing language is applied to specific named individuals holding legal authority over Trump, contributing to an elevated ambient threat environment that is empirically associated with subsequent threats against prosecutors and judges. Cognitive status shows no deviation from 2023 baseline. Danger level rated elevated; cumulative effect of sustained similar posts warrants monitoring.

## Authorship Attribution
**Local time: 7:52 AM EST (Mar-a-Lago, Florida)**

Trump was almost certainly at Mar-a-Lago during the Christmas–New Year's holiday period (a well-documented annual pattern). The 7:52 AM EST local time falls squarely within his established early-morning posting window. Authentic markers are dense: stream-of-consciousness run-on syntax, the pejorative nickname system ("Crooked Joe," "Deranged Jack"), parenthetical self-capitalization ("ME"), ALL CAPS emphasis ("MASSIVE & CONCLUSIVE," "INJUSTICE"), the characteristic "Stollen" misspelling (notably, "Stollen" is a German Christmas bread — possibly an ironic autocorrect artifact given the December timing, but almost certainly an error consistent with the documented "stolen"→"stollen" substitution across prior posts), British "defence" spelling (likely autocorrect), and the signature rhetorical portmanteau "Unselect Committee." **High confidence: authentic Trump.**

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## Psychological Triggers

This post emerges from a dense cluster of concurrent narcissistic injuries:

1. **Maine ballot removal (same-day, Dec 28):** Secretary of State Shenna Bellows unilaterally removed Trump from the primary ballot under the 14th Amendment's insurrection clause — the second state after Colorado and the first via unilateral executive action. This is a severe status-diminishment event.
2. **Jack Smith's potential gag order motion:** Directly named as primary trigger — an attempt to restrict what Trump can publicly say constitutes an attack on the central mechanism of his identity expression and political power.
3. **Ongoing NY civil fraud trial:** Running concurrently, reinforcing the siege narrative.
4. **Trump Files Immunity Appeal (Dec 23):** Active legal jeopardy on the election subversion case.

The free-speech suppression framing is the organizing grievance, but its intensity is amplified by the ballot eligibility threat registered earlier the same day. The post should be read against the Maine ruling as a proximate trigger layered onto the Jack Smith substrate.

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## Narcissistic Dynamics

**Trigger type: Narcissistic injury** — public exposure (legal accountability) + status diminishment (ballot removal, prosecution)

**State: Mixed grandiose/vulnerable with rapid oscillation**
- *Grandiose pole:* Trump positions himself as the singular target of a coordinated governmental conspiracy, which paradoxically inflates his importance. The parenthetical "ME" in all-caps — set off by commas for dramatic isolation — is a textbook grandiosity marker: the self as the central organizing fact of political reality.
- *Vulnerable pole:* Free speech victim, political prisoner analog ("much as they do in Third World Countries"), a man being silenced.

The oscillation within a single post is characteristic of malignant narcissistic structure — vulnerability invoked to justify grandiose counter-mobilization.

**Rage:** Present. Intensity: 0.72. Displaced into pejorative labeling ("Thug," "Deranged," "Misfits") and hyperbolic framing rather than explicit threat language. Proportionality relative to actual stimulus: very low — response magnitude far exceeds any single legal provocation.

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## Defense Mechanisms

1. **Projection (immature, prominent):** The accusation that the J6 Committee "illegally deleted and destroyed all information and evidence" is unusually transparent projection. Trump is simultaneously facing federal charges that include obstruction and mishandling of classified documents. The defense mechanism converts Trump's own legal exposure into an accusation against opponents using near-identical language. This is the most clinically notable feature of the post.

2. **Splitting (immature):** Absolute moral bifurcation — Trump (righteous, victimized, truth-holder) vs. Biden/Smith/Pelosi (corrupt, criminal, treasonous). No gradation, no ambivalence. Characteristic of borderline-level object relations.

3. **Denial (pathological):** Continued assertion of a "Rigged and Stollen" election despite 60+ judicial rejections represents denial at the pathological level — a sustained refusal to integrate disconfirming external reality across years.

4. **Rationalization (neurotic):** An elaborate causal chain is constructed: Pelosi refused troops → J6 occurred → Committee covered it up and destroyed evidence → therefore prosecution is illegitimate and politically motivated. Each node serves to relocate moral responsibility away from Trump.

5. **DARVO (structural frame):** The entire post follows the Deny-Attack-Reverse Victim-and-Offender architecture: deny election outcome legitimacy, attack prosecutors as the real criminals, reverse to claim Trump as the actual victim of lawfare.

