# Post ts_112288893513830838 - Post ID: `ts_112288893513830838` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-04-17T22:22:20.241Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112288893513830838 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112288893513830838/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112288893513830838.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > “TRUMP FLIPS SCRIPT ON RADICAL DA’S CRIME RECORD” ## What the media says **Video transcript** (4:27), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Donald Trump flipping the script on his criminal hush money trial in New York going from the court to a bodega. If that place looked familiar, well that's because you've seen it before. It's the infamous site where its previous owner Jose Alba stabbed a man to death in self-defense but was charged by a New York City DA named Alvin Bragg, who's very familiar to you now, but then finally under a lot of pressure Alvin Bragg dropped the case. The former president railing against Bragg's a crime record on tape. Watch your. They want law and order. They have a lot of crime, tremendous crime where their stores are being robbed. We have to straighten out new law. And that includes crime. And these guys have great people, great friends, but they have tremendous crimes. It's Alvin Bragg's fault. Alvin Bragg does nothing. He goes after guys like Trump who did nothing wrong. Violent criminals, murderers. They know there are hundreds of murderers all over the city. They know who they are. They don't pick them up. They go after Trump. Well Trump must have gotten under Alvin Bragg's skin. The Manhattan DA issuing a response defending his handling of the case and adding that his quote "top priority remains combating violent crime" and the office has worked hand-in-hand with the NYPD to drive down overall crime in Manhattan including double-digit decreases in homicides and shootings since he took office. That, however, still doesn't change the fact that Bragg has downgraded a staggering 60% of felony cases to lesser charges last year. Meanwhile, Trump got a very warm reception at that bodega. But the media, not a fan, one MSNBC analyst comparing the former president to a caged animal warning that he might lash out dangerously because of the trial. Essentially he's like a caged animal and and that's a dangerous situation. He's feeling very threatened. He's out of control and so we do expect him to lash out. Anybody who has covered him over the past decade can expect that. You got a kick out of that one. I did. Out of control. Do you want to ask a question? Yeah, go ahead. Okay. Out of control. I mean in their dreams he's out of control. This man is the epitome of grace under fire. I mean forget about the fact that he was spied on. He was impeached twice. They took a half a billion dollars from him. They've indicted him four times. They're looking to put him in jail. This guy's out campaigning as soon as court is out. And you know this guy Bragg, I gotta tell you, he is a make-believe prosecutor. This guy's job is to protect the criminal and forget about the victim. Alvin Bragg is the kind of guy who forgives those who rob people with weapons but then indicts people who defend themselves with weapons. This guy is a pathetic example of what's going on and he can talk about crime being down in New York. Alvin Bragg all he wants. He's a fool. First of all police aren't making arrests because there aren't enough of them. Secondly, people aren't reporting crimes because they know that nothing's going to happen. And the idea, and I can speak to this, the idea of downgrading 938 of the most serious felony charges and reducing felonies to misdemeanors in almost 1,000 cases, 60% redo. I mean this is sad. This is pathetic. But I do think that it was brilliant on the part of Donald Trump to go back to the bodega because this is a place where an ex-con, a career criminal, jumped over the counter of the owner of this bodega to stab him because the owner of the bodega wouldn't give his girlfriend a free bag of chips. And while the ex-con's girlfriend is stabbing the owner, he is cornered. He is being attacked and he's about to be stabbed and he defends himself in this bozo. Alvin Bragg says after a thorough investigation we dismissed, $250,000 bail in Rikers Island for three weeks, only because we went crazy, the media went crazy, the public went crazy, and the poor owner, he went back to the Dominican Republic. So, you know, Alvin Bragg is gonna say, you know, I'm a great DA because I'm gonna convict Trump. Well, if you don't, you're a fool. It's 90% Democrats in blue in this city. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/112/288/893/120/715/944/original/1297c3e3feacd148.