# Post ts_112633864094945036

- Post ID: `ts_112633864094945036`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2024-06-17T20:32:53.517Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112633864094945036
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112633864094945036/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112633864094945036.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> And the other Witch Hunts against me are no different than this one, which turned out to be a total scam!

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (1:31), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> Do you swear or affirm under penalty of perjury that the testimony you're about to give is true and correct to the best of your knowledge, information, and belief, so help you guide. Let the record show the witness answered the affirmative. Thank you and please be seated. Since closing Special Counsel's office in May of 2019, have you conducted any additional interviews or obtained any new information in your role as Special Counsel? Well, we, we, when it came to the, we needed to, I would say you could, the statement would be that if you look at the language, I would say you are, I could repeat that please. Since closing Special Counsel's office in May of 2019, have you conducted any additional interviews or obtained any new information in your role as Special Counsel? That went a little fast for me. Okay. And you can confirm you're no longer Special Counsel, correct? Well, I, I would, well, the, the, the finding indicates that the President, well, it would be Trump, Trump. We will take a very brief five-minute break.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/112/633/864/022/568/849/original/2881f5afaad6d96f.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 14,034
- Reposts: 4,897
- Replies: 1,485
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.347Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T09:22:07.106Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

This brief post — likely a video caption, evidenced by the leading 'And' and attached MP4 — compresses Trump's persecution schema into a single sentence. The core rhetorical maneuver is absorptive: the Hunter Biden conviction (which potentially complicates the 'two-tiered justice' framing) is neutralized by folding Trump's own NY hush money conviction (34 counts, May 30) into the same 'scam' category, preemptively inoculating followers against any systemic-fairness interpretation. Defense mechanisms are predominantly pathological: denial of a concluded jury verdict and reality distortion flattening distinct legal proceedings into an undifferentiated persecution apparatus. Narcissistic state is vulnerable rather than grandiose — reactive to legal pressure. Paranoid features are prominent and generalized ('the other Witch Hunts,' plural, indefinite). The afternoon timestamp (4:32 PM EDT, Detroit) and organized media attachment suggest aide-coordinated posting of authentic Trump dictation. No acute danger indicators beyond the chronic pattern of judicial delegitimization. Cognitively, the 30-word sample is insufficient for meaningful baseline comparison. The post is fully consistent with Trump's established rhetorical and psychological baseline; no marked deviation detected. Danger level elevated (not high): sustained judicial delegitimization in aggregate contributes to rhetorical conditions enabling third-party violence, though this post contains no explicit targeting, dehumanization, or mobilization call.

# Post Analysis: ts_112633864094945036 (2024-06-17)

## Overview

A brief, fragmentary post — the leading "And" signals this accompanies a video clip (MP4 attached) rather than standing alone. The textual content is nevertheless analytically rich: it deploys Trump's most consolidated persecution schema in compressed form, using the Hunter Biden conviction as a rhetorical lever to pre-inoculate against his own mounting legal exposure.

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## Authorship Attribution

**Local time:** Trump was in Detroit on June 17 (roundtable at 180 Church, Huntington Place speech). Detroit is Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4). UTC 20:32 → **4:32 PM EDT** — solidly business hours.

**Authentic indicators:**
- Fragmentary sentence beginning with "And" — classic stream-of-consciousness mid-thought entry, as if continuing an internal monologue
- "Witch Hunts" (capital W, capital H) — trademark orthographic signature
- "total scam" — habitual superlative + dismissal phrase

**Aide indicators:**
- Business hours (4:32 PM)
- Organized media attachment (suggests coordinated production)
- Grammatically complete; no typos

**Assessment:** Mixed. The video attachment and afternoon timing suggest aide coordination in *packaging*, but the text reads as authentic Trump dictation — likely spoken caption or voice-memo-to-text fed into aide posting. **Leaning authentic dictation, aide-posted.** Confidence: medium.

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits

The post activates a narrow but intense trait profile:

- **Neuroticism (angry hostility):** Dominant. The persecution framing is emotionally charged; "witch hunts" signals sustained hostile affect.
- **Agreeableness (very low):** No acknowledgment of others' legitimacy; contempt for institutional processes.
- **Conscientiousness (low):** No deliberation or nuance; impulsive categorical dismissal.
- **Openness (low):** Rigid schema ("witch hunt") applied uniformly across distinct legal proceedings.