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## Big Five Trait Expression

- **Extraversion (0.89):** Extreme assertiveness, dominance-claiming, self-as-center-of-narrative
- **Agreeableness (0.04):** Acute antagonism, contempt, hostility toward named individuals
- **Conscientiousness (0.18):** Impulsive, undeliberated, no factual precision
- **Neuroticism (0.86):** Angry hostility as dominant affect throughout; vulnerability undercurrent
- **Openness (0.12):** Rigid, closed epistemic system; repeated formulas; no complexity tolerance

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## Rhetorical Analysis

The post deploys a compressed but layered propaganda toolkit:

- **Systematic pejorative labeling:** "Crooked," "Deranged," "Prosecutorial Thug," "Thugs & Misfits," "Unselect Committee" — sustained dehumanization of specific named individuals in positions of legal authority
- **Third World comparative framing:** Delegitimizes American democratic institutions by associative equivalence with authoritarian regimes — a strong epistemic move that simultaneously validates grievance and licenses escalated response
- **Whataboutism (compound):** Two distinct deflections deployed: (1) Pelosi's alleged troop refusal on J6; (2) J6 Committee's alleged document destruction — both redirecting accountability away from Trump
- **False equivalence scaffolding:** The Biden documents reference in same-day posts builds the "two-tiered justice" framing; this post delivers the conclusion
- **Epistemic closure device:** "the Evidence is MASSIVE & CONCLUSIVE" — certainty assertion that forecloses inquiry and functions as group-membership test
- **Violent/eliminationist framing:** Absent here; aggression is rhetorically displaced into legal/institutional critique
- **Dehumanizing language:** "Thug," "Misfits" applied to named officials — below the threshold of explicit dehumanization but consistent with the broader dehumanization pattern in the corpus

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## Cognitive Status

Sentence complexity and vocabulary are consistent with established 2023 baseline. The "Stollen" misspelling is documented across multiple prior posts (not a novel production error). "Unselect Committee" is a recurring coinage, not a new neologism — it reflects rhetorical creativity at baseline. Run-on structure, perseveration on familiar grievance themes (election fraud, Pelosi/J6, two-tiered justice), and the fixed pejorative nickname inventory are all within expected range. **No clinically significant deviation from baseline is detected in this post.**

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## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion

Multiple modalities present:
- **Denial of adjudicated facts:** 2020 election outcome
- **DARVO as structural frame:** prosecutors = real criminals, Trump = real victim
- **Epistemic authority attack:** characterizes prosecution as "corrupt," implicitly instructing followers to reject its legitimacy
- **Rapid revisionism:** The "documents" framing in same-day posts attempts real-time recontextualization of the Biden document comparison — a running reality revision campaign
- **Loyalty test:** Accepting "MASSIVE & CONCLUSIVE" election fraud evidence as fact is implicitly demanded for in-group membership

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## Danger Assessment

**Elevated.** No explicit incitement is present, but the post contributes materially to an ambient threat environment through: (1) systematic dehumanization of specific named individuals holding legal authority over Trump; (2) Third World/authoritarian framing that casts those individuals as enemies of democracy deserving of the response such enemies warrant; (3) "INJUSTICE" framing that positions Trump supporters as living under active tyranny. Jack Smith's team received documented death threats during this period. The post is part of a multi-year rhetorical pattern that has empirically preceded violence; within that pattern, individual posts at this intensity level are properly rated elevated rather than high, but their cumulative effect is more concerning.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Nancy Pelosi turned down 10,000 troops for January 6th, which would have quickly ended any problems" | **Mostly False** | The Speaker of the House has no direct authority over National Guard deployment. Deployment requires requests through Capitol Police, the Sergeant at Arms, and ultimately the Pentagon/White House chain of command. Trump was Commander in Chief on January 6. Multiple investigations found no evidence Pelosi blocked troop deployment; the delay originated in the Pentagon. |
| "The Unselect Committee illegally deleted and destroyed all information and evidence pertaining to their findings" | **Mostly False** | The January 6 Committee transferred records to the National Archives upon dissolution. The House Administration Committee (Republican-controlled, 2023) investigated alleged record deletions and found some procedural irregularities around staff devices, but the characterization of 'all information and evidence' being 'illegally deleted and destroyed' is a gross distortion of the actual record. |
| "The 2020 Presidential Election was rigged and stolen, with evidence that is MASSIVE and CONCLUSIVE" | **False** | More than 60 federal and state courts, including judges appointed by Trump, found no evidence of fraud sufficient to affect the 2020 election outcome. The Department of Justice, Trump's own Attorney General William Barr, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) — led by a Trump appointee — all concluded the election was secure and legitimate. |
| "Under Crooked Joe Biden, the U.S. has become a two-tiered system of injustice" | **Unverifiable** | This is a political opinion claim rather than a verifiable factual assertion. Selective prosecution concerns are a legitimate subject of legal debate; the claim as stated is a rhetorical frame, not an empirically testable proposition. |

Overall Veracity: 23%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 92%)

### Indicators

- 7:52 AM EST early morning posting window consistent with authentic Trump pattern at Mar-a-Lago
- Misspelling 'Stollen' for 'Stolen' — documented recurring Trump error
- British 'defence' spelling, likely autocorrect artifact
- Stream-of-consciousness run-on syntax with embedded parenthetical 'ME' capitalized for dramatic isolation
- Pejorative nickname system ('Crooked Joe', 'Deranged Jack') — authentic Trump stylistic signature

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Jack Smith gag order motion compounded by Maine ballot removal (same day))

**Rage:** Intensity 72% targeting Jack Smith, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, J6 Committee
- Proportionality: 18%

