# Post ts_111660564659234962

- Post ID: `ts_111660564659234962`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-12-28T23:10:02.773Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111660564659234962/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111660564659234962.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> “The Department of Justice is, on the one hand, trying to shield Joe Biden from accountability for his many crimes…while they are also using every single legal tool at their disposal to persecute Donald Trump.”

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (1:45), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> I keep saying this, but this level of election interference, this kind of persecution of your opponents, whether it's Donald Trump or Rudy Giuliani, it just keeps going on and on. Why do I feel like Republican leaders are not fully appreciating the moment we're in, that they're coming for not just them, they're coming for all conservatives, them included? Well, absolutely, and to borrow a popular phrase from the left, in this case, silence is complicity. If your elected leader is not speaking out and condemning this brazen, thuggish political persecution of Joe Biden's chief political rival, then they are helping to create the conditions that make it possible. The Department of Justice is on the one hand trying to shield Joe Biden from accountability for his many crimes, which is why they're not going after Hunter for the Foreign Alien Registration Act violations that pointed Joe, while they are also using every single legal tool at their disposal to persecute Donald Trump for the crime of demanding a fair and honest accounting of the vote. This is the situation that we are in right now as a country, and this is a significant setback for Jack Smith. Let's be clear. The real win is for the court to rule that a president is constitutionally immune from being persecuted for the official conduct of his office. A far left prosecutor cannot say that the elected leader of the country can go to jail for using his judgment and his discretion in carrying out his official duties.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/660/564/535/974/478/original/141655441ad13734.mp4

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.381Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T15:06:10.800Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

"This aide-authored post (6:10 PM EST, third-person voice, polished parallelism, video caption format) encodes a vulnerable narcissistic messaging strategy at peak legal jeopardy — the day Maine removed Trump from the 2024 ballot. The psychological architecture is DARVO: DOJ reframed as persecutor, Trump as martyr-victim, Biden as the true criminal evading accountability. The semantic substitution of 'persecute' for 'prosecute' is the key rhetorical marker, conferring martyrdom status while delegitimizing legal process. Paranoid features are prominent — a coordinated two-directional DOJ conspiracy asserted without evidentiary basis. The primary factual claim (DOJ shielding Biden) directly inverts contemporaneous reality: DOJ filed federal charges against Hunter Biden the same month. Dominant defense mechanisms are projection (attributing institutional weaponization to the accusing institution) and splitting (DOJ as simultaneously perfectly corrupt and perfectly powerful). Danger level is elevated not for direct incitement but for sustained institutional delegitimization that conditions audiences to view legal accountability as persecution — a prerequisite background narrative for mobilization. Cognitive assessment is not applicable: the polished aide-authored quality precludes inference about Trump's personal cognitive state from this post."

# Analysis: Truth Social Post — December 28, 2023 (ts_111660564659234962)

## Authorship Attribution

**Verdict: Aide-authored — High Confidence**

Posted at 23:10 UTC = **6:10 PM EST** (Trump was at Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, FL — EST). This is squarely business hours, a primary aide-authorship indicator. Additional markers are decisive:

- **Third-person reference**: "Donald Trump" rather than "ME" or "I" — a sharp departure from authentic Trump voice
- **Polished parallelism**: "on the one hand...while they are also" — structured syntax foreign to authentic posts
- **Quotation marks enclosing full text**: The entire post is quoted — it functions as a caption/title for the attached mp4 video, a format typical of communications-team production
- **Zero typos or misspellings**: Contrast with same-day authentic post ("Stollen," fragmented sentences)
- **No ALL CAPS passages, no exclamation points, no epithets**: Same day yielded "Deranged Jack Smith," "Crooked Joe Biden," all-caps border rants — the authentic register
- **No stream-of-consciousness**: Syntactically complete, rhetorically structured

The same-day posting record provides an unusually clean natural experiment: authentic Trump posts from this date show raw first-person emotional reactivity, while this post is clearly staff-generated approved messaging.

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## Contextual Framing

December 28, 2023 was a period of peak simultaneous legal jeopardy:
- Maine Secretary of State Bellows removed Trump from the 2024 primary ballot (same day)
- Colorado ballot exclusion under appeal to SCOTUS
- Jack Smith immunity appeal pending in DC Circuit
- Civil fraud trial ongoing in Manhattan (NY AG James)

This post is part of a coordinated messaging response to that legal pressure, crafted to maintain the persecution narrative.

