# Post ts_112470888302689503

- Post ID: `ts_112470888302689503`
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- Posted: 2024-05-20T01:46:00.379Z (UTC)
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## Post text

> MARK LEVIN: “THIS IS SUPPRESSING THE VOTE…” A MUST WATCH!

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (11:31), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> Not before this time has any president or former president in American history ever been indicted for anything. Now they've indicted Donald Trump on 91 bogus charges in four different jurisdictions. I want you to think about that. He also waived executive privilege over and over and over and over again, allowing tens of thousands of presidential documents to be provided to the January 6th Nancy Pelosi Stalinist Commission, which used those documents to again try and trash Donald Trump. And after the Republicans took the House, they destroyed a vast amount of the so-called information that they had gathered because they gathered an enormous amount of exculpatory information and they didn't want that to go public. So Joe Biden uses executive privilege to destroy the power of the presidency while he is unconstitutionally using the power of the presidency much like a dictator. And that's what he just did the other day. Mark, what are you talking about? Executive privilege. Executive privilege. Executive privilege is basically a privilege that goes back to George Washington that protects separation of powers. That is, it protects the operations of the presidency, internal communications and decision making and so forth, because otherwise a president won't be able to function. He'll have to keep responding to Congress, which would destroy the notion of balance and equality between the branches. And so it's generally understood that executive privilege should be used in a very focused way to protect the office of the presidency, which, of course, he's already used to destroy the office of the presidency, not while he's president, but for future presidents. So executive privilege, there are some exceptions and they're legitimate exceptions. The courts recognize this. Even Congress tends to recognize this. The attorney generals in the past have recognized this. Where there is not an ongoing investigation. Where there's not an issue of national security. Where there's no issue of presidential internal communications. Where there's no issue of separation of powers. Where there's no protection of investigative or law enforcement techniques. There's no claim for executive privilege. And in the case of Joe Biden, he puts out an order of executive privilege to protect what? The audio of his interviews with the special counsel, her, about events that took place before he was president. There's no presidential issue whatsoever. That's number one. Number two, there isn't an executive privilege to protect a president from being embarrassed. Or from information having a political impact. There is no such executive privilege. Moreover, any executive privilege that may exist, and none did, was waived. Because the transcript of Biden's interview with the special counsel was released. And they released it, did the Department of Justice, because they will do anything possible. Including violate the Constitution. To get Biden reelected, and in order to get Biden reelected, they want you to vote for somebody who doesn't exist. They do not want you to know how bad his dementia is. Because it must be really, really bad for them to issue an executive privilege order to prevent the audio of the text that's already released from being released. I want you to think about this. Democrats always talk about voter suppression, voter ID. This goes even beyond all that. This goes beyond the right to vote. This is the right to know who you're voting for. I love it when they say, "We have a right to know if Donald Trump committed any crimes." They have all these bogus crimes with these bogus Democrat prosecutors and the bogus Democrats, juries, and cities. And they say, "We have a right to know." No, that's different. This is a question about reality. It is a practical question. This man, up to being in charge of the most powerful nation on the face of the earth, will power to launch nuclear missiles, to make decisions about the health and welfare of the United States. And the answer is he's not. We know this because the executive privilege order was put out because they don't want you to hear the audio. This is the man who they will not allow to have press conferences on a regular basis. So he's had less press conferences than any modern president, period. This is the man who now has his staff surrounding him when he walks from the helicopter to the White House for two reasons. They don't want you to see him shuffling like people with dementia do, and they don't want him answering any questions. So he's completely under control by the staff, by the people who surround him, because they know what they don't want you to know, because they deal with him on a daily basis. We know it. He doesn't give off-the-cuff speeches. He has talking cards. When he reads the monitor, he even reads the parts where they're giving him a direction to pause or turn left. He reads the directions out loud. He has to have the names of the journalists when he ever does hold a press conference presented to him with their pictures. With their pictures. He calls for two debates, but it's very narrowly controlled. It's almost contrived. He gets to decide what news organizations that are friendly to him and his administration. They