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Dominant motive: Power/agency** — specifically, resistance to constraint and status-threat neutralization.

**Schema activated:** The "persecuted victim of corrupt system" schema — applied globally ("the other Witch Hunts" implies an indefinitely large class). This schema is not case-specific; it is the master lens through which all legal threat is processed.

**Goal:** Pre-frame any future prosecutorial action as structurally equivalent to what he designates a "scam," thereby inoculating supporters against potentially damaging verdicts.

**Contextual trigger:** Almost certainly the *Hunter Biden federal gun conviction* (June 11, 2024) — a genuine prosecution of a Democratic president's son that complicated the "two-tiered justice" narrative Trump had been cultivating. The rhetorical move here is to *absorb* Hunter's prosecution into the "scam" category rather than acknowledge it as evidence of prosecutorial evenhandedness. This is a defensive maneuver: pre-empting the obvious counterargument before supporters raise it internally.

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** Victim/Fighter — persecuted by a vast conspiratorial apparatus ("Witch Hunts," plural and generalized).

**Narrative sequence:** Contamination — legitimate political success repeatedly violated by corrupt actors.

**Identity claim:** "I am the singular target of an unprecedented, historically unmatched persecution campaign."

**Contrasting other:** The corrupt legal/political establishment executing "Witch Hunts." Hunter Biden's prosecution, paradoxically, must be folded *into* the corruption narrative (as a staged counter-move by the system) rather than treated as a refutation of it. The post does this by labeling "this one" (likely the NY hush money conviction, his own case) as a "total scam" — by implication, Hunter's case, while real, is part of the same distorted theater.

**Redemption arc:** Implicit — "turned out to be a total scam" positions the speaker as ultimately vindicated, even within ongoing prosecutions.

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## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Malignant Narcissism

**A. Narcissistic features:** Prominent. Grandiosity via victimhood (the persecution is implicitly remarkable in scale); no empathy expressed for any party; sense of unique targeting. Score: **0.82**

**B. Antisocial features:** Moderate. Contempt for legal institutions; implicit encouragement to disregard jury findings. Score: **0.55**

**C. Paranoid features:** Marked. "The other Witch Hunts" (plural, ongoing) reflects a consolidated persecutory ideation applied without discrimination across distinct legal proceedings. Score: **0.78**

**D. Ego-syntonic sadism:** Absent or minimal in this post. Score: **0.10**

### Narcissistic State
**Vulnerable** — the post is fundamentally defensive, positioned from a place of perceived persecution rather than triumphant grandiosity. The grandiose tone ("turned out to be a total scam" — implying the speaker has special access to truth others lack) is present but secondary to the victimhood frame.

### Trigger
**Narcissistic injury** — the NY hush money conviction (May 30, 2024, 34 counts guilty) plus ongoing federal exposure. The Hunter Biden conviction (June 11) added rhetorical complexity requiring schema maintenance.

### Rage Assessment
**Present but modulated.** "Total scam" carries contemptuous dismissal rather than open fury. The rage is channeled into categorical rejection (a cooler defense mechanism than raw acting-out). Intensity: **0.45**. Proportionality: very low — the post's affect is disproportionate to any specific new trigger (no new development on June 17 directly related to his own cases).

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## Defense Mechanisms

1. **Denial (Pathological, Level 1):** Refuses to accept the external reality of a jury verdict ("total scam"). This is the primary defense.

2. **Distortion (Pathological, Level 1):** Reshaping reality by equivalencing all legal proceedings against him as structurally identical ("no different than this one"), flattening important distinctions.

3. **Rationalization (Neurotic, Level 3):** Offers a quasi-logical narrative ("this one... turned out to be a total scam") to justify the broader dismissal of all cases.

4. **Projection (Immature, Level 2):** Implicit — the "scam" label attributes corrupt intent to prosecutors/courts, externalizing any accountability.