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## Psychological Architecture: DARVO Structure

The post's psychological architecture is a textbook DARVO maneuver (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender):

1. **Deny**: Implicitly denies legitimacy of all Trump prosecutions by labeling them "persecution"
2. **Attack**: Accuses DOJ of protecting Biden from "his many crimes"
3. **Reverse Victim and Offender**: Trump — the criminal defendant — is recast as victim of institutional persecution; Biden — uncharged — is recast as the true criminal evading accountability

The paranoid architecture is notable: the post posits DOJ as a coordinated actor operating simultaneously in two directions — perfectly protective of Biden, perfectly persecutory toward Trump. This admits no institutional independence, no complexity, no competing considerations. Consistent with Kernberg's paranoid features component of malignant narcissism at the communications-strategy level.

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## Key Semantic Choice: "Persecute" vs. "Prosecute"

The substitution of **"persecute"** for "prosecute" is the post's most psychologically significant word choice. Persecution:
- Is what happens to the righteous, the martyred, the politically innocent
- Carries religious/historical resonance (prophets, dissidents, saints)
- Delegitimizes the persecuting institution rather than the target
- Invites identification and solidarity from audience

This choice transforms a criminal defendant into a martyr — a core narcissistic vulnerability-state maneuver.

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## Defense Mechanisms

**Projection (Immature):** The disowned impulse — using institutional power to target political opponents — is attributed entirely to DOJ. The post accuses DOJ of doing precisely what critics argue Trump sought to do (weaponize justice).

**Splitting (Immature):** DOJ is all-bad, all-powerful, all-corrupt. No institutional complexity, no career prosecutors, no process independence. Perfect persecution vs. perfect protection simultaneously.

**Rationalization (Neurotic):** The double-standard framing provides logical-seeming grounds for dismissing legal proceedings — if the institution is corrupt in direction A, its actions in direction B must also be illegitimate.

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## Narrative Identity (Level 3 — McAdams)

**Protagonist role**: Persecuted martyr and historical victim  
**Narrative sequence**: Contamination — legitimate presidency → judicial persecution  
**Contrasting other**: Joe Biden (shielded criminal) / DOJ (corrupt persecutor)  
**Identity claim**: Trump as unprecedented target of institutional weaponization, sui generis in American history

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "DOJ is trying to shield Joe Biden from accountability for his many crimes" | **Mostly False** | DOJ Special Counsel David Weiss indicted Hunter Biden on federal gun charges in September 2023 and filed federal tax charges in December 2023 — the opposite of shielding. 'Many crimes' attributed to Joe Biden personally are unspecified and not supported by any prosecutorial findings or indictments. |
| "DOJ is using every single legal tool at their disposal to persecute Donald Trump" | **Half True** | Two federal indictments from Special Counsel Jack Smith (classified documents, election interference) are factually real and represent significant prosecutorial action. 'Every single legal tool' is hyperbolic — numerous additional mechanisms were not employed. Whether this constitutes 'persecution' vs. legitimate prosecution is the core contested interpretive claim, not a verifiable factual assertion. |

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Gaslighting Indicators

The most direct gaslighting element: asserting DOJ was "shielding Biden" in the same week DOJ filed federal tax charges against Biden's son. This inverts documented contemporaneous reality and functions as a loyalty test — accepting the claim requires rejecting objective evidence.

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## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis

- **Parallelism**: "on the one hand...while they are also" — creates grammatical architecture that makes the double standard feel structurally real
- **Hyperbole**: "every single legal tool" — maximizes perceived disproportionality
- **Whataboutism**: Deflects from Trump prosecutions to Biden accountability
- **Institutional delegitimization**: DOJ framed as irredeemably political — conditions audience to disbelieve future adverse legal outcomes
- **RAND Firehose model**: This post is one unit of high-volume, consistent anti-DOJ messaging across the posting period

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## Danger Assessment: Elevated

No eliminationist language, no dehumanization of individuals, no direct stochastic terrorism markers in this post. However, elevated designation warranted because:

1. Sustained institutional delegitimization of DOJ normalizes hostility toward law enforcement as a background condition for mobilization
2. The persecution framing creates rhetorical ground for "unjust prosecution = legitimate resistance" narratives
3. Posted within a December 2023 posting context that includes "ROT IN HELL" messaging and an uncontextualized "revenge/dictatorship" word cloud — the broader cluster elevates this post's contextual danger