don't want an audience. They don't want open mics, so you can actually have a back-and-forth. They want to control it. Why? Because he's out of control. That's why. We know less about this president's personal life, personal conduct, what he's actually thinking, than we have with any other president. This is suppressing the vote. That is, we have a right as American citizens to know if the Democrat Party is going to nominate this president for another four years, where he would have four more years of this, where stage five dementia, where there are seven stages of dementia, can go to the seventh stage and create a constitutional crisis. We have a right to know before we vote. The purpose of this bogus executive privilege claim is to protect Biden from you. So we don't know. But what about Congress? Do they have the right to know? So here's the report. Here's the Her Report right here. One of the reasons he decided, and he says not to bring charges against Biden, among other reasons, the tradition of not indicting sitting presidents. But of course, we know this administration doesn't follow tradition. But nonetheless, is he basically concluded we interviewed this man. He's not right. He couldn't remember when he was vice president. He couldn't remember other dates about his son. He would get confused. We had the eventually the video of his interview with the ghostwriter. Same thing took place. It must be so awful, so totally awful that Mr. Her and his prosecutors looked at this and their jaws hit the floor. That's what they don't want you to hear. That's why reprobates like Adam Schiff and the Democrat Party conga line attacked Mr. Her for even saying that was gratuitous. No, that's the heart of the matter. The heart of the matter is this man is not capable of actually being president. Who the hell is running this government? Certainly by in some respect, but the staff, the cabinet members, the radicals, the 25th Amendment that was adopted in the 1960s was adopted for the purpose of preventing something like this. The 25th Amendment's right here. The Congressional Research Service 2018. Let me just read this. The 25th Amendment proposed by Congress in 1965 and ratified by the states in 1967 provides for presidential succession, vice presidential vacancies and presidential disability. Presidential inability or disability is specifically covered in section three whereby the president may declare a disability. He declares it himself. That ain't happening. And section four whereby disability is declared by the vice president and majority of the cabinet or such other bodies may be established by law. No other body was established by law. And rather than this cabinet and this vice president doing what they're supposed to do in the Constitution, uphold their oath. They've circled the wagons. They don't want to lose their jobs. Vice president wants to become president. They have no virtue. They have no integrity. The 25th Amendment is a dead letter right now. In our constitutional system, we don't have any system for dealing with a disabled president who's mentally disabled, who is not capable of doing his job. And this latest executive privilege order proves it. They're not saying we're proud of what Joe Biden said here. We release the tech. Here's the audio. Oh, we're proud. We want to debate without all these rules. Oh, we're proud. Oh, the vice president talks to the media in press conference every week. Oh, the vice president doesn't need no cards with talking points on them. The vice president, all right. They can't do that. They can't say that. And we all know that the legislative intent is our Constitution does not address a situation where you have a potentially disabled president where the cabinet and the vice president of the same party will not trigger the 25th Amendment impeachment. You say the definition of impeachment clauses does not cover this. It's you and me. We get to decide where it we have to wait to decide. And they are interfering with that. They're obstructing that by not giving the the audio to Congress. We don't have standing to demand the audio. Nobody does except Congress. And they just said, no, you don't. So there is a legislative purpose, isn't there? There's a huge legislative purpose and the legislative purpose is that we need to fix the Constitution in a circumstance like this. We may have to. And don't we have a right to know who we're voting for? You better believe it. They talk about registering as many Democrats as they can. You know, don't suppress the vote. But we have a right to know who we're voting for. And we have a right to know who the president of the United States is. Not all the scripted information, not all the propaganda from the media, not all the paid propaganda. Why do you think he wants to raise a billion dollars on commercials? Because that's how he wants to speak. They want to speak through flashy Spielberg created commercials. Joe Biden should never have been president. He should never be reelected for all the other reasons. But the main reason is he's mentally incapacitated, and that is a big deal. And just because he can deliver a State of the Union address after practicing it, just because he might have a decent debate performance, we're talking about 24/7. You're on the job 24/7. You're under stress. You have life and death, war and peace decisions to make. And we have a lot of human beings in this country who are capable of being very good, qualified presidents. presidents. It's just that he's not.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/112/470/886/599/916/472/original/847cef169c23da54.mp4

