# Post ts_111670353325366702

- Post ID: `ts_111670353325366702`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-12-30T16:39:25.967Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111670353325366702
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111670353325366702/analysis

## Post text

> https://thegreggjarrett.com/the-brief-in-the-hunter-biden-criminal-case-the-media-like-like-hell/

## Engagement

- Likes: 4,599
- Reposts: 1,346
- Replies: 96
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.381Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T15:05:22.984Z (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: Truth Social – 2023-12-30 (ts_111670353325366702)

## Overview

This post consists entirely of a URL — no accompanying text, no commentary, no emotional expression. It links to Gregg Jarrett's website (a Fox News legal analyst with consistent pro-Trump framing) and the slug reveals the article topic: Hunter Biden's criminal case and an assertion that the media "lie like hell" about it. Notably, the URL slug itself contains what appears to be a transcription error or typo in the original article's headline — "like-like-hell" rather than "lie like hell" — but this error is in the source URL, not Trump's own text.

## Authorship Attribution

**Timing:** 16:39 UTC on December 30, 2023. Trump almost certainly spent late December at Mar-a-Lago (Palm Beach, FL). EST = UTC−5, placing this post at **11:39 AM local time** — solidly within business hours.

**Style indicators:** The post contains zero original text — only a URL. This is one of two authorship scenarios: (a) an aide posting a relevant article as routine content curation, or (b) Trump himself sharing a link he found without adding commentary (which does occasionally occur). The business-hours timing and complete absence of emotional language, ALL CAPS, or reactive tone leans toward **aide authorship**, most plausibly Scavino's team doing routine amplification of friendly media content. Confidence: medium.

## Psychological Analysis

The post itself is behaviorally inert from a primary production standpoint — there is no original language to analyze. However, it functions as **whataboutism by proxy**: amid a period of intense personal legal pressure (civil fraud trial in NY, ballot disqualification in Colorado and Maine), Trump (or an aide on his behalf) amplifies content redirecting attention to Hunter Biden's criminal exposure. This is a textbook **displacement** mechanism — routing audience attention toward the opponent's vulnerabilities to counterbalance coverage of his own.

The selection of Gregg Jarrett as the source is consistent with the Trump media ecosystem's epistemic closure pattern: sharing content from within a closed loop of sympathetic commentators who frame all legal proceedings against Trump as politically motivated while amplifying parallel proceedings against Biden family members as legitimate and underreported.

## Rhetorical Context

The article title (inferrable from the URL slug) levels a sweeping media indictment — "the media lie like hell" — which aligns with Trump's persistent RAND Firehose strategy of attacking press credibility. By sharing without comment, Trump implicitly endorses the framing while maintaining deniability about specific claims.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Hunter Biden faces criminal charges" | **True** | Hunter Biden was indicted on federal gun charges in Delaware (Sept 2023) and separate federal tax charges in California (Dec 2023), both active at time of posting. |
| "Media misrepresents Hunter Biden criminal case (implied by article title)" | **Unverifiable** | Specific media accuracy claims require evaluation of particular reporting; article content not fetched. General claim is a contested opinion. |

Overall Veracity: 75%

## Longitudinal Context

In surrounding posts this same day, Trump attacked Letitia James as a "Lunatic A.G.," promoted a conspiracy theory about migrants voting, attacked Ohio Governor DeWine over a transgender bill veto, and shared a self-aggrandizing quote about his "growth message." This Hunter Biden link fits the day's pattern: a mix of grievance, projection, and deflection. The day's posts collectively reflect a **vulnerable-to-grandiose narcissistic oscillation** — alternating between victimhood framing (being persecuted by the AG, the courts, the media) and superiority claims ("Nobody Masters the Growth Message Like Trump").

## Danger Assessment

No danger indicators in this post. Routine opposition amplification.

## Summary

Not clinically significant as a standalone post. A bare URL share in business hours with aide-authorship indicators, functioning as whataboutism by proxy during a high-pressure legal period.

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 20%)

### Indicators

- Posted at 11:39 AM EST (business hours, strongly aide-consistent)
- Zero original text — no emotional expression, no ALL CAPS, no reactive language
- Purely a URL share consistent with routine content curation by Scavino team
- No typos or stream-of-consciousness markers attributable to Trump

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Vulnerable State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Ongoing civil fraud trial, ballot disqualifications in Colorado and Maine)

Sentiment: -0.30

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 20%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 20%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- displacement (neurotic)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 0%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Epistemic curation — directing audience to pre-approved information sources that reinforce shared grievances

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> Hunter Biden faces criminal charges

**TRUE**

Hunter Biden was indicted on federal gun charges in Delaware (Sept 2023) and separate federal tax charges in California (Dec 2023), both active at time of posting.

Sources: DOJ public records; Court filings December 2023

> Media misrepresents Hunter Biden criminal case (implied by article title)

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Specific media accuracy claims require evaluation of particular reporting; article content not fetched. General claim is a contested opinion.

Overall Veracity: 75%

## Tags

- hunter-biden (90%)
- media-criticism (70%)
- whataboutism (80%)
- aide-authored (70%)
- displacement (60%)
- epistemic-closure (60%)

## That day

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

**Legal Siege Turns a Holiday Into a War Room: 37 Posts From Mar-a-Lago Under Compound Threat**

Trump spent the day at Mar-a-Lago responding to a pile-up of legal threats — ballot removals in Maine and Colorado, the ongoing New York fraud trial, and federal prosecution. The mood swung between genuine anger in his own posts and a firehose of flattering links shared by aides. His most notable post turned a New Year's greeting into a lengthy attack on Biden, Democrats, and immigrants, weaving election conspiracy theories into holiday well-wishes. The day's volume was high — 37 posts — but the bulk was staff-curated link dumps rather than personal output. A recurring theme throughout: every institution holding him accountable was reframed as an enemy of democracy.

Full digest for 2023-12-30: https://trump.fm/date/2023-12-30/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, December 30). https://thegreggjarrett.com/the-brief-in-the-hunte... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111670353325366702
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://thegreggjarrett.com/the-brief-in-the-hunter-biden-cr..." Truth Social, 30 Dec. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111670353325366702. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "https://thegreggjarrett.com/the-brief-in-the-hunter-biden-cr...," Truth Social, December 30, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111670353325366702.

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