# Post ts_111747036118133959 - Post ID: `ts_111747036118133959` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-01-13T05:40:52.479Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111747036118133959 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111747036118133959/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111747036118133959.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Thank you to Sammy the Bull. I hope Judges Engoron & Kaplan see this. We need fairness, strength and honesty in our New York Courts. We don’t have it now! ## What the media says **Video transcript** (0:51), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > You've actually tried to press up on Trump, but you can never get to him. Yeah. Because he had ex FBI agents all around him? All the time. And I tried a couple of times to press him and make arrangements where I could work with him and earn whatever. I did that with other big contractors, I had the power of the unions, I could do all kinds of little things, but I couldn't get to him. He wouldn't bite. He just wouldn't bite. He didn't want to do anything like that. And there was layers of people in the middle. One of my guys said, "We'll go up to the office." I said, "We'll go up to the office. Everybody around him is an ex FBI agent. We'll go up to the office, we'll get coughed, and we'll go right to prison." So forget about Trump. He's a legitimate guy. He don't want to do it. Forget about Trump. Yeah. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/747/035/777/520/715/original/9ea5459068a71ce0.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 19,989 - Reposts: 7,041 - Replies: 1,074 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.378Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T16:07:30.017Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary On the night after NY fraud trial closing arguments, Trump publicly thanked Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano — former Gambino underboss, confessed participant in 19 murders — while explicitly naming Judges Engoron and Kaplan and directing the message toward them. The construct creates an implicit intimidatory signal: a notorious mob figure is publicly evaluating these judges, amplified to millions of followers by a former president. The plausible deniability frame ("I hope they see this") is structurally characteristic of Trump's threat-adjacent communications. This represents acute narcissistic injury response to impending legal defeat, with the subject deploying a violent-figure proxy to apply coercive pressure on judicial adversaries while maintaining legal cover. Defense mechanisms include projection (attributing unfairness to courts), denial of evidentiary proceedings, and acting out via public mob-proxy invocation. Authorship is highly likely authentic given 12:40 AM local timing and unmediated posting markers. The post satisfies multiple stochastic terrorism indicators: named targets, articulated grievances, and violent-figure invocation. The moral inversion — positioning Gravano as integrity arbiter — functions as an audience loyalty test requiring followers to abandon conventional moral reasoning. Danger level is elevated. No cognitive impairment markers; the post's compressed strategic architecture reflects intact instrumental reasoning in service of dominance-reassertion under conditions of legal vulnerability. ## Psychological Analysis — Truth Social, 2024-01-13 ### Authorship Attribution **Local time:** UTC 05:40 converts to **00:40 EST** (Trump was in New York for the fraud trial closing arguments). This is a classic late-night authentic Trump window. The raw HTML entity `&` appearing instead of a rendered ampersand is consistent with unmediated posting. The short, reactive, emotionally direct syntax is characteristic of unfiltered Trump voice. **High confidence: authentic.** --- ### Core Observation: Implicit Judicial Intimidation via Mob Proxy The post is brief but structurally sophisticated in its danger. The rhetorical architecture is: **(1)** publicly thank Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano—former Gambino crime family underboss, confessed participant in 19 murders, and one of the most notorious organized crime figures in American history—while **(2)** explicitly naming and directing the message toward two sitting judges presiding over active Trump legal proceedings. The phrase "I hope Judges Engoron & Kaplan see this" converts nominal gratitude into a directed communication to specific named judicial targets, filtered through a figure whose cultural identity is inseparable from mob violence and coercive intimidation. This is not rhetorical coincidence. Invoking Gravano to comment on judicial "fairness" carries unmistakable implicit content. The judges are named. The grievance is articulated. The invoked figure is a convicted killer. The message is: *others are watching you.* --- ### Psychological State and Trigger The trigger is unambiguous: closing arguments in the New York AG civil fraud case have just concluded, with Judge Engoron expected to rule against Trump. Judge Kaplan presided over the Carroll defamation/assault cases where Trump suffered significant defeats. Both judges have restricted Trump's courtroom behavior. The narcissistic injury here is compounded and acute: legal defeat, loss of control, public humiliation, judicial authority asserting dominance over him. The post represents a **vulnerable narcissistic state** pivoting into **aggressive externalization**. Unable to directly retaliate against judges (who have contempt authority), Trump recruits a proxy—a mob figure—to transmit intimidatory signal while maintaining plausible deniability ("I'm just thanking someone"). --- ### Multi-Level Personality Analysis **Level 1 — Traits:** Pronounced low agreeableness (antagonism, combativeness), high neuroticism-hostility, high extraversion-dominance. No deliberation evident. The post reflects impulsive late-night reactivity rather than strategic communication. **Level 2 — Motives:** Pure agency/power motive in