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T08:29:47.882Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Posted at 9:46 PM EDT on the day prosecutors rested their case in the hush money trial, this brief amplification of Mark Levin executes a textbook DARVO inversion: the prosecution — itself arising from alleged election interference (suppressing the Daniels story pre-2016) — is reframed as "suppressing the vote." The displacement defense is notable: Trump routes acute legal anxiety (narcissistic injury from exposure) through a trusted media proxy rather than engaging the trial directly. The rhetorical move is frame theft — appropriating the moral weight of civil rights-era voter suppression language and transplanting it to a billionaire's criminal defense. The danger is not in this post alone but in its accumulation: across this day's posting cluster, Trump systematically pre-positions his audience to experience any conviction as anti-democratic disenfranchisement rather than a jury's factual finding. This represents a shared psychosis seeding operation. The post is clinically significant primarily as part of a coping cluster pattern — the prosecution resting triggers a burst of media-ally amplification, each post outsourcing grievance framing to proxies while Trump's own text remains minimal and deniable.

## Post Analysis: ts_112470888302689503 — "MARK LEVIN: THIS IS SUPPRESSING THE VOTE"

### Authorship Attribution

UTC 01:46:00 converts to **9:46 PM EDT** on May 19, 2024 (Trump was in New York attending the hush money trial, which was in its final week of prosecution testimony). Late evening local time leans authentic. Stylistic markers strongly support direct Trump authorship: the extremely brief original text, the ALL-CAPS amplification of the Levin quote, and the imperative "A MUST WATCH!" are signature patterns of Trump's evening media-watching amplification posts. The video attachment further suggests he was watching conservative media and immediately reposting. High confidence: authentic.

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### Contextual Trigger

The prosecution rested its case on this date after 20 witnesses, including the damaging Cohen testimony directly implicating Trump in directing hush money payments. This is the single highest-stakes day of the trial to this point — a major **narcissistic injury** event (exposure, defeat). Rather than engaging the content of the trial directly, Trump immediately routes aggression through a trusted media ally, displacing the confrontation.

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### Multi-Level Personality Analysis

**Level 1 — Dispositional Traits (Big Five)**
Minimal original text limits inference, but the amplificatory posture reveals:
- **Extraversion (high)**: Broadcast urgency ("MUST WATCH"), assertion without qualification
- **Agreeableness (low)**: Oppositional framing, no acknowledgment of counterpositions
- **Neuroticism (elevated)**: The post's intensity is disproportionate to its brevity; the content selection reflects acute legal anxiety displaced onto electoral grievance

**Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations**
- **Dominant motive: Power/status defense.** The "suppressing the vote" frame recontextualizes legal accountability as an attack on Trump's electoral legitimacy — this is the most potent available defense against a criminal conviction: delegitimize the proceeding by framing it as disenfranchisement.
- **Schema activation**: Self = persecuted champion of voters; prosecution = illegitimate electoral interference

**Level 3 — Narrative Identity**
- **Protagonist role**: Victim-hero; the candidate whose voters are being silenced by corrupt institutional actors
- **Contamination sequence**: The legitimate democratic process is being poisoned by weaponized prosecution
- **Contrasting other**: The "deep state" / Alvin Bragg prosecution apparatus
- **Identity claim (implicit)**: "I am not a defendant — I am a suppressed candidate"

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### Defense Mechanisms

1. **Displacement (neurotic)**: Using Levin's voice as a proxy channel for grievance. Trump avoids saying "the trial is stealing my election" directly; instead, Levin says it and Trump amplifies with urgency. This creates plausible deniability while achieving full emotional transmission.

2. **DARVO — Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender (immature/pathological)**: The hush money prosecution arose from alleged *election interference* (suppressing the Daniels story before the 2016 election). Here, the prosecution *itself* is reframed as election interference and voter suppression. The rhetorical inversion is complete and structurally sophisticated.

3. **Rationalization (neurotic)**: The trial is not accountability but a political operation — therefore any verdict is predetermined and illegitimate.

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### Rhetorical Analysis

- **Frame theft**: "Suppressing the vote" is language historically associated with racial disenfranchisement, polling place intimidation, ID laws targeting minorities. Applying it to a billionaire's criminal trial appropriates the moral weight of civil rights grievances and transplants it to a criminal defendant. This is rhetorically aggressive and epistemically manipulative.
- **Appeal to authority via proxy**: Levin carries credibility with the conservative base; citing him launders the claim through a trusted third party.
- **Urgency imperatives**: "A MUST WATCH!" functions as emotional activation — it tells followers not to evaluate the claim but to receive it immediately.
- **ALL-CAPS amplification**: Signals emotional activation and direct engagement (not aide-written framing), escalates perceived urgency.

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### Gaslighting & Reality Distortion

The post advances a significant reality distortion: a criminal trial for falsifying business records — arising from the defendant's own alleged conduct — is categorically different from voter suppression by any legal, historical, or definitional standard. However, by routing this through Levin's framing and amplifying with urgency, Trump seeds a cognitive frame in his audience that, if a conviction occurs, the verdict itself will be perceived as an anti-democratic act. This is not incidental — it is *pre-positioning* the audience to reject an adverse legal outcome as electoral sabotage.

This represents a **shared psychosis vector**: followers who internalize this framing will experience a conviction not as the result of a jury's factual findings, but as proof of systemic disenfranchisement.

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### Longitudinal Pattern (Day of Posting)

Reviewing the day's posting cluster: Trump amplified O'Reilly (comparing NY to Venezuela), endorsed a Texas House challenger against Dade Phelan (framing as election integrity), promoted a Michigan judge with a book about godless America, and amplified Levin twice (dismantling the constitution, now voter suppression). This is a **coping cluster** — a burst of media ally amplification as a defensive response to the acute stress of the prosecution resting its case. Each post outsources the aggressive framing to a trusted proxy, maintaining a posture of "I'm just sharing what others are saying" while the emotional content is fully Trump's own grievance structure.