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## Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques

- **Hyperbole:** "total scam" — categorical maximalism.
- **False equivalence:** Collapsing distinct prosecutions (state, federal; different defendants) into a single undifferentiated class of "witch hunts."
- **Repetition/Perseveration:** "Witch Hunts" is a consolidating brand term repeated across the full corpus; functions as semantic conditioning for followers.
- **Vague antecedent ("this one"):** The referent is unstated in text, requiring the video for disambiguation — creates an in-group dependency (you must watch to understand) that increases engagement.
- **Epistemic closure trigger:** "Turned out to be a total scam" asserts closure on an ongoing process, framing the speaker as uniquely positioned to pronounce final verdicts on judicial outcomes.

**Dehumanizing language:** Absent.
**Violent imagery:** Absent.
**Stochastic terrorism:** Absent.

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## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion

**Present.** Core mechanism: denial of jury legitimacy. The NY conviction (34 unanimous counts) is reframed as "a total scam," directly attacking followers' ability to trust institutional fact-finding. This is consistent with DARVO patterning — the justice system "attacks" him, and he "reverses" by labeling the attack fraudulent.

**Reality distortion:** Calling a concluded jury conviction a "scam" represents a documentable departure from verifiable fact.

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## Shared Psychosis Dynamics

The "witch hunt" schema, applied *en masse* to distinct legal proceedings, functions as an epistemically closing narrative: followers who accept the frame become incapable of evaluating individual cases on evidence, because all adverse outcomes are pre-classified as system corruption. This is standard epistemically closure dynamics — the test of in-group membership becomes accepting the distortion.

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## Cognitive Status

**Insufficient data from this post** — the text is too brief (one sentence, 30 words) to reliably assess cognitive markers. No obvious paraphasia, neologism, or temporal confusion. The sentence is syntactically simple but complete. No deterioration signal, no improvement signal. **Baseline comparison required for meaningful assessment.**

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## Archetypal Analysis

**Primary archetype: Victim/Martyr** (subordinate to Fighter). The post invokes the persecuted innocent, punished by corrupt powers. The Shadow archetype is externalized onto "the system" — the corrupt, dishonest, conspiring legal apparatus. There is an implicit Savior arc latent in the victimhood narrative (the martyr who endures to eventually triumph).

**Chaos/Order positioning:** Order attacker — the existing legal/judicial order is framed as corrupt and illegitimate, requiring disruption.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "The prosecution referenced ('this one') turned out to be a 'total scam'" | **False** | If referencing the NY hush money case: a jury of 12 returned unanimous guilty verdict on all 34 counts (May 30, 2024) following a legally conducted trial. No documented procedural irregularity sufficient to invalidate the verdict. If referencing Hunter Biden's case: also resulted in guilty verdict on all 3 federal gun charges (June 11, 2024). |
| "Other legal cases against Trump are equivalent in character to the referenced case" | **Unverifiable** | Legal equivalence is a legal/normative conclusion, not a factual claim. Distinct jurisdictions, evidence bases, defendants, and charges make categorical equivalence a rhetorical rather than factual assertion. |

Overall Veracity: 25%

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED (not high).** The post does not contain explicit threats, dehumanizing language, or mobilization calls. However, the systematic delegitimization of judicial processes, when sustained over time and broadcast to a large audience with a known history of acting on perceived threats to Trump, contributes to a rhetorical environment in which violence against legal actors becomes more imaginable. Consistent with pattern identified in longitudinal research on stochastic terrorism: repeated "corrupt system" framing without specific targets today; potentially enabling specific targeting by others later.

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## Summary

This brief post — likely a caption accompanying a video clip — is clinically notable less for novelty than for its crystalline compression of Trump's core persecution schema. The leading "And" marks this as mid-stream ideation rather than a composed statement, suggesting authentic dictation. The central rhetorical maneuver is absorptive: the Hunter Biden conviction (which could challenge the "two-tiered justice" narrative) is neutralized by folding Trump's own NY conviction into the same "scam" category, preemptively inoculating followers against any admission of systemic fairness. Defense mechanisms are predominantly pathological-level: denial of a concluded jury verdict and reality distortion that reshapes the entire legal system into a persecution apparatus. The narcissistic state is vulnerable rather than grandiose — reactive and defensive relative to mounting legal pressure. Paranoid features are prominent (generalized "Witch Hunts" plural). No acute danger indicators beyond the chronic pattern of judicial delegitimization. Cognitively, the sample is too brief for meaningful assessment. The post is consistent with the established Trump baseline in style and content; no marked deviation detected.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 75%)