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 11,961 - Reposts: 3,354 - Replies: 296 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.360Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T07:17:24.018Z (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 opening day of his historic criminal trial, Trump's campaign apparatus deploys a textbook DARVO counter-narrative: Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg — not Trump — is framed as the figure with the "crime record." The aide-written post (business hours, third-person, polished headline, attached MP4) functions as a narrative inversion device, explicitly acknowledging the dominant defendant-framing in its own language ("flips script") while structurally reversing it. The psychological engine is projection: Trump's 34 felony counts are displaced onto the prosecutor. "Radical DA" activates tribal signaling while the passive construction removes Trump as grammatical subject — he does not defend himself, he exposes others. Viewed within the day's posting cascade (court → campaign trail framing, Biden immunity whataboutism, social proof amplification), this post is one node in a coordinated zone-flooding strategy designed to dilute the historic significance of the trial's opening with counter-narrative volume. No authentic cognitive data is extractable from aide-produced content. ## "TRUMP FLIPS SCRIPT ON RADICAL DA'S CRIME RECORD" — April 17, 2024 ### Authorship Attribution **Verdict: Aide-written (high confidence)** The post arrives at 22:22 UTC. Trump was in New York for the first day of his hush money trial; EDT = UTC−4, placing this at **6:22 PM local time** — solidly within business hours. The content further confirms non-authentic origin: third-person self-reference ("TRUMP"), polished headline syntax with no errors or ellipses, an attached MP4 indicating professional media production, and a complete absence of stream-of-consciousness affect. Contrast with the same day's clearly authentic post ("Crooked Joe Biden wants PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY..."), which features first-person voice, run-on construction, parenthetical asides, and emotional escalation. This post is Scavino/campaign staff, functioning as a counter-narrative press amplifier. --- ### Situational Context April 17, 2024 marked the first day of Trump's historic hush money criminal trial — jury selection for 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. The psychological pressure of this trigger is immense: this is, objectively, the most legally threatening moment in Trump's life to date. The posting pattern across this day is reactive and defensive, cycling through: grievance ("Radical Left"), victimhood-inversion (Biden immunity whataboutism), social proof (Stephen A. Smith clip), and the present counter-narrative attack on Bragg. --- ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) The post, even aide-mediated, reflects the dispositional personality it was crafted to serve: - **Extraversion**: High — self-promotion and public confrontation as default mode - **Agreeableness**: Very low — adversarial framing, zero conciliation - **Conscientiousness**: Moderate — organized, strategic campaign message - **Neuroticism (Angry Hostility)**: Elevated — reactive to legal threat, though processed through professional filter - **Openness**: Very low — rigid binary framing (hero/villain, us/them) --- ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motives dominate**: The explicit goal is narrative control — to seize the frame on a day when Trump is structurally positioned as defendant. Power-motive expressed as counter-punch. **Schema at work**: Self = persecuted fighter who turns tables; DA = the actual threat; trial = political persecution, not legal accountability. The phrase "flips script" is meta-communicative — the campaign *acknowledges* the dominant narrative is Trump-as-defendant and telegraphs the deliberate inversion. **Communion motives**: Absent. This is pure dominance signaling, not relationship-building. --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role**: The Counter-Puncher — he who is struck first but always strikes back harder - **Narrative sequence**: Contamination-to-redemption arc implicit: trial (contamination/persecution) → script flip (redemption/victory) - **Identity claim**: Trump is not the subject of justice; he is the agent who exposes injustice - **Contrasting Other**: "Radical DA" Alvin Bragg — characterized as the genuine criminal, the aggressor The word "FLIPS" carries significant narrative weight: it frames Trump not as passive defendant but as active agent reshaping reality. This is the Warrior archetype in campaign costume. --- ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Malignant Narcissism (aide-mediated expression):** - *Narcissistic features*: Implicit grandiosity — only a uniquely powerful figure "flips scripts" rather than responds to indictments - *Antisocial features*: Contempt for prosecutorial legitimacy; DA recast as criminal - *Paranoid features*: "Radical" — the adjective performs the paranoid schema (they are not prosecutors, they are ideological enemies) - *Sadism*: Minimal visible in this post; the attack on Bragg is strategic rather than gleeful **Narcissistic injury trigger (high confidence)**: Criminal trial commencement is a textbook narcissistic injury — public exposure, loss of control, status challenge. The day's entire posting pattern is a reaction formation cascade. **Defense mechanisms:** 1. **Projection** (immature): Trump faces 34 criminal counts → the DA is assigned the "crime record." The subject's legal jeopardy is displaced onto the accuser. 