# Post ts_111727956399473861

- Post ID: `ts_111727956399473861`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2024-01-09T20:48:39.077Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111727956399473861/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111727956399473861.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Litigation before Judge Engoron is a Sham and Disgrace!

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (3:03), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> Almost all experts and legal analysts have stated for all to see that the litigation before Judge Ngorin is a sham and a disgrace, a dark time in the New York judicial history. It's a very fabled history, mostly good, but this is a very bad time for judicial history in New York and New York State. I did absolutely nothing wrong. The opposite. I did a great job. But most importantly, as they state very strongly all of these analysts, I already won a vast majority of the case in the appellate division with their decision issued in June, a decision that Judge Ngorin refuses to acknowledge or to accept in any form. He's a Trump hater at the highest level, just refuses to accept, think of it, an appellate decision, an appellate opinion. He incorrectly and perhaps fraudulently valued Mar-a-Lago at $18 million, when, in fact, it's worth between 50 and 100 times more than that. But his disrespect of the appellate division and their opinion is far worse. The Attorney General Letitia James is a racist scoundrel who thinks she has total power and control over the judge. She gave him a fraudulent set of numbers to look at, and he bid on it hook, line, and sinker, and actually came up, based on her numbers, with this $18 million number for Mar-a-Lago. But he liked it because that made his numbers work, because they're trying to say that I overinflated the numbers, when, in fact, the numbers were very conservative. My financial statements were phenomenal. They were great. An expert witness actually said, "Among the greatest, among the best financial statements he's ever seen." But Judge Ingordan didn't want to hear that, because that doesn't work for them. So, somehow, it'll all be corrected in the end. Somehow, it will all be corrected and hopefully fair in the end. But watch what's happening. We have a corrupt Attorney General putting pressure on a judge, and we'll see if the judge is going to do the right thing. But so far, it's been a very unfair witch hunt, and the whole country is watching. And this is why businesses aren't moving back to New York. This is a bad thing. Businesses aren't moving back. And the Attorney General, who presides over crime, should be looking at the tremendous violent crime taking place in New York, which is setting records. Murder and violent crime is setting records. And she's wasting her time on, as they said, the best financial statements they've ever seen. God bless America.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/727/955/332/755/730/original/9440c7f5a3bc71d4.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 8,102
- Reposts: 2,252
- Replies: 200
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.378Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T17:46:36.897Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Psychological Analysis: "Litigation before Judge Engoron is a Sham and Disgrace!"

### Overview
A terse, declarative attack on Judge Arthur Engoron presiding over the NY civil fraud trial. The attached video likely contains a longer argument, but the text itself is minimal — a single exclamatory sentence dismissing the legal proceedings.

### Authorship
Posted at 3:48 PM ET (Trump was based in the NYC/Mar-a-Lago corridor during this period). The brevity and emotional punch are consistent with authentic Trump, though the attached video suggests possible aide coordination for media distribution. The exclamation point and dismissive framing are signature Trump. Mixed signals — likely Trump-directed, possibly aide-posted.

### Psychological Dynamics
This post is straightforwardly reactive to the ongoing civil fraud trial. The word "Sham" delegitimizes the proceedings; "Disgrace" adds moral indignation. This is a routine narcissistic injury response to legal accountability — dismissing rather than engaging with substance.

### Defense Mechanisms
- **Denial**: Wholesale rejection of legal proceedings as illegitimate
- **Devaluation**: Naming the judge personalizes and diminishes the institutional process

### Rhetorical Techniques
- Labeling ("Sham," "Disgrace") — pre-packaged dismissals that require no argument
- Naming the judge directly — targets an individual rather than the legal system abstractly

### Clinical Significance
Low. This is routine, baseline-consistent delegitimization of legal proceedings. No cognitive markers of concern in this brief text. No escalation beyond standard pattern.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Litigation before Judge Engoron is a sham" | **False** | The civil fraud trial was a legitimate legal proceeding brought by NY AG Letitia James following investigation. Judge Engoron had already ruled Trump liable for persistent fraud in inflating asset values. |

Overall Veracity: 0%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 60%)

### Indicators

- Brevity and exclamatory style consistent with Trump
- Business hours posting (3:48 PM ET)
- Attached video suggests coordination
- Emotional directness is authentic-leaning

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Vulnerable State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (NY civil fraud trial / Judge Engoron)

**Rage:** Intensity 40% targeting Judge Arthur Engoron / NY civil fraud proceedings
- Proportionality: 30%

Sentiment: -0.70

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 50%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 20%
- Sadism: 10%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- denial (pathological)
- devaluation (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 15%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- shared grievance framing

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Dismisses legitimate legal proceedings as illegitimate without evidence

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-24._

> Litigation before Judge Engoron is a sham

**FALSE**

The civil fraud trial was a legitimate legal proceeding brought by NY AG Letitia James following investigation. Judge Engoron had already ruled Trump liable for persistent fraud in inflating asset values.

Sources: Known events context

Overall Veracity: 0%

## Tags

- legal-delegitimization (90%)
- civil-fraud-trial (90%)
- judge-attack (70%)

## That day

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

**Legal Siege on All Fronts: 48 Posts Across Immunity Hearing, Willis Scandal, and Engoron Rage Spiral**

Trump spent the day under extraordinary legal pressure, fighting on every front simultaneously. The evening before kicked off with a gleeful five-part series exploiting the Fani Willis romance scandal, spinning a co-defendant's allegations into proof of a coordinated Biden conspiracy. After attending his federal immunity hearing in Washington, he returned to posting with a punishing afternoon barrage -- attacking Judge Engoron five times in nine minutes, reframing January 6 as patriotic duty, warning of border invasion, and demanding total presidential immunity. The sheer volume of 48 posts and the scattershot targeting of judges, prosecutors, rivals, Fox News, and Biden suggest a man processing unprecedented legal jeopardy through relentless counterattack.

Full digest for 2024-01-09: https://trump.fm/date/2024-01-09/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, January 9). Litigation before Judge Engoron is a Sham and... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111727956399473861
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Litigation before Judge Engoron is a Sham and Disgrace!" Truth Social, 9 Jan. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111727956399473861. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Litigation before Judge Engoron is a Sham and Disgrace!," Truth Social, January 9, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111727956399473861.

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