### Indicators

- Fragment beginning with 'And' — mid-thought entry consistent with authentic dictation
- Trademark orthography: 'Witch Hunts' (capital W, capital H)
- Habitual phrase: 'total scam'
- Business hours (4:32 PM EDT) — suggests aide-managed posting
- Video attachment implies coordinated production, not spontaneous solo post

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Vulnerable State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (NY hush money conviction (May 30 2024, 34 counts) and ongoing federal/state legal exposure; Hunter Biden conviction (June 11) added rhetorical complication requiring schema maintenance)

**Rage:** Intensity 45% targeting legal system, prosecutors, unspecified conspiratorial 'witch hunt' apparatus
- Proportionality: 20%

Sentiment: -0.72

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 82%
- Antisocial: 55%
- Paranoid: 78%
- Sadism: 10%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- denial (pathological)
- distortion (pathological)
- rationalization (neurotic)
- projection (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 18%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Vague pronoun reference ('this one') requiring video consumption to resolve — creates in-group dependency
- Persecution framing that positions speaker as uniquely truth-telling against corrupt consensus
- Epistemic closure trigger: pre-classifies all legal outcomes as corrupt, foreclosing independent follower evaluation

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Sustained delegitimization of judicial processes — contributes to rhetorical environment enabling third-party violence against legal actors
- Generalized 'witch hunt' framing without named targets today; consistent with corpus-level stochastic terrorism pattern when read longitudinally

### Gaslighting

- Denial of jury verdict legitimacy: labels concluded 34-count conviction a 'total scam'
- Attacks on institutional perception: frames entire legal system as corrupt conspiracy
- Rapid revisionism: asserts cases 'turned out to be' scams while proceedings are ongoing or recently concluded by legitimate process
- DARVO pattern: positions self as victim of the very system attempting to hold him accountable

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> The prosecution referenced ('this one') turned out to be a 'total scam'

**FALSE**

If referencing the NY hush money case: a jury of 12 returned unanimous guilty verdict on all 34 counts (May 30, 2024) following a legally conducted trial. No documented procedural irregularity sufficient to invalidate the verdict. If referencing Hunter Biden's case: also resulted in guilty verdict on all 3 federal gun charges (June 11, 2024).

Sources: NY v. Trump verdict May 30 2024; US v. Biden verdict June 11 2024

> Other legal cases against Trump are equivalent in character to the referenced case

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Legal equivalence is a legal/normative conclusion, not a factual claim. Distinct jurisdictions, evidence bases, defendants, and charges make categorical equivalence a rhetorical rather than factual assertion.

Overall Veracity: 25%

## Tags

- witch-hunt (100%)
- judicial-delegitimization (90%)
- denial (85%)
- epistemic-closure (80%)
- vulnerable-narcissism (75%)
- legal-exposure (85%)
- hunter-biden-counter-narrative (70%)

## That day

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

**Immunity Obsession and Immigrant Scapegoating Frame a Day of Legal Anxiety Masked by Kingmaker Theater**

Trump spent the day toggling between legal anxiety and political offense. The morning was dominated by an obsessive return to presidential immunity arguments — his pending Supreme Court case clearly weighing on him — before pivoting to a graphic, dehumanizing attack on immigrants tied to a real murder case in Maryland. The afternoon brought a rapid-fire batch of congressional endorsements projecting normalcy and kingmaker authority, punctuated by a vindictive anti-endorsement of a Republican who had once crossed him. The day ended on a defensive note, dismissing his own felony conviction as a "scam." Overall mood: anxious grandiosity with sharp edges.

Full digest for 2024-06-17: https://trump.fm/date/2024-06-17/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, June 17). And the other Witch Hunts against me are no... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_112633864094945036
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "And the other Witch Hunts against me are no different than..." Truth Social, 17 Jun. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112633864094945036. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "And the other Witch Hunts against me are no different than...," Truth Social, June 17, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112633864094945036.

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