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### Cognitive Markers

Insufficient original text (7 words of Trump's own language) for meaningful cognitive assessment. No anomalies detectable. Comparison to baseline is not possible with this sample size.

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### Danger Assessment

**Elevated (not high)**: No direct dehumanization or explicit violent imagery. However, the "suppressing the vote" frame, propagated to millions, functions as pre-trial verdict delegitimization. If internalized by the most activated segment of his base, this framing creates the psychological preconditions under which a conviction becomes justification for extralegal response. The danger is in accumulation and propagation, not in this single post in isolation.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "The criminal trial of Donald Trump constitutes 'suppressing the vote'" | **Mostly False** | A criminal prosecution for falsifying business records, initiated by a grand jury indictment, is a standard legal proceeding. It does not prevent Trump from campaigning, appearing on ballots, or voters from voting for him. The claim conflates legal accountability with electoral disenfranchisement. The trial arose from alleged conduct during the 2016 election cycle. |

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 78%)

### Indicators

- 9:46 PM EDT local time — late evening consistent with authentic Trump media-watching behavior
- Extremely brief original text with ALL-CAPS amplification is signature authentic pattern
- Urgency imperative 'A MUST WATCH!' is typical authentic Trump phrasing
- Video attachment suggests real-time media consumption and reposting
- No polished formatting or complete sentence structure beyond the quote

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Vulnerable State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Prosecution resting its case in the hush money trial after Cohen testimony directly implicating Trump)

**Rage:** Intensity 45% targeting The prosecution / criminal justice system / Alvin Bragg
- Proportionality: 30%

Sentiment: -0.52

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 60%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 55%
- Sadism: 10%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 10%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- urgency imperatives ('A MUST WATCH!') bypassing critical evaluation
- ALL-CAPS emotional activation
- proxy authority lending via Levin amplification
- pre-positioning audience to reject adverse legal outcomes as illegitimate

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Pre-trial verdict delegitimization at scale — seeding the cognitive frame that any conviction equals electoral sabotage
- Shared psychosis vector: followers internalizing this frame may experience a conviction not as a jury's factual finding but as proof of systemic disenfranchisement requiring response
- Accumulated effect across the day's posting cluster reinforces this delegitimization frame at high volume

### Gaslighting

- Reframing criminal prosecution arising from alleged election interference as itself being 'voter suppression' — inversion of documented causal sequence
- Pre-positioning audience to reject adverse legal outcome as anti-democratic rather than factual finding
- Appropriating civil rights language to reframe legal accountability as disenfranchisement

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-21._

> The criminal trial of Donald Trump constitutes 'suppressing the vote'

**MOSTLY FALSE**

A criminal prosecution for falsifying business records, initiated by a grand jury indictment, is a standard legal proceeding. It does not prevent Trump from campaigning, appearing on ballots, or voters from voting for him. The claim conflates legal accountability with electoral disenfranchisement. The trial arose from alleged conduct during the 2016 election cycle.

Sources: General legal knowledge; Context: prosecution rested May 20, 2024 after 20 witnesses

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Tags

- voter_suppression_framing (90%)
- DARVO (85%)
- media_ally_amplification (80%)
- trial_response (90%)
- verdict_delegitimization (75%)
- mark_levin (70%)
- election_integrity_framing (80%)
- narcissistic_injury_response (85%)
- displacement (75%)

## That day

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

**Kingmaker Theater Masks a Day of Legal Reckoning as Prosecution Rests**

Trump spent the day the prosecution rested its criminal case against him by flooding Truth Social with over a dozen templated congressional endorsements, performing political business-as-usual while historic legal jeopardy loomed. As the evening wore on, the composure cracked: he amplified conservative commentators comparing his prosecution to Soviet-style justice and attacked Biden as "incompetent and corrupt" — a transparent redirection on a day the corruption label was most acutely applied to him. A minor side drama flared when he defensively rebutted claims he had "frozen" during his NRA speech in Dallas, insisting his reflexes were superior to Biden's. The day ended with a burst of raw frustration after the judge blocked his expert witness, reducing his output to pure signal: "WITCH HUNT!" and "ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!!"

Full digest for 2024-05-20: https://trump.fm/date/2024-05-20/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, May 20). MARK LEVIN: “THIS IS SUPPRESSING THE VOTE…” A... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_112470888302689503
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "MARK LEVIN: “THIS IS SUPPRESSING THE VOTE…” A MUST WATCH!" Truth Social, 20 May. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112470888302689503. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "MARK LEVIN: “THIS IS SUPPRESSING THE VOTE…” A MUST WATCH!," Truth Social, May 20, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112470888302689503.

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