Sentiment: -0.86

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Pressured, rapid-fire output across multiple posts on same day
- Grandiosity elevation — positions self as singular target of coordinated government conspiracy
- Reduced inhibition in labeling named officials ('Deranged', 'Thug')
- Racing quality to sentence structure — multiple grievances stacked without resolution

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 87%
- Antisocial: 61%
- Paranoid: 83%
- Sadism: 42%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 41%

Cognitive Markers:
- perseveration
- semantic paraphasia

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct address to followers as co-victims ('we have become')
- Shared enemy construction binding in-group identity
- Epistemic closure through certainty claims ('MASSIVE & CONCLUSIVE')
- Loyalty test: accept election fraud or be outside the group

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Systematic dehumanization of specific named legal officials ('Prosecutorial Thug', 'Deranged Jack', 'Thugs & Misfits')
- Third World authoritarian framing implicitly licenses escalated responses to named officials
- 'INJUSTICE' framing casts followers as living under active tyranny requiring action
- Sustained delegitimization of prosecutorial authority creates permission structure for threats against named individuals
- Post pattern consistent with period during which Jack Smith's team received documented death threats

### Gaslighting

- Denial of adjudicated electoral outcome ('Rigged and Stollen Presidential Election of 2020')
- DARVO: prosecutors framed as real criminals, Trump as real victim
- Epistemic authority attack: characterizes prosecution as 'corrupt' to instruct followers to reject its legitimacy
- Certainty assertion ('MASSIVE & CONCLUSIVE') functions as group-membership loyalty test
- Institutional delegitimization via 'Unselect Committee' portmanteau — demands followers deny the committee's basic legitimacy as precondition for in-group standing

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

## Fact Checks (4)

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

> Nancy Pelosi turned down 10,000 troops for January 6th, which would have quickly ended any problems

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The Speaker of the House has no direct authority over National Guard deployment. Deployment requires requests through Capitol Police, the Sergeant at Arms, and ultimately the Pentagon/White House chain of command. Trump was Commander in Chief on January 6. Multiple investigations found no evidence Pelosi blocked troop deployment; the delay originated in the Pentagon.

Sources: Senate bipartisan report on January 6 security failures (June 2021); Pentagon Inspector General review of National Guard response

> The Unselect Committee illegally deleted and destroyed all information and evidence pertaining to their findings

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The January 6 Committee transferred records to the National Archives upon dissolution. The House Administration Committee (Republican-controlled, 2023) investigated alleged record deletions and found some procedural irregularities around staff devices, but the characterization of 'all information and evidence' being 'illegally deleted and destroyed' is a gross distortion of the actual record.

Sources: House Administration Committee interim report on J6 Committee records (2023); National Archives confirmation of J6 Committee record transfer

> The 2020 Presidential Election was rigged and stolen, with evidence that is MASSIVE and CONCLUSIVE

**FALSE**

More than 60 federal and state courts, including judges appointed by Trump, found no evidence of fraud sufficient to affect the 2020 election outcome. The Department of Justice, Trump's own Attorney General William Barr, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) — led by a Trump appointee — all concluded the election was secure and legitimate.

Sources: 60+ court rulings 2020-2021; AG Barr statement December 2020; CISA joint statement November 2020

> Under Crooked Joe Biden, the U.S. has become a two-tiered system of injustice

**UNVERIFIABLE**

This is a political opinion claim rather than a verifiable factual assertion. Selective prosecution concerns are a legitimate subject of legal debate; the claim as stated is a rhetorical frame, not an empirically testable proposition.

Overall Veracity: 23%

## Tags

- narcissistic_injury_response (95%)
- projection_document_destruction (91%)
- pathological_denial_2020 (93%)
- DARVO (92%)
- dehumanization_legal_officials (78%)
- epistemic_closure (88%)
- third_world_framing (82%)
- whataboutism_compound (85%)
- two_tiered_justice_narrative (87%)
- authentic_trump (92%)
- election_denial_perseveration (89%)
- free_speech_victimhood (84%)

## That day

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

**Under Siege from Two States, Trump Oscillates Between Scoreboard and Martyrdom**

Trump spent the day reacting to Maine's decision to remove him from the primary ballot — the second state to do so after Colorado. His mood swung between defiant victory laps (boasting a "35 and 1" legal record) and dark grievance (calling the country "invaded," accusing prosecutors of persecution, and posting cryptic destruction imagery). The morning brought the angriest posts, with a lengthy attack on Jack Smith and an all-caps border screed, while the evening shifted to a rapid-fire cluster of curated media clips reinforcing a martyrdom narrative. Despite the legal pressure, the posting pace stayed within normal range and there were no signs of sleep disruption.

Full digest for 2023-12-28: https://trump.fm/date/2023-12-28/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, December 28). Crooked Joe Biden’s Prosecutorial Thug, Deranged... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111658135501606450
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Crooked Joe Biden’s Prosecutorial Thug, Deranged Jack..." Truth Social, 28 Dec. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111658135501606450. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Crooked Joe Biden’s Prosecutorial Thug, Deranged Jack...," Truth Social, December 28, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111658135501606450.

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