2. **Reaction formation** (neurotic): Defendant becomes investigator; accused becomes exposer 3. **DARVO** (structural): Deny (trial is illegitimate) → Attack (Bragg is "Radical") → Reverse Victim and Offender (DA has the crime record, not Trump) --- ### Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis - **Ad hominem**: "Radical DA" — attacks the person, not the legal proceedings - **Framing/Script Flip**: Meta-rhetorical acknowledgment of the dominant narrative with explicit intent to invert it - **RAND Firehose (volume dimension)**: This is one of ~6 posts on this day, collectively flooding the zone with counter-narratives on the trial's opening day - **False equivalence**: Bragg's "crime record" is juxtaposed against Trump's trial, implying moral symmetry where none legally exists - **Tribal activation**: "Radical" is a coded in-group signal — MAGA audiences parse this as "enemy of the people," not a policy descriptor **Violent imagery**: Absent **Dehumanizing language**: Absent (though "Radical" approaches othering) **Stochastic terrorism indicators**: None --- ### Gaslighting & Reality Distortion - The framing that the DA has a "crime record" is a reality distortion of moderate severity — it implies criminal wrongdoing by Bragg without factual basis, weaponizing the language of the very process Trump is resisting - This is deliberate rather than confabulatory — it is strategic gaslighting aimed at the base, not symptomatic confusion --- ### Archetypal Analysis **Primary archetype**: Warrior + Trickster hybrid. The Warrior fights the enemy DA; the Trickster "flips scripts," subverting the expected narrative order. The Trickster appeal is particularly apt: on a day when institutional order (criminal justice system) acts against Trump, he disrupts the order narrative itself — appealing to those who distrust that order. **Order/Chaos positioning**: Order Attacker — the prosecution represents corrupt/weaponized order; Trump positions as the chaos agent disrupting illegitimate authority. **Shadow projection**: The "crime record" attributed to Bragg is Jungian shadow projection — Trump's own criminal exposure is disowned and assigned to the enemy figure. --- ### Cognitive Status **Not assessable**. The aide-written nature of this post renders it useless for cognitive assessment. The polished third-person headline format is crafted, not spontaneous. See same-day authentic Biden immunity post for more useful cognitive data points. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "DA (Bragg) has a crime record" | **False** | Alvin Bragg has no criminal record. The 'crime record' framing is a rhetorical device implying criminal wrongdoing without factual basis. It may refer to crime statistics in Manhattan during his tenure as DA, but the phrasing deliberately evokes personal criminal culpability. | Overall Veracity: 0% ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 10%) ### Indicators - Third-person self-reference ('TRUMP') — authentic posts use first person - 6:22 PM EDT — business hours, not late-night/early-morning authentic window - Attached MP4 indicates professional media production - Polished headline syntax with zero typographical errors - No ellipses, capitalization mid-sentence, or stream-of-consciousness affect ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Commencement of criminal trial — first day of jury selection on 34 felony counts) Sentiment: -0.20 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 60% - Antisocial: 50% - Paranoid: 50% - Sadism: 10% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - reaction formation (neurotic) - devaluation (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 30% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Tribal activation via 'Radical' signifier - Victory framing on day of objective legal jeopardy - Zone-flooding across multiple same-day posts to dilute trial narrative ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - Bragg assigned a 'crime record' without factual basis — reality distortion - Trial reframed as persecution rather than legal process - DA delegitimized as 'Radical' to preemptively dismiss prosecutorial authority - Script-flip framing implicitly denies the significance of the trial's opening day ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-21._ > DA (Bragg) has a crime record **FALSE** Alvin Bragg has no criminal record. The 'crime record' framing is a rhetorical device implying criminal wrongdoing without factual basis. It may refer to crime statistics in Manhattan during his tenure as DA, but the phrasing deliberately evokes personal criminal culpability. Sources: General knowledge of Alvin Bragg's public record Overall Veracity: 0% ## Tags - DARVO (90%) - projection (85%) - aide-written (90%) - trial-counter-narrative (95%) - Alvin Bragg (80%) - zone-flooding (70%) - narcissistic-injury-response (85%) - hush-money-trial (95%) - reality-inversion (75%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Criminal Trial Day One Triggers 31-Post Defensive Marathon From Courtroom to Campaign** Trump spent the day managing the psychological fallout of his first criminal trial, flooding his feed with a mix of late-night rage posts and polished campaign messaging. The evening before court, he fired off a rapid burst of one-word slogans — "LAWFARE," "WITCH HUNT," "ELECTION INTERFERENCE" — well past midnight, then pivoted to a bizarre extended attack on Jimmy Kimmel first thing in the morning. By afternoon and evening, campaign staff took the wheel, packaging the day as a martyrdom-to-momentum story. The dominant mood was defiance through denial: not a single post acknowledged any substance of the 34 felony charges. Full digest for 2024-04-17: https://trump.fm/date/2024-04-17/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, April 17). “TRUMP FLIPS SCRIPT ON RADICAL DA’S CRIME RECORD” [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_112288893513830838 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“TRUMP FLIPS SCRIPT ON RADICAL DA’S CRIME RECORD”" Truth Social, 17 Apr. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112288893513830838. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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