crisis mode. The goal is reassertion of control over an adversarial environment that has rendered him legally vulnerable. No communion motive present. The schema is characteristically paranoid: "the system is rigged against me and only external pressure can correct it." **Level 3 — Narrative:** Classic contamination sequence—legitimate winner victimized by corrupt courts. Protagonist role: **persecuted hero**. Contrasting other: corrupt judiciary ("We don't have [fairness] now"). The appeal to Gravano as credibility source inverts conventional moral hierarchy—the mob figure becomes a validator of judicial integrity, which is itself a profound reality inversion. Identity claim: "I am the victim of an unfair system." --- ### Defense Mechanisms - **Projection (immature):** The courts "lack fairness"—Trump projects onto the judiciary the very disregard for rules he is accused of exhibiting. - **Denial (pathological):** Reality distortion in claiming the courts categorically lack honesty; the civil fraud case produced substantial documented evidence. - **Acting out (immature):** Rather than processing the legal defeat through legitimate channels, he directly signals mob-adjacent pressure to named judges via public platform. --- ### Clinical Indicators **Malignant narcissism components:** - *Narcissistic features* (0.85): Grandiose victimhood, entitlement to judicial deference, explicit belief that normal legal processes are corrupt when applied to him. - *Antisocial features* (0.80): Willingness to instrumentalize a convicted organized-crime murderer to apply implicit pressure to sitting judges; disregard for the norms governing parties in active litigation. - *Paranoid features* (0.80): Judges framed as agents of an unfair system; "We don't have it now" asserts systematic persecution as settled fact. - *Ego-syntonic sadism* (0.50): The naming of judges while invoking Gravano carries a dominance-display quality—publicly demonstrating willingness to direct mob-adjacent attention toward judicial adversaries. **Narcissistic state:** Vulnerable-to-aggressive oscillation. The gratitude framing ("Thank you") is a thin veneer over aggressive intimidatory signaling. This oscillation—wounded → aggressive proxy deployment—is a well-documented narcissistic rage pattern. --- ### Rhetorical Techniques - **Indirect threat via association:** Naming judges adjacent to a mob figure without explicit threat—maximum menace, minimum accountability. - **False moral inversion:** Gravano (convicted murderer) positioned as arbiter of judicial integrity. - **Appeal to grievance:** "We don't have [fairness] now" recruits the audience into a shared victimhood frame. - **Imperative disguised as aspiration:** "I hope Judges Engoron & Kaplan see this" is grammatically a hope but functionally a directed message—*I am making sure they see this*. - **Dehumanization (implicit):** The judges are reduced to obstacles to fairness rather than independent legal officials. --- ### Danger Assessment This post meets multiple stochastic terrorism indicators: 1. **Named targets:** Judges Engoron and Kaplan are identified by name. 2. **Grievance articulation:** Courts categorically framed as lacking fairness/honesty. 3. **Violent proxy invocation:** Gravano's cultural identity is inseparable from organized crime violence and coercion. 4. **Implied action:** The "hope they see this" construct ensures the judges and their security details understand this is a directed message. The combination creates an implicit threat structure even in the absence of explicit language. The historical pattern—Trump naming targets + articulating grievances + implying consequences—has preceded documented harassment and threats against named individuals. Danger level: **elevated**. --- ### Gaslighting / Reality Distortion - "We don't have [fairness, strength and honesty] now": Characterizes proceedings that produced documented evidence as categorically corrupt. - Positioning Gravano as a credible commentator on judicial ethics is a profound reality inversion that functions as a loyalty test for the audience: accepting this framing requires abandoning conventional moral reasoning. --- ### Cognitive Status No markers of cognitive impairment in this post. Sentences are short but syntactically intact. The strategic layering of the message (plausible deniability + mob invocation + named targets) suggests intact instrumental reasoning. Complexity score reflects deliberate brevity rather than cognitive limitation. --- ### Summary A post of compressed but significant danger. Trump, responding to acute narcissistic injury from the NY fraud trial closing arguments, publicly thanks Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano—confessed participant in 19 murders, former Gambino underboss—while explicitly naming Judges Engoron and Kaplan and directing the message toward them. The construct creates an implicit intimidatory signal: a convicted mob figure is now publicly evaluating these judges, and the former president of the United States is amplifying that signal to millions of followers. The plausible deniability structure ("I hope they see this") is characteristic of Trump's threat-adjacent communications. Defense mechanisms include projection (attributing unfairness to the courts), denial of documented trial evidence, and acting out via public mob-proxy deployment. The post embodies the vulnerable-to-aggressive narcissistic rage cycle triggered by impending legal defeat and loss of control. Authorship is highly likely authentic given 12:40 AM local time and unmediated posting quality. Danger level is elevated given named judicial targets, articulated grievances, and violent-figure invocation—a combination consistent with the stochastic terrorism pattern documented in prior research on Trump's targeted communications. ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "We don't have fairness, strength and honesty in our New York Courts" | **Unverifiable** | This is an opinion claim about systemic court character, not a falsifiable factual assertion. The civil fraud trial produced documented evidence of financial irregularities. The claim that the proceedings lack fairness is contested and cannot be objectively verified. | | "Sammy the Bull [has something meaningful to say about NY courts]" | **Unverifiable** | The referenced video content is not accessible for review. Salvatore Gravano is verifiably a former Gambino underboss and confessed participant in 19 murders who became a government informant. His credibility as a commentator on judicial integrity is, to say the least, extraordinary. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 88%) ### Indicators - Posted at 00:40 AM EST (late night in subject's local timezone — classic authentic Trump window) - Raw HTML entity '&' visible, indicating unmediated posting without aide formatting - Short, reactive, emotionally direct syntax consistent with unfiltered voice - Stream-of-consciousness gratitude-to-demand structure - Impulsive framing without polish or professional scaffolding ## Psychological Profile ### State **Vulnerable State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Judges Engoron and Kaplan; NY civil fraud trial closing arguments just concluded with ruling expected against Trump) **Rage:** Intensity 72% targeting Judges Engoron and Kaplan; New York judiciary - Proportionality: 20% Sentiment: -0.55 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Late-night posting (00:40 AM local time) - Impulsive public invocation of mob figure without apparent strategic vetting - Reactive rather than deliberative communication ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 85% - Antisocial: 80% - Paranoid: 80% - Sadism: 52% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - denial (pathological) - acting out (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 35% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Shared victimhood recruitment ('We don't have it now') - Moral inversion — positioning mob figure as integrity arbiter - Directed message masked as public gratitude ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** **Stochastic Terrorism Pattern Detected** ### Indicators - Named judicial targets: Judges Engoron and Kaplan identified by full name - Violent-figure proxy: Salvatore 'Sammy the Bull' Gravano is a confessed participant in 19 murders and former Gambino underboss — his cultural identity is inseparable from coercive mob violence - Directed message structure: 'I hope Judges Engoron & Kaplan see this' ensures targets understand they are being publicly marked - Grievance articulation: courts categorically framed as lacking fairness and honesty, legitimizing extra-judicial pressure - Pattern consistency: naming targets + articulating grievances + implying consequences matches stochastic terrorism template documented in prior Trump communications - Active litigation context: both named judges preside over ongoing Trump legal proceedings, elevating the real-world coercive stakes of the signal ### Gaslighting - 'We don't have [fairness, strength and honesty] now' — categorical denial of legitimacy of proceedings that produced substantial documented evidence - Positioning Gravano as credible commentator on judicial integrity — reality inversion requiring audience to abandon conventional moral reasoning - Implicit DARVO: defendant frames himself as victim of unjust system while applying implicit mob-adjacent pressure to judicial officers ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > We don't have fairness, strength and honesty in our New York Courts **UNVERIFIABLE** This is an opinion claim about systemic court character, not a falsifiable factual assertion. The civil fraud trial produced documented evidence of financial irregularities. The claim that the proceedings lack fairness is contested and cannot be objectively verified. Sources: Known Events: NY Fraud Trial Closing Arguments context > Sammy the Bull [has something meaningful to say about NY courts] **UNVERIFIABLE** The referenced video content is not accessible for review. Salvatore Gravano is verifiably a former Gambino underboss and confessed participant in 19 murders who became a government informant. His credibility as a commentator on judicial integrity is, to say the least, extraordinary. Sources: General knowledge: Gravano criminal history Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - judicial intimidation (92%) - mob figure invocation (90%) - narcissistic injury response (88%) - stochastic terrorism (75%) - NY fraud trial (85%) - named targets (88%) - reality distortion (72%) - late night authentic post (85%) - DARVO (70%) - plausible deniability structure (80%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Legal Siege on Two Fronts: Late-Night Mob Proxy, Daytime Iowa Confidence, Evening Rage Spiral** Trump spent the day toggling between Iowa caucus confidence and escalating fury over two simultaneous legal battles — the New York civil fraud trial and the E. Jean Carroll defamation case. The most alarming moment came after midnight, when he publicly thanked a former mob underboss while naming both judges presiding over his cases. Campaign messaging was mostly handled by staff during travel hours, while the most raw and personal attacks came directly from Trump late at night and into the evening, culminating in a rapid-fire cluster of posts savaging Carroll, Judge Kaplan, and the attorney general with peak-level intensity. The day's mood landed somewhere between defiant campaign rally and courthouse hallway meltdown. Full digest for 2024-01-13: https://trump.fm/date/2024-01-13/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, January 13). Thank you to Sammy the Bull. I hope Judges... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111747036118133959 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Thank you to Sammy the Bull. I hope Judges Engoron &..." Truth Social, 13 Jan. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111747036118133959. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Thank you to Sammy the Bull. 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