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## Summary

This aide-authored post (6:10 PM EST, third-person voice, polished parallelism, video caption format) encodes a vulnerable narcissistic messaging strategy at peak legal jeopardy — the day Maine removed Trump from the 2024 ballot. The psychological architecture is DARVO: DOJ reframed as persecutor, Trump as martyr-victim, Biden as the true criminal escaping accountability. The semantic substitution of "persecute" for "prosecute" is the key rhetorical marker, conferring martyrdom status while delegitimizing legal process entirely. Paranoid features are prominent — a coordinated two-directional DOJ conspiracy asserted without evidence. The primary factual claim (DOJ shielding Biden) directly inverts contemporaneous reality: DOJ filed federal charges against Hunter Biden the same month. Danger level is elevated not for direct incitement but for sustained institutional delegitimization that conditions audiences to view legal accountability as persecution — a prerequisite background narrative for mobilization.

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 10%)

### Indicators

- Third-person reference to 'Donald Trump' rather than first-person 'me' or 'I'
- Posted at 6:10 PM EST (business hours at Mar-a-Lago) — primary aide-authorship indicator
- Polished grammatically complete sentences with no typos or misspellings
- Formal syntactic parallelism ('on the one hand...while they are also') foreign to authentic Trump style
- Entire text enclosed in quotation marks functioning as caption/title for attached mp4 video

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Vulnerable State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Peak simultaneous legal jeopardy: Maine ballot removal (same day), Colorado appeal, Jack Smith immunity proceeding, civil fraud trial)

Sentiment: -0.65

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 65%
- Antisocial: 40%
- Paranoid: 75%
- Sadism: 15%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 55%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Victimhood identification — audience invited to share and internalize Trump's persecution narrative
- Institutional delegitimization — primes audience to distrust and reject adverse DOJ actions and rulings

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Sustained institutional delegitimization of DOJ as politically weaponized — conditions audiences to view legal accountability as inherently illegitimate persecution
- Persecution framing creates rhetorical ground for 'unjust prosecution justifies resistance' mobilization narratives
- Part of coordinated high-volume December 2023 posting campaign that includes 'ROT IN HELL' messaging and uncontextualized revenge/dictatorship word cloud — contextual cluster elevates danger
- Primes audience to reject any adverse legal outcome as illegitimate before it materializes

### Gaslighting

- Asserting DOJ was 'shielding Biden' in the same period DOJ filed federal charges against Biden's son — direct inversion of documented contemporaneous reality
- Semantic substitution 'persecute' for 'prosecute' attacks audience's accurate perception of legal process as legitimate
- Implies coordinated two-directional DOJ conspiracy as established fact without evidence — reality distortion presented as institutional observation

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> DOJ is trying to shield Joe Biden from accountability for his many crimes

**MOSTLY FALSE**

DOJ Special Counsel David Weiss indicted Hunter Biden on federal gun charges in September 2023 and filed federal tax charges in December 2023 — the opposite of shielding. 'Many crimes' attributed to Joe Biden personally are unspecified and not supported by any prosecutorial findings or indictments.

Sources: DOJ Special Counsel Weiss indictment, September 2023; DOJ federal tax charges, December 2023

> DOJ is using every single legal tool at their disposal to persecute Donald Trump

**HALF TRUE**

Two federal indictments from Special Counsel Jack Smith (classified documents, election interference) are factually real and represent significant prosecutorial action. 'Every single legal tool' is hyperbolic — numerous additional mechanisms were not employed. Whether this constitutes 'persecution' vs. legitimate prosecution is the core contested interpretive claim, not a verifiable factual assertion.

Sources: DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith indictments, 2023

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Tags

- institutional-delegitimization (90%)
- DARVO (85%)
- vulnerable-narcissism (75%)
- aide-authored (92%)
- persecution-framing (88%)
- DOJ-targeting (80%)
- whataboutism (70%)
- paranoid-features (75%)
- gaslighting (72%)
- legal-jeopardy-response (85%)
- video-caption (80%)

## 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). “The Department of Justice is, on the one hand,... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111660564659234962
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“The Department of Justice is, on the one hand, trying to..." Truth Social, 28 Dec. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111660564659234962. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "“The Department of Justice is, on the one hand, trying to...," Truth Social, December 28, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111660564659234962.

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